Recent content by dunno99

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    Don't flash Vertex 3 SSD with OCZ's Linux CD if you have Intel RAID

    Just updated Vertex 3 from 2.15 to 2.22 using the OCZ Linux CD image. After rebooting, one of my RAID disks in my RAID5 dropped out of the array. Ok, fine, "huh? this must be a fluke thing" I thought. Rebuilt the entire array over 16 hours. Done, everything back to normal. Booted up again...
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    Sleep works half the time?

    Oh geeze, really? Yeah, it's been overclocked. But once it fails to wake from sleep, the bios automatically resets back down to default clocks (which would be 333 FSB). Upon retrying sleep again without OC'ing again, it would still fail. However, it actually never worked for me until...
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    Sleep works half the time?

    Hey everyone, I have a Gigabyte P35-DS4 paired with X3350. While I know that X3350 doesn't have S3 sleep state (or something) compared to its Q9X50 counterpart, I know I can put the computer to sleep fine. The problem is, when I wake it up, it will sometimes wake fine (half the time?)...
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    Sound interference?

    Tried both the front and the back. Without and without extension. Different earphones/speakers. Same thing. :(
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    Sound interference?

    On the hardware side, I only have one card installed on that motherboard, and it's the graphics card...so I don't know if it's IRQ conflict. On the software side, if it's IRQ conflict, wouldn't that mean only a thing or two would cause the interference to manifest, not, well, everything? As...
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    Sound interference?

    Hey guys, I'm in the market looking for a new Z77 motherboard. One of the big annoyances with my current Gigabyte P35-DS4 is that I can literally hear the interference of devices on my machine. For example, if I move my mouse, I can hear a monotonic frequency on my earphones. When I click...
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    Why does nvidia cheat so much?

    Definitely does seem like the tessellation is a "post" production process. Take the normal/parallax map and apply offsets to the highly tessellated underlying geometry. I don't see "issues" with that -- it's a simple implementation that has its own pros and cons. When this is applied to...
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    Why does nvidia cheat so much?

    So, back to the original topic. After reading through the Tech Report's article, I have to conclude that the author is pretty ignorant about information theory and computer graphics. First of all, the quickest way to do fixed tessellation is to use the object's bounding volume's center or...
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    MacOSX Graphics Drivers - who writes them?

    It's very possible that Apple is using some sort of interface code from nVidia/AMD. However, I doubt nVidia and AMD are writing Apple's drivers...yet. Remember the most "difficult" part about drivers isn't dealing with the hardware -- it's actually dealing with the OS/virtualization and...
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    MacOSX Graphics Drivers - who writes them?

    It's easy for them, as in they know what needs to be done, and none of it requires tons of problem solving skills at or beyond their capabilities. What's not enticing is that it's really tedious work. To them, it's like asking, "Can you flip a burger for 16 hours a day? Yes? So do you want to do...
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    MacOSX Graphics Drivers - who writes them?

    Apple used to write their own drivers. Don't know about now, but I suspect the same. They definitely have the expertise -- who else would code up the Apple-specific extensions for the iOS devices? That and it only takes one or two knowledgeable people to do it -- I even know a few that can...
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    GTX580 - Video driver keeps crashing / recovering & video corruption

    My 8800GTS512 from eVGA has the same issue. It happens the most in SC2. I noticed that the fan never spinned up, even as the card reached 70+ (I know, that's pretty low). And after it reaches around 70 (this probably varies from card to card), I would crash out of SC2. This was pretty consistent...
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    Next Gen XBOX to use AMD 28nm CPU/GPU Fusion chip - Rumor

    8800 series was launched November 8th, 2006, 3 days before the PS3 launched...and I don't think the 7950GT is as fast as the 8800?
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    Next Gen XBOX to use AMD 28nm CPU/GPU Fusion chip - Rumor

    Hitting the same MMU or whatnot is very possible (since that's how the 360 is), but it's rarely useful, if not downright harmful, to be able to directly manipulate the GPU's register files. The whole reason why the GPU can be so parallel and fast is because it's decoupled from the CPU. If the...
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    30" Monitors - HP ZR30w vs Dell U3011

    I just got the U3011 a few days back (the 25% off coupon, total came out to ~1200 tax included). So far I'm very happy with it. One issue I had was when I first turned on the monitor, I got this slightly green tint (I think it's green?). I was a little peeved...but after a minute, the tint...