Recent content by Furen

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    What's the best type of AA to use with the 4870?

    Yes, that's why I said "almost." Personally, I find the performance drop for 8x edge prohibitive except in older games, like you said. It seems to me that 4x or 8x box AA is a better "one size fits all" solution unless he wishes to make profiles for games that could benefit from edge AA settings...
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    What's the best type of AA to use with the 4870?

    There's almost no reason to use the shader-resolved modes with the 4800 series. This didn't make much of a difference with the R600 generation because box, too, had to be shader-resolved. The R700 generation parts have very good ROP-resolve, so going box will free up your shaders for more FPS...
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    4 x LCD monitors?

    Have you looked at those 3870 X2s with 4 DVI outputs? It would simplify matters quite a bit, since you would only need one video card and one driver set. Personally, I'm quite intrigued by the concept but I have no personal experience with these cards. Of course, Nvidia should be pushing out...
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    Radeon 4000-series in June?

    Well, mathematically speaking, you're going to have 50% more hardware (with twice as many TMU, which is good) and a 50% (ish) higher clock, so around 225% the performance of a single 3870. not bad for a simple mainstream part. Now, you put two of these together and you have crossfire on a stick...
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    K10 on September 10

    Always? we've only had them since late 2003. Before that memory performance for AMD chips always sucked, courtesy of VIA's/SIS's/Nvidia's crappy memory controllers.
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    AMD HD 2400/2600 Benchmarks

    Funny how Hexus' review has the 2400XT beating/matching the 8500GT. I doubt this would happen in more modern titles but if it turns out that the 2600 Pro is the card that is price-competitive with the 8500GT, AMD will rule the extreme low-end... Power consumption is kind of a disappointment, as...
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    AMD HD 2400/2600 Benchmarks

    People also used to say that, with driver improvements, the 2900XT would match the 8800GTX and I have yet to see a driver for it that improves performance significantly (in non-CF setups). I don't doubt that performance WILL improve as drivers mature but we won't know just how much of an...
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    AMD HD 2400/2600 Benchmarks

    The 2600 series looks decent enough assuming the XT is price-competitive with the 8600GT and the pro is competitive with the 8500GT. The one problem, as I see it, is that the 2600XT being tested is the GDDR4 version and price for this part may end up being a bit higher than predicted since it...
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    finished lapping my Q6600 (with pics and results)

    Real men lap the die/dies/dice, not the IHS :P Just kidding, good job on the lapping.
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    Question about the new AMD quad-core Cpu's coming soon

    Current K8s have HT 2.0, what the new chips will bring is HT 3.0. No, memory bandwidth is completely different from IO bandwidth (which is what HT deals with). Memory bandwidth is bottlenecked by the memory clock while IO bandwidth is limited by the speed of the IO components (Video cards...
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    4000+, too high of a voltage?

    I usually try to stick to +10% of stock voltage, in the case of X2s I usually dont go over 1.45v. Temperature is not the only thing that affects longevity. In fact, the vCore actually affects it much more. You could keep your CPU at subzero temperatures and still have damage due to voltage. If...
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    Fudz on K10 : 45W TDP, Budapest, Shanghai

    Not stock volts, though. I wonder what the power draw is at that clock... If the 2.3GHz part really gives the 2.66GHz kentsfield a run for its money then a 3GHz part may beat whatever Intel can get out of Penryn, TDP permitting. Of course, Penryn is probably a Late Q3/Early Q4 part, and only at...
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    Fudz on K10 : 45W TDP, Budapest, Shanghai

    Huh? The K10 HAS been demoed, just under extreme NDAs so very little info has gotten out. On the 45nm side, 45nm prototypes are not completely out of this realm, the problem is bringing them into full production (since this requires AMD to retrofit a fab, likely fab30, which requires massive...
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    Intel Penryn Performance Preview: The Fastest gets Faster

    Affordable? I doubt anything other than XE parts will be coming out before Q4 this year so maybe Q2 next year for an "affordable" Penryn?
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    sunfire t1000

    It's single-die. It also sucks pretty badly compared to Intel's quads (heck, even dual-cores can spank it).