Recent content by Giacomo

How silly, I didn't think about that. It obviously worked. Thank you, Giacomo

Hello, sorry if this is not exactly forum-related. A few minutes ago, I was playing with MyAnandtech settings, and tried the option: When opening Anandtech, take me to NEWS (not literal, but I hope you understand). I thought it were a news section of Anand articles, instead it's Dailytech...

Or even better and more actual: if you buy a pricey HD3870 X2 today, and you fall in love with a 4870 in Summer, you don't have to say goodbye to your beautiful and still powerful card: you buy the 4870, stick it togethet with the 3870 X2, and enjoy like crazy. It's not only about FPS, it's...

I've bought one in January, in a Swiss shop. (I'm Italian) Of course it wasn't available and I'm waiting for it like all of you, but I paid it 250 EUR. A very good price, near the estimated 316$. I have this damn PC almost finished, I WANT my CPU. Giacomo

It's true that MGS is full of (often beautiful) cut scenes. But... If a 2-hours full-HD uncompressed .ts movie file is usually about 25 GB, even if you take 5 or 10GB away from the disc for actual game data, what the hell of a story has been written? A kolossal? I think good old mr. Kojima...

8800GT SLI beating the HD3870 X2 is not a clever point. You're putting two cards vs one, and yes, the 3870 X2 may still be a "crossfire" solution, but you can stick it in one PCI-X slot and you don't need an nFORCE mainboard to enjoy. Pretty different flexibility, don't you agree? The HD3870...

It's mostly up to your overclocking tastes. If you are willing to study hard on the complicated BIOS feature set and attain the best results from your hardware, the DFI is the right choice. For easier (and tipically less brilliant) results, ASUS or Gigabyte ones are nice boards. Giacomo...

I know that drivers for CFX are not ready, too. But I still have a doubt: will today's X38/X48 boards support the CFX when drivers are out? I mean, think about my incoming Asus Rampage Formula: I'll put a 3870X2 in there, and maybe later I'll want to add an another one. Will it be OK, when...

I read in one review (sorry, can't remember if Anandtech or DriverHeaven or whatever, read too many of them in the last couple days) that GDDR3 was chosen exactly to keep costs lower. If you think about the cost of today's DDR3 memories versus DDR2, you can at least figure out that it's not...

This was exactly the topic of my thread. So, is it true? Anyone else has an opinion on this thing? It sounds weird to me too, but, as I stated in the first post, I couldn't ignore those pretty nice results achieved on the nFORCE platorms, maybe the ones which showed the longest gap between the...

Eheh where's the P45, man? Giacomo

Thank all of you for your comments, I don't know what to answer to the P35/X38/X48 debate yet. I'm thinking and evaluating. Just my two cents about the PCI-Express 2.0 and 3870X2 thing: the Radeon HD3870 X2 has a PCI-Express 2.0 interface towards the mainboard, and a previous version...

Eheh nice points, and maybe I've come to a conclusion... That depends upon the answer you (all of you) are goin' to give me. Will the P35/X38/X48 boards with TWO PCI-Express slots (such as the P5K-E, the Maximus Formula, the Rampage Formula) support a twin HD3870X2 Crossfire(X), when drivers...

Uhm, I think that those thoughts are a bit outdated; in fact, the recent ASUS Rampage Formula review is entitled "Why we were wrong about the X48". Giacomo

Hi MrFox, thanks for your welcome and your contribution, rationale and original thoughts always appreciated. I know there's no future-proof stuff (except enclosures, I'd say) in this branch of hi-speed evolutive market, but the reason why I would pick a X48/780i board, together with a hi-end...