Recent content by hammer256

So very true. Today I have just found another reason to read these forums: your posts. I could comment on the state of funding for basic research, but that's another topic.

Maybe this point has been brought up before, but I kinda wonder: Since the next gen consoles essentially uses PC hardware, how difficult would it be to have good console emulators on the pc (eventually)? Obviously both Sony and MS probably won't allow that to ever happen, but wouldn't it be cool...

Hm. I think that is precisely the reason I don't like it. I'm sure they'll do some tweaking to the colors, font sizes, etc. Right now though, this new design is like those gaming cases that scream colors, and lots of things yelling at you "Look at me! Look at me!". The old design was...

ugh, I just made a duplicate thread about this :(

Ack! This morning I go through my round of looking through Anandtech to see if anything new has been posted (I'm obsessive like that), and was greeted with this new site layout. Maybe it's my resistance to change, or something, but I'm still in shock. The new layout is probably nice, but I...

Nice mod :D

Ah well, they can just replace the drives when they fail. At least they are good about backing up data. I was just curious about it, especially since hearding Anand mentioning the MTBF of CPU sockets in one of the podcasts.

In the place I work the toaster hard drive docks are becoming pretty popular, and people like to just pop off drives and transport them between toasters. As you can imagine the number of plugging and unplugging is really high for those drives. Now, I remember from somewhere that a big difference...

Thanks :) I gotta say, those Korean 27's are definitely the sweet spot for monitors right now.

Nah, not gaming on it. It's mainly for programming, visualizations, and simulations in Linux, which works really well so far. Although now that you mention it, when I get time I'm going to try run something like Mass Effect 3 and see what kind of FPS I get, if the game actually supports...

I don't like to revive an old thread, but just want to show you guys what came out of this whole affair: http://flic.kr/p/dv6zrn http://flic.kr/p/dvck3Y Total cost: about $1330: 3x Achieva Shimian, $900 3x Wennow 27in stand: $150 1x Bizlink active DP to DL-DVI adapter: $50 1x Nvidia GTX 660...

So I have been using the BizLink DP to DL-DVI active adapter. It's about $45, but we'll see just how reliable it is...

ok that makes a lot of sense. In that case my third monitor might as well be a model with displayport support then. I guess I'm stuck with Nvidia for now... but I'm using CUDA for doing simulation work anyways. Thanks a lot guys :)

So with those cheap Korean 27" panels I want to get a triple setup. As is I have 2 Achieva Shimian panels (Lite version, with only dual link dvi input), and both have been amazing. So my question is, can the newer GPUs support triple 2560x1440 with a single card? I won't be gaming on this...

So my boss put me in charge of specing a new color laser printer for the lab. Now, our last laser printer (a xerox phaser 6250) developed paper jamming issues after about 3 years, so this time around I want to see if I can find a laser printer that's decently reliable. I think the lab prints a...