Recent content by Kuroimaho

Thanks DarkKnightDude. Now that is something I didn't expect at all. This just got much more interesting.

That's a very weak card, I wouldn't recommend it for gaming.

I only had the Sapphire ones, owned 2 of them. I can't compare the 7950 ones to other models, but I can say was very happy with them, the fan was silent while idling and under full load as well, clocked to 1.1Ghz on stock V. No noise from the PWM under load, which my sappire 7970s...

I have been using skyrim with a lot of mods, texture packs and heavy ENB with 7970 and even that could be brought to 30 FPS in the cities. You will need more than 2GB of ram if you intend to use high res texture packs and those really worth it and make a lot of difference. Heavy ENB's tax...

I get 72C on a 3770K running 4.6G @ 1.25V with a noctua NH-C14 cooler, stock fans running at 800RPM.

FYI, x264 already supported AVX2 the moment haswell was out and most sites didn't test with it. Canned benchmarks don't support it yet, the one you used in particular is still built with x264 r2200 which has no avx2 support at all ( apart from detecting avx2 compatible cpus ), so what you linked...

Things are likely worse at TSMC in this regard as nvidia has to compete for the wafers with Apple and Qualcomm, which they have no intentions to do, so the gap would only grow, not that they could survive long if things turn out that way in the consumer space...

I have been thinking what a boost 8350s would receive if intel would fab them. Nvidia certainly couldn't compete with the rising costs of manufacturing on bleeding edge nodes at TSMC, so Intel would actually hit two birds with one stone.

Here you are, well at least for X264: http://www.scribd.com/doc/137419114/Introduction-to-AVX2-optimizations-in-x264