Recent content by seanp789

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    What happened to Lucid's Hydra chip?

    Innovation happens all the time at big and small companies alike. Lucid has proposed a unique approach to multi gpu rendering. The company even had a working demo. That said, they are still a start up business and there are challenges that have nothing to with the actually product. Board...
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    Stick with Core 2 or upgrade to Core i7?

    I had to make a similar platform upgrade decision recently. I bought an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz and an ATI 4980 for about what it would of cost me to upgrade to i7. I will not upgrade to i7 until the next die shrink to 32nm.
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    Corsair P256 SSD review

    Samsung drives have a good combination price/performance/capacity. They will sell well as a consumer drive.
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    OCZ Summit

    soon
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    HP Dreamcolor LP2480ZX 24" LED LCD

    It's a great monitor, it does everything well or amazing. With a few compromises you can get 80% of the way there with a cheaper high end monitor.
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    HP Dreamcolor LP2480ZX 24" LED LCD

    I finally bought the HP Dreamcolor monitor since OLED monitors don't seem to be arriving any time soon. The price has dropped from $3500 to below $1900. I just noticed that HP's Part Number has changed along with the price. OLD Manuf part# GV546A4#ABA NEW Manuf part# GV546A8#ABA...
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    LED LCD Monitors?

    The HP Dreamcolor has come down in price alot. It was like $3400.00, now it going for $1900.00 http://www.nextag.com/HP-DreamColor-LP2480zx-24-611505743/prices-html Looks like OLED isn't happening any time soon until they can break build them at a consumer level price. The economy...
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    LED LCD Monitors?

    The CNET review completely bashed that Lenovo monitor...too bad. I saw that new Apple LED Cinema display. The color looked pretty good but it has a glossy screen that reflects EVERYTHING. Very distracting.
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    Logitech Z-5500 - Anyone have/used these speakers?

    I had the z5500s. I have since moved to home theater equipment for better(expensive) sound but the z5500 were an exceptional value. Heavy on the bass, easy to setup, very nice control center. Definitely on the upper end of PC speakers. I would pick them again if I had to start over. The...
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    Asus Update bios updater not working..

    What is the easiest way to make a thumb drive bootable?
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    Nehalem & Larrabee presentations from IDF

    An interesting note on Nehalem overclocking in Cinebench R10. Nehalem @ unknown overclock scored 45864 (IDF 64-bit) Core 2 Quad X9770 @ 5.367 Ghz scored 24067 (64-bit) Nehalem @ 2.93Ghz scored 16445 (Hexus.Net 64-bit) This implies an overclock of the IDF system close to 8 Ghz. This...
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    Intel Larrabee architecture revealed

    Whats interesting about larrabee is that they can really scale the cards any way they want by simply adding more cores and Intel's manufacturing is one of the best. Nvidia & AMD also have modular designs but the limiting factors are still heat, power, and die space. I think speculation that we...
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    Second Nvidia card for Physx

    No, only Geforce 8 class cards and above suppot physx. Nvidia has publicly stated that they will help anyone enable Physx on their GPUs including ATI and Intel so an intel chip could do physx with a driver update. I vaguely remember reading Intel and AMD have both sided with Havok and...
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    Second Nvidia card for Physx

    I think having a 2nd nvidia dedicated to physx is a big waste. You have to realize that Aegia spent the last year trying to sell dedicated physx cards and failed. There is nothing to indicate that a cheap nvidia card would out perform a dedicated PPU. The money you would spend on a 2nd card...
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    What CPU speed is needed for 1080p playback

    I'm using Core 2 Duo as a reference point. What is the minimum speed will I need to handle 1080P bluray, H.264, VC-1, and x264 playback. I've tested as low as 2.4Ghz core 2 duo. Anandtech quotes "From our previous experience though, only CPUs faster than an E6600 can guarantee smooth...