Recent content by Shinobisan

Thanks for the like-minded thoughts. Nice to know I'm not the only one that sees many of DailyTech's articles as off-balance. Anand's "Pipeline" section is growing... perhaps some day we won't have dailytech there at all. We'll see.

I really like the site. And I appreciate the news feed on the side. The editors over at DailyTech seem to have a political agenda though... and it really gets to me. Anyone else notice that? Specifically they keep writing "news" articles about Ethanol. And I don't care what side of the...

Thanks again for your insight. Here is why I'm looking now instead of Feb... I'm learning how to look. When Feb rolls around I want to be educated to the point of making the best decision. Right now, I see a good option being two GTX460 cards in SLI, they perform very well. But I would have...

First... I greatly appreciate everyone's thoughts. :) !!! I currently have two HD3870 cards. and my power supply is a 650 watt modular, with two PCI 6+2 connectors. I can convert other connectors to PCI with the little adapters I guess. Tell you what... I am really enjoying the back and...

Regarding HDMI being "legacy" and DisplayPort Similar notes from Dell: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/Direct2Dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2008/02/19/46464.aspx I don't really see DisplayPort taking over. Dell noted that HDMI was a legacy adapter over two years ago, and DisplayPort...

Currently I have a crossfire setup, but my older cards only need one power connector each. So... another valid choice would be to continue the two card approach... and figure out how to power two new cards with greater consumption. I was really hoping to go with one card. I'll have to do...

One thing I am having difficulty researching is how many monitors a GPU will drive. Many now have 2xDVI and one HDMI port, but will really only drive two at a time. Others are capable of outputting images to all three at the same time. This doesn't really seem to be part of the standard...

I'm running 1080p. @WildW - I understand the theory exactly. Actually a really cool idea. Thanks for writing that out.

Indeed. Crossfire on the 3870s only yielded a 20% increase (game dependent). scaling has come a long way in just a short time. "Tom's" has an article today on how well the 460 scales - 90% gain with the 2nd card. very nice.

Excellent note Termie! Thanks for finding the link (I was a little time limited - so I took the lazy route... I apologize for that. You filling in the gap is perfect. Thanks!) From what I can tell the 3870X2 (which is still on many benchmarks) is close to the 5670 in performance. Not bad. I...

A while back Anandtech benchmarked how the latest GPUs fared when they were pared with older CPUs. This was a great idea... as the easiest upgrade to make to an older system is to drop in a new GPU. But actual results may vary. At the time, I would have still gained some benefit from each...