Recent content by Zen0ps

It could be your monitor is still set for the Nvidia card. Reset your monitor and play with the convergence if it looks blurry, turn off moire reduction if you have it on. Vertical/horizontal or colour convergence can make things look really blurry if you slide the scale from one end to the...

I'm not sure what SGI used to use for their old cores... But I think it was Floatingpoint 4-4-4-4 RGBA (proprietary)

Hardware viewpoint (without talking about software capabilities of either card) Nvidia cards are heavily, heavily reliant on memory bandwidth. They have been this way for as long as I can remember, but until about the FX5800, the memory speed was keeping up to the chipsets. All the way up to...

I don't think Canada is allowed to make certain parts for NASA. Heck I'm pretty sure you won't find too much Taiwanese or Chinese manufactured goods on the space shuttle either. But most people know, a good percentage of Taiwanese chips and tech are of extremely high quality. I'm willing to...

Good point. I totally agree. The larger caches on the new chips (1 to 2MB) will probably greatly negate the need or effect faster memory will have on overall system peformance.

DDR2 will not decrease performance. The only case where it will decrease peformance is if the chipset it is on is forced to run a smaller bit-depth. Like in the GFFX5800. It was forced to run 128-bit DDR2 compared to 256-bit DDR, in which case the "old" DDR was actually slightly faster in most...

ATi supposely went conservative on this one again. So the R420/423 will be much like the earlier cores, with perhaps a bigger pipe, definitely faster memory, and improved Pixel 3.0 shaders. We can only hope the NV40 has been rebuilt and not simply an extension of the NV3x cores. What worries...

Ouch. Not only dump Nvidia, but totally switched sides and went to ATi (this is still a rumor or what?) Even Asus didn't go that far. I'm beginning to think that Nvidia cores are fundamentally weak because they rely too heavily on raw local memory bandwidth. I mean, the original GF3/4's were...

Well, I'm surprised noone has bothered to mention the fact that the 52.16's are missing a lot of DX9 functions. Most importantly... No Phong/Ansitropic lighting, no Phong spot lighting, no gaussian or cross blurs, no edge detection shader or water colour shaders. Admittedly, most games won't...

Well... technically I think its pretty impossible to fry any newer monitor because of the overscan protection built into pretty well every monitor in the last 5 years (about 17" or larger) There is a chip inside each monitor that controls the maximum frequency at which the CRT can run at...

But yeah, holy smokes do Californians get shafted on electricity. I know guys up here in RedDeer (Canada) who pay like less than $50Cdn (~$35US) a month and they have stuff running all the time. Lights on, computers running 24/7, etc... Better hope Ahhhnold doesn't pump up the elecricity bill...

Its pretty easy to get to 330 watts consumption. Add in your average P4 processor or AMD (70-80 watts) Add in your average actively cooled mobo (30 watts) Memory (10) Harddrive (30) 40x CDRW (30) Videocard (10 to 40 watts) Thats about 200watts right there... But also don't forget that there is...

The power consumption of a CRT tends to be overstated. My 21 inch trinitron consumes 110 watts of power maximum, maybe about 1/3rd what a power-users computer might suck up (330 watts lets say) Yeah, I forgot to mention you can view a CRT at any angle and it will look great. LCD's do not have...

I love my 21" trinitron CRT. I think 98 percent of LCD's are junk. Given the same price at same screensize, I'd still take a CRT over a LCD anyday. CRT: Brighter with better contrast (pure light is pretty tough to beat) Less than zero millisecond screen refresh (important for gaming) More...

Its a lot easier to create a DX9 overlay than use the existing hardware based one. DivX runs ok with fullstream, but at DVD (720x480) type resoluion it does look a little better if you turn on all six levels of post-processing instead of using fullstream. This usually requires a P4 2Ghz or...