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    6gb is old, but 8gb is not enough

    First part is redundant. If 8gb is not enough then 6gb won't be either. Get a titan X or head to the workstation cards.
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    OCZ Revo uses PCI-Express interface for new SSD

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3788/oczs-revodrive-pcie-ssd-preview-an-affordable-pcie-ssd
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    i5 750 @ 100% usage

    Which process is using the most CPU? (Don't forget to show processes from all users)
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    DDR3 Upgrade from 4GB -> 8GB, ok to mix?

    It should work fine at worst common denominator, plus whatever adjustments you need for running 4 banks.
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    Some Bulldozer and Bobcat articles have sprung up

    I would clarify that OC potential of top bin parts would demonstrate arch capability. OC potential of lower bins just indicates that yields are good enough that market factors are influencing the binning process rather than voltage/speed limitations.
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    Maybe AMD's problem is that other people are claiming that their products are better than they are. I don't see any firm performance indications yet from AMD concerning Bulldozer, save the magny cours comparison, so I don't see how it can be a big let down because it's not AMD who are getting...
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    Once the products are released, certainly. I'm not trying to suggest Intel are all furtive when it comes to architectural previews, as AMD used to be the same, but, perhaps as a result of needing to sow hope in a future product, AMD seem to have been a lot more willing to discuss architecture of...
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    Which is well and good, but I'd rather they were much more open about roadmaps and higher architectural designs.
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    Think about the timing - AMD has got most people talking very hard about a product that's not even going to be seen for some time (largely by being quite open about roadmaps and higher architectural designs). Intel could do with stealing a bit of the buzz and reminding people that there's...
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    I'm not sure if you meant to quote me when you gave this reply just below my quoted text, but if you did, I'm not sure that the ability to run extra monitors in tandem would make up for locked memory multipliers. Good point :p But those cards need to offer high enough quality or free codecs...
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    Anand Sandy Bridge performance preview is up

    Yes, waste of silicon. I hope this video transcode thing is using the CPU rather than the IGP.. would be annoying to have to choose between unlocked memory frequencies and video transcode acceleration.
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    Leaked ATI S.I. 6870 benchmark

    Okay I see what you mean. The next page of the preview clears it up by giving the default 480SP score: default 480SP = X9815 default 512SP = X11371 Therefore gain is 15.85% at default (non-identical) clock speeds Overclocked 512SP = X12173 and is therefore a gain of 24.02% over default...
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    Leaked ATI S.I. 6870 benchmark

    Put them up now then, or they'll devalue when a release date is announced as well ;)
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    Leaked ATI S.I. 6870 benchmark

    Doesn't the link only show 17% improvement over the 480 after overclocking? Ie, at the same clocks it's ~6% faster than a 480. At default clocks it's 9.6% faster than a 480. After overclocking it's 17.3% faster than a 480. So 6870 might be roughly equal to an overclocked 512SP 480.
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    Sony A55: 10 FPS w/AF, full HD video w/AF, built in IS and GPS, swivel screen, $750!

    If they only skim off enough light for the AF module then more gets through to the sensor and they don't have to turn the gain up as much on the sensor. Given how dim some small cameras are when they give you 100% of the light they'd have to go with a very bulky and expensive prism system to...
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    Some Bulldozer and Bobcat articles have sprung up

    Only if you're competing with yourself. If you cause a competitor to lose a sale while waiting for your next chip then it's good :p
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    AMD announces that they will make an announcement in august

    Depends how many they can sell ;)
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    Why hasn't a third vendor come in?

    I don't think the title of the thread is entirely fair on nVidia - they are only just in third place behind Intel and AMD.
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    need some info on 939 overclock

    Without changing volts then 10-15% should be no problem. With volt upping then significantly more, you have to make sure to keep the hypertransport and PCI clocks down while increasing CPU clock. You might need to run your RAM on a lower divider too.
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    Why does Windows 7 disable Superfetch?

    That could be the clearest technical explanation I've had for Superfetch - I hadn't realised it doesn't do anything that intelligent on the fly. If what you're saying is correct it just creates profiles (for different times of the day etc.) which it then loads at boot into RAM - on running a...
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    Why does Windows 7 disable Superfetch?

    If an SSD is fast enough, Windows 7 automatically disables Superfetch. My question is: Why? I can understand that the part of it that works with the defragmenter to re-order disk files is clearly not needed with an SSD. But RAM is still at least an order of magnitude faster than SSD so...
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    SSD scaling above 2 drives?

    Okay yup, I can see how 6x in RAID 0 would be bottlenecked, but the question is how far can you go before you bottleneck, and how much do other devices affect that? If you're leaving 1GB/s as you suggest, then 3x should be no problem, and there might still be some benefit from 4x. And that's...
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    SSD scaling above 2 drives?

    That's the kind of information I'm looking for - have you got a link to the tests showing scaling?
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    So I want to play SC2...

    That's the problem. It's not intensive, so graphics cards tend to steam ahead and fps in the hundreds seems to be stressing some card components. There are some ini options to add framerate caps which help some people.
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    Suggestions: ASUS P7P55D-E or GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3

    I am exactly 50:50 between them - actually considering speccing up a similar system for myself and it's practically flip a coin time. I also can't decided whether to go the X58 route, which is another valid option for you as they're good with lots of hard drives (not that p55 isn't, just you...
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    Suggestions: ASUS P7P55D-E or GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3

    How fast does the video card need to be? Two monitor driving is no problem for any of today's cards if it's not for heavy gaming. If you're not planning an enthusiast level graphics card then x8 lane graphics won't be a limitation. On the other hand, there are currently no devices close to...
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    Does partitioning a drive increase performance?

    Partitioning itself doesn't give you a performance boost. Having your data in the right part of the drive is what gives you a (minor) performance boost, and partitioning is just one way of helping you do that. A defragmention routine is another. But partitioning can make things easier when it...
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    Is DDR3 here to stay for a while?

    I'm still running DDR :$ Pricing seems to be an inverted parabola though - starts off high, drops down lots as it becomes mainstream, then goes back up again when it's out of fashion and harder to find. If you buy at the right times then upgrading to the next RAM technology doesn't cost you too...
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    Suggestions: ASUS P7P55D-E or GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3

    Yes. Yes. (Both). Yes. The key difference is the implementation of Sata 6gbps/USB3. Gigabyte split off the CPU PCIe lanes, meaning if you use them you drop even a single graphics card down to x8 mode. However you give lots of bandwidth and a nice quick connection to the sata 6/usb3 controller...
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    Sandy Brige

    Improve != change ;)
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    SSD scaling above 2 drives?

    Thanks LokutusofBorg, I hadn't appreciated the possibility of running several PCIe cards in RAID. Is that possible even when the card is running internal RAID, like the Revo-drive?
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    s1156 already obsolete? Anything else new coming???

    Sort of, but they dropped the tick for the higher end of the socket and only introduced 32nm chips in the low end/value market.
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    Why is intel faster per core?

    Like the way a six core i7 980X monster is 240mm^2 while a phenom II X4 is a svelte 258mm^2 ? ;) Even if we're talking bloomfield, they are about the same size and the Intel chip has fewer transistors than the Phenom II X4. edit: sources - http://www.anandtech.com/show/2960
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    Octocore Sandy Bridge (Intel LGA 20XX) 2011

    20MB L3 cache is interesting. This isn't a 10 core chip with two disabled by any chance? :p
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    Why is intel faster per core?

    Lots of reasons, see here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2594
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    Starcraft 2 > furmark

    Some games use hardware in ways that are atypical. I don't know the technical reasons for it, but NWN was another game that used to cause a lot of people overheating problems, despite it not looking like a terribly demanding game, it seemed to stress subsystems quite badly.
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    3+GB of memory not needed for gaming?

    I think Far Cry had a 64-bit exe at one point.. but in general it's a lot of extra QA work for little return. We struggle enough to get AMD-compiled exes as well as Intel ones (NWN2 I think was the last game I saw with one of those).
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    Realtime Worlds enter administration :(

    It's a protective measure to avoid sudden bankruptcy. Administrators take over the business and keep running it in the short term while they find the best way to get money back to creditors - sometimes that best way is to allow the company to keep putting out products etc. while cutting costs...
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    Common Misconceptions About Modern Video Cards and Graphics

    This is out of date. GPU acceleration is not limited to specific cards, the requirements are that the card must: So nearly all modern desktop cards accelerate photoshop now. More information can be found here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html And the list of cards that have been...
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    Motherboard Life Expectancy?

    That might be it then :p The 15 year one is an Intel 420 I think, the 10 year is a 815 chipset ;) My current 5 year-old one is an ULI 1695, which I'm hoping will last someone else at least another two years when I replace it this year or next.