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Uzique wrote:

i don't know what they're equal to nowadays... they're so old... i bought them in 2007 when they were the TOP end card.

in my mind the 8800GTX is one of the best graphics cards ever made... it was king of the benchmarks for so so long.

afaik the first card that beat it for price:performance was those new-chip (g92 or something? not a clue) 8800GT's

Yeah I think you mean the updated 8800GTS...

But yes, the 8800GTX was a monster compared to everything else for a long time... However it was allways abit expensive, though you got what you payed for, granted...

We are still waiting for the Intel's Sandy Bridge, but the guys at Intel really kicked AMD's nuts now. They have 22nm Ivy Bridge samples already in 22nm production. Mass production is planned late 2011. So, Global Foundries is now a generation behind in process technology.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/displa … ction.html

Doesn't look too good for competition tbh, seems like AMD has hell of a time ahead.

e: oh and Gigabyte will swap the rainbow colours for black in their future motherboards. Sweet, isn't it.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1411/1/

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2010-09-16 17:36:23)

That's a very nice colour scheme.

And I thought Gigabyte died down on the rainbow colours with their i-series motherboards, and just went for an icy-blue look?

Though I do prefer the black and dirty-yellow.

Nic wrote:

I thought bulldozer was comming out before then, also, couldn't agree more about gigabyte, the old colours were terrible.

So is Sandy Bridge to crash AMD's Bulldozer party, and Ivy Bridge to destroy it. Highend SB is scheduled for second half 2011, means IB is following almost immediately. This puts AMD in very bad spot. Intel is going all in.

So unless Bulldozer is huge success, we aren't going to see much of value in CPU prices.

Lets all hope the Bulldozer rocks, it would benefit us all.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2010-09-16 18:53:37)

Nic wrote:

I've read it will beat the 980X at a way better price, cant remember exactly, but I thought it was a third of the cost. But you always hear random stuff before a launch. Have you heard anything on what AMD is doing after bulldozer?

It is all quiet from AMD front, I haven't heard a peep about Bulldozer performance not to talk about its successor. And indeed the engineering sample of the mainstream Sandy Bridge showed some very good results. And thats only the mainstream part, no doubt the real LGA1366 replacement highend SB will be even more impressive.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2010-09-16 19:24:53)

Morpheus wrote:

Bevo wrote:

Morpheus wrote:

Hmm. Which external do you have again?

creative e-mu 0404 usb

Yea... doesn't really look like you can do that.
Unless you do quite a bit of hard patching... not pretty.

didn't figure so, cheers for the reply though

From all reviews I checked, a 460 beat a 465 in most tests and it also OCs really well.

If you can afford to get a 470, though, do so, but right now, the 460 is the best value for money card by far.

I went for the Gigabyte OC 1GB version with the fancy-ass cooler. The MSI Cyclone is also another good choice.

CapnNismo wrote:

My ASUS 460 has a nice and quiet cooler, too. I think any of them are good enough to buy, especially if they're a custom PCB and cooler.

The Palit/Gainward cards have worse PCB and worse cooler than even the reference cards. I would avoid those.

Yea, there is a reason why some things are cheap...

Freezer7Pro wrote:

I'll give karma to you, if you can guess what device I've manufactured this little snirkle for. I'll reveal it after eight wrong answers.

(It's about 1.5cm in length)

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac7/ … thisis.jpg

Fuck's sake Freezer.
Knowing you, it could be anything from a heatsink retention clip to a turntable arm.

accurate penis measuring device

Csmag and Uzique are quite close to the truth, really.

TravisC555 wrote:

Thinking about hooking my PS3 up to my computer monitor. Dunno how it will look on my 21" monitor with component av though.

Read http://www.overclock.net/playstation/19 … -your.html

Fulla help, tips, etc.