Search results matching tag 'graphics'

RE: Can A New GPU Rejuvenate A 5 Year Old Gaming PC?

mhenriday — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:23:31 GMT

Have to agree with Dave, realneil, Paul, et al ; this was indeed a really worthwhile initiative on the part of Joel ! Nice to know that a GPU upgrade does, in practice, make so great a difference even when other components aren't the absolutely latest and greatest. Relevant for me, as a little more than a year ago I upgraded my main box with a GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard, a Phenom II X 4 955 processor, a FSP650-80EGN PSU, and 16 GB RAM, but retained an ancient GeForce 7900 GTX GPU. I've been looking for a good deal on a GTX 660, but now that AMD has released a driver that seems to work decently with Linux OSs, I'm thinking of widening my search. Good to learn that such an upgrade would have significant (positive) effects !...

Henri

RE: AMD Unveils Preliminary Radeon HD 8000M Series Details

mhenriday — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:09:12 GMT

Thanks for transmitting this AMD info, Marco ! Can't wait to see the testing results - hope you will also test for »stuttering» !...

Henri

RE: AMD A10 and A8 Trinity APU: Virgo Desktop Experience - Hot Hardware Hands-On

mhenriday — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:05:09 GMT

Very much looking forward to those tests, Dave - thanks for the heads-up !...

Henri

Re: GTA V NEW SCREENSHOTS ! =)

SarahMassi — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:25:56 GMT

Here's the trailer if you haven't seen it !
"Developed by series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside and beaches in the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created." -Rockstar http://www.rockstargames.com/search/query/?q=Grand+thief+auto+V#/?gameDetail=241
Seriously i think this is going to be awesome.

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GTA V NEW SCREENSHOTS ! =)

SarahMassi — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:44:39 GMT

i din't see anywhere, post or anything else on GTA V. Rockstar just posted new screenshots of the game on their site and i wanted to share them with you cause i'm sooooo excited lol. We didn't really have news since the trailer and they come up with this, it's pretty cool. Take a look mates ! hehe

Here's the links if you wanna go and check by yourself :
http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/37991/transport.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/38221/leisure.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/43961/business.html

RE: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

mhenriday — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:34:17 GMT

Thanks, Marco, for your reply ! The two Sweclockers testers, Jonas Thörnqvist and Emil Björklund, state the following in an explanatory video that they felt compelled to add to the summary section of their detailed, multi-page review (2:59 - 3:17 into the video) : «... the drivers report a clock frequency of 1050MHz, GPU-Z reports a clock frequency of 1050MHz (this could, per se, be due to the software's lack of support for the Turbo fuction), but the point is that, no matter how much one looks at the card, it always runs at 1050MHz ...»

In any event, thanks for an excellent review !...

Henri

RE: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

mhenriday — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:45:35 GMT

Marco, when this card was tested by the Sweclockers team (http://www.sweclockers.com/recension/15564-amd-radeon-hd-7970-gigahertz-edition - in Swedish), the conclusions reached were much the same as those you list in your summary above. However, a couple of additional things were noted - the so-called «PowerTune Technology» didn't really work as expected ; instead of the card being tested (much the same line up as in your HH test) running at the basic 1000 MHz speed and being «dynamically» boosted to 1050MHz when required, throughout the whole test the card ran consistently at 1050 MHz, save for a dip to around 1020MHz for perhaps a tenth of a second on a single occasion. Moreover, available software does not permit card voltage to be increased over the standard 1.2V (which itself is a minor increase over the standard 1.175V of the standard 7970), which, of course, limits the card's overclocking potential. Thus, according to the Sweclockers reviewers, the HD 7970 GHz amounts to a factory overclocked HD 7970, in which the engine clock has been boosted to 1050MHz from 925MHz, the memory clock to 6GHz from 5.5GHz, and voltage, as noted above, to 1.2V from 1.175V. An owner of a HD 7970 card should therefore be able to attain the same performance levels as the HD 7970 GHz card by means of a relative modest overclocking of his or her card. In other words, the HD 7970 GHz card, while it does take the speed crown from the GeForce GTX 680 (on most applications), doesn't represent anything new....

Love to hear your comments on the above !...

Henri

RE: AOC Outs 27-inch LED Monitor

mhenriday — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:30:49 GMT

Not only does Eizo have such a monitor, Samsung does as well, the S27A850D, with a PLS panel. Unfortunately, AOC doesn't inform us as to what sort of panel is used in the monitor mentioned here, which leads me to suspect that it's a TN, with all of the concomitant problems with respect to colour reproduction and viewing angles. From what I've seen of the reviews,however, PLS seems to be as good as IPS, and the Samsung monitor is quite reasonably priced, so I'm thinking of getting one for my setup at home. The only problem is that I'd have to replace my graphic card in order to drive the monitor at max resolution....

Henri

RE: More From TUL: PowerColor HD7970 With Dual Fans

mhenriday — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:27:49 GMT

Don't these companies realise how important it is to proofread blurbs before releasing them, in particular when they are couched in a language which is not native to the authors ? The above is a prime example of how not to do....

Henri

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales! SSD's and Video Cards! : )

UnlikelyAura — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:49:59 GMT

Hey guys,

So we all know the shopping begins soon. I was wondering if there were places any of you guys preferred to check out for hot items like Solid State Drives or Video Cards.

Personally, I'm looking to get a new SSD. I was wondering if there was anything to watch out for/to look for when getting a SSD and where to possibly find some good deals on some. I'm planning on only getting a 80 or 128 GB SSD (64 GB could work if no good deals show up for the 80 or 128..)

What are you guys thinkin'?

Thanks,

Austin