I bet physx will stay DX10 card based for quite a while, however I suspect the hit for using fermi + physx on one card will be much lower due to the compute friendly re-design effectively multi-tasking better so you might not need to bother with 2 cards just for the odd physx game.
It is a realistic thread - they have huge debts and keep loosing money (even the last quarter which was very good for them they still lost money). Companies a lot bigger then AMD have gone under in the last year or two.
If they went bankrupt they'd get broken up and sold cheap.
I suspect...
I think it'll be about the same gap for games. Where the GT300 will shine is gpu compute - this thing was designed to counter larrabee. It will fold at > 10 times the speed of a 5870.
Not missing any pixels is flawed as when an object crosses over 2 screens it will seem to distort and stretch - try it dragging a normal window across 2 screens in windows to see what I mean. To work correctly eye infinity needs to insert invisible pixels in between the screens to simulate the...
The fact that it doesn't work on ati hardware is more ati's fault for not having anything like physx and 3d vision, and not trying to get developers to use it.
Fundamentally this is a console game - they produced it to look as good on a console as possible. Nvidia paid and/or helped a lot to...
I'd pay as much attention to the amount of noise it makes as anything (e.g. 4890's with the standard cooler are loud). You don't really need the performance but I bet you would like it to not whine the whole time you use it.
+1 to the buy a decent LCD - 24 inch full HD ones are cheap these days.
It's probably input lag - i.e. your graphics card sends the information for the frame but the LCD spends say 65ms processing it before getting around to displaying it. LCD tv's do this to improve picure quality and it's not a problem for a tv but matters for games. Sometimes you can lower it a...
It has to accept a 120hz signal - not just interpolate a 60hz one to 120hz. Being as an HDMI cable only has enough bandwidth for 60hz at full HD res then it is highly unlikely any TV can do it.
It says it's 3.36W which isn't much - I know my motherboard can take a combined wattage for all fans of 25W so I'd be very suprised if your motherboard can't handle it. Check the spec's if you're not sure.
S-flex F would go closer to silent then high performance then. At min rpm it's as good as silent (unless you are a silence freek), at max rpm it'll still be pretty quiet, but 1600rpm isn't enough for really good cooling.
If you don't really care about it being very quiet a 2000rpm fan might...
It depends what you want the fan for. No point getting a really high speed fan for a case as it just produces noise and turbulance, however for a heatsync, particularly those with dense fins you need more air pressure to push the air through the fins so a faster fan can make a big difference...
You have a tower so the motherboard is mounted vertically, hence the heatsync sticks out from the motherboard horizontally. You want the heatsync to stay flat against the cpu (i.e. perfectly horizontal) but the extreme weight of the heatsync will pull it downwards (so it droops somewhat). That...
I have an sythe infinity, I put a S-FLEX 120mm Fan (1600 RPM, SFF21F) on it, and used the fan that came with the infinity in my case.
For both coolers I recomend suspending them off the top of the case - i.e. use a piece of garden wire or something, attach it too the cooler (I hooked it...
My Sythe Infinity would sag if I didn't support it by hooking a bit of wire around the heatsync attached to the top of the case.
It should be perfectly horizontal in the case - it was nothing like that without support, which I agree wouldn't be helping the connection to the cpu.
You want serious sam (the original). Game is getting on a bit now but is a total laugh to play co-op at a LAN. Features huge numbers of baddies with a fair amount of variety (including some massive monsters), lots of increasingly large and very silly weapons (cannon ftw), and a fairly simple...
But most people have consoles in their living room plugged into their tv - you can't accurately use a mouse and keyboard sitting on the sofa. Perhaps you could shift the coffee table over and plonk the mouse on that but the seating position is all wrong so you'd end up with back ache and rsi.
Problem is that would create a 2 level playing field - basically online all the M/Kb users would pwn all the controller users. You effectively force everyone to get a M/Kb and put their console on a desk so you can use M/Kb properly.
Fan is screwed on to a bit of plastic that hooks pretty firmly on to the grill. Any vibration will be passed through to the case. You can with a bit of effort use the rubber screw replacements to attach the fan to the bit of plastic with the hooks on and isolate vibration.
I'd swap the fan...
I use rubber arrow head fan mounts for vibration isolation on the lower fan of my P180.
http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=8&Product_ID=282&CATID=7
Or sythe infinity, or thermatake big typhoon - depending on which review you reference they have all *won*. The only one I would avoid for low noise is the tuniq tower as that runs optimally with a faster louder fan. I would also base it on your case choice - e.g. if you have side fan then you...
E6420 is the obvious choice for cheap but high performance (an E6400 with 4mb cache). E6300/E6320 are more likely to hit FSB limits in the chip (not the motherboard - there's nothing you can do) so you need to get pretty lucky for a very high overclock.
Extra cache does effect gaming but it depends on the game - if the core of the game fits within the cache you're fine, if it doesn't then the extra cache will make a big difference. Hence the cache makes more of a difference on newer games have a larger more complex core.
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I complicated my install by putting sound insulation all around the inside of the case and modded the top cdrom holders as I wasn't using them but it works nicely, and is so quiet. Airflow must be pretty good as despite having o/c core 2 duo and 7900GTO none of the fans ever need run above...
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/core_2_cpu_cooler_roundup/
No Tuniq Tower, which has a little better cooling out the box, but that's mainly because it has a much faster and louder fan.
It's fine for it to slow the fan down, as this minimises noise but if it stops then it's slowing the fan down too much. Just up the min speed the smart fan control mode lets it go at.
Can you set custom colours for a game with the new control panel yet?
I use this all the time - games look much better with a touch of digital vibrance and image sharpening, but you don't want that on for general desktop usage.
With old control panel you could save a colour profile. Then...
And that's cause you heard it on the web right?
1) Lots of people post higher scores then run stable 24-7.
2) The people who post are mostly those who get a really good overclocker, the silent majority with lesser chips don't bother.
3) It's not unusual for a hardcore overclocker to buy/rma...
I don't deny it's possible to get better cooling with water, but I bet it's still significantly noisier then air cooling.
As mentioned on on page 1 of this thread I can cool an E6600 @ 3.2 1.4V using air cooling to about 40 degrees with 1 very low noise fan running at 800rpm in a closed case...
So how does the radiator dissipate heat? - it has a large surface area and transfers it too the air exactly like a air cooled setup. Like I said the water is only used to move the heat somewhere else where it can be removed into the air.
Now if I were to submerge the whole PC in a tub of oil...
I suspect the demo's everyone has seen were DX9 on XP. DX10 on vista is bound to be buggy and unoptimised both for nvidia drivers (even without SLi), MS code for DX10, and the DX10 path in crysis (they will have been working more on the DX9 path for the demos). Come back in 6 months once it's...
All the water does is move the heat to somewhere else - to cool you need a radiator, which is exactly the same as a heatsync only it doesn't need to sit on the cpu. Obviously you can have larger radiators, and do things like put the radiator outside of the case for better airflow. However for...
I have a Antec P180 with acoustipack sound insulation added. Modded the top as not using any of the top 3 5 1/4 inch bays so removed them to allow airflow in from there (I added a filter, and re-used the metal bits that were blocking the drive bays as sound deflectors by placing them in the...
That's why I ended up with a 7900GTO not an X1900XT - I wanted a high end quiet card and ati just don't make them. Some manufacturers do make quieter ATI cards but charge a premium so the card is then too expensive. I bet noise alone has cost ATI a fair number of customers - here's hoping they...
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