Well, I know the Dell exclusive does not have a power connector because I have one in front of me. They must have bumped up the clocks the same as AMD did with the HD7750 to create the GTX650 and increased the power draw when they did but a used Dell GT640 GDDR5 would still be an excellent...
It makes a big difference when power consumption, heat and noise are all issues. The GDDR5 version is right now the most powerful card you can buy without an external power connector. It competes well against the HD7750 which requires external power and it's because of the type of memory used...
The OEM version of the GT640 GDDR5 does not have an external power connector. I think, though, that the reason why nVidia has not allowed their board partners to release their own GDDR5 versions yet is because Dell wants to keep it exclusive for a while.
One thing does puzzle me about this...
Just how is HD7870 supposed to be a sidegrade from GTX 560Ti when it will wipe the floor with it? HD7870 is going to be faster out of the box than an HD6970 with more overclocking potential. GTX 560Ti is not faster than HD6970 so HD7870 is an UPgrade from GTX 560Ti not a sidegrade..
Incorrect. HD7870 is a die shrink of HD6970. HD7850 is a die shrink of HD6950.
HD7870
1536 Stream Processors
96 Texture Units
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
HD7850
1408 Stream Processors
88 Texture Units
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
Both will have...
First of all, what the heck is an HD6930? Secondly, the HD7870 is going to be a die shrink of HD6970 with slightly higher clock speeds, so it will be faster than a HD6970 by a small amount. If this HD6930 is not a typo and is slower than a HD6970, then you are very much mistaken.
And that's precisely the point I tried to make but apparently failed to do, though I don't understand how. It's a simple enough concept to understand. Hardware is only capable of running the standards that it supports. It is not capable of doing anything else. DX11 downgrading the gameplay...
No, it is your misinterpretation of the chart that you linked. You said you were playing in DX11 on DX10 and 10.1 hardware. I pointed out your error. You are not getting anything close to a full DX11 experience on any hardware that is not capable of it. If your video card is only capable of...
If it's not using all DX11 features, then it is not DX11. What don't you understand about that? The chart you linked to proves my point perfectly. If your video card doesn't support DX11, then the game is downgrading to whatever DX version your card supports, so a DX11 card will run in DX11, a...
Bitcoin miners who prefer AMD cards over nVidia ones would dispute the idea that nVidia cards are better at GPU computing than AMD cards. In fact, they have proven that AMD cards have more processing power than equivalent nVidia cards. If AMD is changing their architecture to be closer to that...
HD6770 will be more than enough at 1440x900. Anything more than that will be a waste of money unless you are planning on getting a higher resolution monitor soon.
Sorry, but I'm calling you on this. First of all, AMD cards have been using tesselation since R600. Secondly, your 9800GT is NOT running in DX11 mode because it does not support the DX11 feature set. The 9800GT is a DX10 card, so you are playing in DX10, not DX11. Your 4870x2 is running in...
6870 was never intended to beat 5870. 6970 was the 5870 replacement. AMD changed the numbering scheme and brought back x9xx to denote their top end cards and moved the x8xx cards down market. This was announced well in advance of release but to this day people (usually nVidia guys) still compare...
This exactly the reason why I put off buying a Macbook Pro until they stopped using the nVidia 8600M GT GPU. This is not just an isolated example of a few chips from a bad batch going bad. EVERY GeForce 8x00 GPU apart from the 8800, whether it was mobile or on a card was bad. nVidia is lucky...
+1 and yet the OP will be first to complain when his employer downsizes and he loses his job because they can't afford to pay their energy bills anymore or they move the jobs to a country with fewer environmental regulations and everyone in the plant or office loses their jobs. I'm sure he'll...
Amen to that. I worked in a printing plant once and we had blacks there from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya and the Carribean and they are like a completely different race of people from American and European blacks. I can get along with blacks from other parts of the world. It's only the...
Your scenario already happened. Look where the black civilizations in Africa advanced to and where the European civilizations advanced prior to European contact with Africa for your answer, and actually, the blacks had the advantage of having a bigger continent with more resources than the...
They used the atomic bombs BECAUSE it saved lives. Do you have any idea how costly an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been to American forces? If you are the direct descendant of someone who fought in the Pacific theater you might not be alive today if the atomic bombs hadn't...
FDR didn't bomb the Japanese, Truman did and it was necessary because the Japanese had a fight to the death mentality and were never going to surrender. The invasion of Japan using conventional forces would have cost too many American and allied lives. It needed to be ended quickly and the...
That's what I say about drug addicts. They made a decision to use drugs, nobody forced them into it. If they become hopelessly addicted to the point where they can't quit on their own, they aren't able to get or keep a job or damage their own health as a result then there should be no public...
Except that the people were never meant to be the be all and end all in this country. That's why the states were vested with certain powers, to act as a check on the people running amok. Yes, I said it. The Constitution puts the brakes on absolute power in the hands of the people in spite of...
Then it looks like we're both on the same page mostly. It just felt like you were attacking me from a left wing position to which I always respond in kind. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It's called self preservation. The future economic outlook is too uncertain under Obama's wealth confiscating agenda. Do you expect them to continue on as normal in these times so they go belly up in 5 years? Companies make their decisions based on projections 5 or more years into the future. 1...
It's going to be the same with healthcare. Nobody is going to carry insurance until after they get sick and can't provide proof of insurance at the hospital. Then they'll just pay the fine and still not get insurance.
WRONG! Low top marginal tax brackets encourages job growth and investment because the people who have the money actually have an incentive to expand their businesses and hire more people. When will you learn that? And who really cares about distribution of wealth other than Communists? If the...
And this means what, exactly? People who work in high paying jobs get paid more than people in low paying jobs. So what? No news here.
You'll also notice that those top earners are also the same people who create all the jobs in this country. Go ahead, keep taxing them so they retire to some...
Honestly, it's probably going to be cheaper in the long run to upgrade the motherboard now. The only CPU's and memory you can upgrade to are already obsolete and if the hard drives are IDE, they're going to be obsolete, too and once you reach the limit of what can be achieved with socket 775...
Must have been union firefighters on their contractually mandated break.
"Cranick pointed out that the fire station is on the edge of town and "we don't go out that way every often." "
There's this guy who comes around to every house (no, it's not Santa Claus) called a "mailman", excuse me...
Do you know how to grow your own food. Doubtful.
Can you build your own house? No way.
Can you protect yourself if you're attacked. Again, doubtful.
Can you actually make anything of any value that improves the lives of anyone? Not likely.
Your people would die out without capitalists and...
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