Yeah now that you mention it I remember there were 2 cards and a cable running between the Voodoo2 and either the motherboard or the other video card, no idea what the other card was though but probably just something to display a picture. I miss that computer. :(
Is there any reason to keep...
Lol people used to have two brands of GPUs in the same PC? I was relatively young at the time but I remember both my AST computer with Pentium I 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM and my IBM Aptiva with Pentium II 400 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM and a Vooodoo2 card. My parents threw away the latter unfortunately. :(
Are they using DDR2 for that now? I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those people are almost as quick to upgrade from DDR3 to DDR4 as the enthusiast crowd. :D
I am not looking for the kind of performance you see in servers (far from it) what I'm really wondering is what variables you have to look at when it comes to I/O performance. If the system is slow because there's not enough RAM, you add more, if the CPU is the bottleneck you get more and faster...
Intel says different: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/archive/reference/ISC_2010_Skaugen_keynote.pdf (look at page 38)
If they will ever make a video card for gaming based on this technology is a different story. Although to me the idea of dropping Larrabee as a gaming card technology and...
Yeah well we can ignore Windows boot times because I realize it will be impacted by the initialization of the RAID controller card if nothing else. What I'm mostly interested in is what way you have to go to maximize I/O performance in the same way that you would get more and faster cores, and...
That sounds good, but how can I be sure that it will be faster when it comes to booting Windows, application startup, level load times etc. than the 4x X25-E's were on the Adaptec card? I'm still in the dark as to how performance will scale, where the bottleneck is etc. when it comes to storage...
Exactly. If there is anything I can imagine that would reignite PC gaming and set it off from consoles it's the return of software rendering enabled by something like Larrabee or possibly CUDA/OpenCL. Artistic freedom and creativity is what drove game development in the mid-to-late 1990's and...
The Techreport write-up used an Adaptec 5405 card. I would never put SSDs on a motherboard RAID controller. =P
For the moment I'm mostly interested in the performance scaling with different SSDs, different numbers of SSDs and different RAID controllers. Any budget number I could give you would...
My build is still far in the future so we can ignore real-world considerations like cost and time frame, but if it ends up being more expensive than the FusionIO PCI-E cards then I guess that defeats the purpose of finding a reasonable alternative to those. =)
I looked at both the Z-Drive and...
What kind of SSD RAID array would be the best for minimizing boot, application startup and level load times and for workstation applications such as CAD, 3D modeling, rendering and physics computing? The ones I've been looking at (4x X25-E in RAID 0) and products such as the OCZ Z-drive...
You forget that most motherboards have integrated graphics in the chipset. On-die graphics is a waste of die space for both enthusiasts and professionals who use discrete graphics and for those for whom motherboard graphics are enough (the vast majority of users).
I agree. Consoles are responsible for the present situation of PC games (and ironically also for the "golden age" of GPUs, at least when it comes to value) and should be burnt at the stake.
I'm looking forward to Haswell and I think I can put off my next desktop/workstation build to 2013 (although that is an easy thing to say now). The last CPUs I have bought since Intel started with the Tick/Tock model and slightly before that have been the Conroe (E6600) and the Nehalem (i7...
No. No one is really that excited about the "cloud" that non-cloud users would be relegated to Windows 7 Starter in 2012 and beyond.
I think Windows 8 will be just a normal development of Windows 7 but with an extensive app store.
You still don't seem to grasp the enormity of what you are proposing here. Have a look at Download.com and the literally millions of Windows applications there are. You think every developer should sit down and re-write their code for ARM because maybe those could be made slightly more power...
I'm pretty sure there are some RGB LED displays out there. A few Dell notebooks have them that I know of.
SED is now abandoned as a display technology (though FED is more or less the same) but OLED in computer displays is still being actively worked on.
About the native resolution part: Through a Beyond3D thread I found a part of a Sony patent where it is described how their FEDs would be able to not only operate on a fixed native resolution, as each half of two adjacent "sub-pixel fields" in the emitter grid would work together to light the...
This has veered hugely off-topic but here it goes.
I don't deny that the iPad is a successful product, but you'll be hard pressed to find someone who actually replaced his laptop (with a real keyboard) with one for performing actual tasks. It's a prestige side product for rich people who like...
He will know that x86 processors are many times faster than ARM. I think on forums such as this the amount that people understand about computers is severely underestimated. People aren't so dumb that they don't realize that the CPUs in their phones have different capabilites than the ones in...
I'm wondering this too.
I am angry at my FW900 because it is not displaying reds properly and has a bluish tint all over it. Other than that I love having a CRT even in the year 2011. I'm actually thinking of getting a 22" Diamondtron if I can still find a good one.
The latest news on the FED (field emission display) technology seems to be a report in November 2010 that AU Optronics (that bought out the Sony FED venture and technology in January 2010) are expecting to mass produce panels by Q4 2011 while AUO themselves denied having gotten far enough in...
Well it's good to see that the potential of this is recognized meaning this market should develop and have other players than FusionIO and maybe leading to some of these technologies trickling down from enterprise markets. Also I saw that SandForce are just now releasing a new controller that's...
If the encryption is hardware-based in the SSD then the CPU wouldn't be able to help at all. Maybe depending on how performance turns out it will be better if you have an AES-accelerated CPU to leave hardware FDE off and let software take care of drive encryption, from just a performance...
I can see how that would be optimal but isn't NAND flash controller to PCI Express (like FusionIO does it) really a reasonable compromise between performance and flexibility? Wouldn't the implementation of a completely pure NAND interface require a complete redesign of both motherboards and...
Hmm. Then what is keeping OCZ and others from creating a completely non-SATA PCI-E SSD that would offer superior performance to existing products? I imagine it would be the same reason as for FusionIO to being so much more expensive (besides their better enterprise support). Is it just the...
Wouldn't the new OCZ IBIS (as has been reviewed since this thread was created) count as native PCI-E to NAND? The HSDL interface is basically PCIe signals routed through a modified SAS cable to the internal RAID chip* on the IBIS SSD, thereby bypassing SATA RAID completely and eliminating the...
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