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Wii U Hardware Investigation

Oh my god.... You realize that's because the games have less variation in the animations and speeds for the analog stick, which Mario 64 was a showcase for...? It's nothing to do with the analog sticks themselves.
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- Post #24
- Mar 7, 2014
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Wii U Hardware Investigation

So that's been him... I wonder where these mysterious Latte = AMD Radeon 5000 and 6000 series specs have coming from. :colbert: GPU die doesn't even look too similar to anything but if digital foundry says it's about a match for a 4650/4670, about a match with what they figured back at E3 2011...
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- Post #22
- Feb 28, 2014
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Wii U Hardware Investigation

Despite the nastiness he received, he was right on several points. Wii U is basically 360+, or like what the N64 was to the PS1 in terms of raw horsepower and more modern features. It certainly isn't comparable hardware-wise to PS4/XB1 though, other than using 1/4th of the same kind of RAM as...
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- Post #20
- Feb 28, 2014
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Is Intels fabrication process advantage shrinking?

Yes, Intel has said that they'll be shipping their first 14 nm chips ship this year. I assume for sales this Ultrabook and further 14 nm sales will occur next year but CEO Brian Krzanich was vague.
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- Post #100
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Wii U CPU Espresso can use Latte's eDRAM...

Woops...yeah that makes sense, my bad. :whiste:
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- Post #43
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Wii U CPU Espresso can use Latte's eDRAM...

Probably a security chip from Renesas
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- Post #29
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Wii U CPU Espresso can use Latte's eDRAM...

Impossible it's that low... I doubt Nintendo would lie about it being sold at a loss (at least in August) either and the PS3 wasn't even profitable in 2011 so it's not surprising. Wii U on the other hand is more than just a souped-up 360 (which became profitable earlier.)...
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- Post #26
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Wii U CPU Espresso can use Latte's eDRAM...

It's a much more powerful console than the PS360 though. That's a fact thanks to the GPU, RAM, etc. Latte is also backwards compatible with the Gamecube and Wii's GPU's like Espresso is for the CPU's so I don't think that's why. Probably cost, even PS4 and XB1 are going with relatively quite...
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- Post #24
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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TSMC Shows Path to 16nm, Beyond

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/intel_reveals_14nm_pc_declares_moores_law_alive_and_well/ Exact quote from CEO Brian Krzanic: If it doesn't ship this year then it's not on their new target in September. Otherwise it looks like the first consumer 14nm is happening 2013, not 2014. More...
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- Post #116
- Oct 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Whats this connector for? (xbox 360 controller)

Yeah, the original Xbox and the wired Xbox 360 controllers have that.
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- Post #3
- Oct 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Revenge of the 8 core CPU - Watch Dogs

Welcome to next-gen PC gamers... this (huge bumps in minimum and recommend performance on PC) happens every single console generation.
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- Post #62
- Oct 8, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is Intels fabrication process advantage shrinking?

I just realized... Didn't we reach commercial 22 nm last year. Now Intel's shipping a 14 nm laptop by the end of the year?! That was....fast.
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- Post #96
- Oct 8, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is Intels fabrication process advantage shrinking?

As remarkably intelligent as DARPA and Colwell are, far more intelligent than any of us, perhaps especially a newbie like me, I've got to add this: Mr. Colwell is insisting on either 7 or 5 nm being the smallest possible shrink... Both of those will require EUV it seems: Source...
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- Post #92
- Sep 17, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are next-gen consoles gonna be gimped by their weak cpu's?

It's interesting, Wind Waker HD on Wii U, an HD port (obviously) with quite bumped up graphics is 1080p 30 fps. I could live with 30 fps if 1080p was the standard but some of the highest-end games would be pushing it at even 720p/30fps in a few years I think. Most Wii U games are 720p, 60 fps...
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- Post #67
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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The Official Xbox One Thread

http://www.nederob.nl/wp-content/2013/08/major-nelson-xbox-one-gif.gif Just leaving this here... I really hope there's no massive hardware failures this time, there shouldn't be.
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- Post #4,011
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Do you have extreme sympathies for Sega?

No, it was so gimped they had to put a second CPU and GPU in it and it still produced less powerful 3D graphics. Shenmue's tech demo is the closest you can say it can match Playstation and it was well behind the N64. Saturn was the best 2D machine that gen though. Nobody ever added like that...
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- Post #23
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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The Official Xbox One Thread

I have, was used to 1680x1050 on PC, it's nice but, 1280x720 is okay and 1920x1080 which some games next gen are is better. Anything over 1080p though I don't need because I'm not getting a 4K tv anytime soon...
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- Post #4,010
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Do you have extreme sympathies for Sega?

Perfect Dark and Conker's Bad Fur Day used 64-bit operations I think, would explain load times going through the 32-bit bus, difficult emulation, and the astounding graphics for the time. I mean, you could even play Perfect Dark at 640 x 480 (and native 16:9, not stretched) if you went to...
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- Post #20
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Do you have extreme sympathies for Sega?

1. Source? 2. Briefly...then Mortal Kombat II SNES... then Sony... 3. False, remember sudden North American Saturn launch 4. False 5. Don't even know where to begin...Online gaming was around before, especially in Japn. Built-in online though, yes, that's not "nearly every." 6. Master...
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- Post #19
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Hynix FAB 1+2 on fire.

Good points. Thankfully SSD took off at the same time or I could see more than a $5 max difference today. You're spot on on the price per TB metric, the whole thing definitely stagnated but at least prices did drop quite a bit from the flood panic levels, right back to where we started...
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- Post #25
- Sep 5, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Hynix FAB 1+2 on fire.

I know AMD would behave the same, I just don't like nVidia's behaivour, no console gamer and many PC gamers don't. They outright lied about the RSX GPU in the PS3, which is basically a GeForce 7800. There are many more off-topic arguments we could have. Glad this wasn't a huge incident, SSD's...
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- Post #17
- Sep 5, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Hynix FAB 1+2 on fire.

With that said, HDD prices aren't too far off pre-flood at all now after price drops.
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- Post #14
- Sep 5, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Hynix FAB 1+2 on fire.

Sigh, nVidia might try and take advantage of this to raise its already exorbidant prices. Course I got beat to saying this. Fab equipment is fine though and production should start shortly, we'll see...
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- Post #13
- Sep 5, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Anyone sticking to current Gen for a while?

PS3 and original Xbox launches were disasters and priced way too high for most consumers (Xbox more so because PS2 was... PS2 and Gamecube was way cheaper), look at just about everything else. http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Price_cuts With over 1 million pre-orders already the PS4 could easily...
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- Post #99
- Sep 2, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Anyone sticking to current Gen for a while?

Bookmarking for when it doesn't happen. I doubt we'll see a price drop until early 2015, except maybe a Kinect-less SKU for Xbox One.
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- Post #87
- Sep 1, 2013
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Below 5 nm, can Moore's Law continue?

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319330 To a noob, can materials like graphene take off? Is quantum computing, at least for the average consumer a realistic goal? Can chip features go anywhere below 5 nm? Even 5 nm apparently could be quite a struggle and isn't relatively speaking...
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- Sep 1, 2013
- Replies: 55
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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