Recent content by g__day

Been a long time since I posted here - is an understatement - but I really like the idea behind this card - reminds me of when the Voodoo 1 came out. To me - it looks like the start of something profound - but the question will how readily will game engine developers and Nvidia drivers be able...

Apologise to your neighbors for keeping cats, say it was a bad idea; tell them when the last of your pets passes on you have decided to replace them with Bull Mastiffs (or maybe substitute start a skunk farm) and possibly your remaining pets will have much longer, safer lives. You could...

Any rumours on when the next range of wonder cards are expected to arrive? Matt

Anyone that does astro imaging (moi) would really love heavy GPU lifting when it came to stacking, leveling, curves and heavy duty filter scripts - tasks that can take minutes on my quad core PC. Tapping the power of a 8800 class GPU would be very welcome!

I rarely used reputation points - as I think most folk in the past knew who had real substance and who didn't. I did remember alot of psts getting lost once (about a thousand of mine - server crash or something) Dave tried to guess post count as good as he could. Last I looked 2006? I was a...

A small bump as it appears AMD is going in this direction with its 4x4 mentioned today http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1970534,00.asp AMD Announces Dual-Socket, Dual-Core '4x4' Platform and http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10091

Interesting article here, titled Dual CPU or Dual Core? http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=23 Conclusion As you can see, the move to dual-core is definitely a win for consumers. Since they are more affordable than dual processor systems, but offer the same or better...

Isn't that just a design question, hand work out using gaming middleware with put/get queues? That way you design becomes inherently parallel friendly and any idle unit simply line up getting work from a queue, doing it then getting more work. These principles have been around since the...

It might be pricy, but for benchmarking to see just how much CPUs might be holding back the new high end cards in SLI or Crossfire, has anyone yet tested a dual CPU board (e.g. TYAN's high end) using say two dual core AthlonFX 60s on top end dual gpu gear with a benchmark that caters for it...

ATi seem to be making a very interesting call here - code your 3d pixel shaders using more maths and fewer texture fetches, if your target is a X1900 card. Another complication for folk dealing with 3d graphics engines. Reminds me of when 3d Now! and SSE were first introduced. What happens...

Amazing how many sites have published detailed reviews - only to pull them a few hours later when they realise they've broken embargo or NDA... http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=1808

Short answer - can't be done to lighten water. You'd really just need a storage device that takes anything and seperates it from the gravitational field surrounding it. Big problem - if it can be done you be kinda famous instantly. On energy and matter equivalence - Chanloth is basically...

Troy pounds are still used - just not universally enforced - they are still dominant. idiom - it's the weight system that dictates this result, I'm assuming not one iota, you seemed to miss that connection in your ponderances. Given the weight system itself enforces this result by being...

Idiom, I also didn't say what planet you're on, but why assume two external properties are arbitarily different? Its like saying "ah but if the feathers where in a vaccuum on the top of Mount Everest and the gold is in a mecury bath 20 km below the crust of the Earth..." You go too far...

Gubbi - exactly - and it used to be alot worse, for instance if I tell you I probably weight 4.5 slugs can you guess that's about 86 kilograms? Also feathers is (was) a unit of weight in itself! There are alot of occupation specific weights and measures used in the olde imperial system. It...