Recent content by olivier

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    Is there any reason to go with Linux over Windows?

    this is a good reason http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26486 :P
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    The mystery of GPU Transister counts?

    so you are saying that ... size does matter !!!! :)
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    Top 3 most intelligent people of all time

    i could not more agree and i want tu add fuad with the invention of macrochtecture or something like that for the gpu :D
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    Is this how shader instruction batching works?

    why use a translator when hardware.fr has a english version :P http://www.behardware.com/articles/574-1/nvidia-geforce-7800-gtx.html http://www.behardware.com/ is the english version than hardware.fr
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    Havok Announces HydraCore Multi-Processor Capabilities

    i dont know about game console operating system, but every modern operating system (even smartphone's os like wince and symbian) support more thread than processor. So if their is only 1 core, the library will work with a small context switch penality.
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    So...which HDTV do you have?

    sharp 23 inch lcd (1366x768) monitor it support 720i
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    Multiple GPU cores

    humm i was sarcastic :P im pretty bored about the cell hype ! and i totaly agree with you law of physics should be the same even for ibm , toshiba and sony !!!!
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    Multiple GPU cores

    cell is powerfull dont forget !!!! so i think you are a little hard with it ... it should be attt least powerfull like a radeon 7000 :P and with the feature of a voodoo 1 !!
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    Your best cartoon movie

    spirited away .. hand down
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    Post interesting facts about yourself....

    - im a french canadian :shock: - im not separatist - had few gf but half of them was long term relationship (1yr and 3yrs) - got a college degre (CEGEP here) in computer science and im getting a major in computer science right now - Im sadomaso because i go to school and work 40hour a...
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    Multiple paths for multiprocessor PCs

    one way is to separate job by context and each context can only run only 1 time at any single time. You dont need to synchronize memory for the context. However you need synchronization where you dispatch job. This model is awersome because you can scale easly between 2 thread to n thread.
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    Multicore Processing

    in some dual core desing (power 5) the two core share the same cache l2 and l3. so they use their cache more effiancy than a standard dual cpu.
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    Has FP24 been a limitation yet?

    correct me if i am wrong but in this case (vertice) doenst ati use 32fp ?
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    Which company is bigger in terms of industry?

    STUTE ? ok back to the topic im not sure but i think ati have more employer than nvidia and they did more money than nvidia in the last year. Intel is a giant .. you can compare intel to microsoft for the money they make (but they make less profit than microsoft)
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    SPMark04

    thx for the result for the 6600 :P i dont like to use this device so i dont have to do it by myself ! when ill have time ill try the nokia 7610 and the p900
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