The Gainward Phantom from sources such as this one http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-gainward-gtx-560ti-phantom-40nm-4100mhz-gddr5-gpu-835mhz-shader-1670mhz-384-cores-hdmi-plusfree- looks to be slightly cheaper than the Palit. The MSI Twin Frozr seems to me to be more of an out and out gamers card...

Now you can turn the knob up to 300 (W) Yikes, that’s a lot of watts dude! :) After doing some research it seems as if 150W is an achievable figure especially as the only other major heat source will be an over-clocked Ivy Bridge i7 at stock voltage or slightly above. So I’m looking at a GTX 560 TI...

I want to buy a nVidia card to use with Adobe professional software (Premiere, AE, PS mainly) which currently only support CUDA so nVidia only. The requirement is for silence so I figure I will need to install a 3rd party heatsink/fan(s) such as the Accelero TWIN TURBO II. Three questions: 1. Which ...

Keep in mind that the desktop versions of graphic switching don’t appear to put the discrete card into a fully powered off state so the power saving is minimal to non existent. Unless newer versions have resolved this? Still waiting to hear if Virtu (in Sandy bridge and IVB) puts the HD7xxx series ...

Keep in mind that the desktop versions of graphic switching don’t appear to put the discrete card into a fully powered off state so the power saving is minimal to non existent. Unless newer versions have resolved this?

Slaskvlask wrote:Will you consider HD6850? It is a good card and won't cost you a lot.

The OP is using a PicoPSU with a 120W power brick so that's not an option.

I recently bought a Pioneer Blu-ray writer and it's a lot quieter than my previous LG DVD writer so I'd keep an eye on Pioneer.

You don't get it: you don't need that much RAM to do what you do. Firefox uses RAM because it's there. If it wasn't there, you could do the exact same thing but it would use less RAM. The 8GB of RAM has been installed for over a year but only fairly recently has Firefox, iTunes etc been so memory h...

I have noticed recently that my multi-tasking exploits have pushed RAM usage above 5GB for the first time after seemingly being stuck around 3GB for ages. Modern software is more and more RAM hungry. My iTunes is now at 600MB and Firefox at 1.3GB That's the RAM you use, not the RAM you need. I woul...

What is my budget: for mobo+cpu+ram I would like to stay in the 200+ € region. Can stretch to 300€ if necessary (and only if!) You've been advised by people who buy gear in the Americas. In Europe, you can have a large difference between the cheapest i3 and similar Sandy Bridge CPUs which are brand...

the weird thing with PCs (and technology) is that by waiting couple months something sensibly better is ALWAYS going to come out! :) and so you could fall in an endless loop; but anyway I will keep that in mind, I am not buying parts tomorrow, and maybe by the time I am gonna fill my shopping cart,...

While I appreciate what you have tried to do with this article I think it is very misleading. The reason I think so is because while the i5-2500K + HD 6870 is less efficient in power usage it is highly more effiecient in terms of processing power. The article is clearly looking purely at the distri...

I've always felt very high end expensive processors (and we can go back many years on this) were/are very poor value for money I think the situation was worse in the past when the $1,000 CPUs were merely a speed bump whereas at least this offers 50% more cores than the mainstream processors. One fo...

The Westmere 6 core is 32 nm but is just a die-shrink of Nehalem (I currently have an i7 920-D0), so it doesn't have higher IPC. I’m sure it does have a slightly higher IPC which is usual even for so called die shrinks. It gains extra instructions over your chip as well. I wanted a Socket 1366 6-co...

the visible extra silicon that's not used in the Sandy Bridge E makes me call it a 'management flop'. I doubt that the Intel 32 nm process is still not mature enough to require 2 out of 8 cores to be disabled, and maybe also some cache disabled. But using all 8 cores would have increased the TDP to...

Some people seem to be under the illusion that all AMD’s woes are down to Intel.
Intel screwed them no doubt but AMD’s management and design teams screwed their own company even more.

I don't know which teams were involved in the development of the FX CPU, but I believe the most obvious mistake was using a design for server processors (heavily multi threaded workload) and expecting it to work well for normal desktops (rather less heavily threaded by some margin). It was a bad ca...

Bulldozer is a bad joke but I thought the Hitler video was funny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SArxcnpXStE [General 1] Reviews are pouring in from all over the internet. The usual sites put up huge reviews almost the moment the NDA was lifted. The consensus on Bulldozer has been very clear and de...

I can see a lot of folks who were waiting for FX simply go ahead and get their 2500k or 2600k CPU and board in the last few days. A difficult call for the true fanboys; if you buy one of the 8 cores at current pricing I think you can ‘proudly‘ stand up and declare yourself one of their rank. AMD sh...

Power efficiency is worth exactly nothing without accompanied performance. I started this thread and used the term power efficiency and linked to a review that looked at performance per watt; power efficiency doesn’t equal power consumption. The word efficiency relates to how it uses the power not ...

quest_for_silence wrote:It isn't just a matter of (bad) absolute figures, IMO.

Agreed, which is why my first link in this topic was looking at performance per watt:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors ... tion-and-P.

FX-8150 v i7-2600K – idle / load 76W / 209W v 64W / 144W (TechReport - Cinebench) 85W / 229W v 78W / 155W (Anandtech – x264 HD) 60W / 174W v 44W / 115W (Xbitlabs - LinX) 130W / 271W v 91W / 172W (Hothardware – ?) Viewed as the absolute difference between the two platforms: idle / load 12W / 65W (TR)...

This thread went quiet all of a sudden!

Plissken wrote:Thin Lizzy - Dedication

I bumped into Phil Lynott in a pub in north London and he looked really ill. Caught Lizzy live and they were a great live band.

Eulogy For Oscar Romero - Jean-Luc Ponty - Live at Chene Park

The power consumption of each core is actually pretty good. No doubt this is what AMD meant. But if you need 2 cores to keep up with 1 Intel core... Never mind all this did you watch the video? Anyone that doesn’t find it funny is definitely a fanboy. http://1.2.3.9/bmi/www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/...

Actual CPU efficiency is even worse than reviews lokking at system power consumption would have you believe. The Xbitlabs review made that very clear: “The “pure” power consumption of the eight-core FX-8150 is about twice as high as that of Sandy Bridge processors. Since all of them are manufacture...

He will be missed. Why? I see no shortage of bullshit pending. Whilst it is true that there is never a shortage of BS in general, Steve Jobs’s own cesspool was an unusual mix of ingredients that made him and Apple spectacularly compelling to the amoebas in the media. Part low rent tech-shaman, part...

The reviews have focussed on the performance which is very disappointing but if you look at the power efficiency it’s truly appalling: see this link - http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-FX-Processor-Review-Can-Bulldozer-Unearth-AMD-Victory/Power-Consumption-and-P . The best remedy for bad n...

This little gem was released in 1967 and remains one of their best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eEcJs4nzsg I strongly suggest you listen to it without knowing who recorded it. Knowing who did it will ruin your objectivity, which is unfair to the song and to you. So click the link and then click...