Recent content by DaJMasta

I'm just impressed that an eye diagram made it into Asus's press release photos!

New consoles, slowing new product generations, reduced desktop sales (they're the only ones that can use add in boards, unless it's including laptop dedicated boards which have to be a tiny fraction of the market)... it's not surprising.

It likely has more board surface area than an ITX board. When you've got the host computer managing so much (like power), you free up a lot of space. This board also relies on a lot of integrated stuff, has minimal multimedia features, and no expansion slots. That kind of thing tends to save...

It better be bitchin' fast for 3k. The first things I thought when I read it: Wat. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?????? Then I realized the pace of new architectures and performance bumps has been slowing somewhat in the past couple years... it's probably a result of that.

I'm not against it... but since when was GPU scaling limited by PCIe throughput? Maybe it's a latency thing... but 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes is quite a bit of bandwidth, and I thought that we've seen time and time again that the performance impact of halving that (running 8x) is minimal even with the...

Agree 100%. Even if it's a foundry limitation... you're getting trounced in the performance/watt because of the process. It would be so much closer to competition with intel and the chips themselves would cost less if you could move to a smaller node. APUs and whatnot with less emphasis on...

I thought the 4770S and 4770T still supported hyperthreading, making them both 4 core/8 thread?

It's on when I'm awake, which is usually 17-18 hours a day (and thankfully, recently has been less), and it goes to sleep after half an hour. No standby or hibernate. Isn't really a poll option for that one...

I think it all comes down to the fact that they're testing engineering samples. Generally, these chips (especially early revisions) can't clock up to where the final product will be and come with dramatically reduced clocks as a result. Clock vs. clock comparisons are valid in comparing...

Terrible name. Maybe they'll be decent products, but I'm extremely skeptical of their claims until I see some stats (like a frequency response chart, or an SNR). If they can put up for that, then maybe they're worth a listen.

Interesting. On first look it seemed like a peltier, but this is a better option methinks. And from what I can tell, this one won't be as efficient as a proper heatsink/fan on its own, but would be a substantial improvement over a no heatsink/no fan environment like most phones use. That way...

Honestly, I don't see a dramatic difference in the amount of stutter between the two videos, and as someone who games at 60Hz, I'm never going to see most of what you can see here anyways. It does sound like driver optimization to me more than anything else, but it could be less a case of...

So AMD didn't know how to optimize for farcry 3 either? I thought nV had the boost because they hadn't gotten access to the game early... but I thought that meant that AMD did :confused: Oh well, free performance is free performance.

After seeing so many widescreens.... 5:4 looks perfectly square.... :laugh:

Yeah... not sure why it's so expensive. Features look pretty Z77 standard and there isn't any wifi (I guess the Mini PCIe is nice though).