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ATi 10.8 OpenGL / DirectX performance difference - Part 2
After a significant amount of fettling with the I7 system, including I think flashing a new bios for the motherboard, and completely un-installing and removing the existing ATi drivers with Guru3D's...
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ATi Catalyst 10.8 / Unigine: Performance Scaling on Low End Hardware Part 3
One of the concepts I talk about in many of my Gamenikki reviews is the concept of breakpoints. A breakpoint is the point at which hardware is fast enough to run a certain application. Since I was...
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ATi Catalyst 10.8 / Unigine: Performance Scaling on Higher End Hardware Part 4
While mucking about with Unigine on the little Asus F3Ka Laptop, I went back to trying to sort out the stability issues of the 5770's when coupled against the Phenom II platform. After witnessing...
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Net Neutrality: What does it actually mean?
I'm not going to say I get asked this question on a regular basis, but I do see it being asked on a regular basis. Just, exactly, what is Net Neutrality, and more importantly, why should I care about...
View ArticleAMD to drop ATi branding
Quick note. I have received a confirmation email from AMD that there is a quote unquote brand transition on the horizon. The brand transitioning will see the removal of the ATi branding.Now, as of this...
View ArticleToshiba recalls laptops: Nvidia not involved!
Over the past several months, actually a couple of years now, every time a laptop vendor has issued a mass recall for exploding laptops you would be making a safe bet if the laptops were using Nvidia...
View ArticleGearbox Community Manager: Yes I did send a resume
Couple of quick notes. Yes. I did see that Gearbox was looking for a new community manager on their homepage. Yes, I did send them my resume. No idea if anything will actually come of it... given that...
View ArticleWill the economy recover?
Yes, I've been silent for the past several months. Mostly it's because I'm still hunting for a steady job and the lack of a steady paycheck has wrecked merry havoc with my capabilities to express...
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Silent
I realize that I've been relatively silent since the elections, which prompted somebody to email me asking if I had been admitted back into a hospital. Fortunately an unexpected hospital trip has not...
View ArticleRadeonHD 6900 series launched
Yes, I am aware that AMD launched the RadeonHD 6900 series today. Yes, I am aware they offer GTX 5xx performance at a far lower cost.No, I can't actually really give a good comment on them since I...
View ArticleThe situation... is desperate
Okay, yes, I've been silent on this blog, yet again, for a really long time. The reason is... radically different. People who have seen my facebook profile already know what has happened, as well as...
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More details on the computers
Since I'm about to go list these computers on HardOCP, here's a bit more background on each one:Core 2 Duo / RadeonHD 4850 Crossfire X2 As mentioned in the first post I'm wanting around $700 for...
View ArticleEbay listing...
since I haven't gotten any emails outside of scammers, and no phone calls...I've pushed the computers to Ebay:Laptop:...
View ArticleSOPA: A Partisan Fight.
No, I haven’t forgotten this blog. Like many of my other ventures over the years, such as Mepisguides, my lack of updates was driven by my desire to keep from letting my personal life interfere with my...
View ArticleWindows 8: Let's get ready to Rumble
Okay, this post is primarily driven by a Google+ stream by SVN. The background of the post is this: Microsoft is planning the launch of the next Windows 8 test release later this month. We do know some...
View ArticleAmerica is not that Stupid.
Saw an interesting statement by Paul Krugman: "pundits who describe America as a fundamentally conservative country are wrong"I think Mr. Krugman is right, but not in the way he thinks. I would phrase...
View ArticleAT&T
I kinda of got asked recently why I seriously dislike AT&T as a company. I've made more than a few cracks about their inability to upgrade their network infrastructure and their paying millions for...
View ArticleOkay. This is interesting.
I just signed into blogger after the Google+ revamp went live to find that Blogger has also received a back-end revamp. Unfortunately it looks like while the UI got an overhaul, the HTML generator...
View ArticleArticle 6
Valve asked me some question. Here are my responses to them. Why do you use Linux (if you do)? For me I have several reasons. I've been through most of the stages that many of your other /Linux users...
View ArticleHomosexuals: It was never about Rights.
Okay, I've had enough. I think the breaking point for me was somebody who declared that Homosexuals being unable to marry was equivalent to the "Separate But Equal" doctrine. That's a load of horse...
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