Recent content by nirgal

How does a 2.5" slot mount compare to the results? And which 2.5" slot do I want compared? All of them. A floppy disk slot is different from the extra HD slots in terms of air flow - even if there were no front fan or even an option for it.

So, where are the VIA offerings?

Can you repeat that in English?

What I can't believe is that no review ever questions the existence of HDCP. Basically useless waste of power that wouldn't even be needed if the big four entered this century (or even the previous).

No wonder the games suck nowadays. They've been consolized.

No, it's not. It was the apple fanboys employed in media that "got folks into lines for the iPhone". Seriously, how could there not be one single article taking a critical view. That, compounded with the weekly or even daily "news" about it, sharing the same attitude, created the huge...

Why were the initial comparisons made against ATI 4xxx but the benchmarks against 3xxx? And why only one ATI card and multiple Nvidia cards (which furthermore were practically the same)? What is the purpose of "Plateforme.jpg Test configuration:" on page 14?

Umm.. Who's your target audience? Pre-teens?

So... No actual real-world comparison against C7? That's weak. And where is the Geode comparison?

Or C7, which I guess is the latest and greatest... And to whatever low-power processors there are.

How about comparing this to C3 and Geode?

Did you remember to load the defaults after BIOS update? I remember that used to be the recommendation. (Update, load defaults, save, reboot, remake the changes) And yes, do disable on-board graphics from BIOS. Integrated peripherals or something, I believe. Consult the handy manual that came...

It depends. Mixing the channels and calculating the 3D would use some of the CPU, but that's done on the HW nowadays - even with cheap chips. However, I don't think all effects are done on the HW. And how about the on-board memory? If the card has it's own memory, the samples can be loaded there...

The garbled graphics could be because of some memory chip on the card overheating. They are probably not equal in terms of air flow, so increasing fan speed might not help. 70 isn't that bad under load but if you're starting to hit 80, I'd do something about it.

I don't know if you've heard about this. It turns out there is a huge problem with NVidia graphics cards if you install SP2 on your 64-bit XP. Essentially you get a BSOD with the following message: The driver is mismanaging system PTEs. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=53098...