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jprahmanThe point is that there is more to the human brain that a collection of neurons, there are aspects such as self-awareness, the ability to reason, emotion, and creativity that the source of which cannot be quantitatively evaluated and replicated no matter how good we get at programming or...

That was actually the first place I looked, but unfortunately Biostar doesn't even have any Windows 7 x64 drivers posted for this "old", low-end board.

After much searching, I've come to realize I'm not along in in having problems with front panel audio jacks and Windows 7; most related to jack sensing. I haven't seen anyone mention the particular problem I'm having though. I'm using a Realtek ALC861 HDA codec (with latest drivers direct from...

superblahman123If I see any processor manufactured to 5.0Ghz within the next 10 years, I will eat my shoe, it just won't happen as long as everyone thinks that more cores is what will speed their computers. Actually, IBM had POWER6 CPUs shipping at 5 GHz a couple of years ago. It may have been...

This article's title is really ironic to me. It just so happens that one of my most memorable game experiences of all time was playing the original Unreal... on my family's old Power Mac G3 with Rage Pro (later Rage 128) graphics. Back then (1998) there was a mini-resurgence in Mac gaming as...

g00eyIt would be interesting to know why ARM has been so successful in portable devices and not MIPS or DEC Alpha, or PowerPC. It seems that ARM has been so successful in that area because they have very little competition in the ultra-low-power processor market. ARM is the only architecture...

techguy911Cell+ Rsx = 2tf max, in real world i clocked it at 1.3 tf put enough of those in a cluster and you have a major super computer. You clocked it at 1.3 TFLOPS, eh? That's funny, because despite Sony's marketing claims, the G70-based RSX peaks around 200 GFLOPS of programmable...

HupiscratchCould Tom's Hardware put some numbers of GFlops of single-precision computational? And what's the i7 980 performance? Well I could give you a few examples for reference: Athlon X2 5200+ - (2 cores) * (2 add + 2 muls) * (2.6 GHz) = 20.8 GFLOPS Core 2 Duo E8400 - (2 cores) * (4 adds + 4...

Just as an aside, an alternative to cross-viewing is divergent viewing (this is the method that MagicEye requires, for example). Cross-viewing requires you to focus on a plane in front of the screen, which I personally find very hard to do and it puts a lot of strain on the eye muscles...

shin0bi272Try asking the older system builders what happened when you put an ATI card in a socket A amd mobo. Here's a hint you couldnt boot it at all... after post you get a black screen ... cant even get to a prompt to boot from CD to install windows. Nvidia never had that problem IIRC. Not...

Comments like this assume that people only use their PCs to do social networking and other light-weight activities. In this regard, I think portable devices will supplant desktops to a large degree in the mainstream segment. Then again, it's hard to imagine even casual users being satisfied with a

Lots of misinformed people here. First of all, GFLOPS ARE comparable across architectures. Apparently several people here are equating that metric to MIPS/GIPS, in which case x86 performance is indeed understated. However, unlike instructions, flops can be precisely defined, typically as 32- or...

For PC, Unreal (1) - "WOWed" me more than any other game in its time. UT2004 - By far the most fun multiplayer experience I've ever had. Half-Life Counter-Strike Chronicles of Riddick:EFBB Myth II:Soulblighter Most memorable game on any platform: Mario 64.