Recent content by Steveymoo

Sneaky sneaky. I don't think AMD should be allowed to re-badge GPUs, aren't there laws against this kind of thing? It would make more sense for them just to rebrand the r9 290x as something like 290x Pro, or +. This is ultimately just confusing for the consumer. Both manufacturers are guilty of...

Look at that funky pin layout for the CPU socket.

Back in the day (I'm talking 10 years ago,) I used to run RAID 0 on platter disks as a primary drive. Everything essential (work, music, media etc,) would be stored on a backup disk, and everything that relies heavily on speed, software, OS etc, remained on the RAID 0 array. If they ever broke...

Yup, they are catering for everyone here. Heavyweight gamers, who don't want any compromise in owning a laptop, gamers who want the best of both, performance and portability, and thrifty gamers that don't want to break the bank. Great line-up!

Think, dual GPU single cards. Titan Z, r9 295x2.

Yep, commenters here get it. The only reason most people have to upgrade their PCs after 2 or 3 years, is because of all the crippling flash/gif/high resolution adverts being splattered all over their screens. I currently work on a 16 core Xeon beast at my job, and I swear, some websites cram so...

So, 6 months before all your components get covered in dust? :D

I can tell you now, from personal experience, Any big budget FX based film from the last 10-20 years will not scale up to 4k very well, since most vfx has not been rendered higher than around 2150x1105 since, well, forever. Old classic that have been filmed on celluloid will scale up to 4k, however.

The timings on these modules are around twice as slow as cheap DDR3. I think we're seeing a new MHz e-peen war, with little regard for real world performance.

Let's all hope they pull something competitive out of the bag. Although I'm not going to hold my breath.

r9 380 will probably just be a 290 or 290x.

So, how long until you get adverts plastered all over your own house, wearing one of these?

Holy cr*p, that looks tacky.

I see a lot of whining in the comments section here. The Titan is marked up, because it's not just a re-badged chip and board, it's a new GPU, with 3x the amount of memory. Let's just put these things into perspective. GDDR5 is not cheap, and design a new fab costs a lot of money. Think it's too...

Good guy AMD - Designing and opening up standards for the benefit of the whole industry, instead of locking them down for profit.