Recent content by TripleHeinz

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    Review AMD Athlon 240GE and 220GE Review: Retaking the Low Ground

    Thanks for sharing your experience. Rarely someone talks about compiling performance and I have no reference so your comment is quite useful. I'll take a quad core into consideration when it is time to upgrade (in 2025). I do compile a lot, daily. I compile c++ code with msvc2017 and g++...
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    Review AMD Athlon 240GE and 220GE Review: Retaking the Low Ground

    If I wouldn't have a PC already (core i3 4330), the Athlon 200GE would have been my next cpu. It is perfect for a programming pc. Notepad 99% of the time.
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    New Community Trophy Contest

    Trophy: Oopsie Description: Delete a post within 5 minutes after creating it. Icon: A roll of toilette paper (like expressing you are cleaning your...posts). Alternative: Outlines/Sillouette of a broken glass pattern (like expressing you commited an accident). Notes: This is easily and...
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    Discussion Community Questions: What's Your All-Time Favorite GPU?

    nVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti the legend That GPU does everything, ages well in time and is so efficient that it powers itself through photosynthesis. Honorable mention to the S3 Savage4 with its revolutionary S3TC, when it came out it was mind blowing.
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    Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, 2070 (Developing)

    I just want my Geforce 2010 with one tensor core and one RT core.
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    Report Claims Eight New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Impact Intel And ARM Processors

    Is there any public number for real successful Spectre and Meltdown attack rates? So far, to me, all this seems almost theorical and all this hasle plus breaking patches for something intangible... ...until one day I turn on my pc and nothing shows in the screen, that day I will regret making...
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    What Is 10-Bit (And 12-Bit) Color?

    There is this option in the nvidia control panel to output 8bpc or 12bpc to the display. The 12bpc option is available when using a fairly new panel but it is not when using an old one. Does it mean that my monitor has a panel that supports 12 bit colors or is it something else? I honestly...
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    Report Claims Eight New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Impact Intel And ARM Processors

    We'll never know but it would be very interesting if CPU companies make an experiment and try their latest architechtures without branch prediction algorithms and focus only in a ultra fast, ultra smart cache hierarchy for serializing instructions. That way they can focus only in executing...
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    Khronos Releases Vulkan 1.1, SPIR-V 1.3 Specifications

    I was dreaming about making render passes optional in v1.1, alternatively providing a more direct and flexible render path.