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I would think it should work fine. 6-pin plug is 75w (6.25A x 12v = 75W) GTX 470 has 2 6-pin plugs right? Looks like they are on their own rail or share 1 which is fine (6.25A + 6.25A < 18A) PCI-Express slot provides another 75W (6.25A) from a different 12v rail probably. Could try using 1...

LCDs have improved. My personal example was 2003/2004 LCD tech vs CRT. The viewsonic was a TN and my Samsung is a MVA. It was a side by side comparison in the same pictures and games. From reviews I've seen LCDs are close but still can't hit what a good CRT can. It's a limitation of the LCD...

haha I was wondering when someone would bring this up. If you are wanting to know $$ for selling that's one topic completely separate if you are wondering if they are worthy to buy.

I don't think smaller transistors give off more heat but that the heat is not as spread out and harder to cool. Which is why we now have heatspreaders on our CPUs and we didn't before.

I have a 19" LCD and 17" CRT (2 actually but one is not being used). I actually tried a Viewsonic before I stuck with the Samsung I have now. The viewsonic was WAY too bright and the color was WAY off, especially side by side with my CRT. You couldn't even see objects in shadows that you could...

Actually Intel and GPU drivers happens to be.

This is the first thing I thought of too (new drivers getting applied to a PC that does not need fixed and bugs in new drivers causing a bad experience that did not happen on old drivers). But it is good for AMD and ultimately good for the people who run the drivers since the install base of...

Hmm I would need 2.3 tb to hold all my DVDs if I ripped them to the drive (movie, 1 audio track, no extras). The drive is not big enough... But I might have to dive in.

I never liked list view. If I know the file name then seeing more files on the screen does not really help imo. (pluses and minus but it is pretty much a wash in this case) Moving files into sub folders (same screen) seems to be pretty daring in list view. Just imagine those times you let go of...

A lot of people are weary of the 1.5/2TB drives. At the beginning they were more failure prone. Maybe they got pushed to market too quick (covered all brands). Maybe that is why most are 5400rpm? But at the same time people are buying them and most do not have issues at all. It is probably just...

I used to partition my 2nd drive to keep fragmentation less of an issue. But of course a dedicated drive is best for reliability and speed. best - multiple drives each with 1 partition OK - 1 drive, 2 partitions not good - 1 drive, 1 partition all with OS and storage files I do have one of my...

3 to 1?

Exactly, virus. I deleted part of my reply above since this sums it up better than what I wrote. "Kanter notes that there's no technical reason not to use SSE on the PC—no need for additional mathematical precision, no justifiable requirement for x87 backward compatibility among remotely modern...

What is funny about this speculation is that it might be possible to get not just equal but better performance on a PC with 4-8 cores if they switched what they optimized for... (CPU running physx instead of GPU) See, when AMD bought ATI they could have made crossfire 'run faster' on AMD...

Oh yeah, there is nothing bad about the card. It's great right now and might be enough pressure for ATI to adjust it's position at $200 which has not happened at any price point yet. It's just not exciting when looking at the cards position when zoomed out looking at what has been out for a year...

example of scaling with PhysX (last graph). So that ATI card + CPU is being held back since the CPU is running the PhysX code as a single thread and using X87 code. SSE would double performance (from TR article). Multi-threaded would help out more. If you had a 6 core CPU running a game that...

Instead of mini keyboards or touch controls which take away screen space. We need holograms in mid air! As big a keyboard or display as you could need. Your mobile display would be like that Verison vs ATT coverage commercial where the map was in the way of viewing the TV. Seriously though, you...

The gist is that the code used for PhysX to run on CPUs is mostly X87 and single threaded while it could have been SSE instructions and multithreaded. Currently when run without a Nvida GPU and having the PhysX done on the CPU instead PhysX is very slow. But it COULD be very fast...possibly...

They disabled some CUDA specific stuff so it uses less watts than if it was a fully functional fermi card with double precision floating point etc (stripped the "CPU" out). It's a gaming card for sure which is good. But it is a little late for most customers as they already have an ATI 5000 or...

The MX518 and MX310 have very similar shapes. The curve is a bit sharper on the mx310 at the back while the curve on the M518 is more constant across the whole mouse. But the degree of the slope way up by the buttons is the same. Although the piece that sticks out under the thumb is more...