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Agreed posted:Are they truly multi-threaded, or are they spreading individual tasks across up to (and only) four cores in a way they can still sync up at the end, like the older dual core optimized games did with the main gameplay on core 1 and then physics/AI/etc. that could be synced up on core 2? I've been wondering about that, are the games recommending quad core CPUs spreading the full workload or are they doing discrete threads for discrete tasks and bringing them together, sort of a ramped up version of the dual core usage? I know CPUs are really, really powerful these days, but could the games recommending 4 cores theoretically get a performance boost (were it required) from 6 or 8 or whatever, or are they still doing it the sort of compromise method rather than totally multi-threading the game itself? DX:HR seemed to like multiple cores, and I know that BF3 is recomended to have quad cores for recomended preformance.
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freeforumuser posted:All these official reviews simply proves beyond doubt BD is an fail of epic proportions, in performance and especially power draw (MY GOD, extra 200W from stock to 4600MHz at full load). Are these dev chips or final chips? Could it be something with power management driver related stuff? (I have no real clue about this stuff, just speculating)
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Possible anandtech didnt have the krenel patch?
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I would totally kill for a new card. I play on a single monitor, but with three monitors. BF3 has a habit of forcing aero to disable itself for the extra memory 
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Fatal posted:Care to say why? It seems so similar to HDMI I don't really get it (although I plan to use it when my 7970 comes) DisplayPort cable cannot fall out. It hooks in and has a release. That makes it completely better. I guess I am one of those 3 people using displayport. I do not use it for sound. Maybe I'm number 4.
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Killer robot posted:I'm #5 here, I guess. Though I partly do because I have three monitors. Same, considering ditching my old Dell 2007FP, and my two newer monitors (2211h and 2311h) for 3 2412m's but I dunno if I can convince myself to spell 1k on monitors, after having spent 500 last year. On an unrelated note, I never realized my 2007fp was an IPS panel. I knew it was great, just didn't know why.
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:I want to imagine another reason DisplayPort never took off all the way was because 90% of the first run of cables to hit OEM's/retailers that weren't $30 Belkins were defective and wouldn't let you turn your monitor on without unplugging it first causing everyone to apathyswitch back to DVI. Monoprice only just started carrying working cables about half a year ago, and I like it because it's small and thin, compared to the huge goddamn DVI cable I've been using since 2004. Only thing that bugs me is that powering the monitor off resets the display to 640x480, so all my icons get hosed up in the process That is really weird. I've never had that issue on my dell monitors.
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HalloKitty posted:That is a bit of a dick move though, 4xxx series cards are still more than usable. Anyone who still has a 4870 X2 or 4890 CF will not be very pleased. I can understand the 2000 and 3000, but 4000 series is kind of AMDs revival moment in the graphics card market. I think 4 years is more than enough.
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HalloKitty posted:No, I disagree. The Xbox 360 hit the market in 2005 and we're still stuck with Xbox 360 quality models and graphics. Sure you can push things higher by adding effects, running at higher resolutions and so on, but the point remains that for many: the 4xxx series is not obsolete. You're still going to get support for it (just less so) quarterly, and it still works on the OS's it was designed for at the time without a problem. I don't see the big deal.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:They're not legal in California. You can still tie someone up in court for a bit over it.
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Maxwell Adams posted:Not really, but it basically guarantees that new games will be highly multithreaded and 64-bit. It could also mean that video cards with less than 6 gigs of ram will be obsolete. While the xbone and ps4 seem to both have 8gb of ram, I somehow doubt that developers will get access to more than 2-4gb.
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