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Fields of the Nephilim - She

Nine inch nails - head down following: the four tracks of 'The slip' left

Oh, it's a beautiful and fun game I had quite a high temperature today and yesterday, yet needed to learn for an examn on monday - this was a partially surreal experience, always on the brink of a fever dream about semaphores and monitors, scheduling with stupid multilevel feedback queues...

static electricity alarm!

Great keyboard

Also: 's what happens to such bands...

De/Vision - The End

Check their prices first and compare any low end new generation card to this price. Please post here first, because chances are that a new $30 graphics card is faster than a 9200 or a 4Ti

omgomgoyoureallsick

Yeah, already happened with very old Radeon-Generations (8500LE -> 9100) but what really surprises me is how in some of the current nVidia cases, they don't even get 'downgraded' when put into a new generation see 8800GT -> 9800GT, 8800GTS 512 -> 9800GTX, and now the same chips get ported again into the current generation *shakes his head* Ah well, still better than the manufacturers who release crippled versions of cards.

Fields Of The Nephilim - Chord of souls

Source: http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?p...400#post6230400

Shryke: Glad to hear that AM! argh. I don't like this way of couting time...

Party. It's 7:30 pm and I'm home again, safely sitting in front of my computer being mostly sober I hope D_R's the same without the "mostly" Anyway, it was fun, they even dared to play some Cure and punk stuff amidst all the electronic boom-boom stuff they call 'wave' or 'gothic' for some reason. Gotta buy a new, longer skirt however, it was pretty cold outside tonight...

There's a PC version of Soul Reaver as well, wouln't that one look a bit better (resolution, filtering)? The new Prince Of Persia is pretty stylish

Faith and the Muse - Sredni Vashtar Lyrics

Why would that be a problem? Now, a bad graphics card isn't the same as a simple graphics card. Also, what needs to be simple is not the card but the interface to program it, which is DirectX for most current games. What ideally would be done to facilitate game programming is ensuring 100% compliance with all interfaces, be it DirectX, OpenGL or the upcoming general purpose computation language OpenCL (and DirectX 11) - a programmer ideally doesn't have to know the hardware, but just 'if I write X, independent of the hardware, Y will result'. Intel's graphics card aren't by any means the most compliant. But also ATI and nVidia have their own quirks and strengths and recommend programmers to write code that uses their specifc strengths. Consoles merely have the advantage of being restricted to one hardware, that doesn't have to be simpler, but would even allow to code in a form of assembly language because a programmer knows exactly what the hardware understands and what it is best in, what needs to be avoided etc.

Too bad they split up, they rocked

Heh, if I had you'd all be listening to FotN all the time Blue

GTX 280ies are what he has now, I don't think he'll sell those

I know, it was a bad attempt at pointing out that the rather strange results in the second image were quite in need of some explanation for people looking at nothing but the length of the bars and the numbers. So, people reading this here and not reading the linked tests: Note that the first of D_N's reviews attributes abysmal performance to this onboard solution, while the second test is run under Linux with really exotic drivers etc (exotic for Windows users at least) that perform vastly different from e.g. Vista and thus end up recommending the IGP for HTPCs - which frankly I don't understand without support de-interlacing, noise reduction or even noteable reduction of CPU usage when displaying movies.

D_N: What are these pics representing? A X800XL faster than a X1800XT? What's the used system, driver versions? But thanks for linking to these other sites, I hadn't seen many IGP before Gorgon: Yes indeed, and Intel better do something about their compliance with standards and their drivers, or Larrabee will just plain fail.

Ooh, I smell wasted money (only half kidding, price/performance ratio on the fastet dual core isn't great at all, here that is, don't know about the US)

Test/Benchmark/Performance review of the Intel's newest revolutionary integrated graphics X4500 against the lowest end of the other manufacturers (S3 430GT, ATI 3450, nVidia 8400GS): http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/sh...ad.php?t=442135 What can we see? Epic fail! Both image quality and performance are far, far off anything else on this planet. Plus, there are some nice compatibility issues with Crysis on high (even if that would be suicide to even try to play, considering 7fps average on low, 800x600, on an E2200 @2.4GHz, 4GB Ram). Imo, more tests like this or even real reviews should be done by hardware magazines, both printed and online, because people always expect their games to run on Intel graphics. They tend to complain when their games run like crap on them, see NWN2 forums for example. More information about the ridiculous performance of the chips and the compatibility issues of the drivers (or even the hardware?) could probably open average Joe's eyes once he googles for reviews.