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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Oct 20, 2009 - 02:38 pm
Doubtful. Nehalem's been around for nearly a year now, and none of the basic price points have changed, just new CPUs have been introduced to displace the old ones.

Instead the CPUs that need cuts are the Core 2s...

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 30, 2009 - 10:27 am
Unfortunately there's no way for me to unlink the stream processors from the rest of the graphics core, so I can't test that, but you're right in the sense that it does help the graphics core OC'ing results that were shown. I didn't mention that, but at the same time I still think you'd see the memory scale better when OC'ed if it truly were bottlenecked.

Perhaps "bottleneck" is the wrong word here. When I hear the word bottleneck, I think of something that's blatantly holding the architecture back from performing to its max potential. Right now, the evidence suggests that the graphics driver is bottlenecking RV870's performance potential more so than its 256-bit memory interface in my opinion. Sure, integrating a 512-bit memory interface may net RV870 a little more performance, but I still think they made the right call here.

Believe me, I was questioning ATI about this quite a bit at first, but now after seeing all the benchmarks I'm a believer. ATI's Dave Nalasco and Baumann made it quite clear that it was an either/or scenario. We weren't going to get 1600 shaders+512-bit memory interface with RV870 and still have a semi-affordable GPU. Something had to give and they decided it was going to be the mem interface. I discussed this in the original 5870 article last week.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 22, 2009 - 11:07 pm
Believe me, it's tough picking which resolutions/settings to test. Especially when you mix in such a wide variety of cards as I did for this article. That makes it tougher because you don't want to overdo the settings for cards like the 8800 GT, but at the same time you don't want to end up bottlenecking the high-end cards either.

Again, like I said, it's tough.

And I'm still fixing things here and there with the article btw. There's so much stuff I'd started on and wanted to cover, but ran out of time with the NDA expiring at 12AM EDT.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 22, 2009 - 09:23 pm
Yeah, something's not right. I'm working on it. :(

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 16, 2009 - 08:06 am
Yes, they support virtualization.

I would've liked to have include the 810 as well as Athlon II X2, but as I'm sure you know, I've got another new product launching later this month that's an even bigger story. ;)

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 13, 2009 - 09:06 am
Yes, you can run audio over HDMI with the 4890, and any other recent ATI GPU. I haven't tested it at 1366x768 specifically, but I don't see any reason why the hardware shouldn't be able to scale to that resolution. You may just need to tweak a few settings in CCC.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 10, 2009 - 06:49 am
DOH! Busted...LOL

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 09, 2009 - 11:08 am
That's one rumor you haven't read here on this site.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 08, 2009 - 10:39 am
The graphs were correct, the headers weren't. Again, another cut and paste error on my part, and as a result, this 18 page article has now become a 19-page article.

As you can see, I made a lot of changes/additions to the suite of tests from the last CPU review, and that affected the template I use to make the HTML. I tried to catch everything but I obviously missed the addition of Left 4 Dead and how it affected my previous Crysis graphs. If you spot anything else like this in the article pls let me know, it's been a long labor day weekend for me as you can see.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Sep 08, 2009 - 10:26 am
LOL, cut and paste got me. ;) Fixed!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Aug 18, 2009 - 05:28 pm
It's hard to spot, but there's a click here to read the article link on the news page and comments page.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 30, 2009 - 03:05 pm
Woah, big typo there. Thx for the correction!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 29, 2009 - 05:59 pm
Yes, Clarkdale is the CPU with integrated graphics.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 16, 2009 - 11:55 am
My guess is the adaptive mode isn't as effective at dynamically adjusting power modes and NVIDIA's offering full power as a new alternative. I'm tempted to run some benches and see if there's any difference.

I don't think they'd provide this feature unless they had a reason.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 16, 2009 - 08:21 am
Actually you can also set it per app, so you can have individual power profiles for each game.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 16, 2009 - 06:48 am
That's a nice price!

When you get a chance, I'd recommend upgrading from that Intel Smackover mobo. It's BIOS layout is terrible and isn't as powerful as the Taiwanese mobo manufacturers. As I'm sure you know, it's also only got 4 DIMMs.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 15, 2009 - 04:33 pm
Thanks for the correction, I guess I should've stuck with my first instinct, which was the Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P I reviewed a few weeks ago.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 14, 2009 - 04:02 pm
LOL corrected thanks!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 13, 2009 - 12:40 pm
I got more keys from S2 Games today, and emailed them out to all the late additions. Have fun with the beta everyone!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 12, 2009 - 10:08 am
The tests were run under WinXP, but audio over HDMI isn't supported in Vista.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 11, 2009 - 08:08 pm
LOL, we dont have a way to track how many new registrations, but I'd bet it's higher than that. Probably 170-180.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 11, 2009 - 08:27 am
Email sent.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 11, 2009 - 08:24 am
Okay you can get one too. Email sent.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 11, 2009 - 08:23 am
» All done!
freya was the last reader to receive a key. Enjoy everyone!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 10, 2009 - 09:04 pm
I'm almost out of keys.

Everyone below this post should have hopefully received their beta keys via email by now.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 10, 2009 - 12:57 pm
Okay, I've sent the first wave of beta keys out. Check your email everyone.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 10, 2009 - 12:31 pm
I can send you keys for each of your sons if you'd like? How many would you need?

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 10, 2009 - 12:30 pm
kessandra: should I count you in for a beta key?

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 09, 2009 - 09:01 pm
Fixed thanks!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (366) Jul 07, 2009 - 09:22 am
Keep in mind that BioWare is referring to story-driven games. So that would exclude titles like Sims and Portal.

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