I dunno how everything looked last year/a few months ago.
Do you have any sources for this 0.o?
No problem.
There's a lot more info on this, but the core (GPU) temperatures between Nvidia and ATI are typically 5-10 degrees apart in a given operation, on comparable cards.
Couple that with weak factory cooling from most AMD GPU manufacturers, and you have a lot of ATI followers reaching to Zalman and the like for their aftermarket cooling needs out of necessity. I have several buddies running late model ATI's who immediately went out to purchase a new cooling solution for it. They really are that hot.
I can get my Nvidias pretty hot too and have even managed to overheat one of the aforementioned BFG GTS8800 OC cards. It politely let me know by locking my system up whenever pushed, and well, I guess I shouldn't have been using it to run physx and render at the same time on Sacred 2 @ 1920x1200 with everything set to high. Specifically with a character that used a TON of sprite and particle effects.
Did I ever indicate otherwise? You were the one to talk to CPU usage, and said "Not a big fan of the Core2Duos either. Pretty much a budget minded processor, but not everybody can afford the ridiculous price of the upper echelon i-series processors either" which indicates that's all you were talking about, and made it part of what I addressed. What I said there was that it was a top of the line CPU, AND the other parts were pretty damn good at the time of purchase as well. Why would you talk down to me like I don't know **** about hardware?
Did I misunderstand this then?
Sure, the wolfdale was top of its class when it came out, but the GTX8800 and 570M are no slouches, either.
The comment looks like you are comparing the two.
I wasn't trying to be a d***, more of a d*****.
I just thought maybe you were tired or something.
Six. Though there's a good reason things are this way.
Might a procurement of ATI by AMD be a motivating factor?
Mine was 1 of 2 at the time I purchased it, and the 2nd one which I believe was a Gigabyte, was known to have issues with something, of which, I cannot recall. I want to say they couldn't get it to work with most available memory. This one has an issue too. It has onboard Bios recovery, which is good because every once in a while the Bios has a spasm (corrupts), and you have to know a key sequence to get it to boot into recovery mode and reflash itself.
Fickle little board.
LOL - the last computer game I was serious about playing was Gorrila Basic with my daughter when she was 5 and up LOL
Gaming has become a multibillion dollar a year industry, and the hardware and software now is so advanced that it provides the premier fantasy outlet for billions worldwide. It's amazing what Duck Hunt and Mario caused with their mainstreaming of video game consoles.
Now we have tournaments where people win $100,000 just or being amongst the best at a video game. Everything is linked and the ratings around the world are viewable for all. heck, even the championships are streamed like boxing matches.
We all have our hobbies.
I spin wrenches on drag cars.
I absolutely love building bikes and you might catch me vacuum syncing the carbs on one of the old Hondas were you to randomly walk past my house on a Sunday.
I still sit and read a good book every now and then (
Einsteins Dreams by Alan Lightman being my current favorite read).
The fact though, is that video games take us where we WANT to go, or to do things we want to do, but CAN'T otherwise.
Nothing like being able to Taxi a 747 out of Singapore for a short flight over to Japan while drinking a beer, or slide your Dodge Viper ACR around Laguna Seca while being able to pause it to give your daughter a kiss for bedtime.
Video games are cool, and if you haven't tried them in the past 10 years, you are missing out bigtime.
