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AMD has massive driver overhead compared to NVIDIA and [H] is using OC'd 3770K instead of something super expensive like OC'd Haswell-E. This might explain the poor results in [H] benchmarks. If you are selecting a GPU and have weaker CPU like old Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge then [H]...

Yup, this is maybe the strangest part: While their own results show GTX970 is 16% faster at 1080p with maxed settings. :confused:

From the [H] review: What keyboard were you using? My Microsoft Sidewinder X4 had exactly the same problem with Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 until I turned "Legacy USB 3.0 Support" option to "Enabled". My old PS/2 KB worked percetly with that option disabled though. edit: I must say I find it...

Check out the Anandtech thread about the matter. edit: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32422880&postcount=134

He deserves no apology. Let's consider the facts: 1. He never corrected his IPC claims and even claimed that anyone saying IPC decreases had agenda or was paid by Intel. 2. Bulldozer pre-launch FAQ in Overclock.net. He kept bullshitting people to the very end. 3. He got people banned on...

Way too expensive. I built my first m-ITX PC for 130€ 3 years ago. It had 1.2GHz Celeron, 1GB RAM and 40GB HDD. It wasn't too beautiful but it worked.

Is there anything smaller than m-ITX avaible currently? I'm not interested in those old VIA boards with shitty CPUs. I wonder if there are any ARM based solutions that can run Linux and are powerful enough for HD video?

Butthurt much?

AMD isn't even doing anything that resembles Trilinear filtering these days (lower half ALU AF is how it's supposed to look like):

So AMD cards have poor tesselation performance. Upcoming benchmark includes lots of tesselation and AMD asks them to tune it down to get the benchmark run better on their products. Developers refuse and AMD decides to degrade the tesselation quality via their drivers. And all you people blame...

You shouldn't ride the metro because I'm down there stalking you.

I want a copy of this game so I can take it to range and shoot it to smitherens with my AK and then take the remains back home and put them to blender and then burn the blended stuff to ashes. Just BeCause they didn't make DX9 renderer and I can't play the damn game on XP. Plus my plan fails...

1280*720 has 50% more pixels than 1024*600. IMHO that's pretty noticeable difference.

So apparently there's a way to tell if your MSI P6N SLI series motherboard supports 45nm CPUs or not. MSI support had responded to one MSI forum poster that if the MB has QC number 01, 02 or 03 it won't work with 45nm CPUs. QC number is on small transparent round sticker somewhere near the CPU...

When doing power consumption tests with Furmark you need to rename the Furmark.exe on ATI products because the drivers detect it and automatically degrade performance.