Recent content by octoberasian

If the 5820K comes in at $350 for 6 cores and 3.3GHz, that's a steal compared to the older 4930K. Especially if the 5930K comes in at $500 ($499?), that's even better than the $550 to $575 4930K beforehand. Will Intel drop the price for the 4790K if this happens? Unlikely, but that would be...

I usually try to make a character that resembles an anime character. For the majority of anime characters drawn to date, they're usually light or fair skinned.

... In Mantle, yes. This is basically what the API is doing-- freeing up the CPU and letting the GPU do most of the work. Re-run this test in DirectX and tables will turn showing the 4690K in the lead and the other processors rearranged down the chart. ... Which leads to this... At...

I use Start8 and have been for quite a long time. My sister uses the ClassicShell since it's more familiar to her like Windows 7 and XP beforehand.

I keep seeing GM204, GM207, and GM210 thrown around, which one is the highest end Maxwell card that Nvidia is planning on releasing? The GM210 is the 8GB VRAM engineering sample shown on VideoCardz website? And, the supposedly 2GB VRAM GTX 880 is the GM204 or GM207 with 3200 cores?

You have a good point.

Yeah, I've been wondering about it myself in an older forum post here. Not a troll question. I would like it to be a free update for Win8.1u2 users, and if not, heavily discounted upgrade.

I should have bought this during the Summer Sale. It's been on my wishlist since Early Access. I grew up on these type of RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale of yore. I'm tempted to go with the Collector's Edition since it has the DLCs and an extra copy.

This would explain why my personal web address (uses .bounceme.net) I use for Minecraft and Starbound servers won't connect. Dammit Microsoft. I think it might be worth it just to pay the $30-$35/year for a registered web address to not go through this hassle.

And to think, one or two years ago 4TB hard drives were $299 to $399 as well.

That I did not know, the consumer or enterprise version?

If those specs are real, and let's say they are for now, how much faster would it be compared to the current 770 or 780 if using the Maxwell-based 750Ti as a base? (Even if it's possible to speculate and scale it up from the 750Ti.)

In other words, you get what you pay for especially if going for an 8-core CPU from Intel. You're paying for the level of performance that CPU offers, and that is more than what is currently available. And, there will be people willing to pay for it.

Regardless whether the processor is from Intel or AMD, Mantle has shown us inefficiencies in how gaming graphics are currently done today through DirectX. Hopefully, DX12 brings a more efficient API. When I first read this, the first thing that came to my mind is that Mantle allows...

Yeah, an 8-core 5930K would have been nice, but all leaked slides and graphs sadly point to a 6-core processor. I guess if we wanted an affordable 8-core consumer CPU, we'll have to wait for AMD's new architecture in 2016. Excavator sounds like it'll be another APU release. :(