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    Just for fun (come join in!) - Estimating Trinity performance

    Care to offer a clueless person an understandable explanation why GDDR5 cannot be used as system memory although it is based upon DDR3? Also, what's the difference between GDDR5 and XDR2? Was RDRAM's failure at mass market due to marketing/economic reasons, or performance reasons - having...
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    Just for fun (come join in!) - Estimating Trinity performance

    Oh, i'm fully aware that XBox Next is unlikely to have a full-fat x86 BD module/core on it. Don't see any reason they'll mess around with the GPU portion though... Would be fun to make the XBox Win8/HTPC compatible though - would open up quite a few markets I imagine, although OEMs might not...
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    Just for fun (come join in!) - Estimating Trinity performance

    oooh!! I'd totally forgotten about the new XBox rumours - that adds some perspective. Consider that the maximum, and increasingly common resolution on TVs are either 720p or 1080p. I doubt MS are likely to settle for 720p given the average lifespan of a console generation. So, if MS are going...
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    Just for fun (come join in!) - Estimating Trinity performance

    I know BD is on everyone's mind at the moment, but frankly, I've never been one to spend exponential amounts for linear gains at the halo regions of hardware. Trinity interests me far more... Anyway, here's a combining of a number of rumours to try and estimate Trinity performance. CPU - most...
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    Cooking an egg on a laptop

    Actually, you might be able to :eek: Option A: Take a sleeping pill, go to bed, and have a wet dream about it :D Option B: Build a time machine, go into the future, and bring back something nice. Option C: Lower some in-game settings, and be content with reduced eye-candy - seriously...
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    Simple Intel answer to AMD Zacate

    To be perfectly honest, I couldn't care less if my chip was fabbed in Timbuktu by VIA, if it got me the performance that I desired. Unfortunately, Intel has, for the largest part of PC history, been the leader in chip technology, hence my observations/suggestions. The reason I got into this...
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    Simple Intel answer to AMD Zacate

    I'll take a black forest cake with icing on top please :p I know that nothing is "free" - computational power involves pushing electrons around, which involves energy. However, it's about reducing wastage - no point keeping a relatively high baseline idle computational power active doing...
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    Simple Intel answer to AMD Zacate

    Well, what I'm suggesting is essentially Intel® Core™ i3 (Pentium branding maybe?) -2307M Processor, Single Core, HT and Turbo enabled, (1.0GHz, 2.0GHz with turbo), ideally 6-7W TDP. (Realistic considering the 5.5W TDP of the C2D SU3500 clocked at 1.4GHz). Yes, Atom has a TDP of 3.75W...
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    Simple Intel answer to AMD Zacate

    Up to now, Intel has been deliberately handicapping Atoms to prevent them from cannibalizing more lucrative sales of other products. However, with the en-masse shift in that market segment to AMD's Zacate, such a strategy is realistically no longer viable. A very simple fix, using existing...
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    An idea...

    Motorola Atrix 4G laptop dock Hmm... looks like someone got there first with the product :rolleyes: I still think using the phone's own touchscreen as a mousepad is cooler, and their version works only with their own phone (duh), so a generic platform would be far more useful when...
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    An idea...

    Just wanted to gauge what so of interest there might be in an idea I just cooked up today whilst doing my usual rounds of tech sites. Now, the basic premise is a combination of "good enough" computing, and the fact that we can, and probably do, upgrade our mobile phones frequently, and for the...
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    New SFF gamer case: Mini ITX

    vote for black all over, or silver (i.e. polished metal) all over, or even better, if you can get that black nickel colour commonly found on watercooling fittings - that'll be unusual, yet classy and not out of place, on a case. BTW, this new chassis should be able to fit a single AND a double...
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    Cool idea for ultimate SFF HTPC/ultraportable PC

    18W, passive heatsink should be fine, as long as case is airy. car pc? could do. it has zero moving parts. others talk about system on chip, this is an entire computer on a 12x12cm PCB, literally!!! The idea is that this package is so portable that you could, if pushed, stuff it in a girl's...
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    Cool idea for ultimate SFF HTPC/ultraportable PC

    Based on my reading of tech sites, here's an idea that would be way cool. (Links to relevant articles) Take AMD's Fusion Zacate, put it on a nano-ITX board. Must have wireless and bluetooth, using micro-size dongles on internal USB if necessary. Throw in a pair of 64GB iSSD's in Raid-0 and a...
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