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The 9800GT is a pretty powerful card. However, you should carefully study your build before you buy it, because (a) it takes up two slots, and (b) it requires quite a bit of power (need a 6-pin connector) that the PSU in your mini PC may not be able to supply. I would recommend the Radeon HD...

Of course it can. The phrase "designed only to" is a remark on the intention of the designers, not the capabilities of the design. If I design a fireproof safe with preserving paper documents as the only design goal, then the safe is designed only to preserve paper. It may also happen to...

Warning: most fireproof safes are designed only to preserve paper documents. More specifically, they are designed only to keep the internal temperature below 451°F (so that paper in the safe will not catch on fire) and are insufficient to protect magnetic media (which include hard drives). I...

Thanks. Your answers to these questions help me understand what you really need. Adding a new internal drive to your existing PC (to hold a copy of the data on your NAS) is cheap and sufficient to prevent data loss due to these two modes of failure. These days it should be easy to find a...

When thinking about backups, here are the first questions you need to ask yourself: What kind of failures are you trying to recover from? How much data need to recover from such failures? How much do you plan to spend? The first question is the most important. Are you trying to prevent...

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Almost everything you do on a computer requires a lot of random access. Sequential read/write is the exception rather than the rule. If most storage access is sequential, we would still be using tape drives.

There are three outputs on the card. Any two of the three will work simultaneously to drive dual displays.

What dr.stevil said. Also, some cards ship with a second low-profile bracket that allows you to connect the VGA output on the card directly.

Any low-profile Radeon 4350, 4550, and 5450 card with DVI and HDMI output should do what you want.

Because most after-market coolers (at least the ones I have seen) will not fit a low-profile card?

So it is you who did the math wrong. Sorry.

In the very next post to the one I quoted, Decko87 said "Nice job". Am I supposed to learn something from that?

Mr K6, did you build this table? You did a good job collecting the numbers from all the sites. The math you use to compute the averages, however, are not quite right. You used arithmetic mean (add n numbers and divide by n) when you should have used the geometric mean (multiply n ratios and...

Nobody is taking advantage of you. They (the retailers, not ATI) are merely choosing to prioritize those people who are more desperate for 5xxx cards than you are (and therefore willing to pay more than you do for the cards).

On the basis of Brent's review right on this site. If you think that the [H] reviews are wrong, state your grievance with Brent and Kyle.

But the tests are controlled. If they are not controlled, the shapes of the frame rate graphs would not match to such an astonishing degree. The [H] review methodology offers less control than running a canned benchmark, but neither is perfect. Since you work on compilers, you should know...

I am not the guy, but I will answer for him: another rebranded card with software DX11 emulation would justify 1.

They are individually rated. GTX 470 - no award GTX 480 - no award GTX 480 SLI - Silver award

No no no you people do not understand. This Ashley McBroom lady who works for nVidia? She is totally a NV-hating ATI fangirl, and the proof is right here in the link: saying that GTX480 has only 480 cores is an iron-clad proof that she has something against the green team. Why would you...

Traditionally, in politics, bad news (or mandatory announcements that politicians would rather want go unnoticed) are usually announced Friday evening. News announced Friday evening are too late to make it to the Saturday morning papers, and people read Sunday papers only for the ha-ha pages...

Of course they are going to offer limited lifetime warranty* on Fermi cards. * Warranty limited to the lifetime of the warranted card.

That sounds like "To reward our royal supporters who cannot afford high prices, we will price our cards low (and lose more money in the process) so that our royal supporters will still be unable to afford those cards." Remember, market prices are set by supply and demand, not MSRP. Taking $200...

If there are only 5000 cards at launch, NV would be silly to price them at $399. At $399, flippers will buy all of them up in the first 5 minutes, and then put them on eBay for $800. I think there are more than enough NV fans and f@h enthusiasts for NV to sell 5000 GF100 cards at any sub-$1000...

nVidia really should come out with an overclocked version of GTX480 and price it at $80,000 to meet the demand in your market segment :p

In addition to pricing, I think shipment volume is also key. Unless nVidia can ship, say, 100K Fermi chips per month, Fermi's release is not going to change the market pricing structure much. (In comparison, AMD shipped 300K Cypress and 500K Juniper chips by the end of 2009, and they were...

More specifically, they said that attendants may be able to buy GTX 480 before everyone else. If you are not at PAX East, you are "everyone else". The fact that they emphasized the "before everyone else" part makes me think that there is significant wait for "everyone else".

This argument leads to a slippery slope. Using your argument, I can also justify companies spending money buying favorable reviews -- if you as a consumer are doing your due diligence when making a purchasing decision you'd find out which review sites are trustworthy. The purpose of due...

I agree with you that the $400-$600 range is the article does sound like nothing more than a guess. However, you were the one who said that "everything in the article is wrong", and you specifically mentioned price. Now you backtrack and say that you were referring only to the $400 part, not...

There are currently 10 sticky posts in the ATI video card forum, and whenever I click into that forum, I cannot see if there are any new posts because my whole screen is taken up by sticky posts. Maybe it is time to unstick a few older posts? Just a thought.

Charlie wrote "at best, Nvidia can price it (GTX480) between the $400 HD5870 and the $600 HD5970." And you claim that he is wrong on price. I don't think GTX480 will go below $400. Are you telling us that GTX480 will go above $600, or are you just making **** up like everyone else?

Radeon HD 4550 is a little cheaper, and about as powerful as 5450.

If I remember right... Q1 FY 2011 = February-April 2010 Q2 FY 2011 = May-July 2010 So nVidia will start selling Fermi-based cards by April, but realistically you will not be able to find one until, say, June.

I would stick with the 5570. Yeah, I know, reviews say that GT240 is a little faster. However, you should remember that the reviews all use GT240 with GDDR5 memory, and currently all low-profile GT240 cards use GDDR3 memory, so I am don't think low-profile GT240 would keep up with 5570...

It would be lovely if an AIB comes up with a underclocked 5670 in low profile (or, alternately, fit GDDR5 on 5570).

I know what I am going to say is hard to believe, but some people actually play games for the gameplay, and eye-candy comes only as a secondary concern. (That is so weird! Yes, I know! What are they thinking!!) Those people first decide on what games they want to play, and then figure out...

There is nothing that prevents TN panels from displaying 100% of the sRGB color space, which I assume is the limit of consumer CRT displays (because I have never heard anyone complaining about wide-gamut CRT displays). Heck, there are wide-gamut LCD displays that use TN panels. Modern TN...

Or get bias lighting (but this is a different topic).

Modern desktop LCDs are perfectly capable of displaying all the colors on a low-end CRT. Here are a few possible causes, followed by my recommendation. Your LCD is a lemon. Visit your neighbor and see if their LCDs are any better. Your CRT has a high gamma curve, which artificially increases...

Technology is all about compromises. All technology involve compromises. You may prefer the CRT compromises over the LCD compromises, but there are always compromises. Just saying.