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Oculus has been using single panels for both DK1 and DK2 to combat alignment issues with dual panel setups. Their own site says the DK2 offers each eye 960x1080 resolution at 75hz refresh max which would indicate a single 1920x1080 panel for both eyes.

It is that simple. I don't think anyone said the PS4 will be identical in power to the 7870, but the difference is essentially similar to 7870 vs 7790 in a PC in terms of performance delta. Don't know how you could also equate the XOne's 32MB embedded DRAM with 5GB of available RAM to the...

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7870-vs-Radeon-HD-7790 It's basically that simple. Yes the Xbox one has 32MB of fast embedded dram, while the PS4 has fast 8GB DDR5 system DRAM. Even assuming they both wash out performance wise, the PS4 still has 50% more shading power - again using the...

PS3 and Xbox 360 aren't comparable (far too different architectures). PS4 and the Xbox One are - they both use chips from the SAME manufacturer and not only that, from the same processor family - Jaguar APU, except the PS4 has 50% more shading power. It's basically the difference between...

You guys are all forgetting that the PS3 / 360 had far different architectures. The general consensus was that while the PS3 did have more power, it was far more difficult to extract because of the Cell processor makeup. The PS4 and XBOXOne are essentially using the same chip (AMD Jaguar...

I'm sure the developer runs the VM within the restricted specifications when *internally* testing how their game would run on final XBONE hardware - that's just the smart thing to do. But I'm betting the temptation to crank up the power would be *very* strong when demoing the same title in...

Crank up the fan speed via PrecisionX - there's an option to create your own fan speed curve. I have mine set to 80% when it approaches 70 degrees. Repeated heaven benchmark runs (overclocked) don't push my 780 above 72 degrees which is crazy for a stock blower. As an aside, I had a 580 and...

I couldn't wait for the 128GB and got the 64GB at Staples last Sunday. After cleaning out all the junk, I ended up with 40GB of free space, which is adequate for my use (I already had a 128GB USB 3.0 stick that I use to store large work files). You're right, this is hardly a beta. Very slick...

That's exactly why I left AMD. Couldn't stand one of the screens tearing (only solution was to use three DP monitors - no thanks). Nvidia didn't have this problem though I did need to buy two GTX 580s. I haven't bothered with AMD/Eyefinity since.

I've been a 100% Gigabyte user for the past three years (four GB board purchases). After a lot of consideration this one time I made an exception and bought the ASUS x79 pro because of its features (e.g. fan control). Boy am I glad I did.

Everyone hates the rich. I hate the rich. We should soak the rich. Confiscate all their wealth. They can get by with a few 100k a year right? Except there's one fact of life you will never escape: The rich create jobs. The rich employ people. The rich pay your salaries. How many of...

I thought we were discussing state level budgets here? Specifically California?

Immoral or not, when California enters bankrupcy, the judge overseeing it will modify pensions. It was always the case that government work meant lower wages than the private sector but also meant a more stable job and a fairly decent pension at retirement. This is no longer the case. Not...

Not quite. California has a major budget shortfall - in the $26 billion dollar range. Their overall operating budget this year is projected at $127 billion. Functioning infrastruture, safety and security will not consume $127 billion. A lot of it is tied up in higher labor/pension costs for...

Eliminate public employee unions. Then you won't need sales tax at all. How do states without sales tax survive in this country? They live within their means by not paying out 80% pensions for life to so many public employees who retire in their 50's. California's pension liability alone is...

Every tax payer has the ability to voluntarily submit more revenue to the government should they chose so on their tax forms. Yet, only a tiny fraction do. The IRS has no problems taking voluntary 'donations' in additional taxes. I've always wondered in amazement how wealthy liberals...

Can you imagine going to your boss and DEMANDING a raise because you've started living beyond your means? Even worse, threatening your boss by force of law to hand over that increase?

I didn't have any problems with the patch either for my Steam install. I agree with the lousy attitude from Crytek also. After all this wait, there seems to be minimal differences in appearance and a fairly large drop in framerate (this on a 4.5GHz 2700k with a 900MHz GTX 580). Not really...

What's so sad is the unintended consequences. Because of rising minimum wage, teenage unemployment has been in a sharp and steady decline since 1978. Low wage jobs have always been the entry point for anyone with no job history. As minimum wages climb higher, your choice of employee dwindles...

Besides, why blame apple if that $14 hour whittles down after FICA, state, federal, med and state disability deductions are made from his paycheck?

That's a great idea. But why stop at a fair wage when the government can mandate everyone be paid at least $1 million a year? What could be wrong with that? Oh yeah, inflation.

It might work if it replaces the existing tax structures. What's the chance of that happening? If anything, you'll have a VAT and still pay the local, state and federal taxes. So instead of 40% of your blood, they'll just grab 60%.

By far the most significant way to increase revenue to the government has always been a booming economy. Raising taxes in of itself has never generated revenue to the government faster than a solid economy. The irony is of course, one of the greatest means to economic success is lower taxes...

Reminds me of the following: California's recent 1% increase in sales tax was enacted to supposedly cover the billions in their budget shorfall. Following this increase, politicians were shocked to learn that actual revenue increase was far smaller than anticipated. Why? People spent less...

Since when is grabbing money from anyone at gunpoint considered 'charity'? Being compelled by law to give money is not charity. Would Jesus have hired a group of men to forcibly collect money with the threat of incarciration to further his charity work? Think about that for a second...

No. Fair would be to eliminate sales tax altogether, leveling the playing field that way. Some states don't actually have sales tax at all. Why try to be fair by collecting tax on internet sales?

I stopped using ASUS a few years back after having a couple of their boards behave erratically on warm reboots. Every time I'd perform a restart from Windows, the ASUS boards would very briefly cut power to the entire system, placing unneccesary stress on the components, harddrives in...

Hmm, wouldn't the PCI-E cards face away from the SATA ports. I don't see how any card would block the 5 SATA ports.

It's because the Intel SB chipset only supports 2 SATA 3 ports. In order to replace the four SATA 2 ports with SATA 3, they'd need to add another chip to the motherboard (as some other boards have done by adding Marvell's SATA controller). The manufacturers would probably rather wait for the...

It's pretty dumb if they ship products as is. My guess is these guys will be a bit smarter and physically remove the four SATA 2 ports altogether.

I'm sure all the motherboard manufacturers will create new revision numbers for their specific models (e.g. going from rev 1.0 to rev 2.0) when these new SB boards are released. Perhaps Intel can keep a list of all affected motherboard model and revision numbers on their website. Seems like...

Agree it's absolutely a big f-up. Like you though, I'm not concerned at all with my setup. I have the Gigabyte P67A-U3P which only has two SATA 3 ports. I bought a $20 PCIe card adding two more SATA 3 ports (which is all I needed) and promptly forgot about the bug by disconnecting all drives...

Just like their desktop counterparts, all the sandy bridge mobile chipsets support 2 SATA III ports, at least according to Wikipedia. Finding out which laptops actually make use of Sata III is pretty tricky: A few snippets I managed to dig up...

Some of you guys seem like you're expecting magic from these processors. Just because one guy says he's running it at 5 GHz with 1.5v, doesn't mean yours will. My 2600k is rock stable at 4.5GHz, stock settings. It'll reach 4.6GHz at 1.38v. Anything above that is a no go at full 100% CPU...

Ahhh.... science in the 21st century. Think of it this way: If your personal livelihood, the very income that feeds your family, depended on continued government funding, wouldn't you issue a worse case scenario x100? It's so easy to do. And very few people I'd wager would have the...

He'd blame it all on carbon emissions.... then still produce enough emissions himself to equal a million households. Who does he trade carbon credits with to offset this massive inequality?

Works really well. The VF3000F at full tilt blows a ton of air over the card and is just as loud. The included Zalman fan controller limits this to a whisper and still maintains great cooling performance. On stock cooling, my GTX480 would routinely hit 90C and sound like a jet engine. With...

FYI the Zalman comes with their usual fan controller. I've used it to dramatically tone down noise levels (far far below stock cooling) while still maintaining great cooling performance.

That's why I love my Zalman VF3000F cooler. I've used a Thermalright Spitfire with great success on my GTX 480, but the Zalman takes it to the next level with a customized sink for all the RAM and VRMs. Both the Shaman and Spitfire require tiny individual sinks to be attached to the RAM and...

I went from a Core i7 920 running at 3.6GHz to a 2600k running at 4.6GHz. Why? x264 encoding. My average 1080p encodes would take about 3.5 hours per feature length movie. With my new setup, average time is 2 hours flat. A massive 1.5 hour decrease per movie. That's a huge difference, but...