News for 2011-02-17

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dhanson865
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News for 2011-02-17

Post by dhanson865 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:10 am

http://www.silentpcreview.com/news-2011-02-17.htm

* AMD Releases Catalyst 11.2 WHQL Drivers

* OCZ Vertex 2 25nm Review (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G)

* OCZ Vertex 3 Pro Preview: The First SF-2500 SSD at Anandtech
# Anand discusses 25nm flash wear out.
# Vertex 3 Pro sample has 32nm flash, Vertex 3 retail will have 25nm flash.
# Kingston V+100 test results pulled from Anandtech's most recent charts. Drive to be retested next week.
# Sandforce 1200 TRIM limitations explored

* PhotoFast Announces GMonster3-XV2 Series SATA SSD (Marvell controller)
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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by Monkeh16 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:57 pm

dhanson865 wrote:.
That exciting eh?

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by dhanson865 » Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:44 am

Actually it was a huge day. I submitted the news article but Mike hasn't released it. I'm not sure why yet.

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by CA_Steve » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:58 am

Catalyst 11.2: Tweaktown no likey.

Photofast pricing the 128GB for $200 looks promising for the next gen Marvell SSDs.

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by dhanson865 » Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:40 pm

I couldn't download the 11.2 driver from Firefox but Chrome downloaded it no problems. It installed no problems once I got it downloaded. Working perfectly as far as I can tell.

I've been playing a lot of MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries since it's free.

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by dhanson865 » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:48 pm

Tons of SSD news in the last week, yesterday, and today.

Rumor mill is string up some really good stuff as well.

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by CA_Steve » Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:41 pm

MechWarrior :D Haven't played that in ages.

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Re: News for 2011-02-17

Post by MikeK » Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:35 pm

Here's a Tom's Hardware Guide article about the OCZ Vertex 2 34nm vs 25nm also

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ocz ... ,2867.html

Pretty big difference in I/O performance and major difference in uncompressible sequential write (like halved). But good to see that in the real world tests they were back and forth on which one was better.

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