After watching "I am Legend" this weekend I find myself asking if what we are seeing in society today is the beginning of human de-evolution on a grand scale? Not yet. Unemployment is high now but should get better. In the long term, unemployment gradually falls as labor markets become gradually fr...

The Dell Studio XPS 16 offers a wide gamut RGB LED display. Qualitative reviews from tech sites say it's good but it is a TN panel apparently.

All I ask is that people open their eyes and minds to this subject. What's important is to open out minds to hard data, strategic arguments, views and questions of international security. Including (quantified) problems of war including collateral damage and loss of life. Anything less than that is...

A White Knight America is not, a self-interested powerful nation America is, and can easily be compared to many others throughout history, all of which were overwhelmingly self-serving just like America, the difference is that america "claims" to be a White Knight, some can see through the charade,...

You "win" your battles because of your countries wealth - at least you used to be a wealthy country, now you're just in debt to China for trillions of dollars. This is not a measure of wealth. GDP per capita is a better measure. But if you want to measure wealth as how much a country owns, you shou...

I've been trying to undervolt my Q6600 to get the Asus Silent Square Pro running at the lowest RPM possible while mantaining a decent temperature when the CPU is stressed (remember that when working with audio, the GPU doesn't matter, but the CPU can be stressed a lot with the usage of some VST plu...

D-Sub + DVI. No displayport, so you are limited in modern monitors/multiple monitors. But can connect to old CRTs just fine. A typical backward-looking PC product. Don't forget that HDMI port. Better photos in Guru3D's review: http://www.guru3d.com/article/ecs-h55hi-review/3 hdmi generally doesn't ...

D-Sub + DVI.
No displayport, so you are limited in modern monitors/multiple monitors.
But can connect to old CRTs just fine.
A typical backward-looking PC product.

Fudzilla (I know not he best place for news but they have been right on many ocasions) reports that Intel will have a Sandy Bridge quad with TDP of 35W. Sounds very promising methinks :) http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18545/1/ Not believable. If they target the market that wants quad-core, th...

I did some searching through the forums but wasn't able to find a clear answer to the following: What is the best CPU upgrade path from a Brisbane 3600+ for a low power HTPC? Some details: my HTPC is running a passively cooled 3600+ on an Asus M2A-VM HDMI board (AMD 690G) using the IGP (X1250). The...

Michael Sandstrom wrote:iPad??? WTF, Are the Apple execs complete idiots?

No, the media and sales are showing otherwise.
The public, they're the idiots.

The Zotac Ion and or the H55 appears to have wake on usb issues and Turbo boost issues (this is what I have read) The H55 can't have wake on USB issues; Intel is not that incompetent. The Zotac Ion board you should check; an early version had problems but it may have been solvable by a powered usb ...

ame wrote:AFAIK the GPU embedded in the i3 and i5(6xx) chips is 4500HD and is perfectly capable of streaming HD video.

No, it's "Intel HD graphics" and considerably more powerful - about twice the performance, and has some new features.

That was easy back when Intel only had Netburst and AMD was king. Now, Intel seemingly has an architecture change planned every year (with AMD trying to match their schedule) making what you're suggesting a bit difficult on the pocket. True but it normally alternates - one year a major architectura...

Thanks for the Aptera updates!

Don't understand why people are bothering to upgrade a single component. Instead of doing all that work, and also planning around such upgrades, just upgrade the whole system whenever there is an architecture change. That way you don't waste effort building systems that you are later going to take a...

Separate by form factor?

IMO the state can't pass laws establishing monotheism. Atheism ("secular humanism" at least) and polytheism should also be considered as religious in nature and given freedom of religion people should be free to take up these religions. However the main problem in schools is what is the state doing ...

Since the 780G chipset was released 2 years ago, you have been able to build relatively small, low-power, and good value HTPCs. This large case, suitable for a combined htpc/gaming system, wouldn't have been particularly interesting even then. There were others like it. Two years later, the hardware...

So, I haven't been to this site much during the last five years. What all have I missed? What is the state of PC silence? More cores, more integration, less power, SSDs. Integrated graphics on all platforms now good for almost everything except demanding games. So less and less discrete graphics. G...

ces wrote:It appears unlikely that it is going to perform much better than the current generation, other than the energy utilization / power ratio.

The graphics should perform much better, since they are being shrunk to 32nm.

It's a shame this involves fan control via windows applications rather than from an efi screen. I think we'd have more widely available and reliable controls if motherboards all went to efi. Who buys a motherboard and then puts a 32bit OS on it these days?
Just my suspicion though.

This is not a board you'd want to connect a display to except for troubleshooting, but it would be interesting to see how this or even more the little brother D410PT does as a server, e.g. running WHS. Wikipedia says the D410PT has 10W TDP while the D510MO has 13W TDP. The D410PT may be better than ...

I'd go so far as to say money really isn't a problem; I want the right case for our living area, and if it costs more, so be it. Have you considered storing things on a network device (e.g. WHS)? That would allow a minimal HTPC while giving additional functionality. You could use a small SSD for th...

I did a look see on Newegg and I could find only one Display Port monitor, a $1000+ HP. Not going to sell a lot of those. So just what makes Display Port special? There are some Dells and Apples too. Compared to DVI, small connector, thinner cable, longer lengths. Multiple streams: daisy chaining c...

As a side note, what is a VGA output doing on a board produced in 2010? And no displayport?

Have you actually ever ripped a DVD to mp4? Using Handbrake (which is multi threaded) I ripped a typical full length movie to the HD and all 4 cores of the Q9550, running at 3.2 Ghz, were pegged at 100% for an hour. From what I've seen lots of people do do it. This way they can store movies in a ce...

Can you verify that you could use the DVI and HDMI for dual digital displays? Yes, even previous-gen G45 boards could do this. I'm hoping Arrandale Laptops will come out with dual digital outputs at last, or single daisy-chainable displayport. Also, can the IGP be used in parallel with a PCIe graph...

Run at native resolution, use at least Vista, adjust dpi.
A few applications are (deliberately) non-compliant on Vista, e.g. Firefox which needs an add-on for permanent default zoom (I use NoSquint).

rei wrote:The interest and the products just aren't there anymore?

It's already got easier and technology doesn't arrive gradually but in annual/bi-annual architecture changes at least for CPUs/GPUs. Intel's new wave of products is coming in Jan 2010 and subsequent months.