23 Feb
I’m not sure about you guys, but i’m already sold on this. This game will most likely be in the running for game of the year if it makes it out this year. What do you guys think? Comment below!
Filed under: Trailers
21 Feb
Can NVidia continue the success of the Ti branding?
In a post made by the people over at sweclockers.com it has been revealed that the GK104, with all 1536SP intact, will be the GeForce 670Ti, “560Ti’s spiritual successor” as they put it. They also explained that this card is expected to be released after Cebit but before April which, for people who do not know, falls between March 11th – 31st.
Their sources also affirm the rumours that the GK104-400 is to possess greater performance than what the current GTX580 and HD7950 offers.
Source: Sweclockers
Filed under: Hardware
19 Feb
So i finally completed the game on Insane a few days ago! here is the next 3 bosses with 2 more to follow in a couple of days hopefully. Enjoy guys!
Alien Queen
Battlelord – Hoover Dam
Octaking
Filed under: Season 2
17 Feb
The demise of silicon valley and the future of semi-conductors as we know it?
Danish researchers from the Nano-Science Center at University of Copenhagen have created 2nm components using a substrate with a layer of gold, diodes and a thin layer of graphene. Quote from SemiAccurate:
So far the researchers have created a diode. “Our aim is to create a transistor, but we wanted to publish out results and therefore we decided to make the announcement after the implementation of a diode,” says Kasper Noergaard.
[Is this our paper thin LED screens? Colour me excited - LightningJR]
Graphene holds a lot of promise but one has to put things in to perspective. Silicon has a theoretical limit of 10nm even with further advancement you can’t expect leaps when using it. Graphene can be the next shift to move even tinier to keep technology moving forward. It seems that we may be moving too fast, one must realize that a single atom is 0.3nm to 0.03nm. (300pm – 30pm) Can we create a transistor using single atoms, can we make electrical lead small enough to connect to these transistors so we can harness these tiny switches?
Quantum computing is too far in to the future, the issues with that technology is much worse than what silicon and binary computing is facing. We can only hope that there’s enough time for a material to be discovered or a current one to develop far enough to become an acceptable silicon replacement.
Source: SemiAccurate
Filed under: Hardware
14 Feb
Thermalright releases an improved SilverArrow, will it take the coveted air cooling top spot?
Thermalright, a leader in high performance cooling, released it’s newest version of the SilverArrow, the SilverArrow SB-E. The biggest difference between the two is the move from 4 – 8mm heatpipes to 8 – 6mm heatpipes. Other minor changes include larger 150mm fans and subtle design improvements to the heatsink.
Quote from web Thermalright’s web site:
Special Features
8 X 6mm sintered heat-pipes effectively takes away excessive heat from the CPU when overclocked, Nickel Plated heat-pipes, slower Oxidation and deterioration of the heat-pipes, provides longer period of Thermal conductivity.
Double fin design , each side with 154mm*120mm heat dissipation area, can be used with 14 or 15 cm fan ( fan clips included).
Special Arrow fin design, which allows cool air to pass through and take heat away rapidly, effectively provide cooling for the cpu.
Support Multiple-Platforms. Can be used on Socket 2011/1366/1155/1156/775 Platform, and AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1 Sockets.
Including TY-150&TY-141 Ultra low noise PWM fans and PWM Y-Cable. With the compatibility of up to 3 fans at a time.
The original SilverArrow is known to overclockers as one of the best, if not the best air cooler money can buy, trading blows with Noctua’s NH-D14 and the young Phantek PH-TC14PE. It’ll be interesting if Thermalright’s new SilverArrow can with certainty, take the high performance CPU air cooling crown.
For more information follow THIS LINK.
13 Feb
From now on, ill be releasing my videos 1 day early here only. Then after they will go live on youtube. I’m just trying to encourage people to take part in the forums and draw a little attention to the site. For the loyal fans, try not to get upset because i do appreciate your loyalty.
Expect a new episode to appear here today, shortly!. So check back and if you haven’t signed up to the site take a second to do so to the right. I have people who can help you out with computer questions in the forums.
You may have noticed that i have a guy writing hardware articles on here now. He’ll be keeping all the nerds with as up to date information as he can. Also, if you haven’t checked out Torns videos they are on here for your viewing as well. DTR Communicate laters chumps! Arggggg…
Filed under: Season 3
12 Feb
NVidia to release two replacements for the notorious GPU “sweet spot”
It seems NVidia’s Kepler has all the buzz around the interwibble recently. There has been information released stating that there are to be two variants of the GK104 released in March – April. The first is the GK104-400 which is estimated to cost $299 – $329 and a GK104-335 for $229 – $249.
The specifications of these GPU’s are to differ in that the GK104-400 is suppose to possess 8 clusters and the GK104-335, 7 (1 disabled). If you read my previous article about Kepler you will know that the GK104 is reported to have:
4 Graphics Processing Cluster
4 Streaming Multiprocessors per cluster
96 Stream Processors per streaming multiprocessor
A total of 1536 SP
But this way of grouping SP doesn’t make sense if you have a “7″ cluster variant. The reason for this grouping of SP is to obtain the ability to disable pieces of the GPU that are defective so they can still sell them as a lower price/lower performance video card. If I were to hazard guess I would say that the GPUs have 16 and 14 streaming multiprocessors. This would give the GK104-400 a total of 1536 SP and the GK104-335 1344SP.
We can hypothesize that the GK104-400 will be a replacement for the GTX570 and the GK104-335 for the GTX560ti based on pricing alone. The question is how will they compete with the 7970 /7950?
Tell me what you think in the comments below or in the forum
Source: SemiAccurate
Filed under: Hardware
