Jump to content
Please support this forum by joining the SH Patreon ×
Sturgeon's House

Xlucine

Forum Nobility
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,521

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Xlucine

  1. Xlucine
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33136362 Assuming the company ordering it can stump up the money (around $4.5bn, and that's just for the satellites), this is pretty awesome. A mass production order for 900 satellites can only be a good thing for the cost of space flight, and this will spur development on virgin galactic's satellite launch system.
  2. Xlucine
    oh god why does dell put this in PCs, somebody please kill it I'm going to disagree with you about the 750ti being the smallest card worth buying - even a GT640 will score well above an AMD IGP in firestrike, and double what an intel IGP stutters out (ignoring the very latest intel stuff, because 14nm is hax), while anything above an R7 250 will improve an AMD IGP. I'd love to see 4 zen cores and a huge IGP (so it's the same die size as a current 28nm construction APU) sat on an M-ITX motherboard with a large passive cooler (so 60-90W CPU TDP) - that'd be a pretty cute system, and very powerful.
  3. Xlucine
    Sorry, I didn't finish before I hit post - I meant low end discrete GPU's. Those are what IGP's on every CPU are pushing out the market, and there's been orders of magnitude less interest in them than in the top-end halo products
  4. Xlucine
    TBF with strong IGP's in APU's of both flavours, there's little point in staying in the low end GPU market. When's the last time anyone released a new GPU?
  5. Xlucine
    I wonder if screwdriver bullets are legal in warfare? They don't expand or flatten, after all. Probably far too expensive for .mil use anyway
  6. Xlucine
    Huh, I just noticed the 390 isn't an OC'd 290 like I previously assumed - it's a full fat chip, unlike the 290. So 390's should perform like an OC'd 290X, which makes AMD's pricing look a lot better. Also it makes the 390X's pricing look a lot worse, that's a lot of money for a 40MHz clock speed boost.
  7. Xlucine
    How much does a 970 normally sell for? WCCFtech is claiming an RRP for the 390 of 320 Vs 350 USD for a 970, and looking at this review with a stock clocked 970 Vs an overclocked 290 (which is running 10MHz short of the 390) the 290 is comfortably ahead. It looks like these cards slot in very neatly into the existing price:performance structure, which is not a good thing - I'd like to see keener pricing to blow nvidia out the water, which is what AMD needs to regain that market share.
  8. Xlucine
    3xx has been released? Rebadged cards is not a death knell - using the savings on R&D to put them at a more aggressive price point than nvidia's new designs should result in a very competitive range that sells well, maxwell has been more expensive than comparable AMD cards since the 750ti and if the 390X and 390 remain anywhere near as cheap as they were during the stock clearance then they ought to fly off the shelves. It's understandable with 14nm production scheduled so soon that they're cautious about releasing an entirely new architecture - the defining competition is next year when everyone gets to shrink their dies. As for CPU's, pray for zen to close the gap. Intel integrating eDRAM on package with their latest chips is concerning. Everyone's known that integrated GPU's need more bandwidth than RAM can supply for ages, and by doing this before AMD intel has stolen a lead and is now faster in CPU and IGP. Hopefully AMD can integrate something similar for bristol ridge - maybe we could even dream of 1GB of HBM for in-package cache! I've heard that summit ridge will not have IGP's, which isn't what I'd like to see - it would mean that their APU's are still relying on excavator cores. Hopefully we see a zen based APU soon after the first zen CPU's, because chasing the top end with CPU-only zen products has very still competition from intel.
  9. Xlucine
    They're claimed to actually work quite well
  10. Xlucine
    Mining and industrial equipment are a lot slower, so the wear on the tracks should be lower
  11. Xlucine
    That is incredibly clean for a tank
  12. Xlucine
    It probably has a planetary gearbox as well!
  13. Xlucine
    290X's are also crazy good value right now, if you can find one. I've heard of 285's selling for pennies as well, AMD stuff is the way to go for everything bar the very top end right now until 3xx comes out and prices return to RRP
  14. Xlucine
    'Blood cells' found in dino fossils
  15. Xlucine
    Don't forget 14nm GPUs - Nvidia and AMD seem to be saving new architectures for that, going by the remarks about pascal and the basically conformed rumours about how the 3xx series will be almost entirely rebrands. 2016 will be a good year for gaming
  16. Xlucine
    It looks like everyone else agrees, it's sold 4 million copies so far
  17. Xlucine
    All museums are rubbish at restoring vehicles compared to private collectors with lots of time & money & non-retardation.
  18. Xlucine
    Similar to generation kill, I'd recommend bluestone 42 if you can find it in yankland
  19. Xlucine
    I've heard a claim that T-72's controls are heavier than they need to be, so that conscripts are gentler with the tank
  20. Xlucine
    The rear hull looks similar to T-14 as well - it shares the two round access hatches
  21. Xlucine
    If you don't put brown sauce on sausages you're doing life wrong
  22. Xlucine
    Tank crew is considered "people directly fighting enemy" so women are not allowed because we're squeamish about that kind of thing
  23. Xlucine
    Sagger stronk!
  24. Xlucine
    hehe, "koksan". It's like they're overcompensating for something! The "nodong" missile is also an example of this
  25. Xlucine
    We warned them female drivers would weaken their army!
×
×
  • Create New...