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The Xbox 360 E3 demo units were PowerMac G5s. Not really unexpected, especially if the real hardware isn't ready yet.

They're gas discharge lamps. Think neon sign, or a CCFL without the fluorescent coating. All the junk on the card is the associated high-voltage power supply.

Media center is an Opteron 165 @ 2.6GHz, 3GB PC3200 with an HD4770. Actually plays most modern games acceptably at medium settings. You can get away with high if you run them at 720p.

4T? My father has a basic $300 AMD E-Series dual-core laptop. It can play DVDs, runs YouTube smoothly and lets him him browse the web, send e-mail and play flash games. The thing can even manage to...

The only places that can survive on markups of 10-35% are online stores that move megatons of inventory, or service-oriented things where they sell you a contract/warranty to go along with it. 100%...

Typical retail markup is 100% or more. A $200 i7 probably only costs NewEgg ~$100 to purchase. Sony/Microsoft more than likely purchased the design from AMD, and can probably have the chips made for...

There used to be tons of builders in the phase forum, and many of them had built up a certain amount of trust with the community. To the point where it didn't seem like a big deal to hand over $1500...

Elaborate.

Because architecture specific optimizations can now be applied to the PC versions. The in-order CPUs used in the PS3 and Xbox360 require very specialized programming in order to keep performance good.

A 256 bit bus shared between the CPU and GPU is not the same as each having a 128 bit bus. It's not even close to being the same. Modern CPUs can barely utilize the bandwidth high-speed single...

The CPU does more than that. It'll calculate AI, run the game engine itself, handle sound, networking, possibly even calculate some geometry and physics.

nvidia is just upset that AMD has the console market locked up.

Seagate used to offer some of the best drives, with the longest warranties. Their quality pretty much tanked right after the Maxtor buyout.

The same way my laptop has a 45 watt i7-2600QM and a 35 watt HD6570.

They used to offer tiled rendering and half-screen rendering, but I believe there were often driver issues and image quality problems when combining the two images, especially in tiled mode.

Why do smartphones and tablets need 1080p video again? I can hardly tell the difference between 720p and 1080p video on modern 15.6" laptop screens, let alone a 6" phone screen.

You know this forum is dying when the wamps go three days without a post.

Not really. Some kind of power conditioner with some crazy inductors or something might be able to clean it up, but at that point you might as well just get a better UPS.

Most electric things...

Aren't going to be emulating a Cell and ~GeForce 7800 anytime soon.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?284947-I-need-help!&p=5169930&viewfull=1#post5169930

There is nothing inherent about x86 that pushes devs "further from the metal". Closed-platform consoles are an inherently far more secure and stable platform then open-platform PCs. It's not likely...

My only problem with this forum is that it has 1/3rd the activity it did a few years ago.

If there's even any remote truth to this, NVIDIA will most likely fire them/hand them over on the spot. They may have even been the ones that tipped AMD off. In a lot of cases like this, loosing a...

Even soldered low end desktop stuff wouldn't be new. I've got a "PC-Chips" motherboard that has a soldered on Duron 1000.

Well they better have a new naming scheme for real cards when they drop. If they have an HD8000 "retail" series, they're going to run into the same problem Dell had with selling cut down sound...