http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/18/824102...re-pirates
Who would have guessed this would happen?

Hey Dave, your oil and gas thread is appearing multiple times on the "latest posts" section to the point that there is only room for a few other topics! Do you know why it is doing this? TIA

Like I speculated in the old forum, Big Maxwell, unlike Big Kepler/Fermi, is not strong in DP: only 0,2 TFlops.
One more for the record, following my speculation that Maxwell would be most if not all done in 28nm, several months before the release of GM204. As usual, I was faced at the time with some fierce opposition to this idea, never mind how many arguments and facts I thrown at it.

On a side note, the keynote is very very interesting. Lots of information about Pascal and performance estimates: 10x faster than Maxwell!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gpu-techno...rence-2015

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12583703.htm
Cold this be the beginning of 1440p becoming the new 1080p, like I predicted?

http://videocardz.com/55136/nvidia-gefor...ifications

Another beat down incoming.

Next up, video goes viral of AMD employees playing games on intel/Nvidia boxes, reminiscing about when they were a gaming company.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-fu...ed-via-p2p
Here's hoping they kill the feature before it's RTM. This is a bad idea for security reasons. With this, it's possible for malware to be shipped inside patches.

We should start a pool as to whether Capt Jack is going to be the next FX-9590:

Hot, more than power hungry, horribly inefficient, destined for deep discount.

Although it's only been 16 months, it feels like a long, long time since the 290X launched. Early rumors pointed to 390X being water cooled for reference, a portent of meltdowns to come?

In a way, I'd kind of like to build a FX-9590/390X rig just in defiance of all that is reasonable and sane.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-...28746.html
Fuck yeah! Big props to ASRock for pulling it off!

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Craig...ola-132961
Of course, the article also has to make the BS claim that Google Fiber has driven discussion. The only thing it's really invented and driven is fiber-to-the-press-release.

Quote:"To Cable & Satellite investors, Google Fiber is a bit like ebola: very scary and something to be taken seriously," telecom industry analyst Craig Moffett wrote in a research note to investors this week. "But the numbers are very small, it gets more press attention than it deserves, and it ultimately doesn't pose much of a risk (here in the US at least)."

While his choice of metaphor might be a little tasteless, Moffett's not really wrong. Despite the endless hype given Google Fiber in the media, the actual number of Google Fiber remains quite low in context, and most of the nation's broadband providers don't have to worry about Google Fiber coming to their neck of the woods anytime soon.

While Google Fiber doesn't reveal subscriber numbers, Moffett believes the company ended 2014 with less than 30,000 total video subscribers: 194 in Stanford, California; 7,026 in Kansas City, Kansas; 20,140 in Kansas City, Missouri; and 2,507 in Provo, Utah. Those numbers, Moffett notes, are a "testament to how hard, and how slow, it is to build scale as an overbuilder."

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/alienbabeltech.com

This site is over 1,000,000 on the web traffic rankings, need more posters and readers so Dave can get some ad revenue rolling in to fund this place.