Tech News
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AMD Kaveri A10 7850K APU Overclocked IGP Gaming & OpenCL Performance @ HCW
Here we have some more Kaveri processor information, this time with overclocking. I'm still rocking the Richland, assuming you consider rocking as having the processor in its clamshell package tucked away in my box of current processors and memory.
Ya in storage.
Earlier in the week, we looked at overclocked Kaveri CPU performance. Today we take our Kaveri A10 7850K overclocked to 4.7 GHz with the GPU overclocked to 1020 MHz and DDR3 2400 and see how it performs in IGP gaming and OpenCL.
Seems like a healthy overclock and if rumors are true it has no cold bug!
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24-Way AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Linux Graphics Card Comparison @ Phoronix
24 Cards?? Twenty Four GPUs in a row?? That is like one card an hour, all in one review!
After this weekend carrying out a 25-way open-source Linux graphics driver comparison featuring AMD Radeon, Intel HD Graphics, and NVIDIA GeForce hardware, the tables have now turned to look at nearly the same assortment of hardware but when using the high-performance, proprietary Linux graphics drivers. We've also upped the demanding OpenGL benchmarks used -- including the Source Engine -- as we see how the AMD and NVIDIA binary graphics drivers are doing to start 2014.
Seems good and the results are Linux based so folks not on the Windows train can still visit the beverage car.
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1 Trillion Interstellar Kredits Lost in EVE Online
I'm not really sure how newsworthy a story like this is but given the massive amounts of damage dealt in this online game is rather unprecedented. The worst part? In-game Kredits actually have real-world value and in this case One Trillion Kredits equals about $200k USD!
Over 8 Titans –– the largest ships in EVE Online –– have already been destroyed, giving rise to the 1 trillion Interstellar Kredits (an in-game currency) of damage.
The fight erupted when the N3 Alliance, an in-game faction, missed a payment on a station used as a staging ground for the "Halloween War," an EVE Online press release reads. The missed payment resulted in a drop in sovereignty across the local system, leaving it up for capture; the CFC and Russian Coalition then took the station. The current battle is a result of the former owners' counterattack to retake the station.The moral of the story here is to always pay your bills on time else you might start an intergalatic war. What I find really interesting about this story is that the game, EVE Online, has been around for years and there is still people paying to play. Granted if you make enough money "in-game" you can use those credits to pay the monthly service fee but still, that is a crazy long time.
As you can imagine anyone who plays a game for YEARS is bound to have a ton of money and resouces to buy/build just about anything.
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Fractal Design NODE 304 mini-ITX Chassis Review @ Techgage
This case looks familar to me but I cannot place where i have seen it before. I will admit it does look amazing with the smooth lines and large cooling fan in the back.
If you’re building a new PC and are aiming for the mITX form-factor, chances are good that you’ll be placing this PC out in the open, for everyone to see. That being the case (no pun, of course), you no doubt want it to look good, and be reasonably easy to install in. Fortunately, Fractal’s NODE 304 hits the mark on both accounts.
By the looks of it I'd say that Fractal was trying to pack too much stuff into a small chassis but with the right components you can get anything to fit and still look good.
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No Ninjalane Podcast This Month
Just a quick update.
By the looks of it there won't be a Ninjalane Podcast episode this month but Darren and I have plenty to talk about so with any luck February will put us back on track.
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Look What Showed Up Today, GTX 780 Ti Classified KP Edition
I don't normally share review hardware that comes into the lab but this card is just too special to hold on to.
EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N edition. I really do love the attention to detail on these Classified video cards. The packaging is perfect and you get the EVGA logo cut into the top cover. Now it is time to see if this card lives up to its reputation.
I should have an inital review ready sometime next week followed by some LN2 testing both single card and SLI with the standard GTX 780 Ti Classified
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Overclocking World Records Broken at GIGABYTE CES 2014 Extreme OC Event
This was an event that I attended before the official start of CES 2014. Check this article for more information and some photos from the event.
GIGABYTE and Co-Sponsors Intel®, G.SKILL and Enermax Bring LN2 to the Las Vegas Desert: Produce Three World Records
City of Industry, California, January 16th, 2014 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today announces three World Record Overclocking submissions during its CES 2014 Extreme OC Event at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Congrats to Vivi and STEPONZ, along with Dinos22 and HiCookie, who broke world records on 3DMark06, Unigine Heaven Extreme and Cinebench benchmarks.
Held during CES 2104 at the Caesar’s Palace Conference Center, Las Vegas, GIGABYTE invited world class Overclocking talent from around the globe to demonstrate all the skills and experience needed to break world records. GIGABYTE Z87X-OC and GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force motherboards were used at the event alongside processors, memory, SSDs and power supplies provided by event co-sponsors Intel®, G.SKILL and Enermax.
“The CES 2014 Extreme OC Event was a fantastic showcase event for Overclocking, underlining GIGABYTE’s commitment to the extreme PC segment,” commented HiCookie, Chief Overclocking Evangelist, GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. “These new world records prove there is always headroom for improved performance if you have a motherboard designed from the ground up to break records, combined with exceptional gear from Intel, G.SKILL and Enermax.”
“We are excited to have such an excellent turnout at this year's CES 2014 Extreme OC Event. We're also very proud of this year's world record achievements, made possible by using top notch hardware from G.SKILL, GIGABYTE, Intel, and Enermax,” commented Frank Hung, Product Marketing Manager at G.SKILL. “Breaking world records is never easy, so it's a real thrill to watch so many overclocking experts participating in the event!"
“Enermax is honored to participate in the CES 2014 Extreme OC event. We are absolutely ecstatic about the record breaking results by using the premium components from Enermax, GIGABYTE, Intel and G.SKILL,” commented Richard Hwang, Vice President of Enermax N.A. “Thanks to all the overclockers who participated for making this a successful event, and we look forward to being involved in more events like this.”
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It is Game Time for DDR4 and Micron has the Ball
Big news out of Micron related to their involvement in DDR4 and all things memory.
Micron, for its part, is content with being a quiet leader of the computer industry. Its position as a dominant power was solidified by the mid-2012 acquisition of Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. (TYO:6665). Elpida owned several large fabs worldwide, including a fab in the Hiroshima area. Last year Micron finalized that transaction, just in time to capitalize on a surge in memory spot prices.
It will be interesting to see how DDR4 pans out and while the article states that consumer DDR4 memory won't be available until 2015 I did see working memory samples at CES. They also say high-end servers and workstations will have DDR4 first and should make a debut sometime this summer.
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What Happens When You See More Updates from Friends
An ongoing battle in social media is how to attract more attention without getting yourself blocked, banned or discredited. Well, it would seem that facebook has been doing most of the work for us by telling its users what it wants them to see.
And really doing a poor job at that.
its a known fact that posting anything to a fan page on facebook will reach about 15%-25% of their total audience and that you will often never see anything your friends post unless you actually visit their page. It would seem that lately those numbers have gone down and I suspect this recent update is part of the reason.
Over time, we noticed that this effect wasn't true for text status updates from Pages. As a result, the latest update to News Feed ranking treats text status updates from Pages as a different category to text status updates from friends. We are learning that posts from Pages behave differently to posts from friends and we are working to improve our ranking algorithms so that we do a better job of differentiating between the two types.
There is ways to influence the numbers in your favor by "boosting" a post. This costs money and much like gambling you are not guaranteed to have any positive repercussions from it.
Eventually that will change, and until then you might as well save your money rather than spending it on a free service.
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EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified 3072 MB @ techPowerUp
I am often amazed at how much effort goes into a video card review, esp knowing how much work is actually involved. What I have discovered is that while the long list of benchmarks seems relevant the numbers often reflect a performance curve that can apply to any situation.
That is unless you are dealing with a monster of a GPU on one of the finest PCB designs avialable today. Yes, I am talking about the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified.
EVGA's GTX 780 Ti Classified is the fastest GTX 780 Ti we ever tested. It comes with a large overclock out of the box that makes it run above 1175 MHz most of the time. The dual-fan ACX heatsink also provides good cooling, resulting in low temperatures and stable operation at all times.
I'm not really sure what overclocking criteria TPU puts on their video card samples but a max clock of 1090Mhz is not a good representation of what the card can do under normal conditions. They do mention that they didn't mess with any of the fan profiles meaning that the fans were not cranked up to provide the best cooling. Knowing this their overclock will be limited but, should still ramp past 1090Mhz.
Here is our review of the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified for comparison purposes.
