Father Xmas

Somebody (Failure to Sense) mentioned playing CoH on the older 1201N which has an older Atom CPU and previous nVidia ION graphics. Here is his post. You could PM him with additional questions.

Sym-Bionic Titan:

Elite alien contact force ... that wear scarfs. Reminds me of the fashion from Cyborg 009.

Wave motion cannon FTW.

Batman: Brave and the Bold:

Shazam! Shazam! Shazam! Nice group of 3rd stringers.

Generator Rex:

Nothing really new in the advancement of the plot. EVOs in this episode remind my a bit of the bugs in the Starship Troopers movie.

Because the Steakbreaker isn't suppose to alter the distribution of consecutive misses by a lot. In the case of 75%, it eliminates the 4 out of 4 misses which has only 0.39% of occurring.

Lets take your example. First miss is 55%, the rest at 75%.

55% puts the SB at 4 misses, 75% puts it at 3. Doesn't sound like you lost anything by missing with the 55% attack since even if your next 10 attacks are at 75%, you are still guarantee to hit with the 4th 75% attack.

Before I clicked on the link I thought the story was going to be about powered ascenders like Atlas.

I love these animations.

Here's one about all of Apple's iPhone problems.

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Well like a lot of memory benchmarks I've seen, you are only ever squezzing out a percent or three with either faster, lower latency or in this case ganged/unganged. It's just that with huge caches and improved prefetch logic, what would seem to be huge differences in memory benchmarks are seriously muted in most actual applications.

Digging around I was slightly wrong, I'm remembering this from 18 months ago. The key point here is at standard DDR3 voltage of 1.5 volts. Most higher speed RAM already require a higher voltage to operate at their rated speed and timings.

It depends on the available 12 volt power, if you have space for a double wide card (8600GT or 8600GTS tended to be a single slot card, the 8600GT didn't need external power) and of course your price limit.

First, nVidia hasn't gotten any of their 400 series down in the sub $100 price range. So that leaves the older GT 2xx and 9xxx cards, which are rapidly vanishing from the marketplace, but are at clearance prices.

So assuming you want something noticeably faster than your 8600GT/GTS, that basically points us at the GT 240. Power wise, it doesn't use an external power connector but does use a bit more power than the 8600GT. Performance wise it's around 50% faster than the 8600 series in games.

So the limiting factor is width. Can you fit a double wide card into your system? Can you fit a card that uses a double wide bracket? I ask these two questions because you can have a single bracket card with a double slot cooler attached.

The GT 240 comes in two variants. One that uses slower GDDR3 memory and one that use faster GDDR5 memory.

Of the manufacturers that I respect, only the MSI version has 1GB of GDDR5 memory, but it is double slot, double wide. Currently $85, $55 after rebate.

When AMD designed the Phenom core, they added a feature that allowed the two channels to memory to operate independently. Besides both being used to read from or write to memory they could be split so one would be writing to memory while the other is reading from memory.

It has nothing to do with single or dual channel or assigning individual memory sticks to each core.

Here's a couple of articles that benchmarks that mode.

As for the 1333MHz vs 1600MHz, do you have 2 or 4 sticks of memory? Reason I'm asking is I vaguely remember hearing about a problem getting 4 sticks of 1600MHz memory to run reliably with a Phenom or Phenom II.

Pfft. You have problems soloing an Illusion Controller? With Superior Invisibility, Deceive, Blind and Spectral Wounds you should be able to kick back, turn the mobs against one another, wound them till they drop and blind any that make a run at you. And this is all before you get Phantom Army.

What's your secondary?

Storyboards and plot differences from a previous attempt to bring Watchmen to the big screen.

Update on the AnandTech article. They got Intel's graphics to improve in the IE9/HTML5 benchmarks by strong arming an updated driver onto the Intel based laptop.

However game performance is still better, just not by a factor of 2x.

Wow, that takes me way back.

Edit: Not the original run, I remember them from the show on CBS in the 60s.

Tractor Beam

Well I came across this picture on a number of sites today which led me to yet another talented cosplayer and her Flickr photostream of outfits and other cosplayers.

Here's another article on it. Looks like they are running FRAP or similar tool for displaying frame rate in the upper left.

1024x768, Performance setting on the graphics slider.

to use it to demo (video) their upcoming combo CPU/GPU chip for mid range laptops.

Planning early aren't we?

You need to install .Net 2.0 framework to run CoHHelper. Link to the Microsoft .Net 2.0 package is at the same site as CoHHelper.