Posts by Partol

I will buy it if core i3 at 5GHz+ is possible. If not, then no thanks.

A very good graphics card is not necessary to game at 120fps. Just lower the graphics settings (no AA or low AA). However, In many games, to run at 120fps, you will need a strong cpu. Anything more than approximately 75 fps will look...

Quote:Originally Posted by Just a nickname 80% energy conversion is false. The water might take a 50% of solar energy as heat but you won't be able to use that energy unless you want to take hot bath. To convert that heat into...

Quote:Originally Posted by GingerJohn Anyone play Hydrophobia? The water physics in that were pretty decent, although not up to this scale. The biggest thing they have to do to implement this in game is to strike a balance between...

Try installing both bulldozer hotfixes for windows 7. http://downloads.guru3d.com/AMD-Bulldozer-hotfix-from-Microsoft-download-2831.html When I installed windows 7 on my Athlon II X4 (modular cpu), I don't recall seeing this hotfix in...

Try disabling C6 power state in the bios. With my Athlon cpu, C6 causes the cpu frequency to fluctuate wildly. Check if your cpu and gpu are running at constant frequency, while stuttering happens.

Did you install both bulldozer hotfixes for windows 7? There are two hotfixes to install. http://downloads.guru3d.com/AMD-Bulldozer-hotfix-from-Microsoft-download-2831.html

Quote:Originally Posted by Mopar63 You do know that nVidia has the CPU version basically broken and it does not make use of multicore CPUs effectively and the cosing is pure crap for optimization right? I seem to recall reading from...

Update: After only one month, green dots appeared on screen. Just baked again: 9 minutes at 200C. my gtx 580 is working once again. I will update this thread again if more baking is required. Don't mind re-baking every 3-4 months, but...

Quote:Originally Posted by BizzareRide so what benefit is there for most developers to chose AMD or OCL? The benefit is ... OpenCL runs on both AMD and Nvidia hardware. CUDA does not run on AMD hardware. It's that simple. I dont...