Quote from Fuse5 :

first hexacore cpu is coming in 2010, no sign of octocore yet, what is this nonsense?
core's refer to physical cores, not threads. i7 is a quadcore processor.

and whats this gotta do with desktops?


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He was referring to my desktop screeny, one of my sidebar gadgets is a cpu monitor.

I can't be arsed to type it out, so i'll paste a cut out of info:

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Physical cores - 8 Logical cores through a process called 'Hyperthreading'.

(Highly complicated topic - so I'm issuing a gross oversimplification alert - I *am* taking short cuts in order to explain the idea, not necessarily the true technical detailia.)

Understand there are multiple steps for an instruction to be processed. Once you have that, then it's fairly easy to grasp that when instruction A is at step #4, then steps 1, 2, 3, and 5 are idle. OK? The next 'improvement' would be to take the next instruction and hand it to step 1, knowing that the first instruction is already safely out of the way. So, now you have a processor working on two instructions at once... Yah? Groups of instructions that run as a 'logical process' still need to be run as a single entity (a "Thread" ).

Well... Because these Threads represent a single logical process, they obviously have to from the same Application. The way most/older computers have handled multiple applications is put everything on hold except the one they are working on at that instant. From there, switch back and forth. It happens really fast, so human beings perceive it as doing both things at once. But that's not really the case: it does one. Then the other. But never two different applications at the same instant.


The idea behind hyperthreading is to create some logic which can tell which Threads belong to which Application. Once we can track that, then it becomes possible to run two independent 'Threads' at once. Earlier we had two instructions from the same 'Thread' being worked on at the same time, correct? Being able to tell which instruction belongs to which thread means we can now run two Threads at the same time - just so long as individual instructions aren't at the same step at the same time.

Since the single (Physical) core can run two Threads at the same time, it's understood and displayed by the operating system as two processors.

There is a certain amount of overhead needed to keep track, and the software you are running needs to understand how to operate in a 'Threaded' environment to take best advantage. So it doesn't scale perfectly. But it *is* a pretty crafty way to get more work out of the same (physical) asset.

Therefore my i7 [email protected] is read by most programs as 8 cores, even windows resource monitor. In a way it's strictly not 8 cores, but can act like so.

Last edited by DejaVu, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 23:23.

its worth that just for the key chain, usb stick and extra content

I said in my opinion though, for me CSS does look more realistic because it is more crisp and defined.

That screenshot you posted is of what looks like an early build of css source, i've played it since beta - those player models are hunched forward and skinny like the early versions of css.

Either that or they are very bad custom models.

Destructable objects look to be turned off aswell and other items that litter the maps, so other graphical settings will be low aswell.

Like i said, it in my opinion looks more realistic to me, using a movie quality config for best visuals and for a game so old it still looks amazing. I'm not really into all the motion blur, depth of field, super 400 effects photo mode that current games ship with, i play them occasionaly, but i prefer clean cut games.

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couple of crappy ones from me

Here's mine, the photo is of our daughter Chloe from july, just after her 1st birthday She loved her mothers shades

Quote from squidhead :

"no game on PC shows a picture similar to GT5

I know someone else said that but most pc gamesdo actually look that good when u play them, they don't need "photo" modes that allow the detail - it's there and live while you play.

There are countless games on pc that put gt5 to shame graphically.

Hell even CS Source maxxed out looks more realistic in my opinion and that's ancient now.

Quote from Gills4life :

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max aa/af can make a huge difference, fairly sure all the ultra settings will make quite a difference aswell

Just ran the demo, looks fantastic, shame about arcade, but same as always with codies

There are alot of people who buy games just because they look better than some other game

How are your posts constructive when all you do is down talk forza whilst inserting any available <gt5 is better because> type comments

I watched the suzuka qualifying from this guy a few weeks back, those cars really do go like the preverbial

let a german guy take the monies

The supersport class is excellent aswell

BIOS updating can also make some other settings worse, like he says atm if it ain't broke don't fix it

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

Lets hope that if that happends MS wil fix it.

if they dont il stick to the gamepad.

http://www.spotbuyer.com/product/id/658956

cheap as chips - wired but i bet it's twice as good as microsoft wheel

I got my ssd's because i felt like having them , my last pc system was from 2004 so i fancied some extra's with this new system - Much like the g19 keyboard i got

didn't see the line where he said he used other k/b's, whoopsy

If it happened at boot up aswell it's safe to say it isn't win 7 related.

Pop a screw driver down the side of the enter button, pop it out and check to see if there's any crap in it, or anything making the button stick. Check the numpad enter aswell.

If not, new keyboard for you

screw that, i'm getting both

http://enterbf3.com/

Winter 2010

Yeah it's aimed more at realism than bad company, always prefered battlefield after the last great call of duty, cod:uo - r.i.p

Same

BF3 will be immense aswell

They say it's "done" but no evidence, and he says they might not even include it, i smell bs

Quote from niall09 :

They were actually one of the best last night.

I've hated the whole jedward thing, but last night was pretty catchy. They were bending the rules of queen week a bit but so what Was a pretty good mashup

There not the best at dancing in sync though rofl, not the best singers either haha

Vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjcVmwoJbwA