The box again features the F-35 Lightning II but as we alluded to last time, we suspect this is to take advantage of the cool sounding name and striking silhouette of a modern warplane rather than Lockheed Martin (who make the F-35) adding its expertise to the equation. In addition, the F-35 is famous for its ability to take off vertically rather than being particularly fast or manoeuvrable. Inside it is a PCI-E to molex power adapter, HDMI cable, DVI to HDMI adapter and a DVI to D-Sub adapter along with an SPDIF audio cable for HDCP compatibility.
Which is all well and good, but the aircraft on the box art is in fact an F-22 Raptor (the YF-22 prototype to be specific) , which is quite fast and extremely agile. Sorry for being today's aircraft nazi
TBH we were going by the name! Also when we cross checked the image against those of the F-22 and F-35, we noticed a few things that pointed it in the direction of the F-35 - the front undercarriage has one fork on the box while the F-22 has two (the F-35 has one as well). Also the rear undercarriage has doors mounted mostly in the wing on the F-22 while they are mounted mainly on the fuselage on the box and on the F-35.
However as youve correctly pointed out, the YF-22 prototype is the one were after! Doh! They do look incredibly similar head on though. Consider our hands slapped!
Originally Posted by [USRF Obiwan]i wish they start to do something on the idle power state of video cards. Why do they have so much idle power consumption. for normal desktop operations it should not use more then 30 to 50 watts. My guess is that 75% of the time pc's are running in desktop mode.
Don't forget the power levels we state are of the system as a whole, not just of the card?
We tried HL2 for Left4Dead but Valve consistently updates the engine so it makes it impossible to benchmark. :( Not to mention the face it's a dumb timedemo and not really indicative of realworld gameplay.
But if you make a demo of real world gameplay like joining a tf2 server with a full 24 players for about 30 mins then shouldn't that be a good indicator of performance. Also to keep the performance consistent theres some trick that frag video makers use to keep the game at a previous version so they can playback their old demo recordings.
But I realise that's a bit annoying just to include one game in a benchmark.
Originally Posted by general22 But if you make a demo of real world gameplay like joining a tf2 server with a full 24 players for about 30 mins then shouldn't that be a good indicator of performance. Also to keep the performance consistent theres some trick that frag video makers use to keep the game at a previous version so they can playback their old demo recordings.
But I realise that's a bit annoying just to include one game in a benchmark.
No because it's just a recording - there's no computation for realtime interaction. It's worse for Left4Dead. Plus, Valve updates its engine regularly which causes timedemos to generate an incompatibility error.
You can after some messing about keep the game version, but it's a ton of hassle and just as non-valuable to current players on the latest engine etc.
Not to mention that the Source engine is about as hardcore as a kitten with a toothpick.
Have you folks (or authors of the article) noticed something? Hint: Look at the Folding@Home performance of this review and the last video card review...
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ReplyTBH we were going by the name! Also when we cross checked the image against those of the F-22 and F-35, we noticed a few things that pointed it in the direction of the F-35 - the front undercarriage has one fork on the box while the F-22 has two (the F-35 has one as well). Also the rear undercarriage has doors mounted mostly in the wing on the F-22 while they are mounted mainly on the fuselage on the box and on the F-35.
However as youve correctly pointed out, the YF-22 prototype is the one were after! Doh! They do look incredibly similar head on though. Consider our hands slapped!
Don't forget the power levels we state are of the system as a whole, not just of the card?
But if you make a demo of real world gameplay like joining a tf2 server with a full 24 players for about 30 mins then shouldn't that be a good indicator of performance. Also to keep the performance consistent theres some trick that frag video makers use to keep the game at a previous version so they can playback their old demo recordings.
But I realise that's a bit annoying just to include one game in a benchmark.
No because it's just a recording - there's no computation for realtime interaction. It's worse for Left4Dead. Plus, Valve updates its engine regularly which causes timedemos to generate an incompatibility error.
You can after some messing about keep the game version, but it's a ton of hassle and just as non-valuable to current players on the latest engine etc.
Not to mention that the Source engine is about as hardcore as a kitten with a toothpick.
Sorry, just joking. Got hooked recently on the game, though.
Hmm, ARMA2 should be OK, but I hate the asscap DRM used.
=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/08/31/msi-ngtx275-lightning-review/9
and
=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2009/08/26/galaxy-geforce-gts-250-1gb-review/7
...Heck, look at the GTX260 version of MSI's Lightning line! (Back in July)
=> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/07/06/msi-n260gtx-lightning-review/13
...Doubling the memory of a mainstream/performance Nvidia video card does improve F@H performance! So it isn't a one off anomaly!
This brings the question: Is it better to have more RAM on the video card OR a card with dual GPUs? (Total F@H output comparison?)
You folks gotta try and explore this in a "GPU Folding@Home Performance" article! ;)
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