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Continue reading...Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases
Thursday, June 5, 2008
First, thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending this across, it’s a kick-ass preview of the upcoming (end of year most likely) Nehalem CPUs and Chipsets from Intel. Secondly let’s thank Anandtech for sneaking into the Intel expo and capping off these benchmarks for us. Quick Tips Nehalem is the upcoming CPU design from Intel at 45nm to [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Releases 256GB SSD - Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Samsung has released the world’s largest solid state drive (SSD) in the form of their new 256GB FlashSSD flagship drive. For those not in the know about the SSD craze, basically these hard drives are giant collections of flash-based memory, offering no moving parts (physically very strong, don’t need to worry about dropping it killing it) [...]
Continue reading...Real Rendering Resolutions of Console Games
Friday, April 4, 2008
Robert Heron sent in a pretty cool link over to the Beyond3D forums where a list of popular games and their true rendering resolutions were given. For Reference: 1080p = 1920×1080 720p = 1280×720 Here’s a snippet as an example: Army of Two = 720p (no AA, downscaled to 685p with black borders, no adjustable border) Call of Duty 4 = [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements
Thursday, February 28, 2008
(Author’s Note: No, using a half topless woman is not a cheap gimmick to get you to read this article… it’s… art… with boobs… so technically, it’s boobs-art. Whatever, you wouldn’t understand, you aren’t as artistic as I am) Grant Gochnauer and Marc Chung sent in a slew of benchmarks for the nightly builds of Firefox [...]
Continue reading...DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?
Monday, February 11, 2008
Summary: NO (Incase you don’t want to read further) I set out to build myself a new desktop recently and one of the decisions I had to make was “Do I go with DDR3, or stick with DDR2?”, then of course if you stick with DDR2, do you go with oldie 800 ram or shoot for [...]
Continue reading...Speeding up your WordPress Site: PHP Speedy and YSlow
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Grant Gochnauer just sent a link over to a sweet little PHP-site optimization piece of software called PHP Speedy from Acid Drop. The premise of the software is that once installed, you walk through a very nicely polished wizard-based setup telling PHP Speeding which things you want it to optimize: At the last stage of the wizard [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions: Awesome
Thursday, December 20, 2007
ZDNet gave their impressions of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 2 release and so far the comments are suggest the same thing: The memory and performance enhancements are awesome. Word on the street is that it’s snappy as hell, uses anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the memory Firefox 2 used, and is overall looking like [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Well the tides are starting to turn… it seems hot on the heels of the public SP1 RC announcement, ZDNet is reporting some good things about SP1, including some nice network performance improvements (they claim 300% increase):
Continue reading...Windows XP SP3 Shows 10% Performance Gains
Saturday, November 24, 2007
No wonder Microsoft held XP SP3 release back so damn long, exo.blog benchmarked it using the OfficeBench benchmark and an XP Pro install with SP3 applied actually shows a 10% speed increase over it’s existing SP2 install. (Shorter bars better): That’s a pretty damning result following closely on the heals of Vista SP1 showing no performance improvements [...]
Continue reading...Memory Usage: Firefox 2 vs Firefox 3
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
We’ve covered some very interesting articles in the past about some of the work going into improving the memory usage of Firefox 3 as Firefox 2 is currently a fat pig. Well it looks like Adrian over at ZDNet took the new Firefox 3 Beta 1 release out for a test drive with some relatively subjective [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista SP1 Performance a Bust
Monday, November 19, 2007
exo.blog did some testing of the Vista SP1 Release Candidate that was released recently and found the performance overall was almost completely unchanged between the RTM version and this SP1 version. So for the folks that sit and stare that that goddamn progress bar while Vista takes 4x longer to copy the images off your camera, [...]
Continue reading...New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]
Continue reading...Sun Rewrites Java Plugin
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]
Continue reading...Media Temple Performance Issues
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
First off let me apologize for the shit performance for the last week or so. Traffic has been going through the roof. I’m currently hosted on Media Temple using a (gs) account. Even though my bandwidth, disk usage and “GPU” usage is 1/10th of its maximum allotment the site has become totally unresponsive with standard load [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Leopard Requires 867 mhz G4 or Higher
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Word on the street is the new Leopard OS (OS X 10.5) will require an 867 mhz G4 or higher to run and will not work on the original 800 mhz G4. Not too much news there for folks that use OS X… or computers… or have an Apple product. For the folks that are [...]
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