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CryEngine 3 PS3 Tech Demo
This is more of an aside, but Crytek’s Cevat Yerli shows off a demonstration of the upcoming (September ‘09 release) CryEngine 3 and I’m floored. The enhancements that Crytek have gotten into CryEngine 3 are nothing short of amazing, specifically on the PS3. Cevat explains that over the years they have had two R&D engine teams [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 – 4GB vs 8GB Performance
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it: At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Introduction It is no mystery that I’ve been part of the parade yelling “Vista Sucks!” since it’s inception – I’ve even taken the time to review Vista’s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS. The [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers
Saturday, March 14, 2009
What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance? I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]
Continue reading...24 Samsung SSD RAID Array – 2 GB/sec
Monday, March 9, 2009
In a brilliant marketing move, Samsung sent 24 SSDs to a group to play with/benchmark and this is what they ended up doing with it: Building a dual, quad-core monster box With a 24-disk SSD RAID array The machine at it’s peak performance gets around 2 GB/sec (not gigaBIT, but gigaBYTE). To show off what that really means [...]
Continue reading...Lenovo Uses Samsung SSDs in ThinkPads – Safe From Performance Problems
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I currently have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 — I got it a little over 2 years ago and have loved it. Lenovo support, while crumby at first, really came through the other time I needed them — calling to schedule a repair on a Saturday morning in order to get my repaired laptop back to [...]
Continue reading...Intel X25-M SSDs Performance Degrades Over Time
Thursday, February 19, 2009
With the recent discovery by Anandtech that JMicron-based cheap SSDs can introduce multi-second lockup/lag in a system and that Intel’s ultra-pricey X25-M SSDs didn’t suffer from the problem, it was looking like folks that had to have an SSD and were willing to pay for it had a chance at salvation… not so fast. PC Perspective [...]
Continue reading...Slow Printing with ReadyNAS NV+
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Every since I got my Infrant (now NETGEAR) ReadyNAS NV+, I’ve been using the Print Server feature of it to hook my HP LaserJet 1200 series printer to it. Unfortunately, it’s always exhibited strange printing behavior, more specifically: From most applications, the first time I try and print, the Print job/command is completely ignored. So if [...]
Continue reading...Not All SSDs Are Equal – Some Will Kill Your Computer’s Performance
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Not all solid state drives (SSDs) are created equal it seems. Taking a quick glance at the Newegg SSD product listings for 32GB drives, you can get an idea that there is something different between a $300 OCZ and a $600 Intel SSD. A big thanks to Patrick Norton for sending this information in — it [...]
Continue reading...Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Introduction When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit). After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things: Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 – The PS3 Starts to Show Its Power
Monday, December 15, 2008
It’s about flipping time, but given the new trailers out for Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 from the VGA’s, I’d have to say that the PS3 is started to show it’s legs. Give them a peek: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Trailer God of War 3 Trailer
Continue reading...Why Halo 3’s Loads Slower With The New Xbox Experience
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Microsoft’s newest update to the Xbox 360, the New Xbox Experience, released today. As we reported last week one of the cool new features is that games can be saved to the hard drive. For most games this allows them to load faster and in some cases helps alleviate graphical glitches like “pop in.” The exception [...]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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