it is cold here our hits are going up up up and AWAY!!! last month i got 250 viewers on my site!

so i am gonna have a party for 250 viewers in 1 month!

in other news:
10 views in a month: nothing

20 views in a month: a thank you for visting sign on a post

30 views in a month: a contest

40 views in a month: meet the cast of club penguin tv (channel 123)

50 views in a month: a party (small)

100 views in a month: a party (little big)

150 views in a month: a party (big)

200 views in a month: a party (big huge)

250 views in a month: a party (huge)

18) A Coca-Cola era originalmente verde, e a Islândia é o país com o maior consumo per capita do mundo.

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26) A força necessária para dar três espirros consecutivos, queima exatamente o mesmo numero de calorias que um orgasmo.

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28) A guerra mais curta da história foi entre Zanzibar e Inglaterra em 1896. O zanzibar rendeu-se ao fim de 38 minutos.

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82) Certas rãs podem ser congeladas e depois descongeladas e continuar vivas.

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100) Em média, uma criança de 4 anos faz 437 perguntas por dia.

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131) Nenhum pedaço de papel pode ser dobrado ao meio mais de 7 vezes.

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Veja as 280 completas.

It’s ironic how Intel’s already suggesting that people will soon be able to play high-end PC games without dedicated graphics processors that are dwarfing CPUs in the rigs of any “hardcore” gamer.  For example, my card within my rig holds roughly 650 million transistors in 3 different cores.  On the GTX 280, though, boasts with 1.4 billion, yes, billion transistors throughout 240 processing cores.

 In simpler terms, this card is a crapload times better than even my next video card that I purchase will sustain.

 Designed by NVidia, this epic taste of future gaming broke barriers like no other.  PcGamer states that its experience was “blow away by how close the single GPU GTX 280 came to matching the score of the duel-GPU Geforce 9800 and Radeon 3870 X2 cards.”  And all of this from a beta driver.

 This driver broke open whilst running crysis on high settings, along with a eye-popping resolution of 2560×1600 with an outstanding 15 frames per second.  This is further than any video card has ever been able to accomplish, while any gamer who has subjected their PC to the mercy of Crysis on high settings at any resolution knows that this is a revolutionary breakthrough for all PC games of the future.

 ”This is easily the fasted, most powerful, and most versatile sonsumer video card ever…”

 I agree.

It’s ironic how Intel’s already suggesting that people will soon be able to play high-end PC games without dedicated graphics processors that are dwarfing CPUs in the rigs of any “hardcore” gamer.  For example, my card within my rig holds roughly 650 million transistors in 3 different cores.  On the GTX 280, though, boasts with 1.4 billion, yes, billion transistors throughout 240 processing cores.

 In simpler terms, this card is a crapload times better than even my next video card that I purchase will sustain.

 Designed by NVidia, this epic taste of future gaming broke barriers like no other.  PcGamer states that its experience was “blow away by how close the single GPU GTX 280 came to matching the score of the duel-GPU Geforce 9800 and Radeon 3870 X2 cards.”  And all of this from a beta driver.

 This driver broke open whilst running crysis on high settings, along with a eye-popping resolution of 2560×1600 with an outstanding 15 frames per second.  This is further than any video card has ever been able to accomplish, while any gamer who has subjected their PC to the mercy of Crysis on high settings at any resolution knows that this is a revolutionary breakthrough for all PC games of the future.

 ”This is easily the fasted, most powerful, and most versatile sonsumer video card ever…”

 I agree.

To alleviate much of the confusion regarding Nvidia naming schemes for their current cards they are generically naming all the 9 series cards under the GT100 branding. The new naming convention will apparently apply to all 55nm GeForce 9 series cards. It is reported that by the end of 2008, Nvidia will be offering today’s 9000 series as G100, GT130, GT140 and G150 models.

It has also come to light that Nvidia also has newer GTX 200 series cards ready to launch on October 15th. It is unknown what “new” cards Nvidia is making available but we are betting its the 55nm die shrink of the GTX 280 aka the GTX 280+ and maybe even the GTX 350. Exciting times as usual in the world of graphics cards, I can’t wait to see what Nvidia has in store for us.

Totally Unr3al

An Australian e-tailer has leaked information on Nvidia’s new cards the GTX 280+ and the GTX 350 set for release by the end of this year.

The first card, the GTX 280+, is listed as employing a GT200b GPU on a 55nm process as well as 1gb of GDDR3 memory. More importantly, the second card, the GTX 350, is listed as utilising a new 55nm GPU the GT300, using 2gb of GDDR5 memory. No pricing is included but he site has the release for the GTX 280+ as September and the GTX 350 for Q4 ‘08. It looks like our previously reported rumours of Nvidia’s new flagship card have all but come but fruition, seemingly the only difference is Nvidia hasnt opted for a dual GPU card. If these leaks turn to be true we could see some new cards right around the corner. Anyone who want to take a look at the overanxious site can find it here.

Totally Unreal

* Dimension : P 210 x L 114 x T 25 (mm)                      Price Rp. 325.000

* Supports MP3, WMA, RM format

* Blue LCD display

* Function control, Next and Previuos

* Volume Control

* Play / Pouse

* Equalizer : jazz, rock, classical, hip hop blues

* Batery AAA, adaptor

* USB card, mobile phone, SD & MMC support

NU is slowly turning me into a film geek. *grin* Here’s some of the work I did for school in my first year.

I Screwed My GPA

The Northwestern University Singaporeans and Friends (NUSAF) came together to remake the classic Backstreet Boys hit “I Want It That Way”. Loads of hard work, fun and laughter later, we’re proud to present “I Screwed My GPA”!

This music video in much better quality is available on DVD! It includes a 10 min blooper reel + a special bonus video. Let me know if you’d like to have your very own copy.

Chickened Out!

Made for my final project in RTVF 180. The assignment was to make a short film using only still photographs. Many thanks to Wanlin for agreeing to play the lead!

Strings

My edit for our final project for RTVF 280. We all had to write our own scripts, bring them to class, read everyone else’s work and vote for our favourite 2. The class was then divided into 2 groups to produce the 2 winning scripts.

Strings (written and directed by Evan Twohy) was a group project involving Jonathan Gomez, Taylor McNulty, Andrew J. Rogers, Evan Twohy, Yira Vilaro and myself.

Alright so the 4870X2 came out this week! This is huge! Alright the prices on all of the other cards are doing just what I said they were going to do in my previous post (look for yourself). NVidia is going to slowly drop their cards prices to even out the price to performance ratio. As for ATI, they are just sitting back and letting all of the cash roll in. ATI is playing this out very smart. The new 4870X2 is hovering just below $600. This is the perfect sweetspot for this card. ATI will be able to keep it there until close to the holidays if they wanted to. Its not too expensive to disappoint the customers, but its expensive enough to rack in some serious cash. ATI is really naming names right now. They could have easily put this up close to $700, but they knew that in the long run they will be able to hold this price longer and have more consistent buyers. I just can’t wait to see what these things can do in crossfire!

nVidia on the other hand is going to have to drop their 280 cards. In fact im surprised they haven’t already. Why have a 280 ($450) when you can have a card twice as fast for just $100 more? I think nVidia is going to have these cards as expensive as possible until people just stop buying from them altogether. We can expect a price drop. But instead of the crazy drop like I had expected, I think it will be a slow and steady drop. They will try and squeeze every dollar they can out of the 280’s.

ATI is making very smart decisions right now and I expect them to keep it up. We will have to see how nVidia reacts to the loss of customers.

Feel free to comment

-Hunterx333

Things aren’t looking too good at the moment for those wanting a reasonable priced video card to use with a hackintosh and Windows. My system has an Nvidia 7300GT that works well with Mac OS 10.5.4, and performs ok under Windows XP. I only really use Windows for games, and have recently been playing through Half Life 2 again. I tried using Crossover Games to install it on OSX but the performance was choppy, so I’m rebooting into Windows whenever I want to play. The original game is fine at 1680×1050, and Episode 1 ran just as well. Episode 2 is the stumbling block, with a big drop in smoothness unless the video options are turned all the way down or resolution dropped. Episode 3 doesn’t have a release date yet but is sure to up the hardware requirements even more.

So what are the upgrade options? The Nvidia 9600GT is unsupported and doesn’t appear to be working yet, and neither are the newer 260 and 280. There are several options lower in the range, but how much of an improvement these would give is debatable. The best option from Nvidia looks to still be an 8800GT. On the ATI side the latest 4850/4870 are reported as working, as are the 3850/3870 that preceded them. Aria have a 3870 512Mb for £82.19 and a  4850 512Mb for £123.26. The problem here is going to be noise. My current Sparkle 7300GT is passively cooled so is silent. Looks like much research ahead, just as soon as Insanelymac starts working again.

Tras unos meses disfrutando de una NVIDIA 8800GTX prestada, en unas semanas deberé tomar una de las decisiones más complicadas a las que debe enfrentarse un gamer: elegir tarjeta gráfica.

Con un nuevo trabajo a la vuelta de la esquina y un sueldo realmente bajo, debo encaminar mi búsqueda hacia una VGA que me dure al menos 2 años. En mis tres últimas adquisiciones, mi previsión era de un año aproximadamente, lo que me permitía comprar tarjetas que no superaran los 200€. El método de búsqueda era muy sencillo:

- Analizar tarjetas que no superaran los 200€
- Buscar comparativas que sometieran esas tarjetas a juegos muy exigentes
- Escoger la mejor tarjeta según calidad/precio

Ahora el método deberá ser modificado ligeramente, permitiéndome superar los 200€ en pos de una mayor durabilidad. El problema que me encuentro ahora es el primer punto, juegos exigentes. En breve sabréis por qué.
Mis primeras candidatas son:

ATI-AMD 4870 (229€)

NVIDIA GTX 280 (385€)

ATI-AMD 4870 X2 (435€)

Aunque ahora esté dispuesto a superar la barrera de los 200€ por una gráfica, me sigue pareciendo una locura pagar 435€, ni aunque la estires 2 años… Así que, si mi nueva VGA no pasa de los 350€, mejor. Eso descarta, por ahora, la 4870X2 y la GTX280. Todavía me quedan 3 semanas antes de devolver la 8800GTX, y aun después puedo volver a pinchar mi antigua 7900GTO y tirar unas semanas más. Espero con esto ganar algo de tiempo para ver bajar esos precios.
Una vez seleccionadas las candidatas, pasamos a los test. Como mi monitor es de 24″, he prestado atención a las pruebas pasadas a 1920×1200.
Este año tenemos un caso que rompe con todos los test y se llama Crysis. Si usamos un nivel de detalle High, las 3 tarjetas se las ven y se las desean para mover el juego con fluidez, siendo la 4870X2 la única que permite una jugabilidad decente. Si optamos por Very High, sólo configuraciones SLI o Crossfire nos permitirán fps decentes (entre 21 y 30fps). Veamos algunos ejemplos:

La otra cara de la moneda la representan el resto de juegos. Cuando antes conseguíamos 60fps ahora obtenemos 85, y donde teníamos 100 ahora samos 135fps. Es decir, si pretendo jugar al Crysis a la resolución nativa de mi monitor con los settings en High, debo gastarme lo que cueste la 4870X2 y aun y así no será ninguna maravilla. En cambio, cualquier otro juego (UT3, Half Life 2, Enemy Terrirory: Quake Wars, Call of Duty 4, etc.) podría ser jugado con total fluidez incluso con una ATI 4850. Veamos unos ejemplos:

Conclusión:

Si mi intención es que la tarjeta me dure un mínimo de 2 años, tengo claro que debo escoger una de las tres candidatas. Las pruebas de consumo y ruido me decantan por la NVIDIA, y el hecho de que mi DELL 2405FPW no se haya llevado bien con mis anteriores ATI, hace que la balanza se incline todavía más hacía la verde.
En cuanto al cuello de botella de la CPU, la review de Madshrimps nos dice que las dos tarjetas (4870X2 y GTX280) escalan relativamente bien, excepto en Crysis, limitado casi al 100% por la GPU. Con mi E6750 a 3GHz voy servido, cuando llegue el fresco del otoño le haré otro overclock y listo.
También tengo en mente la notícia de una posible GTX280 de 55nm, cuyo lanzamiento estaría previsto para el último trimestre de este año.
En fin, valoraré todos estos datos y en un mes aproximadamente tomaré la decisión.

Actualización: En Noticias3D anuncian una nueva rebaja en las GTX de NVIDIA… vamos bien

If i ever become rich and famous off of computers i will remember the first person to comment on my blog. But seriously i would like to know if im any good at writing and what your opinion is on this stuff.

Ranting: Alright guys sorry for not posting in a while. My mobo (evga 780i) just randomly died….. PISSES ME OFF!…. Anyway has anyone noticed the huge price cuts for the 9800 cards?!?! I mean holy ****! The GX2 is hovering around $280 and the gtx is under $200. Something big must have hit nVidia financially. I mean i bought my 9800 gtx just a week before the 280 came out (mistake on my part) for $300 and now that same card is $220…. Every day these cards are dropping like crazy. By the holidays these cards will be in the $100’s. Especially if ATI keeps their lead on nVidia for price to performance.

Now i would also like to correct myself on a previous post… I said that ATI is kicking nVidia in performance. When i say that i mean single card solutions. But technically (if you have way too much money to spend) the tri sli 280’s destroy to 4870.

Recommendations: As of today if you had to build computer now i say dont. Wait for the 4870X2 and see how the price tags react. I see the 4870’s dropping a couple bucks, not much but enough to maybe get a nicer case or something. But what nVidia does could decide whether to buy from ATI or nVidia. If i were nVidia i would be preparing for a major hit financially. With the upcoming release of the 4870X2 people are sure to drop any old cards and pick it up. They shoiuld lower their prices on the 280 so that if you were to buy two of them it would be just a bit more expensive then one X2. This is because in a benchmark test between two 4870’s and two 280’s the 280’s would have a slight edge over ATI’s gift from heaven. But for nVidia this would mean lowering the price of the 280 to nearly $300. And im not sure if their manufacturers could manage such a large price drop in such a short amount of time.

Anyway i will be posting some vids soon about my computer parts and of the rebuild i have to do when i receive my new 780i. Feel free to comment on the fight between ATI and nVidia. It will be interesting to see where we are by the holidays…

This two big video card companies fought each other for many years. As of today, NVIDIA is at the top of it’s with its new NVIDIA 280 but ATI doesn’t want to fall far behind and they have released also their latest video card the ATI 4780.

This two new top of the line video cards have set gamers, overclockers, and tester to their purchasing limit because these two new video cards doesn’t come cheap. The NVIDIA 280 prices ranging from $450-$600 while the ATI 4870 price ranging from $300-$400.

The NVIDIA 280 blew away the ATI 4870 with its performance the ATI 4870 has a higher shader clock. Please refer to the picture below.

benchmark

Picture taken from http://forums.pureoverclock.com

As you can see at the specification of the two video cards, the GTX 280 has lesser Core clock maybe its because the GTX 280 is 65nm while the ATI 4870 is 55nm, the overclockability of 55nm has lesser heat than the 65nm. The ATI 4870 wins over the GTX 280 with its high Memory Type, Clock, Stream Processor Units (SPU), and less wattage. The true power of the GTX 280 is the Memoy interface which is 512-BIT while the ATI 4870 has 256-bit, this is the why the Nvidia GTX 280 wins overall over ATI 4870.

Many critics still says that the ATI 4870 is the best video card today but as what I seen in some website regarding the benchmark of the two video cards, the Nvidia GTX 280 has a higher points, 20%-50% better performance than the ATI 4870.

The battle still doesn’t stop their. As of today, ATI is perfecting a new video card name 4870×2, it a regular 4870 but has two core and 2x of its Memory interface, but this new video card is still in the testing stage but the as the critics says that the Nvidia GTX 280 will be doomed with is supremacy.

It’s a long drive, but very scenic!

Originally uploaded by sharcardinal

I took this on my way home from work.

Gameplanet took some time and benchmarked and fully tested the newest graphics cards from ATI and from NVidia to give you this great article. Check it out. I’m sure you are going to want to know who the true winner is.

Un paseo por el centro histórico y comercial de Tenerife es un auténtico placer para el viajero que después de un año de vertiginoso estrés consigue por fin en la época estival aprender a disfrutar de los agradables momentos que nos ofrecen las escapadas. Si encima estas pequeñas vacaciones tienen a la isla como escenario no habrá duda de que conseguirás eliminar tu estrés considerablemente. Piensa un momento ¿Cuál es la actividad clásica para relajarse? Para muchos irse de compras. Perpetuemos entonces este método pero esta vez en un escenario diferente. ¿Vienes?

Santa Cruz de Tenerife puede ser considerada un pequeño paraíso de las compras. Sin duda su tradición de intercambio mercantil gracias a su puerto ha contribuido a ello. Quizás también esté relacionado con el carácter de sus gentes, abiertas y acogedoras, amantes de la vida al aire libre. Comprar en Santa Cruz va mucho más allá del sentido clásico del concepto, lo supera y sitúa como toda una experiencia que no olvidarás. Rodeado de isleños y de otros turistas como tú compartirás con ellos unas horas de asueto en las que la palabra obligación se borrara del diccionario. ¡No piensan en nada más que en disfrutar!

Te ayudará, sin duda, el escenario en que se desarrollan las compras: el corazón del centro histórico. Plazas, calles luminosas, monumentos y edificios de todo tipo como telón de fondo para un recorrido lleno de opciones. Seas como seas vas a encontrar una tienda a tu medida. En esta zona igualmente puedes toparte con boutiques que albergan grandes marcas de nivel internacional como con tiendas que ofrecen productos originales a bajos precios o mercados con todo el encanto de lo local.

Uno de los puntos de compra más famosos de Santa Cruz son los populares “indios”. Si te apasiona la electrónica te encuentras en el lugar ideal para adquirir productos a precios muy rebajados. El motivo no es otro que el régimen fiscal específico del que goza la isla que elimina el IVA de sus productos. Muchos viajeros aprovechan esta oportunidad para llenar sus maletas de regalos que llevar a sus familiares y amigos. Comprar en Santa Cruz de Tenerife además de relajar ayuda al bolsillo del viajero. ¿Se puede pedir más?

Foto: Wikipedia.

AMD y nVIDIA optan por caminos distintos en su desarrollo de chips 3D de nueva generación.
AMD adquirió ATI hace ahora casi dos años, y se planteó ya entonces un objetivo a medio y largo plazo de intergrar CPU y GPU. De momento, lo que está claro es que con esta adquisición, AMD ha dado al desarrollo de ATI un cambio en la filosofía respecto a la de nVIDIA.
nVIDIA ha anunciado el lanzamiento de sus nuevos GTX 280 y GTX 260, con el objetivo de dar las máximas prestaciones en un solo chip. Un chip de la serie GTX 200 tendrá 1.400 millones de transistores, 240 cores y 933 gigaFLOPS de potencia de computación.
Las prestaciones parecen estratosféricas, con unaa capacidad para hacer render de 3 millones de triángulos por frame, con el objetivo de hacer posible que haya varios personajes fotorealistas en una escena, y otro dato: una GTX-280 dual-core puede convertir un largometraje HD a formato iPod vídeo en sólo 35 minutos, comparado con las prácticamente 5h que tarda una CPU de 4 cores.

AMD adopta un diseño modular, con un consumo de energía mucho menor y que pueden combinarse para conseguir mayores prestaciones. Para demostrar esta estrategia, lanzará los HD 4850 y HD 4870. La idea es que también con gran número de cores, permite una mejor escalabilidad poniendo 1 ó 2 chips en una misma tarjeta.
nVIDIA permite diseño multichip por sistema, pero siempre con un chip por tarjeta gráfica.
Tengo ganas de verlos ya en acción en Siggraph en menos de 2 meses.

3DMark Vantage (Performance) - 10338

3DMark06 (default) - 15846

Crysis DX10 @ 1600×1200 - 44.00fps avg.

Let’s see what else nVidia’s new GTX280 card has -

GTX280 Benchmark Scores

I’ve never entirely trusted “The Inquirer”, but these scores seem pretty plausible. If these scores are accurate, the GTX280 improves upon the Geforce 9800 GTX’s overall performance by about 18% 35%?

This makes Crysis quite playable at @ 1600×1200, Very High; shame gameplay doesn’t scale with graphics performance.

Amazon has a GTX280 card listed for US$650, or about A$700. Ouch.

The nVidia GTX280 is due for release tomorrow on June 17th - no, I certainly won’t be trading in my 8800GT for one.

Codenamed GT200, the chip is developed using 65nm technology and has the following specs:

1.4bil Transistors @ 602Mhz
240 Cores
1296Mhz Processor Clock
1gb 512 bit (clocked to 2.2ghz) GDDR3 RAM
141.7gb/s bandwidth
32 ROPs
80 texture filtering units
HDCP Support
400mhz RAMDAC
And tons more specs here.

You can find more images here.