Finally

Finally I ordered the parts for my new PC! A very reasonable configuration – best value IMHO – based on the AMD Dragon platform. I’m going to put them in the case of an old Medion P4 that I got from a colleague. Will post more soon!
Details:

GFX-Card: http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/graphiccards/HD%204000series/4830.aspx

RAM: http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/zboard.php?&id=g_ddr2
CPU: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_15331_15917,00.html
Mainboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=AOD790GX/128M&s=AM2%2b

Infos about the AMD Dragon [...]

X850

I want to get a AMD Phenom II system soon and I checked some graphics card benchmarks to find a card for the new machine that would bring both performance and value.  Seems the ATI Radeon HD 4830 is a good choice in the 100€ segment (http://www.hpm-computer.de/product_info.php?info=p9565_Sapphire-Radeon-HD-4830-Dual-Slot-512MB.html).
Usually when you check grahics card benchmarks you don’t [...]

ATI Stream & Nvidia CUDA

There are many great things that can make your PC faster… but wait. There is a second powerful processor in your machine already that you might not be aware of. It’s the GPU of your graphics card. ATI & Nvidia are going the right way. There are so many things the GPU can do. I’m [...]

ATI cheats in drivers

Oh yea… ATI is known to do that. Instead of making their graphic cars & drivers better they start cheating to get better than nVIDIA in benchmarks. I remember the same thing happened a few years ago.
So here is the latest case of benchmark “cheating”:
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,665049/News/New_Catalyst_drivers_embezzle_graphical_details/
They simply turn off some graphics details. Yea… quite easy way [...]

Pain with ATI

I have an ATI X850… the graphics card is not bad, but games and ATI. That doesn’t go together. I found out that “Medieval II: Total War” I bought lately crashes quite often and that it’s the ATI driver that causes it:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic112967.html
…and you can’t solve the problem by updating the drivers BTW…
The ATI X850 is [...]