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Geforce GTX 1060 Thread: faster than RX 480, 120W, $249

I didn't check all the french e-tailers, but I could not find a 1060 in stock at those prices the last 3-4 days [1] (all cards are of of stock, bar one model available but 350+) No difficulties to find a reference 480 under 300, and no model at all over 300, however. [2] (no sign of the...
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- Post #1,486
- Jul 21, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

First, my apologies for scheming in this heated discussion. In Mathematics, some conjectures are widely considered as truths (some are even considered axioms), but have been proven unprovable (i.e. someone actually expressed a mathematical proof showing that the said conjecture could never be...
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- Post #494
- Nov 29, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

You seemed to imply that scripted, biased physics were significantly worse than "true" physics (and cited as an example GPU PhysX). I merely responded to that assertion, saying that scripted physics weren't necessarily a bad thing (be it on CPU or GPU). No mention whatsoever of CPU graphics (you...
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- Post #341
- Nov 24, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

In my humble scientific opinion, what you call a scripted destruction/animation and dynamic destruction are just the same kind of physics approximation, but on a different precision/scale/bias ... And to continue with my analogy with RT, current games (with raster engines) are often more...
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- Post #268
- Nov 22, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

Note : Apologies for digging this quote from this long running thread. That's exactly why I said this whole argument seems very similar to what I heard in raster/raytrace debates. Some ray tracing proponents argue raster engines are not rendering "real" graphics (read "unbiased"), but are...
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- Post #262
- Nov 22, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

There has been quite similar debates regarding raster engines and raytracing engines : raster engines are known for the need of lots of careful tweaking, tricks and artwork adaptations in order to look ok whereas any good RT engine require much less special attentions on shaders, artwork nor...
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- Post #118
- Oct 21, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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iD Software Rage Video Card Requirements & (Fermi) OpenGL

Looks like it was a motivated change (which I do not agree with) : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeForce_400_Series&action=historysubmit&diff=441441943&oldid=441321748 I think the whole section could be re-added if backed up by some "tier 1" review websites links, and maybe those...
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- Post #37
- Sep 28, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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SQL GROUP BY query dilemma/question

You cannot have TRANSACT-SQL in a view definition. You can use a table function or a view instead to build your @CodeTable. CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_SEQUENCE] ( @START float, @NB int, @STEP float ) RETURNS @SEQUENCE TABLE (SEQ float) AS BEGIN DECLARE @V float DECLARE @C int SET @V...
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- Post #23
- Jun 15, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Which languages do you feel most comfortable in?

C, C++, PHP, C#, JavaScript (basically most C-based languages). Others : SQL (a lot), XSLT, SVG, HTML, CSS and Pascal I also feel confident in VB, but I don't like it so much anymore (I played a lot with it, but always ended using Win APIs directly within VB, so I switched to C++). Re...
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- Post #29
- May 20, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Intel HD 3000 vs GT 520m

Also, don't forget that Sandy Bridge's QuickSync is probably as good as the 520m for video processing (if not better, if you take power consumption into account). I don't remember if the latest Optimus iteration is able to use QuickSync or if it's constrained to the discrete GPU for video...
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- Post #22
- May 9, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Javascript Question - Adding potential matches to search results on form field

Not so easy as it seems : you'd have to tackle this with AJAX and server-side search (you DON'T want to ship the N friends names with your page and compute the matches in javascript). So : - on key press, verify if you're beyond a threshold (say, 3 chars ; important for performance reasons ...
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- Post #2
- Apr 18, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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What is wrong with my code/logic?

Huh, didn't see your code, so I can't make hard assumptions, but keep in mind you must not move the 4s, just other numbers. EDIT : Oh yeah, I think I wrongly understood you wanted to append all the 4s and 5s at the start, but nothing prevents you to allocate the whole resulting array and copy...
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- Post #11
- Apr 11, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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CSS Help

Also, keep in mind that there are discrepancies in font-metrics between GDI (FF3.6, Chrome, etc.) and DirectWrite (FF4) rendering. IE9 seems to compensate a bit for these discrepancies (in order to obtain the same line height with or without hardware acceleration) and Mozilla is considering...
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- Post #6
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Which is more readable?

Also, the two options have a kind of different feeling : - the first would enumerate all items in this.SmartFiles and call ExtractInfoFromFilePayload on them - whereas the second one will enumerate only the FileSortCell items in this.SmartFiles and call ExtractInfoFromFilePayload on them...
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- Post #5
- Mar 28, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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firefox 4 released

Kerning should theoretically be better due to sub-pixel positionning in DirectWrite (i.e. the text rendering backend used with D2D with HW on). With GDI, letters were "snapped" to pixel boundaries. I think we just have to get used to it. I also hope DW rendering will be improved by MS as more...
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- Post #113
- Mar 23, 2011
- Forum: Windows

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