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Yamakasi Catleap LCD

It looks like some people at OCN are trying to petition the manufacturer to bring a limited run of the original (overclockable) monitor back. We'll see how that pans out. Without the OC it's more dubious whether it's worth it. It's still 1440p IPS at $400, but you don't get a warranty, the build...
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- Post #17
- Mar 31, 2012
- Forum: Displays
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Yamakasi Catleap LCD

True - I'm sure there will be issues with that OC down the line. However, isn't the bigger story here that there is fact exists an LCD panel capable of those refresh rates at that resolution in the first place? It should be a fairly small step for device makers to improve controller...
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- Post #3
- Mar 30, 2012
- Forum: Displays
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Yamakasi Catleap LCD

Did anyone else read about that Yamasaki Catleap LCD that people over on OCN are all gung ho about? Apparently they managed to overclock them to do 120Hz, which would be a first for 1440p AFAIK: http://www.overclock.net/t/1225919/yamakasi-catleap-monitor-club/1830...
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- Thread
- Mar 29, 2012
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Displays
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GPU suggestions: best value, for playing SHOGUN 2?

Avoid SLI/X-Fire like the plague unless you already have the fastest single card out there and can afford to get 2 of them. That's my advice. Other than that, either the 6870 or 560 Ti should play Shogun 2 fine. There are some monster settings in Shogun 2 that will bog down pretty much any...
- Nathelion
- Post #2
- May 23, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Bulldozer prices leaked

They sure do, and have for some time now. Strictly speaking, they name their cores after towns with race tracks (every architecture well, ever, from both Intel and AMD has been named after a town... somewhere). Remember Magny-Cours? ...yeah. It may sound like "many-core", and it sure had a...
- Nathelion
- Post #31
- May 23, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Guru3D]AMD Radeon 7000 series coming in Q2?

AMD has a history of jumping to new processes before nVidia does. They also have a history of trying out the new process on a mid-range card in the existing lineup. This strategy has a history of working well. I have a hard time believing that they would risk what nVidia has endured in the...
- Nathelion
- Post #77
- May 6, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Dead End Thrills

The way things are going, we're not even moving towards that. The cycle that drove the industry for a decade (demanding games -> powerful hardware -> even more demanding games -> even more powerful hardware) has slowed down to a crawl. Sure, the hardware part of the cycle is still chugging...
- Nathelion
- Post #8
- Mar 3, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Unlimited Detail: next gen graphics engine?

This is an interesting video, but I can't help but think that it smells like skunk. What are the tradeoffs? Where is this huge repository of points that it is searching in? The demo looks impressive in terms of geometry, but I can't get away from the fact that it's just the same shapes repeating...
- Nathelion
- Post #27
- Oct 11, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Can this problem be solved using Linear Algebra? Proof type problem.

I would say no. You have three equations, and four unknowns. It cannot be solved through purely algebraic methods, that is, you must have some additional information (such as geometric knowledge) in order to solve it.
- Nathelion
- Post #12
- Oct 11, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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interchanging laptop displays.

Will most likely not work. The connector might be in the wrong place, power requirements might be different, the port used might be different, etc... There's a decent chance that a panel from the same OEM would work, but of course, no guarantees.
- Nathelion
- Post #3
- Sep 27, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Questions about physics

Well, they had to assume something, didn't they? In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the simplest assumption is that the speed of light is the same everywhere. So that's what they assumed. It's difficult to test, either way. We'd pretty much have to go somewhere else in the universe...
- Nathelion
- Post #20
- Sep 23, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Questions about physics

You raise a number of good points, most of which are fundamentally tricky parts of modern physics, some of which are still contested. 1) Space is curved so that "standing still" is really what looks (to us) like "accelerating toward the other body". Yeah, that still bothers me too. 2) Tidal...
- Nathelion
- Post #14
- Sep 17, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Puzzle

Thank you. That explains it.
- Nathelion
- Post #20
- Sep 9, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Puzzle

I'm not sure I understand entirely what you mean. Could you explain more verbosely?
- Nathelion
- Post #14
- Sep 9, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Puzzle

I understand the Monty Hall problem. This is similar, but not the same. Thank you for the second wikipedia link though.
- Nathelion
- Post #13
- Sep 9, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional

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