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Modern Eyefinity is More Efficient than Older Dual-Monitor Setups

Interesting post from Caveman Jim over at Rage3D regarding total power draw from modern (and affordable) IPS monitors plus his Radeon 5830, versus two older 4:3 panels and an older video card:

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"We go look it up, and a single 2007FP burns 75W, it's an 16ms Ultrasharp with IPS and old ass backlight. The P2310H burns 22W, and is a TN 5ms panel with dual CCFL. Not even LED backlight. Idle power on the 2007FP is 2W, on the P2310h 0.42W.

11 July, 2011 - 16:50

And We're Back !!!

We've had a week or so of slow news, and we've been offline in various amounts since Thursday. We are back online and better than ever! A core group of folks have worked for the past seven months to migrate and transform the old site (based on phpBB3 and MediaWiki) into a unified Drupal install.

Information should be much easier to find, and search now works site-wide. There are still some issues we're working out, but the team is very happy that we can finally share all of our hard work.

10 July, 2011 - 15:15

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: July 2011

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Graphics Cards For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

5 July, 2011 - 16:06

HaYDeN teases Mass Effect Eyefinity/Surround Fix

Forum member HaYDeN has teased some images from an upcoming Eyefinity/Surround fix for Mass Effect. He even talks about a "universal patch" for UT3-based titles. That would be nice indeed.

2 July, 2011 - 05:00

DICE Confirms Eyefinity/Surround Support in Battlefield 3

Forum member Ceogar had a playtest on BF3 and spoke with DICE, and they confirmed Eyefinity/Surround support in BF3. Support is planned to be the same as Bad Company 2, which was excellent.

29 June, 2011 - 02:52

WSGF Meet-Up @ Texas GamExperience

AMD & HardOCP are sponsoring an effect in Dallas Texas on July 16th. Come join us for our first WSGF Meet-Up and get sneak peeks at AMD's Bulldozer platform, as well as hands on with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Hit this forum thread for more details.

24 June, 2011 - 05:00

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.6 Driver Update

This release brought a mix of video playback improvements and performance enhancements. There were several new features:

AMD Steady Video & Image Stabilization for YouTube - Reduces shakiness and instability in videos.

Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 video - Accelerated processing of MP4 video.

Performance Improvements - Gains of 5% - 10% in Crysis, F1 2010, Far Cry 2, HAWX and Unique OpenGL for Radeon HD 6000 products.

16 June, 2011 - 15:17

Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem is a sci-fi FPS most known for a decade-long development cycle. The game offers "old school" FPS gameplay and Duke's trademark macho/rude humor. It is a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D from 1996.

12 June, 2011 - 13:59

Diabolik: The Original Sin

Diabolik: The Original Sin is an adventure game based on the Italian comic series, "Diabolik". The game maintains a comic themed style, to match it's source material. It features fast-paced combat with stealth gameplay.

11 June, 2011 - 22:28

Star Wars: The Old Republic Confirmed Eyefinity/Surround Support

Koawinter quoted a forum post from the Star Wars: TOR site. The original post was from Michael Voigt, who is the Lead UI Artist at BioWare Austin. In the post Michael confirmed that SW:TOR ran on three screens, and that the game's map screen had been tailor for the multi-monitor experience. You can see the original quote and link back into the SW:TOR forum here.

9 June, 2011 - 05:00

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