I agree with you for the most part, a 5400rpm mobile drive only gets between 80-100MB/s of sustained sequential read rates but the drive also has an 8MB cache which, according to testing by Tom's Hardware, can hit 397MB/s bursts. The 8MB cache is pretty small and would empty out almost immediately but it would provide a small performance increase in certain tasks over the the SATA II drives which are mostly in the 200-250MB/s burst range.
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I have to agree with Death, I really do believe that the inclusion of an UHD BD drive would not have changed the retail price. Yes, the drive is $15 more than a BD drive in the cost breakdown of the Xbox One S but MS doesn't manufacture these, they have to buy them from another party that makes a profit on them. Sony manufactures these themselves and as such would be able to incorporate them at cost. I am also pretty certain that Sony would have had a net benefit from the inclusion of ...
The physical differences between a Blu-ray drive and an UHD Blu-ray drive isn't that significant. The cost breakdown of the XBox One S showed the UHD BD drive was about $15 more than a BD drive but MS doesn't manufacture these, they buy them from a company that sells them for a profit. Sony could have put these in at cost since they make them and I bet it's only a few extra dollars at the manufacture's cost. The PS4P essentially is UHD Blu-ray ready in every aspect except fo...
Wasteland 2 was such an excellent game, I can't wait!!!
Where to start... first, HDMI 1.4 supports 3840x2160 up to 30fps if it is 8 bit colour, uses the 4.2.0 colour space and is packed inside the rec 709 container.
You can do whatever trickery you like but the PS4 and the TV need to talk the same language or nothing happens. That means you have to use a standard protocol. HDR10 is the minimum standard required to display HDR (there are other optional standards such as Dolby Vision but HDR10 is required to advertise your tv as...
A machine that played pong and only pong from a company I cant remember
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I can't comment on the comfort of each headset since every person has a different head so each headset will have a different 'comfort rating' for everybody.
Frame interpolation (framerate reprojection) is a creative and functional solution to assist a machine that cannot effectively generate the framerate natively but the technique produces artifacts which simply aren't present with full framerate.
I do think you are 100% wrong on the RGB ...
An SSD would use less space, less power, run cooler, run quieter and would be heaps faster... but it would also add to the price... I would personally take those pros for a bit more money though...
@Lennox
Star Citizen has been in development less than 4 years. The kickstarter began October 2012.
@thorstein
The purpose of "clickbait" titles and articles is to lure people to their site so they earn money from advertising on their site or get more money from sponsors or other industry sources because of the number of visits the site produces.
Thejimquisition.com doesn't have any advertisments on their site. The site doesn't earn money through clicks or sponsors or any other industry sources, they are funded through crowdfunding. That means...
HDR10 is mandated by the UHD Blu-ray spec. You can't have a format war if one is required and the other is optional.
HDMI 1.4 is perfectly capable of transmitting UHD/4k up to 30fps and I have read that you can stream 4k youtube videos on the Xbox One (I am a pc/home theater guy, I don't personally own either of the consoles).
If you want UHD/4k at 60fps or 4:2:2 color space then you need HDMI 2.0. If you want UHD/4k with HDR then you need HDMI 2.0a and if you want UHD/4k that uses HDR with dynamic metadata as used in the Dolby Vision standard you will need HDMI 2.0b. If you want ...
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Really grasping for a click enducing headline here... I see a line drawing animation meant to graphically illustrate shrinking with text that says "40% Smaller" which seems to be a true claim from what I have read so far.
The author looked at the line drawing at the start of the animation and falsely pressumed that it was a depiction of the original xbox one size when it was only an animation meant to depict shrinking. Believing that the line drawing was meant...
@YinYangGaming
There are actually a ton of VR headsets in development aside from the Oculus and Vive headsets and some of them make those headsets look like low spec prototypes. The StarVR headset has dual 2560 x 1440 displays and a 210 degree field of view, the Claire headset has dual 5120 x 1440 displays and a 170 degree field of view and the Fove headset features eye tracking...
These are the headsets I am aware of, I'm sure there are others... Intel is rum...
I agree, AMD will have something like 470/470x/480/480x/490/490x/Fur y up against something like 1050/1050ti/1060/1070/1080/108 0ti/Titan. AMD haven't released their performance cards that go head to head with nVidia's 1070 (and up) and nVidia haven't released their mainstream cards that go head to head with AMD's 480 (and down).
We don't know how nVidia's direct 480 competitor will be priced and perform and vice versa we don't know how AMD'...
Nice showing for AMD for sure. Looking forward to seeing third parties running a swath of games through them to see how these guys pan out in the real world.
One thing to note though, the 4GB RX 480 is $200 so to be fair to nVidia here, AMD compared the crossfire RX 480's at "less than $500" (which would be the 8GB models and "less than $500" sounds an awful lot like $499 in corporate speak) versus the $700 GTX 1080 Founders Edition. The real test ...
never understood why minor delays are a big deal to people, it's a few more weeks, the game isn't going to be stuck in development hell for years!
I'm looking at this wrong? I'm looking at this from the perspective of someone that is on the track in real life where a mistake actually has the potential to seriously injure or kill people. I'm surrounded by people that have made it there through practice, knowledge and experience that drive with a combination of skill, calculation and instinct based on that practice, knowledge and experience.
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I know Firaxis hired the modders that did 'The Long War' mod to do work on Xcom 2. If one company did it, I am sure many do... The Long War was an EXCELLENT mod btw, highly recommended!