DecThePixter

I use an i5-3570k (not overclocked) and an GTX 650ti 1GB(also not overclocked). I typically use a 64x64 faithful resource pack along with Optifine set to its highest settings (except for the render distance, which I have at far or a little above, but anything a more and the FPS will drop.) My monitor's refresh rate is set to 60hz, which is its maximum. In game I use V-sync and I get a very steady 60fps. With Optifine set to "max fps" I can get 75 to 105 fps with the previously mentioned resourcepack and render distance. 
 
That's all fine and dandy, until you toss a decent shaderpack in. It is really hard to get over 40fps (usually only 30fps and below) and still have a reasonable render distance. To get Optifine and Forge to work together Optifine had to be loaded from the mods folder and that broke a couple features in Optifine. The anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering both do not work, so there is possibly a performance difference because of that. 
 
Just as a side-note, I have 5gb of RAM allocated to Minecraft. The default is 1gb, I believe.  
 
I've found that I can't load a resource pack that's over 256x256 (Running a 256x256 resource pack is very laggy, by-the-way.) due to there not being enough RAM on my GPU.
 
That's how it is with my GPU and CPU. I hope it helps someone.

Amazon put $50 on my account for my honesty when we thought it was theirs, but I have a feeling UPS and Apple won't say anything, but I'm okay with that. I feel good doing the right thing here. I could have kept them, no one would have ever known, but in the end, they weren't mine.

Now I can write hate mail tappin' on cold steel.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186056-nanopixel-displays-with-150-times-higher-resolution-and-theyre-flexible-too
 
 
 
* - That's about 23 BILLION pixies, how giant a resolution that is!. And is this a duplicate?

Can they make cheaper cardboard Google Glass?

The game looks amazing better than Division imo 
 
There's weapon crafting and its a huge open world sandbox
 
check out the demo from gamespot here
 
Source
 
edit: if you're worried about it being another Watch_Dogs listen what he says at the 9:00 minute mark.

HP announces its revolutionary new computer capable of a calculating 640 terabytes of data in a billionth of a second.
The super-powerful photonic device is reported to be the future of computing, with HP claiming it will allow for six times more computing power despite needing 80 times less resources…
 
The Machine is designed to copy with more data than any machine before it.
The new system will run on HP’s new The Machine operating system, an open-source OS designed to be optimised for the huge of data that can be transferred.
HP say "The Machine" (it's all sounding a bit Matrix) is built around the concept of memristors; resistors capable of storing information in a permanent state, even when powered off. The memristors will be as fast as RAM but are also capable of storing data permanently like a hard drive or SSD. What this means in terms of gaming is PC's could instantly boot up, while loading screens will essentially be eliminated due to the lightning-fast transfer rates.
Rather than being connected using traditional copper wires, HP's The Machine will be using silicon photonics to boost the speed of data transfer and vastly reducing the energy demands. The silicon photonics will also be significantly thinner, meaning more data can be packed into a smaller package.
The device is still in the extremely early stages of development, but HP claim that this not a server, workstation, gaming PC or phone device, but rather an answer to everything. The technology can even be shrunk down to ensure massive performance even in smart phones, potentially allowing a mobile to come equipped with up to 100 terabytes of memory. That’s nearly enough to store the contact details of every person on the planet.
The HP Machine is still a long way off, with HP aiming for samples next year before the first devices start cropping up during 2018. It’s thought the first silicon photonic devices will replace entire server centres with a single refrigerator-sized device.
While the devices will no doubt debut as servers and supercomputers, the tech is also being optimised for traditional PCs, laptops and phones, with HP even going so far is creating an optimised version of Android specifically for The Machine.
 
Original post: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=13287&game=None&title=HP%20Unveil%20The%20Machine%20-%20%20A%20New%20Technology%20That%20Could%20Eliminate%20Loading%20Screens%20Forever

Too bad it won't look like this at release

Well that and FPS that is lower is "cinematic". Have to remember that. We need a rulebook for "next gen". I need to know what titles to lock at 30 fps on my PC for that "next gen experience". 

He didn't want a deal with Microsoft or Apple... Because they weren't willing to pay 2 billion dollars for the company.
Two things wrong with his post.
1) He is not in charge. He can't promise that there won't be any tie-ins with Facebook. My guess is that Facebook will slowly infect Oculus Rift, one feature at a time. They always do this when they want to poison a product. You don't just dump it all in at once. You slowly increase the amount over a long period of time.
2) This is what he said less than 2 years ago: "Oculus is going forward in a big way, but a way that still lets me focus on the community first, and not sell out to a large company". He also said "I won’t make a penny of profit off this project, the goal is to pay for the costs of parts, manufacturing, shipping, and credit card/Kickstarter fees with about $10 left over for a celebratory pizza and beer!". I do not trust people who say one thing and then do the exact opposite...

An interview with Linus on the 'How i Became' Youtube channel. 
 

Since when have phone camera's been able to take long-exposure images? I mean really, in most cases you need an adjustable aperture. I think most (if not all) the images in the video were examples of what they think it can do.
 
If this new sensor technology is as good as they see, I really hope to see it come to non-phone cameras!

I want full metal keys

wow, them results! glad to see it and i'm chuckling over it. I don't mine and no plans to. Stupid idea and I think people should devote their resources to folding and boinc   

192 CUDA cores in this thing... Nvidia is insane for making that as a cpu for mobile devices, thoughts?
 
During the Nvidia live press conference on Twitch for CES announced that instead of launch the Tegra 5 they're instead launching the Tegra K1, a 192 CUDA core processor for mobile applications with more processing power than anything that has been released before under the idea that a Tegra chip can process everything that a normal mobile cpu can a lot faster.
 
Update: Draws 5 Watts of power

Care to explain? 6 or 7th post I see for there being no rag and I am a bit confused

makes sense they banned teletubbies after all probably for the same reason

I use these headphones for gaming as well. I've never had any problems, but admittedly, I have never had any other higher-end headphones to compare with. All I know is that I do fine in-game.

Laser diodes last about 25000 hours vs 4000 hours of lamp life in eco mode, but I believe LCDs last 100k hours. .
 
Similar to 600hz sub-field drive, like plasmas. It still 60hz at 10 sub-fields instead of refreshing the whole image, but results in "almost blur-free" motion.

Why do you need and overpriced smartphone to go cycling? Sounds dumb. If this thing needed to communicate with a device, they should have included one just for the bike.

In this instance I don't care too much, but at other times I do. Like when someone does not put any effort into communicating and I can't understand them. Words and grammar are a way to communicate and when you and use them appropriately, people can understand you.

Not for watching porn; for their [quite frankly] racist, sexist and pro-violence beliefs. Even though I generally stand up for people with different beliefs than ourselves, such malice mindsets are doing nothing but harm.

AMD was selected for an award of $3.1 million for a research project associated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program, known as "DesignForward." The DOE award is an expansion of work started as part of another two-year award AMD received in 2012 called "FastForward." The FastForward award aims to accelerate the research and development of processor and memory technologies needed to support extreme-scale computing. The DesignForward award supports the research of the interconnect architectures and technologies needed to support the data transfer capabilities in extreme-scale computing environments.
 
DesignForward is a jointly funded collaboration between the DOE Office of Science and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to accelerate the research and development of critical technologies needed for extreme-scale computing, on the path toward Exascale computing. Exascale supercomputers are expected to be capable of performing computation hundreds of times faster than today's fastest computers, with only slightly higher power utilization. Exascale supercomputers are designed to break through the current limitations of today's supercomputers by dramatically reducing the length of run time required to perform calculations and improving the capability to perform detailed simulations, modeling, and analyses of complex systems.
 
So what is Exascale? Wikipedia says its a computing system capable of at least one exaFLOP. One exaflops is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 10^18, floating point operations per second...
 
Id like to see the heatsink that goes on that baby
 
 
 
 
http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/us-government-awards-amd-2013nov18.aspx

It will be awhile before we see this stuff. I am certain the nuclear reactors are much higher on the "intended users" list.

I might as well weigh in on this since I tweeted this as a discussion topic:
 
Mantle:
- Unproven
- Requires no new hardware if you already have a GCN (7000+) card
- Requires developer support (but we know that at least some is coming)
- Unknown performance improvement over non-Mantle
- Takes time to implement, limited compatibility with existing hardware and fragments market, which will be a major barrier
- No support for existing titles unless ported in after the fact
- Potentially makes Linux gaming more feasible
 
G-Sync:
- Requires Kepler GPU (600 series or better)
- Requires new hardware on monitor side of things (but not that expensive to implement compared to existing scaler hardware)
- Does not require developer support & supports pretty much your entire existing library of games.
- Proven performance. Holy crap does it ever make a big difference. I'd rather play 50FPS with G-Sync than 80FPS with tearing from what I saw. Seriously..
- Requires hardware manufacturer support (at least some is coming, but not from A+ players like Samsung. I saw Philips, ASUS, BenQ, and Viewsonic on the list...)-
 
I'll discuss this more on the WAN Show this week, but let me put it this way. To all of the folks saying any of the following about G-Sync:
- a useless features
- can't convince me that lower framerates can look better
- snake oil
 
You just don't understand the technology here fully. This is ABSOLUTELY game-changing. It makes a HUGE difference. Enormous. Earth-shattering. Not open for debate. End of discussion. Unless you've tried it, (I have, you haven't at this point unless you're another journalist that was at the event) then it's best to say nothing before you make yourself look like a fool.
 
The challenges for G-Sync have to do with adoption by monitor makers, NOT to do with whether it's a GREAT technology that ideally EVERY gamer would have. For me a key factor here is going to be the availability of monitors with G-Sync that don't suck. If you can't buy an IPS panel with G-Sync, you're going to have a hard time selling someone like me who games very little compared to doing real work on his PC on it.
 
Mantle has the capability to dramatically improve performance in the traditional sense, but doesn't address the same issues that every card has the way the G-Sync does. Mantle's success rides on the implementations we see from devs like DICE with BF4. If it's awesome, then it will drive more developers to embrace it. If it sucks and it turns out to be really hard to work with, it won't.
 
So here's the summary in my mind. They're both potentially incredible. The only difference is right now we KNOW that G-Sync is incredible, and Mantle has the POTENTIAL to be incredible. We still need more information about BOTH of them before I'd be willing to drop real money on either of them, though.