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oh, sorry. Didn't see it is already posted.

AMD today announced three new game developer partnerships for Mantle, its highly acclaimed, groundbreaking graphics API. Cloud Imperium Games, Eidos-Montréal, a part of the Square Enix Group, and Oxide Games are the latest game developers to join AMD in optimizing the way PC games are developed to extract maximum performance from a modern graphics architecture that spans desktop PCs, notebooks and consumer devices like tablets. "AMD is proud to play an instrumental role in transforming the world of game development with Mantle," said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV gaming and alliances, AMD. "With the support and close collaboration between AMD and industry-leading game developers like Cloud Imperium, Eidos-Montréal and Oxide, Mantle can maximize optimization for highly anticipated PC titles, bringing an unparalleled gaming experience for players." Cloud Imperium Games is currently developing "Star Citizen," the highly anticipated, crowd-funded PC space simulator from legendary game designer Chris Roberts. "AMD's Mantle will allow us to extract more performance from an AMD Radeon GPU than any other graphics API," said Chris Roberts, CEO, Cloud Imperium Games. "Mantle is vitally important for a game like Star Citizen, which is being designed with the need for massive GPU horsepower. With Mantle, our team can spend more time achieving our perfect artistic vision, and less time worrying about whether or not today's gaming hardware will be ready to deliver it." Eidos-Montréal is the studio behind "THIEF," an upcoming first-person stealth adventure set for release in February 2014. Eidos-Montréal also developed "DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION," an AMD Gaming Evolved title. "Mantle lets you use AMD Radeon GPUs the way they are meant to be used, unlocking many new opportunities and increased CPU and GPU performance," said David Anfossi, studio head, Eidos-Montréal. "Because of this, Mantle is one of the most important changes to PC graphics in many years." Helmed by industry veterans, Oxide Games is designing the new "Nitrous" engine for 64-bit, multi-core processors. "AMD's Mantle technology lets us get more out of the hardware than any other solution available," said Dan Baker, co-founder, Oxide Games. "Adding Mantle support to our multi-platform, 64-bit Nitrous engine realizes significant gains in performance on Mantle-enabled hardware without adding enormous development overhead." Cloud Imperium Games, Eidos-Montréal and Oxide Games will join AMD and DICE in speaking about Mantle architecture and implementation at the AMD Developer Summit (APU 13), running Nov. 11-14 in San Jose, Calif. In addition, Oxide Games will be showing a public sneak preview of Mantle performance at the event. For those interested, complimentary access to all APU 13 keynote sessions is available by registering online, in limited numbers while quantities last. Notable keynote speakers include: Dr. Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager, Global Business Units, AMD; Johan Andersson, technical director, DICE; Dominic Mallinson, vice president, research and development, Sony; and Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer, AMD. http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_mantle_graphics_api_adopted_by_various_developers.html

But Linus mentioned that all the new AMD cards are non-reference design in his recent WAN show.

He speaks in Cantonese (language speak in Hong Kong and Guangdong province of China).

Hi, I live in Hong Kong in fact. There is a special deal that the Xonar Phoebus is cost around $9xx HKD (or around $120 USD) But I already got a Xonar DGX and paired with my Steelseries Siberia V2. Will I get a better audio experience given that I did not plan to switch the headset soon?

Possible...... Maybe with GPU boost 2?

Thanks for your kind reminder.

N770 Lightning uses GK104-425-A2 core, with 1536 CUDA cores with 256bit 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the memory default clock 1752MHz, equivalent frequency of 7008MHz. GTX770 Lightning default core frequency of 1150MHz, Boost frequency of 1202MHz. Test platform: CPU: Intel Core i7-3960X Motherboard: MSI BIG BANG XPower II Memory: CMD16GX3M4A2666C11 Graphics: MSI GTX770 Lightning HDD: Plextor PX-128M2P Power: An anti-US ice nucleation REVOLUTION 85 + 1050W Radiator: ThermalRight SilverArrow SB-E Drivers: ForceWare 320.08 P.S. The lowest 2 row are power consumption when running 3D Mark and Furmark Source: http://www.pceva.com.cn/article-1449-1.html

How much better of the sound quality 7H outweigh Siberia V2? I saw in the steelseries website and their spec is basically the same

How is the cooling performance comparison between the two? Thanks!

I got a Asus Xonar DGX sound card and want to get a headset. Which one is better? Personally I am wearing glasses........