Patriot Viper II Sector 7 PC3 14400 Cas 9 6GB Review
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Overclockers Club Brings You the Gift of Gab
OK, maybe it's not quite gab, but OCC does have a new chat room. It might be old technology but it's easy to use and it works!
All you need to know to get started is in the OCC Chat Room forum thread. There you'll find a link to the client and instructions on how to join. Already have your favorite IRC client software? There's also server and channel information in the thread as well.
Come join your fellow OCC members and chat about whatever's on your mind. Just please be courteous, respectful and remember the forum rules also apply to our chat room. So what are you waiting on? See you in the chat room!
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Internet Explorer Gains Market Share
Internet Explorer was once the only viable option when it came to browsing the internet. Since then many browsers have come and gone, but some have taken a large bite out of the IE market share. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera have been steadily stealing IE users for years, but IE has gained some users back in the last few months. Internet Explorer is still the most used browser worldwide, up to 60.74% from 60.32% last month, with Internet Explorer 8 the most popular. Firefox is the closest competitor with 22.91%, with Chrome rounding out the top 3 at 7.16%. I always find these studies surprising, as nearly everyone I know uses Firefox or Chrome.
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Starcraft 2 Causing Some GPUs to Overheat
Some users have been reporting an issue when playing Starcraft 2. These users have had their graphics cards fried due to uncapped frame rates on certain menu screens. Blizzard has issued a fix for the problem, but has not revealed any plans to replace the damaged hardware. It seems to me that the real issue is with the cooling of the graphics card and system as a whole. I have had my graphics card running overclocked under full load for days at a time, and not once did I have any issues with overheating. For those of you that are worried about this, Blizzard advised the following fix.
Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient. This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly. A temporary workaround is to go to your Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt file and add these lines:
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
You may replace these numbers if you want to.
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Performance Numbers for AMD Ontario Leaked
AMD's upcoming CPU products based on the Fusion architecture will marry CPU cores with a DX11 class graphics core, all on the same die. A German hardware site has got hold of some data that shows what the first Fusion product, Ontario, should be capable of in terms of performance. In terms of floating-point performance, Ontario, which is said to draw around 18W, comes in at 1.351GFLOPS. For comparison, Intel's Atom D510 (another dual-core x86 CPU) comes in at 0.735GFLOPS and is rated at 13W (though remember, it doesn't contain a graphics core). All the numbers have to be taken with a pinch of salt, as the numbers come from the BOINC distributed computing project, with differing OS versions clouding things further. At best we therefore have to consider them approximations of real world performance. Even so, things are looking promising for the "Bobcat" core of Ontario, though we will reserve judgement on whether it can really shake things up against the Intel competition until some products based on the CPU make it to market.
| CPU | OS | Speed (GHz) | Integer-Performance | Floating-Point Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario | Server 2008 R2 | 1.40 - 1.60? | 3.047GFLOPS | 1.351GFLOPS |
| Atom D510 | Windows 7 x86 | 1.66 | 1.892GFLOPS | 0.735GFLOPS |
| Athlon II X2 250u | Windows 7 x86 | 1.60 | 3.465GFLOPS | 1.591GFLOPS |
| Phenom II X4 965 BE | Windows 7 x64 | 3.40 | 8.452GFLOPS | 2.792GFLOPS |
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