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UF lineman arrested on grand theft charge
Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 3:24 p.m.
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Florida freshman offensive lineman Jessamen Dunker was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a third-degree felony charge of grand theft of a motor vehicle on campus.
Dunker was arrested by University Police for riding a scooter without a tag that had been reported stolen near Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. He was also cited for driving with a suspended license, a second-degree misdemeanor.
"Coach (Will Muschamp) is aware of the incident," UF spokesman Steve McClain said. "He is on the road recruiting and will address it when he returns."
According to Maj. Brad Barber, at about 9:50 a.m. Wednesday a UPD officer spotted a scooter following a UF physical plant truck too closely. The officer noticed the scooter did not have a license plate attached and stopped Dunker at the south end zone area of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Police determined that Dunker was driving on a suspended license and on a scooter that had previously been reported stolen near the football stadium.
Dunker was arrested and taken to the Alachua County jail. He was previously cited Nov. 14 for failing to wear a seatbelt while driving on campus. A police report said that Dunker repeatedly used expletives in arguing with police about the citation.
Dunker, who is from Boynton Beach, redshirted this season and was expected to challenge for the starting role at left offensive guard this spring.
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One of my favorite things about feminism is the power that emerges in honoring the collective voice and experience. In many ways, I think that's why I feel so at home in working to end sexual violence. There are so many advocates and activists who genuinely take the time to listen to someone tell about an experience. There is thought, reflection, collective decision-making and action, and it happens every day.
My hope in writing this blog on feminism and the movement is that I will find a way to honor the voices and experiences of the people who have built this movement from the roots up. The feminist movement has such a rich history and "family tree." Founding mothers paved the way for major reform, pushed for the rights of women, and valued the experiences of the oppressed. Very cool stuff. As it grows, it evolves and learns and changes with each new generation of feminists. We continually find ways to share and value the collective voice.
As the movements grow, they intertwine. One thing we agree on is that oppression [1] takes many forms, but they are all related [2]. Feminists and activists found that any type of oppression feeds into a culture where one person is valued over another. Similarly, in sexual violence prevention work, we talk about the continuum of sexual violence [3]. Behaviors and actions that reflect oppressive thoughts, even subtly, create a violent culture. The shift toward primary prevention of sexual violence feels like a long walk home in the sunshine to me. We're talking about changing culture, norms, and behaviors used to oppress.
I'm excited for the conversations and learning that can happen here. There are so many amazing people out there that I hope we can feature on this blog. It should be a learning and a growing experience for this blossoming feminist, and hopefully it will bloom.
Links:[1] http://zinelibrary.info/files/Frye.pdf
[2] http://www.taasa.org/prevention/newsletters/enews012008.pdf
[3] http://www.theredflagcampaign.org/index.php/dating-violence/sexual-abuse-continuum/
[4] http://www.nsvrc.org/blogs/feminism


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Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010 4:10 AM EST
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beginner99 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkAMD's been taking about fusion forever but I can't get rid of the feeling that this Intel implementation will be much more "fused" than the AMD one will be. AMD barley has CPU turbo so adding a comined cpu/gpu turbo at once, maybe they can pull it off but experience makes me doubt that very much.
BTW, if it takes like 3mm^2 for a super fast video encoder I ask my self, why wasn't this done before? Reply
duploxxx - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkfirst or not, doesn't really matter.
who says AMD need's GPU turbo? If Liano really is a 400SP GPU it will knock any Intel GPU with or without turbo.
If we see the first results of Anadtech review which seems to be a GT2 part it doesn't have a chance at all.
core i5 is really castrated due to lack of HT, This is exactly where liano will fight against, with a bit less cpu power. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkEven if AMD's GPU in Liano is faster, intels GPU is finally decent and good enough for most people, but more importantly more people will care about CPU performance because most users dont play games and this GPU can more than easily handle HD video. And i'm sure SB will be faster than anything AMD has. Then throw in the AVX and i'd say Intel clearly have a better option for the vast majority of people, it just comes down to price now. Reply
B3an - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkSorry, didnt mean AVX, i meant the hardware accelerated video encoding. Reply
bitcrazed - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkBut it's not just about raw power - it's about power per dollar.
If you've got $500 to spend on a mobo and CPU, where do you spend it? On a slower Intel platform or on a faster AMD platform?
If AMD get their pricing right, they could turn this into a no-brainer decision, greatly increasing their sales. Reply
duploxxx - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linknow here comes the issue with the real fanboys:
"And i'm sure SB will be faster than anything AMD has."
It's exactly price where AMD has the better option. It's people " known brand name" that keeps them at buying the same thing without knowledge... yeah lets buy a Pentium. Reply
takeulo - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkhahahahah yeah i agree AMD is the better option at all if i have the high budget i'll go for Insane i mean Intel but since im only "poor" and i cant afford it so i'll stick to AMD and my money worth it
sorry for my bad english XD Reply
MySchizoBuddy - Monday, December 20, 2010 - linkhow do you know Intel GPU has reached good enough state (do you have benchmarks to support your hypothesis). they have been trying to reach this state for as long as i can remember.
your good enough state might be very different that somebodies else's good enough state. Reply
bindesh - Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - linkYour all doubts will be cleared after watching this video, and related once.
I am having 3 AMDs and 1 Intel, Believe me with the price of AMD CPUs, i can only get a celeron in Intel. Which cannot run NFS SHIFT. Or TIme Shift. But other hand, with AMD athlon, i have completed Devil May Cry 4 with decent speed. And the laptop costs 24K, Toshiba C650, psg xxxxx18 model. It has 360 GB SSD, ATI 4200HD.
Can you get such price and performance with Intel?
Best part is that i am running it with 800MHz cpu speed, with performance much much greater than 55K intel dual core laptop of my friend. Reply
vlado08 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkStill no word ont the 23.976 FPS play back? Reply
iwodo - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkMany questions still not answered, may be Anand could found out for us.
1. Were the GPU performance we saw from 6 EU or 12 EU?
2. Where is FMA ( Fused Multiply Add ) ? Will we see it in Ivy Bridge?
3. Can All software developers access the Decoding Engine? We could see many codec being optimized for playback on Intel Hardware Decoder, whether it is fully supported codec or partially supported codec.
4. Hardware Encoder? It is Full Hardware encoder? Free to use for Software Dev?
5. OpenCL not possible?
6. How many % die size is given to Graphics?
7. Gfx Drivers, will Intel commit more resources on drivers update? Or Will they open sources it?
Apart from Sandy Bridge, Looking forward for reports on USB 3.0 situations, LightPeak, Gen 3 SSD.
trivik12 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link1) I believe it was 12EU part.
2) FMA will be introduced with Haswell(next tock). So we have to wait until early 2013 for that. Reply
Foo999 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link> 2. Where is FMA ( Fused Multiply Add ) ? Will we see it in Ivy Bridge?
You can check out the full current (and Ivy Bridge) AVX instructions in the AVX reference manual available from software.intel.com/en-us/avx/ Reply
spart - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link1 , 6UE The 12 is only for laptops and high ranges Reply
gvaley - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkSo, was it playable, I mean Starcraft II? Reply
therealnickdanger - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkYeah, the caption said "310M vs Sandy Bridge" so I assume you could see the settings and frames per second. Details, man, details!!
:) Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkYes, it was playable at medium quality settings. They only had the single player campaign running however.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Carleh - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkWith BCLK locked, where does that leave the motherboard manufacturers?
I mean, what are they left to offer to enthusiasts, if the BCLK is locked? How are they going to differentiate an enthusiast-class motherboard from a mainstream one? Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkWill they be locking the socket 2011 parts as well? Reply
Zoomer - Sunday, September 19, 2010 - linkSell more bullbozer boards. I was all set to be ready to get a nice Sandy Bridge and overclock it to hell, but now I think I'll get a bulldozer instead.
Sure there's the K, but it costs more. That kinda defeats the point, unless the aim is to get a high clk for epeen. Reply
FXi - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkOnly thing I am saddened by is that hybrid graphics apparently won't be "working" on the mobile high end chipset with the dual pci-e x8 lanes. It's extremely nice to have 2x a good modern mobile GPU, but still be able to switch to the Intel built in GPU when you want longer battery life on the road.
That ability, in the 2920 was something I was truly hoping for.
The rest of its abilities are quite nice and very welcome. USB 3 really is something to be sure they didn't miss. But otherwise kudos Intel. Reply
Drazick - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkAnand, few questions with your permission:
I wonder If we could use a Discrete Graphics Card and enable the Media Engine.
What about the DMI bus, Hasn't it become a bottleneck with SSD Drives and USB3?
Does Intel have planes to address it?
Thanks. Reply
EricZBA - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkSomeone please release a decent 13.3 inch laptop using Sandy Bridge please. Reply
bitcrazed - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkI have a sneaking suspicion that Intel will be at the core of Apple's next laptop platform refresh with both SandyBridge and LightPeak.
Apple's MacBook lineup is starting to feel a little pressure from the other PC laptop vendors who are starting to produce some nicely designed tin and will need to stay current in order to continue to sell their products at such high premiums.
I'm imagining the next MacBook Pro lineup to offer 13" MBP's running i3 2120's and the 15" and 17" models running i5 2400/2500's or i7 2600's.
Apple already have their own dynamic integrated/discrete GPU switching technology (as do nVidia) and can make even better use of SB's integrated GPU augmented by a modest discrete GPU to deliver the performance that most users need but with much reduced power drain.
So how to differentiate themselves? LightPeak. Apple was the instigator of LightPeak to start with and Intel claimed at CES 2010 that it'd appear around a year later. That's next spring.
One thing's for sure: 2011 is going to be a VERY interesting year for new laptop and desktop devices :) Reply
name99 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkLightPeak WITHOUT USB3 will go over like a lead zeppelin.
There are already plenty of USB3 peripherals available. I have never in my life seen a LightPeak peripheral, or even a review or sneak peek of one. Light Peak is coming, but I'm not sure that 2011 is its year.
The rate at which CPU speeds now increases is low enough that very few buyers feel any sort of pressure to upgrade the machine they bough 3 years ago. Apple can't deal with that by simply offering new iMacs and MacBooks with the newest Intel offering, since no normal person is much excited by another 10% CPU boost.
They have done an adequate job of dealing with this so far by boosting battery life, something (some) portable users do care about.
They have done a mixed job of making more cores, hyperthreading and better GPUs a reason to upgrade. We have some low-level infrastructure in Snow Leopard, but we have fsckall user level apps that take advantage of this. Where is the multi-threaded Safari? Where is the iTunes that utilizes multiple cores, and the GPU for transcoding audio? Does FileVault use AES-NI --- apparently not.
But Apple has done an truly astonishingly lousy job of tracking the one remaining piece of obvious slowness --- IO. Still no TRIM, still no eSATA, still no USB3.
My point is that I don't know the Apple politics, but I do know that they are doing a very very bad job of shipping machines that compel one to upgrade. There is no need for me to upgrade my 3+yr old Penryn iMac, for example --- I'd get a replacement with more cores (not used by any of my software), a better GPU (but what I have plays video just fine), and most importantly, NO FASTER IO.
Adding LightPeak to this mix without USB3 is not going to help any. People are still going to hold off on upgrades until USB3 is available, and no-one is going to rush to buy a LightPeak system so that they can then NOT run any of the many unavailable LightPeak peripherals on the shelves at Fry's. Reply
NaN42 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkOn page 3: "Compared to an 8-core Bulldozer a 4-core Sandy Bridge has twice the 256-bit AVX throughput."
WTF? 8*128 = 4*256. Based on the premise that the fp-scheduler of one Bulldozer module (two cores) can schedule e.g. one add and one mul avx-instruction per clock cycle, they have the same throughput. I think both architectures will have a delay for e.g. shuffling ymm-registers (compared to current xmm-instructions) because data has to be exchanged between different pipelines/ports (Hopefully the picture provided by Intel is correct). Perhaps the delay is smaller in Sandy Bridge cores. I expect some delays when one mixes floating-point and integer instructions on Sandy Bridge. (Currently I don't know, whether there exists a VEX prefix for xmm integer instructions. If there's no VEX prefix the delays will be great on both platforms.) Reply
gvaley - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link"...you get two 256-bit AVX operations per clock."
"AMD sees AVX support in a different light than Intel. Bulldozer features two 128-bit SSE paths that can be combined for 256-bit AVX operations. "
So it's actually 8*256 = 4*2*256. At least this is how I see it. Reply
NaN42 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link"So it's actually 8*256 = 4*2*256. At least this is how I see it. "
Ok, my calculation was a bit different. 4*2*256 will be true, but only if you mix additions and multiplications. Whether AMD is 8*2*128 depends on the fp-scheduler (based on the premise that one SIMD unit consists of a fmul, fadd and fmisc unit or something similar) Reply
NaN42 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link... one can do another floating point operation which goes through port 5, but the peak performance of additions and multiplications is more relevant in applications. Reply
Spacksack - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkI think you are right. I would think bulldozer can manage the same theoreticakl throughput by issuing one combined FMA instruction (16 flop) / clock and module.
More importantly Bulldozer will achieve hight throughput for all the existing SSE code by having two independent FMA units. I have no idea how Anand could make such a mistake. Reply
yuhong - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkThere is no VEX.256 for 256-bit integer ops, but there is a VEX.128 prefix that zeros the upper part of YMM registers to reduce the delays.. Reply
NaN42 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkWell, I found a summary of the prefixes. Interestingly there are some exception, like I guessed, e.g. a VEX.128 prefix does not exist for conversion of packed floating points<->packed integers and for CRC32c + POPCNT. Reply
CSMR - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkAnand:
The best info available on an exciting platform, good job.
I wonder if for the next article you could test DirectX / OpenGL compatibility? Intel advertises compliance for a lot of its products, but in reality the support is partial, and some applications that use DirectX / OpenGL entirely correctly are not supported by Intel graphics, including the current HD graphics.
I've found this with fastpictureviewer (DirectX, I think 9) and Photoshop CS5 (OpenGL 2)
This is quite shocking. Given that Intel is doing this currently, it would be great if reviewers could prod it into action, but unfortunately they tend to place speed first, correctness second or nowhere. Reply
marass31 - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - linkHi CSMR,
Could you please write more details about problems with DX and OGL on Intel HD graphics( including gfx driver version, system config ...). You mentioned about two applications: Fastpictureviewer and PSCS5, so could you please write some steps to reproduce to each of them - THX a lot. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkWhat's the point of extreme editions if we're going to have affordable K SKUs?
Or will socket 2011 not have any K SKUs? I'm guessing they'll leave the BCLCK unlocked on the 2011, and only have normal and extreme processors (no K processors). Or maybe extreme editions will just have more cores like 980X? Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkThe extreme editions have always been for people who buy retail or who're playing with LN2 and need the most insanely binned part available. They've never been a mainstream OCer part. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkI have a bad feeling about the "k" chips and the future of overclocking. Sure, intel gave us turbo mode, but that almost seems like appeasement before the last shoe drops. First, limited turbo with good overclockng, then better turbo and less overclocking, and now it's sounding like slightly better turbo and even less overclocking. It looks like we are moving to intel-controlled overclocking. There's virtually no value left for the enthusiast--a user that is already just a small part of the market. Intel just decided what the enthusiast needs, but I don't think they get what those users actually want.
I just don't buy that these limits are to prevent fraud. Mom and Pop stores are virtually all gone now, and I'd hate to think what Intel would do to a Dell or HP if they got caught overclocking desktops.
I guess this leaves another door open for AMD. Sad, cause SnB looks like a great design. Reply
This Guy - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkHopefully Intel will allow the 'energy budget' to be increased when an extreme edition processer detects less thermal resistance (i.e. a bloody big heat sink). This would allow an EE CPU to either run with a higher multiplier or run at it's turbo frequency longer. (I'ld like this feature on all CPU's)
This would make EE CPU's interesting if K CPU's catch up in terms of cores. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkWhat are the prospects for using Intel's transcoder to convert DVDs to 700MB avi files? Either DivX, Xvid, or H.264? Or anything else better than MPEG-2? Reply
Dfere - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkSince this seems to be, overall, a refinement, and not so much an improvement with new capabilities, and Anand's comments about the scalability of GPU related enhancements, that Intel is taking a two step approach towards CPU releases, in addition to its fab strategies? E.G, we see a new CPU, then it gets shrunk, then it gets improved (like this), then it gets bells and whistles (like a GPU etc), then we start over again with a really new architecture..... Reply
name99 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkThis is no secret. This is exactly Intel's tick-tock strategy that has been in place for years now.
The one thing you have to keep in mind is that designing these CPUs now takes of order SEVEN YEARS (!!!) from conception to ship, which means that slips and mistakes do occur. Intel (and I guess AMD) have to make their best guess as to what the market will look like in seven years and sometimes they do guess incorrectly. Of course there is scope for small changes along the way closer to the release date, but not for changes in the grand strategy. Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkAgreed, it was two things: greed and the fact that AMD is currently not in a position to be a threat. Reply
tatertot - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link"The value segments won't see Sandy Bridge until 2012."
You later show a roadmap slide which indicates Sandy Bridge in the value segment in Q3 2011.
Perhaps you meant "H2 '11" instead of "2012" ? Reply
J_Tarasovic - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - linkI think that the roadmap probably refers to OEM shipments, whereas, Anand was probably referring to when consumers would actually be able to buy devices. Reply
iwodo - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkI just realize that my computer will no longer scream when i do WebCam Video Conferencing with Skype!. With the Encoder Engine and Decoder Engine, all i am doing it feeding USB 3.0 data and move them around........ Reply
yuhong - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link"Back in the Core Duo days that was 80-bits of data. When Intel implemented SSE, the burden grew to 128-bits. "
"Core Duo" Huh? Reply
NaN42 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkNo, it seems to be right. Core Duo belongs to the Pentium M microarchitecture which implemented the SSE registers as two 64bit registers. So the largest registers were the x87-registers, but I'm not sure whether upon register renaming the registers were really copied. Reply
aka_Warlock - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkNew CPU from Intel... and guess what?!! New SOCKET!! Lol.
Intel do know how to milk the stupid cow. Reply
bernpi - Sunday, November 14, 2010 - linkFor most people it makes perfect sense to get a new socket. Most people don't buy every new CPU from Intel or AMD because it would be a waste of money. My current CPU is a Core2Duo Quad processor with a 775 socket, i skipped the nehalem generation and will buy a SandyBridge early next year. So why should i keep my motherboard and the old 775 socket? Of course i will buy a new motherboard for the new processor. So i think for most people this is not a real issue. Reply
Sahrin - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - linkThere's a lot of "neato" stuff that does a lot to improve the user experience by making the chip use its design resources more intelligently (smarter turbo - that 'comcast turbo-boost' feature should really make a difference for end users); but in terms of actual throughput it looks like Intel left FP performance the same; and there certainly isn't any new integer hardware.
K11, on the other hand, doubled integer ALU's (though the raw number of execution units is now the same as in a Nehalem core) and added a half-width (compared to Intel) FP unit.
First, I'd be interested to see if the whizz-bangies AMD was talking about for the K11 FPU a year ago make the execution time for 128-bit FP instructions comparable, better than, or still slower than Intel's FPU .
Second, I'd be quadruple interested to see what impact the way AMD is allocating the new integer hardware is going to have on performance. A monolithic Nehalem core is going to be able to handle more complex (wider) threads better than a K11 core (that's a 2-integer and 1-FPU Bulldozer); but in SMT-mode (or pseudo-SMT mode) what happens? We know Intel experiences a performance hit in HTT mode which they are only able to offset because Nehalem is so wide. AMD thinks it isn't going to get the expected hit in the front end, and they won't have the thread-switching penalty that Intel does. My prediction is that 8-core K11/Bullzoder will crush Sandy Bridge in multithreaded FP-light workloads and be 5-20% slower in everything else (the possible exception being 128-bit floats).
I'm actually kind of disappointed by this update to Nehalem...Intel did a lot of "uncore" stuff and implemenated AVX. Where's our wider back-end? More execution hardware drives better single-thread performance...the rest is just undoing the damage from the CISC-RISC transition in the front end and OoO . Reply
JoJoman88 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkTo me the problem is that instead of me overclocking without reguard to TDP, now Intel will do the overclocking for me, but it will be within the TDP that Intel thinks is best. Will this not just kill the after-market cooler makers with an almost locked TDP,and to some degree high end memory maker with a locked BCLK.
This will change how overclocking is done from now on unless AMD keeps things as they are and forces Intel from going down this road. Reply
gvaley - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkIt's true that the CPU will turboboost within the CPU's TDP, but exactly how much it will turboboost (how much bins it will gain) will depend on how well the CPU is being chilled. So having a better (read: aftermarket) cooler will allow you to take the best of your CPU's turboboost. Reply
shodanshok - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
while I expect the ring bus to provide great performances, I doubt that it don't impact die size and power consumption in respect to the Nehalem/Westmere L3 organization.
Let me explain...
From my internal test, the Nehalem/Westmere L3 cache seems accessed by a four 64 bit channels (one per core). At 3 Ghz L3 cache, it translate in a maximum of 24 GB/s per core, or 96 GB/s for 4 cores. This cache organization seems confirmed by the tests at Techreport (on a i975X, SANDRA's L3 cumulative bandwidth is at about 60 GB/s: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/18581/5) and Xbitlabs (EVEREST single-core L3 bandwidth of about 20 GB/s: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel...
So, on Nehalem/Westmere I do not expect 4 x 256 wires, but only 4 x 64 wires (more or less).
Now, lets examine SB...
We have 4 x 256 bit bus (4 indipendent rings) that runs around the L3 cache, for a total of 1024 wires. So, we have a lot of wires, that needs to be powered. These wires, in turn, need additional die space, and to me seems the main reason why most models will have "only" a 6 MB L3.
What do you think about? It is possible to ask Intel something about the Nehalem L3 cache organization and/or about the decision to equip most SB models with 6 MB of L3 cache?
Thanks. Reply
Casper42 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - linkKnowing what you do about Nehalem EX and SNB on socket H2, any speculation on what we can expect from the Socket B2/R chips when they finally arrive sometime next year?
I am mainly thinking of Northbridge/QPI and PCIe Lanes as compared to DMI used on the Mainstream parts discussed in this article.
I waited and waited for Westmere Core i7 to become "cheap" and thought the 970 was going to be my chip of choice @ $550. When they released it at $900 (you could already find 980Xs for less) it pretty much killed my plans to upgrade.
So now I am basically debating on do I build a high end H2 or wait for the enthusiast version to arrive instead?
My understanding from seeing the server roadmap is there will be Socket B2 and Socket R with the differences between them mainly consisting of memory channels and # of PCIe Lanes. I have also read that both will support PCIe 3.0 whereas H2 will continue to use 2.0.
Add all these changes up and I am also hopeful we will see USB3 on the Enthusiast platform as well since it will have an additional 3-6 months to mature.
So any ideas/insight you have here would be awesome. Reply
linkages - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - linkWith the price of LCDs dropping, I am noticing that more and more consumers have more than one display for their mainstream machines. Has Intel said anything about how many displays the onboard graphics will be able to push? Have they said anything about what tech they are going to use ie. display port, HDMI, DVI-D, something else?
I can see myself getting a new SB machine sometime in Q1 2011 but I run at least 2 monitors at all times ( need the real estate for the type of work that I do ). I don't play many games but having the video decode/encode is important to me since I do tend to do some videoconferencing now a days.
The last thing I would like to know is if Intel is going to do the right thing with the drivers for their graphics. Will we humble linux users finally have a graphics driver that does not suck. Will Intel finally open source the driver so that the community can keep it updated and optimize it for X? Reply
chukked - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
thanks for the review, you addressed everything but left virtualization :(
which processors support vt-x and vt-d ? Reply
iwodo - Friday, September 17, 2010 - linkx264, the best h.264 encoder there is, produce better quality video and similar speed when using "ultrafast" setting. And with 2 / 4 Core we could even transcode 2 - 4 video at the same time.
The hardware encoder inside SandyBridge is not that speedy. While i could scarifies quality for speed. But Power VR's VRE Core manage 1000fps +, @ 400fps the encoder is like a waste of die space.
Intel could have further tuned the x264 for Sandy Bridge for speed and just release it with their drivers. If the hardware encoder aren't giving many times the increase in speed, then what is the point? They may as well have added extra 6 EU for GPU inside.
A Link to someone's blog posting some figures.
http://lee.hdgreetings.com/2010/09/intel-cpu-vs-nv... Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - linkPretty disappointing. I'm sure AMD's glad though!
10-30% improvement-obviously that's great, but not as big as their previous tocks if I'm remembering right, and not much different from what "ticks" like Penryn did...I know Penryn was like a 10% boost minimum over Conroe...
I'm guessing it's because they're wasting effort and die area on a worthless GPU. I *HOPE* no one on this site, no power users are going to be using that thing. (Well, okay, for a tiny notebook or something maybe...) Reply
JumpingJack - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - linkI don't believe you are remembering correctly.
Conroe was the first tock, and certainly, it was a major leap over the P4 line. But it's bloodline was actually derived from P6, which was carried through from Banias, Dothan, then Yohna. The improvement over Yohna was in the 10-20% IPC range.
Then came Penryn the tick, which was on average only 5%, http://www.anandtech.com/show/2306/3
Then came the tock, which was Nehalem. In single threaded performance, it was roughly another 5-10% over Penryn, but in multithreaded -- again, clock for clock, it had leaps of performance, around 20-40% again. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2658/20
The tick of Nehalem was Westmere, now Westmere did not launch a quad core part so it is hard to find a clock for clock, but in single threaded performance -- roughly the same as Nehalem, factoring out any turbo advantages...
Now SB, a tick, with another 10-30% across the board both single and multithreaded, depending on workload.
Of course, the GPU is not so worthless, it is indeed challenging low end GPUs -- no doubt Llano will offer up strong GPU performance, but for the majority of the market SB is perfectly fine.
Indeed, AMD is not too happy here, at least I would suspect. On the CPU side, Intel will crush anything AMD has in the same market segement where SB resides... GPU, surely AMD will crush SB. On the CPU front, AMD is already 20-40% behind Nehalem clock for clock, core for core, SB just extends that another 10-30%. Reply
gundersausage - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - linki7-950 vs i7-2500K... So which will be faster and a better gaming chip? anyone? Reply
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Capsule Review: ROCCAT's Kone XTD and Kone Pure Gaming Miceby Dustin Sklavos on 2/27/2013 1:01 AM EST
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dishayu - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkCompletely agree with the opening statement. My friends ask me why i keep buying "gaming" hardware even though i don't play games. I always have a hard time explaining that it's just a marketing gimmick for top quality peripherals. It has some truth to it, because the gaming usage scenario does require better feedback and precision which come with these high quality parts. My dad liked my deathadder so much that he decided to nick it for use in his office. Reply
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nikolas04 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkHi very nice review , i would like to ask about linux compatibility , i have 2 computers , desktop & laptop with ubuntu and now that steam has one foot on linux i have started playing games from my library . I have a logitech g500 very nice with linux compatibility and i am very happy with it , what about roccat? can you change dpi with a button on the mouse? thanks in advance Reply
tim_roccat - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkCheck out the Roccat website. You will find a link to Linux drivers for almost every Roccat product http://www.roccat.org/Support/ Reply
JeBarr - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - link"...and I look forward to getting more of their hardware in for testing."
Can't wait!
I was looking at the Roccat surround headset recently but couldn't afford the gamble. Up to now I've been relying on the LTG Magnum with two pairs in the last six years. Was hoping to find something with a bit more punch and still haz muh Sauron eye on Roccat. The price is up there but if they're good quality I can overlook that. Reply
Subyman - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkIt's a hard sell when a g500 is $45 on amazon. I just retired an old Razer Diamondback after years of service for a G500. Great mouse for extremely cheap. Reply
jigglywiggly - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkplease test the sensors in these mice
draw circles in paint
get a turntable and measure the malfunction speed
also test if they work on all mousepads
try synthetics like aim400kg to see if you perform better on other mice vs different ones
my friend buys one mice per sensor and he is very picky since he plays at 108cm/360
we both get 73,600 on aim400kg
although i use 28cm/360 ingame Reply
lyeoh - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI suppose Capsule Review means not a full Anandtech review?
Might consider including some of the following in a full review:
e.g. max polling rate
surface compatibility - wood, glass, laminates, black glossy surface, black matte, etc. Also state surface used for the benchmarks/tests.
-latency - button and movement latency
-mouse malfunction speed.
-reproducibility in X, Y and both axis - e.g. set the OS mouse config to no acceleration then repeatedly move the mouse physically from point A to B and back to A again, how far is the mouse pointer on screen. repeat test at higher speeds and higher iterations.
-does 5 cm horizontally move the mouse pointer the same distance as 5 cm vertically? Do physical circles end up being circles on screen or ovals or worse?
-maximum lift height before motion stops being detected.
-max/average lift/place jitter (how much the mouse pointer moves when lifting the mouse straight up and then placing it straight down - can test by locking the mouse down and moving the surface instead).
-audibility - clicks etc (dB) Reply
jigglywiggly - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkthere is no reason to use the g500
the sensor isn't that good
g400 is better
optical mice are better in general, the deathadder 4g has the best sensor in any mice, even better than the old one which is surprising. works better on different surfaces too
i use the g9x though, sensor is bad, built in mouseaccel, and it doesn't track that smoothly.
noticibly worse than my abyssus, which i used before it
however, the grip on the g9x is too good. (I don't use the shell) and for my 28cm/360 it's not bad.
k1llsen also uses the g9x Reply
cigar3tte - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkG400 does not have the wheel tilt, nor the braided USB cable. Some of us to find those to be deal breakers vs the G500.
I'm currently holding onto my G9 (not G9x). Found it to be the best among the many I've tried (G400, G500, G600, G700, Naga, Naga Epic).
One thing I still want on a mice but never find, is for the two thumb buttons to be vertically laid out instead of horizontal. Reply
Kalessian - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThey never tested lift off distance either, or even mentioned if you can change the poll rate?
Though to be fair this is not the site to look at when meticulously judging gaming mice.
I have a first gen deathadder which has been retired to office use, an abyssus which I just could not get used to grip-wise, and have returned to using the WMO, which I developed my fingertip/claw hybrid style on. It's a huge pain to keep at 500mhz, though, and I feel that most pros have moved on to newer mice, but I don't have the money to buy each of them to try out for a week to see if the grip is compatible. Reply
JPForums - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - link
there is no reason to use the g500
the sensor isn't that good
g400 is better
optical mice are better in general, ...
That statement requires a lot of qualification that you don't present. Optical mice are better in general IF you are using it on a cloth mouse pad. Laser mice don't perform to their potential on cloth mouse pads. To be fair, this is situation you see most often.
Laser mice track on a wider array of surfaces and are therefore better than optical on surfaces that they have trouble tracking on. Also, it can be argued that Laser is better on rigid, textured surfaces. In general, laser is more sensitive (not to be confused with more accurate).
The only inherent advantage/disadvantage between the two is that Laser are smaller and can therefore support higher resolutions. This also means they use a smaller aperture and are more susceptible to dust if they aren't cleaned. In practice, though, laser sensors employ prediction to smooth traces due to the fact that their greater sensitivity reveals jitter in the movements of most peoples mouse movements. Unfortunately, when low ratios of cursor movement per dot (high cm/360), this can also have a negative effect on the mouse movements. Built in mouseaccel isn't universally applied, but like prediction, doesn't really manifest itself very much at high ratios of cursor movement per dot.
In conclusion, currently, optical mice are better for people who use a suitable surface and prefer 45cm/360 (rough guess) or larger cursor speed. Lasers are better for people who prefer 15cm/360 or smaller (or have non-optimal tracking surfaces). The cross over point isn't clear.
All that said, it doesn't matter how well your sensor tracks if the mouse ergonomics prevent you from moving how you want to in the first place. You just get a well traced crooked line. The Razer Lachesis had such terrible ergonomics that it forced jitter every time you clicked one of the main mouse buttons. Not that it tracked perfectly otherwise, but there was no practical way to snipe even if it were.
I've used a lot of Logitech mice (though not the G400), number of razer mice (though not the deathadder 4G), and a few others, but I still haven't found a better optical mouse than the MX518. In most settings, I prefer my G500 due to my preference for a low cm/360 except when sniping. Of course, the MX518's ergonomics make it better for me than most other laser mice. Reply
cactusdog - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI bought the Kone+ about a year ago, it ws the most expensive mouse but the mouse didnt live up to the high price.
Problem 1. In a very short period of time, the grippy coating wears off and you have finger wear marks on the mouse making it look old and beatup in no time.
Problem 2, Changing the driver settings takes a very long time. With so many settings I thought I would test out a few different settings, So you change one setting , then click apply, then wait......and wait.....and wait maybe 20 seconds later the new setting is activated. If you want to test more settings,forget it, it takes so long I just gave up.
Problem 3. Driver updates come with firmware and the Roccat update process is by far the worst updating software I have seen in any device in over 12 years. You install the driver, then the automated firmware update invariably fails forcing you to dig into program files to find the stand alone firmware exe to update firmware manually. Drivers wont work until new firmware is applied.
Problem 4, Early mice had a dodgy mousewheel problem although I believe they have fixed that one.
The mouse feels ok in the hand but too many problems for a highend mice and unfortunately you dont find out until its too late. It has the kind of problems that arent mentioned in reviews. Reply
053EC2A5B2 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThanks for the great review.
I'm on the market for a new mouse, can you recommend anymore ergonomic mouse that is titled for right-hand, maybe with less bells and lights and cheaper? Reply
Slash3 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkRoccat Kova[+] - it's great. I bought one a while back after watching some youtube reviews and looking at the high res mouse pictures. Has a nice, wide rubber scroll wheel, two buttons on either side (ambidextrous in function and shape) and tracks great. It has the same profile software with the ability to use a shift button function, and has little glowing LEDs that can be changed to cycle, set for a color or disabled. I let it do a slow "breathing" cycle and find that it doesn't annoy me at all.
Plus, it's ~$50 on Newegg or your favorite web store. Just punch in Kova and it'll come up. Reply
053EC2A5B2 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkyes roccat mouses look great, and so far are my best option but I'm looking for more good quality mouses that are NOT ambidextrous. Reply
Amp300 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThe Mionix Naos 3200 (~$50) is the best inexpensive ergonomic right-handed "gaming" mouse I was able to find. I have medium-sized hands and the mouse shell feels like it was molded specifically for me.
http://mionix.net/products/mionix-3200/ Reply
Khato - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI'll second that - I actually bought a Roccat Kone[+] first and while I liked it initially not having anywhere good to rest the ring finger got to being extremely bothersome. On the logitech G5 style there's an adequate ledge to the right of the right mouse button that works quite well for that, but there's no analog on the Kone - instead there's a smaller amount of space at a less ideal angle and a sharp corner. Now I acknowledge that this won't be a problem for everyone as some are fine with having their ring finger on the side, but yeah, that bugged me.
Comparatively the Mionix Naos ergonomics are great. About the only problem being that it can be a bit difficult comparatively to pick up the mouse if you're so inclined. Reply
quas - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkThere's actually a problem for Naos that all the reviews I've seen didn't mention. The material surface used attracts sweat like crazy. In just 5 minutes of usage, it makes my palm sweat more and then the sweat stains really permeate through making it impossible to remove. The Roccat Kone may have the ring finger problem but the surface material used is superb, it doesn't attract sweat and it doesn't make me sweat either. Reply
Pheesh - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkDefinitely the G400. Least flawed sensor you can get and not that expensive. It's a favorite of FPS gamers. Reply
Azethoth - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI think the most important thing is to match your hand size to the mouse. I have large hands and most of the hotly recommended mice are for tiny child hands. I cramp up using them. For me the Cyborg RATT MMO 7 is just the thing. It adjusts to hand size. It is not cheap though. There are plainer versions of the mouse that are FPS oriented. Reply
Goodtwist - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkMy first generation Kone would be perfect if it wasn't for the silicon/gummy surface. Makes your palms sweat like crazy. Reply
Wall Street - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI wonder how many of these reviews Dustin can do before he discovers the world of polling rates, angle snapping, error speed and liftoff distance. Reply
kagey - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI'm still waiting for a good mouse to surface and these may be it.
As Dustin is still using a G500 I am still using a G7 cause I like the quick swap batteries that are rechargable right in front you and being able to swap them out. It's got a few configurable buttons, nice feel and it's comfortable. Kinda like my wave keyboards. Reply
BrightCandle - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkFor a lot of reviews Anandtech has a good reputation, rightly earned by using the best known testing techniques you can find. But when it comes to mice you haven't even tested the first thing or laid out the basic specs. I don't know why you even bothered. For mice reviews we need to know:
- What sensor it is based on
- How centrally placed the optical port is
- Tested for jitter, acceleration, deacceleration, lift off distance, snapping and angle correction
- Maximum tracking speed and how it behaves after that
- How the sensor handles different types and colours of mouse mats
- Its weight
- The cord weight and type
Your review doesn't contain a single technical component of what makes a mouse a mouse. With there being so few actual mice that do well in these tests it seems kind of vital to actually do these tests, because for gamers they matter. More to the point gamers might not know they matter and you ought to be breaking through and testing mice properly and showing gamers why they should care.
This review was pointless like all your other mice reviews, get it to together or stop wasting your time. Reply
five_seven - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linku mad bro? Reply
WeaselITB - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkNo, I agree with BrightCandle and Wall Street (above).
Imagine if there was a monitor review that went up saying "Well, it can move up and down, the base is pretty, I like the feel of the buttons, and the colors are nice and color-y. There's an on-screen display, but it takes 10 seconds between button pushes to adjust the brightness, but that's a small gripe." Comments would be setting that reviewer on fire for not testing color accuracy, uniformity, etc. You know ... the things that actually matter when differentiating between monitors?
This review, as BrightCandle said, doesn't cover ANY technical details about what makes this mouse different/better/worse than another mouse. The default 800dpi is all well and awesome, and the ability to adjust it is great (with a delay of up to 20 seconds in between settings, apparently), but if the polling rate is 10Hz I don't care what dpi setting you use, the mouse performance is going to suck. This review doesn't even get that far.
Dustin, no offense to you personally, man, but these reviews are not up to the usual Anandtech quality standards. $90 is an awful lot of money to drop on a mouse when the best a review can come up with is a completely subjective "It's a good mouse."
-Weasel Reply
Mumrik - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThe design doesn't exactly look foreign...
http://imgur.com/rZ8Tgzd Reply
meshugge - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkAny chance for a review of the available mice for us left-handers? Reply
Spydermag68 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI am still using my Logitech left handed mouse that I bought 10 years ago. This is the last left hand mouse I have seen. I wish manufactures would make more left handed mice. Reply
augiem - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThis review feels like its more of a general user opinion of the mouse rather than a review. I didn't read anything about the mouse buttons. Are they responsive? How's the tactile feedback? Do you accidentally press them when resting on them? Do they have a loud and annoying click like most of the mice out there. I want to know this stuff for front and side buttons. How about the mouse wheel? How stiff is it? Does it have very strong notching that fights you, is it too loose and not accurate enough, does it feel tightly set into the body without any extra play or jiggle side to side, does the click-in require excessive force which could tire out your middle figer during a long Maya session? How about glide feet? Does it glide easily on a hard mouse pad, cloth mouse pad, desktop surface? Does it have tracking issues on any surface type tested? Are they replaceable? How much? Any special treatment of the mouse cable? How do different users with different grips feel about it? Claw grip, palm grip, etc.
Overall, I expected a lot more information from a mouse review than how it feels comfortable and "perfect". Reply
augiem - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI'd also like to see some stress testing if possible. Longevity and durability are something that's very hard to judge when it comes to all new products. I had a MS Intellimouse Optical that I used for like 12 years before it started having trouble. That was a good buy indeed! Reply
jigglywiggly - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkto jp
the mx518 mouse blows
my LG in quake live was noticibly worse
the 125hz polling rate, and the grip are yuck
feet are bad too, and I had the original 5 feet.
much better mice now Reply
DaveSimmons - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI probably just missed it in the article, but can this be changed"
>> "Users are liable to be confused by the back button being used for "Easy-Shift" instead, but that's a minor grievance."
The thumb-button is the one I most want to use in games, besides the left and right. I want it to be a button, not a shift applied to other buttons. Reply
shaolin95 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI held to my MX518 for a long time and the replacements I tried never stayed home for long.
Then I got the Kone XTD and I was blown away!
I totally love the mouse.
About the settings...you need to upgrade it and the changes are instant. I did it and I can tell it works so it was a firmware upgrade needed, nothing else.
I even got the Alumic pad for it and love the features where it "calibrates" to your gaming surface. Not sure how much that really does but it feels good :D Reply
birru - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkFor the people who have issues with this article, you guys do realize this is a capsule review, right? It's not going to get very or granular or technical. Is your opinion that AnandTech should stick to more thorough reviews and skip the lower calorie capsule reviews entirely?
Personally, I find the review handy enough, but then I'm not going to nerd out over every technical detail of a mouse. I trust that if the polling rate was truly atrocious to the point of being subjectively noticeable Dustin would have mentioned it. That said, I am surprised that he didn't even reprint the manufacturer's specs, as that covers a lot of these details. That would hardly have taken much extra effort. Reply
BrightCandle - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkThe review has no contents, its not a review its a user opinion piece on irrelevant details.
There is no value in these reviews, it tells me nothing about the mouse, I can't buy on the basis of this review and others like it. Arguably that is the point of a review, to inform the user on good v bad v best products and to inform purchase. This review fails to do that other than telling me the price, but not what I get for it. Its worthless. I would rather not have seen it at all. Reply
sheh - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkWhy are mice so expensive? You'd think 2ndary players would fight on price, but they don't really do that. A mouse has just a bit of electronics, and whether the plastic mold is this or that shouldn't matter much. There are a few extras that cost most to produce, but $40-50 for a good mouse seems overpriced. Half the price makes more sense to me.
Below are some random Chinese mice on eBay for $4-9. Anyone thinks Logitechs cost 10 times more to produce?
And, why aren't wide scroll wheels common?
I have a plain A4Tech mouse with a wide wheel, and it makes it so much more useful as a button. It's also more comfortable to rest the finger on in general. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - link...because I paid $55 for my Razer Naga. Not the silly green or red ones, not the Hex crap, either.
The regular, blue, original classic. The great one.
So close to $100, I'd want my mouse to be a lot more supreme than this... Reply
theangryintern - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkSince they are both the same price, which one would be better? The ROCCAT XTD or the Mionix 8200? Reply
shaolin95 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI went through a long research and those were my two top choices. I ended up with the ROCCAT and I couldnt be happier but the 8200 seems to be awesome as well so I dont think you can go wrong. Reply
BrokenCrayons - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkNeither of ROCCAT's mice look overstated or obnoxiously "loud" and I like the idea of adjustable weights. While I'm partial to an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 series at work because of the acknowledgement to ergonomics, I can't see myself gaming on something that's turned sideways. The Kone XTD in particular catches my interest. The only thing I'd like to see added to the design is (bear with me on this) a micro SDHC card slot buried someplace in it. With programmable profiles stored on the mouse, it would be nice to see some ability to cart a game, documents, or portable app suite around with me and maybe the mouse's drivers so I could drop it between PCs without needing to tote a thumb drive. I only suggest user replacable flash for the sake of upgradeability and, depending on how hard you thrash your portable storage, fault tolerance.
Despite my probably unreasonable wishlist, it still seems worth a closer look and maybe a purchase. Reply
graison - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkGot an XTD last week, upgrading from an MS intellimouse, it's awesome. Well made, super customizable software, nice feel. You can't go wrong if you got $90. Reply
BadVoodoo - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linki complained about the long apply time at roccat support a while ago and they told me to set up the kone monitor.exe and the option.exe as exceptions in microsoft security essentials. The apply time dropped from 30 to 2 seconds. Reply
B3an - Saturday, March 02, 2013 - linkGot one of these the other day, upgraded from a Logitech G5 and had loads of other gaming mice before that. This is miles better including the software which is excellent, i've not found one bad thing about the Kone XTD so far... best mouse i've used.
I stayed away from the Kone+ as it didn't have a braided cable and the scroll wheel seemed poor from user comments. Both these issues have been fixed on the XTD. Also didn't like the tacky silver logo on the Kone+ and silver paint on mice ALWAYS gets worn off after a few months usage, so atleast on the XTD it's just a thin silver outline. I'd prefer no silver at all but thats the only small issue i have with this mouse. Reply
snoukkis - Thursday, March 07, 2013 - linkDude, it's a gaming mouse. You barely even reviewed it. :(
The higher dpi is not meant for making it faster, but to enhance precision.
1. max out the dpi in driver
2. leave "windows pointer speed" setting to "default" / "+-0" / "middle" / "1:1" (different names)
3. disable windows mouse acceleration
4. reduce sensitivity in-game to compensate for driver dpi setting
Now you are able to make more precise movements. If the game is poorly programmed, the in-game menu mouse speed will be crazy fast like in windows because the sensitivity affects only camera movement.
Ideally you should test with a game that meets the following:
- high FPS
- low input lag
- no mouse acceleration (in addition to windows setting)
- no dead zone (poor console ports might have this)
- no vsync
- sensitivity affects both camera and menu speed
Did I forget anything? I'd recommend Quake 1. Anyone else want to suggest something more modern? Except for menu speed, Minecraft meets those requirements (disable vsync and set view distance to tiny to max out fps).
And as mentioned in previous comments, you should note the poll rate. It's important. Reply
snoukkis - Thursday, March 07, 2013 - linkmore to perfect game:
- no movement smoothing/filtering (adds input lag and hides possible problems) Reply
Galbias - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - linkThe XTD looks tempting; I use a Cooler Master Storm Inferno myself and I love the "Shift" functionality that it has since I find myself running out of buttons to assign on most standard mice, but it seems to be a rather uncommon feature. The XTD seems to have more assignable buttons in the end since it has horizontal scrolling and assignable vertical scrolling so I may look at getting one. Thanks for the review. Reply
GullLars - Friday, March 29, 2013 - linkI've got a Roccat Kone[+] (plus), and before that i had the original Roccat Kone for 4 years. I made the switch from MX518, which is basically the prior iteration of the G500.
The reason it takes a while to apply changes in the software is because they are flashed onto the storage in the mouse, which is a self-contained unit. Everything you can access in the software is hosted on the system integrated in the mouse, you can plug your mouse into a system that doesn't have the software and you still retain all your configurations, profiles and macros. This is a big selling point for users that can make use of this functionality, be it gamers that travel and use other machines, or for productivity work on many different machines. A mouse is not too big to carry with you if it increases productivity and ergonomy notably.
I don't game as much anymore, but i buy enthusiast grade gaming equipment because it's made for people who have high requirements for their eqipment and don't settle. I spend so many hours in front of the computer that +$50 for (each of the) peripherials is worth it, and because of typically higher quality the TCO if the equipment lasts 3 years or more is not that much higher. Reply
Hypersphere - Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - linkI was frustrated by my tests of the Roccat Kone XTD and Roccat Kone Pure. The sticky feel of the transparent plastic used for the cosmietic lighting on the XTD was a deal-breaker for me. The Kone Pure does not have the LED stripes, but it is too small. I am also not fond of the ostentatious Roccat logo on these mice and the cheap weight cover on the XTD. This is unfortunate, because otherwise the build quality, size, shape, weight, sensor, and switches of the XTD are all excellent. I especially liked the solidity and quietness of the scroll wheel. Alas, the clammy feel of the light stripes on the XTD ruined it for me. Reply


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