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AMD's 890GX Chipset - Same Graphics, Better South Bridgeby Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/2/2010 4:36 AM EST
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rachotilko - Thursday, March 25, 2010 - linkWhat about RAID offered on desktop boards ? What's the point in providing us with 6x6Gb SATA, when NB-to-SB link is capable of delivering a mediocre 2Gb/s ? I would be more than happy with soft/fake RAIDs that comes with desktop boards, had there not been this absurd bottleneck. In that case I would be able to build a decent RAID10 or RAID5 (with writeback cache enabled) delivering mindblowing disk performances. Now I have to buy overpriced Adaptec/3ware/Areca... or witch to Intel. Shame on you, nVidia and AMD. Reply
stuhad - Thursday, March 11, 2010 - linkThanks for the article Anand, I really appreciate all the work you do in helping the layman understand new technology.
So anyway, after reading your article on AMD's Radeon HD 5450, I was just wondering whether hybrid graphics could perhaps improve the 5450's deinterlacing ability? And would dx11 still run if you had the igp and discrete card in hybrid mode or would you need to run dx10.1?
Hopefully an updated BIOS will eventually allow you to actually get hybrid graphics working and answer all these questions.
Thanks again Reply
Alouette Radeon - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - linkYou know, in the last few years I've realized something and I have to admit I was a complete moron. I used to be your typical, stupid, "Intel and nVidia ONLY" computer user. Sure, I had good reason. I'd used Intel CPUs exclusively from the 8088 all the way to the Core 2 Duo. Then when I was working at tigerdirect I saw a HUGE difference in price and I wondered "Could AMD really be that bad?". Well after doing a TON of market research I came to discover that in fact, most of the bad things I'd heard about AMD had been put out by Intel themselves. This was all a part of why the EU and Korea fined them and the USFTC is now charging them. I also had been reading things about ATi's resurgence. Now, understand that ATi was nothing new to me. I'd owned an ATi EGA and then VGA wonder card in the past. ATi used to RULE graphics and they were expensive but they were also the best. Things started to fall apart because management got stupid and they made some bad products. This was when nVidia grabbed the market by being less expensive and competitive at the same time. Now, the situation has changed. I was interested in a Core 2 Quad Q8200 and a GeForce GTX 260. After doing that research I decided to risk it and go with the AMD side of things. I figured they couldn't be THAT bad or they'd be out of business. Well, in the end I bought a Phenom II X4 940 and a Radeon HD 4870. I couldn't be more satisfied with my purchase because not only did I save over $300 on the cost of my rig, now that I've found out about the dishonesty that Intel and nVidia have been involved in, I'm so glad I didn't hand over my dollars to them. Intel and nVidia are a cancer on this industry and until they clean themselves up (which won't happen until AMD is big enough to force them to) those two corporations won't get a PENNY from me. Remember, when the HD 4870 came out, nVidia dropped the prices of the GTX 260 and GTX 280 by a whopping 62%! If they could do that and still make a decent profit, they must have been RAPING the public before that. Sorry mVidia and Intel, you blew it with me and anyone else who has a brain (or at least gives a shit about this industry.) Reply
Mr Bill - Saturday, March 06, 2010 - linkI wonder if the poor performance is simply a matter of driver signaling protocol? Maybe a driver rewrite will increase SSD performance. Reply
juampavalverde - Thursday, March 04, 2010 - linkLooking at the specification of this two chips, and the previous name path which amd choose, with the 790fx, then 790x, then 770, then 780g, and later 790gx (780g at 700 mhz with sideport and crossfire), and recently 785g, it is clear that todays new northbridge shall be called "795GX" (785g at 700 mhz with sideport and crossfire), because imho the southbridge change doesnt justify the addition of 105 to the model number. As long as i remember, when 790fx dropped sb600 in favor of sb700 an later of sb750, there was no change in his name. Reply
elerick - Thursday, March 04, 2010 - linkAny talk whether or not 890 platform will support mini itx? Last I heard until we get integrated chipsets on cpu it would be next to impossible to get am3 on mini-itx.
Jason Reply
amalinov - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkAnand,
I greatly appreciate the work you do (recently the SSD articles are great). But in this case I find some inconsistencies/ommissions that shouldn't be there IMHO (or I totaly misunderstand something):
1. In the table comparing SB750 with SB850 the "PATA" line shows "2 channels" for both. But SB750 has only 1 channel (of course for 2 devices: master+slave).
2. About SB850 PATA - from what I see every mainboard with SB850 uses ANOTHER chip for the PATA channel and this leads me to the conclusion that the AMD powerpoint slides are partialy copy-paste from SB750 and the "Parallel ATA" is a wrong left-over (do you have explicit confirmation for PATA in SB850? Is there a single mainboard using PATA from SB850?).
3. SidePort DDR3 - what is the width of the interface (8bit - 128bit)? supported speeds? (appearently DDR1333). Is it used as Frame buffer or otherwise? Could UMA/Shared memory be disabled and the IGP be forced to use SidePort memory only?
4. Manufacturing technology, die area, transistor count, chip power consumption. Some of these are listed for AMD890GX (but not all), but the SB850 is totaly in the dark. (I ask for these assuming that AMD donsn't hesitate to share this with the general public)
5. Other SB850 features. If I remember correctly the leaked roadmaps this southbridge was to have integrated clock generator(s), DASH 8051 controllers, improved power management and hardware monitoring features - what happened to these? Also, there it was stated that SB850 would have 4 PCIe x1 ports (in addition to the A-Link III). Now we see only 2. Is this realy the total count or only the initial wave of mainboards does not use the other 2?
6. SATA/600 - I hope when you get back a SSD with over-300MB/s speeds that you will do a test SB850 vs. Marvell-on-AMD vs. Marvell-on-Intel (in addition to the SB850/300 vs. SB850/600 and the AHCI/MS/etc. driver issues)
Here start the not so important things:
7. IGP audio - does the 890GX DisplayPort support audio? (and what about mainboards routing to the DisplayPort one of the USBs? The other of the pair could go to a combo eSATA/USB port... but I start wishfull thinking here :))
8. Gigabit ethernet MAC - I don't see any mainboards using it, but don't assume it is missing (like the PATA), because of most mainboards not using Intel MAC too - but do you have any info if EVER this is going to be used (eg. what PHYs are compatible with SB850, etc. - maybe some of the nF590 times?)
And here some could be considered off-topic:
9. SLI support - after Nvidia starting selling "license" to mainboard manufacturers for SLI support - are there any announcements for AMD-chipset boards with SLI support?
10. You mentioned briefly Hybrid Crossfire IGP+GPU and it seems like a "beta", but when it is ready would it support IGP+GPU+GPU (two HD5450 with 890GX) and IGP+GPU+GPU+GPU (this seems very theoretical, but maybe for some people if the IGP can increase performance even by 1fps it is better to use it than waste it... development/testing/certification costs-for-zero-benefit aside)?
11. USB 3.0 (this is a general note on USB3.0, not regarding this particular review) - most articles state that USB3.0 is "10 times USB 2.0" or "like PCIe 2.0" or "4.8" or "5" GT/s (resulting in speeds between 480MB/s for 4.8GT/s with 8/10 - and up to - 625MB/s for 5GT/s without appling 8/10 in the calculation). Then we have other overheads, etc. Additionaly, it is clear that the 3.0 is bi-directional (4 wires) in contrast to 2-wire USB2.0. I remember vaugely that in some USB.org file I have readed something that implied that the 4.8 or 5 number applies to the sum of both directions, thus in a single direction USB 3.0 is half that speed. But maybe I misunderstanded something here... Anyway, I haven't found a good description of USB 3.0 speed - starting from the raw link speed in one direction, going trough 8/10, etc., reaching pre-protocol overhead speed (equivalent of USB2.0 480Mbps-60MB/s), explicitely stating where they double to take into account bi-direction full duplex capability. So that in the end we know that the USB 3.0 theoretical maximum is xxx MB/s per direction, 2*xxx MB/s total (to make assumptions for the influence of NEC chip-to-southbridge and north/CPU-to-south link limitations). It would be good to have this single direction/bi-directional and 8/10 issues sorted out in a nice table with the versions of UATA, SATA, PCI, PCIe, USB2.0, USB3.0, QPI, HT - where some will have only single-direction and other bi-directional. In addition to shared (like PCI and UATA)/not shared types. Hmm, and what about SATA controllers in the southbridges? Do we have 6x600MB/s in SB850, or 3x600MB/s where there are pairs (primary+secondary ports with masters only) sharing the same 600MB/s link between a internal SATA two-port controller and chipset "backbone"? What about transfers between SATA ports on the same controller (eg. 1st primary-to-1st secondary) or on different controllers (eg. 1st primary-to 2nd primary) - do they pass trough main memory/shared SATA controller link/north-to-south link - or does the SB850 have something like the direct PCIe-to-PCIe switch logic for SLI/CrossFire? But, again I am going off-topic here.
Pffeu. It got a long post. Thank you for reading it and best regards! Reply
lplatypus - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkThe 790GX basically does have UVD2 capabilities, contrary to the table on the first page of this article.
See this forum post from an AMD employee who supports their linux video driver:
vol7ron - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkGreat post, but can you overclock these IGPs? Reply
Paladin1211 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkIt's the same IGP as in the 785G, so it can be overclocked as well as the HD 4200. Reply
Paladin1211 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkTechReport has pointed out the 890GX has very good overclock capabilities. I want to know if it can really get the Athlon II X4 630 to over 4Ghz. You have been praising the overclocking potential of the Core i3/i5 + H55/57 all lately. How about the same test with a few sensible AMD CPUs?
Thank you.
Reference link:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/18539/10">http://techreport.com/articles.x/18539/10 Reply
Rajinder Gill - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkHi,
From the looks of it, those were simply bus frequency tests made possible by a low CPU multiplier. I doubt that CPU's are hitting higher overall core frequencies (at normal CPU multiplier ratios) just by a change of Southbridge.
Paladin1211 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkWasn't it a change of southbridge that "Enabled higher Phenom overclocks?"
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?... Reply
Rajinder Gill - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkI'd have thought once you get to 4GHz or so most people are limited by cooling because the AMD substrate seems to favour lower temperatures for outright CPU frequency.
We can test it against 790 at some point (assuming both boards have been 'engineered' to the same level).
Paladin1211 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkWaiting for boards, BIOSes, drivers to be more mature is always a good idea. I do care about 24/7 stable overclocking at stock voltage and highest possible core speed on air.
Thank you, I'll stay tuned :) Reply
Rajinder Gill - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkHi,
Waiting for things to mature would be a good idea based upon what I'm seeing with the Sharkoon Drive Port..
chucky2 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkWhat was the point of this release, other than to come out with a "new" product to increase sales from the Gotta Have It crowd...?
1. STILL no 8 channel over HDMI???? It's something that should have been done in 780G, then 790GX, then 785G, and now 890GX does not support it?!?!?! I don't need to buy an add-in card AMD, I can just buy an Intel box. Insanity.
2. Would it seriously have been so hard to put in a 5000 series core to one-up Intel and actually have SOME reason to buy this over cheaper - and essentially just as good - mature 790GX alternatives (which can also still do core unlocking btw)? Exactly why buy this over a cheaper, more stable 790GX, or competing Intel product?
They should have called this 795GX and saved themselves the embarrassment. <- 690G and 790GX user, not an Intel fanboi.
Chuck Reply
leexgx - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkthe audio is very good point, it still can unlock cores and do ACC Reply
geok1ng - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI once again request a side by side image quality comparison.
AT is almost making me concede that Intel graphics are good enough, now all the matter is to proof once and for all that Intel is not cheating ( again, i would kindly remember)on image quality, as it did on the past. Reply
swaaye - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI'm guessing that one big reason for the IGP being the same is that the bandwidth to RAM, across the HT bus, is unchanged since Phenom came out. The peak bandwidth is a measly 8.8GB/s assuming you have a CPU with a 2.2GHz HT clock, and that is shared with the rest of data going across HT. Reply
GullLars - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkSince the SB850 also supports RAID, it would be nice to see what the bandwidth and IOPS roof is when RAIDing SSDs. The pictures say 2 GB/s bandwidth, but i'm sceptical. That would put it on par with LSI 9211-4i, only with more ports, so it's possible to reach higher bandwidth with a cheap SATA 3Gbps RAID.
Dependent on scaling, you could get about 1200MB/s with x25-V's or 1500+ MB/s with x25-M's, but would the IOPS scale?
I also have a request for a re-run of your 4KB random read numbers for SB750/850 vs ICH10R, as testing at low QD on an vertex LE makes no sense when comparing avalible performance (only accesstime overhead, wich would be better meassured at QD 1). If you redo the test at QD 32, you will see numbers roughly around 150MB/s and then maybe there will be more of a difference than at ~40MB/s, especially when you consider in the additional management overhead of NCQ at higher queue depths. Even indilinx barefoot drives can do 60MB/s 4KB random read at QD 5 (wich according to your traces is within average QD in some scenarios). Reply
sbrown23 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI had hoped to see the Cheese Slices thing make another appearance here. Is video playback performance improved at all, or just the same as 790GX?
On a side not, does anyone know how the Core i3 HD graphics does with Cheese Slices? Does it look like crap? Wondering if i3 is suitable for a Media Center/streaming media PC. Reply
Tek92010 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkHi, ever since the ATI purchase I've been hearing less and less about new nVidia chipsets for the AMD platform. I can understand the issues that they are having competing on the Intel side of the fence however, it really irks me to see them give up on something that they have bein doing so well for so long. In my opinion nVidia still has the best solution on the AMD side - even more so if you're running nVidia graphics.
Their USB 2.0 performance, disk performance and AHCI support is up there with Intel's. Their inter-chipset communications speed is up to mark and their IGP performance is acceptable. Not to mention the general stability and maturity of their chipsets and drivers, so why then have they been so quiet on the desktop chipset side for so long?
Why haven't they updated their AMD IGP's to be on par with the excellent Geforce 9300/9400 solutions that they produced for Intel solutions? They had announced upcoming ACC support shortly after AMD started showing off what new tricks it could do with their then new SB750. How long again do we have to wait for that to be implemented?
Can someone who knows please tell me the truth about what nVidia's future chipset plans are on both the AMD and Intel fronts. I am feeling as if I will be forced to make a platform change sooner or later and I really don't want to go with AMD's current solutions until they address their relatively sub-par disk and AHCI performance. Reply
Tek92010 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkAfter doing some reading last night I learned that nVidia does have an answer to AMD's ACC out called NCC (nVidia Core Calibration). Apparantly it allows for the same core unlocking and better overclocking on Phenom as AMD's ACC.
Tek92010 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkAfter doing some research last night I discovered that nVidia had in fact released it's own version of AMD's ACC which it calls NCC (nVidia Core Calibration). It's supposed to enable better overclocking as well as core unlocking on Phenom.
Paladin1211 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkQuoted:
"until they address their relatively sub-par disk and AHCI performance."
It's not sub-par, mate. USB 3.0 performance is as good as Intel. And with a midrange SSD you'd have the same speed as Intel AHCI, too. Only when you slap in a high end SSD, then it would start to differ.
Given the mass majority of people don't even use a single low-end SSD let alone high-end SSD, the SB850 performs more than good enough. Enthusiasts will at least go for the i7 920 or 860, they don't deal with Phenom II 955 or SB850 either.
Sub-par disk and AHCI performance? You must be joking! Reply
Tek92010 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkQuoted:
"sub·par (sb-pär)
1. Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production.
2. Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
It's sub-par to me compared to nVidia and Intel chipsets which won't limit my nor my customer's high-end SSD performance. I was never talking about USB 3.0 performance. What qualifies you to make such a broad, generalizing statement about the processor choices of enthusiasts? Why wouldn't an enthusiast build a system with an AMD Phenom II 955 and instead opt for at least the i7 920 or 860, because you said so? The onset of SSD's have shown many people a better way to spend their system budget. Some may now opt for a cheaper and lower performing, "just good enough" processor in order to afford a good performing SSD and might end up with a better overall experience than one with an unbalanced and "mechanical hard disk drive bottlenecked" system.
It is quite posibble to build an excellent gaming system for example, based on the AMD Phenom II 955 and any of the midrange to high end GPU options available today. At high image quality settings the Phenom II 955 will surely be able to provide an acceptable and playable frame rate to many compared to it's i7 920 or 860 counterparts.
Don't forget the whole point of my post. It was really about what is going on at the nVidia camp. If nVidia were to stop making chipsets for AMD then we would all be stuck with something that is not on the same level as Intel in terms of AHCI and general disk performance. If that were to happen then it might push many system builders towards opting for Intel. Not that anything's wrong with that though. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkRemember though, AMD isn't looking for just budget shoppers but ideally would like to market to the small number of big spenders too. And those big spenders won't be spending with AMD if the expensive SSD they have bought doesn't work as well. Reply
Ryun - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linknVidia isn't making a LGA 1155/1366 board because they don't have a license for the QPI from Intel. Intel is legally blocking them from making chipsets for their new Core i processors (and the new Atom as well), but last I heard there was pending litigation.
I don't have a concrete reason for nVidia not making AMD boards anymore, but my guess would be because a) AMD doesn't have a very good product lineup in the mobile segment and that's the one seeing the most growth at the moment. I don't think nVidia wants to invest in a platform that doesn't bring in the dough; and b) nVidia is still upset about AMD buying ATI and creating it's own in-house chipset.
That said, I agree. If I had to choose between ATI and nVidia chipsets I would choose nVidia. Reply
Tek92010 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkCan you find out nVidia's official position on and reasoning for their lack of AMD chipset innovation and competition Anand?
There was a time when the chipset market was very exciting. Are we ever going to return to the glory days of VIA vs SiS vs AMD vs nVidia vs Intel?
Also why haven't you used nVidia chipsets in your testing of AMD platforms for so long? nVidia platforms might actually make them look little better on the benchmarks than their own in-house designs, or are the AMD chipsets better than nVidia's now in your opinion? Reply
Taft12 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkFully agreed here, the lack of chipset competition has led to stagnation on both the AMD and Intel sides of the fence.
Especially Intel, Anand admitted in the H55 coverage that Intel did not reduce chipset pricing even though removal of the IGP reduced their costs significantly. This horseshit would not occur if Nvidia and others weren't being blocked from creating their own offerings. Reply
Penti - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkThey don't have licenses to produce chipsets any more. I fully disagree that it has led to stagnation though. Removing the memory controller on AMDs didn't lower the cost either. Both AMD and Intel finally has some enterprise (business) features such DASH and vpro too. Others simply couldn't keep up, nVidia killed ULI when they bought them, SiS and VIA has dropped out since a long time ago. Gaming components like nVidia 980a won't do a dent regardless of price. Reply
MadMan007 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkHey Anand, thanks for including a modern low-end card for reference. I do have a request for what might be a useful article wrt IGPs for you. I'd like to know not how poor IGPs are compared to modern cards but rather to which *older* graphics card they are equivalent. Personally I haven't gotten many new games in a while and with Steam sales have been picking up some older ones too, there may be others in the same boat. Now when a game says it requires a much older card like a GF3 or Radeon 9000 or what have you I am pretty sure a modern IGP is better but once things start getting in to DX9 cards I'm not so sure. Would an IGP be equivalent to a 6600GT, or a Radeon 850?
If you were to have someone do an article looking at this with older games that would be awesome and a great service to those who just play older games at this point. Finding IGP performance on older games is not easy. Reply
nice123 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkRemember, GlobalFoundries is new. AMD are still using TSMC's 55nm process for this chipset. This is most probably because their 40nm process is absolutely crap. (as seen with the Radeon 5xxx yields and lack of Fermi)
When AMD move to GlobalFoundries I think their hardware will pick up more, we won't have TSMC screwing up every single process they do. Reply
Penti - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkStill? What are you talking about, practically nobody uses the latest node for chipsets and many other none bleeding edge speed ASICs. At least they moved from 65nm. Intel chipsets are manufactured at 65nm.
They won't move to GlobalFoundries for fabbing chipset/GPU logic till Liano APUs I guess they will design chipsets for GF then too. Reply
Foxi - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkAMD should ban Anand from testing theirs stuffs. It's a shame and pathetic as well. :s Reply
strikeback03 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linklol, which part of this article offended you, fanboi? Reply
Penti - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkHow about the IOMMU (AMD-Vi) support in the SB850 chipset? It's supported right? I want to know if the chipset and bios combo has it working. Reply
semo - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkWondering about that too. I've seen articles here test for virtualization performance but only in the server space. Would be good to see more info about these sort of things around here Reply
Penti - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkYeah it works for SR5650-70-90/SP5100 server chipset, but it's not identical even if it's the chip it's based of. So I was wondering if there's really support in the silicon and perhaps more important if it's supported in the BIOS. Otherwise it's not really interesting for me. I will still only consider the Opteron platform for an AMD machine then and it makes choosing a Intel machine so much easier. But I guess not since AMD don't mention it. Might not matter for desktops, but it do for workstations and Intel desktops supports it (IOMMU). AMD-V is of course there but that's a whole other matter. Reply
semo - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkHi Anand,
I noticed something strange with my Sharkoon ( http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/docking_stat...">http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/d...tations/... )device recently and I thought you might find it interesting. I had a 3.5" SATA drive connected to it and I just switched off my PC. When it turned off, the case fans kept spinning (CPU fan spinning up/down constantly) and the card reader/temp sensor turned red and started beeping. It kept doing after I took off the power cord. After 10 mins of looking around and head scratching I remembered that the Sharkoon has power going to it. Unplugged that and the PC shut down. I don't think I've seen this anywhere else but the Sharkoon's USB power is actually bidirectional (the DriveLink at least). That doesn't happen usually I think and maybe different motherboards won't like this.
That's unfortunate that your C300 died. I wonder why if a non essential device like drive fails, the system doesn't POST. There shouldn't be such a condition ever (I actually have one SATA drive that does that actually). Something as simple as removing the DVD drive belt can cause the system to POST or at least take much longer to do so. Why, the thing is not essential?
Also do you have an explanation why the Vertex LE has such good write performance compared to read. I've assumed that you expect the opposite from NAND flash.
Looking to full review of the 890FX, hopefully it will be more polished!
SunLord - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkthat has to be a defect... There is no way anyone would design something to send power into a computer via a usb port it would cause all kinda of bad voodoo for the system Reply
SunLord - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkWhy does the index indicates that the 890GX is DirectX 10.1 and has UVD2 while the 790GX is DX10 and UVD1 if they are exactly the same? Is the index wrong or do these changes require no hardware tweaks? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI've updated the article a bit. The move from DX10 to 10.1 in AMD's case didn't require much of a change. Technically the 890GX is more like a 785G/790GX hybrid. Either way, performance is identical between all of the cores clocked at 700MHz.
Take care,
Anand Reply
SunLord - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkPut some active cooling on it and overclock it! Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkAt least the southbridge is better featured, with SATA3 and GigE, even if the former wasn't really tested in this review, and the latter wasn't utilised.
Shame that AMD didn't bump the shader count to (e.g.,) 60, it would have made a massive difference since Intel actually put some effort in on their recent attempts. Then again, Cedar 5450 should have had 160 shaders in my opinion to make it a reasonable low-end purchase.
Clearly it's a tide-over chipset until Llano changes everything. Reply
nice123 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkThey can't boost it to 60 sadly because they are arranged in blocks of 40 - the next step up is 80, which is of course Radeon 5450 territory since they decided not to add any more shaders to that and kept it exactly the same performance as the 4550. Reply
fiki959 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI am little disappointed with the new chipset. But there is a reason that AMD didn't improve IGP performance because doing so will probably hurt radeon 5450 sales. An improvement of 30-50% will bring the IGP very close to low end dedicated cards so maybe that is the main reason or staying with 55nm process have something to with the decision I don't know..
By the way I see some Athlon 2 laptops in my country, some review for these CPUs please. Reply
shrihara - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkIf it has USB 3.0 which is backward compatible, then what is the need of having USB 2.0 along with that? I was hoping that AMD 890 will come up with only USB 3.0 on board like SATA 6GBps. Reply
strikeback03 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkbecause for whatever reason AMD didn't include USB3 and they didn't want to spend the money/PCIe lanes on a bunch of external USB3 controllers? Reply
semo - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI'm not aware if the motherboard header pin configurations for USB 3.0 have been standardized yet. I'm sure there will be a period when every maker will come up with their own design until we settle on a single one Reply
glockjs - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linki don't feel so bad in being impatient and buying one of the gigabyte 333's...790xta to be exact. looks like i didnt miss much :D Reply
semilobster - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkGreat review Anand! When can we expect a review of the new Hybrid-Crossfire with the 5450? How did they make this work? So far Hybrid-Crossfire has only worked with other RV610 based GPUs (the RV620 was just a slightly modified RV610) Reply
Spoelie - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkExtremely disappointed. Still the uncompetitive SATA performance, no USB3, no ACC and the same integrated graphics performance we had back in 2007, 2 and a half years ago.
For a company that's behind on cpu performance and tries (tried?) to push the platform "advantage", this is one lackluster platform. It's like they've given up altogether.
I've had AMD systems for the past years, but 2010 seems to be time to switch, and it pains me :( Reply
Alouette Radeon - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - linkLet me see if I understand this correctly. You're going to switch to the criminal organization known as Intel because AMD hasn't upgraded their SATA? You're kidding right? No spinning hard drive today can keep up with the SATA speeds as they are except for SSDs and you're whining about that? Don't even get me started on the fact that the Radeon HD 4290 is still the top performing IGP with DX10.1 added. Do you really think you'd prefer an Intel GMA??? My god, what rock do you live under? Just for ideological purposes alone, I won't touch Intel or nVidia until they clean themselves up. Dishonesty in a corporation pisses me off more than anything and if you've seen the way Intel has conducted itself in the last 10 years you wouldn't be so quick to switch. Sure, switch to Intel, increase their market share, let AMD die and then we'll all be happy with Intel having a monopoly and dictating to us what we get as they slow technological advancement down and raise prices on everything all because you felt inadequate without SATA performance numbers that are meaningless because there's no hard drives that can take advantage of them! With knuckleheads like you in the world, it's no wonder we're where we are today! Reply
AznBoi36 - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI don't really see a problem with AMD's platform. Sure their SATA performance isn't as great as Intels; but like Anand said - as long as you aren't running the latest SSDs then the SATA performance difference between AMD/Intel is negligible.
And yeah, these guys are sitting on their asses as far as chipsets go. How long has ICH/r10 been out? A long time now. I'm still waiting for 8 SATA ports with RAID6. That's probably a long time coming though.
If you want ACC, then you can still pick up an older 790/785 board. Even my old Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H has it. The only benefit I see with the new 890GX is if you need native SATA3 RAID and more than 2 ports (all other boards use the marvel controller and have only 2 SATA3 ports with RAID 0/1/0+1) Reply
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkThe problem is that native SATA 6gbps for SSDs is exactly why I was interested in the 8 series. It's back to 3rd party controllers now, which gives AMD no advantage. Reply
leexgx - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - linkbut it does support ACC and core unlocker they had an page Just for it (did any one read all of this pre-review before posting)
all that amd have done is hid the option now but it still can be done Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkOh yea switch to where the grass has the same color because there are no more significant upgrades between platforms either...
They have now all been equally lazy. And lets not talk about nvidia with their endless nfarce rebadging of chipsets from a decade gone by...
Its clear that there is no pressure in the platform business anymore. Nvidia is a joke and AMD / Intel just throw old bones at us. Get used to it. Also because "platform" is becoming more and more meaningless, except for southbridges... Reply
Spoelie - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI'm not saying Intel has a better platform feature wise, but it has more performance (SATA, CPU) and lower power consumption. AMD used to have a platform advantage, but the last year that was erased. There is absolutely no reason anymore, except for price, to pick AMD at this moment. And you do not want to be in that position in this industry. Reply
Calin - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkIntel has a much better platform than what it had two years ago - they crossed a huge chasm (from totally unplayable games and games running at 2 frames per second, to what seems like a decent enough integrated solution). Reply
StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI agree.
However been burned once by Intels Decelerators, and never again shall I touch them with a 40 foot pole.
Also I noticed a few mistakes in the review... It states that the Radeon 4290 is exactly the same as the 790GX (Radeon 3300) - However Anandtech, your missing a key point, and that's Direct X 10.1 vs Direct X 10.
And not to mention you forgot to add that the Radeon 4200 also supports Direct X 10.1 which is stated as Direct X 10.0 in the review. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkThe fact ASUS added a damn switch on the board called CORE_UNLOCKER made me laugh out loud in the office, goddamn Reply
vol7ron - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linklol. Reply
san1s - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - linkI REALLY hope other motherboard manufacturers provide some way to unlock cores like this motherboard here.


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WANDERERS manager Dougie Freedman believes the mental approach of his players from the first whistle will be integral to getting victory against struggling Barnsley.
Freedman was full of praise for his team's electric start at Doncaster that saw them go two goals up inside the first 15 minutes.
And while he has been happy with similarly good starts in the way of possession on home soil, he wants them to turn that into goals and look to muzzle the Tykes early today.
The Scot told The Bolton News: "The start was so good and that was what won us the game at Doncaster.
"If anything I was disappointed we did not score even more.
"It shows how far we have come in terms of our mental approach to games.
"The way we set the tone made me proud of the lads.
"We have worked very hard on the training ground on that part of our game.
"I think our starts at home have generally been good this season looking back to the Wigan and Burnley games.
"It has been killing teams off that has been a problem when we go a goal up.
"We need to keep on and that eases jitters in the crowd.
"We had it against Blackburn – maybe that was because it was a derby match and the fans were right up for it throughout.
"But we have to keep on trying to get that second goal because it worked for us the other night."

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More than 2,600 residents have signed up to Dudley Council's e-billing system and council bosses want more people to follow suit.
Councillor Stuart Turner, cabinet member for finance, said: "Receiving gas and electricity bills via email is something hundreds of thousands of people do and we want Dudley residents to do the same with their council tax bills."
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Why when i Compile with python does it create _pycache_ folder with all my local imports ( minus the main file i compile). And why are they changed from .py to .pyc?
I need help making a executable for a system with no python interpreter and prevision version of gcc? is this possible?
Do i use cxfreeze on my .py file or should i compile and use cxfreeze on the .pyc files?
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I have a 16 GB Flash Drive. I changed the settings & set it as local disk, so my Vista recognizes it as a local disk, not removable disk.
After that, i deleted the whole partition & then i made new partitions. I chose 9 GB to be in FAT32 format & 7 GB will be in ex2 format to save future changing in BT3.
I extracted the bt3 USB iso file, and then move the two folders to the USB.
I run bootinst.bat from command line, i reboot my PC & went to BIOS. I chose the my USB to boot from it.
I saw the fallowing black & white screen:
Yukon PXE v 126.96.36.199 (20071025)
(C)Copy Right ....................Marvel(R)
Pre-boot eXecution Environment(PXE) v2.1
Copy Right..................................
Client MAX ADDR: MY MAC ADDRESS HERE
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM
Operating System not found
Screen stop, until i press enter then it Windows Vista launches...
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By Brian Davis
Whyteleafe had to rely on a late equaliser to claim a 2-2 draw at home to Corinthian in the Kent League Premier Division.
Despite torrential weather, the game went ahead thanks to the efforts of the Church Road volunteers.
And before the match, an impeccable minute's silence was observed for Allen Kelly - a Whyteleafe stalwart who will be sadly missed.
The early exchanges were fairly even with both sides taking time to get to grip with the difficult conditions.
Chris Kinnear was an early casualty being inadvertantly taken out by his own player, but recovered to play a significant part in the match.
Leafe's first good chance came in the 24th minute when a long ball saw Jerson Dos Santos clear but keeper Richard Stroud was out quickly enough to save at his feet.
Paul Scott then beat two defenders on the edge of the box, his shot was parried by Stroud into the path of Dos Santos but the defence did well to block his shot.
A minute later Getro Kilapi's shot was deflected for a corner, where Bentley Graham's delivery was flicked on to the far post where Cedric Abraham was on hand to score from close range.
Corinthian should have equalised in the 37th minute when a corner from Jack Nuttall found Ryan Johnson in the box but he completely missed a free header.
Another cross from Nuttall in the 40th minute however brought an equaliser when Kinnear headed into the net.
The visitors went ahead early in the second half when another cross from Nuttall into the box was back-heeled into the path of Charlie Burgess who scored from close range.
As Leafe pushed for an equaliser, Kilapi was penalised for simulation when he went down in the Corinthian penalty area far too easily.
But they had the best of play in the closing stages, althought had to wait until the 85th minute before they got the equaliser.
A fine cross from the left by Tommy Smith found Graham at the far post who headed home to equalise and gain a share of the points for Leafe.
Leafe moved up to fourth in the table, three points behind Rochester in third, but 10 points behind Erith & Belvedere in second.
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Bought these in store while on vacation (my sneakers were killing me and my feet were on the verge of falling off lol)...the women's version was sold out so I bought these instead... literally the MOST COMFORTABLE FLIP FLOPS I have ever worn. I spent the rest of the vacation walking 5-7 miles a day in these and my feet didn't hurt at all. Liked them so much I immediately ordered a 2nd pair online so I have a backup, because I'm positive I'm going to end up wearing these nonstop.
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The Mt. Moiwa tourist facilities, including the Mt. Moiwa Ropeway, were closed from April 2010 for renovation. These facilities will be re-opened on December 23, 2011.
T he main themes of these renovated facilities are "environmental conservation" and "accessibility ." A new type of ropeway has been introduced, the deteriorated station building and Mt. Moiwa Viewing Point have been fully reconstructed, and the Morris Car (mini cable car) and Nature Footpath have been newly established. Elevators have also been installed in all buildings to make them accessible to everyone .
The new Mt. Moiwa Ropeway facilities have been reborn as even more appealing facilities that are easy for anyone to use and where visitors can enjoy the abundant natural world.


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The subject of this article is of a real-life person, place, group, company, product, or creative work that has been mentioned "in-universe" in a canon source. The Harry Potter Wiki is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e.g., Hogwarts really exists), and, as such, details contained in this article may differ from real world facts.
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Many people begrudge government employees for the secure pensions they get after a lifetime of service as public workers. But many people don't realize that state and local workers in certain states don't contribute to Social Security, so their pensions are all they get.
"Fairness is a particularly important issue in states like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, Louisiana and Ohio, where one or more of the large retirement systems do not participate in Social Security," according to a new report from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. "With no Social Security and long vesting periods, short-service workers can leave with no benefits of any kind for their time spent in public employment."
That leaves a big retirement planning gap for those who spend a portion of their career in public service. Since Social Security benefits are based on the 35 highest-earning years after age 21, public workers who didn't pay into the system for a number of years but who are eligible for Social Security will get a reduced benefit amount when they reach retirement age.
Grass always looks greener elsewhere
The report finds that nearly half of government workers -- 47 percent -- leave their jobs with no promise of future benefits. It argues for the availability of defined contribution plans -- 401(k), 403(b) or 457 plans -- for public workers.
The current pension plan among state and local government workers requires tenure of a minimum of five years. Someone who works for five years beginning at age 35 as a middle school teacher, for example, will get just 6 percent of their pay when they retire. That may be enough to pay the bundled phone and cable bill at retirement, but not much more.
After 10 years, they get 14 percent of pay; after 15 years, 44 percent. Once you're in it's hard to leave, since the benefits only get richer as you invest more time at the job. If you don't like your line of work, you're stuck, serving a sort of prison term for the promise of that pension check.
Besides the requirement for long tenure to get vested, the benefits are back-loaded, meaning they're based on the three to five years of highest earnings, which generally occur at the end of a career. "An employee starting at 35 with a 30-year career will earn more than 30 percent of lifetime pension benefits in the last five years of employment," according to the report, which is titled "The impact of long vesting periods on state and local workers."
Government workers typically contribute 5.5 percent of their salary in these plans, according to the report. They should at the very least have the option to contribute to a defined contribution plan. But in those states where Social Security protections aren't in place, government workers should also have a choice of whether they wish to participate in the pension plan or in the Social Security system. That would seem more fair.
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SEATTLE — A report published Monday in The Seattle Times queried whether Amazon.com was ready to take its own Internet-driven fresh offering, called AmazonFresh, out of "limited-test" mode to pilot mode or even full-out launch mode this year.
The report noted that Amazon had initially launched the service in 2007 and now services 80 area codes.
And though many analysts are skeptical that Amazon had yet to figure out how to profitably deliver produce to a customer's doorstep, Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez identified two changes between then and now that "could lay the groundwork" for a national launch. First, Amazon has negotiated the collection of sales taxes across several states, which means the company can now lay down roots in those states where before it wouldn't. And Amazon has two new distribution centers located outside two major urban hubs — New York and San Francisco.
"While an expanded distribution network could lay the groundwork for Fresh to go national in 2013, it remains to be seen whether [Amazon's] lime green trucks head elsewhere anytime soon," Martinez wrote.
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Baltimore County Police are currently investigating a shooting that is believed to have occurred in the 200 block of St. Helena Avenue, 21222.
On January 10, at approximately 4:40 p.m., Baltimore County Police were dispatched to the 200 block of St. Helena Avenue for gunshots and banging noises in the area. Officers were unable to locate a victim or witnesses. At 5:05 p.m., County Police were contacted by Baltimore City Police advising that an unidentified male victim had just walked into the area hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg.
There are very few details at this time. Baltimore County Violent Crimes Unit detectives are actively investigating the case at this time. The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries and is expected to recover.
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Welcome to Tuesday's The Crap We Missed, which is bursting at the seams thanks to the long weekend, coupled with the bottomless reserve of celebs looking awful and/or amazing and my shameless disposition to exploit them on your behalf. That said, we've got Jeremy Renner just handing these to me on a platter now, ditto goes for Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe looking like he just sipped on a tasty Sarsaparilla, Gary Busey figuring out how to stop his kid's constant shrieks of terror, Janice Dickinson trying to murder your eyes, Michael Fassbender stepping on it again, and finally, The Zac Efron Pussy Tour of Italy that literally stops only seconds before boarding the plane home.
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Federal Court of Appeal
Biography ofthe Hon. Chief Justice, Marc Noël
The Federal Court of Appeal, over which I have the privilege and honour to preside as Chief Justice, has jurisdiction to hear appeals from judgments of the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada. In addition, the Court of Appeal has jurisdiction to hear judicial review applications with respect to sixteen (16) federal boards and tribunals listed under section 28 of the Federal Courts Act. It also hears appeals pursuant to other federal legislation. The Court is currently composed of fifteen judges.
My first task as Chief Justice is to ensure that the Court has the capacity to issue decisions that are well reasoned, just and fair. In order to achieve this goal, the Court relies on judges who are competent in a number of specialized areas.
The appeals that come to the Federal Court of Appeal deal with a wide range of issues which touch upon distinct and specialized areas of the law. Amongst those are tax law, maritime law, immigration law, aboriginal law, intellectual property and national security.
The Federal Court of Appeal is a traveling Court. The judges of our Court, who sit in panels of three, hear cases in English and in French in eighteen (18) cities, from Vancouver to St. John's including locations in the North.
This country-wide mission is intended to ensure that federal legislation is applied in a uniform and constant manner across the country, while taking into consideration the private law in the province or territory where the litigation arises.
To that end, section 5.4 of the Federal Courts Act provides that five of the judges of the Federal Court of Appeal must be persons who have been judges of the Court of Appeal or of the Superior Court of the Province of Québec, or have been members of the bar of that Province. This provision recognizes the bijural role of the Court, and echoes section 24 of the Québec Civil Code of Procedure which recognizes the Court's jurisdiction in civil matters in that province.
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ADATA SP920 (128GB, 256GB, 512GB & 1TB) Reviewby Kristian Vättö on 4/1/2014 8:30 PM EST
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Samus - Tuesday, April 01, 2014 - linkI'm just going to throw out there my experience with ADATA SSD's:
S510: bricked in a year, but was near capacity which could have caused it to lock. however, no other SSD (sandforce or otherwise) has done that to me and this was used in an office PC with very little write activity.
SP900: Windows 7 BSOD after 5 months. had to secure erase and reinstall, did same thing 2 weeks later.
ADATA RMA takes forever (3 weeks each time.) The RMA form is erroneous and just getting the RMA number is a lot of back and forth. Proof of purchase, full system specs, lots of questions...the works. They try very hard to make it inconvenient, opposed to Crucial or Intel where the RMA process is "just send the drive to this address." They do mail back a new drive as a replacement, but don't offer to simply unlock a "frozen" drive, and obviously don't offer any sort of data recovery.
Considering I've never had a Crucial completely fail, or any issues whatsoever with an Intel drive, it's hard to ignore their reliability at the expense of 5-10% performance penalty. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkWhy would a parts warranty cover data recovery? That's what backups are for. Reply
Flunk - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkI have a 256GB SX300 which is a Sandforce-based mSATA drive. I've had no problems and performance matches the review samples that were sent out.
So my experience has been fine. Reply
mikato - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkNo storage device manufacturers include data recovery service along with their devices. Data recovery usually costs more than the devices do. Some can refer you to a company that does it, and I know one has their own sub-company that does it, but it's completely separate from the device purchase. I'm curious what you mean by "simply unlock a "frozen" drive".
By the way, SSD data recovery is usually quite a bit more difficult and more expensive than hard disk data recovery. And it's sometimes not even possible with more SSDs using encryption all the time, whether or not user specifies, and with the keys stored and decoding being done possibly in the part of the SSD that has failed (adios data).
If you're storing your data on an SSD (not just the OS, programs), you should be aware of the reduced avenues of disaster recovery and be even more careful with backups. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkssd data recovery is quite simple actually, you just can't use traditional means to do it. Most if not all sad data recovery is accomplished by simply unlocking the drive or repairing the indirection table. Drives lock when they run out of spare area, good writable blocks, or can't trim/operate normally often occurring when they are low on capacity. Indirection table repair is more complex but on a file-by-file basic (lets say you just needed a few documents) it isn't very time consuming if the tech known what they are looking for.
I've toured ontrack's Chicago lab and seen this all in action, they have a higher success rate with ssd's than HDD's (both over 99%)
I don't expect OEM's or manufactures to offer data recovery, but when data recover is a matter of plugging a drive in and unlocking it because their firmware is bricking drives, they SHOULD do it for their customers.
All those "refurbished" SSD's? What do you think those are? They're drives that have simply been unlocked and secure erased. It takes manufactures 30 seconds to do.
Go research sandforce "frozen" or "locked" and you'll see these controllers are notorious for locking drives (to the point they don't even detect in the BIOS) for various reasons. Reply
hojnikb - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkI've got s510 and so far so good (except bsods, i'm getting those on all my sandforce drives). As far as RMA is concernd, i've never had any issues. Last time i had to replace my usb drive, because it died on me (probobly bricked controller), they replaced it within days. Reply
Sabresiberian - Friday, April 04, 2014 - linkDespite your negative experiences, I wouldn't use them to determine that ADATA SSDs should be avoided. That being said, if I can get a 5-year warranty instead of a 3-year for very little more money I'll do that (yeah I know they are largely there to lower the worry factor for those that think SSDs might be less reliable, but still, if you need it, it's good to have). I just bought 2 480GB Sandisk Extreme IIs for $300 each - if you keep your eye out such discounts aren't hard to come by. Reply
Sabresiberian - Friday, April 04, 2014 - linkLooking at Newegg reviews, I see that ADATA drives get 3 or 4 stars. Sandisk gets 4 or 5 stars, no 3 stars. Not an absolute sign of quality of course, but over hundreds or thousands of comments from people that have bought these things, it is a factor to consider. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, April 01, 2014 - linkDo Marvell now offer much better default firmware? It was used to be the case Marvell controller were cheaper, not because of its inferior hardware but it provides very simply firmware that wasn't very highly performing. But it seems now the "default" performance behavior are pretty much all the same.
Which makes me interested in the next round of SSD Controller. Do anyone have update on those from Sandforce, Marvell, etc? Reply
JDG1980 - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkMy understanding was that Marvell didn't provide firmware at all - it's up to the vendor.
Personally, I'd like to see a Marvell-based SSD with an open source firmware, even if the performance isn't quite as good as the best proprietary solutions. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkMarvell controllers are just simpler than Sandforce (which is a good thing)
Marvell has eDrive support in their newer controllers, simpler firmware, lower power usage, and no compression technology (making the implementation simple and performance consistent)
I prefer Marvell and Intel controllers over everyone else's but some newer controllers have looked promising (like OCZ's Barefoot) Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkMarvell only provides the silicon - the firmware development is up to the manufacturer. Reply
hojnikb - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkIt's interesting to see that lower capacity versions perform better than m500, despite using the same die size flash. Is this because of the updated controller or more aggressive flash programming ? Reply
Samus - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkThey have the m550 controller but use the m500's NAND technology so the lower capacity drives are in between the m500 and m550 in performance. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkLikely just better optimization at the firmware level. Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkSo in theory, they could update the m500 and boost it's, if they wanted ? Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - link*write speed, silly me :)
(damn no edit option) Reply
nick2crete - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkWell ,i prefer to deal with Crucial than Adata even overseas where i am .. Reply
Hubb1e - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkI just wanted to let the writer and editorial staff know that a good number of people skip right to the end of the article for the normal recap of the article's main points. This is especially true for SSD articles which IMO are getting to be a commodity and aren't all that interesting anymore. I felt that the final words didn't do a good job of recapping where this drive stands in the overall SSD segment, didn't give much in the way of a pro/cons for this drive, and refereed too much to a comparison with a drive that I don't know much about. This seems like a new writer so I wanted to let the staff know about my opinion on this so he can improve his next article for Anandtech. Reply
mcnaughty - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkTotally agreed. Skip the waffle, we regular readers know all this already. Give us the numbers, and the interesting differences. Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkI agree. I read the whole article more often than not, but on some articles, where I'm pressed for time or don't have the same degree of interest in the subject of the review, I just read the introduction and the final words. As such, getting the gist of the whole article is very important.
Heck, even when I do read the whole article, it's still important. Sometimes a good summary at the end points out things that I missed, or gives me a better idea how to interpret the results. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkI've been with AnandTech for three years now, so I'm not exactly new :)
Since the SP920 is a rebranded M550, I think it's a must to look at the M550 review as well, which is why I referred to it so much. Now that I look it at, a mention of the SP920's position in the market wouldn't have hurt but as I mentioned in the introduction, our M550 review has broad coverage of that along with plenty of other stuff. Reply
hrrmph - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkAdata claims to have a software toolbox to ease the inconvenience of occasionally needing to do a Secure Erase and other functions. Crucial / Micron doesn't seem to offer that.
Samsung offers RAM caching software. Neither Adata nor Crucial / Micron seems to offer that. Reply
hrrmph - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkI would really appreciate it if the hole in the chart could be filled (the Samsung EVO's ratings with 25% spare area).
I take it that getting the sample drives from Samsung has been difficult? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, April 03, 2014 - linkWe do have EVO samples (well, Anand has, I don't) but you can see the EVO's OP behavior in the EVO mSATA review
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7594/samsung-ssd-840... Reply
nofly - Friday, April 04, 2014 - linkWill those PCIe drives mentioned in the article be an upgrade option for older motherboards (like a PCIe card) or will new hardware be required ? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, April 04, 2014 - linkMost PCIe SSDs in the near future will likely be just regular PCIe cards. Later we may see transition to 2.5" when/if SATA Express becomes a standard. Reply
Alientech - Saturday, April 05, 2014 - linkThe new ST3000DM001-1E6166 drives with the FC4x firmware seems to be using Shingled Magnetic Recording. Which means we need SSD caching all the more. Sure wish every one would pack one with the drive. With HDD write speeds dropping through the floor now, its a must. Even 250MB write speeds of a SSD is a huge improvement. Reply
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gamoniac - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - linkHi Kristian, on power consumption, you mentioned you were posting an update with HIPM+DIPM enabled. I searched through AT but didn't find any update. I know this is a year-old article but it would be nice to see that, since there were some SP920 on sales now. It seems like a pretty solid drive with very competitive pricing (256GB for $89 on newegg). Thanks. Reply


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The breakfast was large and varied. The staff was friendly and helpful. The room was large and clean.
Very pleasant stay, you feel like at home.
Nice place and super friendly B&B owner. Located at the outskirt of a small village in the hills of the Marmilla, thus very calm. Excellent breakfast (not so usual in Italy), tasteful design of the rooms. The baby cats were too shy to socialize:-))) More seriously, as the B&B is rather difficult to find when arriving, a couple of signs in the center of the village (or an accurate way description on the site) wouldn't harm.
Very helpful and enthusiastic young owner of this B & B A bit hard to loocate.
Excellent place, nice owners who speak very good English, fantastic pizza, excellent breakfast, very clean and nicely decorated the village is a rather quiet place
Wonderful family-run hotel in a striking restored building. It's a nice balance between a hotel and bed and breakfast. The staff were very friendly and welcoming, and the price was very reasonable. Recommended!
Amazing place to stay, very welcoming owner and a good bar/restaurant adjacent. The breakfast was stunning, by far the best over our three weeks in Italy and France. We would stay here again when we next visit Sardinia Nothing whatsoever.
The breakfast and staff were excellent. Nothing really, Wifi inernet and Sky TV would be bonuses for English speakers.
The family owners were always helpful and pleasant. If you don't speak Italian suggest a good phrase book as very little English spoken inland! You need a car to stay here. Very little restaurant choice locally however Domu'e Luna do excellent Pizza and the pub across the road very good food. At least 1 1/4 hrs to beach - recommend Buggarru, Chia, Pula. Excellent breakfast - set you up for the day. Enjoyed our stay very much
The breakfast was fabulous- fresh hard boiled eggs, cheese and salami, bread, yoghurt and little cakes. Oranges picked fresh from the garden trees. In a quiet vilage and quite rural area- which was nice, but in April it was difficult finding restaurants open.


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PGA sets 25th anniversary awards show date
The Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 25th anniversary awards show will take place on Jan 19, 2104.
The first ever show took place in 1990 under the name of the Golden Laurel Awards. The show was renamed the Producers Guild Awards in 2002.
Richard Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck took home the first award for best produced motion picture for Driving Miss Daisy.
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Controversy over the casting of white actors for the film version of The Last Airbender, a show filled with Asian characters, and the producers' sketchy decision to re-cast one evil character as Asian in response to the protests, inspired Claire at Hyphen to put together a trajectory of the whitewashing of Asian characters through U.S. history.
There's a lot of examples, so I've placed them after the jump.
Warner Oland plays Charlie Chan in Charlie Chan Goes to Shanghai (1935):
The Good Earth (1937) didn't have a single Asian person in a lead role:
Jennifer Jones as Han Suyin in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955):
John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror (1956):
Tony Randall as Dr. Lao in The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964):
David Carradine beats out Bruce Lee for the starring role in the TV series Kung Fu (1972):
Linda Hunt won an Oscar for her portrayal of Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982):
Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984):
Claire argues that around this time yellowface became unacceptable, so producers just started re-racing Asian characters as white. Some examples:
In the book, A Wizard of Earthsea, Ged is described as having red-brown skin. In the TV series, Earthsea (2004), he's white:
In the movie 21 (2008), based on a true story involving Asian Americans, several Asian characters are changed to white:
Finally, in Dragonball: Evolution (2009), a Japanese character Son Goku is rewritten as a white character:
Jen S. alerts us to a Disney movie in development based on a comic called The Weapon (2012). According to the Hollywood Reporter, the main character, a Chinese American named Tommy Zhou, will be played by a white actor named David Henrie.
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AFC Bournemouth chairman Eddie Mitchell has started work on resurfacing the car, coach and lorry park at Dean Court today, despite not having permission to do so.
On Monday, planning chiefs decided to defer the application for the resurfacing and laying out of the car park, asking for clarification on the number of car park spaces there would be and for more details on traffic management.
It was called into the Planning Board by ward councillor Nick King, who raised worries over public access to public green space, disruption to views across the park and the impact on road safety and parking amenities.
But, speaking to the Daily Echo yesterday, Cherries boss Mr Mitchell said he planned to begin work first thing this morning regardless – risking potential enforcement action – as waiting a month would see the offer of £600,000 funding from the club withdrawn.
The club says the work will stop flooding, fly tipping and use of the car park by drivers doing stunts.
Mr Mitchell said: "It's an addition to the application for the lorry park to be resurfaced and for some unknown reason the council asked us to make an application to remove the bund that's causing the car park to flood.
"That is part of the resurfacing of the car park and makes more land available for parking. We assumed that was OK and we planned to start work.
"I have to presume it's the case and we can get on and start resurfacing it.
"That's what we're going to do; we do not want to cancel.
"The biggest concern to me is funding was made available to start now and if it's deferred for a month that's going to be withdrawn."
The application had been recommended for approval, with planning officers saying it would bring a formal parking layout and new landscaped areas.
Cllr David Kelsey, Planning Board chairman, said members wanted more details on how match day parking would be accommodated.
"We are concerned that a loss of car park spaces in the area would lead to parking on local roads during match days," he said.
"This could inconvenience King's Park and Littledown residents and this was the basis of our decision to defer.
"We need clarity from the club on what agreements they will put in place to provide parking while their works take place," the councillor added.


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Now it's time to get on to a Pumpkin Loaf, or bread, because what kind of Pumpkin Week would it be if I didn't have a great pumpkin loaf as well? This recipe makes two loaves, which was perfect for my picky-pants husband, one was plain and the other was loaded with raisins and nuts for us normal people who like it that way.
2 1/2 cups of pumpkin
4 eggs
1/2 cup of oil
1/2 cup of applesauce
1/3 cup of water
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups of white sugar
3 1/2 cup of flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp ginger
Kick the tires and light the fires to 350 degrees.
Now, if you are a sharp cookie, you will notice that I don't have oil in my picture above. I changed my mind after taking it and starting the recipe, and decided that I wasn't willing to risk screwing up such a huge recipe by omitting ALL the oil, so I went half and half. Which turned out absolutely perfect, and you can't even tell you used applesauce for half of it. I would honestly think that a full cup of oil would be so greasy in this recipe, and I wouldn't recommend it at all. If you are brave you can use all applesauce, but the texture does change somewhat.
Mix your eggs, pumpkin,oil and applesauce in a large mixing bowl.
Mix in your sugars.
In another smaller bowl, whisk together all your dry ingredients.
Add the wet to the dry, and try not to over mix, because we are baking with persnickety pumpkin, after all, and nothing gets tougher when over mixed than pumpkin does.
Grease and flour two loaf pans. I poured half of my plain mix into one, then added a cup of raisins to the remaining half. I then poured it into the pan, and put toasted walnuts on top, pressing the walnuts into the batter so they stick on top. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 60 minutes, until a knife inserted comes out clean.
Now, there is a reason why the picture of the bread only shows the plain one. The one with raisins and nuts was gobbled up. That's the only word for it; gobbled. It came out of the oven, and by the time my Dad (whom I made this for in the first place, he loves his raisins and nuts) my brother, myself and my two kids attacked it, there were only crumbs remaining. My picky husband had the plain one, and though he can usually put paid to a baked loaf pretty well, there was enough to take a feature picture of.


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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: This cute guy rides a certain university-route bus and sits in front of me almost every day. He smells really good. I mean, really sexy. I always sit behind him, if I can get close enough for a whiff. Yesterday we both got up at the same time and bumped right into each other, and I just burst out, "You smell good!" He got all red, and jumped off the bus. Today he had recovered himself and said to me on the way out of the bus, "You smell good, too." Now what? I guess we both passed the sniff test, but I don't know what to do now. I'm not a good flirter and need specific help. -- Sniffer, Pembina Highway
Dear Sniffer: Flirting doesn't require being clever. It does require opening your mouth and talking about something, anything, no matter now inane. That means the next time you see him, you smile and say, "How are you today?" or "What's the name of your cologne?" or "Can I sit with you?" He can take it from there. If he doesn't know what to say, you could offer a second opener such as "Are you going to work or to school?" since a Pembina Highway bus could be his mode of transport to either. If he can't help out with this flirtation after two or three openers, think of him as an exotic potted plant on the bus, and forget about flirting with it.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I went out to dinner with a person I thought was a great guy. We are alike in so many ways -- at least online we were. But he didn't count on how hungry I would be. I ate one entree and it wasn't enough to fill me up, so I ordered a second one and told him I would pay for it, and then I had dessert. You should know I am a very skinny girl. When we were splitting the bill up, he looked at me and said, "I don't think I could afford to feed you, girl!" and he laughed. I didn't laugh. I always eat like this and I'm slim because I'm a marathon runner and I need a lot of calories to support my long daily runs.
He phoned and asked for another date "for drinks only" and made another crack about how much I eat. I went and had a pretty good time laughing and talking, but I don't know if I want this self-conscious feeling I'm getting about my eating. By the way, he's an athlete and he should know what it takes to keep going calorie-wise. -- Not a Fat Slob, Winnipeg
Dear Not Fat: Who said you were fat? He didn't. This guy had just never seen a woman eat with gusto like that. You need a better sense of humour about all this. "What's the matter, you can't keep up?" said with a big smile, would have started some fun conversation. Talk to the man about your metabolism and how many calories it takes to support a 10 K-plus run. The man needs an education right now, before you give up. Tell him his comments make you feel self-conscious and you can't keep hanging with him if you feel that way. He'll start whistling a different tune if he likes you.
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Nederlands Dagblad, one of the dailies of the Netherlands with approximately 35 thousand readers, devoted a place to the article titled "Muslims Look at Evolution with Suspicion" written by Door Willem Bouwman on December 12th, 2008. In the article, it is stated that the students of the University of Vrije in the Netherlands, making use of the works of Harun Yahya, argue with their lecturers stating that the theory of evolution does not exist. The article also mentions the following:
Muslim students who study Biology at the University of Vrije refuse the theory of evolution. This situation poses a problem for the lecturers… Meetings between lecturers and students were organized to discuss this problem The Muslim movement led by Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya… Oktar wrote books about this subject and his articles are published on the web site www.harunyahya.com. His works consist of ideas that refute the theory of evolution and claim that it is a deceit. Lecturers of biology at the University of Vrije face with the writings of Adnan Oktar as answers on exam papers of Muslims students who refuse evolution.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - For a sport where speed is king, NASCAR's Daytona 500 this year was one long waiting game.
First, rain led race officials to pull the plug Sunday -- the first time in Daytona 500's history. Then, continuing showers led them to re-reschedule the start from noon to Monday evening.
When the race finally got underway, a massive fire with 40 laps to go red-flagged it for a couple more hours, pushing the race into a third day.
In the end, Matt Kenseth crossed the finish line about 1 a.m. Tuesday, claiming the 54th running of "The Great American Race."
The Daytona 500 victory was the second for the driver, who edged out Dale Earnhardt Jr. and teammate Greg Biffle to take the checkered flag.
Those who made it to the end survived multiple accidents, including one on the second lap, and 10 caution flags.
Officials shut down the race for nearly two hours after Juan Pablo Montoya careened into the back of a jet dryer that was being used to blow debris off the track during a caution flag. Montoya's car, the jet dryer and the truck pulling it all burst into flames and also set a section of the track on fire.
Montoya said he had returned to the race track from pit row before the accident, after having the crew check out a vibration he was feeling in his car."I was in fourth gear. I wasn't even going that fast," Montoya told reporters.
"It just felt really strange and ... the car just turned right."
NASCAR said that they will investigate the situation and run inspections on the track with Daytona International Speedway to decide if a repaving the track is necessary.
Some 24 hours of intermittent rain forced Monday's prime-time start -- the first since the inaugural race in 1959.
Before this year, rain had cut short four of 53 previous races -- in 1965, 1966, 2003 and 2009 -- but none had been canceled for the day.
The Daytona 500 opens the NASCAR season, but it also is the sport's most prestigious race. Daytona International Speedway announced this month that the race will boast a record purse of more than $19 million. In comparison, last year's Indianapolis 500 had a payout of $13.5 million.
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Kitchen Trend For 2013: Untraditional Cabinetry, Wood
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Wild, wild wood: Cleaner, streamlined kitchens call for modern, untraditional cabinetry. When times get tough, spice up your kitchen. And over the past two years, both Steve Johnson, owner of Atelier Inc. in Scottsdale, and Allan Rosenthal, owner of Linear Fine Woodworking in Phoenix, have seen homeowners do just that — breathing life into their… Read More →


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The Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z which implements the Act, as well as Regulation M which covers consumer leasing, contain important provisions that affect any advertising to aid or promote the extension of consumer credit and should be carefully reviewed by every advertiser.
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Almond M&M's
Seriously? I'm the first here? Ok, ok, we all love Peanut M&M's, but have you tried the almond? It's kinda new and heading for a close tie with Peanut (my usual choice). Almond M&M's are less salty, less oily (in that peanuty way) and taste a little simpler to me (in a good way). They've got a lot of crunch though! I like the fact that it's got 50 calories and 9 carbs less than the peanut as well. They make a simple, but most importantly, filling snack. One bag is enough for me, thank heavens. Try them out, I think you'll like them!


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About eight community members attended Seattle City Council member Tom Rasmussen's Little City Hall at the Queen Anne Community Center (1901 First Ave. W.) on July 29. The small turnout made the event feel more like a political dinner-table discussion than a city hall event.
From Mercer Street to right-of-ways along Westlake Avenue to the monorail and bicyclists, transportation was a major topic at the meeting.
One big topic was Mercer Street changing to a two-way. One woman pointed out that the Mercer two-way change was designed many years ago, before the increased traffic from South Lake Union. With the added traffic, it's often easier to walk, she said: "I think people here have given up on buses because they're stuck in the same traffic."
As to what he could do about transportation problems, Rasmussen, chair of the council's Transportation Committee, said he could take them to the Seattle Department of Transportation to see what it can do and ask "why" if officials say no.
Multiple residents complained that the Aurora Bridge was dangerous and needed signs for the inevitable slowdown in the right lane as people turn at Raye Street. Signs on Aurora Avenue North are more complicated because it's a state road, Rasmussen said.
Bicyclists' bad behavior was another big topic. One community member suggested some way to tax or trace bicyclists. Bike taxes often don't pay off because they are so costly, Rasmussen said; he suggested current cyclists follow the rules, which will influence others to behave.
"We're in a time of transition with a lot of variety of [transportation] choices," he said.
As for Metro plans, sales tax and a one-year property tax seem to be the city's only options, he said: "We have to turn to [our taxpayers] more and more...for things that have traditionally been paid for by the state."
Another woman stopped into the meeting to talk about parking. She said on her street in Queen Anne, people will park their cars to take the bus elsewhere, sometimes leaving their cars for days at a time. That type of situation is not unusual, Rasmussen said.
Regarding growth, Rasmussen said he views his job as a City Council member to "see our neighborhoods have the highest quality of life as possible," he said. He noted the need for alternative transportation methods to support that density.
One of Rasmussen's goals is to save greenspaces and open spaces, and he wants to use the sites of Seattle City Light's no-longer-needed substations. State law dictates that City Light must be paid for the land, and with parks being short on money, Rasmussen wants to start a fund that would buy the substation sites to become greenspaces throughout the city.
When one neighbor said it seemed like there wasn't enough money to pay for all of the city's plans, like universal preschool and the Metropolitan Park District, Rasmussen replied, "What some may consider glamorous, others would think are fundamentals."
The meeting wrapped up with a discussion of the new district-based City Council in Seattle. Rasmussen said the only people to benefit from this new system are the candidates, who will have a significantly smaller area to campaign; the constituents will lose the attention of the other neighborhood-specific council-members.
"Some people feel their neighborhood was being neglected, so now [they think], 'At least we have one person in our area,'" he said. "But I said, 'You're losing eight.'"
Rasmussen said he does plan to run for the seat in his neighborhood of West Seattle.
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GALVESTON, Texas - Galveston Island beachgoers have been getting quite a surprise in the sand over the Memorial Day weekend. They're finding and smelling a lot of seaweed.
"Just step over it and keep going," beachgoer Judy Hartt said.
Folks are watching their step after mounds of seaweed continue to wash ashore.
"It comes from the Caribbean with the right winds and currents," said Peter Davis, chief of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol. "We always have it, but this year, we've had an unusually high amount."
Maintenance workers have been trying to keep up with the massive amounts of seaweed from the Gulf. They spent all Sunday night and Monday morning moving it to the back side of the beach, but more just keeps coming.
"It may not smell good, but it's Mother Nature's way of protecting the beach, so I'm all for it," said Tony Andrisek, a beach service worker.
The seaweed is beneficial to the beach, since it prevents beach erosion.
The beach patrol is advising beachgoers to be careful when they walk on top of the seaweed. Hidden debris can accumulate in the seaweed.
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YiAhn Bassinet
I would never guess that looking at this that's it's a bassinet. This modern design isn't JUST a bassinet. Bassinets are expensive and really useful for only 3 months. This particular piece of smart furniture turns into a table and chair or bookshelf and toy box after the 3 months so it always stays a piece that is useful. Got to love that!!


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As a registered Financial Advisor Associate, you will assist families and individuals managing their money. You will receive competitive compensation as well as increased earning potential for your service.
As a Financial Advisor Associate you will have the opportunity to develop a superior foundation to build on through targeted curriculum (Licensing, Learning & Coaching; Client Acquisition & Coaching; and Client Acquisition & Relationship Building). Financial Advisor Associates are prepared to take their place among our elite Financial Advisor workforce. As a Financial Advisor Associate, you will have access to state-of-the-art financial tools and technologies as well as sales and management mentoring. Wealth Management accepts only the top candidates to be FAAs. Compensation is commensurate with experience.
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Provide a high level of individualized, comprehensive brokerage financial services and investment strategies to clients.
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Balance management of referral activities, customer follow-ups and administrative tasks.
Analyze economic trends and apply to analysis of individual client needs.
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The best Financial Advisors are analytical self-starters with a proven, successful track record. They are skilled problem solvers who can offer specialized advice to help clients meet their wealth management needs.
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A MAN found guilty of murdering a Bournemouth father has been sentenced to life behind bars.
Stephen Gibbs, 34, was yesterday convicted of battering Rodger Tett to death last year after a drink-fuelled row.
Mr Tett, his fiancée Kim Trevillion, the defendant and his mother Annette had spent the afternoon together on September 7 drinking in the warm weather.
Gibbs, an alcoholic who had been abstinent for around two months prior to the day of the murder, drank almost a pint of vodka and four beers, and then called a drug dealer to the couple's home in Luckham Road.
He snorted up to three lines of cocaine off the dining room table before Mr Tett – who hated drugs – punched him twice in anger.
Gibbs then lashed out at his victim, who fell to the ground, before stamping twice on his head.
Mr Tett died at Southampton General Hospital on September 9.
Just an hour-and-a-half later, Gibbs was captured at a local convenience store on CCTV buying a scratch card and more vodka.
His own mother testified against him during his trial at Winchester Crown Court.
Michael Vere-Hodge QC, mitigating, said the defendant had a "disastrous background" and a life with "few advantages save for those he found for himself".
Sentencing, Judge Nigel Teare said: "Rodger Tett objected to a drug dealer coming to the house and wanted you out.
"He punched you twice in the face. You reacted by punching him, causing him to fall to the floor. There was evidence that when he was on the ground, you stamped on his head."
He said the jury had rejected his claim of self-defence with their verdict, but added that the case had a number of mitigating factors, including that the murder was not premeditated.
Gibbs, of Maxwell Road in Winton, will serve a minimum of 12 years before he is considered for parole.
He had pleaded not guilty to the single charge of murder, but was unanimously convicted by a jury.
Detective Sergeant Trevor Hawkins, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Team, said: "This is sadly another case whereby a tragic and unnecessary death has been caused by extreme violence fuelled by alcohol and drugs.
"I commend the initial action by police at the scene and their efforts to locate and arrest Gibbs so promptly, thereby preserving vital forensic evidence.
"I also commend the co-operation of witnesses in very difficult circumstances.
"I can only hope that the conviction of Gibbs can bring some degree of comfort and closure to the family and partner of Rodger Tett."
Rodger was a "bright shining light"
Paying tribute to Mr Tett, his family released a statement that read: "Rodger was a loving father, son, brother and uncle who we will miss every day.
"He was a bright shining light taken away too early in life for doing the right thing.
"Roger hated drugs and what they did to people and he paid for this with his life.
"We are so proud of you Rodger."


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This post is for all of the folks who every now and then find themselves walking around with a camera.
So – in no particular order – here are some resources to help you with your next strolling gig:
- 10 Tips for a Great Photowalk – from the folks at Digital Photography School
- And – the folks at DPS posted 8 Things to Bring on a Photowalk
- Jeff Revell's A Guide to Photowalking
- A Guide for New Photo Walkers – straight from the official Worldwide Photo Walk site.
- From ePhotoZine – here are Top Tips to Remember for a Photo Walk
- Nicolesy has these Ten Photowalking Tips
- And the folks over at Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques posted their 10 Tips for a Photo Walk