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Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2010 Boston
COMSOL is now accepting abstract submissions for the sixth annual meeting
on multiphysics simulation.
BURLINGTON, MA (April 5, 2010) - COMSOL, Inc., is pleased to announce that it will hold its sixth annual conference on multiphysics modeling and simulation October 7-9 at the Boston Marriott Newton. Engineers and Scientists are invited to submit abstracts describing projects in which they have made achievements using COMSOL Multiphysics(R). Authors of accepted submissions will present their work at the conference and submit a paper or poster for the conference proceedings. The proceedings CD circulation exceeds 100,000 worldwide.
Suggested topics for oral and poster presentations include:
- Acoustics
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- MEMS & Piezo Devices
- Multiphysics
- Numerical Methods and Optimization
- Optics & Photonics
- Plasma Physics
- Structural Mechanics
Abstracts should briefly summarize the individual or group's work, with particular focus on describing the problem, solution, results, and conclusions. Submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Program Committee, comprised of a panel of leaders in innovation from NIST, GlaxoSmithKline, Harvard University, and ExxonMobil, to name just a few. A complete Program Committee list has been announced on www.comsol.com/conference2014.
Abstracts submitted by the early bird deadline of June 25th will receive a discount on conference registration fees. The final deadline for the submission of abstracts is August 6th. Interested parties should visit www.comsol.com/conference2014 for complete guidelines on submitting and uploading an abstract.
For more information on the COMSOL Conference Boston 2010, visit www.comsol.com/conference2014.
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Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.
Since the 2006 budget year, the agency charged with stopping would-be illegal border crossers and smugglers from making it into the U.S. over land and sea borders has spent more than $1.4 billion on what is described as "administrative uncontrollable overtime," according to the data provided by the Border Patrol. In practical terms, agents average two hours a day in overtime.
Photos: 60 years on the U.S.-Mexico border
- Take a look back at over 60 years on the border, from the agents that protect it to the people that try to avert it. This slideshow is part of Myth vs. Facts, a special series from Viva Colorado about immigration.
That means agents can earn anywhere from 10 percent to 25 percent extra pay an hour for the first two hours of overtime, with the extra cash being steadily reduced every hour after that because of complicated overtime rules. Over the course of a year, an agent can earn about $15,000 more than the base salary, which for a more experienced agent is typically over $60,000 a year. Agents are limited to $35,000 in overtime annually.
The cost of overtime rose from about $155.8 million in 2006 to more than $331 million in 2011. That increase coincides with the addition of about 9,000 agents in the past six years and the drop of apprehensions to a nearly 40-year low, from more than 1 million arrests in 2006 to about 340,000 in 2011.
Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald D. Vitiello said patrolling the border can be an unpredictable job that requires longer hours from agents.
"The uncontrollable nature of the work is inherent in the primary duty of a Border Patrol agent and must be performed in order to get the job done," Vitiello said, adding that anything from making an arrest to talking to witnesses can keep an agent on duty beyond a scheduled shift. Often it stems from charging the Border Patrol for the time spent driving from a remote location to an agent's home base or staying late to finish the paperwork from an arrest or seizure of illicit cargo.
Still, with the government facing record deficits and the Department of Homeland Security likely to see more cuts, a system that builds in overtime the same way on the busy U.S.-Mexico border as it does on the relatively sleepy U.S.-Canadian border raises questions.
Most illegal border crossers are apprehended along the 2,000-mile long Mexican border in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In the budget year that ended in September, 18,506 agents made a combined 327,577 apprehensions - an average of nearly 18 apprehensions per agent. The agency spent about $283 million on overtime.
But along the northern border there have been far fewer arrests, a statistic long used to judge the amount of illegal activity along the borders. Patrolling about 4,000 miles of border with Canada, 2,237 agents made 6,123 apprehensions- an average of about three arrests per agent - in 2011. For example, the 201 agents in the Houlton Sector in Maine arrested just 41 illegal border-crosses. Agents on the northern border earned a combined $37 million in overtime pay.
The more than 200 agents assigned to the Border Patrol's headquarters also made a combined $4.8 million in overtime last year.
Vitiello defended the long hours and said agents need to have a strong presence on the border.

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SAAM Update: Resources are here!
The team at NSVRC hopes 2013 has been off to a great start. With the start of the new year, we are excited to share materials for the upcoming Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign of April 2013. SAAM resource CD's are in the mail on the way to delivery. Resources are now available online, in English and Spanish, and can be accessed at www.nsvrc.org/saam.
SAAM 2013 at a Glance
SAAM 2013 Theme: The 2013 Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign focuses on healthy sexuality and child sexual abuse prevention. This April, join the conversation. Start talking about healthy childhood development to prevent child sexual abuse.
SAAM Day of Action: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
SAAM Campaign Materials: www.nsvrc.org/saam and Spanish materials at: www.nsvrc.org/es/saam
SAAM Products: Notebooks, dry-erase boards and stickers available at: http://www.nsvrc.org/store
National SAAM Calendar: http://www.nsvrc.org/calendar
With guidance from partners and feedback from the field, SAAM 2013 resources focus on educating adults on healthy childhood sexual development. All adults (and young adults) in a community can play a role in child sexual abuse prevention by understanding age-appropriate behaviors, learning skills to support healthy development, and challenging negative messages.
The theme of healthy childhood sexual development grew from conversations and discussions prompted during SAAM's 2012 healthy sexuality campaign. Adults and advocates shared reflections on the gap in individual knowledge and a cultural silence around sex and sexuality. To protect children, adults often avoid any discussion of sexual development. This silence cannot support healthy development. By starting conversations in families, schools, gathering places and communities, we are able to support children, counter unhealthy messages, and set a standard of openness and accountability among adults. An overview on healthy sexual development, as well as specific resources for parents, community members, and prevention partners, explore this approach.
In addition to resources specific to healthy childhood sexual development, there are campaign materials to support outreach, education and advocacy efforts. Campaign materials include audience-specific tip sheets on sexual violence prevention, social networking tools, a proclamation, a sample Letter to the Editor and a list of event ideas. Be sure to fill us in on your SAAM events by posting them to our online calendar or sharing via Facebook and Twitter.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's swim team set new Sunshine State Conference records and represented well in the second day of the four-day NSU Shark Invitational as the Lions totaled 246 points and held their fifth place standing in the eight-team meet.
The highlight of the day belonged to Matheus Assis as he dominated to 100 Fly, breaking the SSC record with a time of 48.32 and a first place finish. The top result was also an NCAA 'B' cut qualifying time.
Assis's performance overshadowed an outstanding effort from Gabe Keown in the same event as he finish 12th in the finals with a time of 51.39.
Staying with the individual competition, Patrick Ceddia finished eighth in the 200 Free with a time of 1:40.38, which is also potentially a 'B' cut as well. Dillon Kasson finished 19th in the same event with a time of 1:45.64.
With the day's schedule of events holding two relays including the 200 Free and 400 Medley the Lions saw the 'A' relay group of Assis, Keown, Ceddia and Milton Alberto-Requejo turned heads in the 200 Free finals with a time of 1:22.18, good enough for a third place result. The 'B' relay grouping of Kasson, Rhet Rheinlander, Vashaad Fincher and Michael Marino touched in 10th place with a time of 1:26.45.
Reinlander, Fincher, Kasson and Jose De Jesus teamed up to place 10th in the 400 Medley touching with a time of 3:32.63.
Marino joined with Jackson Hall, Justin Wulff and Jan Dahrendorff to place 21st as the 'B' relay team in the same event.
At the halfway point of the biggest pre-conference meet of the season, the Lions will be back at the NSU Aquatics Center for the first competition of Day 3 at around 9:30 a.m.


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MALCOLM HAMILTON, Wittmayer harpsichord
MALCOLM HAMILTON, Wittmayer harpsichord
In 1691 the organist Andreas Werckmeister proposed the tuning system of equal temperament, dividing the octave into twelve equal intervals. This was to supersede once and for all the older tuning system, which was "in tune" for certain frequently-used scales only. Bach had himself always advocated equal temperament, and tuned his own keyboard instruments on this system. In 1722 he completed a collection of 24 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, which he called "The Well-tempered Clavier". He was to write another 24 some twenty years later, making the present total of 48.
Many of these 48 Preludes and Fugues go back to earlier versions, composed for example, for Anna Magdelina or Wilhelm Friedemann. Indeed work on the 48 spans almost the whole of Bach's working life. Certainly the 48 preludes and the 48 fugues go far beyond the mere illustration of well-tempered tuning, to become an almost complete study of the musical possibilities in keyboard preludes and fugues. It is little wonder that the fugues especially have formed the artistic basis for numerous counterpoint textbooks.
In this recording Malcolm Hamilton plays his two-manual harpsichord built in 1962 by Kurt Wittmayer of Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, pictured in our color presentations. It has two manuals: upper manual 8', 4'; lower manual 8', 16' with lute/buff stops on both lower registers. It is the firm contention both of performer and producer, for which we believe there is substantial historical evidence, that the instrument used in these recordings, with its strong 'Germanic' character, resembles far more closely that which Bach would have used, than the lighter, thinner sonorities of those currently dubbed as "authentic", and is particularly suitable to express the seriousness of purpose inherent in these works. Illustrated article: The Baroque German Harpsichord
Each prelude, each fugue is a complex structure with a wealth of detail; and it is the performer's object to take the listener slowly and quietly around each piece in this great exhibition, ensuring subtly but firmly that as much as possible of the fine detailing is transparently clear. These are strong, clear performances, taken at a measured pace, thematic entries and recitative passages clarified by the judicious use of terrace-dynamics. These are performances to teach, to demonstrate, to clarify, and above all, to enjoy. We know of none better.
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USA Today, March 26 2011
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Chicago native Rodney Walker faced obstacles that would have defeated most of us. At age five, Rodney and his siblings entered the foster care system, and over the next 13 years he was placed in 15 different homes. For a brief time, he was even homeless. All those moves meant 10 different schools. Connecting to teachers, role models, and his school work was next to impossible. Rodney was on the verge of dropping out when he discovered the entrepreneurship class at his final high school.
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More X99 Teasers: GIGABYTE's X99 Gaming G1 WiFiby Ian Cutress on 8/8/2014 5:18 AM EST
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duploxxx - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkgreat marketing, what doesnt fit in the name: Gaming G1 wifi....high end gaming, expesive cpu-gpu and make a wifi network connection :) no thx i will continue with 1Gb for now... Reply
Fallen Kell - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkYeah I agree with you on the wired vs wireless, especially in a product like this. I would much rather see 2 good 1 Gb/s network connections (i.e. good Intel NICs with teaming) than 1+wireless. Reply
danjw - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkWhy not? Most modern WiFi connections can beat the speed of most people's internet connection. Reply
jordanclock - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkSure, but intranet speeds are very important. If I'm pushing high bitrate 1080p videos or even 4K eventually, I will want my home network running gigabit to avoid saturation. Reply
frag85 - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkAlso comes down to connection quality (and reliability). WiFi is pretty shotty for certain types of gaming. Reply
dgingeri - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkGiven my past experience with Gigabyte boards, a P43, a AMD 970, and a X79 boards, from the quality of their bios and driver support to the quality of their boards in general, this just doesn't interest me. I just want to warn people away from these guys. These guys are the Chrysler of the motherboard industry. Reply
RussianSensation - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkMy experience is the completely opposite of yours. Gigabyte P965, P35, P45, X48, P55, P67, Z68, Z77, Z87 have all been rock solid. Their boards in fact have been so awesome that I overclocked E6400 to 3.4Ghz on a $90 board, Q6600 G0 to 3.4Ghz on a $120 board and kept both systems running 24/7 doing distributed computing with 99% CPU load for 3 years each.
Each generation the difference between Gigabyte, MSI, Asus and Asrock keeps shrinking. For overclockings, the Gigabyte SOC Force have been near the top:
While Gigabyte UD3H and UD5H series are rock solid boards. They now even have the Black Series with 168 hour server testing. Really, there are no Chrysler makers among the top 4. We are talking Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Lexus. They are all so close now. Reply
dgingeri - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkyeah, well, that hasn't been my experience over the years. They beta tested and then released a bios on my x79 board that kept my screen saver from kicking in, kept the processor cores from going idle or downclocking, kept the monitor powered on, and turned off the PCIe x1 slots so my sound card wouldn't work, then set up the update program for that bios to not allow a backdate for the bios to restore the old version. It took me two weeks to get a response to get a program that would backdate the bios. (I shared it out on my dropbox account so everyone can access it now. BTW, if anyone reading this has a x79-UP4 board and update to the F4, F5, or F7 bios, I have a program that can revert it to the more functional F3. It won't work with IB-E, but it will actually work.) Reply
Senor.Jalapeno - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkHave you been secretly using my computers? With the exception of P67, I've used every single motherboard you've used and my experience is the same as yours but for the overclocking. I've never overclocked but push my machines to the limit but Gigabyte motherboards have never been anything but reliable. Reply
frag85 - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkI'm finding Gigabyte boards aren't that bad and the one time I used their service department for a warranty claim it was smooth , but they seem to burn it quick. I get 2 maybe 3 years out if them (several boards in a row now) , on the other hand I have had Asus boards for at least 2x as long and never quit even when being pushed hard. Reply
casteve - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkIsn't X99 Gaming an oxymoron? Why in the world would you spend money for a Haswell-E based gaming system when most games peak with an i5? Reply
Assimilator87 - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkThe main reason would be to run four video cards with minimal bottlenecking from the PCIe lanes. In conjunction with 20nm GPUs, I believe that would be sufficient to game on a triple UHD display configuration. Reply
dgingeri - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkMost games, for now. You might not realize it, but the newest consoles are both 8 core AMD processors. In order to get the most out of those consoles, the software developers are learning, right now, how to program their games for 8 threads. It won't be much longer before that becomes a mainstay within gaming. Our games will all begin sing more than the 4 threads we are used to right now.
It's funny. Games always move forward. They begin to use what people have. It's the "build it and they will come" strategy. You honestly don't think all our future games will be limited to 4 core processors, do you? Reply
StevoLincolnite - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkThat would be true if...
1) Consoles actually used all 8 cores for gaming, but they don't, they only use 6.
2) Jaguars single threaded performance is in orders-of-magnitude slower than a modern Core i3/i5/i7 core, 6 Jaguar cores are probably equivalent to a Core i3 in total compute performance.
3) The PC is shifting to more efficiency with console-like low-level optimizations at the API level, things like Mantle, nvapi and Direct X 12 as well as some improvements in OpenGL all push towards that goal.
Conversely, you just need to take a look at the Pentium Anniversary processor to see that "More cores" aren't everything, it's able to play in the same ballpark as the Core i5 even in heavily threaded games, despite the i5 having twice the processing cores, more cache, more bandwidth etc'.
Just through overclocking.
And lastly, over the decades the CPU has slowly been doing less and less when it comes to gaming, Before TnL (Texture and Lighting) for instance, the CPU used to handle all those calculations, then it was shifted to the TnL unit and now it's done in a GPU's pixel shader hardware.
Things like Anti-Aliasing are typically done on a consoles CPU rather than the GPU too, mostly just framebuffer effects like Morphological, on the PC, the GPU handles that task.
Those who have a Quad-Core Core i5, that's Sandy or newer are pretty much set for years to come, provided you don't mind overclocking, heck, people still hang onto the Core 2 Quad, albeit overclocked to 3.6ghz+ as it still handles every game fine, that's a processor that's 6-7 years old.
Will we need 8 cores for gaming in the immediate future? Unlikely. - The consoles are *still* holding back the PC with it's low-end and mid-range anemic hardware. Reply
dgingeri - Monday, August 11, 2014 - link1. where have you heard this? This is not what I've heard.
2. doesn't matter, they're still learning to program to accommodate more cores and more threading.
3. So you say. It depends greatly on what people do with their machines. I'm pushing more and more for voice recognition/ command and more overall capabilities. I run a VM on my system nearly 100% of the time, specifically for web surfing. (Windows 8.1 main OS with Ubuntu as the VM OS.) The 32GB of memory I have on my system is constantly at 50%+ usage, partly due to the VM, but also due to voice recognition, system monitoring, game clients, and other things. There will always be people pushing their systems to do more, and that "console-like low-level optimization" attitude is not exactly going to be the only path for personal computing.
I never said that "more cores" are everything right now. I'm saying that game programmers are learning to use more cores, mainly due to the new consoles. You can't deny that. Because of that, games will be able to use the extra cores in the higher end processors, so they aren't useless.
Graphics are the bottleneck for now, but that won't always be the case. A Core i5 4670k may be the most powerful processor needed for maximum performance for many games, but that certainly won't the case in the near future. The next couple generations of graphics cards will probably need more powerful CPUs to drive them. Nvidia has already geared their drivers to accommodate more cores.
On top of all that, there are some games that do use more core right now. World of Warcraft and Star Trek online both have a bit of an improvement on a Core i7 3930k over a 4790k. I ought to know, I just switched back over this past weekend. My previous x79 board was going out, and I didn't want to wait several months for the Haswell-E, and I bought an Asus x97-WS with a Core i7 4790k. What a disaster that was. It turned out that the Devil's Canyon wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and suffered from tons of thermal throttling. Under load in Star Trek Online, it would thermally throttle down as low as 3.7GHz, and that was just 50% usage. WoW performance was even worse. Same Corsair H100i cooler, the 4790k would exceed 90C consistently while at stock clocks, while the 3930k stays under 40C overclocked to 4.2GHz. The whole platform turned out to be a total waste of money. I finally got a new Asus X79 Sabretooth to replace my old Gigabyte X79-UP4, and switched everything back over. The performance difference was startling. I hadn't even realized how much performance I gave up switching to that Haswell POJ. I also saw much more stable frame rates. I didn't see the jumping with the 3930k that I saw with the 4790k, where the processor would thermally throttle downward, lag a few frame renders, and then catch up. The 3930k handled it with ease.
On top of all that, there is also the matter of the massively more useful I/O config of the socket 2011 platform. The socket 1150 platform is stuck with only 16 lanes of PCIe, where the socket 2011 platform has so many more lanes to use. I got my Z97-WS because it uses a PLX bridge chip to give 4 PCIe x8 slots, for my dual GTX680s and my RAID controller. It was the only way a Z97 platform could handle such things. It may have worked, if the CPU hadn't been so sucky at handling heat. The slot layout of the x79 Sabretooth isn't to my liking, but I can still handle all the cards I have currently, without the PLX bridge.
Overall, I don't subscribe to your opinions, but I can prove that this upcoming Haswell-E platform is anything but useless. Plenty of people, including me, have a use for it. Unfortunately, I fell victim to opinions like yours and bought into the socket 1150 craze, and now I'm going to have to wait with my 3930k for another year before I can get the money together to replace it. I'll just make my 4790k into a nice router and server in the mean time. Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link
Intel could have avoided a lot of this madness by just making midrange chips have
more like 24 lanes or 32, while bumping up IB-E revision to 80 or something. People
seem to have forgotten that P55 had the same 16-lane limit and at the time that was
regarded as _low-end_, while 4-core X58 was 'mainstream' (the venerable i7 920)
and 6-core X58 was high-end, the latter two giving a lot more lanes. P55 worked
very well though because of it's lower latency, and some boards like the ASUS P7P55
WS used switches to offer x16/x16 or x8/x8/x8/x8 (I have two of them), but it's just
so weird now that the small number of lanes with Z97/HW is regarded as mainstream
and normal; how did that happen??
I agree with you dgingeri, people have bought into this limited functionality craze way
too much. Btw, I'm intrigued you didn't consider the P9X79 WS or E-WS as those
have excellent multi-GPU features and the same oc'ing potential as the R4E, etc. Mine
has four GTX 580 3GB cards, 64GB @ 2133, 3930K @ 4.7, etc.
Will you switch to X99?
Ian. Reply
Durolith - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - linkQ9550 @ 4 ghz since 2009 the 8 core really tempting my since my cpu bottleneck a single HD7950 and i run em in crossfire ... RSI gotta need some juice Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link
4K gaming, more PCIe lanes to cope with multiple GPUs. Using a mainstream
chipset for such a task with only 16 lanes from the chip is crazy IMO, severely
limits the options for getting the most from multiple GPUs at that kind of res.
Some board makers get round this by using PLEX chips to offer x16/x16 or
x8/x8/x8/x8 on mainstream boards (eg. like Asrock did with its Z68 Extreme7),
but that merely proves the point that mainstream chips are starved for PCIe
lanes, especially with makers now using some of those lanes for newer storage
tech which involves all sorts of messing about (use X, or Y, but not both, etc.)
I want to build a 4K gaming system soon, probably with two Maxwell cards. It'll
be X99, likely with the 5930K. The only thing that could scupper my plans is if
NVIDIA is dumb enough to release the 800 series cards with less than 4GB RAM,
and preferably 6GB. They've been so scared of harming Quadro sales recently,
forcing users to go with Titan if they want 6GB+ (wrongly so IMO, many pro users
will not buy Titan anyway, for various reasons), or of course they buy AMD instead.
We shall see...
Meanwhile, for solo professionals, X99 is ideal for supporting multiple GPUs with a good
CPU/RAM balance at the same time, plus hefty storage I/O. There's a fair bit of overlap
between these two potential markets.
Ian. Reply
TEAMSWITCHER - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkWhen is "Launch Day?" Does anyone know? I'm not interested in this particular board, but waiting for the X99 chip set and three new CPU's from Intel...has been excruciating. DDR4 support is the only thing that we haven't seen before and it's largely derivative. More SATA III ports and native USB 3.0 have been in the "non-enthusiast" chip sets for one and two years respectively. Everything else is pretty much the same...These X99 motherboards don't look or function much different than the X79 motherboards they will replace. I just can't help to think that this should all have happened last year... What's the big f'ing deal Intel? Reply
dgingeri - Friday, August 08, 2014 - link"Launch day" is likely some time in September, according to rumor.
I couldn't wait for the X99 because my Gigabyte motherboard was going out, so I decided to "upgrade" to a Z97 Haswell system. What a disastrous mistake that was. Now my money is all tied up in a Z97 motherboard, 4790k process, and memory, and yet the whole thing doesn't even overclock to match my 3930k. I overclock it, but the damn chip thermally throttles back down to base clock rate when it get busy even though I have a H100i cooler. The only advantage is that I have more 6Gb SATA ports. The mainstream Haswell architecture sucks, mostly due to the chip packaging, and that's where Haswell-E does so much better. It probably won't be thermally throttling back down to base clocks like the mainstream does.
I went with the x79 back in the day because I had two video cards and a raid controller, so I needed more PCIe lanes than the mainstream SB allowed. I am at the same point now, but different video cards and raid controller now. (I had dual GTX470s and a 3ware 9650 three years ago, now I have dual GTX 680s and a Dell H710. Believe me, the raid controller makes a HUGE difference in storage performance. I hate waiting for things to load. Well worth the money.) The X99 definitely has a place with gamers. Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link
I'm just disappointed the 5930K is only going to be a 6-core. That makes the 8-core largely
unaffordable to so many who've been waiting for HW-E. I thought what Intel was going to
do was simply bump up the entire baseline from X79, ie. entry chip is a 6-core (akin to
the 4820K), other two above both 8-core, with the latter being separated by the same kind
of cache, base/turbo clock & sampling differences we've seen with SB-E and IB-E. Instead,
we have 4-core entry, 6-core middle and 8-core at the top. That's dumb. It means to a large
extent, the speedup from a 3930K to a 5930K isn't really going to be that much at all, and
likely not worth the platform update given the cost of the new mbd & RAM.
So, X99/5930K fine for a new build, but may well suck value-wise as an upgrade (even
more so for those with IB-E setups).
Ian. Reply
Meaker10 - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkLooks like a m.2 pcie wireless card rather than mini pcie to me. Look at the screw position. Reply
dgingeri - Friday, August 08, 2014 - linkIf you look just to the right of the bottom of the wireless card, you'll see the M.2 card connector. The M.2 SSD would actually sit over the wireless card. Reply


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PENSACOLA, Fla. - The Saint Leo softball team (3-3) concluded action at the SSC/GSC Crossover Tournament by going 1-1 against a pair of regional opponents, Sunday afternoon from the UWF Softball Complex. The Lions opened morning action by dropping an 8-2 decision to the University of West Florida (4-0), before turning back Palm Beach Atlantic (2-3), 3-2, in the afternoon game.
Brittany Yates provided the offensive fireworks for Saint Leo on the second and final day of the tourney, going 3-for-6 from the plate with a home run and three RBI. Dianne Gonzalez also went 3-for-6 from the plate connecting on a trio of singles. Tiffinee Harvey ended play going 2-for-6 and driving in the game-winning RBI against the Sailfish. Amber Martyn rounded-out the four, two-hit efforts by going 2-for-6 from the dish. Jessica Figueredo scored one run and connected on her first collegiate hit, while Danielle Moreda, Elysha Agen and Sarah Boyd concluded the Lions attack, combining for three singles.
In game one, Saint Leo immediately faced a deficit, as the Argos used four hits to collect two runs off of the Lions' Jaime Walker. Saint Leo answered in the bottom half of the inning as Yates connected on her first home run of the 2010 season, scoring Ana Castillo, to tie the game at two apiece.
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locuroso wrote:There is also no need of double conconants such as: dd, tt, ll, rr, ss and so on. With the exception of g: for instance English can be pronounced with or without the 'g' sound. (either a nasal 'e' sound followed by an 'n', or the nasal 'e' sound followed by an 'ng') So with the new spelling English can be spelled either: Ínglix or Íngglix, depending on how you pronounce the word.
First off, I don't think an orthography that can change depending on how someone pronounces a word is a bad idea. There would be too much deviation in spelling after a while, I personally think that it would be too confusing. Some double letters would be important for example moose and mousse would look and sound the same. You also loose the distinction between in and inn and to and too (and two).
ai- always pronounced like 'i' in spine.
ei- always pronounced like 'i' in spike or like
I'm pretty sure there isn't any variety in the way those i's are pronounced both being /aɪ/.
Two more questions, first what about the digraph er by some it is pronounced /ɚ/ and by others /ə/. In your alphabet raitѳ raitɛ reitѳ reitɛ all sound like writer. (And the way I pronounce words, rider also.) Also what is your solution for wh being pronounced as by most as /w/ but by some as /ʍ/?
Also đeɛ (đeѳ) would be how you write there, their, and they're. Problems could arise in statements such as their dogs and they're dogs looking the same. You also loose the contraction of the last one đé ár changing into đeɛ. (And I believe in non-rhotic it would be đé á into đeѳ).
I apologize if any of my points are invalid my mind is foggy at the moment. One point I couldn't figure out how to explain is how non-rhotic accents extend vowels in words such as hard and car and if this could be a problem since there is no way to show this extension.


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I was so proud of my younger sister when she graduated college I decided to give her the theme party she always wanted - a candy theme!
I was so proud of my younger sister when she graduated college I decided to give her the theme party she always wanted - a candy theme!
Drawing from the round shape and bright colors of her favorites - Smarties, Nerds, Skittles, etc. I put together a dessert bar and decked our yard in bright round decorations.
Lauren, my sister, insisted we keep it a casual and low-key celebration, so we invited some family and friends over for a BBQ. Take a peek at the party and use our crafty DIY ideas to inspire a celebration of your own! They may be graduation themed, but these handmade paper decorations can be adapted to fit any party.
This was the dessert bar in all it's glory. I tried to get as many desserts on there as possible. Though it was essential we have tons of candy I also wanted to provide guests with a few other choices.
In addition to those labels I really got crafty with a bright backdrop. I was a bit hesitant to make this because I thought it'd be too time consuming but it turned out quite easy to do.
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In addition to candy, we needed cupcakes! Here's a shot of the Cotton Candy ones I made. These cupcakes were a hit with the kids as well as the adults. At first I was nervous they'd be too sweet, but they were delish!
For a less sugary option that I knew grandma would appreciate, I made these basic vanilla buttercream cupcakes. This cupcake recipe is super easy - keep it semi-homemade and follow our directions to make for your next party!
Cosmic Brownies were some of mine and my sister's favorite treats as kids. Though we're still fans, I made a homemade version. Couldn't have been easier and they looked fantastic on the table.
The final dessert on my table was a last-minute deal. The display was feeling a bit empty and I had a left-over platter to use, so I put together oatmeal whoopie cookies. Again, really easy.
I had a budget to stick to with this party, which meant I had to get creative but also shop smart. I found these clear plastic canisters at WalMart for just $6 - total! To dress them up for my dessert table I used Removable Glue Dots® to tack on handmade labels.
I also made a banner to hang over the buffet table we set up for food and drinks. This followed the bright circle candy theme as well!
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Hey guys, basically, I know how to create a drop down menu, as well as a submit button, but I'm not sure how I would go about linking them to pages?
What I mean is...say there is 2 drop down menus. If I choose an option from both menus and click submit, it will bring me to a page on my site. I could also do a combination of Option 1 on the first drop down, but option 2 on the second.
Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? Or could provide me with the code I'm fairly certain it's mainly html based, but I could be wrong, and it could use php, if it does, please let me know and I could create a thread in that forum
Here is my current code, with no link. Let me know

Drop down one:
<select id="typefield">
<option>Option 1</option>
<option>Option 2</option>
<option>Option 3</option>
<option>Option 4</option>

Drop down two:
<select id="stylefield">
<option>Option 1</option>
<option>Option 2</option>
<option>Option 3</option>
<option>Option 4</option>

<input type="submit" name="submitsearch" value="Search"/>
You can only add such functionality by using Javascript. I don't see why you'd want to, though. These types of menus are poor for accessibility. A much better option is to make a CSS-based drop-down menu.
Users are just going to a page? You want hyperlinks then.

Option1

Option2

Option3

Option4

Dropdowns are nested versions of this. Hyperlinks already automagically send users' browsers to another page. You can set variables in the URLs if needed.
If you really, really, really want/need people to be able to make two selections at once, then you want a form, but as C. Ankerstjerne mentioned, using a dropdown for them makes life more unnecessarily difficult than you'd want to bother for most people.
Think long and hard about what people are supposed to do, what they expect to do, and what most other websites do. For usability reasons this dropdown method you propose has mostly been abandoned, but maybe this is a demand that you can't turn down... in which case, if you build such a thing, you'll have to be aware of the pitfalls.
If you choose the form and the Post-request-get method then the PHP section could help you on what that script would need to do, and we can guide your HTML.
Thanks for the help so far, but I think you guys have my plans mixed up (Sorry I didn't clarify more in original post :P). Basically, I don't want this to be apart of the navbar in any way. I basically want a drop down so users can search different parts of the content on my soon-to-be website.
If they come to the site for Option A...they may choose that on the drop down and it will send them to a page with <Option A>. Hope that clears it up, but I believe I would still need java.
Okay, maybe this is a search form.
If Option A is a URL, then it's still a hyperlink. Most web sites are broken up into different pages representing different sections.
s/java/javascript/g but generally that should never be necessary for basic site functionality... HTTP and HTML do everything necessary except dynamic page updates, which themselves are nothing more than an enhancement you could add to an already-working HTTP-HTML setup anyway (Hijax, the layering of ajax/Javascript on top of a working form).
Anyway, assuming this is a search form:
I personally like PRG, because it keeps back button functionality.
Your form is a POST to your back-end script, and sends two values. The backend script's job might not really be to build a URL out of param/values if this is search... it might have to feed these values to your search function, I dunno what you have set up. BTW I don't see a "nothing" option in your selects. Meaning people will always be sending two options. If one should be a default, give it the selected="selected" attribute. Otherwise, create another option, set it first, and give it whatever your script knows as a null value.
Anyway eventually whatever your script is supposed to do, it will send back a URL to the browser as a response as if the browser had done a GET. This means, if the user hits the back button, then end up on the original page (and if you aren't using sessions to store what they've selected, then it will depend on the browser whether or not the selected values remain selected in the form).
Here would be an example of your HTML
<form id="someid" action="path/to/yourscript" method="post">
<legend>What This Form Does</legend>
(optional div here for styling)
Drop down one:
<select id="typefield" name="typefield">
<option value="value1">Option 1</option>
<option value="value2">Option 2</option>
<option value="value3">Option 3</option>
<option value="value4">Option 4</option>
(close optional div)
(optional div here for styling)
Drop down two:
<select id="stylefield" name="stylefield">
<option value="value1">Option 1</option>
<option value="value2">Option 2</option>
<option value="value3">Option 3</option>
<option value="value4">Option 4</option>
(close optional div)
<input type="submit" value="Search"/>
Whether or not you want a name attribute on the submit I believe depends on whether you want the submit itself to be a part of what you send to the script. Usually people don't need it but the PHP guys could tell you for sure if you explained what exactly you needed.
The legend is required if you use fieldset with HTML4. It is not required if you are using XHTML1, though it is strongly recommended. If you already have a header tag before the form explaining what it does, you can wrap a span around the text inside the legend and pull it offscreen with absolutely positioning. <legend>What This Form Does</legend>
The labels are Good Ideas in forms, even if you feel the function of the dropdowns is obvious. Test on a grandma before making that assumption. If she knows, great: hide the labels offscreen using same abso-po technique, and use the for attribute on the labels to match the id of the selects.The name attributes on the selects should send the value attribute's value of the options on submit.
That default HTML is fairly ugly on its own, but CSS can make it look however you want (including taking off-screen what you don't want to appear visually). Divs wrapped around each label-select pair might make styling easier, since divs are blocks and labels and selects are inlines (or, in some browsers, selects and other inputs are inline-blocks).
How's your CSS?
Wow thanks for all the info, I'm still learning, but slowly improving and this helped a lot
The only other issue I've come across now is that once my form is setup...and everything is looking great...the images don't align the same when checking on other browsers such as Safari or IE (I edited CSS in firefox). Is this another noobie mistake? D:
Stomme's example is fine, but I would like to suggest using GET in stead of POST. By using GET, you will allow users to link to the results. POST should be reserved for forms that adds, updates or deletes data in your database, or sends an e-mail or something else that should only be done once. For all other cases, use GET.
Christian I agree with the basic sentiment, except how does this work with the back button if the back-end script is creating URLs? Without Javascript making them in the front (updating the form action URL, which then is just a regular get), the script has to build it and then send it back...?
It can be done either as a URL with variables, or as a 301 redirect. Neither give any problems with the back button, as you can see from this example.


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ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2: 2 GPUs 1 Card, A Return to the High Endby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/28/2008 12:00 AM EST
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Cyspeth - Thursday, February 21, 2008 - linkAt last a return to multi-processor graphics acceleration. More power for the simple expedient of more GPUs. I look forward to getting two of these babies and setting them up for crossfire mode. Quad GPU FTW.
This card seems to check out pretty nicely, and I haven't heard of many problems as yet. I've heard of only one really bad X2 horror story, which was a DOA, and ATI happily replaced the defective card. Anyone who would rather an nvidia 8800 is out of their mind. Not only is it less powerful and less value for money, but nvidia is really stingy about replacement of defects, not to mention they don't have one reliable third party manufacturer, in the face of ATI's 2 really good ones (Sapphire and HIS).
I've never had a problem with any ATI card I've owned, but every single nvidia one has had some horrible design flaw leading to it's horrible, crippling failure, usually through overheating.
It's good to see an honest company making some headway in the market. I would hope that ATI can keep up their lead over nvidia with this (or another) series of card, but that doesn't seem likely with their comparative lack of market share Reply
MadBoris - Saturday, February 02, 2008 - linkWhile it's good to see AMD do something decent that performs well finally, I'm not so sure it's enough at this stage. AMD needs all the good press they can get but $450 seems a bit much when comparing it to the 8800GT @ $250 without a large towering lead. Furthermore the 8800 GT SLI gives it a pretty good stomping @ $500. Hopefully the multi-gpu solution is more painless and driver bugs get worked out soon.
Also, it would be a big disappointment and misstep for Nvidia not to produce a single GPU real soon that ties or supersedes 8800 ultra SLI performance. It's been 15 months since 8800 ultra came out, that's normal time for a generation leap (6800,7800,8800). So unless Nvidia has been resting on it's laurels it should produce a killer GPU, and then if they make it a multi-GPU solution it should by all means smoke this card. Here's hoping Nvidia hasn't been sleeping and just make another minor 8800 revision and call it next gen, then by all means ATI will be a competitor. Reply
MadBoris - Saturday, February 02, 2008 - linkAlso from a price/performance ratio it would be nice to see how it performs against a 8800GT SLI 256MB in current games. 8800 GT 256MB SLI can be had for $430 and I would guess it would perform better at low-med resolutions than this x2. Reply
Giacomo - Saturday, February 02, 2008 - linkI wouldn't spend four hundred bucks for gaming at 1280x*, one single 512MB GT or GTS is more than enough for that.
And as you scale up to 1680*1050, I personally believe that buying 2x256MB is silly. Therefore, I believe that the 512MB one is the only reasonable 8800GT.
Your plan sounds like low-res overdriving and doesn't seem wise to me.
Giacomo Reply
MadBoris - Saturday, February 02, 2008 - linkIt's not my plan, I just said it would be good for a price/performance comparison for something like a future review.
Although I no longer game at 1280, doesn't mean others don't and 2-8800gt's with more performance and less price may be beneficial for them. Personally I think SLI is a waste anyway, but if you are considering an X2, 8800 SLI is an affordable comparison whether at 256 or 512. Reply
Aver - Friday, February 01, 2008 - linkI have searched through anand's archive but I couldn't find the command line parameters used for testing Unreal Tournament 3 in these reviews. Can anybody help? Reply
tshen83 - Thursday, January 31, 2008 - linkThat PLX bridge chip is PCI-Express 1.1, not 2.0. Using a PCI-Express 1.1 splitter to split 16x 1.1 bandwidth into 8x 1.1 bandwidth to feed two PCI-Express 2.0 capable Radeon HD3870 chips shows AMD's lack of engineering efforts. They basically glued two HD3870 chips together. Talking about the HD3870, it is basically HD2900XT on 55nm process with a beat up 256bit memory bus. Not exactly good engineering if you ask me.(props to TSMC, definitely not to ATI)
Scaling is ok, but not great. The review failed to review dual HD3870x2s in Crossfire, basically to show the 4 Radeon HD3870s in Crossfire mode. I have seen reports say that 4 way scaling is even worse than 2 way. It is scaling in Lg(n) mode. Adding 2 more of the Radeon 3870s is only 40% faster than two way HD3870. Reply
Giacomo - Thursday, January 31, 2008 - linkThat's always curious to see users talking about "lacking of engineering efforts" and so on, as if they can teach Intel/AMD/nVIDIA how they should implement their technologies. PCI-X 2.0 is now out, and then we start seeing people who look at the previous version as it definitely should be dismissed. Folks, maybe we should at least consider that the 3870 design simply doesn't generate so much bandwidth to justify a PCI-X 2.0 bridge, don't we?
Sorry, but I kinda laugh when I read "engineering" suggestions from users, supposedly like me, independently from how good their knowledge is. We're not talking about a Do-It-Yourself piece of silicon, we are talking about the last AMD/ATi card. And the same, of course, would apply to an nVIDIA one, to Intel stuff, and so on. The most correct approach I think it would be something like this: "Oh, see, they put a PCI-X 1 bridge in there, and look at the performance, when it's not cut by bad driver support, the scaling is amazing... So it's true that PCI-X 2.0 is still overkill, for nowadays cards".
That one sounds rationale to me.
About Crossfire, CrossfireX is needed for two 3870X2 to work together, and I've read in more than one place on the web that drivers for that aren't ready yet. Apart from this, before spitting on scaling and so on, don't forget that all these reviews are done with very early beta drivers...
Giacomo Reply
Axbattler - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkI seem to remember at least one review pointing out some fairly dire minimum frame rates. Basically, the high and impressive maximum frame rate allowed the card to have more a very good average frame rate despite a few instance of very dire minimum frame rate (if I remember correctly, it sometime dips below that of a single core card).
Did Anand notice anything like this during the test? Reply
Giacomo - Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - linkThat's not exactly right. I mean, the average is not pulled up by any incredible maximum, it works in a different way: the maximum are nothing incredibly higher than the normal average, simply those minimum are rare, due to particular circumstances in which the application (the game) loads up stuff in the card while it's rendering, and it shouldn't do. This is the juice of an ATi's answer posted in the review by DriverHeaven. They told ATi about these instantaneous drops and that was the answer.
Of course, remaining the fact that other cards didn't show similar problems, I believe that the problem is more driver-related, and ATi should really work fast to fix issues like this one.
However, DriverHeaven reported that this issue showed up mostly in scenario-loadings indeed, and therefore wasn't too annoying.
For what I've understood.
My two cents,
Giacomo Reply
Blacklash - Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - linkI'd like to see a round up of ATi and nVidia's current mid to high range. Test them in games that allow 8xAA. I am hearing around in quite a few places ATi cards catch up or pass nVidia when you move from 4x to 8xAA. I'd love to see Anand prove this or debunk it. Reply
Giacomo - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkI have to admit, even being a fan of nVIDIA, that I fell in love with this card. I like it in almost every aspect, I'm astonished by its combination of complexity and smooth working. Well: almost smooth, due to beta drivers. And this is an element of bigger interest too: there's even a bigger distance to put between itself and the rivals, when mature drivers are released.
That said... I'm designing the last points of my new machine, I was ready to go with a 8800GTS 512MB, but suddenly stopped to look at this one... And I think I'll go with it.
But... On which motherboard? These are the thoughts I'd like to share with you, I ask you: did you notice that Anandtech ones are among the best results in the various X2 reviews online? And did you notice they're obtained on a 780i platform?
Initially, the most obvious idea was to buy this card together with an Asus Rampage Formula, so nicely reviewed on these pages. But now, looking at the system used for this review, the question: wouldn't my dear old desired eVGA 780i SLI an even better board for the new system, for this 3870 X2?
Don't need crossfire nor SLI, really.
Reviewer's opinion would be very appreciated too, of course, being the one who planned this "curious" match.
Giacomo Reply
XrayDoc - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkDoes anyone know if the Intel X48 chipset will allow two of these cards to run in CrossfireX mode, or will you have to purchase an AMD chipset motherboard? Reply
karthikrg - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThis seems to be a stopgap solution though its heartening to see AMD/ATI having the faster single card solution now (albeit multi-GPU). With the Nvidia 9800GX2 due soon, the race is sure to get interesting. Hope AMD has something up its sleeves with the R700 Reply
FullHiSpeed - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThis has nothing to do with graphics, but that PLX PEX8547 in the picture is a bridge, not a switch. Unfortunately, PLX doesn't make a Gen 2 PCIE bridge or switch. One would imagine that two GPU's on one board would benefit from the increased bandwidth of Gen 2. The PLX bridge/switch web page says the switches (and not the bridges) give "Low Latency Transfers" and "True Peer-to-Peer Data Transfers", both of which are probably important to this parallel processing application. This could explain why "the HD 3870 X2 is systematically 5% faster on average than the CrossFire solution" (nach Tom) in spite of the 16 lane Gen 1 bottleneck to the north bridge. Reply
Slaimus - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI am still confused by the way AMD/ATI is allocating RV670 chips. If you check on newegg, there are well over 100 Sapphire 3870X2s in stock, but the Sapphire 3870 is still out of stock.
The same thing was happening during the initial 3870/3850 launch, where way too many of the 3850 were produced compared to the 3870. Also, none of the 3850s were of the 512MB type.
AMD should be filling the 3870 demand with the RV670 chips first, since it is probably the most profitable and most reasonable product. Reply
phaxmohdem - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkAll I can think of is 2 GPU's 1 Cup :S Reply
flat6 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThe article says: "the performance is indeed higher than any single-card NVIDIA solution out today", but they didn't test an 8800 Ultra. In some cases the card was barely beating the 8800 GTX. How would it stack up against an Ultra? I understand that maybe they didn't compare against an 8800 Ultra because of the price difference, but the reviewer was all excited about AMD/ATI's return to the high-end; at the high-end, cost is no object. And why two 8800 GTs? If this is the high-end, why choose mid-price cards for SLI? Why not use two Ultras?
I'm not saying a single Ultra would have trounced this card, only that I would have liked to see the comparison. I do think, however, that if they'd gone truly high-end on the SLI side, two Ultras might have killed it.
strikeback03 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3175...">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3175...
their previous testing showed the ultra as being similar in performance to the 8800 GTS 512 in most tests. So an Ultra (or 2 of them in SLI) might have done better in the AA tests, but not much else it would seem. Reply
flat6 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThanks, I just read it. Good grief. I didn't realize the GTS 512 was that fast. Point taken. Reply
poohbear - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkwell its about time, good job amd, lets see u maintain the performance lead damn it! Reply
boe - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkHowdy,
I appreciate any benchmarks we can get but if you do a followup on this card with newer drivers, I hope you will consider the following
1. A comparison with a couple of older cards x1900 and 7900
2. A sound measurement of the cards e.g. db at full utilation from 2'
3. Crossfire performance if this card supports it.
4. Benchmarking on FEAR - all bells and whistles turned on
5. DX10 vs. DX9 performance.
Thanks again for creating this article - I'm considering this card. Reply
perzy - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkAm I the only one tired of all these multicores? I guess programming gets even more complex now. I guess the future all games will have development cycles like Duke Nukem forever -10+ years....?
Are the GPU's hitting the heatwall 2 now?
Soon I'll stop reading these hardware sites. The only reports in the near future will be 'yet another core added.' Yipee. Reply
wien - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkCoding for a multi-GPU setup is not really any different that coding for a single-GPU one. All the complexity is handled by the driver, unlike with multi-core CPUs. Reply
FXi - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkHave to say they did a good job, not great, but very good. We do need to see the 700 though, as this won't hold them for long.
The other thing both camps need to address is dual monitors using SLI/CF. It's been forever since this tech has been out and it hasn't been fixed. Dual screens are commonplace and people like them. Could be one large and one smaller, or dual midrange but people want the FPS without losing their 2nd screen.
I'm sure there will be a rash of promises to fix this that won't materialize for years :) (as before)
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkActually, that was one of the things that was fixed by ATI. Dual screens will work even if it's in a window and _spanning_ the monitors. I'll see if I can find the review that showed that. Reply
murphyslabrat - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkCome on AMD, don't die until we get the Radeon 4870 x2! Reply
Retratserif - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThird to last paragraph.
The fact "hat" both?
Overall good article. To bad we didnt get to see temps or overclocks. Reply
PeteRoy - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkIs Nvidia and ATI will just put more of the same instead of innovate new technologies.
Wasn't that what killed 3dfx, Nvidia should know. Reply
kilkennycat - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThe next-gen GPU family at nVidia is in full development. Hold on to your wallet till the middle of this year (2008). You may be in for a very pleasant surprise. Reply
DigitalFreak - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkDoes Crossfire still not allow you to create your own profiles, like SLI does? I'm still not convinced that ATI has gotten their head around the whole dual gpu driver thing yet. Reply
Chaitanya - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkMore exited about nvidia Gf9800 GX2 than the radeon 3870 X2. I hear from my source in nvidia its got a completly diffrent apporach than radeons and gf 7950Gx2 Reply
Ecmaster76 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - link*only* 54fps at 2560!
thats horrible! /sarcasm
I think Quake Wars fans will be just fine. Reply
legoman666 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI was going to post the same thing. Only 54 @ 2560x1600? What more do you really want? Reply
wien - Monday, January 28, 2008 - link54FPS average is not nearly enough to ensure 100% fluid gameplay. If that was the minimum FPS it'd be close enough, but above 60FPS minimum is preferable. This is a high-end card so expecting extreme performance is hardly unreasonable. Reply
NullSubroutine - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkWhy not test DX9 Crysis benchmarks? Even in Vista you can do that and see a large performance jump in Crysis.
I still fail to see why Vista only scores are being posted on Anandtech when Vista represents such a small percentage of users. Reply
damncrackmonkey - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkYou fail to see why DX10 performance is relevant to a DX10 card?
Personally, I like to use the command line. Why don't these reviews address command line text rendering performance? Reply
duploxxx - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linknice comment at the end....
"if AMD can do it, NVIDIA can as well. And we all know how the 3870 vs. 8800 GT matchup turned out."
pls anand give an update on that, as far as i have read no real review was done by anand and the ones floating around on the web concluded all the same... 3870cf is scaling better then sli, now knowing the price of those 2 i don't see why 8800gt sli is faster the 3870x2 with higher r680 clocks, lets see how nvidia will downclock there dual pcb card to get it out.
and knowing that 2x 3850 = 8800gtx with lower price tag Reply
navygaser - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkWhen you go over to Tom's Hardware and look at their benchmarks for this card you can see a big difference in the FPS numbers at the same settings.
Looks like this card does much better on the AnandTech system. They use 4GB RAM vs. Tom's 2GB and the drivers look to be newer as well.
Could the RAM and the drives account for this big difference? Reply
GenoR32 - Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - linkI've seen that review and that's true... if you compare it to this one, you see some diferences..
IMO, Tom's Hardware is Intel(look at the Phenom 9600 Black Ed. Review.. he practically destroys AMD and kiss Intel) and Nvidia Biased... he cant admit the fact that this card is awesome...
i hate that biased reviews... Anand FTW Reply
footballrunner800 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkits probably the drivers since Anandtech is still not using x64 and with a 1gb card that gives windows less than 3 gb of usable memory. The review says that AMD came with improvments on the last minute so imagine when they perfect them Reply
Sunrise089 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThe drivers sure could. Reply
bill3 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI wont link the review, doubt it's even possible, but over at the H Brent's review shows the 3870X2 in a much worse light. They show it outright losing to a single 8800GTX in COD4, Crysis, and UT3, while squeaking out a win in HL2.
In the forum review thread when the differences between Brent's review and Anand's was brought up, it was basically claimed by Kyle that Anand's review is illegitimate because he only benchmarks "canned demos" (if you're familiar with H such spiel is nothing new from them). Further Kyle goes so far as to claim "AMD experienced a 60% fps increase in the Crysis canned GPU benchmark, we saw a couple frames a second in real gameplay. "
Kyle also says your COD4 bench, one of the two you guys did that wasn't "canned" and therefore invalid, is also invalid because you only benched a cutscene He hasn't said but I'm assuming the only bench you guys did that meets the Kyle standard would be Bioshock since it is real gameplay timed by fraps.
There are a few platform differences between the reviews, but Kyle has poo-pooed these as not making any major difference.
Thought you guys might be interested..the thread is the 3870X2 review thread at H forums. Reply
Parhel - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkHardOCP is just plain disreputable in every way. Their methodology is nonsense, their reviews are completely inadequate, and they continue to exist only because they drum up fake controversies and attempt to assassinate someone's character every few months.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I take what The Inquirer has to say more seriously. Reply
Frumious1 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI'm just shocked by how many people seem to place any relevance on the HOCP garbage. "It's because we're REAL WORLD and eveyone else is lies and fake stuff!" What a laugh. They play ONE resolution on TWO cards and pretend that's testing. Oh, and they don't use the same settings on both cards, they don't run at the same resolutions as previous reviews, they don't use the most comparable card (8800 GTS 512, anyone?), their testing isn't remotely similar to anything at any other site (hence they can just make claims about how they're doing it right and everyone else is wrong).... I could go on.
Anyway, Anand and crew are best served in my opinion by completely ignoring this childish stuff from Kyle and his cohorts. You can choose: either all of the enthusiast sites except HOCP are wrong, or Kyle is wrong. Ocham's Razor suggests that the latter is far more likely. Reply
AnnonymousCoward - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkYeah, one resolution and one competitor card doesn't say much. Reply
JWalk - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkYeah, Kyle is currently yelling at people in the forum thread. He has been asked multiple times why Anand, and most other sites, have a completely different view in their benchmarks. (Keep in mind that HardOCP only benchmarked 4 freaking games on 2 cards. According to Kyle, it would have been too much work to benchmark more games or more cards. Awww...not hard work...anything but that. LOL)
Then, he either chants "canned" benchmarks over and over, or he tells the person asking the question to get lost and never come back to HardOCP.
It has even been pointed out more than once that the review sample he received might be the problem. Maybe he should try another card. But he is in full-blown arrogant a$$ mode right now. ;) Reply
Devo2007 - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkNot surprising coming from Kyle -- he comes across that way quite often.
I don't like his reviews much -- not because of the canned benchmarks vs. real-world gameplay they preach about, bur rather the fact that they typically only compare one or two other cards to the one being tested. I have a GTS 320MB, and it would be nice to see whether the GTS 512MB would be worth it. Sadly, no direct comparison was done, because the GTS 320MB doesn't compete with said card.
I generally try to read several reviews to get an idea of a product - one site is never enough for these things. :) Reply
boe - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkUsually the stock coolers are pretty dang loud. I'm wondering if any cooling solutions will be available from zalman, artic or the other standards?
It would have been sweet if there was a db measurement chart. Reply
Gholam - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkGeCube has a version that looks like it has 2xZalman VF900-Cu on it. Custom PCB with 4 DVI outputs too. Reply
boe - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI really appreciate this article.
The things I'd really like to see on the next is adding FEAR benchmarks.
I'd also appreciate a couple of older cards added for comparison like the 7900 or the x1900. Reply
Butterbean - Monday, January 28, 2008 - link"And we all know how the 3870 vs. 8800 GT matchup turned out"
Yeah it was pretty close except for Crysis - where Nvidia got busted not drawing scenes out so as to cheat out a fps gain. Reply
Stas - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkConveniently the tests showed how *2* GTs are faster in most cases than X2. Power consumption test only shows *single* GT on the same chart with X2. Reply
geogaddi - Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - link
Conveniently, most of us can multiply by 2.
ryedizzel - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkin the 2nd paragraph under 'Final Words' you put:
Even more appealing is the fast that the 3870 X2 will work in all motherboards:
but i think you meant to say:
Even more appealing is the fact that the 3870 X2 will work in all motherboards:
you are welcome to delete this comment when fixed. Reply
abhaxus - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI would really, really like to see a crysis benchmark that actually uses the last level of the game rather than the built in gpu bench. My system (firstname.lastname@example.com, 2x 8800GTS 320mb @ 620/930) gets around 40fps with 'high' defaults (actually some very high settings turned on per tweakguides) on both of the default crysis benchies, but only got around 10fps on the last map. Even on all medium, the game only got about 15-20 fps on the last level. Performance was even lower with the release version, the patch improved performance by about 10-15%.
Of course I'd be interested to see how 2 of these cards do in crysis :) Reply
Samus - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkEven though Farcry is still unplayable at 1900x1200 (<30FPS) but its really close. My 8800GT only manages 18FPS on my PC using the same ISLAND_DEM benchmark AT did, so to scale, the 3870 X2 will do about 27FPS for me. Maybe with some overclocking it can hit 30FPS. $450 to find out is a bit hard to swallow though :\ Reply
customcoms - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkWell, if you're still getting <30 fps on Far Cry, I think you're PC is a bit too outdated to benefit from an upgrade to an HD3870 X2.
I assume you meant Crysis. This game is honestly poorly coded with graphical glitches in the final scenes. With my 8800GT (and a 2.6ghz Opteron 165, 2gb ram), I pull 50 FPS in the Island_Dem benchmark at 1680x1050 with a mixture of medium-high settings, 15 fps more than the 8800GTS 320mb I replaced it with. However, when you get to some of the final levels, these frames drop to more like 30 or less, and I am forced to drop to medium or a combination of medium-low settings at this point (perhaps my 2.6ghz dual core cpu isn't up to 3ghz C2D snuff).
Clearly, the game was rushed to market (not unlike Far Cry). Yes, the visuals are stunning, and the storyline is decent, but I much prefer Call of Duty 4, where the visuals are SLIGHTLY less appealing, but the storyline is better, the game is more realistic, the controls are better, and I can crank everything to max without worrying about slowdowns in later levels. Its the only game I have ever immediately started replaying on veteran.
The point is, no card(s) appears to be able to really play Crysis max everything at 1900x1200 or higher, and in my findings, the built in time demo's do not realistically simulate the games full demands in later levels. Reply
swaaye - Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - linkYeah, armchair game developer in action!
In what way is CoD4 realistic, exactly? I suppose it does portray actual real military assets. It doesn't portray them in a realistic way, however.
Did you notice that Crysis models bullet velocity? It's not just graphical glitz. Reply
Griswold - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkAhh, gotta love the arm chair developers who can see the game code just by looking at the DVD. Reply
HilbertSpace - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkWhen giving the power consumption numbers, what is included with that? Ie. how many fans, DVD drives, HDs, etc? Reply
m0mentary - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI didn't see an actual noise chart in that review, but from what I understood, the 3870GX2 is louder than an 8800 SLI setup? I wonder if anyone will step in with a decent after market cooler solution. Personally I don't enjoy playing with headphones, so GPU fan noise concerns me. Reply
cmdrdredd - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkthen turn up your speakers Reply
drebo - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI don't know. It would have been nice to see power consumption for the 8800GT SLI setup as well as noise for all of them.
I don't know that I buy that power consumption would scale linearly, so it'd be interesting to see the difference between the 3870 X2 and the 8800GT SLI setup. Reply
Comdrpopnfresh - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkI'm impressed. Looking at the power consumption figures, and the gains compared to a single 3870, this is pretty good. They got some big performance gains without breaking the bank on power. How would one of these cards overclock though? Reply
yehuda - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkNo, I'm not impressed. You guys should check the isolated power consumption of a single-core 3870 card:
At idle, a single-core card draws just 18.7W (or 23W if you look at it through a 82% efficient power supply). How is it that adding a second core increases idle power draw by 41W?
It would seem as if PowerPlay is broken. Reply
erikejw - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkATI smokes Nvidia when it comes to idle power draw. Reply
Spoelie - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkGDDR4 consumes less power as GDDR3, given that the speed difference is not that great. Reply
FITCamaro - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkAlso you figure the extra hardware on the card itself to link the two GPUs. Reply
yehuda - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - linkYes, it could be that. Tech Report said the bridge chip eats 10-12 watts. Reply
Zoomer - Saturday, February 02, 2008 - linkDon't forget the higer core clocks? Although you could turn it down when not needed. Reply
Howard - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkThird graph on the HL2 bench page doesn't have a highlighted FPS bar. Reply
Howard - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linkNone of the Oblivion graphs do, either. Reply
houe - Monday, January 28, 2008 - linktake it! Reply


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Centreport Welcomes Transmission Gully Progress
Centreport Welcomes Transmission Gully Progress
Thursday 22nd November 2012 08:29 AM
CentrePort Chief Executive Blair O'Keeffe said the company was pleased with the Government's decision to approve financing arrangements for Transmission Gully.
The Government has approved a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to finance and build the Road of National Significance.
"It's important that the Government finds a way to fund this vital project and we are pleased that NZTA will be able to start construction in 2014," Mr O'Keeffe said.
About 730,000 heavy vehicles move across the State Highway network at the edge of Wellington city each year – many of them connecting to the Port.
"In all our submissions on Transmission Gully we have highlighted the new road as an important part of a package of solutions which includes the Grenada to Seaview interchange and the cross valley link.
"We are pleased
the Government is continuing to make positive progress
towards the funding and construction of Transmission
Gully," Mr O'Keeffe


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And I print out a list of word frequency as in the code:
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fin = open(r'wordcatch.txt', 'r')
f = (i for i in fin.xreadlines())
word = [w for w in f]
from collections import Counter
counter = collections.Counter(word)
word_freq = tuple(counter.most_common())
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import operator
word_freq = tuple((counter.most_common()).sort(key=operator.itemgetter))
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-28-6933670818cc> in <module>()
----> 1 word_freq = tuple((counter.most_common()).sort(key=operator.itemgetter))
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Try printing word_freq before error. And it will be fine.
Q: accordingly, if I want to sort it according to its frequency why is the 'key' part in the sort giving error?
Is there a workaround instead of operator?


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TWO schoolchildren had a lucky escape after they were rescued clinging to a marker buoy having being swept out to sea from Sandbanks beach.
The children were spotted by a member of the public who dialled 999 just before 4pm to report seeing them struggling in the current and having managed to grab hold of the buoy in Poole harbour entrance.
Poole RNLI Lifeguards dispatched a jet ski from Sandbanks beach, which picked the children up and returned them safe and well to the beach.