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NVIDIA's GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-Endby Ryan Smith on 10/12/2009 6:00 AM EST
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abs0lut3 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkWhen is GT 240 coming out and when are you going to review it? I had expected the GT 220 to be as low as it comes (reaaallly low end), however, I saw some preliminary reviews on other forums on the GT 240, the supposedly new Nvidia 40nm mainstream card with GDDR5 and quite fascinate with result. Reply
MegaSteve - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - linkNo one is going to buy one of these cards by choice - they are going to be thrown out in HP, Dell and Acer PCs under a pretty sticker saying they have POWERFUL GRAPHICS or some other garbage. Much the same as them providing 6600 graphics cards instead of 6600GTs, then again, I would probably rather have a 6600GT because if the DirectX 10 cards that were first released were any indication this thing will suck. I am sure this thing will play Bluray... Reply
Deanjo - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link"NVIDIA has yet to enable MPEG-4 ASP acceleration in their drivers"
Not true, they have not enabled it in their Windows drivers.
They are enabled in the linux drivers for a little while now.
Complete acceleration.
Minimum width or height: 3 macroblocks (48 pixels).
Maximum width or height: 128 macroblocks (2048 pixels).
Maximum macroblocks: 8192
Deanjo - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkI should also mention XBMC already supports this as well in linux. Reply
Transisto - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............... Reply
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI guess the only place that actually selling Palit right now is newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...&Des... Reply
MODEL3 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkGreat prices, lol (either they have old 55nm stock or the 40nm yields are bad or they are crazy, possibly the first)
Some minor corrections:
G 210 ROPs should be 4 not 8 (8 should be the Texture units, GT220 should have 8 ROPs and 16 Texture units)
(Not because tomshardware is saying so, but because otherwise, it doesn't make sense NV architects to designed a so bandwidth limited GPU) (and based on past architecture design logic)
G 210 standard config CPU core clock is 589MHz, shaders 1402MHz.
(check Nvidia's partner sites)
9600GSO (G94) Memory Bus Width is 256bit not 128bit.
58W should be the figure NV is giving when GT 220 is paired with GDDR3, with DDR3 the power consumption should be a lot less.
Example for GDDR3 vs DDR3 power consumption:
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI'm sure there is cooling solution but it will probably going to hurt your wallet. I love ATI but they need to fire their marketing team and hire some more creative people. Nvidia needs to stop under estimating ATI and crush them, now they are just giving ATI a chance to steal some market share back. Reply
Zool - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkIts 40nm and has only 48sp 8rop/16tmu and still only 1360MHz shader clock.Is the TSMC 40nm this bad or what. The 55nm 128sp gt250 has 1800 Mhz shaders.
Could you please try out some overckocking. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkWe've seen vendor overclocked cards as high as 720MHz core, 1566MHz shader, so the manufacturing process isn't the problem. There are specific power and thermal limits NVIDIA wanted to hit, which is why it's clocked where it is. Reply
Joe90 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkLast week I bought a Medion P6620 laptop. It's fitted with an Nvidia 220M graphics card with 512MB of GDDR3 ram. The blurb of the box said it was a DirectX 10.1 card. Have NV released any details about the laptop 220M as well as the desktop 220? All I could find out from Wikipedia & Notebookcheck.net was that the 220M was a 40 micron version of the 9600M GT but the Anandtech review suggests that things are more complicated than this.
My only contribution to the debate is that I picked up this laptop for a paltry £399. Given that my machine has a T6500, 320GB HD, all I can think is that NV has be giving away the 220M to OEMs for pennies!
Finally, has anyone seen any signs of Windows 7 drivers for the 220M? I got a freebie upgrade but I'm a bit scared of using it just in case there were no drivers for a graphics card that NV don't recognise on their own website.
JarredWalton - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI'm assuming http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win...">these won't work? I know they don't list 220M, but they're the latest official drivers from NVIDIA; otherwise you're stuck with whatever the notebook manufacturer has delivered. I'd guess NVIDIA will have updated mobile notebook reference drivers relatively soon, though, to coincide with the official Win7 launch. Reply
Joe90 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkMany thanks for the link. I think you're right. Although this NV driver page refers to the '200 series', it doesn't explicitly mention the 220M card. Until it does, I'll hang back from doing the Windows 7 upgrade.
As it happens, I've only just made the leap from XP to Vista. Despite all the bad stuff I've read, Vista seems ok so I might just stick with it for a while. I'm finding I can play games ok with the Vista/220M combination. I'm currently playing FEAR 2 at 1366 x 768 with all the detail settings on maximum and the game plays fine. Given the low price of the laptop, I'm more than happy with the graphics performance.
JarredWalton - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkI've never had a true hate for Vista, but there are areas I dislike (several clicks just to get to resolution adjustment, for example). Windows 7 is better in pretty much every way as far as I can tell, although it's not like Vista is horrible and Win7 is awesome. It's more like Vista reached a state of being "good enough" and 7 addresses a few remaining flaws.
Now, if someone at MS would fix the glitch where my laptop power settings keep resetting.... (Every few tests, my battery saving options will reset to "default" and turn screen saver, system sleep, etc. on after I explicitly disabled it for testing. Annoying!) Reply
plonk420 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkit's AMAZING for this gen's "lowest end" (at retail)... beats the pants off my 9400GT currently in my HTPC. probably even equals or betters my once only 2 generation old nearly high end HD3850.
this is going in my HTPC in a heartbeat when it hits $30-35 (unless power consumption is stupid high, which i don't think it is. i THINK i read about this somewhere else, and someone was moaning about it using 4 watts more than some ATI part it was being compared to). Reply
ltcommanderdata - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkGiven the more competitive desktop landscape, these new 40nm DX10.1 chips are not impressive at all. However, their mobile derivatives were announced months ago, and in the mobile space where mainstream GPUs seem to be made up of many, many combinations of nVidia's 32SP GPUs, a 40nm 48SP DX10.1 GPU would actually bring something to the table. It'd be great if we can get a review of a notebook with the GT 240M for instance. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkIt looks like there are laptops with GT 240M starting at around $1100, and the jump from there to a 9800M card (96SPs, 256-bit RAM) is very small. Unless you can get GT 240M laptops for around $800, I don't see them being a big deal. Other factors could change my mind, though - battery life perhaps, or size/form factor considerations. Reply
apple3feet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkFor some people, the most important detail of any new NVIDIA card is the CUDA Compute Capability. Will it run my scientific simulation code? Only if the CUDA Compute Capability is 1.3 - so that it supports double precision floating point arithmetic. Could we have just one line somewhere to tell us this vital info? Reply
jasperjones - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkLOL,for dgemm (double-precision matrix multiplication) the GTX 285 is only about twice as fast as a Core i7 920 (using CUBLAS and Intel MKL, respectively).
This suggests you shouldn't run your double precision code on a GT 220. Hell, even running CUDA code on your CPU using emulation might be faster than running on the GT 220.. Reply
apple3feet - Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - linkYou're wrong. Given the right problem, tackled using the right algorithm, and well-written code, TESLAs can do 20x the throughput of a Nehalem - even in double precision. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI don't have that information at this moment. However this is very much the wrong card if you're going scientific work for performance reasons. Reply
apple3feet - Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - linkWell, as a developer, I just need it to work. Other machines here have TESLAs and GTX280s, but a low end cool running card would be very useful for development machines.
I believe that the answer to my question is that it's 1.2 (i.e. everything except double precision), so no good for me. Reply
jma - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkRyan, if you run 'deviceQuery' from the Cuda SDK, it will tell you all there is to know.
Another goodie would be 'bandwidthTest' for those of us who can't figure out the differences between various DDR and GDDR's and what the quoted clocks are supposed to imply ... Reply
vlado08 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkMy HD 4670 idles in 165MHz core and 249,8MHz memoy clock and GPU temps 36-45 degrees(passively cooled) as reported by GPU-Z 0.3.5 Is there a possibility that your card didn't lower it's clock during idle? Reply
vlado08 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkMy question is to Ryian of course. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkYes, it was idling correctly. Reply
KaarlisK - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThe HD4670 cards differ.
I've bought three:
The first one would idle at 0.9v.
The second would idle at 1.1v. When I edited the BIOS for lover idle voltages, I could not get it to be stable.
The third one turned out to have a much cheaper design - not only did it have slower memory, it had no voltage adjustments and idles at 1.25v (but the correct idle frequency). Reply
vlado08 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkAre GT 220 capable of DXVA decoding of h.264 at High Profile Level 5.1?
And videos wiht more than 5 reference frames. Because ATI HD4670 can only do High Profile (HiP) Level 4.1 Blu-ray compatible.
Also what is the deinterlacing on GT 220 if you have monitor and TV in extended mode? Is it vector adaptive deinterlacing?
These questions are important for this video card because it is obvious that it is not for gamer but for HTPC.
On HD 4670 when you have one monitor then you have vector adaptive deinterlacing but if you have two monitors or monitor and TV and they are in extended mode then you only have "bob" deinterlacing.
I'm not sure if this is driver bug or hardware limitation. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI have another GT 220 card due this week or early next. Drop me an email; if you have something I can use to test it, I will gladly try it out. I have yet to encounter anything above 4.1 though; it seems largely academic. Reply
MadMan007 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkSo my inner nerd that just has to know is confused. Are these truly GT200-based or G9x-based? Different sources say different things. In a way the GT200 series was an improvement on G9x anyway but with enough significant low level changes to make it different. The article calls these GT200 *series* but that could be in name only. It's not clear if that means smaller process cut down die GT200-based or added feature G9x-based.
Inquiring nerds want to know! Reply
Silverel - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkIt doesn't really matter though does it?
nVidia has you confused, and thusly, their plan has succeeded. It's really the price/performance ratio that it's at making any difference. Don't bother yourself with details on the renaming schemes. It's a new shiny! Reply
MadMan007 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linklol. "These aren't the details you're looking for" *waves hand* Yeah I know it's just a nitty gritty detail and the performance is what matters. I'd still like to know though :) Reply
Seramics - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkUpon checkin, it seems that there is indeed this 48 SP spec for 9600 GSO but its proper name is 9600GSO 512. So nv use the same exact thing (8800GS) and renamed it to another product (9600GSO) without improving anything. And now queitly chg the 9600GSO and lower the SP to half and din even chg the name? Why dun they release a 120 SP's GTX 280? Or simply renamed 9800 GTX to GTX 280? Reply
Lonyo - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkActually they did take a 9800 and release it as a GTX280, of a fashion.
The mobile GTX280 is just an 8800/9800 card rebadged and with all its SPs enabled (128). The mobile 8800/9800 had only either 96 or 112 ( I can't remember), so they made a 128 SP version and called it the GTX280-M Reply
Seramics - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkWhy is my fav site which is Anandtech can make such lousy silly mistakes? Ryan Smith, where did ur 9600 GSO came from? The spec of it is all wrong. It is a renamed 8800 GS with the same G92 core as 8800GT/8800GTS/9800GTX. It basically got 96 SP's with 192 bit memory bus. Even nvidia website is correct for a change. Look. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
tell me, enlighten me, where did ur 9600 GSO come from?????? Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThere are 2 9600GSOs. The old one was G92 based and had 96SP. The new one is G94 based (9600GT) and has 48SP. The old one is no longer produced, while the new one is the current 9600GSO, and is the GSO NVIDIA and its partners are referring to when they compare the GT 220 to the 9600GSO.
We actually tested an old model 9600GSO, but that's only because it's the slowest thing we have on-hand that's above a 9500GT. Reply
Seramics - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThanks for replying Ryan. I just cant help thinking nvidia has gone to another low yet again. This new products coverage is basically too little too late and too slow and too expensive. Ppl looking for low end card can get their needs met by going for equivalently priced ATI cards. Despite releasing such slow card n so late in the market, they still refuse to sell it at lower price. How can GT220 worth USD69-79? A Radeon HD4670 easily can outperform it while costing similar or less (depending on ur location). And wht is G210 crap? 16 SP's? Nvidia muz be joking and must be laughing at every single ignorant noob stupid customers who would purchase a crap like that for like what? 40-50 dollars? Gotta be kidding me man. It doesnt even worth half that amount. Mayb if its 10 dollars, I will recommend it to ppl with 10 dollars budget for graphics card. Reply
gwolfman - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkTo me, this looks like nVidia's trial run of some GT300 technology (audio over PCIe bus for example) before it's released. Reply
samspqr - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkwell, to me this looks like nvidia taking too long to finish a product that was nearly done 3 quarters ago
by nvidia's 2009 standards, you can expect GT300 to come out around 2010Q2
(I know they'll have some sort of launch much earlier, but I'd expect it to be just press samples, with less than spectacular clocks and a dustbuster fan, sitting somewhere in between 5870 and 5870x2, for a price that's irrelevant because of lack of availability... until some new respin comes around, as I said, close to 2010Q2) Reply
yacoub - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkTwo years after releasing the 800GT, NVidia releases a card with... half the performance!
lol. what a waste. so how's the 5770/5750 review coming along? that'll be more interesting. Reply
chizow - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkOf course, discerning consumers know better and demand new architectures! It wouldn't make any sense to accept old parts and rebadges that offer 2x the performance at a lower price! Reply
yacoub - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linker, 8800GT. fingers... Reply
poohbear - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkman i never thought i'd be saying this, but nvidia needs to get their shiat together!!! we need competition!!! they're getting trashed by AMD, what happened to em? Reply
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkEverybody know NVIDIA is downplaying until they see how well Window 7 will be. Plus ATI releasing 5800 series with DX.11(software/games not going to be compatible with it until 2011). Reply
formulav8 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkHuh? The new Radeons are compatible with every game the old radeons and geforce cards are and much better/faster.
And there is a small list of games with DX11 features being released very soon that ONLY the new radeons can take advantage of.
And nVdia isn't downplaying anything. They simply DO NOT have a answer to ATI's new cards at this time. And apprently it won't be till the first part of next year that they will have their answer.
Why I keep seeing people trying to downplay nvidia's faults is beyond me?
Jason Reply
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkWell I guess we have to wait and see. You cannot assume they do not have the answer. It is not the right time to release something at the caliber yet. I'm not bias but it seem that people are saying that ATI have won but there is no facts/comparison. Sure you can compare ATI 5800 series to the GT295/275(old graphic) but I think everybody want to see GT300 series face off with 5800 series. Remember what happen to ATI when NVIDIA came out with SLI? ATI release crossfire(not innovated) just to try and match NVIDIA instead of creating something more innovated. ATI never had a solution to defeat SLI and that is the fact. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI wouldn't say ATI has "won", but they are currently leading. NVIDIA isn't releasing Fermi right now because they can't -- they don't have the hardware ready. The card shown was a mock-up part, and you don't use a fake card if you have real product ready. All signs are Jan/Feb 2010 for the GT300 release. That gives ATI a full four months of being the ONLY DX11 GPU supplier, right at a major buying time for consumers. NVIDIA isn't out by any stretch of the imagination -- just as ATI wasn't out with the 2000 and 3000 series, and NVIDIA weathered the FX 5000 times. Short-term, though, this has to be hurting.
On the other hand, I can say that NVIDIA is the way to go on virtually any gaming laptop right now. ATI has some competitive parts, yes, but I wouldn't touch them until they get reference drivers for all major parts on their site. Depending on laptop manufacturers for driver updates is a really bad idea, and NVIDIA thankfully addressed that area a while back. Reply
brybir - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkYour statement is only partially true.
There are several games that have some DirectX 11 features out right now. Perhaps the more accurate thing to say is that DirectX 11 will not see feature set adoption en mass until sometime in 2011.
I think ATI somewhat admits this as they spent a good deal of time tweaking some of its driver and hardware features to boost the performance of directX 9 engine games. There was something about that on Anand a few weeks ago about that. Reply
BenSkywalker - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkYou show the 9600GSO winning the majority of the benches you decided to allow it to take part in, it is cheaper then the 4670, and the 4670 is the clear winner?
Why do you bother quoting the price of the 9600GT when you refused to show benchmarks for it?
Right now on the Egg you can get a 9600GSO for $40 AR, $60 before rebate. The article may be right in terms of the parts that are launching being a bad value, but more then anything that is because of how soundly they are bested by nV's existing parts- which are already faster and cheaper then the 4670. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkIt's one of those 96SP GSOs based on G92. We include for reference only; you can't buy them any more (and the 96SP model listed on Newegg is wrong, it's a 48SP model). Reply
chizow - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkIs this the one you're referring to Ryan?
From all reports and feedback I've seen, that Asus part is 96SP for $40 AR (was actually $35 at one point!) just as Ben stated.
I don't really care about this segment of parts for actual 3D so you may be right. I was only interested in that Asus 96SP because it was identified by many users as "the card" to get for dedicated PhysX on a budget. I was hoping to find a low-power consumption candidate on 40nm for dedicated PhysX, but it seems these parts have too few SP to be viable. Reply
BenSkywalker - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkWhy not include benches of the nV part that you quoted the price for then(btw- NewEgg is also listing one of the 384MB 96SP 9600GSOs for $56.49)?
It is rather misleading to put it mildly that you decide to include benches for one part that is quite a bit cheaper, and quite a bit slower, and then quote the price on the next rung up on the performance ladder. It would be akin to showing benches for the GTX275 and lamenting it because the GTX285 was so expensive, it doesn't make any sense. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkWhich part? The 9600GT, or the 48SP GSO?
What you see are all of the low-end cards we were able to get our hands on for this article. Reply
jordanclock - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThe graphs on the "Temperature and Noise" page are high-to-low. Usually they're the opposite, following the idea that lower numbers are better. I know, I know, it's a lame nitpick.
As for the card: If they added this checkbox feature for OEMs (which I believe) then why bother allowing for retail distribution? This card really doesn't bring anything that isn't already done with cards they already have available. Seems like a rather silly release. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkFixed. Thanks. Reply
jonup - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkRyan, the Palit table shows their 1GB card's frame buffer as 512MB. Reply
strikeback03 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkSeems recently there have been a lot of low-end cards with 1GB of memory onboard. Is this just a marketing ploy, or is there actually some scenario where it would be useful to have lots of memory but not much processing power? Reply
Concillian - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThe 1GB on low end cards is a marketing thing. The "average consumer" equates more memory with performance and generally have little to no knowledge about the importance of GPU type, speed, or graphics memory bandwidth.
nVidia and ATi have been taking advantage of this to help add profit margin since at least the GeForce 4 MX generation. Reply
Zingam - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThis will be one craptastic graphics card for the masses! Yay!
Good luck, NVIDIA! Reply
Dante80 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThis could have been a killer HTPC card...one year ago.
I understand the need for nvidia to come up with sth for this market segment, and I like very much both the improved audio and the low power consumption.
But lets be honest here. This card has no place in the current retail market. It merely looks as a project to max margins for OEM use. OEMs can market a "Brand new card with a smaller process, DX10.1 support and 1 whole GB of memory goodness", but retail vendors and nvidia will have a hard time convincing anyone to buy this instead of going for a 9600 or a 4670.
Since margins seem godly, nvidia should lower the price and try to saturate the market segment with these cards in a HTPC (suicide) mission. That would at least make sense to consumers.
uibo - Saturday, October 17, 2009 - link"This could have been a killer HTPC card...one year ago. "
... for me to poop on. Reply
VooDooAddict - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI'd love to see this around $40 and make it's way into inexpensive OEM desktops. The GT 220 would be perfect for low end desktops if the price gets low enough. This would enable cheap eMachines to play MMOs and keep PC gaming alive.
But as it stands right now 4650 and 4670 are the two cards I currently use to build low end desktops for others. Reply
Lonyo - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkA joke launch for what I can only hope is supposed to be a joke product.
Mind you, at least NV have launched _something_ at 40nm for the general market rather than OEMs only. Reply
yoyojam - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkGlad to see AMD pretty much destroying Nvidia on the graphics front (for now). They're processor division is doing so badly, and we need our CPU competition... Reply
MegaSteve - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - linkI doubt that AMD is destroying or will even destroy Nvidia in any respect. What they are doing is providing them with credible competition and that is what we all benefit from. Although I will say this whole renaming cards and providing meagre performance increases is wearing a little thin.
I enjoy the fact that I can choose between similar performance levels in cards from either camp for less money than when the 8800 series came out (I am referring to the GTX/Ultra parts). Now I know I can see your skin turning a solid shade of AMD Red but remember we have no answer from Nvidia yet, so the only thing that has occurred here is that ATI has beaten them to the market - perhaps Nvidia would rather be late and avoid another 5800 Vacuum Cleaner launch, I am sure that cost them dearly.
AMD/Nvidia really have to ensure that they spend time ensuring their products are going to rival the Larrabee/DX 11 threat that very well has the possibility to clean them both up. I would rather have to install a graphics card and a processor of my choice than to have a single intel provider of all in my PC. As you can see nvidia is trying to push multiple uses for their GPU which seems pretty smart to me. Reply
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThey are not destroying NVIDIA. I think we have to wait and see NVIDIA big guns(GT300 series) before we can truly judge who is beating up on who. I consider this a defensive move until Windows 7 release and to see how the market react over the ATI 5800 series. Remember what happen to the ATI 9700/9800 series, we all know what happen after that. :) Reply
teldar - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkTool
So because nVidia is going to bring out something in 2-4 months, AMD isn't doing better?
And how is an overpriced budget card a response to brand new, high end cards?
They already know how the market has responded to the 5800 cards. As many as they can make are being sold.
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkThey only responded because that's like the newest ATI technology since long ass time. When you are down the only way is up or bankrupt. SLI was a knockout blow to ATI and just now they barely catching up. Reply
RubberJohnny - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkAhh Souleet, you are a candidate for the most uninformed reader on Anandtech.
SLI a knockout blow HAHAHA, thats the funniest thing i've read today! Reply
Souleet - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkReally? Then prove to me that SLI wasn't a knockout blow? After SLI came out, who brought ATI? I love ATI but those are the facts. Show me some proof that AMD stock is up since the merger. Reply
Guspaz - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkErrm, Valve's latest hardware survey shows that only 2.39% of gamers are using 2+ GPUs with SLI or Crossfire. ATI has a 27.26% marketshare.
Of those who did buy multi-GPU solutions, some may be "hidden" (GTX295, the various X2 solutions), in which case it had no impact whatsoever (since it's presented as a single card). Some may have used it as an upgrade to an existing card, in which case SLI/Crossfire may not have driven their decision.
It's true that SLI (2.14%) has greatly outsold Crossfire (0.25%), but that's such a tiny market segment that it doesn't amount to much.
ATI has managed to hold on to a respectable market share. In fact, their 4800 series cards are more popular than every single nVidia series except for the 8800 series.
So, I think I've sufficiently proven that SLI wasn't a knockout blow... It was barely a tickle to the market at large. Reply
Seramics - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkWhen Sli came out? Stop mentioning ancient news. Right now, Sli n Xfire r abt equally sucks. Heard of Hydra? Thats the cool stuff dude. And yeah nvidia is very innovative indeed, renaming old products to look new to deceive customers, shave half the spec of a products n keep the same name (9600gso), releasing crappy products n selling it overprice.... MAN! Thats really innovative dun u think? Reply
Souleet - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - linkAre you ignorant or something, ATI fanboy. GT220 is a 40nm and 9600GSO is a 65nm. How can you say they just changed the name? I thought so... Reply
gx80050 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - link
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I really hope that you get curb-stomped. It'd be hilarious to see you
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to ribbons, and your throat slit.
gx80050 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkFuck off and die retard Reply
Seramics - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkLet's face it. Nvidia is NOT competitive at every front at every single price point. From ultra low end to mid range to ultra high end, tell me, which price point is nvidia being competitive?
Well, of cos I believe Fermi will be something different. I truly believe so. In fact, given that HD5870's slightly below par performance for its spec (very likely bcos memory bandwith limited), and Fermi being on a much larger die and higher transistor count, I EXPECT nVidia next gen Fermi to easily outperform HD5870. Just like how GTX285 outperform HD4890. But by how much? For almost 100 USD more for juz 5-10% improvements? I believe this will likely be the case with Fermi vs 5870. Surely its faster, but ur mayb paying 100% more to get 25% extra fps.
CONCLUSION: Even if Nvidia retake the top single GPU performance crown, they were never a winner in price to performance at ANY price point. They care about profits than they care about you. Reply
Souleet - Monday, October 12, 2009 - linkI agree what your conclusion. Definitely price point ATI has always been on the top of their game but NVIDIA innovations is what make the two apart. But who knows, maybe one day ATI/AMD comes out with CPU/GPU solution that will change the technology industry. That would be cool. Reply
formulav8 - Monday, October 12, 2009 - link
Remember what happen to the ATI 9700/9800 series, we all know what happen after that. :)
NVidia brought out the FX5800 Ultra?? Reply
TRIDIVDU - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - linkMy son plays GTA, FIFA, POP, Tomb Raider, NFS etc. in my P4, 3.06 GHz WinXP m/c with N 9400 GT (MSI) 1GB card without any problem in a 19inch LCD monitor. Now that I am planning to exchange the 4 year old m/c with a new i5 650, 3.2 GHz, Win7 m/c fitted with GT220 1 GB card, please tell me whether he will find the new machine a better one to play games with. Reply
Thatguy97 - Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - linknvidias mid range was shit back then Reply


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The brain's flawless system is, by itself, sufficient for us to realize His sublimity. It contains more than 100 billion nerve cells. In order for us to perceive, see, and feel our surroundings, communication has to be established among these 100 billion nerve cells. This is done by somehow making a total of 100 trillion connections.
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The Great Texas Overclocking Competitionby Wesley Fink on 3/9/2005 12:00 PM EST
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ceefka - Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - linkHardly any of these guys has a case (?) They won't have Lian Li or Chieftec sponsoring this event anytime soon :-)
#27 I liked AMD's fishtank. Though you're right about working in there. You can only guess what kind of goo goes in there. LOL. Reply
Jeff7181 - Sunday, March 13, 2005 - linkSo does overclocking count as a sport now? LOL Reply
stephenbrooks - Sunday, March 13, 2005 - linkI wonder how many Athlon FXs and video cards they were allowed each? 1. Performance ceiling probably varies from chip to chip and 2. I guess if something went wrong they could burn a few up! Reply
SDA - Friday, March 11, 2005 - link#25, no, but then it's not as if any hardware enthusiast in their right mind would trip into Best Buy for most of their computer needs as it is. All you really need to know is how to put tube A in socket B and so on.. the amount of skill involved in setting up a completely custom cooling system still isn't all that high. I'm not saying that anyone who can use a keyboard can do it, just that it's easy enough that being among the world's best overclockers probably doesn't require all that much skill. Kind of like being among the world's best soda can stove makers.
Like I said: no real objection to this kind of thing at all, and no offense meant to the people who took part in this, but overclocking just doesn't seem like something you could really have a competition with. Reply
ThanosOfTitan - Friday, March 11, 2005 - linkThe thing that piqued my curiosity the most was the mineral oil fish tank computer AMD was showcasing. I'd hate to have to work on that thing after it was submersed in oil. Reply
ThanosOfTitan - Friday, March 11, 2005 - linkReply
MadAd - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linkbut these guys have to develop, build and test their own cooling system- i mean its not as if you can trip into best buy and walk out with the necessary freezer accessories preassembled in a rack like mr OPP has there. Reply
SDA - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - link#21: Sorry, but I thought that cooling system would also go under "parts choice" (as in, choosing what parts of the system to buy; cooling is a vital part, no?).. my fault for not being clear enough. Reply
JoKeRr - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linkand the worst part is when your new 1000 dollar processor (or what ever it is )dies.. Reply
JoKeRr - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linkReply
ZeroEffect - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linki'm sure when you are overclocking in those regions success has more to do with how you are cooling that your parts choice.
extreme pursuits aren't for everyone, you know?
i enjoy seeing people excell in what they're interested in, regardless. Reply
woodchuk - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linkSomeone should write a book on overclocking which would be available in the local library, and O/C should be taught in computer classes. I'm dead serious, nothing, but nothing teaches you how these things work any better. Reply
SDA - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - linkI mean no offense to anyone who took part in this, but I AM curious: how, exactly, do you have an overclocking competition? Overclocking success is really just luck and part choice... there isn't a whole lot of skill or knowledge involved. Once you get above a certain level, you're about as good as you can be.
I guess it's more of an excuse to display new products and have some fun than anything else... no harm in that, certainly. I will say that the last paragraph of the article made me laugh, though. Really, come on.
In other words: what #18 said. Reply
xsilver - Thursday, March 10, 2005 - link"But just watching these extreme overclockers work gave all of us attending a lot of insight into ways to push our own systems a little further. Most of our readers are more like stock car drivers, but that doesn't mean that we can't learn something from those who push the envelope to the very edge. ".....
yeah, write this and dont bother to share some tips with us.... its not like we dont want to know
personally i think getting a kickass core from amd/intel will be the decisive factor; its not like you can give your rig more love to make it go faster :P Reply
MadAd - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkAwesome, simply awesome.
I still wonder why noone cools the back of the boards too? Surely that tiny extra backcooling would help? its not as if its going to take a lot more equipment? Reply
Kccdx2 - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - link15, read OPP's post?? Its number 9 incase you were still haven't read the comments. Reply
dm - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkwho won... Reply
ShadowVlican - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkwow..... wish i was there.... must've been an amazing experience seeing the world's top OCers there in one place!!! Reply
RockHydra11 - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkOPP, word of advice. Stay away from the Forum Boards. You'll get flamed the instant you say something someone disagrees with. It doesn't matter who you are. :P
Oh. By the way. What you guys do is incredible. I have a question for you guys though. Are you and Fugger and Macci friends and share info you find and stuff? Reply
ajmiles - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - link#11 OPP,
lol, ask him for any tips? What did he do that you guys didn't, how strange the people they invited didn't do as well of ATI tech guys. Good job all the same, come to England next time eh! Reply
OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - link#9
Well as far as the competition goes, nobody won. We weren't having much luck that day. Although, I did let the ATI Tech John Bruno play with my rig for a while and he actually came up with the highest score of the day. :-)
And yes this is the real OPP. Reply
HardwareD00d - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linklol @ 6
0wned!!11oneone Reply
NesuD - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkHave we just been blessed with a visit from an Extememe Overclocking legend? If you are the real OPPAINTER my hats off to you. I have followed your extreme over clocking achievements over at futuremark for some time now and I must say they are nothing short of amazing. Maybe you should consider being a guest contributer to Anandtech. So who actually won the competition anyway? Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - link#3 - . . . and I just thought it was a blatant ad for ATI, since everyone is wearing ATI shirts and there isn't even a picture of the OCZ booth. :-) OCZ was an event sponsor, like ATI, Abit, AMD, and others, which were also mentioned prominently. Reply
OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkA wedding band doesn't mean a thing. I've been married and I can tell you I had more fun with women before and after my marriage. Reply
Questar - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkNo wedding rings on anybody in those pictures.
Somebody should tell these guys that girls can be fun too. Reply
pio!pio! - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkhttp://images.anandtech.com/reviews/shows/2005/tex...
"OPPainter spent a good deal of time on camera explaining extreme overclocking. Here, he is talking about his current records at FutureMark to an audience who are astounded by the performance numbers that they are hearing and seeing for themselves at the overclocking competition."
In actuality:
"Why did my boyfriend drag me to this? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" Reply
ajmiles - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkFirst page, the picture of the ATI card, the caption reads 500MB version as opposed to 512MB :). Reply
EyeSpy - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkAnother great OCZ advertisement! Keep up the blatant bias!
ES Reply
suryad - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkCouldnt have said it better Budman. That is very impressive. Wow! I cant believe the performance one would get with an FX running @ 4 GHz!!!! Reply
Budman - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - linkThat's some serious shite !!! Reply


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When is someone going to put the Genjutsu category underneath Yin release? Yes, its stated in the Yin Release article that genjutsu is part of it, but when I click on the Yin release category, there's nothing there. Are you guys waiting for further confirmation or something? Remember that during Naruto's Element training, when he asked about how the shadow imitation and the expansion jutsu's work, and about medical ninjutsu and genjutsu, Yamato confirmed that they were either Yin or Yang Release. With the second Mizukage's statement, its confirmed that all Genjutsu are Yin release techniques. So why isn't Genjutsu in that category?--—This unsigned comment was made by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs) .
Read this--Cerez365™ 19:06, August 21, 2011 (UTC)
I think it's because the Second Mizukage stated that he is a Yin release user, therefore a capable Genjutsu user. And according to what madara said, Yin is said to be the one to control immagination, and genjutsu are illusions, so yeah, Yin release definetely has to be Genjutsu. —This unsigned comment was made by Majna (talk • contribs) .


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DROITWICH Tennis Club has agreed to help a charity that helps bereaved children this year.
The club will support Footsteps which helps children, young people and their families in Worcestershire to cope with grief following the death of a parent, sibling or another loved one.
Neil Bates, club chairman, said: "We are a friendly, family orientated club and can relate totally to the work that Footsteps carry out.
"We are looking forward to helping them with their essential work in and around the county by holding a number of events this year to raise as much as we can for them."
Sue Smith from Footsteps said: "The service we provide to bereaved children and their families in Worcestershire is totally free of charge and as a small charity every penny counts.
"We are delighted that Droitwich Tennis Club has chosen to support us this year."
More information about the charity is available at talktofootsteps.co.uk


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A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman in central Queensland this morning.
Police were called to a residence in Philip Street, Gladstone in the early hours of Monday to investigate reports of a disturbance.
They found the body of a 45-year-old woman at the scene about 12.30am.
Police charged the 36-year-old man with one count of murder about seven hours later.
He is due to face Gladstone Magistrates Court today.
No other details of the incident were immediately available.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au.


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I received a copy of Steven's book Miami Spice for Christmas and last weekend I cooked out of it for the first time. I had some flat iron (shoulder blade) steaks that I wanted to do something with and I came across the recipe for Nicaraguan-style churrasco tenderloin on pages 231-232, although I didn't have time to make any of the accompanying sauces.
The marinade is pretty simple and I had most of the ingredients on hand, although I did have to buy the sherry and parsley.
The steaks marinated for a couple of hours before I put them on cast iron over lump charcoal.
The marinade packs a lot of flavor and the parsley really does help reduce garlic breath! Between the 2 of us we polished off the steaks for Sunday lunch.


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Some Secrets of the Qur'an
God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
God reveals a secret in the Qur'an as follows:
Throughout their lives, believers make a serious effort to spread the values of the Qur'an amongst people and spread the message of God. On the other hand, throughout history, there have always been groups of disbelievers who have been against believers and tried to hinder them through force and pressure. In the Qur'an, God states that He is always with believers against disbelievers, that He will make their affairs easy, and that He will help and support believers. Believers who put sincere effort in God's way experience this at every single instant of their lives. God brings all their affairs to a conclusion with ease, and gives them success and beauty. Even in very difficult situations, He provides ease for the believers. Even in cases when those with poor faith said "alas", give way to despair and see no way out, God has sent down His help to the believers and made them successful.
Believers who are certain that God helps and supports them, never give up hope and wait with excitement to see how God will conclude an event. The Prophet Moses and his people are an example of this. The Prophet Moses and the people of Israel left Egypt to be protected from the cruelty of Pharaoh. But Pharaoh and his army chased them. When the Prophet Moses and the people of Israel reached the sea, some of them who had poor faith panicked and lost hope, thinking that they would be overtaken by the Pharaoh. Yet, the Prophet Moses said: "... My Lord is with me and He will guide me." (Surat ash-Shu'ara': 62) And thus displayed his faith in God's support to believers. Indeed, God parted the waters of the sea and allowed the Prophet Moses and his companions to cross to the other shore safely. Meanwhile, He closed the sea over the Pharaoh and his soldiers and they drowned.
A believer, who is close to God, who takes God as his friend and knows He supports those who believe, will see the manifestation of this secret in every instance of his life. Surely, miracles like the parting of the sea are signs that God shows to some of His messengers. However, if believers ponder sincerely, reflect on God's creation and the verses of the Qur'an in every incident, they can see the miracle-like manifestations of God's support and help in every situation.
God helps believers also through imperceptible ways
In many verses, God has informed believers about the support He bestows on them. For example, in a verse, God has stated that He will make their enemies see believers as twice their number:
God helps believers by means of foiling the plots hatched against them
As previously mentioned, disbelievers cause various difficulties for believers and hatch plots against them in order to hinder them from the way of God. But God informs in the Qur'an that all plots against believers will be foiled, will be returned back against the plotters and will not harm believers in any way. Some of these verses are as follows:
Prophet Joseph's life is exemplary in the sense that the schemes hatched against believers will ultimately turn in their favour and against hatchers. As related in Surah Yusuf, the prophet Joseph's brothers, who were consumed with envy, devised a plan and threw him to a well. When Prophet Joseph, peace be upon him, was still young, another scheme was devised by the governor's wife, in whose house prophet Joseph resided. The promise of God entailed the failure of all these plots and protection from harm. Following the plans devised, God placed the prophet Joseph in authority over the treasures of the land. After all these, the prophet Joseph commented that the plots of the disbelievers are fated to failure:


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Welcome to Lehinch Lodge Guest House
The Lehinch Lodge is a beautiful family run 3 star guesthouse located in the heart of Lahinch, Co. Clare. The Lodge boasts superb accommodation with newly appointed standard & superior bedrooms which offer views of the famous Links Championship Golf Course.
We pride ourselves with offering our guests a home away from home experience, providing an excellent base from which to visit the beautiful West of Ireland i.e. The Cliffs of Moher, The Burren, Aran Islands or play the world famous Lahinch Championship Golf Course located just 250 yards from the Lodge & the Blue Flag Mile Long Beach.
A Warm Welcome Awaits You at Lehinch Lodge!


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Labetalol tabletsPronunciation
Generic Name: labetalol (la-BAYT-a-lol)
Brand Name: Trandate
Labetalol tablets are used for:
Treating high blood pressure. It may be used alone or in combination with other medicines, such as diuretics. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Labetalol tablets are an adrenergic receptor blocker. It works by blocking both alpha and beta receptors in the body, which lowers blood pressure.
Do NOT use labetalol tablets if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in labetalol tablets
- you have second- or third-degree (complete) heart block, moderate to severe first-degree heart block after a heart attack, heart failure, a certain abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) (prolonged QT interval), or shock caused by serious heart problems
- you have asthma, obstructive airway disease, or other breathing disorders
- you have severe slow heartbeat or severe low blood pressure
Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.
Before using labetalol tablets:
Some medical conditions may interact with labetalol tablets. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
- if you have diabetes, an adrenal gland tumor (pheochromocytoma), lung or breathing problems (eg, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], emphysema), kidney problems, liver problems, or thyroid problems
- if you have heart problems (eg, first-degree heart block, slow heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, sick sinus syndrome), low blood pressure, a history of heart failure, or you have had a recent heart attack
- if you are scheduled to have surgery, including cataract surgery, or have recently had surgery
Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with labetalol tablets. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Calcium channel blockers (eg, verapamil), cimetidine, or digoxin because they may increase the risk of labetalol tablets's side effects
- General anesthetics (eg, halothane), nitroglycerin, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, amitriptyline) because the risk of their side effects may be increased by labetalol tablets
- Beta-agonists (eg, albuterol) because their effectiveness may be decreased by labetalol tablets
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if labetalol tablets may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use labetalol tablets:
Use labetalol tablets as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Take labetalol tablets by mouth with or without food.
- If you miss a dose of labetalol tablets, take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use labetalol tablets.
Important safety information:
- Labetalol tablets may cause drowsiness, dizziness, or lightheadedness. These effects may be worse if you take it with alcohol or certain medicines. Use labetalol tablets with caution. Do not drive or perform other possibly unsafe tasks until you know how you react to it.
- Labetalol tablets may cause dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting; alcohol, hot weather, exercise, or fever may increase these effects. To prevent them, sit up or stand slowly, especially in the morning. Sit or lie down at the first sign of any of these effects.
- Patients who take medicine for high blood pressure often feel tired or run down for a few weeks after starting treatment. Be sure to take your medicine even if you may not feel "normal." Tell your doctor if you develop any new symptoms.
- Do not suddenly stop taking labetalol tablets without first checking with your doctor. Suddenly stopping labetalol tablets may result in chest pain or temporary symptoms such as shaking, sweating, headache, irregular heartbeat, and general unwell feeling. If your doctor decides that you should stop taking labetalol tablets, your dosage should be reduced over a period of 1 to 2 weeks and you should be carefully monitored.
- Tell your doctor or dentist that you take labetalol tablets before you receive any medical or dental care, emergency care, or surgery.
- If you have a history of any severe allergic reaction, talk with your doctor. You may be at risk of an even more severe allergic reaction if you come into contact with the substance that caused your allergy. Some medicines used to treat severe allergies may also not work as well while you are taking labetalol tablets.
- Labetalol tablets may interfere with certain lab tests. Be sure your doctor and lab personnel know you are taking labetalol tablets.
- If your doctor has instructed you to check your blood pressure and heart rate regularly, be sure to do so.
- Diabetes patients - Labetalol tablets may affect your blood sugar. Check blood sugar levels closely. Ask your doctor before you change the dose of your diabetes medicine.
- Diabetes patients - Labetalol tablets may hide signs of low blood sugar, such as a rapid heartbeat. Be sure to watch for other signs of low blood sugar. Low blood sugar may make you anxious, sweaty, weak, dizzy, drowsy, or faint. It may also make your vision change; give you a headache, chills, or tremors; or make you more hungry. Check blood sugar levels closely. Ask your doctor before you change the dose of your diabetes medicine.
- Lab tests, including liver function, may be performed while you use labetalol tablets. These tests may be used to monitor your condition or check for side effects. Be sure to keep all doctor and lab appointments.
- Use labetalol tablets with caution in the ELDERLY; they may be more sensitive to its effects, especially dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting.
- Labetalol tablets should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN; safety and effectiveness in children have not been confirmed.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using labetalol tablets while you are pregnant. Labetalol tablets are found in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you use labetalol tablets, check with your doctor. Discuss any possible risks to your baby.
Possible side effects of labetalol tablets:
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome:
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur:
Dizziness; indigestion; lightheadedness; nausea; stuffy nose; temporary tingling of the scalp; unusual tiredness.
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; unusual hoarseness); chest pain; dark urine; decreased sexual ability; fainting; fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat; fever, chills, or persistent sore throat; mental or mood changes (eg, depression); muscle pain or tenderness; pale stools; persistent cough; persistent loss of appetite; right upper stomach pain; severe or persistent dizziness; shortness of breath; swelling of the hands or feet; unexplained or sudden weight gain; unusual bruising or bleeding; weakness; wheezing; vision changes; yellowing of the skin or eyes.
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. To report side effects to the appropriate agency, please read the Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA.
If OVERDOSE is suspected:
Contact 1-800-222-1222 (the American Association of Poison Control Centers), your local poison control center, or emergency room immediately. Symptoms may include fainting; seizures; severe dizziness or lightheadedness, especially when standing; shortness of breath; slow heartbeat.Proper storage of labetalol tablets:
Store labetalol tablets between 36 and 86 degrees F (2 and 30 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep labetalol tablets out of the reach of children and away from pets.
General information:
- If you have any questions about labetalol tablets, please talk with your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider.
- Labetalol tablets are to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
- If your symptoms do not improve or if they become worse, check with your doctor.
- Check with your pharmacist about how to dispose of unused medicine.
This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take labetalol tablets or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about labetalol tablets. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to labetalol tablets. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using labetalol tablets.
Disclaimer: This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take this medicine or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about this medicine. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to this medicine. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using this medicine.
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Topic: Southeast PA area meetup
I know a few of us are living within driving distance of Philadelphia. Anyone interested in meeting? I've met Kim Cirucci but no one else yet. She lives in Southern Jersey near South Philly.
Stupid chemo brain: I was writing with someone who lives up in NJ by Easton, PA area. Don't know what thread it was or who it was. And I apologize. I've started sending myself information to keep on "file" because I forget so much anymore. And I think there are 1 or 2 others within a drive.
I don't work, so except for my dance nights which are Tues. and Thurs. any day is pretty much ok for me.
I was thinking, since most of us are probably struggling financially, that we could find a cheap diner or pizzaish place where we don't have to break the bank. Or if it's really nice, we could do a picnic at a park where everyone brings a dish and we share it, or everyone just brings their own lunch.
Anyone interested? I'm thinking May because I'm HOPING June I will be in the hospital having my resection finally.
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
Any opinions I give are based on personal experiences, and are not based on medical knowledge. I strongly suggest receiving medical care and opinions.


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Four adults arrested in drug bust
On Nov. 7, at approximately 9 p.m., Sooke RCMP in conjunction with Island District General Investigation Section and Westshore Dog Services executed a search warrant on a residence in the 2000 block of Charters Road. Police seized a quantity of drugs.
Three adult males and one adult female who were inside the residence at the time were arrested. One of the suspects attempted to flee from police and was quickly apprehended with the assistance of a police dog. Sooke RCMP continue to investigate. No names will be released as Crown Counsel have not approved charges in this case.
Police had no more information as of press time.
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I'VE been in Poland for practice at the start of this week and it's a place I always like to go.
I'm riding for Rzeszow this year and we got on the track on Monday morning before practice was off on Tuesday for a waterlogged track, which was a shame because I only got to test one of my two new engines.
We've got a test meeting against Tarnow on April 5 and all in all the pre-season in Poland is really good. It's pretty different to Britain.
We have two to four test matches against various teams to try and find your form, but you don't get paid for it. I always tend to make the most of them because you get to test a load of stuff that you wouldn't be able to just riding on your own.
The best thing about Poland is I can just fly out there and get track time when I want to. If I want to I could stay longer and we can't do that in England unfortunately.
If I was on my own and didn't have my family to worry about I would probably live in Poland because if there is anything you want to try or test you can do it, no problems, they will sort the track and there's always somewhere to practice.
The Polish juniors get to get on the track all the time and, not many people know this, the junior league in Poland has about 30 meetings a year which is amazing. I guess that's why the Poles don't tend to go abroad until they are a bit older.
When I used to ride for Wolves we had the Midlands Cup which was pretty helpful because you get the track time you need, which we don't have so much anymore.
I don't see any tests or cups anymore which is a shame and in the future it would be good if all the clubs in Britain could have test meetings as it really gets you sharp.
I've been to a few different kind of rider presentation events in Poland too and they've all been quite different.
There was one in Wroclaw which was in a hotel and only for the press, which was a bit strange because they only interviewed the Polish riders, the team manager the club president.
There was also one in Zielona Gora which was probably the best you can go to because there were four or five thousand fans there and a big stage like a pop concert. There was a party afterwards too so it was good.
The one we are having at Rzeszow is in the middle of the big shopping centre there so I really don't know how it's going to go.
When I get back to England we've got the Elite Shield with Swindon on Thursday and it will be really good to get back on the track again with the team.
It will be really interesting to see how we all fit together and it would be a great one to win too because there is a trophy, and it will be good for Swindon to get one back on Poole after they beat them in the play-offs last year.


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If you are running LiveCycle ES2 you may notice the following exception message in the server log:
2011-04-20 18:03:54,291 INFO [com.adobe.idp.dsc.workmanager.impl.ExecutableUnitWrapper] No class loader found for service: Events. Cause: com.adobe.idp.dsc.registry.ServiceNotFoundException: Service: Events not found.
This message on its own is benign, i.e. it does not indicate a problem with the LiveCycle server, and can therefore be ignored. It is an INFO level message, and not an ERROR or WARN level message which indicates the priority.
If the message does occur as an ERROR or WARN level message with other exceptions, then this should not be ignored and you should analyse the other exceptions to find the root cause of the issue.
Additional information
The work manager in LiveCycle was looking for a service called "Events" in order to get its class loader to serialize/de-serialize objects (ExecutableUnit) whose definition is in that service. When it couldn't find the class loader for the Events service, LiveCycle will continue to use the default class loader.
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3 May 2011
By clicking Submit, you accept the Adobe Terms of Use.
In this exercise you will use Flash Builder to create an MXML class and reuse the class to display employee information (see Figure 1).
In this exercise you will learn how to:
In this section you will add Flex controls to the application.
text property with a value of Employee Portal.
Style tag to your code.
<fx:Style source="Styles.css"/>
Label control, add a
height property with a value of
40, a
width property with a value of
300, and a
styleName property with a value of
<s:Label x="10" y="10"
height="40" width="300"
text="Employee Portal"
You should see the style applied to the Label control (see Figure 3).
The application should look as shown in Figure 7.
Image control and change it from
Image to
<s:BitmapImage x="10" y="58"
Note: It is a best practice to only use the
Image control if you need to skin an image (for instance, with a background or border).To just display an image, use
Note that your application has not changed.
In this section you create a custom component to use in place of the controls added to the application in the last section.
The New MXML Component dialog box should look as shown in Figure 9.
BitmapImage and
Label controls that are used for the employee's name and paste them into the EmployeeDisplay.mxml below the
Declarations block.
Note: You are only cutting the
BitmapImage and
Label controls that are specific to the employee. Do not cut the Employee Portal
Label control.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Group xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
<s:BitmapImage x="10" y="58" source="images/aparker.jpg"/>
<s:Label x="10" y="140" text="Athena Parker"/>
BitmapImage control, delete the
x and
y properties:
<s:BitmapImage source="images/aparker.jpg"/>
Label control's
x property to 0 and
y property to 80:
<s:Label x="0" y="80"
text="Athena Parker"/>
UI components comment, add an instance of the custom component by typing the characters <Empl and then pressing Enter when the content assist tool displays the custom component (see Figure 10).
Application tag, ensure the xml namespace
components has been generated. If not, add the namespace assigned to the contents of the components directory.
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
EmployeeDisplay component, add the
x property with a value of
10 and the
y property with a value of
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="10" y="60"/>
x property value to
105 and make sure the
y property value is
You should see that the application contains two
EmployeeDisplay components, as shown in Figure 12.
EmployeeDisplay component and notice that it is presented as a tag block.
EmployeeDisplay tag and modify the opening tag so that it becomes a single instance of the component.
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="10" y="60"/>
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="105" y="60"/>
In this section, you will create two class properties and use them to display data.
Group container tag, create a
Script block.
Script block, type imageFile and use the quick assist tool, by pressing CTRL+1, to create a variable. Make the variable public and data typed to the String class.
public var imageFile:String;
Bindable public variable named
fullName data typed to the String class by using the content assist and quick assist tools.
public var imageFile:String;
public var fullName:String;
source property of the
BitmapImage control, replace the hard-coded employee image file name with the value of the
imageFile variable.
<s:BitmapImage source="images/{imageFile}"/>
text property to the value of the
fullName variable.
<s:Label x="0" y="80" text="{fullName}"/>
imageFile property with a value of
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="10" y="60" imageFile="aparker.jpg"/>
fullName variable set to the value of
Athena Parker.
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="10" y="60" imageFile="aparker.jpg"
fullName="Athena Parker" />
imageFile property set to
stucker.jpg and the
fullName property set to
Saul Tucker.
<components:EmployeeDisplay x="105" y="60"
fullName="Saul Tucker"/>
The custom component now displays two different employees (see Figure 13).
In this exercise you learned to use Flash Builder to create an MXML class and reuse the class to display data. In the next exercise, you will use inline ActionScript to display the date selected from a DateChooser control. You will then use a function to achieve the same result as the inline ActionScript.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, pertaining to the examples of code included within this work are available at Adobe.


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What Are the Northern Lights?
Over the centuries, many have gazed up at one of the earth's most fascinatingly beautiful natural wonders: The Northern Lights. But what are they?
Before science was able to get a read on what exactly was happening in the night sky, ancient tribes had their own theories for what caused the jaw-dropping light show. Many early beliefs had roots in religion, such as that the light was a pathway souls traveled to reach heaven (Eskimo Tribes) or that the light was an eternal battle of dead warriors (Middle-Age Europe). Early researchers were a bit more reasonable in their approximations, and most surrounded the idea of the reflection of sunlight off the ice caps. In 1619, Galileo Galilei named the lights the aurora borealis after Aurora, the Roman goddess of morning, after concluding they were a product of sunlight reflecting from the atmosphere.
Today, scientists have come to the general agreement that the lights are caused by the collision of electrically charged solar particles and atoms from our atmosphere. The energy from the collisions is released as light, and the reason it happens around the poles is because that's where the earth's magnetic field is the strongest. In 2008, a team at UCLA concluded that "when two magnetic field lines come close together due to the storage of energy from the sun, a critical limit is reached and the magnetic field lines reconnect, causing magnetic energy to be transformed into kinetic energy and heat. Energy is released, and the plasma is accelerated, producing accelerated electrons."
"Our data show clearly and for the first time that magnetic reconnection is the trigger," said Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences. "Reconnection results in a slingshot acceleration of waves and plasma along magnetic field lines, lighting up the aurora underneath even before the near-Earth space has had a chance to respond. We are providing the evidence that this is happening."
The best time to see the Northern Lights is during the winter due to the earth's position in relation to the sun (shorter days means darker night skies). And by the way, it's not just the North Pole that puts on a show—there are Southern Lights, too. There are also aurora borealis on other planets—including Mars—so rest assured that future generations born "abroad" will not miss out on this spectacular feat of nature.
Haven't seen them yet? Well, now is the time to book your trip: Scientists are predicting that this December will be the best month to see them in the next decade due to the current level of solar activity.