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Mark Hilton, DVM, Dipl. ABVP, Purdue University, believes beef producers and their veterinarians should shoot for a goal of 0% calf scours.
"I seriously see zero cases year after year on our herds on the Integrated Resources Management program we have in Indiana," Hilton said at the Dr. Jack Walther 85th Annual Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas this week. "I had a client show me a bag of electrolytes he bought about 10 years ago and asked it if was still good because he never had to use them."
But, calf scours are a reality on many beef operations. Hilton said a veterinarian should be called after the first case of scours is observed. "After the first calf with diarrhea the history needs to be evaluated to see what went wrong. Something went wrong and there is no reason to repeat the mistake."
If a producer sat down and consulted with the herd health veterinarian, which might cost $75 for the consulting fee, the producer could save thousands of dollars on medicine, sick calls and dead calves, Hilton noted. "I am a big fan of having a plan and a checklist of management actions to prevent calf scours fits perfectly with the goal of preventing a problem."
What do we know from evidence based medicine as to prevention of neonatal diarrhea? Hilton offered this information:
- Winter heifers separately from cows. Odds ratio 3.60.
- Calve heifers separately from cows. Odds ratio 1.67.
- Keep group size under 50 cow-calf pairs.
- Calve females in adequate BCS. The goal for heifers is 6.5 – 7.0 and for cows BCS 5.5-6.0.
- Reduce/eliminate areas of mud in wintering and calving area.
- Never buy calves for cows or heifers that lose their calves.
- Never buy any cattle to add to the herd just prior to or during the calving season.
- Calve at a time of year when environmental conditions are conducive for a neonate to be born outside.
- Do not allow access to a building where both cows and calves can enter. It becomes a cesspool of disease organisms and almost guarantees neonatal morbidity.
- Use calf huts or other shelter where only calves can enter if calving in inclement weather.
- Do not expect vaccine given to cows or calves to prevent disease all by itself.
- Utilize a quarantine area for diarrheal calves and their dams.
- Management factors that allow for improved calf vigor at birth (improving heterosis and calving at a time of the year with a more conducive environmental temperature) with improved colostral intake are essential to decreasing calf morbidity and mortality.
Aside from being the right thing to do for calf health, there is a huge economic cost to not managing calf scours. "We have $600-700 in the calf the minute he hits the ground. We need to have them all survive," Hilton noted.
"Veterinarians need to be better marketers of their skills in preventing problems. We as a profession worry too much about the clients perceiving us as trying to 'sell' them something. We need to get rid of that mentality and do more for our producers. They want the partnership with their herd health veterinarian and we need to be more proactive for them."


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Every year on THANKSGIVING families gather round the table to share in a bountiful feast and to give thanks for all they are blessed with. For that reason, your Thanksgiving table deserves a bit more attention; don't you think?
Every year on THANKSGIVING families gather round the table to share in a bountiful feast and to give thanks for all they are blessed with. For that reason, your Thanksgiving table deserves a bit more attention; don't you think?
Read on for four simple tablescape ideas that still make a statement and offer a festive feel.
Autumn Leaf Table Runner
Use multicolored autumn leaves and clear cellophane to make a table runner that is not only gorgeous but functional as well!
An "Autumn Leaf Table Runner" is easy to make, unexpected and adds a bit the season to your tabletop. It also doubles as a "hot plate" for all of those delicious vegetable casseroles you'll be putting on the table.
To Recreate:
Start with a piece of clear cellophane cut to size.
Gather leaves or buy preserved leaves at a craft store. Cut the leaves from the branches right and trim the stem from the bottom of the leaf. If the leaves are a little wrinkled you can iron them - it looks better if the leaves lay flat.
Cover your work surface with newspaper and place your piece of cellophane on top.
Have you leaves ready and spray half of the cellophane with Tack 2000 spray adhesive.
Simply place the leaves onto the cello one at a time starting at the edge and overlapping the previously placed leaf.
Spray the other half of the cello and finish adding leaves.
Mum and Filbert Centerpieces
Small arrangements of flowers and nuts can be more convenient than one large centerpiece.
I prefer to use multiple smaller floral accents as opposed to one large centerpiece since you can easily move the arrangements around the table as the food is added.
These arrangements couldn't be easier to do.
To Recreate:
I chose small square and tall cylinder glass vases that I filled with filberts (hazel nuts).
Fill the vessels with water and top off with a single mum - in this case a copper disbud. I love the monochromatic look and the use of various textures.
The Finishing Touch - Pear Place Settings
Top your beautiful table with these pear place settings at each guest's seat. Not only will they identify your seating arrangement, they also work for what I call "tabletop art".
To Recreate:
Starting with amber glass plates that I picked up at a discount price, all it took was a curvaceous bosc pear, a sprig of pyracantha berries, a tiny bundle of millet, and a gold trimmed place card to create what I like to call "tabletop art."
Since pears are in the height of their season right now, you can find them at any local grocery store or supermarket.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jennifer Kelly Geddes has hosted Christmas cookie swaps, New Year's open houses, Thanksgiving for 22, and all manner of dinner parties in her Manhattan and Ghent, NY homes.Read More »

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PORT ORANGE, Fla. - Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a media warehouse in Port Orange over a mortgage fraud scheme after a three-year investigation.
The search warrant was served at the Waverly Media warehouse complex off of Spruce Creek Road at around 10 a.m. The FBI believes the company would pay elderly people to use their names and credit information on mortgage applications, adding additional false information, in order to buy expensive luxury homes-like a $2.5 million mansion on the Halifax River in Daytona Beach Shores.
The company would then allegedly lease them out to vacationers, keeping the payments. Investigators say the mortgage wouldn't be paid and the home would eventually fall into foreclosure.
The company is owned by longtime real estate agent Ramara Garrett and although the investigation has been focused on her, she hasn't been charged as of Thursday. FBI agents said no arrests will be made on Thursday.
It's unclear what FBI agents hoped to find during the raid on the warehouse and if it has helped their case.
Agents tell Local 6 the scam could total more than $50 million and could involve fraudulently purchased homes all over the state of Florida.
No other information was immediately available.
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The dog show, sponsored by local companies, includes classes for best veteran, waggiest tail and dog the judges would most like to take home.
Refreshments on sale will include a bar, barbecue and salad bar, teas and cakes, strawberries and cream and a gourmet popcorn stall.
There will also be several stalls, including plants, toys, books and cards and entertainment provided by Churchstanton Primary School's country dancing troupe and kenpo team.
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POLICE are still calling for witnesses to come forward after a police car crashed while in pursuit of a suspected stolen car.
The marked Vauxhall Astra police car and a silver Seat Exeo hit a garden wall on the corner of Ombersley Road and Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester, at 11.15am on Sunday, May 11.
Both vehicles came to a rest in the front garden of a house at the junction and a 51-year-old woman had to be cut free from the Seat Exeo and was taken to hospital to be checked out for a slight injury.
Sergeant Stuart Allen said: "We want to build up a clear picture of what happened and we would like to hear from anyone who saw the collision or saw either of the vehicles being driven in the moments before it happened."
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Sutton is being given £154,078 so schools can provide intensive support, extra tutoring or other activities to help them catch up with their peers.
Mr Clegg said: "In a modern, fair society I want every child to have the best opportunity to get on in life, regardless of their background.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The parents of Trayvon Martin, the teen shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012, have sent a message to the family of the 8-year-old boy who was killed in the Boston Marathon explosions.
Martin Richard, 8, was pictured on Facebook holding a peace sign created in response to a lesson by his teacher about the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, which prompted the parents of Trayvon Martin to send a special message to the family of Martin Richard.
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"Our hearts are broken over the tragedy in Boston yesterday. Our family sends our sincerest condolences to all of those who have been affected by this terrible situation. We especially would like to send a message to the family of eight year old, Martin Richard.
We have come to understand that the peace sign that Martin is holding in a photo being circulated throughout the media, was created in response to a lesson by his teacher about the death of our son. From our family to yours', we are praying for you, thinking about you and will remember your son for the rest of our lives."
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It's an unexpected connection, the notion that whole grains are responsible for Monet and Mozart.
But when you chat with cookbook author Mark Scarbrough, the synapses fire, the metaphors fly and the quips come fast and furious.
He has a point about whole grains, though. These "founder crops" don't just date back to the beginnings of civilization they're the reason for it. Communities formed around those early grain stores, and from those earliest societies came civilization and culture.
When you delve into topics such as farro, the earthy, nutty grain that's popping up on menus around the Bay Area, the conversation inevitably turns to history. Legions of ancient Romans, Greeks and Mesopotamians dined on farro, and it's long been a staple in many parts of the world.
We may be johnny-come-latelies to the farro party, but we've fully embraced the possibilities, the glorious side dishes, salads and mains designed by creative chefs who appreciate the gourmet factor as well as the nutrition value of this healthy, hearty grain.
Scarbrough calls farro a "gourmet ingredient hiding in plain sight," and one that complements so many things. Salute the waning days of Indian summer by combining cooked farro with fresh nectarines, basil, toasted pine nuts and crumbled ricotta salata. Embrace the grain's earthy side by pairing it with creamy potatoes or smoked chicken and chutney.
Farro comes in several forms, and it's important to know the difference. Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein his partner on more than 20 cookbooks prefer the whole grain, as opposed to the semi-pearled or semi-perlato version, in which the bran has been scored but not removed. (Pearled means the bran has been completely removed.) Semi-pearled is the easiest variety to find and the type most frequently called for in cookbooks written by people other than Scarbrough and Weinstein. The duo's new Main Grains (Rodale, $24.99, 232 pages) uses whole-grain farro.
"It has earthy tones much like mushrooms, a toasted walnut overtone to it that is just missing from pearled," Scarbrough says. "Bruce's mother just made the whole grain and nectarine salad. She called up raving about it."
Even the semi-pearled variety is "whole" enough to make your doctor happy, especially when you use it to give a classic salad a twist. Weinstein does a Nicoise-inspired farro salad, for example. Mindy Fox uses panzanella, the traditional Tuscan bread salad, as an inspiration for a farro salad that is so loaded with tomatoes, basil, corn, green beans and garlic, your taste buds may swoon.
"It's so good for you and so satisfying. You can riff and riff and riff to your heart's content," says Fox, the food editor for La Cucina Italiana magazine and author of Salads: Beyond the Salad Bowl (Kyle, $19.95, 176 pages).
At Berkeley's Cafe Rouge, farro is so beloved, it received a starring course of its own during a recent dinner devoted to Sicilian foods and wines. The grain was tossed with a champagne vinaigrette, fresh arugula and generous chunks of avocado for a salad course so memorable, it nearly upstaged the rest of the dinner.
That's the beauty of the grain, food writer Diane Morgan says. It's so eminently satisfying, it can make omnivores forget there's a turkey on the Thanksgiving table.
The Portland, Ore.-based writer's newest book, Roots (Chronicle, $40, 432 pages), explores the panoply of possibilities in the root cellar from Andean tubers to beets, galangal and wasabi then pairs those hearty tubers in winning ways. Pair rutabaga or carrots with farro, she says, and "it wins on so many levels." Add sauteed pearl onions, red grapes and fresh herbs to the mix for a dish so nutrient-rich, texturally interesting and flavor-packed that it can steal the limelight on any holiday buffet but remains simple enough for a "Meatless Monday" or Sunday supper.
But consider yourself warned if you're going to venture down the farro highway. Farro is kind of the gateway drug of whole grains.
Just ask Scarbrough, who brought a simple whole-grain salad to a book club meeting recently.
"I thought," he says, "they were going to beat each other senseless trying to get to it."
Farro 411
Here's everything you need to know about farro pronounced fahr-oh. What it is, how to use it and when to soak it.
Types • Whole-grain farro is, as the name implies, a whole grain. Semi-pearled or semi-perlato has had the bran scored, so the heat of cooking can penetrate to the center more quickly. Pearled farro has had the bran removed. Whole-grain farro has an earthier, nuttier flavor and the most nutrition, but the semi-pearled is more readily available thanks to importers such as Oakland-based Manicaretti, which sells it under the Rustichella d'Abruzzo label.
Gluten factor • Farro comes from an unhybridized wheatlike plant that is a member of the wheat family. It has lower gluten levels than conventional wheat, but those who are gluten-intolerant or have been diagnosed with celiac disease should avoid farro.
Soaking • Pearled and semi-pearled farro do not need soaking, but you can reduce the cooking time for whole-grain farro by soaking it in a bowl of cool water for eight to 16 hours. Drain the farro, then pour it into a large saucepan, cover with water by several inches, and bring it to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer until tender, about an hour.
Cooking times • Semi-pearled farro cooks in 20-45 minutes, depending on the type of farro. Pearled farro takes less time, and whole-grain takes more, but it's important in any case to gauge doneness by texture, not time. Taste it. The grains should be soft, but with a little firmness at the center.
Farro with nectarines, basil and pine nuts
1 cup whole-grain farro*
6 tablespoons pine nuts
2 nectarines, chopped
4 ounces ricotta salata, finely crumbled
16 basil leaves, minced
2 tablespoons almond oil or olive oil
1 tablespoon white balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Soak the farro in cool water for 8 to 16 hours.
Drain the farro in a fine-mesh sieve set in a sink. Pour the farro into a large saucepan, cover with water by several inches, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer until tender, about 1 hour. Drain again in the sieve, then run under cool water to stop the cooking. Drain thoroughly.
Scatter the pine nuts in a dry skillet and set it over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until lightly toasted and fragrant, about 4 minutes.
Pour the pine nuts into a large serving bowl. Add the cooked farro. Stir in everything else and serve. This salad can be stored, covered, in the fridge for up to 4 days.
*Note: Omit the soaking time and reduce the cooking time by a quarter if you are using semi-pearled farro.
Servings • 4
Source: Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, "Grain Mains" (Rodale, $24.99, 232 pages)
Farro and smoked chicken salad with chutney
1 cup whole-grain farro*
3/4 pound smoked, skinless chicken breast, chopped
3/4 cup pecan pieces, chopped
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup chutney
3 celery stalks, minced
4 small pickled pearl onions, chopped
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon salt
Up to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
Soak the farro in cool water for 8 to 16 hours.
Drain the farro in a fine-mesh sieve set in a sink. Pour the farro into a large saucepan, cover with water by several inches, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer until tender, about 1 hour. Drain again in the sieve, then run under cool water to stop the cooking. Drain thoroughly.
Dump the cooked farro into a large bowl and stir in the remaining ingredients. This keeps, covered, in the fridge for up to 4 days.
* Note: Omit the soaking time and reduce the cooking time by a quarter if you are using semi-pearled farro.
Servings • 6
Source: Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
Panzanella di Farro
1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
Fine sea salt
1 large ear of corn
1/2 pound green beans
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 1/4 cups farro
1 large garlic clove
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Finely ground black pepper
1 small cucumber, peeled, sliced into half-moons
1 cup packed basil leaves, large leaves torn
4 medium radishes, halved and very thinly sliced
3 scallions, thinly sliced
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
In a large serving bowl, toss together the tomatoes and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Cook corn and green beans together in the boiling water. After 3 minutes, remove corn. Cook the beans until crisp-tender, 1-2 minutes more. Using tongs, transfer them to a colander to drain, pat dry, and place in a medium bowl. Toss with 1 tablespoon oil.
Cook farro in the same boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender but firm to the bite, 18-20 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Grill green beans until golden on both sides, 4-5 minutes. Season with a generous pinch of salt and pepper. Let cool, then cut into 1-inch lengths. Cut the corn off the cob.
On a cutting board, slice the garlic, then mound it together with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Using both the blade and flat side of a chef's knife, chop and scrape the mixture into a paste. In a bowl, combine 5 tablespoons oil and the vinegar. Whisk in the garlic paste and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Drain the farro, then spread it on a baking sheet to cool for 5-10 minutes.
Whisk together the dressing, and toss it with the tomatoes, farro, green beans, corn, cucumber, basil, radishes, scallions, 3/4 teaspoon pepper and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Servings • 4-6
Source: Mindy Fox, "Salads: Beyond the Bowl" (Kyle Books, $19.95, 176 pages)


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AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabricby Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/3/2012 3:49 AM EST
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samirsshah - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkYes. Reply
yankeeDDL - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkI am not sure that designing the blocks independently will be a real possibility.
I can think of two examples: first, Apple's A5, despite being, on paper, largely underpowered compared to dual-core SoC from TI or Qualcomm, allow the Iphone4S to come close, or even outperform the competition on certain benchmarks. This is thanks to a careful balance between CPU, GPU and close integration with the SW.
Similarly, the Tegra3 showed the potential of ARM cores optimized differently for power vs performance and yet working together. It strikes me of the Tegra3 that despite having 5 cores, only 4 of them can be used in parallel with the 5th off: I understand the reasoning behind, but it is arguably not a very efficient design implementation (e.g.: why not leaving the 5th, low-power core on working on background tasks and throwing the 4 fast cores to the demanding apps?).
It seems to me that a coordinated effort between all sections of the SoC could bring significant advantages in terms of performance (and I'm including efficiency).
My 2 cents. Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkYou can view it similarly to the transition from assembler programming to high level, object oriented code. The former is more efficient, if done correctly, but takes a lot of time and effort. Plus the result may not be very flexible. OO programming on the other hand trades off some execution efficiency for faster time to market and design flexibility, i.e. make your blocks autonomous enough (with proper interfaces) and it'll be easier to mix and reuse them.
Once you've got there you can still apply some assembler hand-tuning where it matters to improve speed and efficiency. Note that this is rather similar to e.g. Fermis design process. Reply
yankeeDDL - Saturday, February 04, 2012 - linkMrSpadge, I know exactly what you mean and what you're describing.
What I said is that I am not sure this would be enough: CPU optimiztion is different than GPU. In the GPU field more or less both AMD and Nvidia do what you describe. In the CPU though Intel does a lot more of tweaking.
I have no way to know for sure, of course, but it is hard not to think about Bulldozer, and how it, well, sucks. Large, power hungry and underperforming. ARM has improved its designed over several years and it strikes me that their emphasis on power consumption is unparalleled.
So what I said in my previous post is that if AMD plans to do an SoC by slapping together a bunch of IP blocks, it may create an awesome architecture which underperforms in every aspect. Which would be a pity. Reply
Penti - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkYou do realize that Apples SoC (largely dependent on Samsung Fab-tools) is faster in some benchmarks because they use another third party GPU? You do realize that it was an AMD division that designed Qualcomms Adreno GPU to begin with? Or that Apple don't write their own GPU drivers to begin with? ARMs Mali is fully synthesized too. The players don't start from scratch regardless if it's hardware or software. Changing out parts such as gpu's aren't hard here. You are not talking about anything to do with design and engineering of the IP, you might be talking about integration and platform, that is software and the combination of the product. That is different teams altogether. Everything in ARM SoC's is pretty much synthesized and can be used anywhere. If you want faster 3D on non iOS devices you can use the same GPU and parts of the driver development done there and clock it higher then Apple does and easily outperform it in gaming benchmarks. It's not for simply UI they have such a strong GPU. Of course a PS Vita is stronger then A5 for example, all you have their is synthesized hardware, adjoining software from those IP vendors and just a minimal firmware from Sony. They don't actually change anything inside the IP blocks which is already designed. Reply
yankeeDDL - Saturday, February 04, 2012 - linkHey Penti, thanks for trying to tell me what I "might be talking about": there's always a first.
Regretfully, I inform you that you missed my point. Why I ado appreciate learning, I might suggest that a less lecturing attitude might help you understand better what you're reading and contribute to a discussion.
I said something very simple: "I am not sure that designing the blocks independently will be a real possibility."
This has nothing to do with the design of the block itself and with the IP reuse.
What I am saying is that just putting a bunch of IP blocks and synthesizing them together does not make a good design. You need to balance the relative "power" of one block with the others, you need to make sure that the blocks work efficiently together, and you need to make sure that all of the above happens smoothly over different operating conditions.
Otherwise you run the risk that you'll have another bulldozer: a complex, revolutionary architecture, that fails in power consumption, peak performance and even cost (huge die size). That's all. Reply
Malih - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkAMD has good ideas on how to improve things, and they're mostly amazing, it's just the execution/implementation takes a lot of time and most of the times are late.
If they can take their three years roadmap and make it in two years (or less), only then they'll have the significant market share. Reply
metafor - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkSo basically they're going to do what ARM via AXI (and previously AMBA) have been able to do for almost a decade now.... Reply
chizow - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkThe biggest reason for this is many of AMD's past leaders completely ignored the sub-laptop and SoC markets. I believe it was former CEO Dirk Meyers that first rejected the idea of making smaller chips for netbooks when Intel was pushing Atom and Nvidia was pushing Tegra, then more recently Meyers and Bergman rejected the idea of AMD entering the mobile phone market.
Now it looks as if Intel has finally bridged the gap in power consumption and performance with their Medfield SoC for both tablets and smartphones and again, AMD has nothing to show for it. Its really too bad too because I think AMD's graphics with an ARM-based SoC could be an interesting product. But now once again, they're way behind the curve as all other major players (Intel, Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm etc) have compelling offerings in that mobile and tablet space. Reply
risa2000 - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkOr maybe they ignored it deliberately. Seeing Intel struggling with Atom, they told themselves, let's focus on something we already mastered. AMD cannot afford to waste one or two development cycles (like Intel did with Atom) to move there.
What would bother me more, is that instead saying, ok we did not cut it this time, let's learn and come back later, they are now trying to give an impression, they will succeed in something else. Few marketing slides will not make it happen. Reply
chizow - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkIdk it just seems awfully short-sighted to ignore that market since that's where all the gadget growth is projected over the next 3-5 years. Tablets and smartphones.
Intel's Atom started off modestly, shooting for mini-ITX HTPCs, same as Nvidia's Tegra as a drop-in mGPU with Atom. Keep in mind, Intel also resisted the idea of Netbooks but at least they had a contingency plan with Atom. Nvidia obviously wanted to get away from the idea of x86 as quickly as possible and embraced ARM.
It looks like AMD is also getting interested in at least the Tablet market, but the roadmap indicates they won't even have something that fits that TDP profile until next year. Just way behind even getting their foot in the door, but I think Reed will at least have them in a better position to compete through more timely execution. Reply
cfaalm - Friday, February 03, 2012 - linkSome of the reactions here seem to assume all at AMD are gonna think. "OK we did the slide show, now let's figure out how to do all this." You bet there's stuff in the works already. You can't come up with these slides based on nothing but ideas. I just hope like many of you that their execution will be timely from now on. Reply
fujiyama - Saturday, February 04, 2012 - linkFor last 25 years Intel was successful to deliver better and better CPUs with AMD following.
Introducing Athlon CPU AMD they took lead and profits limited only by FAB and Intel bribes.
Mixing GPUs, CPUs etc. says about INABILITY to create a competitive core.
Adding GCN, ARM and I/O doesn't change that. Reply
silverblue - Saturday, February 04, 2012 - linkMuch like Intel slapping a GPU on their CPUs doesn't make their GPUs any good. Reply
Sunsmasher - Saturday, February 04, 2012 - linkThese slides are very disturbing in that they have tons of "Corporate Speak" platitudes that don't indicate that AMD has any real ideas for the future.
This is just corporate boardroom "noise" devoid of any real content.
Unfortunately, this furthers the suspicion that AMD is really flailing and has no real
Idea of where to go as a company. Reply
haplo602 - Sunday, February 05, 2012 - linkDidn't they do this in the past already with Torrenza ? All it achieved were a few very specific products. I don't see this getting past initial designs ... Reply
andreamaeB - Monday, February 06, 2012 - linkI like it. Just a few more innovations and it was perfect. Reply
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Hello all,
I am fairly new to this part of the forum, can't say the same about SitePoint.
We can all agree that most client's are not as tech-savvy as us, and many of mine would not have a clue to register on an online networking site, nevermind manage them. Even if they did have a clue, they probably don't have the time.
When taking all this into consideration do companies manage social website for clients, and if so, how do they normally do this?
Has anybody got experience in this?
Hello! I'm new to Sitepoint, but not new to the theme of this forum.
Most clients are not very tech-savvy, however you have to see this as an opportunity. You are the specialist, so you should help your client out with all the tech issues.
The tricky part is not to waste time talking on the phone or writing emails to help him out, unless you can bill these hours (which you often can't). So if your client doesn't know how to use a certain tool, offer him a course and a manual, which you can bill.
You can also offer him help with setting up the profiles on those networking sites and take care of the technical maintenance. Just make sure to get money for the work you put in. This might be difficult because after all most online networking sites are free to use, but your time isn't.
The same applies to "they probably don't have the time." Either the client makes time for updating the profiles on those sites, or he pays you for doing it.
When it comes to social marketing, there is a variety of services you can offer to your clients. However it is impossible to use these marketing tools effectively without your clients involvement. After all your client knows his business best, not you.
If I can offer you an important piece of advice, then this: if your client's website isn't already at least good (if not top notch), then don't do any social marketing.
Not wanting to scare you off, just giving you a feedback on my experiences. Don't be afraid to ask any further questions, I'm here to help.
@Fränk Klein
Thanks Frank, you really did give me an insight.
Personally I think I hit on a hot topic here (thinking should be on front page)
Understanding that my time is not free, how can one go about charging for material to substitute for your time. However you think of it, you'll probably still come out at a loss.
Giving them free support and wasting hours on the phone is ludicrous, unless you shaft them with a premium helpline number, which you're bound to get angry emails and phones calls (even at their expense).
Initially I was proposing to charge for the social media set-up. So for every set-up of a social media site you charge 15 EU, then I was hoping to train them on-site. But then I realized I was doing a lot of leg work for nothing. The 15 Euro set-up fee, on let's say 2 sites would not substitute on-board training.
Even if you train the clients to social networking, and give them material you will charge them for (not really knowing what one would charge, let's say 100 EU), you would then have to monitor them to ensure they are doing a correct job. Let's face it, poor execution on their part reflects back on you as the web design company.
So taking into consideration all this cost the client would incur one would think whether it's worth actually bothering.
So we have several topics here:
Even though it sounds that I am money-hungry, I can assure you the opposite. I am just trying to understand what others do. I don't really have competition for this in my area, so it would be interesting to know how others go about it.
There is little point in speculating what one would do, it's much more valuable to know what people in real-working environments do, apart from leaving their clients high and dry.
hi everyone, Social website management's people should seriously think something for spammers and such kind of things, because some people get in forum just for advertising purpose.
What you got to keep in mind is that there is the value of a service or product, and the perceived value. Apple for example uses perceived value to make money, since the products the firm sells are cheap to produce, but yet sell at elevated prices.
You on the other hand offer a service with a real value (the time you have to put into it) but your client doesn't perceive it as such. After all why should he pay you 15 EU to set up a Facebook page. His son is on Facebook, for free!
So instead of writing "creating account on Facebook - 15 EU" on your proposal, write something like this:
Create Online Presence on Facebook- Create business profile- Customize profile graphics according to existing brand guidelines- Customize profile content- Set up contact information- Create links between profile and website- ....
Explain to your client what you do, and make sure to write up everything you do. My proposed write-up is far from ideal, but you get the drift. If you have to do all that work, you can't do it for 15 EU, I think every client will get that (hopefully).
I don't know anything about your business, but I think one of the most important shifts that web agencies nowadays have to make is to stop being "the nerd guys that program stuff to put on the internet" and becoming a real online marketing service company.
This has to transform the relationship to your client from doing isolated small projects (updating website,...) to a long term interaction where you do work for him during the whole year and assist him in developing his business via the web.
Monitoring his activities on the social media may be a good entry point into making this shift, as this would require you to charge him a small fee for the daily monitoring, as well as for writing the weekly/bi-weekly/monthly/whatever report of the monitoring results.
That is a very good remark, definitely food for thought. You have expressed that you are not money-hungry and that you only want the best for your clients. I think that one of the most important things is to learn to say "no" - if a client of yours wants to do social media marketing but you clearly see that it won't do anything for him, tell him that.
In the long term, this is going to benefit you more than making a quick buck or two.
You already gave a good write up of some of the related topics, I'll elaborate this further:
I think these are the essential questions that should be asked before investing in social media, in order to prevent poor execution and as a consequence a bad reputation for your company.
... why should he pay you 15 EU to set up a Facebook page. His son is on Facebook, for free!
My cousin already said this might be a problem. I was trying to explain to my cousin that even though he can create a page, he would not be able to proceed with adding all the information as required because of lack of knowledge, or not having the time. I think your rewording of the sections are more than suitable, it sounds more professional and maybe something your 13 year old son can't do.
would require you to charge him a small fee for the daily monitoring, as well as for writing the weekly/bi-weekly/monthly/whatever report of the monitoring results.
Makes sense really.
On what platforms (Facebook, Twitter,...) should your client be present?
All companies have to consider Facebook and twitter. Other social media sites like YouTube etc. are best left out for specialized companies. The trouble is many social media sites are dying, and using social bookmarking to directly influence yourself in them can get you banned from the bookmarking site.
All sites will have social bookmarking on them, and it's for the users to bookmark those sites, not for the customer to bookmark himself.
Training is a must, you cannot create an online presence on twitter and facebook without training them, as they are likely to just leave them as you set them up. I also feel monitor is a strong must, without monitoring them they could end up using them wrongly and discouraging their users. (if that's even possible).
If you start charging for everything simple things like Twitter and Facebook can cost an awful lot of money, and I think clients would all double-think using them. The idea is to influence companies to use them, not to discourage them.
What do other's do? Their must be companies who deal with this daily.
I have to disagree with you on this. There is no "must-do" when it comes to social media marketing. It all really depends on the client. Twitter is still not very popular in most parts of Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg,...). Facebook is big, but not all brands and products do well on this platform.
One of the most important things is to accept the way that social media sites work: you don't have any power as a brand. Energizing users and turning them into brand ambassadors is very difficult, it takes a lot of time and lots of budget.
Second that.
Absolutely. It's better not to do anything then doing it wrong or setting it up and letting it "rot". There's nothing more damaging for a brand than having a social media presence that's full of spam or that hasn't been updated in weeks.
Start small and take things from there. Divide your proposal into different sections that go from the most basic offers to the most advanced. Make sure that every part of your proposal can be executed independently, that it forms a whole.
Like this you can "lure" the client into social media marketing. Start with optimizing the website content for sharing on social websites. Monitor the results and if they are positive, present them to your client. Then you might say "You see this is good, but if we do X, we will improve those numbers". Then do X, monitor results, then propose him Y, and so on and so on.
I think as long as your client gets results from the money he invests, he'll continue doing it. But be smart about it. Most clients will phone you and say "I want to be on that Face-thingy. How much does that cost?". Don't give numbers. Thank him for his interest and tell him that you can offer a variety of services and that you'd like to set up a meeting with him.
When you go to that meeting, have a presentation with you that explains in very easy terms what social media is, what platforms there are (a few of them) and how these sites can help his business. Follow up with case studies of businesses that have used social media marketing successfully in their approach. Stress the importance of the essential services, like training. Maybe show some examples of businesses that didn't follow these best practices and how this has had a negative reputation on their brand.
I deal with stuff like this daily. That's what I'm paid for. :lol:
The difficult part is that there are no cookie-cutter solutions. Writing proposal is very difficult and requires a lot of time. As with most proposals, you write heaps of them and only part of them can be transformed into business. This is why small shops might struggle with this, you got to be able to sell some serious budget to account for all the costs of business development.
I think you need to have a client willing to put the time in. You can put links to their social sites, and you can create the landing pages. But if the client doesn't get involved it may be a waste of time. Also, it is important to recognize that presenting social links on the site should not distract from the purpose of the site. Sometimes those external links can dilute the click stream that would purchase products.
I deal with stuff like this daily. That's what I'm paid for.
Well, im glad somebody does!
In my part of the world Facebook is popular, twitter not so much. Their not into the social thing. But if you look at the net, irrespective of which hole of a country I live in, Twitter and Facebook are still the big 2. MySpace has kind of diversified into music, and many people have even commented on not using it. Delicious is also very good, I use it all the time, rather than bookmark on my browser I can share my bookmarks which is cool.
Divide your proposal into different sections that go from the most basic offers to the most advanced.
It's hard to. I mean there are so many things you can do with twitter and facebook and other ones. I did, but really, apart from creating a page on Facebook and putting the information in, you're hardly going to do anything else. You can also put links on your website to your facebook page and advertise it, but that's pretty much it. Maybe I will have to read up more into it, who knows?
Most clients will phone you and say "I want to be on that Face-thingy. How much does that cost?". Don't give numbers. Thank him for his interest and tell him that you can offer a variety of services and that you'd like to set up a meeting with him.
Funny you should say that, somebody today did. I said it's hard to say without me knowing the exact facts. But I did not give the lowest number and the highest I normally work with, maybe this was a mistake, I should not have said anything.
Writing proposal is very difficult and requires a lot of time.
That's not really a problem. Even though I am stuck for time I can always make time. I just plan it in my diary and that's it.
The main obstacle for me is knowing what to devide things into and their naming conventions. I don't really want to have anybody think I am trying to cheat them, or overcharging them.
It all depends. It's very close call between saying my 15 year old son can do what you do for free!, and you're a professional. It's one of those I think.
Registering on different social websites and spending time, may be a time lose. The best way is to automize posting to the social media when adding new posts to the website. On the other hand, the social websites becoming a garbage for information. Not easy to find.
A proposal is easy to write. All it needs to have is how much your services will either increase revenue or decrease costs along with directly measurable facts that back your numbers up.
Anything more is just magic beans.
This is a terrific thread and thanks to Sega and Frank for sharing all the challenges and ideas to address them.
One additional suggestion - especially for clients that are not online savvy - I think it would help in proposals to describe how social networking compares to other traditional marketing techniques. For example, even though setting up a FB page or twitter account is free, there are similarities to buying ad spots in a newspaper or magazine or airtime on tv/radio. While the spot (the online page/presence) may be free, it's still critical to prepare the ad copy (the online content), the message, the call to action, and the fulfillment.
Maybe explaining social networking in a traditional marketing context will help explain and justify the value to customers.
Also, another pricing approach, if you can properly explain the importance of ongoing maintenance, would be to charge little/nothing for the upfront set-up, but charge a monthly fee for ongoing maintenance, and sell it as a bundle package. That way there's no huge price up front, but you will get paid over time.
I think that the part highlighted in bold pretty much sums up your problem.
Maybe I'm biased, because after all social media marketing is one of my main occupations at work, but creating profiles, adding contact information and broadcasting advertisements on these social media presences is just scratching the surface of what social media marketing can achieve.
I could write up a few of the blogs and Twitter accounts that I follow which offer great insights into social media marketing. I'd have to do this on the weekend though.
In the meantime, if you are really interested in expanding your business using social media marketing services, read "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies" by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. It gives a very good insight on how to use social media platforms to communicate brand messages.
I would rather be present on a selected few, or even just one social website, and post quality updates, rather then being present on all of them and post automated garbage.
Keep in mind that social media isn't broadcasting, it's engaging and interacting. Your key messages and content have to be adapted to the platform in question. You don't communicate the same way on Twitter as you would do on Facebook.
This is true, however the ROI of social media marketing is very difficult to calculate. As already stated, there are no cookie-cutter solutions, or magic recipes for success. Keeping that in mind, I would be very careful about promising huge sales increases in my proposal. Fix your goals, choose your key performance indicators wisely and track everything.
Joebert mentions something very interesting though: shifting budget from traditional marketing to social media may yield more measurable results at a lower cost. Food for thought.
This is a very good idea, although you shouldn't forget to point out what specific advantages interactive social media has in opposition to one way media like newspapers, TV and radio.
Actually I am experiencing in managing social networking of one of my client, sometime you really get mad on them not like you are using harsh words to them, from heart I mean. As they want us to do those things which can't be happen in our social networking work e.g. having having traffic on their website and rank their to the top in two days, rome can't be build in one day, they don't wait actually, they need everything to be done in quick time.
In my case it probably is, but I enjoy getting more followers. I have around 800 now, which is fun. I spend around 5 - 10 minutes a day on twitter and facebook. I've linked both accounts up, I also have a Flikr page, which pretty much corresponds to me photos on Facebook. Ideally I would put Flikr in facebook, if I can, to eliminate duplicated flying on the web.
I thought so too.
Thanks I will take a read at it.
Keeping that in mind, I would be very careful about promising huge sales increases in my proposal.
Giving proposed sales forcasts would put us in the realm of an investment company. I think maybe giving this impression is dangerous. Nobody can guarantee anything from this. If the user tweets about his dead cat, and he sells cars, then maybe it would not do anything for him. It's hard to know what to do.
I want to use Facebook for advertising because alternatives in the real world are far too expensive. I was quoted 100 euros per day of an advertising slot in a newspaper.
If you think about the whole process of social advertising, and social marketing altogether, it sounds very back handed. How can I justify that the client will be paying for 30 euros worth of facebook ads, but have to pay more, rough figure, 50 euros for my management. Would he not be inclined to do this himself.
I strongly feel that we have to tred slowly on this matter. How can one justify his costs. It's like the beginning of the internet when any dick-tom and harry thought he could create a website with HomeStead or Yahoo Geocities. Believe it or not this was the beginning of the internet. Most sites I visited back in '97 were made in one of those two platforms (I think I had one too). Maybe this is a similar thing. Until social media marketing matures it will be hard to convince clients otherwise (my opinion).
I know you do this for a job, and more importantly, I don't, but can you not see the potential problems one might face. I think this is very similar to the Geocities situation here were clients would say "screw you, my younger son or nephew can you what you do for free!". Once I read up on this maybe I will see things differently, and maybe even convince clients otherwise. But other than the basic things I cannot see more.
Twitter - RT, following and direct messagesFacebook - mention companies and people, link to twitter, put photos and videos, contact information, opening times, holidays, and URL.
To be honest, my younger brother with a little practice can do this for me, maybe I should hire him. Do you see the problem? If I can't convince myself, how can I convince somebody else? I am not saying that my brother could do a perfect job, but he could probably get all the basic company information up there, and he knows about photos and videos. He plays farmville too, if that counts, which even complicates my situation further.
Most parents know their children use facebook, and probably play games there too. My dad is a computer noob and when my brothers are on Facebook he can tell straight away from the interface and normally shouts and forces them to study. My farther would never need the internet for anything, but let's say somebody tried to sell him something on Facebook, would his first thought be my son can probably do this for me.
It's a very complicated topic.
If a company doesn't want to take charge of their own social network marketing, there are a lot of PR firms who- for a fee- are perfectly happy with taking care of daily facebook and twitter tasks to help promote the site. So once it is set up, the clients can hire a PR company to tend to it. This might be an option for clients who are very "hands off" without getting the development company entrenched into doing these time consuming tasks for free.
The company I work for does this and it works out very well, we don't have a lot of staff and I'm the only techie on the team.


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The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asusby Ryan Smith on 2/13/2014 8:00 AM EST
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edzieba - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkAre Anandtech considering a switch from average framerates to latency/frame-rating (either with Fraps or FCAT)? Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkFrame pacing is an additional tool we run from time to time as is appropriate, but it's not something we'll use for every review. Frame pacing is largely influenced by drivers and hardware, neither of which shift much on a review-by-review basis. So it's primarily reserved for multi-GPU articles and new architectures as appropriate.
And especially in the case of single-GPU setups, there's not much to look at. None of these cards has trouble delivering frames at a reasonably smooth pace.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU14/873 Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkYeah, that's what you guys said before the whole frame latency thing broke, too. It's a shame you aren't doing proper monitoring to catch it the first time and are setting up a scenario where it flies under the radar yet again the next time AMD decides to get lax on making drivers.
Then again, this article is in red, right? AMD News is right next to it. Hell, even the comment button is red. I'm guessing the AMD overlords wouldn't like it very much if you were constantly harping on something they dropped the ball on so completely that their competitor had to slowly explain to them how to even see the problem and then how to fix it. Reply
gdansk - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIt's a shame. I'm with your argument. AnandTech should try to include as many indicative benchmarks as possible. At times FCAT is indicative.
But sadly, calling someone a shill with only coincidence is no better than libel. You have made an unsubstantiated allegation. It is decidedly unscientific to insult one's professional integrity with mere coincidental insinuations and no evidence. Why would you do that? Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkSo they are in the pocket of nVidia, Intel, AMD, Android AND Apple? Wow, those companies must really be idiots then. Reply
Gigaplex - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI don't know where you got all the other brands from, but technically yes Ars is in the pockets of AMD. See http://www.anandtech.com/portal/amd - this is sponsored by AMD. Reply
Gigaplex - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkBah, AnandTech, not Ars Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI know _that_. But he is clearly insinuating that their opinions are bought by AMD. And since products from all those companies I listed (who are all competitors) regularly get recommendations, and Anandtech gets then accused of being paid shills, I find it funny that anyone thinks that is true. If they are bought by AMD as suggested, how come they don't come up with a benchmark track that makes AMD CPUs shine? Or how come they slammed the R9 so much for the noise? It's all pretty silly. Reply
nader_21007 - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkIt seems that it hurts you how come this site is not biased and doesn't admire every thing Nvidia, like other sites? well you can go read Tom's Hardware, WCCFtech and every other hardware site, and be sure they will satisfy your needs. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkYea, it's like trying to compare samsung to apple again, sure you can say there is no way to compare which one is better hardware considered, the user experience is just not on pair... Reply
edzieba - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIt's not just a tool for flagging up multi-screen/multi-GPU stutter issues. By showing the distribution of frame times, you can tell the difference between two cards that both average 50fps, but where one delivers every frame in 20 +/- 1 ms, and the other at +/- 5. The latter will deliver a much smoother output, which is not apparent from a single-number metric.
Anandtech readers are a pretty smart bunch. We'd much prefer Graph Overload to too little information, particularly when other sites provide the additional information as standard. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkSounds like the first (+/- 1 ms) would deliver the smoother experience than the latter (+/- 5 ms). :) Reply
edzieba - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkUrp, that's what I /meant/ to write... Reply
Cellar Door - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkThis rebadge game is terrible. Both parties are guilty here but the fact that these products get reviewed on regular basis just makes no sense.
Here is a proper review of the of the 265 and 260: Lets confuse everyone with new nomenclature and what basically is a 7850 from close to 2 years ago. These cards are nothing but cash cows for the mainstream.
This card is being launched to draw attention to AMD just before the GTX 750 Ti comes to the market, its nothing but emptying the stocks of poor quality chips. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkGuess what: they wouldn't build GPUs if they wouldn't expect them to be cash cows! Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkTHis has always been the case in the not-high-tier cards. Where have you been? I love these cards. What's wrong with an "update" to tried and true cards. I love these single-pcie-power cards. Besides, most games will prob still be targeting this level of power considering it's comparable to the new consoles. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkFirst time I can remember there being rebadging was with the 8xxx / 9xxx series from nVidia, before that I don't remember it happening. Reply
LordOfTheBoired - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkGeForce4 MX was a modified GeForce2. While not a straight same-component relabel, it WAS intentionally-misleading branding meant to make people think it was an upgrade from the GeForce 3 rather than a downgrade, and was very much in the spirit of the modern rebadge.
That's the earliest example that springs to mind here. Reply
rallyhard - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkI agree that your example, the GeForce4 MX is one of the earliest, and probably one of the most misleading rebrands ever.
The first video card I ever purchased was a rebrand that occurred a year earlier, though: the lowly Radeon 7000. It was the exact same card as the previous RV100-based Radeon LE, but they gave it a flashy new name when they introduced the new Radeon 7500 with the RV200 chip. Reply
silverblue - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkThe GeForce 4 MX was probably a worse release than the 2 MX in that the latter was indeed based on the GeForce 2, but lacked the hardware transform and lighting capabilities of the GeForce 2 GTS and the earlier GeForce 256. The GeForce 2 MX 400 was the only model that had a chance of beating the 256 DDR.
The Radeon 9000 was a hacked down 8500 LE, but I suppose considering the low number in the 9xxx series, there had to be a low-end part. Besides which, it did still have T&L.
I can't think of any straight rebrands from back then apart from the 7000. Reply
just4U - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkWhile you may be right... AMD/Ati does like throwing popular configurations into the mix.. The 265 reminds me a lot of the 4830 and while that card was fairly short lived it was a hot seller for them as it straddled two performance areas but came in at a nicer price point. Reply
jabber - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkIndeed I swapped from being a longtime Nvidia user to AMD back in 2009 as I got fed up with Nvidia regurgitating the old 8800 chips three times in a row for the mid level.
Stuff doesn't have to change radically performance wise but its nice to know new features are added and other things get revised and tweaked. A simple name change isn't enough really. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI'm actually happy they're finally making use of that last digit in their 3-number scheme. From my point of view they could have ditched the X altogether and make the R9-270X an R9-275 (or whatever is appropriate). And speaking of R9: they could have given the R7 265 the rating R9 265 to more closely connect it with R9 270. Or just drop that prefix as well, if the numbers don't overlap anyway and the R9/7/3 is not related to features either!
Speaking about the cards:
- boost clocks additional 25 MHz again? I have no idea why these are there. Make it 100+ MHz of leave it.
- 1.175 V for a mere 925 MHz? The chip should be able to do 1.0 GHz at ~1.0 V, maybe 1.10 V for guaranteed clocks
- same for R7 260 - that voltage is ridiculously high
Anyway, the cards themselves are fine (just like the 7000 series) and the coolers really fit them. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkThe single GPU frame latency issue has been fixed for more than six months. I doubt it's going to become a problem again like with AMD's handling of 2D a while back.
There are remarks concerning the availability of the R9 270 series and the inability for these parts to keep to their RRP, both of which may not be present if this was some sort of fanboy review. Reply
Spuke - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkHas it been 6 months? I thought they recently fixed that problem. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIt was fixed in Cat 13.8 Beta 1, dated 1st August. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkMy bad - that's when CrossFire had its first fix. Apparently, single-GPU was fixed beforehand, though I can't find which driver version it was. Reply
Solid State Brain - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkAnandtech: it would be interesting if you tested idle power consumption in multi monitor scenarios. I think you will find out some surprises. Reply
creed3020 - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkExcellent point!
I had a friend with a 6950 and he was furious that his video card would never idle down in gpu/memory frequencies when he had a second monitor connected.
I personally have a 6850 and two 20" LCDs connected over DVI. I have not looked for the same behaviour but would not be surprised if it were the same.
Power efficiencies are out the window once the user chooses to go multi-monitor to be more productive.e Reply
Solid State Brain - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI have the same issue with my HD7770 to a lesser extent and my workaround for that is connecting my two secondary displays on the integrated Intel GPU. This saves a significant amount of power. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkWho is surprised by that? No one that is following GPU reviews since multi-monitors became a thing for the consumer crowd. The first few generations had issues with monitors flickering in a multi-monitor setup because of too aggressive down clocking, so now they are being very conservative there and increase the clocks quite a bit. Reply
Solid State Brain - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI don't think it's acceptable, though. AMD might have reduced idle consumption when a single monitor is being driven, but is still neglecting other usage scenarios that are becoming increasingly common. It's not even just a small power difference, especially with medium to high-end video cards. Reply
Da W - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkSTFU.
Anandtech had no problem calling 290 - 290X a terrible card because of its blower and the NOISE and crowning Nvidia once again. Much more now with AMD price hike.
The only biased guy here is YOU Nvidia fanboy. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkI don't think the price hikes are AMD's fault per se, however considering the inflated prices due to bitmining, you'd definitely want a better cooler than the stock one. The third party cards handle this nicely. Reply
Da W - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkMy last post was directed to HisDivineOrder but the reply button doesn't seem to place my reply below his post. Reply
formulav8 - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkThey always complain when something good is said about AMD whether the good is justified or not justified. They don't care either way. Reply
SolMiester - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIf this is just the 7xxx rebadge, then I guess it has the same multi GPU frame pacing issues....LOL, why dont they fix the damn thing FFS!...no CF Eyefinity, no DX9 pacing.....still shit! Reply
fiasse - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkTypo 'and R7 270 holding at $179 (MSRP)' Reply
Mr Perfect - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkWith the naming of the card being so close to the 260X, I was really hoping this would be a faster GN1.1 part. How does AMD expect TrueAudio to catch on if they keep releasing card that don't support it? Hopefully the 300 series will sort this out and I can grab one to play Thief on. Reply
fiasse - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linklooks like another typo on Asus R7 260 page, 'but this is an especially treacherous position if R7 260X prices quickly come down to $199.' Reply
AlucardX - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkSince the 7850 was a great overclocker, I wonder how this rebadge product is. Any plans to overclocking with an increased Vcore? Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkNot with this one. I only had 2 days to put this review together, so unfortunately there wasn't time for overclocking. Reply
krumme - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIntel Core i7-4960X at 4.2GHz with a 260 playing BF4 single player.
Perhaps not the most realistic scenario in this world. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - linkIt shows you what the card can do. If you're concerned about your CPU limiting you in BF4 multi player.. well, better read a CPU review. Reply
krumme - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkA user playing with the s260 will typically have dual core i3. Thats reality. Try that with or without mantle in Multiplayer 64 man on the big maps. It the difference between playable or not playable. Probably more than 50% difference in favor of mantle. Instaed we get this useless talk. Reply
Rebel1080 - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkWhat you're getting here is the equivalent of an Xbox One for $119 or PS4 for $149. It took Nvidia and ATI about 12-18 months just to release a video card of equal or better performance for under $199 after the seventh generation's (Xbox 360/PS3) debut. The fact that it only took 3 months to get to this level for under $150 during this generation only shows just how much $ony and M$FT low balled it's customers on specs. Reply
silverblue - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkExcept you then have to factor in the rest of the hardware to that price. Think about it - CPU, cooling, motherboard, memory (I don't think 8GB of GDDR5 is cheap), storage, case, power supply, software and the all-important input devices. Add in the fact that developers will get more out of the console GPUs than with the PC and I think you're ragging on them a bit too much. Reply
Antronman - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - linkYou mean 4GBs of DDR3. And likely high CAS latency too. Low-watt GPUs. Software only costs how much you pay the employees. Input ports are part of the mobo. DEVs do not get more out of the console GPUs. They are actually underclocked so that you don't need desktop-grade cooling. Consoles will never be serious gaming machines. People who buy consoles either won't spend the money on a good PC, can't spend the money, or would rather spend the money on dozens of games that they'll only play a couple of hours of and then just stick to one game. Reply
golemite - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - link270's inflated prices are directly the result of cryptocoin mining as it has been found to offer an advantageous Kilo-hash to Watt ratio. It would be interesting and helpful to many out there if Anandtech started publishing KH/sec and KH/watt metrics in its review for Scrypt mining. Reply
Will Robinson - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkNice addition to the AMD lineup.... and a pretty convincing demolition of NVDA's competing cards.
Thanx for the review! Reply
TheJian - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - linkHow is that possible when all of the pricing is fake? You are ignoring REAL pricing much like anandtech. They should draw conclusions based on REAL pricing, and ignore ALL companies MSRP. If I can't buy it, it's still fake until I can for MSRP. IE, 290x is $700 right now (actually $709 cheapest on amazon - 3 in stock), NOT $550. So reviews based on $550 pricing are not real. Anandtech continues to give the benefit of the doubt 'one day it might be MSRP and a good deal if they can get to MSRP quickly'...LOL. Is a $709 290x a good deal vs. 780ti? NOPE. Reply
thejoelhansen - Saturday, April 26, 2014 - linkI hope I didn't overlook something obvious, but are the GTX 760 results missing? Reply


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HOUSTON - A popular Midtown seafood restaurant was targeted by thieves again.
Houston police said two women and a man broke into REEF on Travis near McGowen about 11:40 p.m. on Monday.
After a burglary alarm went off, a neighbor saw a man carrying a flat-screen TV out of the restaurant and put it into a car.
That neighbor wrote down the suspects' license plate number and told another neighbor, who is an off-duty police officer. The officer called for backup.
Houston police spotted the car and pulled the driver over.
The three people inside the car, including Victor Whitfield, 49, were taken into custody. Officials said burglary charges against Whitfield are pending.
The stolen TV and other items were found inside the car, investigators said.
REEF is owned by chef Bryan Caswell and his business partner, Bill Floyd.
The owners said the restaurant has been burglarized three other times.
Police have not said if all the burglaries were connected, but the owners told Local 2, this break-in was similar to the previous crimes.
Caswell said police also found drug paraphernalia in the suspects' car.
When Caswell asked one of the women why she broke into his restaurant he said she told him, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Chef Caswell and Floyd also own Little Bigs and El Real Tex-Mex Café in the Montrose area.
Caswell competed in "The Next Iron Chef" on the Food Network and was eliminated in the sixth week of the show.
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