One of the driving factors to get my into NYC last week was a briefing on ATI's Avivo technology, and honestly I was expecting a bit more.
The first 20% of Avivo is nothing more than what we were already given with the Theater 550, the middle 40% is what we already saw at Computex, and the remaining 40% was nice but it's tough to pass a verdict on that kind of stuff without hardware.
Don't get me wrong, I like the technology behind Avivo and I can't wait to get hardware assisted H.264 decoding and transcoding, but I'm not so sure I am all that excited about this platform brand. Maybe it's mostly because I'm really only excited about half of Avivo, and that half really finds itself in all of ATI's next-generation GPUs so in the end what I'm really excited about are the R5xx GPUs.
ATI wasn't the only one with an announcement today, there was also NVIDIA's nForce 430 and 410 launch with integrated graphics support. It's been a while since we've seen an integrated NVIDIA chipset, which is odd since they first kicked off their chipset business with an integrated solution. I am a bit curious about the integrated graphics core, since when I first published back at Computex that it'd be a GeForce 6xxx based GPU I was told that it would in fact be a derivative of G70. Given the nomenclature, it sounds like there's less in common with G70 and more GeForce 6.
My search continues for the perfect storage server for my personal and work network up here, but there's another item that's piqued my interest recently - a dual-link DVI KVM. Gefen seems to have one and I'm thinking about trying one out to see how it handles the 30" Cinema Display. I'll post my findings here, since it'll probably be too niche of a product to do a full review on.
This Thursday is Vinney's birthday, and for it we are heading down to NC. That's about all I can say about it since just about everything regarding her birthday is going to be a surprise for her, in my usual style :) Of course no trip down there would be complete without house-related meetings, so we'll have to squeeze a couple in during the short trip down.
The house is coming along well, electrical and plumbing rough-in is nearing completion on the inside. Brick work is almost done on the outside, and contractors are still just as unbelievable as ever. For once during this project, things actually seem to be going on schedule, and smoothly. It's a weird feeling.
We've had great weather here in Branford recently, it hasn't been too hot, too cold, nor too humid, just right. The problem is that winter is right around the corner, I can feel it. It's the last of two winters I'll have to spend up here, so I'll just have to tough it out.
Oh and I haven't forgotten about those USB drives, interesting times are ahead... :)
The first 20% of Avivo is nothing more than what we were already given with the Theater 550, the middle 40% is what we already saw at Computex, and the remaining 40% was nice but it's tough to pass a verdict on that kind of stuff without hardware.
Don't get me wrong, I like the technology behind Avivo and I can't wait to get hardware assisted H.264 decoding and transcoding, but I'm not so sure I am all that excited about this platform brand. Maybe it's mostly because I'm really only excited about half of Avivo, and that half really finds itself in all of ATI's next-generation GPUs so in the end what I'm really excited about are the R5xx GPUs.
ATI wasn't the only one with an announcement today, there was also NVIDIA's nForce 430 and 410 launch with integrated graphics support. It's been a while since we've seen an integrated NVIDIA chipset, which is odd since they first kicked off their chipset business with an integrated solution. I am a bit curious about the integrated graphics core, since when I first published back at Computex that it'd be a GeForce 6xxx based GPU I was told that it would in fact be a derivative of G70. Given the nomenclature, it sounds like there's less in common with G70 and more GeForce 6.
My search continues for the perfect storage server for my personal and work network up here, but there's another item that's piqued my interest recently - a dual-link DVI KVM. Gefen seems to have one and I'm thinking about trying one out to see how it handles the 30" Cinema Display. I'll post my findings here, since it'll probably be too niche of a product to do a full review on.
This Thursday is Vinney's birthday, and for it we are heading down to NC. That's about all I can say about it since just about everything regarding her birthday is going to be a surprise for her, in my usual style :) Of course no trip down there would be complete without house-related meetings, so we'll have to squeeze a couple in during the short trip down.
The house is coming along well, electrical and plumbing rough-in is nearing completion on the inside. Brick work is almost done on the outside, and contractors are still just as unbelievable as ever. For once during this project, things actually seem to be going on schedule, and smoothly. It's a weird feeling.
We've had great weather here in Branford recently, it hasn't been too hot, too cold, nor too humid, just right. The problem is that winter is right around the corner, I can feel it. It's the last of two winters I'll have to spend up here, so I'll just have to tough it out.
Oh and I haven't forgotten about those USB drives, interesting times are ahead... :)
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ksherman - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
I have a quick question regarding Vista...In windows xp, it is apparent that the GUI visuals are stored in the RAM, since when the pretty theme is disabled, it frees almost 20-30MB of system RAM. Will Vista store this GUI data in the RAM of the Video Card, or will it still sit in the system RAM?
GTaudiophile - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - link
Good God! How much longer is ATI going to string us along with no real R520 info? Just lift the NDA darn it, so we can quit reading about Sander Sassen vs. Andrzej Bania and theInquirer vs. DigitLife vs.VR-Zone and 16 pipes vs. 24 pipes vs. 32 pipes. This is insane!In the end, we know that nVidia will fire back within hours of R520's release with at LEAST a "preview" of the new 80.XX drivers...that most likely will decrease IQ in order to increase FPS to steal ATI's thunder on launch day. Then nVidia won't actually officially launch said drivers until 3 weeks later. Something like that.
creathir - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - link
that flash drive article... I'm actually getting ready to buy one... (thinkin' about the SanDisk Titanium)What exactly are you looking for in the storage server? Just a box with hard drive space? A network attatched storage? Just curious.
- Creathir
rqle - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - link
when your looking for a perfect storage server what kind of backup topology is deploy for anandtech.com. always curious how a company deploy there backup setup. I'm having problem thinking of a simple backup plan for just 200GB of data that is continous changing.surprise for Vinney's? she doesnt check the website? =)
Questar - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - link
A company?This is a website with a couple of servers. Hardly company sized backup.
200GB is easily handled by a single LTO drive.
niknik - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Have you had a look at http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail...">Terastation NAS?Have a heard a lot of people talking good about it, but it seems its performance is a bit "limited". Maybe it could be worth a review, so we find out about it. ;)
Storage is certainly becoming one of the most important things. We all have lots of info we want to keep safe (and lots of junk too), and having it in off-line medium is becoming "obsolete". We need "always available - always backuped" storage.
I'm considering somesort of NAS to be my next investment. But being used to 4 HDs raid 0 performance(at over 100MB/s)... I'd like something that could at least sustain 40MB/s read/write.