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[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Slightly more interested in Windows 8 Consumer Preview coming this week. Hope there are more changes than just metro.

when is windows 8 suppose to be dropping?

Mid to late 2012
The Consumer Preview was released today if you want to try it out (install on a spare machine or virtualbox)

 

[al audi]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Slightly more interested in Windows 8 Consumer Preview coming this week. Hope there are more changes than just metro.

when is windows 8 suppose to be dropping?

Mid to late 2012
The Consumer Preview was released today if you want to try it out (install on a spare machine or virtualbox)

good stuff
im holdin out on windows 8 and new mac refresh to make my decision on upgrade

 is mac getting ivy bridge before PCs?

i thought i read that before

thanks in advance whyhellothere

 

[al audi]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Slightly more interested in Windows 8 Consumer Preview coming this week. Hope there are more changes than just metro.

when is windows 8 suppose to be dropping?

Mid to late 2012
The Consumer Preview was released today if you want to try it out (install on a spare machine or virtualbox)

good stuff
im holdin out on windows 8 and new mac refresh to make my decision on upgrade

 is mac getting ivy bridge before PCs?

i thought i read that before

thanks in advance whyhellothere

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by Al Audi


when is windows 8 suppose to be dropping?

Mid to late 2012
The Consumer Preview was released today if you want to try it out (install on a spare machine or virtualbox)

good stuff
im holdin out on windows 8 and new mac refresh to make my decision on upgrade

 is mac getting ivy bridge before PCs?

i thought i read that before

thanks in advance whyhellothere

not sure if apple will get them before other pc manufacturers
ivy bridge has been pushed back until around summer time

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by Al Audi


when is windows 8 suppose to be dropping?

Mid to late 2012
The Consumer Preview was released today if you want to try it out (install on a spare machine or virtualbox)

good stuff
im holdin out on windows 8 and new mac refresh to make my decision on upgrade

 is mac getting ivy bridge before PCs?

i thought i read that before

thanks in advance whyhellothere

not sure if apple will get them before other pc manufacturers
ivy bridge has been pushed back until around summer time

 

[al audi]

makes sense

macs wont be out until summer and pcs maybe that fall

eh, ill wait. thanks

 

[al audi]

makes sense

macs wont be out until summer and pcs maybe that fall

eh, ill wait. thanks

 

[whyhellothere]

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

step it up amd

sidenote: SimCity 5 due in 2013

 

[whyhellothere]

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

step it up amd

sidenote: SimCity 5 due in 2013

 

[omgitswes]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

 

[omgitswes]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

meh.
bring on piledriver & trinity

for those who want to see windows 8 without actually installing it


sidenote:

 

[whyhellothere]

Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

meh.
bring on piledriver & trinity

for those who want to see windows 8 without actually installing it


sidenote:

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

Yup. Consumers lose. Intel can afford stocks of their current-gen Sandy Bridge CPUs to decline first without a necessary price drop that comes with the Ivy Bridge line. Making them more money in the process.

I have a feeling this is somewhat related to NVIDIA's delay with the new Kepler-based GPUs. 

Still think I can wait it out til then. It's been one week. 

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

Yup. Consumers lose. Intel can afford stocks of their current-gen Sandy Bridge CPUs to decline first without a necessary price drop that comes with the Ivy Bridge line. Making them more money in the process.

I have a feeling this is somewhat related to NVIDIA's delay with the new Kepler-based GPUs. 

Still think I can wait it out til then. It's been one week. 

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

sidenote: SimCity 5 due in 2013

love the series. can't wait!

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

sidenote: SimCity 5 due in 2013

love the series. can't wait!

 

[zk1mpls]

whyhellothere wrote:

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Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

meh.
bring on piledriver & trinity

for those who want to see windows 8 without actually installing it


sidenote:

from that preview... it looks like an easy pass. meh.


Anyway, did that 8-stepSSD installation with the Users folder on the slave drive earlier. And switched theBios settings from IDE to AHCI. Apart from this nagging NVIDIAdriver bug which won't let me boot onto the desktop, things seems much faster now.

Doing another benchmark after I sort out this mess.

 

[zk1mpls]

whyhellothere wrote:

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Originally Posted by omgitswes

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

thats what happens when there is a lack of competition.

This. I read somewhere that some new Bulldozer CPUs are still coming out though

meh.
bring on piledriver & trinity

for those who want to see windows 8 without actually installing it


sidenote:

from that preview... it looks like an easy pass. meh.


Anyway, did that 8-stepSSD installation with the Users folder on the slave drive earlier. And switched theBios settings from IDE to AHCI. Apart from this nagging NVIDIAdriver bug which won't let me boot onto the desktop, things seems much faster now.

Doing another benchmark after I sort out this mess.

 

[zk1mpls]

Anybody else having problems with the new NVIDIA WHQL driver? Such a pain in the @#$. Makes my system freeze.

 

[zk1mpls]

Anybody else having problems with the new NVIDIA WHQL driver? Such a pain in the @#$. Makes my system freeze.

 

[omgitswes]

What driver version is it?
I've been using 280.26 for a while now and no problems. I'm scared to update if it's causing freezes though

 

[omgitswes]

What driver version is it?
I've been using 280.26 for a while now and no problems. I'm scared to update if it's causing freezes though

 

[zk1mpls]

295.79 I think. Just released February 21st. I tried rolling back to 285.62, but that didn't work either. Gonna go further back tomorrow from my System Restore point. It always seems to get messed up when Windows Update runs and requires a restart. Maybe my brother's GPU's acting up? But it wasn't the case yesterday, though.

Things like these kinda want to make you jump the fence back to ATI/AMD (that 7950 looks mighty tempting; cheap, too. Not to mention my board supports Crossfire only.

), but then again, they have much more driver issues there. Oh well.

 

[zk1mpls]

295.79 I think. Just released February 21st. I tried rolling back to 285.62, but that didn't work either. Gonna go further back tomorrow from my System Restore point. It always seems to get messed up when Windows Update runs and requires a restart. Maybe my brother's GPU's acting up? But it wasn't the case yesterday, though.

Things like these kinda want to make you jump the fence back to ATI/AMD (that 7950 looks mighty tempting; cheap, too. Not to mention my board supports Crossfire only.

), but then again, they have much more driver issues there. Oh well.