{"id":103,"date":"2007-11-08T00:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/08\/tech-stuff\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:42:57","slug":"tech-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/08\/tech-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 good ones:<br \/>\n1st, if your picking a CPU cache is very important, maybe more important than minor changes in clock speed:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/2007\/10\/24\/does_cache_size_matter\/\" title=\"Cache counts!\">http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/2007\/10\/24\/does_cache_size_matter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, NVidia came out with a GPU that trashes their high-end models:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/video\/showdoc.aspx?i=3140\" title=\"I want a 8800GT NOW!\">http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/video\/showdoc.aspx?i=3140<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you want to use a 8800GT with Linux, you can&#8217;t, at least not yet with advanced 3D graphics and high resolution. The current NVidia drivers don&#8217;t work the with 8800GT (you&#8217;ll have to use the vesa driver which means no advanced 3D support). But, NVidia should have support soon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=NjE1OQ\">very soon<\/a> in fact. So if you just got one, wait a wee while till the new drivers come out, then test them with your existing NVidia card before you install your kick-ass 8800GT! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m hoping the prices for the cards drop to ~$200 by Christmas, at the moment they&#8217;re going for ~$280 which I think is because of demand driven by so many rave reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 good ones: 1st, if your picking a CPU cache is very important, maybe more important than minor changes in clock speed: http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/2007\/10\/24\/does_cache_size_matter\/ And, NVidia came out with a GPU that trashes their high-end models: http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/video\/showdoc.aspx?i=3140 Now, if you want to use a 8800GT with Linux, you can&#8217;t, at least not yet with advanced 3D &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/08\/tech-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hardware articles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}