@fmanjoo it is a massive weight reduction. And a bit on size as well. 1.4 lb to 1.0lb?

@garbaczd it's not that loud at 55% to me. But I wear headphones when gaming and my box has acoustic foam inside http://t.co/FZKjj3BATF

@verdewek 95c actually, that's the max and it stays there pretty much all the time under load, depends how high you want fans

@ta2025 @konistehdev it's not really any worse than the logitech bluetooth iPad 3/4 keyboard I have.

@Bisyourfriend we basically created it as a joke to trick people so HAHA GOTCHA

@FlameyCat @AMDRadeon check topic, turns out it was gpu-z as suspected! Thanks @scottwasson

@FlameyCat @AMDRadeon I wonder if GPU-Z itself is causing this, somehow. It does not recognize the 290X

@FlameyCat @AMDRadeon Good idea. Powering off 2nd monitor did not seem to matter. Disconnecting from rear did not seem to matter.

@secretGeek you may enjoy http://t.co/93YDjmcjE2 (keep scrollin')

@awg_ilyas @AMDRadeon it is not supposed to IDLE at 1000 MHz / 1250 Mhz at the Windows desktop. That is severely broken.

@kevindente sure it was solid, the preview for the new LOTR hobbit looked like a diorama, but space seems apt for 3d. Bit fuzzy tho

@hardwareguy not slow at all! though if i5 is the minimum acceptable, yeah

@MrMartinCowen the bracket was dremelled while removed from the card

@techdan used different fan with proper connector from box of spare parts :)

@maggiekb1 congrats! Now the real adventure begins :)

@WithinRafael that is outflow, that air goes outside the case from the back panel

@NathanBowers those fan grills block a lot more air than you'd think, around 20%, see numbered list item #1 quote: http://t.co/FZKjj3BATF

@blackmage71 the R290X uses a different technology for crossfire. No bridge connector, etc.

@damienkatz Evil Spock Cries

@tfitch @patricknorton @ryanshrout read more closely, new tech in 290x, no longer requires physical connector

@gabrielmichaud @shanselman keep reading past the first chart

@petertdavis @crowdgather it is *complementary* to official moderators. Always better with good mods, but very few sites have them.

@nabeel I am surprised it is not higher honestly

@damienkatz welcome to da club. it comes with a complimentary nose hair trimmer

@photomatt if you have time for lunch today, just let me know. Have pubcon 2013 session at 11:30 then free until 3pm or so.

@fmanjoo yeah for large tablets there is nothing but iPad, effectively. Question is, how big is the "large tablet" market, I'd say very big.

@ProNihilist I have failed

@kunikos again, the page I linked was about overclocking and removing thermal limits. Card ships in "quiet mode". Still removing backplate!

@kunikos that's with the author removing all the thermal limits in drivers. I'm cutting out the backplate as soon as I get mine: airflow

@Adamar09 first thing I will do is cut out the backplate -- helps tremendously with reducing heat by improving airflow

@jakeweried Newegg, only Sapphire in stock for some reason

@scottwasson well @anandshimpi just posted a whole article with half the words missing, go for it! :p

@photomatt are you in Vegas right *now*? I am too.

@jakemcgraw a force for good and not evil, I hope

@morberg I am using one RIGHT NOW

@manzoor_e @anandtech @anandshimpi @verge it is totally like someone typing FIRST POST! as the first comment :( I expect better from Anand.

@anandtech @anandshimpi this posting of articles with no text and [work in progress] as the text is .. not cool.

@johnolilly think of it as "new iPad day", if that helps.. except for old people like me

@fmanjoo it is because I love my children more than you do.

@fmanjoo there are 5 members of my family, are there not? For kids it is not even CLOSE, iPad is by far the best due to kid app selection

@WSJ @Carnage4Life shame about the weight though, that is a big deal for holding the thing.

@mathowie you bastard, making all us other dads look bad

@Supermathie <3

@kiriappeee because @samsaffron already had a custom solution that was not sustainable. Also good rails4 testbed for us!

@DerSchmale CALL CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

@ericrohlfs that is why I am NOT working on it

@NathanBowers @jongalloway wow, why the hell would that be off by default?

@siracusa well if the power savings work is any indication, this dongle strategy is paying off. iPads still gonna win in the long run tho

@danudey I direct it to the fraction of my audience that aren't assholes :)

@danudey shrug. If that's the biggest problem in your life that you gotta worry about, you're doing pretty good.

@jongalloway Mac users don't use the keyboard.

@danudey yes, a baby pic in a blog post about PARENTING is clearly 100% unprofessional. Totally.

@jmanici depends on the test. I generally trust AnandTech more as a source of good, repeatable testing

@jzy fuck left handed people

@JasonPunyon yep, I liked the RAT 7, that was a near winner. (Well, ACTUALLY, it was the RAT 5 but virtually the same)

@siracusa do they cost more than the dongle required to run the OS?

@rossrubin Windows RT has no thunder left to steal. They have robbed an empty home.

@gaberivera techmeme should go on strike because fuck everyone

@paulcbetts look again at MacBook air numbers

@ajmanzueta I did. I tried using a Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2. Both have terrible battery life, and are 100% made by Microsoft

@nabeel to some extent you need to be willing to work as hard as Carmack which is kind of nuts. Don't have children! :p

@jeppec browsing the web, which I do A LOT, is a ton easier and more intuitive with touch.

@anandshimpi it matters a LOT more in todays era of "everything is a mobile tablet" imo, which makes it even more scandalous

@anandshimpi this is some bullshit, I am blogging this tonight. http://t.co/DZEOoL95Th

@anandshimpi but why is the difference so damn huge? What are the technical reasons? I don't get it.

@anandshimpi this is some bullshit, and Microsofts own hand built device proves it is a deep problem not hand wavy "not the right drivers"

@anandshimpi apples to apples here, 2013 air with win8, half the battery life: http://t.co/9XVLkSrdsN

@anandshimpi it is much worse now. You showed a 26% loss of battery life, today we see almost 50%. Opposite of progress..

@anandshimpi it is an *enormous* gap in a very common (most common?) usage pattern of wifi web browsing, and Wintel should be ashamed

@siracusa you are thinking of Windows 8.1

@siracusa I only use iOS, a real operating system designed for the future

@anandshimpi that is nuts that there is a 2x difference in battery life in common web usage on marquee device, heads should be rolling

@anandshimpi 14 hours web browsing, vs. not even 7 -- wtf? http://t.co/Ys02Iw1EUE

@anandshimpi I wonder why battery life is so much worse than the Air when hardware is similar (CPU + lpddr3)

@anandshimpi those battery life numbers are low. Do you test web browsing batt life with ie11 or Chrome?

@waxpancake I hated walking dead and was very meh on Gone Home. Will I hate this?

@mlevison yeah you are right nobody ever asks questions there any more http://t.co/rxly6GeNu5

@splattne it really is great

@honk_dice I noticed bf4 uses a LOT more memory than bf3 per taskman. Can't wait for Oct 29th!

@MikeRoss74 look at the issues on that project :)

@ID_AA_Carmack seemed like PC games were always more constrained by CPU and GPU than memory. Bf4 is 64 bit exe now where bf3 was 32 only.

@ID_AA_Carmack do you think the jump to 8gb on consoles is significant? PC games were very, very slow to even require 4gb.

@jptech7 @anandshimpi I do think it is borderline irresponsible to recommend Chrome as a touch browser. For benchmarking and desktop, fine.

@ID_AA_Carmack great tech, but can it really survive as an NVIDIA only thing, versus an industry standard everyone could support?

@davidkushner that would get heavily, heavily funded. IMO.

@davidkushner do I smell a KICKSTARTER???

@davidkushner curious: is the movie adapation of Masters of Doom still in the works? last news 2005

@fmanjoo I am very glad the "let's see what I can piss on" phase went by very rapidly with our boy (now 4 1/2).

@zeeg you mean rockets

@McNutt you can, but this is very Rube Goldberg

@seesharp yeah the mirra has that, and is a better design too. Aeron is just an old design. Also, Mirra v2 soon! http://t.co/Lfqg0eMFit

@davidlee PEAK BEARD

@anandshimpi @wbic16 I only go to this "anandtech" site for its AMD k6 reviews, that is the only site I visit

@anandshimpi yeah I have used IE non stop since I got my Surface Pro. No significant weirdnesses. It is my fave touch browser, any platform

@anandshimpi that is odd, I browse web extensively in ie11 and hardly ever have any issues. Same of ie10 in win8.

@anandshimpi on desktop Chrome is great of course

@anandshimpi and Chrome is a truly awful touch browser. cannot be understated how bad it is for touch, basically broken.

@anandshimpi I use ie11 constantly on surface pro and it is great. Very compliant in HTML5, works great on @discourse which is ultraheavy JS

@anandtech @anandshimpi how can you stand Chrome in metro? It is an awful touch browser. I find ie11 works great everywhere, awesome touch.

@RockBand @gameinformer why not 282 weeks? http://t.co/7ePJP3FxbW