Guess what just woke me up -- Car Accident

A loud bang woke me up @ 1010am, took a look outside the window & saw the damage...



The traffic light knocked down, blocking the whole road.
Saw the passenger in jeans climbing out of the taxi's front seat, didn't see the driver though...




I dunno what happened. But it looks to me like the white car was turning to make a turn and the taxi was going straight, the rest you can use your imagination.





30min passed, no ambulance, no fire engine, no police cars, nothing...

The traffic jam behind is getting worse.
who's gonna clean up this mess?

Solution to the PCI-Express X1 bug Part2

Continued from Part1...


Test Platform:

Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz (355x9)
Motherboard: Asus P5B-E Plus Rev.1G (BIOS 0627)
Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 2x512MB @ (888Mhz 4-4-4-12 2T) Graphics: MSI 8800GT 512MB OC T2D512E (660/950)
Storage: Hitachi 160GB SATA300
Power Supply: Coolermaster iGreen 500W
Monitor: BenQ FP202W 20.1" 8ms

O/S: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2 32-bit DirectX 9.0c Driver: Forceware 169.28 WHQL
Chipset: Intel INF 8.3.1009
BIOS: 0627
3DMark06 1.0.2 (default setting)
Crysis v1.1 (benchmark tool 1.0.0.5) High 0xAA 0xAF @ 1680x1050 Company of Heroes 1.4 (Max everything @ 1680x1050) PCI-E @ 100Mhz




Impact on HD content:



-I tried a handful of full HD 1080p movie trailers from Apple. Although it's CPU-rendered, but it will be slowed down to a Powerpoint slideshow upon playback, with frame-skips.




Test Results:

PCIE Lanes (Core/Shader/Memory)



On average, 3DMark06 score increased by a staggering 275%!





Though not as significant as 3DMark06,
but the average fps was boost by 183%.





Crysis enjoyed a 223% increase in framerate, as it is a very GPU intensive game, especially with the High settings and resolutions.



Raw Data:



For those who are interested in raw numbers.




Screen-shots (click to enlarge):



Highest possible setting in Company of Heroes.





CoH @ X16: I ran this benchmark at least a dozen times in total, because unlike Crysis & 3DMark06, it's results fluctuate pretty violently.





Crysis (gpu default) @ X1





Crysis (gpu default) @ X16





Crysis (gpu overclock) @ X1





Crysis (gpu overclock) @ X16





3DMark06 (gpu default) @ X1




3DMark06 (gpu default) @ X16





3DMark06 (gpu overclock) @ X1





3DMark06 (gpu overclock) @ X16