Can a sub $100 graphics card really hang with today’s $300-$600 cards?
According to Tech Report yes.
After a very exhaustive review of eight cards from Nvidia and ATI, the answer is definitely yes. Although the final recommendation is for the Radeon 4850 a $170 card with a $30 mail in rebate, the sub $100 cards, those being the Radeon 4670 and Nvidia’s 9600 GSO, still hang in there in most of yesterday’s games. The 4850 would also have to be my recommendation as well after seeing all the numbers. The 4850 was top card in all gaming test except Crysis: Warhead, although it draws more power that’s to be expected with a higher end card.

I was always a big Nvidia fan myself but since AMD acquired ATI I’ve been leaning the other way and this report pushes me just a little further. Although it will be awhile before I build a new rig, I’ll probably be using an ATI card.

Tags: ati, Gaming, nvidia, pc, video card

Update: New Version

I’ve released a newly optimized version of the Theme Options Framework that now only makes two calls to the database rather than one call per option.

Recently I’ve been doing alot of work on my themes. I started off with the idea to make my theme work user friendly by adding a options page. So I started looking for how to do this, and came across this page and some useful code. So I took this and started modifying and trying different things and now I think I’ve got a very useful framework and I wanted to share with others. I’ll continue below as this will be fairly long post.

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Tags: code, php, theme, wordpress

I’ve written an extremely simple plugin to disable to the Post Revisioning in WordPress 2.6. Some people have found this feature to be a bit annoying. All you have to do is activate it.
Download

Tags: first plugin, plugin, post-revision

I’ve added a new section call Linux Guide, which believe it or not contain guides on Linux. The first big guide is up now. It’s a guide on using Samba and LDAP as a Windows Domain Controller. Link here.

Tags: guides, ldap, Linux, samba, windows

I’m still alive, had a very busy summer at work and just now starting to slow down. I’m hoping to get back into my blog and theme development as well as my moderator duties on the WordPress Forums.

See ya around the ‘net.