So I recently purchased a DELL U2410 24" LCD display to complement the existing DELL 2209WA 22" LCD. As I do a lot of graphics / web design work that requires very accurate colour representation, the DELL monitors certainly come up with the goods! They are both h-IPS (In Plane Switching) panels, as opposed to the cheaper TN (Twisted Nematic) type which is most commonly found these days.
The main benefit of IPS panels is that it provides excellent viewing angles, and this particular DELL U2410 also provides full coverage of the sRGB colour space with 10bit colour processing, meaning that it's capable of displaying lots of colours accurately!
I calibrated these displays, and you can also do this with your monitor. Firstly, install the WCS colour profile which is supplied by the manufacturer (also available via Windows Update). Then calibrate the brightness, contract, and gain levels for each channel, Red, Green, and Blue - Windows 7 users can use the Monitor Calibration tool found under the Control Panel area (or type "dccw.exe" in the start bar). I found this website provided some valuable tests: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ also.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
AMD Displays Die-Shot of Upcoming Eight-Core "Orochi" Processor for the First Time
Based on the upcoming Bulldozer architecture, it's 2 years behind schedule but we're looking forward to it just the same!
AMD "Orochi" design is the company's next-generation processor for high-end desktop and server markets. The chip will feature eight processing engines, but since it is based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, those cores will be packed into four modules. Every module which will have two independent integer cores (that will share fetch, decode and L2 functionality) with dedicated schedulers, one floating point unit with two 128-bit FMAC pipes with one FP scheduler. The chip will have shared L3 cache, dual-channel DDR3 memory controller and will use HyperTransport 3.1 bus. The Orochi chips will use new AM3+ form-factor and will require brand new platforms.
Source: X-bit Labs
AMD "Orochi" design is the company's next-generation processor for high-end desktop and server markets. The chip will feature eight processing engines, but since it is based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, those cores will be packed into four modules. Every module which will have two independent integer cores (that will share fetch, decode and L2 functionality) with dedicated schedulers, one floating point unit with two 128-bit FMAC pipes with one FP scheduler. The chip will have shared L3 cache, dual-channel DDR3 memory controller and will use HyperTransport 3.1 bus. The Orochi chips will use new AM3+ form-factor and will require brand new platforms.
Source: X-bit Labs
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