Had a chance to join the event, Play the Future with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti, by Nvidia Singapore last Thursday (11th Jun) at the Hood Bar and Cafe. This event was on how awesome G-sync is when you are playing games and also their latest graphics card, GTX 980Ti.
Snap Snap a photo with Batman and GTX 980 Ti !
Quite a crowd for this event and after registration, we just had to take photos with Batman, whom was standing outside the cafe with the GTX 980 Ti ! At first I thought it was a dummy set, until someone was saying, nooooo, its the actual product! :O (molest it).
As for door gifts, we were all given a cap and a DC Super Hero Lego Key Light, provided we have posted up our photos with Batman. Everyone wanted the Batman Key Light, alas, they probably had 5 of those. I got cat woman instead.
Say Hi to Cat woman
While waiting for the rest to come in and stuffs, Explodreamer, FoliathR and I headed to check out the games on the 4 laptops that were displayed near the stage. All these laptops are equipped with Gsync and 900M series graphics card.
Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and Aftershock laptops
Clearer photos of the 4 laptops. Far left to Right: Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and Aftershock
I was excited to see how well Gsync works while I'm playing games, not that I'm a gamer or what, but playing games on a better graphics card with awesome gsync, why not? :p
Took a video of FoliathR playing Dying Light on Asus:
Smooth indeed my friend. I didn't experience any lack while I was playing on that too. So smoothhhhhhhh.
After a while, the event started, with the host introducing Mr Simon Tan, head of Nvidia TW (I think). Then he passed on to Mr Jeff, who is the expert in the technically stuffs of Nvidia.
Mr Jeff talked about what exactly is Play the Future, the settings that are required to play in the best settings for the upcoming and new released games.
DX12, 4k and VR, settings that we want for the best gaming experience
After that he introduced us the latest Graphics card, GTX 980 Ti, which is their new flagship card.
Geforce new flagship
Why is this better than its predecessors?
Because it is 3X faster
Based on the chart given, GTX 980 Ti is 3x faster than its predecessors, not only that, it can support up to 4k screen resolution. *whooo ♥ * Think how awesome it will be while playing Witcher 3 on a 4k screen ? You can see every single awesome detail of Geralt, even the hair, the hair! (goes crazy about it) Actually I didn't have to think about it, because Nvidia Singapore had a set up there!
Next, Mr Jeff moved on to talk about DX12, what exactly does DX12 do and how does it affect the gaming experience.
DX 12 has new graphics effects and low level API.
With GEFORCE GTX 980Ti, gaming world is def taking a huge change
Explaining how DirectX 12 works here won't make any sense, since I am not a gamer who actually understands how each and every different settings can affect gaming. I'm gonna show the video that Mr Jeff shown during the event (pardon for the half cut video, some parts maybe missing :p)
Then he moved on about VR Optical system:
The issue that GPU doesn't render warped images
So to solve this issue, Nvidia introduce the multi-res shading.
This is how the Multi-res shading works.
Beside about the multi-res shading that works well with the VR, Mr Jeff also mentioned about Gsync, the new settings that allows gaming experience to be at its top condition. Even though Vsync works to ensure that there's no broken images when you are gaming, but it doesn't work well when there's a frame drop in the game. Not all games are on consistent framerate, thus, that's where we see screen tearing issue. With G-sync on, it tells the GPU the framerate needed to support the game itself, hence, screen tearing is no longer seen during gaming.
A diagram of how the traditional monitor works.
And this is with G-Sync
For gamers who are gaming on laptops instead of tower, worry not, now there are 4 laptops that equipped with G-sync. The implementation of G-sync on laptop is different from tower.
A key is set in the middle for G-Sync to be implemented.
Not only the G-Syc is implemented in the GPU itself, it also uses Nvidia Selected Panels.
It uses gamer grade display.
If you wanna get a new gaming laptop, Nvidia Singapore even have the list of the top gaming laptops that are worth your money.
At least a GTX 970m graphics card is considered on their list.
Oh man, I have a aftershock with GTX 960m graphics card. I hope Witcher 3 won't have tearing screenings while I'm playing on it.
This is the future of gaming experience.
If you own any of these, you are playing in future, experiencing the best gaming settings that you ever had. Damnnnnn, to think that when I purchased Aftershock in March, I opted for GTX 960m graphics card. I am not in sync with the future gaming world at all :(. After Mr Jeff was done, it was free roaming and dinner time.
Check out this baby.
And of course, we tried on playing all the games on those G-synced enabled laptops, testing how smooth the whole gaming experience is. Even though *coughs* one of the laptop game crashed when we tried to load it (shuts her mouth).
A proof that the tower is using GTX 980Ti
We tried running benchmark test on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, played on Gigabyte, max settings, 1080p.
Not bad, considering that there's totally no tearing screen, how awesome can Nivida go? But I am still hoping that I can play Witcher 3 on GTX 980Ti someday, so that I can turn on hairworks (dreams).
Hopefully someday will come soon *sings~*. Okaii, back to checking out steam summer sale.
Had a chance to head down to Xiaomi Singapore office for a visit yesterday. And we managed to unbox a Mi 4i, which will be launched next Tuesday, 12 May, Noon. The set comes with the standard items, without earphones, as usual.
In this video, the set is a HK Mi 4i white 16GB set. And it comes with the UK adaptor right in the box, instead of the usual China two-pin adaptor. I hope that the Singapore set comes with the UK adaptor right in the package, this way, we can cut down on the number of boxes to one box, instead of a separate UK adaptor.
I have to admit, I have not look through the keynotes for Mi 4i, where Hugo presented this in India. :P But Louis, the product manager of Xiaomi Singapore told me that Mi 4i comes with Sunlight Display that is something new for all Xiaomi phones. I was WOW-ed by the function, even though it was not tested under strong sunlight, but it was still amazing to see it with my own eyes.
I video-ed down the process, we tested using Xiaomi's USB LED Light, acting as the "sunlight" source for this video.
I'm still in my WOW mood whenever I watch this video. *haha* It is amazing how technology advance and it is definitely a plus point for people who are frequently outdoors doing activities or work (like most sales and marketing personnel).
Another note is that Mi 4i is even lighter than Redmi 2 which is considered one of the lightest phone that Xiaomi has ever released in Singapore. Light-weight, great battery life, great visual settings, all for the price of $279 without contract. *WOW* 12 May please come quickly ~~~
We all know that the Redmi Note Singapore set was released early July and everyone were eager to get their hands on it. After three flash sales, there were still quite a number who didn't manage to purchase it. I think I am one of the lucky ones, along with my friend.
So, as usual, we decided to do a unboxing video. If you wanna know more about the details of the Redmi Note, you can view hers:
Here is mine, a short snip, testing how great a Redmi Note video can be! Using Ian's Redmi Note to video down the unboxing process. Tell the truth, the video quality aint great but the recording is powerful.
And here's Redmi Note Lite video, great to convince that your parents need a Redmi Note!
After using my redmi note for a week or so now, I'm loving the size even though it's way bigger than my palms, but still the touch of a 5.5" is amazing. Maybe more after I full utilise the phone.
