It also doesn’t help that she spends far too much time feeling sorry for herself, calling herself a “monster” and dripping with angst. First, Juliette spends much of the first half of the novel being completely obedient to the horrible regime that locked her away and seemed completely resigned to her terrible fate. ![]() Shatter Me was strangely difficult for me to get into. ![]() Being the dystopian nerd that I am, I was completely pulled in by the incredible blurb and was beyond exciting for this title. Not only has it been incredibly hyped online, but it has an incredibly compelling concept and a great blurb that screams “Read me!” Being touted as the Hunger Games meets X-men, Shatter Me boasted some of the most unique marketing I’ve ever seen for a YA novel, despite its unknown author and not-incredibly-compelling cover. Shatter Me is one of those books that I couldn’t wait to read. Rated: High for 20+ uses of moderate language and 30+ uses of mild language plus several steamy making-out scenes and lots of people wanting there to be sex. So. I didn’t love it. The plot is interesting enough that I read it in a day (although at the end I had a slap-the-forehead-COME ON kind of moment), but the writing style pretty much drove me crazy. The author does all these “strikeouts” that are supposed to tell us Juliette’s inner thoughts, but WOW, I was not a fan. There are a lot of textual things that just grated on me - the repetition of thoughts, the CONSTANT, and I mean every page, discussion about some point of Juliette’s body - her heart, her lungs, her mind, how overwhelmed it is or how terrified or pounding with love - and maybe the author is trying to point out that because Juliette has never touched people she’s super body-aware, but it got really annoying.įor a young adult novel, it is steamy, for sure. I liked the romantic plot line, in that the development of the relationship felt authentic and I liked Adam as a sensitive bad guy/good guy, but Juliette … The juxtaposition of her amazing strengths and her serious weaknesses just fell flat for me most of the time. Surely there will be a sequel, and I’m actually on the fence as to whether or not I’ll try it. The ending seemed as if the author was shoving too much at readers in a super-short time so that the sequel could start where she wanted it to. We’ll see. ![]() Don’t touch Juliette. Bad things happen when you touch her, things so bad that she’s thrown into prison, alone in a cell until the day that Adam arrives: Adam, who looks shockingly familiar. Adam, who is going to play a big part in her story as she suddenly has to choose if and how to use her own strangely X-Men-type powers. In a world we’ve destroyed, where survival depends on listening to orders and not making any waves, Juliette has to find someone she can trust before she doesn’t have any options left.
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![]() ![]() The Maxwell architecture is very power efficient. The GM204 supports CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, GeForce Experience, Surround, GameStream, GPU Boost 2.0, Adaptive Vertical Sync / G-SYNC, SLI, DSR, MFAA and Virtual Reality latency improvements. The similar named mobile GeForce GTX 970M is clearly slower as it features only 1280 shader cores.ĭespite the unique memory configuration, the GTX 970 performs on average on par with the older GeForce GTX 780 Ti or a AMD Radeon R9 290X. This can lead to some stuttering or reduced frame rates in games that use the full 4 GB. The graphics card is equipped with 4 GB GDDR5 (7 GHz effective). 3.5 GB of the 4 GB are connected with 224 Bit, the rest only with a 32 Bit interface. As the faster GTX 980, the GTX 970 uses the GM204 chip, but with reduced shaders (2048 vs. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 is a high end desktop graphics card based on the Maxwell architecture. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ► remove from comparison the Radeon R9 285 (around 170 Watt) - source During gaming the 960 reaches around 85-100 Watt (depending on the model) which is a lot less than e.g. The power consumption of the GTX 960 on the desktop without load is around 10 Watt and on a similar level to the AMD counterparts. The GTX 960 also includes a H.265 capable de- and encoder as a first. ![]() The GM206 supports CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, GeForce Experience, Surround, GameStream, GPU Boost 2.0, Adaptive Vertical Sync / G-SYNC, SLI, DSR, MFAA and Virtual Reality latency improvements. In our benchmarks only GTA 5 and The Witcher 3 achieved below 30 fps on average (see below for detailed benchmarks). The performance of the GTX 960 should be suffice for most games in full HD resolution. The similar named GeForce GTX 960M for notebooks offers only 640 shader cores and a slightly lower core clock. The 970M offers more shader cores, but at a lower clock speed. Compared to laptop graphics cards, the 960 is slightly faster than a mobile Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M. On average the gaming performance is on a level with the AMD Radeon R9 280 and R9 285. The graphics memory is usually 2 or 4 GB GDDR5 (7 GHz effective clock) connected with a 128 Bit interface. The GTX960 offers 1024 shader cores, 64 TMUs and 32 ROPs (no deactivated units of the chip). It is based on the GM206 Maxwell chip that is produced in 28nm. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 is a desktop graphics card of the upper middle class. Reference GeForce GTX 9801126/1216 MHz GPU, 4 GB GDDR5 at 1753 MHz (7000 MT/s) EVGA GeForce GTX 9701165/1365 MHz GPU, 4 GB GDDR5 at 1753 MHz (7012 MT/s) (underclocked GPU to reference 1050/1178 MHz specification for benchmarks) Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti875/928 MHz GPU, 3 GB GDDR5 at 1752 MHz (7008 MT/s) Nvidia GeForce GTX 7701046/1085 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1752 MHz (7008 MT/s) AMD Radeon R9 280X850/1000 MHz GPU, 3 GB GDDR5 at 1500 MHz (6000 MT/s) AMD Radeon R9 290947 MHz GPU, 4 GB GDDR5 at 1250 MHz (5000 MT/s) AMD Radeon R9 290 X1000 MHz GPU, 4 GB GDDR5 at 1250 MHz (5000 MT/s)Īll GeForce Cards (except GTX 770): Nvidia 344.07 Launch DriverAll Radeon cards: AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC 1GeForce GTX 770: Nvidia 340.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ► remove from comparison Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E), 3.3 GHz, Six Cores, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared 元 Cache, Hyper-Threading enabled.ĪSRock X79 Extreme9 (LGA 2011) Chipset: Intel X79 ExpressĬorsair Vengeance LP PC3-16000, 4 x 4 GB, 1600 MT/s, CL 8-8-8-24-2T |