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Ahh, the joys of benchmarking. Good to see that low-end cards can still make modern games playable. As for this other forum user, you will have to knock off a few more FPS due to your system's CPU etc, being overclocked and generally being a higher end model. While the difference won't be...

I've built plenty of cheap systems for people over the years and ASRock has been solid, even for simple overclocks on stuff that wasn't meant to be. The only issues I've had with them have not been with the boards themselves, but with the use of Realtek NICs. This is why I love the fact they're...

Yeah, going for years on rubber domes then switching to mechanical - huge difference. I wouldn't mind getting in one of the Blue or Brown switches for comparison, see how a typist key compares to these gaming keys. Love the low activation pressure, but as I said, makes sloppy typing a pain...

The basics of the 2 pen tools are similar, but with a few differences. In AI, the CTRL modifier key behaves differently based on whether direct or path selection was previously enabled (White or black arrow tool). In PS, it's fixed to direct. Another key difference is that in PS, when you place...

Nah, Photoshop and AI are nothing alike, barely share any features at all. While it may appear for example that PS can use vectored shapes - look at the layers panel and you'll find it's just a layer mask - it's still pixels. PS can open AI files and raster them, and AI can open PS files for...

Damn - i mean really, damn, that's a hell of a lot of stuff on a single board. There isn't even a maze of heatsinks to cover it all, so that'll add more. Can just make out the PCB colour on the bottom left, lol. Surprised it's ASRock instead of ASUS itself. Still, a bargain brand can still...

The Ultimate LP huh? Beat that MP3, your compression sucks in comparison! Oh wait... can fit over 320 albums on a 32GB 1 inch SD card... or if Seagate goes HAMR time, 10,000 albums on a 1 inch 1TB platter... That's several billion dollars of stolen music right there. Really, watch the video...

Honestly, this is the way Adobe works. It releases the Creative SUITE, not just a single application, and which app gets new features and which gets the polish. PS got a lot of decent changes and features in CS5, so I'm not surprised the changes are minimal on the surface. There will probably be...

Oh I'd love too, but I'm not sure I have the expertise or the budget to do it. Nice little project to put all the pieces together though. Finding the right motherboard design with the right look - maybe a Sabertooth with the thermal Armor, but put brass inlays in. A 'Brass Color' would not work...

I'm not in love with the term either, it's neither 'Steam' nor 'Punk' in nature, it's Victorian Sci-Fi - lots of brass and gears etc. Tesla didn't work a lot with Steam as far as I'm aware either, but he's often lumped in with 'Steampunk'. However, I do love the mechanical style and 'safety be...

I wouldn't call this a Steam issue, but a developer issue. I mean, yes, Steam forces you to install all registered DLC, since it's technically a bundle - but only with certain games. Dawn Of War 2 for example, the major DLC (game expansions) are separate installs and are listed separately in...

I personally know a good 8 or 9 people who met through online games (even encouraged a couple :p). First its casual chat, next they're doing quests naked, then running around and playing tag in-between giant dinosaurs (don't ask). Ahh... the good old days of online gaming...

I'm feeling the urge to spend money on somethign I don't actually need... Damn you steampunk... Damn you...

The thing is, you'll be playing it at 1440x900 now... what about later? What about new games that stress the system? You could very well use a 6770 in the current system, it may even work fine, but long-term stability would be in question; I'd rather not risk overloading the PSU, blowing it and...

I'd say it would be unwise, mainly for the reason that the Dell PSU will be rated as 300 Watts PEAK, not sustained, so it's more than likely ~250 Watts sustained, possibly less. Then there is the question of power over the 12v rail, power conversion efficiency, etc, etc. Supposedly, the 6770...

Yes, the downfall of Obsidian is 90% on itself, not publishers withholding funds and shit like that. They did good stories, but they needed better programmers and people who knew what they were doing. NWN2 was an Obsidian release and honestly, most of the bugs were just unforgivable. How could...

You forgot about Neverwinter Nights too!! Not the same dev team, but doesn't matter, still an AD&D game. It's funny, a number of years ago when NWN 2 was about to come out, I decided to pick up the platinum edition of the first game, just to see. Let it be said that I enjoyed the first game with...

I think the combined pre-order interest is in the 500k area. One website said it had over 200k registered interest, and increasing by 10 per minute, that was 2 days ago. Total supply is still limited atm due to a board hiccup with regard to an incorrect ethernet port type (design indicated...

Compression, shared storage, de-duplication, etc. Just because someone has 1TB of data available, doesn't mean they'll use all of it (over-subscribe). That or it's just bogus, lol.

Yes, that time again, once a year - at least for you US/CA folks. It's Pi Day (3.14). I would have had my face stuffed into a Raspberry Pi by now, but hey, they're still not out yet. So I'm doing the next best thing... Pizza Pie! (with beer...)