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  1. Tharic-Nar

    Dropping Chrome 7 - switching back to the Fox

    I know i'm not the only one having problems, a couple other friends of mine have all experienced issues with Chrome 7. Pages get stuck and won't allow you to scroll, drop down menus won't work, can't click certain links, just a general unresponsive nature to contend with. I've cleared out web...
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    Dark Reign

    What about using dosbox? or has the game code changed too much?
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    NVIDIA Cuts Fermi Quadro Pricing by 50%

    More memory and optimised drivers for OpenGL (and possibly CUDA in NVIDIA's case). You pay for licenses etc for speeding up viewports in 3D apps and number crunching. The more mainstream cards support a sub-set of OpenGL, the 'standard' version. Quadro's and FirePro's support the extended...
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    Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard Announced

    Logitech has been a great innovator in the peripheral market with such devices as the Unified USB receiver to allow multiple wireless devices to connect via the same USB port. On Monday, Logitech announced a very intriguing device, the K750 Solar powered keyboard. Read the rest of our post...
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    Alright, second time around PC build

    My P4 is the newer (relative) model Prescott based 90nm HT. The dual core Atom would win because of optimisations in core logic and newer instruction sets, not to mention it can handle 4 threads, instead of 2. What's more insulting is that ATOM CPU's are in-order execution processors, and P4's...
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    GIGABYTE UD9 4Way SLI/SSD SuperCombo

    No CPU or memory though. Still, price isn't too bad. No ODD or HDD for storage either. So need to spend another $500 to make it work.
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    Alright, second time around PC build

    I know that feeling... The real salt in the wound is when you see benchmarks of an Intel Atom and see it beat a P4... oh the shame of it...
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    Building New Gaming Rig

    The company is less important than the controller. Go Intel or SandForce, so the OCZ vertex 2 is a good choice or the Intel X25, but the vertex 2 is much cheaper. Robert's the man to talk to for SSDs. Just don't use them for storage, get a large 1TB or 2TB drive for storage and possibly keep...
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    Building New Gaming Rig

    More to a PC than gaming, and an SSD will make the experience so much smoother. As for a SSDs impact on games specifically, it'll decrease load times and minimise jerky behaviour in openworld type games, so it won't increase your FPS, but it will make it more consistent (from a loading...
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    China's Tianhe-1A Becomes the World's Fastest Supercomputer

    BTW... Petaflop = 1000 trillion = 1 Quadrillion calculations... 1 Trillion is a quarter of the processing power of an AMD 6870. Unless it's double precision, in which case, they're equal. :p And no, it won't play Crysis, it IS Crysis :D.
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    OCZ Announces RevoDrive X2 PCI Express SSD

    I want one too, but no instant boot... boot time is largely limited by latency now (and POST), but if you want to boot up and load all your applications at the same time... sure, this'll help. Just need to replace the controllers with the new SandForce 2000 models... 4x SF2000 controllers...
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    OCZ Announces RevoDrive X2 PCI Express SSD

    OCZ must of thought the original RevoDrive was too slow, because just a few months later it's announced the RevoDrive X2! The original PCIe based SSD came about as a result of hitting limitations with the SATA II interface. SSD technology was developing faster than the interface could keep up...
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    RAM option question (speed/size tradeoff)

    The 2 major concerns here are timings and dual channel. The speed drop from 800 to 667 will not be that substantial, what you need to take care over is not to mix the 1GB and 512MB on the same channel. Typically, slots 1 and 3 are channel 1, and slots 2 and 4 are Channel 2. The 1GB modules will...
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    Razer Anansi - MMO Gaming Keyboard

    Razer announced a new keyboard to the gaming peripheral market, the Anansi. Taking inspiration from its Naga mouse, the Anansi includes 7 thumb modifier keys just below the space bar to expand the functionality of the other keys. Macro's galore, over 100 fully programmable keys, 5 additional...
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    Are We More Lenient of Bugs in Large Games?

    What I find amusing is the number of people that say the testers never did a good job, they didn't find all these obvious bugs, etc. Just need to politely remind them that the testers probably did find the bugs (and many more you don't know about); the devs, due to time constraints, didn't fix...
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    Pirate Parties in Space?

    It already exists - of sorts. It's called Freenet. It's not an easy place to navigate, nor pleasant with regard to content, and the fact that it is ridiculously slow doesn't help either. It's a completely anonymous network which is made up by the clients itself, think the Internet powered by...
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    I've been burned.

    Well, try running chkdsk on each drive as a start. Disconnect all but one, boot into an OS, xp, or Win7, check that the drive is recognised, then goto the drive properties, tools, error checking. This will mark off any bad sectors and/or remap them, as well as provide basic data recovery. If you...
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    I've been burned.

    My sincere sympathies good sir, such a tragic loss, but i'm afraid the news is bad. You have a RAID 5 made up of 4x 640GB drives. This means that your total storage capacity is equal to n-1, or 3 drives in this case, which equals 1.74TB, the 4th drive is for redundancy (so not 4x 640GB drives...
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    Rumour: Sony enabling region locking for PS3...

    Still mark this as rumour for the time being, but if true, this is yet another shot in the foot for Sony. Originally reported here and translated here. Implement region locking on what was supposedly region free gaming, why? To stop people from downloading a US game and playing on a EU console...
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    Need Help!!

    It took me a day to understand what you meant, lol, i was looking at it too literal.... cat 10.10? ohhh... Catalyst driver 10.10... clocks, overclocked from stock.... Sorry, i really had no idea what you meant initially. Cat 10.10 locked your clocks at stock.... i really thought you meant your...
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