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I guess i'm just thinking too old hat and haven't taken into consideration the advances made in CPU's past the P4, but that's not entirely my fault, i actually run a P4 :p (A P4 HT Prescott - like the article). Since the Core architectures and such came out a while after and i couldn't afford to...

Well, after a fair bit of testing, the results are largely positive. When a plugin like Quicktime, Silverlight or Flash startup, it opens a new process called mozilla-runtime.exe. when a plugin misbehaves, the process quits and all other tabs that use the plugin will stop. Reload the tab and the...

Looks like a round of bully tactics again. To go after retailers is just low, when it is the manufacturers they should go after, the best they could hope for from a retailer is an injunction, since they did not produce the items in question, and i'm sure there are trade agreements in place (as...

Firefox has released a beta of the much anticipated plugin isolation, meaning the collapse of flash does not mean the collapse of Firefox as well. I'm giving it a test now, i'll let you know if there are any major failings..... and yes, i think we're all aware of Chrome's ability to do this...

Yeah.... slight science failure here, what's water made of? I know they're making out it doesn't breath oxygen, since there isn't any gaseous Oxygen available, it instead uses the water and works like a hydrogenosome. Oxygen is still involved i'm afraid...

PS3 was the cheapest BD player upon release and stayed that way for a while. On top of that, it got regular firmware updates to make it compliant with the constantly emerging BD standards while dedicated BD players had sporadic updates, if they got any at all. Some argue that dedicated players...

The analogies are somewhat oversimplified, since trying to explain the act of simultaneous multi-threading technologies (SMT - of which HyperThreading is an implementation of) is quite difficult, since HTT has changed somewhat (on a technical level) from its introduction with the old Xeons and...

27C here, the hotter side of warm, enough to be making my Servers stock cooler Whine like it's 100C, even though it's only 40C.... curses upon Flash for snapping my CPU out of idle... Don't worry, it won't crash, it'll make annoying 'warning' beeps and throttle itself to that of a Celeron...

Fit the entire Lord of the Rings box set onto it.... no wait, still not big enough... Nah, if you go the 3D route, or more accurately 'Stereoscopic' route (will marketing stop calling it 3D, Please!!), then that immediately doubles up the size of the film, since you need twice the framerate to...

Because it only benefits top end SSD's and Cache on standard HDD. A normal HDD can just about push a SATA 1 connection to the limit, very few tread into SATA 2 territory. The only use is Cache and even then, the benefit is marginal and not seen in real world testing. Now we have SATA 3, well...

I honestly wouldn't bother waiting, the price would be unbelievable and won't come down to a sane level for at least a year or 2 after. Dual layer is 4 times the price for twice the density, so one could argue a quad disc would be 8 times the price over a dual disc, so 16 times the price over a...

Give up on silent fans and get some delta's :p, then all your CFM problems will be out the window.... probably literary. They can be fan controlled..... if you have a 30 Watt controller per channel. Delta TFB1212GHE Specifications: 120x120x38mm 220.01 CFM @ 4600 RPM, 65.0 dBA, 29.40 watts...

Thermaltake Frio is a new release, supports up to 220 Watts - Intel's i7 980-X 6 core, as well as the usual sockets. Looks damn big.

A synthetic benchmark is just that, synthetic, it's like battery life on laptops. Sure, we can run tests under a best case scenario, but they wouldn't hold up to real world use. Like testing a toaster as a radiator to see how much heat it produces, they're meant to be used a specific way and...

Which is why i suggest a PCI-E drive instead, they're far cheaper than a RAMdrive and you don't need a battery to keep it alive. The difference is that the SSD is permanent (ish), with memory, you'd need to cache data every time you booted up unless you fancy having a large battery plugged in.

Simple, memory is volatile, loose power, loose everything. Keeping memory and hard drive in sync is a headache as well, something that is done with great expense in large data-centers. Loading the entire hard drive into memory is also pointless since you're only going to be using less than 1% of...

Anything that uses a standard sleeve bearing gets put on my blacklist, they're great for a couple weeks and then for no reason they start to whine, wobble, rattle and just generally fail in the most unpleasant manor possible. I don't think i've had a sleeve fan last more than 6 months.... and...

It's prolific and sure, some of you have probably seen it before, but hey, it's still a laugh.

I really can't see Nvidia in the CPU market. There are other markets available to them with better margins. For one, it would be cheaper for Nvidia to buy VIA just for the license on x86 than to go straight to Intel, since the 2 would squabble away for years, i mean, they couldn't agree on a...

Your not the only one.... Damn EA, buying up the competition, destroying the brand, absorbing assets, then make 10 more games with the same name just to make sure it's officially killed, and since they own the IP and the brand, the original developers (who've already left), can't make the way it...