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Oh, all of you people are terrible! :D

True. But look at that PSU design... the PCB is mostly empty. You should never see that, entire stages are missing in the layout. That looks like a passive PFC power supply as well, and nobody should ever buy anything other than an "Active PFC" power supply these days. The build quality is...

You should totally call that number and ask! ;)

I'll just call it the Minecraft clone bundle! :D

It's looking like we haven't even seen the real effects yet. Apparently manufacturers are turning to the gray market and paying over price just to stock up inventories. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111104PD207.html They also mention Samsung has stopped shipping HDDs. This means every...

So glad that you caught this early Kayden! Looks like it would've kept spreading to the rest of the system, or in the very least put out enough toxic smoke to choke a horse... I've studied PSU design before, and while I'm no electrical expert I gotta say that is the cheapest PSU design I've...

I'm gonna state that I still believe it to be highly unlikely. Maybe because the successor for the hardware inside the Mac Pro has been delayed, and the hardware inside the Mac Pro hasn't been updated in that long a time frame? The X58 platform has pretty much been dead, especially the Xeon...

Doesn't say which HDD is their source, but still pretty big news for ASUS announce. Asus only has hard-drive inventory for November I assume HHD is short for Haunted Hard Drives. :D

Howdy. If the computer isn't recognizing any existing partitions on the drive then it is probably hosed. I'd suggest contacting an expert data recovery company at this point if you really need the files. Do NOT attempt a reformat, as you will destroy pretty much all of the data, assuming it...

There are one or two premium X58 motherboards I've heard of that offer full SATA 6Gbps performance, but I don't recommend buying any X58 motherboards at this time. Any Sandy Bridge motherboard (P67 or Z68) will come with native Intel SATA 6Gbps ports, and the upcoming X79 boards will as well...

Well, since everyone's digging the Extreme.... ASUS did mention a Rampage IV Formula in addition to the Extreme variant while I was at the event, so there will be a slightly cheaper alternative. I do not know what the differences are, and the price point of the Rampage IV Extreme had yet to be...

Yeah. I've officially been converted to an ASUS guy. It's all your fault Rob, for sending me to these events! Comparing everything I've seen to my experiences with Gigabyte... I'm done accepting the issues I've had with GB boards. Yep, and I cannot underscore this enough. I couldn't list...

Whoa, did anyone even forecast this as coming?? I knew they were getting pretty weak as of late, but that's a huge loss. And made all the more worrying given how strong Nintendo's performance has always been... it would be like Apple announcing a quarterly loss. It just never happened for...

Haha, that's hilarious they'd think to release something like this.

Yep, I could see the price climbing even as I was typing the article... almost everyone is just paying the minimum. And as the price goes up, more those that wold've paid extra will just pay the min... it's an interesting dynamic but I think sales are going to quickly taper off at this rate...

Marfig, hard to say. I've ordered batches of HDDs from Newegg enough times that I think they turn over stock rather quickly. Even on the same order, out of lots of four I'd receive the same model drives but with different "made in XYZ" country dates and different firmware revisions. The last...

OMG, that is totally ridiculous and awesome at the same time! I wonder how many times he has to replace those floppies, I'm sure he's playing around with the drive voltages to change the pitches... :D

I haven't had much time to play with it, I don't fully understand how the CPU test workload differs from the interger/FPU/cache tests for example, but it's interesting they make the distinction. From the hour I played with it, it works as well as or better than Prime95, but it's not perfect...

Whatever envelope saved in power consumption will just be re-used for additional silicon or higher clockspeeds, sometimes both. Can't say for sure until the new stuff comes out! Given AMD gave up the pursuit of "bigger is better", they are the more likely candidate to reflect power savings in...

Marfig, that's quite a lot of detail. But there were general reports about the hard drive situation as early as the Monday before last, so it's been building for awhile. Most of the major papers ran it early last week. Very good point. Places that take much longer to move stock like a local...