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  1. Kougar

    Steam crashing Deus Ex: HR on me?

    Steam does have syncing issues when a particular game or update is under high load... attempting to verify files does sometimes force Steam to check and download new patches for a game. If it can't immediately begin the download, it will just appear to hang until it is able to grab it. Some...
  2. Kougar

    GameStop Removing OnLive Coupons Deus Ex: HR Boxes

    I absolutely agree with you 100% here. Often these days companies don't seem capable of maintaining genuine customer relations, honest consideration for their customers, or pretty much anything else. It first requires a public relations nightmare before a company will sit up, take notice, and...
  3. Kougar

    Is Focusing on Browser Performance Important?

    I'd always avoided Safari, but that's news to me? Are they like screenshots of pages you were viewing or something?? 2ms sounds pretty tight to me. But WiFi is typically used when mobile, in less than perfect environments. Take any college campus, public wifi, restaurant, conference, or...
  4. Kougar

    Microsoft to Natively Support USB 3.0 in Windows 8

    Ah, good... Rob is backing you on this. *rubs hands together* We shall see! :p Microsoft has always been adding built-in hardware support. Vista's SP1 literally doubled the number of drivers the OS had for various hardware, added support for Bluetooth 2.1, and did some major reworking to try...
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    GameStop Removing OnLive Coupons Deus Ex: HR Boxes

    Try Amazon, Rob! They will ship titles AHEAD of the launch date, so it arrives at your door the day of release. :)
  6. Kougar

    Is Focusing on Browser Performance Important?

    Thanks Rob, you took the words right out of my mouth! I was getting all set to use that HDD example too. :D To add to Rob's post, I'd like to point out that if the user is on WiFi, then the latency and typical interference involved will hide any boost to the actual ISP speeds. WiFi itself can...
  7. Kougar

    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    Look for any PCI Express 4x cards. They will usually be found on 4+ SATA port cards... Newegg seems to have a literal MOUNTAIN of 1x slot cards, incredible. They split them into Add On cards and RAID controllers, which makes it even worse... Most of the suitable cards on Newegg are RAID...
  8. Kougar

    Overclocking Intel's Core i5-750 & i7-870

    Hi Cid... I'd suggest anything below 1.35v is perfectly safe. That's a nice overclock for stock volts, and stock voltage overclocking incurs only a minimal increase in heat & power consumption. 1.3v is probably enough to get you pretty close to the 3.5 - 4Ghz range...
  9. Kougar

    Speck of dust vs. CPU

    Wow... I've heard of dust causing that problem with PCIe cards, but yeah... good lesson to learn I guess. When all else fails, check for dust. :D
  10. Kougar

    Microsoft to Natively Support USB 3.0 in Windows 8

    That's how the system works. They aren't going to announce it, but I would expect it to be rolled into the next service pack. When Win8 launches Win7 will get another service pack to bridge support and features, just a matter of when.
  11. Kougar

    Windows 8 Could Require Internet Access for Continued Use

    Microsoft could do this if they wanted... but in my honest assessment there is no way they would. Microsoft has taken to erring on the side of caution when it comes to DRM protections for its OS. It would be simple for them to record server logs and identify hundreds of thousands of illegal OS...
  12. Kougar

    Windows 8 to Have Improved Transfer Dialogs

    Only took them ten years! Very glad to see this. Same with the pause functionality... given the sizes of files in this day and age, the need to PAUSE rather than cancel then restart a multi-GB transfer is a no brainer. I wonder, does this mean if a system (or network) file transfer is...
  13. Kougar

    Borderlands Crashing

    Well if you've tried those programs you'd probably have to redownload the thing anyway to get a clean copy, so I'd suggest that. I'd also ping Steam's support, since if this is a general issue they would've heard of similar cases before. Personally I've never experienced this error with my copy...
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    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    Sigh... every time I can get happy with my old rig, something like this comes along and gives me a tangible reason for why I should upgrade. Rob, it's all your fault! Not at all, you don't learn if ya don't ask! Unfortunately for us both, almost every X58 board that offers SATA 6Gbps...
  15. Kougar

    TG needs to get ahold of one of these bad boys.

    Interesting, finally a dual-GPU card that is the equal of two identical single discrete GPUs? It's probably not only the fastest single-card GPU, but the most expensive! I'd still bet two discrete cards could be overclocked higher given the better cooling... but if someone did make a...
  16. Kougar

    The Greatest Graphics Cards of All Time

    Haha, nice to see some 9600 / 9700 ATI owners here... :) My first self-bought GPU was the ATI 9600XT. Awesome card and I had enough foresight to get one with a good quality cooler already on it, probably why it still works today. Learned a few good lessons though... such as checking for...
  17. Kougar

    GameStop Removing OnLive Coupons Deus Ex: HR Boxes

    I think that is silly. Once they discovered it they could have sent them back, which is exactly what they did anyway. If they had enough time to get employees to open every single box, then re-seal it in plastic wrap then they had enough time to change their mind and just send the entire lot...
  18. Kougar

    Linux Celebrates its 20th Birthday

    Oh, I didn't realize this turned into a Martin Luther King anniversary article too!
  19. Kougar

    Arsenal offers fans free ticket to away game

    Wow, that must've been pretty bad! Nice to see a team taking care of their fans though. :)
  20. Kougar

    Is Focusing on Browser Performance Important?

    I'll agree a bit with what Marfig already said, after a certain point performance isn't a consideration for me. Most browsers have reached that point. Stability, features, and footprint are my selection criteria. Well, and interface + customization I guess. Nothing much seems to be changing...
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