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As long as that wasn't your actual password, that's great. :D But seriously, acronyms with some numbers taken from something are a simple, easy to remember but make for a very secure password. Throw together the first couple letters of a favorite game and an old address or zip code and it's...

Hot damn. If Rob can get 4.6Ghz, then everyone in the forums here should be able to hit 5GHz at least! :D Ain't that the truth! Except for transcoding there just isn't enough use for those extra cores yet. After seeing these results it was easier to decide on fobbing my 980X onto eBay...

Well one thing I also noticed... when I tested my card with a heavy overclock, say 851MHz instead of the 700MHz stock reference, the min FPS actually plummeted to ~23 while the max/average increased. I have no idea why given other programs don't reflect similar behavior that I've noticed. For...

Hmm, well as usual pricing outside the US is different. But looking around at a few sites here were the better deals I noticed. I'm open to other brands, but apparently OCZ seems to be the lowest outside the US right now. Corsair models were on average $10 more. OCZ Vertex 2 60GB $109 AMIR...

Hey Unregistered. Rob pointed out this thread to me and asked if I could test this for him. Using a stock Core i7 980X and my GTX 480 FTW set to stock 480 reference clocks in order to match his test configuration, I was able to get some rather definitive results: Something I observed...

Duke Nukem, Forever in speculation! I predict in 100 years some kid will write the game inside the VR realm once the rights expire, just to finally publish it. ;)

Okay, I've beaten it on medium. The campaign is actually easy... unless you play on hard and try for all objects/achievements, then it starts getting hairy. :D Halfway through it on hard to collect the hard-requirement achievements and the challenge... it's definitely fun. I can beat a hard comp...

Someone already tried that one. The court ruled that they had no case to stand on. :D

BlackAndy, what happens if ya try running FurMark on your GPU for a little while after the temperature ceases to climb and has leveled off?

To be fair... where the heck is business/work/productivity listed? If I had to guess many of those answers fall under "other". I'm not the only person that derives some measure of their income from the internet I'm sure. *cough* Rob *cough* ;)

Are you kidding? The politicians would act like a 16 year old that had been given an American Express Gold card and told to enjoy the weekend at Mall of America. :D Not to mention all states, municipalities, and county governments would each want their own budget bailouts. Especially given that...

I am a bit late to this thread, but if it will help any because my setup is very similar to yours: With those sort of overclocks and a GTX 400 card you will be looking at 500-600W's of power consumption, more if you push the overclocks higher and add a second GPU. Under 100% Folding@home...

Hey mwvirk, the Asus P5Q only accepts DDR2 memory. You'd want to look for a dual-channel DDR2-800 or DDR2-1066 memory kit, whichever is cheaper as the performance difference is minor and generally not worth paying extra for.

That was particularly disturbing to read about Firefox's plug-ins having their own tracking. I never knew the Adobe flash plug-in kept it's own cache/cookies for example. Computing is becoming an onion, there are so many layers to anything, such as privacy, that most users may never find them...

The recent cyber-attacks (Operation Aurora)on Google seemed to have been the catalyst here. If you remember, Intel tried to push something called VPro with their business chipsets, but it never gained much traction. McAfee was one of the few that built products based on the hardware...

Any 64bit version of Windows (save perhaps XP 64) supports 64-bit LBA addressing, allowing >2TB partitions to be used. The BIOS itself prevents them from being used as a boot drive though... this may be the inflection point when EFI finally starts to gain inroads into displacing the old BIOS...

Hmm, that's not as large a difference as one would expect. Lots of subtle improvements, better depth and much much sharper water for example, but still it seems like diminishing returns are setting in. Graphics are improving in smaller increments while still taking large performance hits. I...

If OCZ is able to develop their tool to manually TRIM the drive, then I don't see why it couldn't also offer the ability to secure erase one back to factory-new performance. The batch test performance is simply amazing, but even a single SF-1200 in the Vertex 2 is able to keep the system...

That guy is a riot and I greatly enjoyed watching one of his shows! Didn't take long before I was crying either. Genuinely good humor like this getting harder to come by... and I agree, realistic or not I wish he'd do new shows much more often. :D

That's not the only one. Almost hard to fathom, but on Steam's July survey Windows 7 64bit finally surpassed Windows XP 32bit in install base, to become the most widely used OS version for Steam users.