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That's because rotational speed is only half the picture... platter density is the other. :) As a practical example, look at benchmarks featuring older generations of Raptor drives... They are all 10,000RPM, but because of the low platter density, traditional 7200RPM drives began to offer...

The L3 cache is a single (separate) large pool, only the L2 cache is built directly to the core. The X6 has the same 6MB L3 cache as the X4 Phenom, and each core has the same 512KB L2 built in. So AMD wouldn't be losing anything extra to package these chips under ANY other Phenom brand if...

What's not to say they aren't already selling them as Phenom X4s? It's not like they are different CPUs, just whack off two cores, some cache, and sell it as current model X4s. People wouldn't ever know unless someone managed to get lucky nosing around, but even then most people couldn't take...

Wouldn't be the first game dev to do so, ironically.

Actually, they have. OpenGL 4 actually reaches parity with DX10/DX11 in terms of capabilities. The problem is Apple, which did not update from Open GL 2.1 for several years... only with OS X 10.6.3 have they included partial OpenGL 3 support. The problem is OpenGL 3 was released two years...

Sorry! I couldn't resist the urge to tear apart just SOME of that Wiki article... I've read it before several times and it's still too full of just plain wrong information. :o I have not? I do not have a SATA 3 motherboard and do not have a Crucial C300 drive to test. What's the problem with...

For Windows 7, yes. Windows 7 has AHCI drivers on the install disc and it will use them if it detects the disk controller is in AHCI configuration.

TheFocusElf, I'm glad you're keeping things positive! Most people would be highly irritated or simply angry over the matter. Honestly I would be irritated, but as you said the chance of the drive bricking itself is small... small enough I would have used the drive anyway and done regular...

Yes... I thought I was happy with the Vertex Turbo, but damn. I've been blown away with this thing. It's mind boggling how fast this drive is. OCZ may not like me for saying this, but if anything I can't wait to see the "next gen" Sandforce controller that uses SATA 3, there is quite a bit of...

As long as Ryan Petersen continues to be OCZ's CEO I'm not worried about them changing for the worse. Given what I've read about him I'm not worried about the company. It's only after he leaves that I would start to worry...

Gotta love Ars Technica, they know just how to rebut some of these wild opinions that people start throwing around. :)

Certainly. Any sort of light workload like surfing, email, etc should be fine. This drive would be well suited for a cheap SSD replacement for a netbook or notebook drive if you want the durability of an SSD in your laptop. It's once you start looking for performance that I'd recommend their...

The highest density HDD's have always held a price premium over the previous highest-capacity drives they replace. Being the largest size drive gives them the extra value needed to let them charge extra for the privilege of one. I don't see mechanical drives vanishing anytime soon, nor for...

What Tharic-nar said. Your need to configure your SATA ports for AHCI mode in the Advanced BIOS menu, and it must be configured this way before you install Windows 7. If you change it after you install Windows you will make the system unbootable. (there are workarounds, but it gets lengthy to...

To touch on my original post about how piracy DOES actually hurt game developers (such as Link which is worth repeating again), I just saw this article today. All that bandwidth doesn't come free... Humble Bundle gives pirates what they want, gets ripped off

I haven't kept up with other models, but the Dell UltraSharp U2711 is supposed to be one of the top monitors available... it certainly costs enough though, as you can buy a cheap 30" Dell display for the same price. Given the dot pitch of the monitor and the resolution it should be perfect for...

I's say 2000.... don't know why, but all the games back then were much more fun and replayability lasted forever with some of them (granted it was multiplayer, but still). Starfleet Command 2 players will know what I was talking about... ;) Originality, creativity, even decent basics seem to...

Howdy Thanosz, and thanks for your comment! Are there any programs or tests in particular you would be interested in seeing? The largest problem with adding Linux is that I am outside my area of expertise and generally have trouble with just simple tasks in Linux. ;) There aren't any...

There isn't any reason to mess with partitions, unless you wish to have clearly defined segments of the drive for temporary file storage, scratch disks for program use (Photoshop has a scratch disk option if you work with extremely large files), etc. There isn't much reason to do so for security...

Yes, this entire problem of new SSDs always falling into severely poor performance ruts, with the firmware fix then "bricking" drives, and the second firmware update required to resolve the problem. Intel had this problem twice, now Crucial. The original firmware has a slight chance of...