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He will be the next guest star on SyFy's Ghost Hunter series. :p Whatever my beliefs in the afterlife might be, they certainly are not tied nor affected by my remains... it would be silly to bury myself in a casket that had DSL internet access wired in, or assume because I had been cremated...

Call me a skeptic, but I'm going to wait to see the results after tech sites put those claims to the test. :) As I recall, VMWare's non-enterprise/server products only officially support up to a dual-core processor. Users can actually modify a config file to enable quadcore support, but...

Intel would still be Intel... they would never turn around overnight and suddenly slash prices the next day or introduce a slew of unplanned models. What I would expect is that if Intel ever found their CPU's in a similar situation again, they would (once again) become more aggressive in...

I don't think RAID is going anywhere... I won't ever use RAID on my desktop again after having it proven to me that even Intel's Matrix Storage RAID 1 array can be magically "lost" without any advanced warning... one reboot later and my RAID 1 array was unrecoverable beyond advanced disk...

Yep, it depends on the chip. As you said yourself, I would expect the simple majority to be unstable when unlocked, but there are going to be some chips that should work fine. It's just a matter of testing to be sure. I could be wrong, but I believe AMD ships the same cooler regardless of if...

The 5850 will probably be the better card to get, shouldn't be much of a performance loss but at a much lower price ($259). Of course the midrange models will be even more affordable, and should still offer 4870 or better performance when they launch early next year...

Well, all the thing is designed to do is power the GUI, the graphical interface you click and interact with, along with offering some hardware acceleration with video. It's still not targeting games. This is almost getting cliche because everyone references this exact argument, but it's so...

Howdy Gibbersome, thanks for the interesting link! I appreciate the compliments, too. :) It's been awhile since I've seriously given thought to notebooks, so many ideas have already been implemented (IGP + discrete GPUs in the same machine, just to name one) but I think there are still some...

Considering the core isn't fused off, Rob is right it probably was "running warm" already. Good luck with your unlocking attempts... just remember that even if the core is functional enough to be "unlocked", it might not be stable so make sure to check with LinX or some other stressful...

Out of curiousity, any idea what the low mark on that graph was? I know some of the latest drives can average 140MB/s, but 180MB/s is big news to me... heck, even 5.5ms is Velociraptor territory... RAID wouldn't decrease the latency any.

Yes, sometimes I notice it takes 2-5 seconds... somewhat odd. However, Vista did this all the time, except it wouldn't update at all unless I manually refreshed the window or hit F5... so 7 is still a definite improvement here. And most of the time it does refresh without any delay for me...

Going by general news floating about, I'd say NVIDIA will show up around Q1 2009, unless the news about TSMC's 40nm yields has been plain wrong. They will probably want to refine their cards too now that ATI's launched before they did... it's been awhile since that occurred. I'd disagree with...

The drive controller is pretty much what makes the difference between a SSD being a worthless piece of junk versus it being the best drive on the market, true. Not only is it theoretically possible, but manufacturers have done exactly that with SATA 6Gbit/s. You can read the details over...

Hey Rob, thanks for the reply. Believe it or not HDD Erase keeps giving me an "XMS GET FREE MEM ERROR" when I attempt to use it, regardless of which option I select with emm386. The 3rd menu option just gives me a memory allocation error. I'm not sure why... :confused: After finding one...

Nope, PCI is far to slow. Even the first generation SATA 1.5Gbit/s offers higher bandwidth. PCI operates at 33MHz and best case is around 133MB/s (as opposed to SATA 1/5Gbit/s falling around 150MB/s). There are things like overhead to also consider, but frankly the only thing faster than the...

This quote got my attention... Whether you meant to or not you are implying products should be universal, and I big to differ. Microsoft makes right-handed and universal-handed mice. Exact same guts in some of the models, just different styling. And I have to say after trying both versions of...

Traditions are fun, so I'll copy Rob's lead on the thread title. ;) Besides clearing my thoughts by putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard as it were) I'm going to make this post in the obscure hope somebody might know what is going on or has seen this issue before. Even if not, it...

Intel appears to have slashed prices on their Q8200, currently I'm seeing it for around $140... Off the top of my head I'd say AMD has the better value, Intel has the (slight) nod for performance... AMD's parts have enough of a clockspeed advantage they're able to compete fairly well against the...

But a 50" LCD TV (The good ones, mind you) are 1280x1080.... so really it would get you the same effect as gaming on a ~20" monitor with 1280x1080 resolution using a magnifying glass over the screen. :D My 24" monitor is 1920x1200, that's a very big increase in on screen pixels and detail...

Welcome to the forums XP1. :) Because when my post was written, Opera 10 was still in alpha/beta stage, and Opera 9 does not have a spellchecker included by default. ;) Once Opera 10 was officially launched I migrated to it, and I do much prefer the built-in spell checking to either of...