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Can you even install and run Linux on a mac? Since they use the EFI version of a BIOS I'm not sure how that'd work.

Hm, bit of an update. Warm boot is 32-34 seconds... cold boot is exactly 51 seconds. With a cold boot the motherboard spends 20 seconds before you even hear a post beep, then it flies through the boot process like normal.

God I hope not. This touches on the exact point I was going to make here... Valve's development times have grown increasingly longer for their games, and if you average out Half Life they've only done an okay job of handling Episodic content. Here's why: Half Life: November 1998 Half Life...

Your board will do a 200 Bclock just fine, but I haven't checked how MSI handles the Turbo mode. If you can you'll want to force it on to change your 20 multiplier to 21 for a free 200MHz. ;) As for overclocking Core i7's in general... it's much more complicated than it used to be, since...

Specifically D0 stepping Core i7 920's, yes. I can hit 4.3GHz stable with mine... possibly 4.4GHz with voltages I wouldn't care ot use for 24/7 use. 4.2-4.5GHz is about the ballpark for water cooling, 5GHz for subzero cooling. I've given it plenty of thought, and honestly CAS 6 or CAS 7...

As I said above RealTemp records the maximum/peak temperature so in effect it will show what the load temps were for the system. Still, since Rob asked here's a shot with Prime running: Here's one showing LinX with all of my current (24/7 daily use) settings, 201Bclock for 4.22GHz...

I think Anand made a pretty simple test. They too a bunch of songs, set them to play and the tracklist to repeat. Wrote a script to browse to a non-flash website every 20 seconds, then browse to page 2 and so on through all the pages in thea rticle, then it opens another article and repeats the...

Some games (Valve especially *cough*) love to reuse things they created in previous games. They do so to such an extent that there's a significant drop in file sizes when downloading their games if you already have previous games from them installed. I don't remember what it was, they had even...

Heh, not directly related, but this sure as heck got my attention: Link It just goes to show, if NVIDIA needs to source chips from 5 different major fabs, there is plenty of demand out there between NVIDIA and ATI alone... but honestly those two are only a small portion of the total demand...

Someone uploaded this image, so I'll just link to it. This should answer some of your questions ;) http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8761/lynnfieldzchd0254972.png Image source: Link

The problems with open-sourcing it would be issues of control, compatibility, and development. Not only would they be required to test all the changes they made, but all the changes made by the community as well for bugs and general compatibility. That'd be costly to do and greatly slow down...

I don't think Toy Story is a clear example, because it was never designed for "realism". Compare it to Bolt... Bolt is definitely a big improvement and much much more detailed, but it's still not designed for anything beyond semi- realism. Wall-E is a good one though. Still, we had Star Wars in...

No, Core i7 920's (D0 stepping - Box code SLBEJ) are just as good as Core i7 975s for overclocking in most cases. ;)

It might be infeasible with current technology, but the question is can they devise new technology and new methods that help bring down the costs of implementation some. Eventually at some point I'd hope we would discover a better, cheaper method of processor/silicon creation than the fabbing...

Why would next generation games cost so much more to make? Game development costs haven't doubled for the PC industry (that I know of), so what would make it double for the console industry? This has been said for years now... and we are still not there yet. Next generation consoles won't...

I'd just spend that kind of money on a good 30" display... then use the leftover to buy a GTX 285. At around $270 for one, cards like the Mars are only for people where money is nothing but showing off their system is everything.

I know and agree, this will set precedent for future interventions in Microsft and other software companies (But we all know mostly just MS). Why is that? It isn't Microsoft's monopoly that got DirectX to where it is today, it was the ever increasing number of game developers that grew...

Lets start at the basic question... how many processes are running on OS X after startup? Windows Vista can be running 50 or more, and that's before bloatware and cheaply designed support softwre gets installed by OEMs. Does OS X constantly read the hard drive, polling data for caching to memory...

I gotta disagree. Current GPUs already use these envelopes, especially the dual-GPU models. In all honestly, I can measure a 200W difference between my GTX 260 being idle and under load. For the sake of argument lets give it 50W of idle consumtpion... so that's 250W of power I'm measuring from...