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I haven't seen any motherboards favor specific manufacturer GPUs so far, and would highly doubt ASUS would be the first to do so. Why do ya ask?

Plenty of good points! :D I'd disagree about waiting 40 minutes out on the runway though... remember that means no food, no drinks, no cell phones, no internet, and one very hot, stuffy plane since the AC works poorly when on the ground. If you're lucky the flight attendants will alow the...

Interesting to watch! I wonder how many PSUs and dummy boards they had to expend just to tune the manufacturing line to exact specs... :)

$4.50 for a one-time use disc... I suppose that's not bad for 250GB if you want long-term data storage for data that never changes, much better a proposition than I thought it was. Thanks for the info! I agree with Rob though in that I personally always am adding, editing, and occasionally...

Yes, TF2 uses the old HL2 engine. The few times I do NOT see a crash message are the few instances where the hl2.exe remains running in the background after the game closes. This problem is specific to TF2. When exiting, closing, or shutting down Team Fortress 2 the game will close, and a...

I was interested until I saw the SODIMMs... why!? Space isn't at a premium, they cost more versus regular memory regardless if DDR2 or DDR3, and as Rob says they have much higher latencies. Even having built-in memory shouldn't have necessitated this... The ceramic backing to dissipate head...

Anandtech released a preview of this one today. Only with a fully maxed out system under 60 degree ambient water cooling was the board able to marginally pull ahead of the regular EVGA X58 SLI in OCing, and not my a significant amount. They did make one smart observation I thought I'd pass...

Well, as they say there are certain simulations that simply aren't worth being run on a GPU as they aren't inherently parallel in nature and wouldn't see any gains in speed. Either CPU or GPU folding is going to add noticeably to the total system power consumption, so if I'm going to pay for...

I know of the Barenaked Ladies band simply because quite a few 90's comedies poked fun at, directly referenced, or I believe used their music. The Money Pit comes to mind just as one... :D I think they were a well-known group in the US, but I'm definitely not the best person to know. ;)

Folding@home actually DID have their own GPU benching tool, back when the 7800GTX and 7900GTX were in their heyday. They stated the tool is not only outdated but was extremely basic and completely inapplicable for use today though, but there were links to it somewhere in their forums if you...

Intel's Dunnington has been on the market for awhile and is a modified hex-core chip. Ya probably meant octi-core, which is very true. Beckton-EX should be out in 2010, which will most likely nullify any sort of AMD hex-core performace advantages. Beckton uses new "DDR3" FB-DIMMs though, so...

I have been plagued with questions regarding whether or not my ASUS sound drivers could somehow be behind some game instability I've experienced, but I wouldn't know how to track something like that down. The crashes always are attributed to the hl2.exe file regardless... it doesn't help Steam...

QFT! :D

"drop the speed" of what, precisely?

Utterly stupid... This is comming from a company who advertised HD playback on their IGP's but never quite could deliever it. GMA 3000, 31000, X3000, X3100, X3500, X4500... they can't offload HD video at all, do so sufficiently to not drop frames, or it simply didn't work when it should've. At...

Technically such as thing does exist, but The Tech Report is the only site that does it. One of their forum members modified an old F@H benchmark and with some more tweaking they've got a fairly decent CPU based F@H benchmark. I looked into using it at one time as to quantify & performance tune...

The Steam Friends list allows users to add non-steam game shortcuts (Or almost any shortcut) to the "my Games" listing. If you launch the program it'll state the user is in a non-steam game and then state whatever the title of the shortcut is below that. :)

Socket F is only found on AMD server boards. :) As I mentioned above, I do think this is promising. It's a surgical strike to hold the line in the HPC and high-end server market which is where AMD has always made the largest slice of their revenue. And the HT-assist technology gives it a...

Obvious or not, it doesn't stop plenty of lawmakers from lining right up behind them in pushing for legislation that could force the issue, or against legislation such as internet neutrality that could hinder any such future plans. :rolleyes: I didn't think about someone modifying the music...

Thanks Rob! I wasn't sure where to make this thread so I guessed, let me know if ya wish to move it. ;) I gotta say I agree I was impressed this cooler was a match or can even beat the Thermalright Ultra Extreme, and did so at a slightly better price and with such a quiet fan. When I do...