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Are you sure the M1330 has Intel IGP graphics? I'm pretty sure you have a NVIDIA card in there... 8400M is the model I'm googling up. That is an XPS laptop after all. Go here, pick the 8M series downloads, then the right version of Windows 7 and you should be set...

Because the money isn't in the consumer gaming market, NVIDIA thinks there is more to be had in servers/GPGPU. They think the costs of building two separate cores outweigh that of redesigning one with am emphasis on computing first and gaming second at least for the short term. They may in fact...

Very amusing, in a sad sort of way... unfortunately their editor finally gave up on the game, which says it all right there.

Given how it is shaping up, a lot of that has to do with that there isn't any real reason for anyone to buy Fermi. GTX 480 vs 5870.... the 480 is marginally faster, yet costs more, draws more power, runs hotter, and costs much more for NVIDIA to produce and manufacture. Is a 10-15% lead in...

Hmm, I wonder who could've done that... :D Optix, the controller is not overclockable by the end-user, unless you are proficient at creating your own custom firmware to flash to it and willing to void the warranty at risk of bricking the drive. :) It doesn't really help the performance enough...

I'm not entirely sure... I forgot to fill in the SSID field on my router once, it didn't seem to matter as the laptop still detected the network. Same thing if I chose a hidden SSID. I never thought much about it though, I just assumed any wireless signal would be easily detectable with the...

The problem is, if marketing was that easy to do, then every company could be an Apple. :) I've actually seen quite a few Palm Pre commercials, they made some news when they first started airing them because of how weird they were and the resulting innuendos that usually not far from people's...

Welcome to the forums! It's a good question to ask. :) Intel's X25-M G2 80GB drive will offer faster small file reads/writes (4KB to 1MB roughly) over the Vertex, but it's best sequential write speed peaks at 80MB/s. Only the 160GB X25 G2 model offers a peak sustained write speed of 100MB/s...

OMG, I've been struck speechless. :p

Wish we could see celestial objects where I'm at... at night the light pollution is so bad you don't even need a flashlight to walk around anyplace once your eyes adjust. And if there are clouds it gets all the brighter... Tried looking again for any news on the comet? Usually they take a...

Yeah, just about everyone I played Forged Alliance with has played it a few times and quit already. On the flip side, the game has been made so simple that the strategies for gameplay have been reduced significantly... all you have to do is know the research trees and choose whether you want...

I would imagine the 300watt figure is intended to be a safety limit as much as a design standardization to aim for. Entire Quadcore computers run with 300W, you might see where I'm coming from if you imagine piping 300W through 8 yellow wires + a few of the delicate gold contacts in the PCIe...

Are you serious? Wow, I never even heard that before... I had no idea OCZ bought Hypersonic. I can't fathom why they would, because if I recall correctly they sold their own units long before that purchase. It makes zero sense to me why they would own a budget PSU brand, sell a WIDE range of...

Yes! Programs can only load as fast as the slowest bottleneck in the system... if you take the storage medium out of the picture completely, then most likely CPU / processing overhead will become your next bottleneck. But, don't forget most programs are not fully multi-threaded to take advantage...

Are you using Windows update? Windows 7 should search and automatically install base level drivers as long as it is connected to the internet. You can download nForce drivers directly from the same NVIDIA webpage you download graphics drivers from. Here is the 780i nForce driver for 64bit...

Why should DirectX be developed for other OS's? From my understanding this is the equivalent of taking the transmission out of one model truck and expecting it to work in a competing model. DirectX is a coding API designed to integrate the OS with the hardware and to set standards to make code...

Nope! When it involves computers (especially CPUs), I now consider myself a pro. :) Which reminds me... I need a new sig.

Given how badly optimized Crysis was and that it was still full of bugs, then Crytek turns around and released Crysis Warhead which fixed the majority of issues... If their first title hadn't been full of so many game disrupting bugs it would have turned out better for the franchise. One of the...

Hmm, guess someone likes martini's a bit too much. :D That's definitely a great (and amusing) read, I'm bookmarking this one. Lots of really good tips and pointers in there... :)

That, Tech Daddy, is some seriously cool modding!! It's all about those little details... ;) Neat LED tester too, btw!