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Nice, nice. Even your minimum is playable although probably very noticeable in Dirt. Stick it to the hardware man and get every last drop of performance out of your gear!

Thanks for the fire and brimstone speech, reverend. It reminds me that I haven't backed up mine in a while.

I know. I keep saying that if we could get a service here like Hulu I'd drop cable all together. That plus Netflix or even a 2nd movie streaming site would still be half as much as we pay for crappy cable.

This works out great for my wife and I. We have no intention of renting movies so streaming is perfect. Now would be a good time to try the free month to see if my crappy network can handle it.

Well, my i3 at 4.2Ghz can pretty much match an i5 750 in most tests so I'm confident there. I just need to double up on my GPUs but certainly want to go with a Z68 SB system. Maybe jump up to 8GB of memory.

What are your frame rates like in specific games at a specific resolution? 3DMark is synthetic so real world numbers would go a long way in letting folks determine if AGP is ready for the scrap heap. Also I'd say that 3DMark06 would be the minimum test that I would run simply because the rest...

The Vertex 2 drives are still a viable option if the price of the 3-series is too steep. I'm using a Mushkin drive that is basically the same as the Vertex 2 and it flies like the dickens!

The Saturn had the same intro as well. I just thought I'd toss that up for a wee bit of nostalgia.

Ahem... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkxYUxxtD4

Turns out that the 107*36 overclock was a bit too aggressive. I knew that those chips didn't tend to work well above 105 BCLK but I was able to test three other cooler successfully using the same test methodology so I was very reluctant to find fault in the overclock itself. Dropped the BCLK...

What I'd like to know is how playing video games differs from being a hobby. If you don't play in the competitive gaming leagues, it's a hobby. Something that you do during downtime that you enjoy and do for fun. My mind is squarely on my job (when I'm at work - outside of work don't even...

Woah...my GPU is recommended. That means it's not good enough to really push some serious frame rates. Time to double up! Here's hoping my little dually with hyper threading is up to the task. Grrr! I wonder if I can get my Sandy Bridge upgrade finished by October?

I cannot verify if it does or doesn't however Windows 7 has a built in feature that will turn off hard drives after 20 minutes of not being accessed. This is a default that is enabled when the OS is installed but I'm not sure if this applies to external since the enclosure may take over as far...

That's like saying what do you need less to survive - food, water or air. All are critical over enough time.

I don't like Facebook for the simple fact that people use it for attention or pity. Sure, there are people who use it for what it's meant for like staying in touch, making updates on a child or what not but for most it's just a way for them to feel special without actually doing anything. I'll...

I think that I've finally drilled it into the head of a co-worker that pre-built PCs are junk. It took about 6 months along with a crappy motherboard and memory kit but I think he finally believes me.

Well, that gave me a bit more to go on...a BSOD. I was rushed for time and had to bail out for work so I didn't copy the code down so I'll need to try and recreate it if I can. I'm no closer to finding out what's going on but at least it was something different.

Celine Dion Presents: Skinny Ghoulish Woman Idol! Music games are teh fail in my mind and only good when there are some bros (or bras) and brews kicking about.

I'm not big on Futureshop's pre-built systems because they tend to use proprietary motherboards, many of which aren't worth the circuit board they are printed on. I've seen too many of them go *POP* to put any trust in them. That is one hell of a deal though. ***EDIT: Sorry. Too much sun...

So our brand spankin' new CPU cooler/hard drive testing system is giving me problems and I think I've banged my head against the wall enough. When running load temperatures using OCCT's LINPACK with all settings at stock, things run flawlessly. When it comes time to overclock, the system...