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Sorry to hear about your queue issues Rob! Hoping that works itself out quickly for ya. I would have to go look at the SiSoft Sandra tests as I don't remember anything about their GPU tests, so to be honest it doesn't make a difference to me. Then again come to think of it didn't they have a...

Yeah. I hate to always appear to be negative about AMD, but that's because I'm concerned about them staying around. And I was all for AMD when they were showing Intel how it was done! As you say the current economy is only making a bad situation for them worse, but once the foundry company...

Yeah, no doubt Intel is being careful. If they acknowledge the issue, they lose sales and if they deny it then they lose credibility if the problem is proven. It's a tricky situation. I believe SATA-IO is the correct organization, I didn't know there were quite so many parties involved in the...

I completely agree! Equating every single download to a lost sale isn't stupid, it just shows the music execs are deliberately choosing the best way to spin the data to their benefit and financial gain. Its funny, but I didn't realize they had so much in common with politicians before. ;)...

Well, I guess I just was thinking the performance gap was more narrow. It is simply wrong a 2.67GHz Core i7 920 beat the 4.2GHz Phenom II in some of thsoe tests, and that surprised me the most. It just shows the underlying architecture is still more important than pure clockspeeds even if...

I don't believe directly translating those scores into real world use wouldn't give any real or useable info? For example the 9800GX2 will get a much higher Folding@home PPD score than a single GTX 260. It would just depend on the CUDA-based program in question, and if it can properly utilize...

I don't normally post these but I'm going to be a touch selfish on this one as I wanted a second entry. PCFlip is giving away one of Noctua's new NH-U12P LGA1366 coolers. :D Relatively speaking few have entered, and shipping is world-wide. Contest can be found at...

Posting here because this thread mentioned AMD LN2 overclocking... by now quite a few teams and/or sites have been able to hit 6.4-6.5GHz on AMD's Phenom II and make some records, not to mention blow away all previous AMD processor records. You knew it was coming, but here's the "but"...

This was specifically mentioned in PC Perspective's article as well. However, it doesn't change the fact many of the enthusiasts buying these drives are going to be running quite a few synthetic benchmarking or stability testing programs. Or that they are going to be running workloads more...

As usual Ars Technica had an informative piece on this: Link Anything for the money. Forget being justified, it seems many would just use the excuse of piracy to get at potential new revenue streams. It's not like the ISP sells the music directly, but some major music publishers want them to...

Left 4 Dead is a game that almost requires an extensive Friends list just so you can set up and play a few games with friends and not with random "pubbers". :) Otherwise many of which drop out of the game when it doesn't go in their favor leaving it pretty lopsided, at which point more of them...

I 100% agree, ASUS has left their Xonar users hanging out to dry. I can understand them not offering a Windows 7 driver. However their last Vista driver release was in September. And that was a beta hotfix version. I'd like semi-recent official drivers, with any/all applicable bugfixes...

Either of those kits looks good. The newer Ballistix uses a lower voltage than the original stuff, so it should work fine on Gigabyte boards.

Oh man, I need to play with you sometime! Ya are sounding like a newb ready to get pwned... Hehe, okay maybe not quite that bad. :D When you are in a Steam game use shift + tab to bring up the overlay screen. This allows you to monitor your friends list, start or reply to IM's you received...

From the sound of it whichever system you could get cheaper would best suit your needs. The catch is while P35 is outdated, you can get P45 boards cheaper. So it really makes no sense to get P35 anymore. Memory speeds are not that important, memory timings can have a larger impact. Any kit of...

If you do make sure to test not just random writes, but also how well these drives do after their LBA table gets full of old data. I'd want to see one of these drives filled up then stuff deleted off, and see if it could maintain anything remotely near to that kind of performance. The impact on...

Wow.... Honestly though I didn't like a few of those setups, especially that 2,600sqft room with a bar. The main seats looked to be a little to far back and anyone using the bar would need some binoculars to use that small screen! If you are going to go through such lengths to build an indoor...

Um, the EP45-UD3P is DDR2. But everything else Rob said is correct, P45 supports both memory formats and each board design can choose one of them, but not both. This board will only support DDR2 memory. The FSB allowed depends on the processor used, but almost any CPU can reach 400FSB...

I'm guessing that might be the case. If they are always writing a single large installation image to the drive before every series of benchmarking, then fragmentation of the LBA is going to take significantly longer to occur. I'm more curious when they will get around to updating the ATA spec...

That was worth a read and a good laugh! It's so very true...