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Dell has already done it. Their Latitude E6400 offers the G4500XHD or whatever it's called, there's about a dozen varients on that IGP already. But that's the low end... any sort of upgrade on the E6400 and they switch to an NVIDIA IGP chipset, one which supports Hybrid SLI. This was exactly...

I'm sure there's a markup in them because they're enthusiast boards, but the bigger question is how much of a different between flagship X58 boards like the DQ6, and the price/performance models like the DS4. Frankly, if the DS4 is rumored to be over $400, then the DQ6 would have to cost...

Nope, generally certain models of Xeons will be identical to models found on the desktop space. There are some Xeons like Dunnington that are unique (and priced accordingly), but that's about it. This is mostly an issue only with AMD Opterons... some Opterons are built for 2 socket...

Depends what you want most. Performance, or silence, or both with a fan controller? Merlin's suggestion with the Noctua P12 fans are absolutely silent and do not require a controller whatsoever. To stay silent they don't push huge amounts of air though. Thumper's suggestion of the...

You might be missing my point. If you have drives in RAID, then the drive controller on your motherboard must be set in RAID mode. If this is the case, you will not get SMART data off any drives plugged into the chipset RAID controlled ports. There's nothing "wrong" with using those drives in...

Krazy K, you won't get SMART info if your drives are in RAID... you'd need an advanced RAID controller card to get that feature.

So can someone make sense of this and tell me what soldier is used on GT200 GPUs? Frankly, I'm still more ticked off about the number of power components NVIDIA hacks off the GTX 260. It looked like a full third of the power delivery system has been removed, verses the GTX 280. Which would...

Eh, I think it was PCMech (or someone else) that just ran an article about *nix elitism. Apparently the leetness of using Linux has gone to a few users heads from the sound of it, so they have to put down anything that average guys can actually use. They don't care if it's real linux or not...

Honestly, I can't imagine them having a FAB of their own... it's simply to exorbitantly expensive to have one anymore, it's why the number of FABs shrank from numbering in the several hundred to just a few dozen within the last decade. And I gotta agree, I don't care that they outsource their...

It no longer astonishes me... this has been Best Buy's modus operandi for many years. Only difference is this time one of the managers simply decided to get creative about how he went about cheating out customers to protect that bottom line to either save his neck, make himself look good, or...

These cards populate Fry's and many other brick&mortar stores too. I even handled one when Fry's stocked them just after launch... and I really have to say Diamond had the worst job as far as packaging goes. The box was paper-thin cardboard, just the act of Fry's wrapping a plastic strap...

That is rather odd, Intel did one of those hybrid AlCu coolers, just like a Zalman aluminum cooler. Most of it is aluminum with a few areas of copper. Regardless, those are thin fins that should conduct and dissipate heat significantly better than the extruded, huge- fin design of the current...

Only for AMD.... 2.6GHz used to be the typical overclock ceiling for AMD CPUs... now it is 3-3.2GHz. Anything higher is extreme. 3-3.2GHz is the range most Intel OCers are happy with for basic use, and it's easy as pie to achieve for any CPU, especially for those that aren't hardcore OCers.

Wow. Thought about phoning them up and asking for a special benching version? Or at least filing a complaint, that someone somewhere might happen to take notice? That is really absurd changing your GPU causes that, I have no idea why it would either. I wonder if it does the same for Spore?

Yeah, this is exactly why I avoid Best Buy. Stories like this are as common as grass, and BB always tries to appease with small gift cards to make people that fight it out go away instead of continue to deal with the hassle. Although usually with laptops they tend to claim it's "in transit"...

The biggest difference between the various RAID levels is price, capacity, and redundancy. And to some measure performance, but that's inconsequential for true RAID purposes. Since you said you know mirroring... RAIDing two drives in RAID 1 means you need four drives, right. So, RAIDing two...

That's about as bleeding edge a setup as you can build. ;) My suggestion is if you are going to buy a $100+ RAID card, you might as well buy one that has some headroom/expandability in it. 2 ports is not worth it... the model with 4 SATA ports costs only an extra ~$30. All in all...

Comcast and Time Warner have both been really going after the fiber to the node thing. However TWC's "trick" is to only offer 20Mbps for "small" file downloads... download anything beyond a certain file size (somewhere around or below 100MB), where you actually WANT that kind of speed and...

How many users are going to actually need to install the game 5 or more times on the first week of the game's launch? Just think about what they are trying to measure here. So EA's "sample data" is about the lamest excuse I can remember hearing... how about they provide some actual data 6, 9...

XP was indeed slower... I eventually, reluctantly, migrated from 98se to XP using the same machine, and it did take longer to load and get up and running. But it wasn't that bad, considering it was a 1Ghz Thunderbird AMD system. And after realizing that strange prorgam crashes and BSODs did...