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Anyone that shops Frys should be familiar with their lossleader sales to get people into the stores... This July 4th they were selling Q9450's with a free, cheap ECS NVIDIA IGP motherboard for roughly $200... back then the Q9450 was about $330. When the Q6600 was $266 but only available for...

I've already had two, actually. Wanted it, then decided it was too expensive, then decided it really wasn't as expensive as it first appears... if you factor 25% off through Live's Cashback craziness. I have too much of an itch for one to turn it down... decent performance gains over Penryn...

Madstork... as I said my friend tried exactly that, he not only had to buy them regularly they did eventually kill his system. And as far as claiming warranty, I guarantee you will need to pay shipping the dead unit back to the company to do so. You won't see those cheap nonames offering paid...

I've not seen that issue to be honest. Usually if XFX doesn't have a model in stock they upgrade the person to whatever was the next rung up, etc. At least some others at least appear to do this. Even Dell did that with the NVIDIA GPU in my laptop when they finally figured out that was the...

Hey Rob, had a chance to read over any of the other reviews yet? Or still digging through that pile of work now that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel? ;) To keep it short TR and BT both seem to have no issues reaching a stable 200Mhz QPI, but anything beyond that seems to be akin...

Heh, I've seen that before, but the note about the CoolerMaster box in the background is new. The loss of airflow wouldn't have been enough to cause this. If anything, you should notice they used TWO 80mm fans... most PSUs don't. That PSU had a higher amount of airflow than most units. And...

Can't take the credit for it, just is stuff I pick up from reading everything... I only remember it well because it was exactly the reason AMD didn't fall off the end of the boat after Core 2 launched, it kept them competitive. When I was mentioning the server benches I was just speaking in...

Ran across this... puts some numbers to what I was feeling about prices. I'm going to wait until prices drop a bit and I can snag some deals... see how things look by Black Friday. X58 Boards and CPUs are already all over ebay, a few at close to retail prices.

You use a machete??? I just use a pair of small garden sheers. :D But yeah I totally agree with you, its about time. Companies get to save on costs, environment gets to be saved a bit, and most of all... Amazon is going to be saving on shipping costs doing this I'm sure. Sneaky.

No, it's a valid point. For all the commenty I've and other people say about lifetime warranties, it just goes to show it's a little more complicated then that. I remember XFX doesn't offer a cross-shipping warranty option at all, except in rare cases, for example. I came close to buying...

Well, I'm just trying to better understand the CPU and it's capabilities and limitations. So knowing a good deal about it, even if not the specific inner workings lets me do that. This just happens to be precisely the issue constraining Intel's server performance. :cool: Just to set the...

Nice find, I didn't think there was such a thing. :)

You have to pay for the advanced warranty option with EVGA.

Well, supposedly it is the only artificial heart that uses two pumps just like a real heart. So it could be possible... it would just require they configure the pumps to pulse/surge instead of maintain a steady flow. Then again thinking about it, I don't think they would want a "surge", unless...

Exactly what you said... it is not that 5-12 FPS really matters very much, but that there is a decrease at all isn't good. The motherboards cost a fortune, the CPUs cost a hefty amount, and most users are going to need to buy 3GB or 6GB DDR3 kits... for a CPU that is lackluster in games, doesn't...

Well, I know I'm being really negative tonight but hell... this is China. Just TODAY the Chinese government stopped spouting false statements and actually began seriously stomping out more melamine adulteration schemes for their dairy system, despite having been warned about it for 2 or 3 years...

That DRM is hurting their legit customers far more than any pirate is a completely alien concept for most game devs. DRM makes as much sense to game developers as several hundred trillion $ in credit default swaps made for AIG, and the rest of the financial banks. :D That is to say it makes...

I started to RMA it once before, but before I put my foot down eventually the wailing of the card slowly started to go away, so I changed my mind. For awhile I thought it had fixed itself, but then I played Crysis Warhead and suddenly it was back and even worse... but only for that game! I...

I'm not sure such a thing exists, unless you buy an annual subscription.

Thank you for the article! I was happy to see the gaming issue looked at in comparison to the QX9770 here, and using real world game settings. 2-5FPS is nothing a tiny OC on the GPU won't fix, but it is interesting to see Core i7 is being bottlenecked somewhere... Some of the graphs almost make...