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Well, for all the whining some people are doing (on other forums, news commentaries, etc) over this news.... can they forget that quickly that XP was far more than just Pro and Home? XP Starter XP Home XP Media Center Edition XP Professional XP Tablet Edition Considering W7 Starter and...

This is great. They finally got rid of Home Basic, and made the various editions all-inclusive. :) Professional includes all the features of Home Premium, Enterprise all the features of Professional, and Ultimate all the features of Enterprise. That was a major problem with Vista where more...

Just one suggestion: Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128359 CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072 PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703015 As far as cases go, I don't know of any good yet cheap...

You'll be happier you didn't :rolleyes:

Huh, I'll be.... I picked up a new modem capable of RoadRunner Turbo, and it never occured to me to try and log in. Time Warner has made it a longstanding policy to lock users completely out of their modems and the last two would only display a page informing you access was denied. This new one...

It would be nice if they did do away with Home Basic. Foisting that limited OS onto users that don't know what the differences are between it and Home Premium isn't going to do MS any favors in the PR department. If I see a laptop with Home Basic on it I recommend against it... although I...

The only real reason I saw to delay the transition is a few million people requested $40 conversion box coupons and never got them, because the government's funds for them ran out roughly around Q3 2008. So quite a few people have requested but never received their coupons because the government...

While I am curious as well, in theory the processor should not be the bottleneck because the RAID card handles the additional load I believe. And the SATA bus shouldn't matter because each drive has its own cable direct to the RAID card... I wonder if it is the northbridge or southbridge...

I bet I could come awefuly close to 1kW with just another GTX 260... if I had two GTX 280's or 285's then I'm sure I could hit 1kW, don't need Quad SLI for that! Oye, your P3 power meter decided to leave you hanging with a low-end Intel CPU in your machine at the time? Guess it was a good a...

Just a question: does this rely on CPU overhead or is the encryption handled purely within the drive?

The next six months... egads. This fall (or soon after) will see: One, two, or possibly three more rounds Intel SSD price cuts New Intel SSDs based off 34nm chips (versus current 55nm) GT300, supposedly a departure from the original G80 design with GDDR5 Intel Westmere "32nm Nehalem"...

Ah, but consider this. Most netbooks use tiny 3 or 4 cell batteries... a 12" chassis could hold a normal 6-8 cell battery. Hell, 14" should be enough for a 9-12cell battery, imagine multipling that 3 or 4 hours battery life by a factor of three. :) Although I confess I might be biased, I run my...

Nah, I just blame it on me liking to nitpick details and generally showing off. Or maybe my dislike of Vista. It's probably a few of those. :p Windows 7 is just working, and working quickly. Hard to argue with that. :) Even the couple bugs I've submitted feedback on were addressed already or...

It's just an end-all-be-all watercooling setup! 1/2ID tubing, triple radiator, etc... the temps might be good, but it didn't help much with pushing those clocks up! 700W was possible with injudicious use of overclocking to the razer's edge, both the Q6600 and GTX 260... although at stock...

The X25-E cuts are even more dramatic, I'm seeing those for $425 with Froogle. Keep in mind these drives hit shelves in October... that was four months ago. They have seen $100 price cuts every 2 months for the X25-M, and a bit more for the X25-E. I can't wait to see if the trend continues...

Yeah, but almost every program or application seemed to take a performance hit, which is just odd. That RAID controller is the best I know of, 1.2GHz dualcore, high I/O model from Intel... the only thing left would be to double the 256MB cache to 512MB but that wouldn't of changed much in the...

I was more impressed with the 2TB WD drive until I read that it was only a 5400RPM unit. That's nice performance from a 5400RPM disk, but I'll keep waiting for a 7200RPM model to see what it can really do. Bricking drives issue across most of their .11 model line + the firmware fix that...

The source link explains it better than I could. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx Also, I think I should mention Intel price cut their SSD's again today. Newegg is selling the X25-M for $399 shipped. :cool:

Generally under 60c at load unless it's hot indoors, it remains somewhere in the mid 30's at idle. I'd check right now except it is overclocked and running Folding@home. I expected a bit more overclocking room, but considering just how extremely "binned" GPUs are these days with three to four...

I disagree. At worst a 1.6GHz Atom is as good as an 800Mhz Pentium M, at best it is nearly clock for clock equal with a Pentium M. Link And if VIA has anything to show, there is plenty of room for a better performing Atom Link. Believe it or not single-core Celerons are still sold today in...