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CompUSA was a joke, IMHO. You would go out of business too if you sold computer parts at prices more than 30-60% or higher still above online stores. They were selling ATI 2600XT cards for $280, and that was after 20% off while they were closing. It took them 40% off before they were selling AMD...

Hey Michael, I actually missed that you'd replied here! Not sure if your question was still relevant, but honestly 200MHz is not really worth that sort of investment compared to what you already have. And more than likely it is the CPU, not the motherboard holding you back, so even a $300+...

ATI 9600XT was all ya need to max out CS, and had enough oopmh to even handle HDR CS:S maps, although it did lag at higher resolutions on HDR maps during intense action with nades going off. Still, way more than enough for those CS, CS:S, CS:Z and all the other versions of CS that were released...

Well, I hate to say it but are you sure? :D http://techgage.com/article/corsair_voyager_gt_8gb/ There should be flash drives faster than the Corsair Voyager "GT" out there since that drive is over a year old, or even if not 33MB/s is already right up against the 35/36 cutoff.

I gave up on Pidgin after putting up with it for around a year or so. File transfers are borked for ICQ, and the program just loves to crash if given a chance. Most often when someone attempts to initiate a file transfer. And thanks to MSN pegging file transfer speeds so low, that just leaves...

Microsoft already has so much clout... will yahoo even make a difference? And SEC would probably approve it because neither Yahell or M$ actually manage to hold a candle compared to Google... they might hold a flashlight if they merged though, but still Google wouldn't need to begin sweating...

Exactly! However I quickly gave up trying to dig up some XS forum threads from late 2006 to prove it, so that's fine. Half the time I had just attributed it to new overclockers not knowing exactly what they were doing. I'd actually made that comment on ES chips before I noticed your screenie...

Yeah, Opera allows you to set how much you want stored in the main memory and how much to just dump in virtual memory. Usually it hovers around 220mb VM size after over a day or so of use, without being closed or any crashes. Which is fine with me since it's still very responsive and fast...

It's always cool to see these, but it's been tried so many times before... is everyone going to keep launching DIY notebooks every 8 months until one of them manages to take off? ;) ASUS C90 anyone?

It's a hair above budget territory these days. Even ASRock's P31 board is $85, only the lowest end P35 boards will be found for that price range. 975X hardware such as the Foxconn 975X7AB that doesn't support 1333FSB processors or PC2-8500 RAM at ALL is $100. You and I would think so, but my...

You don't use Raptors in laptops though. Laptop drives, especially the 1.8" sized units draw almost the same amount of power as a SSD that could replace them. I don't remember the site, but they found that their particular SSD ate slightly more power in their laptop. The laptop used one of those...

I'm not sure how you could be sitting so close to a 27+ inch monitor that you'd feel the heat wafting off it? Even 24"s get nice and toasty, mine certainly does, but I don't feel it radiating heat beyond a few inches infront of the display. Almost all the heat goes up through the top and back...

Rob, guess you were right in that it was definitely the hardware... :rolleyes:

Well, I was talking about 100% yields in terms of wafers. Technology is just not there yet. That was why IBM designed the extra core into the Cell chip, to increase yields. If you want to get extremely technical, even if a Intel/AMD Quad CPU "works" when fabbed it doesn't make it a 100% yield...

Heh, Dell refuted the WSJ claims that they were shuttering their XPS line. As it's been several days it appears WSJ actually got it wrong, interestingly.

The economy has seen better days, but no where has it turned into a black hole... at least not yet. We're not even in an official recession yet. This would have been big news to me, but browsing over to ClubIT they appear to be operating as normal. ClubIT had most of the best Black Friday...

The arguement I read, and can see some logic in (even if I may not agree with it) was that motherboard manufacturers didn't want to raise the cost of their motherboards, since ~$80 is now the basement budget bracket. Anything below $70 is typically horribly outdated or old hardware. I remember...

I would have thought the same, but going by what I was reading on the XS forums awhile back people were claiming higher overclocks with lowered multipliers. Best I could tell it was an issue with BIOS tuning, it took awhile for 965P to get up to par with overclocking Quads and some of the...

Some current thumb drives are badly limited already, any sort of speed boost would be welcome. USB 2.0 will never exceed 35-36 megabytes per second in real life usage, and since the sweet spot for thumbdrive prices is 4GB going on 8GB, you can imagine how it would be a problem! I am not sure...

Yeah, it would likely be more power efficient I'll grant, but I could toss together some pretty old parts to make them too. And server boards aren't very power efficient, or made for overclocking dual CPUs.:) Man, the answer is even more complicated than I thought. I quoted IBM's documention...