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  1. Kougar

    Blu-ray Players Up In Price With HD DVD Gone

    Hehe, it happens to the best of us! :) I was going to comment that I just noticed BD-PS301 players in both of the local price clubs here... selling for $380, which is below the $399 price given on the sheet or the listing of $403 too. Some good points made though, the cost of BD movies is...
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    NVIDIA 9800GTX and GX2 Get Greenlight

    GX2 has the GTS core/shader count, but clocked at normal 8800GT speeds. So effectively it is a pair of underclocked 8800GTS cards in SLI... Was looking at the latest round of leaked benches here: http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0803/1241871.html Honestly for the extra $100...
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    Windows 7 Launch Confirmed for 2010

    Well, from the sound of things I would say you were in the minority b1lk1. :) I've used Vista for over six months, and a great deal has been improved. But the performance penalty is honestly horrendus, and most annoying was any sort of file transferring is still below XP levels even after SP1...
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    Q9300 is available

    Intel's MSRP for the Q9300 is actually $266. TD is enjoying the scarcity, as most retailers are wont to do I guess. IMO the extra whopping 12mb cache is uneeded. There was amazingly little difference going from 4mb to 2mb with Conroe, usually 10 % give or take according to the program used...
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    Logitech Z Cinema Speaker System

    Is there a PX you use? I found my 5.1 Logitech sound system in the return/discount wall at the local one... you've probably noticed the prices (even after 25% & 50% markoffs) are still above Newegg prices. :rolleyes: But very occasionally there is a good buy... Box and styrofoam were pretty...
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    NVIDIA 9800GTX and GX2 Get Greenlight

    Reason I heard was to much heat... And G92 is definitely hotter than RV670. Only other reason I could think of is that single-PCB dual-GPU designs tend to be costlier to build due to PCB complexity, but I would bet the heat was the real reason. G92 GTS cores still don't run cool with those...
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    Just ordered the 2408WFP...

    Aye... if you game at all or regularly use the PC the monitor should get most of the budget IMO. A good monitor will save your eyes, save on the headaches, and last 3 years or more before you have a need to even consider an upgrade again. I use the old 2407WFP (Non HC version) and overall I...
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    NVIDIA Uses Undisclosed Trick to Improve 9600 GT Performance

    That is just it. They could simply raise the clockspeed. Why tie in clockspeed to the PCIe bus and lie about the crystal frequency, when they could simply set a higher arbitrary clockspeed to begin with and be done with it. Not to mention then be able to advertise the higher clockspeeds, many...
  9. Kougar

    NVIDIA Uses Undisclosed Trick to Improve 9600 GT Performance

    Well, here are the problems I see with it. Users are going to overclock their GPUs the same ways they always have... but since almost every program does NOT display the actual clocks they will find that their overclocking goes unstable at much lower overclocks than normal, and not have any...
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    Cooler Master Cosmos S

    :D I really like this case... but the price is a killer! For the exact price I can buy many of the MountainMod cases or order a custom build case from them... And they could have at least included a second drive cage for that price! Perhaps if they offer another massive MIR like they did for...
  11. Kougar

    NVIDIA Uses Undisclosed Trick to Improve 9600 GT Performance

    Not happy at all about this. Simply raising the PCIe bus frequency has no performance improvement, so there was no reason to tie in GPU clocks to the PCIe bus frequency... especially when everything from SATA drives to the Gbit ethernet uses the PCIe bus. I'd bet anything there is going to...
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