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  1. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Interviews Battlefield 3 and Borderlands 2 Devs at PAX

    To be honest, this to me might be the first game since Crysis that would cause me to want to go dual-GPU. I am going to try the game with just one 580, but if there is any hint of lag, I'll toss a second one in. This is one of the few games that truly looks to deserve a kick-ass GPU setup to...
  2. Rob Williams

    TG needs to get ahold of one of these bad boys.

    The PCB on that thing... amazing. We're in the process of upgrading our GPU test suite... not taking in other GPUs at the moment until I get that done and our current fleet re-benched :D
  3. Rob Williams

    Microsoft to Natively Support USB 3.0 in Windows 8

    Because the two Thunderbolt peripherals available at the moment have wait times, it means that the interface is a "hit"? I refuse to believe that the demand for a $1,000 NAS box is so strong that it's leading to shortages. If there are shortages it's because not enough are being made. Of...
  4. Rob Williams

    Arsenal offers fans free ticket to away game

    Ahh, you got me there :(
  5. Rob Williams

    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    No kidding! I Googled for these different chipsets and have surmised that Marvell itself doesn't even list them on its website. To update a driver you have to take a chance with newer versions that float around the Web - but there's no telling if it's going to work ideally for you or not, since...
  6. Rob Williams

    GameStop Removing OnLive Coupons Deus Ex: HR Boxes

    E-mail or not though, this information would have gotten out over time, and the backlash could have been even worse. OnLive posted on its blog before the launch that the coupons were meant to be in there, so after some time, thousands of gamers or more would have seen something a bit strange...
  7. Rob Williams

    Is Focusing on Browser Performance Important?

    This is the thinking I've had for a while. In your example, you mention that differences could be noticeable if dealing with 100 pages, but that's not a typical workload, nor do most people run more than a couple of tabs at once (I guess DarkStarr is a major exception). At the point where...
  8. Rob Williams

    Borderlands Crashing

    In addition to what Kougar recommended, I also had another thought come to my mind. It might be worth trying to move your entire Borderlands saved game folder to another place, in order to let the game recreate it. I almost wonder if there is a problem with your profile somehow, because I...
  9. Rob Williams

    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    I can't believe I forgot to give Robert (Kougar) a shout-out in the article; apologies man! Robert endured a barrage of questions from me over the course of literally eight hours or so sometime last week in order to make sure we had things straight for this article, so kudos for that :D It's...
  10. Rob Williams

    Arsenal offers fans free ticket to away game

    To think - you're probably the first person to ever come up with that joke! :rolleyes:
  11. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Interviews Battlefield 3 and Borderlands 2 Devs at PAX

    At PAX Prime 2011, which occurred this past weekend, some folks at NVIDIA managed to take the time to peruse the games on display and scored a couple of interviews with people currently working on some of the most anticipated games in the coming year. Most notably, Patrick Liu from DICE was able...
  12. Rob Williams

    Is Focusing on Browser Performance Important?

    Whenever a new version of a Web browser is released, something sure to be listed in the release notes will have to do with performance. It could be anything from a more optimized JavaScript engine to having a smaller memory footprint. All in all, any performance increase is appreciated, but I do...
  13. Rob Williams

    Need to support 4 monitors...

    Sapphire said that it is possible to run 4 displays off of one single FleX card, so I'd recommend this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102924 Or this, if gaming is not on the radar: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102938
  14. Rob Williams

    Corsair H80 Self-Contained Liquid CPU Cooler Review

    When we created this test suite, we had to work with what we had. In a future iteration, should we start over from scratch, we'll be sure to have a hotter CPU in there to cool. I am still confident in our results, however, as Optix mentions, there is still good scaling going on. If all CPU...
  15. Rob Williams

    Arsenal offers fans free ticket to away game

    It's not often that you see something like this happen. On Sunday, Arsenal experienced a humiliating defeat to Manchester United, and as a gunner, I can't even bring myself to repeat the score. However, the loss was so ridiculous that Arsenal is now offering the 3,000 fans that made the trip up...
  16. Rob Williams

    GameStop Apologies for Deus Ex / OnLive Issue with Free Gift Card

    Last week, it became public that GameStop had been removing OnLive coupons from the boxes of the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and given the company's admission to this on its Facebook page, it seemed as though the initial public backlash did nothing to clue the company into its...
  17. Rob Williams

    Need to support 4 monitors...

    If the monitors support DisplayPort, or at least two of them, then things should be as easy as "upgrading" to an HD 6870. With that card you could use 2 x DisplayPort and 2 x DVI and be good to go. I am checking with Sapphire to see if its FleX cards can support 4 with only a single DisplayPort...
  18. Rob Williams

    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    Whoops, I did say that I'd put PCMark 7 break-down scores here, didn't I? AMD A75 HDD Suite: 5283 Windows Defender: 5.51 MB/s Importing Pictures: 28.05 MB/s Video Editing: 23.17 MB/s Windows Media Center: 8.24 MB/s Adding Music: 1.40 MB/s Starting Applications...
  19. Rob Williams

    Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers

    With newer SSDs now coming well within 10% of maxing out a SATA 3.0 port, it's important to make sure that your motherboard is properly equipped to handle such drives if planning to buy one. In our testing, while AMD's and Intel's solutions offered superb performance, Marvell's leaved a bit (or...
  20. Rob Williams

    Borderlands Crashing

    I am not certain, but one of these cracks might work: http://www.megagames.com/fixes/borderlands-v141-all (Borderlands v1.4.1 All No-DVD [Reloaded]) I've used this site for over 10 years for game cracks and have never gotten a virus or anything else like that from them.
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