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  1. Rob Williams

    USB 3.0: Shaking Up the Status Quo

    Hmm, interesting article. I'm kind of surprised that it mentions that some motherboards don't adhere to the proper SSC implementation, because I haven't heard of any issues where people tried to use a USB 3.0 device in their PC, but couldn't. It also mentions that even an add-in card won't solve...
  2. Rob Williams

    Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest?

    Haha, that's some browser passion, right there :D I agree with you 100% that not everyone is going to love the same browser, and while Opera offers a bucketload of good things, other browsers offer a lot of good things as well. For me, I choose Chrome just because its lightweight and fairly...
  3. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte's P55A-UD7 - The Most Packed P55 Board?

    Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not quite sure I should settle on just the specs page since it can be wrong on occasion, so I'll shoot Gigabyte an e-mail and get to the bottom of it. Good eye :D
  4. Rob Williams

    OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCI Express SSD

    I'll let Kougar reply to your other points, but for this one, it's not "simulated" per se, but it's hands off. We wrote a Windows batch script that has all of the commands in it that launch one thing after another. This is the only way we could achieve reliable performance data since it executes...
  5. Rob Williams

    Sharing Your Thunderbird Profiles Between PCs and OSes

    If you run multiple computers or different operating systems on the same PC and want access to your email without switching computers or rebooting into a different OS, Thunderbird has the answer. Here's a quick guide to setting up different Thunderbird clients to access the same profile, no...
  6. Rob Williams

    Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest?

    For interest's sake, I decided to check out browser usage shares for readers of our website, and over the course of the past 30 days, those were... Mozilla Firefox - 46.57% Internet Explorer - 23.41% Google Chrome - 19.48% Opera - 5.13% Apple Safari - 4.22% The rest is divided amongs...
  7. Rob Williams

    Sonic Adventure on XBLA!

    I always try to debate with myself whether I liked the SNES or Dreamcast more, but I think in the end, I lean more towards the latter. I don't even know if I can explain it. At the time of its release, it just excited me a LOT, and in particular is was Sonic Adventure that first got me drooling...
  8. Rob Williams

    Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest?

    No offense, but you sound like Opera PR. Most Opera fans I've come across have been rather passionate about their browser of choice, though, and there's nothing really wrong with that. There's no browser I could rave about in the same manner, because I find brutal faults with all of them...
  9. Rob Williams

    How Did Big Tech Companies Get Their Names?

    The last one is correct :P
  10. Rob Williams

    How Did Big Tech Companies Get Their Names?

    The problem with promotional videos and the like is that even half of the employees don't pronounce "ASUS" properly. And while it's hard to portray pronunciations through text, but the proper way to say it is: Ah-suez "Ah" is like a conversational "Ahh!" and "suez" sounds just like it looks...
  11. Rob Williams

    OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCI Express SSD

    I am not the one to answer this since Kougar is the SSD man, but I'd have to imagine that SSDs would greatly improve the performance of multiboxing because of the fast read speeds and low latencies. I can't state that for sure, though, and while I also play Lineage 2, I don't run it on an SSD...
  12. Rob Williams

    Too TRIM? When SSD Data Recovery is Impossible

    Thermite is so much prettier, though! Of course, you risk serious damage to yourself if you're not careful, so I might vote for your second idea as well :D
  13. Rob Williams

    Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest?

    I'm a Chrome user as well, having moved from Firefox a couple of months ago after being tired with the lack of performance and stability. Chrome is lightweight, and fast. It's far from perfect, but it's about as perfect as it gets for me. One thing I found odd during testing is that Opera is...
  14. Rob Williams

    Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest?

    Your PC might be fast, but what about your Web browser? That's right... Web browser. It might seem mundane at first, but there can be stark performance differences between one browser and the next, and after pitting the five most popular options on the market - in both stable and nightly formats...
  15. Rob Williams

    Sonic Adventure on XBLA!

    Enough said, I'm stoked! Been wanting to hook up my Dreamcast, but lack of free room doesn't assist me in that. This is the next best thing :D http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/sonicadventurexbla/
  16. Rob Williams

    How Did Big Tech Companies Get Their Names?

    If fifteen years ago you were to say to someone, "I'll just Google it.", they might have that you were starting to lose it. The same could be said about many other companies, like Yahoo!, where people might actually think you are a "yahoo". Despite the unusual names, it's clear that neither...
  17. Rob Williams

    Got an issue

    Internet bandwidth and latencies have nothing to do with each other, which is the reason something like that happens. It's the same on the PC, where lots of memory might give better bandwidth, but the latencies aren't going to improve. It could also depend on the PC also, and what's running in...
  18. Rob Williams

    Got an issue

    Haha, that picture made me LOL for real after I read the first post. If that's all the problem was, then great. Better that than something like a NIC dying or something else. Let us know if things keep up.
  19. Rob Williams

    Halo Reach

    ... so, who has it, and how is it? I paid 0 attention to this one up until launch, so I know almost nothing about it. I didn't realize it was a proper Halo sequel, so I feel like an idiot. Might have to pick it up soon depending on whether it's good or not.
  20. Rob Williams

    Intel Shows Off Server-Driven Game Ray Tracing

    For many years, some companies - namely Intel - have been promoting the idea of using ray tracing techniques in our games. At the same time, there are few gamers opposed to the idea, since the effect could result in increased graphical detail, thanks in part to more realistic shadows...
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