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  1. Rob Williams

    Has StarCraft II Become the Most Expensive Game Ever Developed?

    With the rip-roaring success (understatement) of the original StarCraft game, Blizzard wasn't about to walk into the development room for the sequel and not pony up some cold hard cash to make sure that it gets the best ratings possible and sells like there's no tomorrow. Well, it sure...
  2. Rob Williams

    Apple Offering Free Phone Bumpers to iPhone 4 Owners

    Well. I admit that I didn't see this coming. It should come as no surprise to anyone that some iPhone 4users have been battling with a problematic antenna, as the issue has been dominating the headlines ever since the phone's launch. There has been no shortage at all of speculation, with some...
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    Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5

    If "I didn't deem your shitty forum worthy of taking 30 seconds to sign up." is equivalent to "I'm a major pussy", then sure, that's understandable. But the fact of the matter is, the default name for those who haven't registered is "Unregistered", which means you chose to remain anonymous. So...
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    North Sea Jazz 2010 in Rotterdam, Holland

    Haha, any festival sponsored by Grolsch can't be so bad! Sounds good, although jazz isn't quite my thing. I think it would have been cool to see Earth, Wind and Fire live though, haha.
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    Thierry Henry leaves Barca for NY Red Bulls

    That's the weird thing... I haven't heard a single quote of what the team is paying him to join. I can't see it being quite as high as Beckham back in the day, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it upwards of £25 million, or there-abouts. I'll admit two things. By default, I tend to...
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    Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5

    First, there are few things quite as lame as out-right flaming someone while cowering under an anon tag. Second, your argument has a gaping hole in it. You are comparing quad-core overclocks to that of a six-core processor. Anyone with real overclocking experience would realize that as the...
  7. Rob Williams

    The Trouble With Multicore

    "Why take such a gamble? In short, because there wasn't much of an alternative." It doesn't get much truer than this. It's also something we talked about in brief a couple of months ago, thanks to an Ars Technica article that was published. I like this paragraph in particular from the IEEE...
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    July 2010 IEEE Spectrum

    That was a great article on Lego! I'm always in awe of people who both build incredible pieces of art with Lego and even those who make digital art out of it. As a whole, Lego is simple, but you can sure create some incredible things with it. Like this for example, which I can never forget...
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    July 2010 IEEE Spectrum

    That was a great article on Lego! I'm always in awe of people who both build incredible pieces of art with Lego and even those who make digital art out of it. As a whole, Lego is simple, but you can sure create some incredible things with it. Like this for example, which I can never forget...
  10. Rob Williams

    NZXT Sentry LXE Touch-Screen Fan Controller

    It's a cool accessory, that's for sure. I could picture many a gamer liking something like this on their desk, along with their blinged-out peripherals. It just looks good, and is nice to use. It's too bad I live in such a cramped area, else I'd pick one up :D
  11. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5

    It's true, $200 is a lot to ask for when the CPU costs about the same, or less. But, it is filled to the brim with features, so for those who <em>want</em> AMD, it's a great choice. Agreed, and even then the difference is going to be hard to see, except with synthetic benchmarks. I think...
  12. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5

    In the market for a dual-GPU capable AMD motherboard, and one that's capable of achieving some huge overclocks? Gigabyte has you covered, with its 890FXA-UD5. In addition to having native SATA 3.0 support, USB 3.0 support can also be found, along with 4 PCI-E x16 graphics slots, a near-perfect...
  13. Rob Williams

    NZXT Sentry LXE Touch-Screen Fan Controller

    I have to admit... I like fan controllers more for their looks than their function. But I do appreciate being able to ton down the fans either on a cool evening or when I want total silence.
  14. Rob Williams

    OCZ Enyo 128GB USB 3.0 Portable SSD

    You reminded me of an issue I experienced once with the Enyo. For some reason, as I was using it, I got that pop-up that told me I should plug the device into a 3.0 port instead, as I'd see higher performance... when it <em>was</em> plugged into a 3.0 port, and the performance verified that. I...
  15. Rob Williams

    Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 4000

    I'm not on a Windows machine at the moment, so I can't check, but under the advanced power configuration, I believe there are options to disable the mouse from being able to wake up the PC. I jump to conclusions that it's the mouse, at least, because unless a key is pressed, a keyboard should...
  16. Rob Williams

    Corsair Nova Series V128 128GB SSD

    Over the past six months, Corsair has been phasing out its older SSD line-up and replacing it with new series' with catchier names, such as Reactor, Force and Nova. The latter is what we're taking a look at here. The goal of the Nova series is to offer huge bang for the buck, and as we've seen...
  17. Rob Williams

    Thierry Henry leaves Barca for NY Red Bulls

    It's been rumored for a while that Thierry Henry was going to move from Barcelona to some MLS team, but man, now that it's happened, it's just a shocker. Henry has won pretty much anything there has been to win, yet he's moving to MLS... for what reason? It's not as though he's going to be...
  18. Rob Williams

    Problematic LAN ports?

    You got that right. Last night, I was doing some light benchmarking in Windows on this PC, and after I rebooted back into Linux, again, no LAN. So, I shut down for 30 seconds as usual, boot back up, nothing. Shut down for 1 minute, boot up, nothing. This time, it took being shut off for a...
  19. Rob Williams

    Problematic LAN ports?

    You got that right. Last night, I was doing some light benchmarking in Windows on this PC, and after I rebooted back into Linux, again, no LAN. So, I shut down for 30 seconds as usual, boot back up, nothing. Shut down for 1 minute, boot up, nothing. This time, it took being shut off for a...
  20. Rob Williams

    AVGN tackles game glitches

    I'd agree that the glitches are funny in the videos you linked to, Tharic, but man... the hosts are hard to listen to (imo). You keep all those URL's on hand or something, CaptainFluffy? Haha. I like the one of San Fran Rush... it's one of my favorite game series of all time. I did that...
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