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  1. Rob Williams

    More Details Surface on EVGA's Dual-Socket W555

    I don't know of a single chassis on the market that could fit this, but I'm sure EVGA will come out with a list (it will be small) when the W555 gets released. I was told that one chassis from Lian Li hold it, but on the enthusiast side, that's all I know. Some server chassis will be able to...
  2. Rob Williams

    Logitech Announces MK710 Wireless Desktop

    I have never had good experiences with Microsoft wireless products in general... I don't know what it is. That company is huge, yet it seems to have a rough time with its peripherals. Once in a while it will release something totally worth buying, but most often, gah. I had a notebook wireless...
  3. Rob Williams

    ASUS G51J 3D 15.6" Gaming Notebook

    As far as I'm concerned, laptop gaming will never compete with desktop gaming, and it's for obvious reasons. On desktops, we have sweet 24" and larger monitors, and our keyboards aren't physically attached to them. But as far as gaming laptops <em>do</em> go, when you need one, it's hard to go...
  4. Rob Williams

    ATI Radeon HD 5830 - AMD Completes its HD 5000 Line-up

    The EOL issue is a good one. That kind of schedule isn't far different from Intel's as I mentioned, but the one difference is, once Intel releases either a tick product, it doesn't wipe out the tock before it. For example, when Intel's Lynnfield came out, it didn't render Nehalem's EOL, but it...
  5. Rob Williams

    Cooler Master CM 690

    I am really having a hard time understanding the reason for your post. Our editor had issues that he pointed out, if you didn't, then great. It could be a revision, I'm not sure. Apparently the issue doesn't exist on all of the 690's that exist.
  6. Rob Williams

    WD Launches SiliconEdge Blue MLC and SiliconDrive N1x SLC SSDs

    Around this time 2009, Western Digital acquired SiliconSystems in their objective to enter the SSD storage market, shortly thereafter releasing their first SSDs. After their initial foray and some further time to integrate and develop SiliconSystems’s IP, Western Digital is back to release...
  7. Rob Williams

    Firefox Might Not Ever Hit a 25% Market Share

    If there has been just one Web browser to give Microsoft a bit of a scare, it's been Mozilla's Firefox. As soon as that browser hit its 1.0 version, it simply took off, and steadily climbed the charts month after month. Not surprisingly, it was around this exact same time that Internet...
  8. Rob Williams

    Is "Unlimited" Internet Ever Truly Unlimited?

    Even though consumers by this point in time should know better, there exists a relentless myth that when an Internet service provider tells you that its service is "Unlimited", it's true. But of course it's not true. You might begin to believe it given the fact you never seem to get calls...
  9. Rob Williams

    Something's Up with Valve's Portal...

    I have a confession to make. You know the game "Portal", from Valve? Yeah, that one. Well, I have never as much as loaded up the main screen. IThat's right... I've not only never beaten Portal, but I've never played it, either. But before you start throwing rocks, calm down, because current...
  10. Rob Williams

    Do you suck at cooking?

    I sure do, so I appreciated this link that I found at CNN: http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/techniques/cooking-questions-tips-00400000064986/ There's surprisingly a lot of good tips in there, regardless of whether you are baking something or cooking a meal. I am a major repeat offender...
  11. Rob Williams

    Thecus Releases "Zero-Crash" N4200 NAS

    Does anyone aside from me REALLY want one of these things? I don't have the need for SIX bays at the moment, but the sheer thought of being able to have so much storage on hand, and in such a secure device is rather exciting. I'm sure if I saw the aggregated cost of this NAS and the hard drives...
  12. Rob Williams

    Looking for LGA775 quad results with World of Warcraft.

    The E8400 uses a 333MHz front-side bus, a 9x multiplier and a memory divider that allows the memory to be an even 400MHz. Because you overclocked, that divider had to change, and since it was impossible to retain 400MHZ (it could be possible to go under), it went over. You can download a tool...
  13. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte 800 Facebook Fans Contest

    It's incredible that people would enter and then just not look. But in all fairness, Gigabyte should have also just messaged these people through the Facebook messaging system.
  14. Rob Williams

    Can You Tell the Difference Between 720p and 1080p?

    That wasn't the question ;-) No one expects true 1080p from cable providers at this point in time, and even then, the content is going to be rather scarce. Even on a lot of my HD channels, SD content plays most of the time, so it will be a while before we see 1080p truly supported. Plus, I am...
  15. Rob Williams

    1GB 5750 vs. 512MB 9800GTX+

    When thinking about upgrading your graphics card, the most important question comes down to what resolution you'll be running. The 9800 GTX+ still handles all of today's games with very respectible frame-rates at 1680x1050, so if that's what you're running, there's no sense in an upgrade...
  16. Rob Williams

    Looking for LGA775 quad results with World of Warcraft.

    You are a tad confused on your memory speeds... you're likely using DDR2-800, which is 400MHz. Honestly, unless the game is heavily multi-threaded, which I'm highly doubtful World of Warcraft is, moving to a quad-core isn't going to give you an ounce of difference. It might actually make the...
  17. Rob Williams

    ATI Radeon HD 5830 - AMD Completes its HD 5000 Line-up

    If AMD's train keeps rolling along like it has been for the past year and a half, I'd say that there very-well could be a new launch later this year. It'd be kind of unbelievable though, given that the current-gen cards kick ass, and the first model just came out this past September. I wonder if...
  18. Rob Williams

    More Details Surface on EVGA's Dual-Socket W555

    At CES held a couple of months ago, there were motherboard vendors all over showing off their latest wares, but there was no motherboard that grabbed as much attention as EVGA's W555. It's for good reason, too, given that it's a dual-socket enthusiast offering, to be equipped with...
  19. Rob Williams

    Thecus Releases "Zero-Crash" N4200 NAS

    Thecus has long been a provider of quality NAS boxes, some of which we've taken a look at in the past, but as far as full-featured offerings go, it's hard to compete with the N4200. It includes what Thecus calls its "6D" technology, which is based on the fact that the NAS box features a...
  20. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Announces Second-Generation ION

    At the current CeBIT conference going on in Hanover, Germany, NVIDIA has unveiled its next-generation ION platform. Though it's been called "ION 2" by the media for the past month or so, the name simply remains "ION". What the revamped graphics processor brings is improved performance...
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