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  1. Rob Williams

    AMD vs. NVIDIA: Anti-Aliasing in Batman: Arkham Asylum

    This was discussed in a meeting I had with NVIDIA the other day, and it took every opportunity to defend itself and set the record straight. As far as it's concerned, the company did nothing wrong, and in the end, it's merely ATI who isn't doing enough to support things like AA on its own card...
  2. Rob Williams

    Are Girls Bigger Hardcore Gamers than Men?

    I'm aware of that... I just can't look at an MMO and consider it to be "hardcore", in the same sense that an FPS is hardcore. If you are to play a game like Unreal Tournament III online, you can't simply dilly dally... you HAVE to focus. I don't know any MMO that requires you become so attuned...
  3. Rob Williams

    Windows 7 ... what do you like, or not & why ... or do you care?

    Haha... I don't consider this to be a problem whatsoever. The reason XP was on a CD is because the entire ISO was near 600MB. Vista changed things up, and I believe it was 3.2GB. The x64 version of Windows 7 is 3.0GB. If the OS was delivered on a CD, it would mean it would have to be split...
  4. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte Shows Off its Graphics Card Line-up

    GF100 news will be coming soon.
  5. Rob Williams

    Intel's Initial Larrabee Discrete Graphics Card Canceled

    I agree... more competition would be nice. From what I assume, this won't be the last of Larrabee. It will just be a while before Intel can put together a powerful enough product that has a chance of becoming real competition.
  6. Rob Williams

    old LGA775 CPU upgrade?

    Depends on what you want to do with it, really. The Q8200 is a fantastic CPU, it goes without saying, but you have to decide whether you want a longer life, which you'd get with a newer CPU. For working, I have come to enjoy hyperthreading quite a bit, and I had that my PC here doesn't even have...
  7. Rob Williams

    EVGA's W555 Dual-Socket Motherboard Redefines High-End

    It won't fit in most full-towers, either. It will require a very specific chassis. Apparently Lian Li makes a single chassis that can contain this beast. EVGA mentioned another company also, but I can't remember the name (it was completely new to me). You could also just use a special server...
  8. Rob Williams

    The new build ...

    That's rather incredible to me... both the idle and load. I could only dream about 71°C with such a major overclock. Sorry it took me so long to respond back in here. How's the system been running since your last post? The last couple of pictures look fantastic... I'm a little jealous when...
  9. Rob Williams

    P6X58D/H50 Case

    I am not sure how that's possible. There's nothing special about the P6X58D form-factor-wise, and the 932 is a full-tower that could handle an eATX board. Surely it will accept the P6X58D (ATX) without an issue. It's unfortunate that so much bad press around OCZ's power supplies is floating...
  10. Rob Williams

    VMware Fusion 3 - Windows on the Mac Made Easy

    We'll get Parallels 5 in for sure, so that we can have a more fair comparison. Both Fusion 3 and Parallels 5 came out at about the same time, so the latter might pack in some surprises.
  11. Rob Williams

    CES 2010: AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs

    I think that graphing trick is ridiculous, and it's used all too often. It's easier to spot with so much of it out there, though. Either way, I did hope the performance would be far improved, but the HD 5870 is still looking to be one heck of a mobile GPU, especially from what I saw in AMD's suite.
  12. Rob Williams

    ATI's Radeon HD 5670 - DirectX 11 for $100

    Whoops, fixed. Whenever I go to publish a new article, I just make up some make-shift title right off the bat to have something, and then I refine it later on. I forgot to fix it before I posted this :S
  13. Rob Williams

    Why Does Ron Jeremy Hate Technology?

    Arguably, one of the most famous people to ever star in a pornographic movie isn't someone you're likely to immediately think of. Sure, there's the Jesse Jane's and the Jenna Jameson's, but it seems no matter how old you are, and regardless of whether you watch such films yourself, you've likely...
  14. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte Shows Off its Graphics Card Line-up

    At last week's CES, I met up with our good friends at Gigabyte to see all of what was new from the company for Q1, and as you could expect, there were many, many motherboards, and likewise, many graphics cards. I'll focus on the GPU side of things here, and as you can see below, the company had...
  15. Rob Williams

    Who Knew Upgrading a GPU Was So Easy?

    I'm going to jump to conclusions like usual and assume that most people visiting our site know how to install a graphics card. In fact, I'm sure most know how to build a computer from scratch. Often considered to be difficult by the layman, building a PC is actually quite simple. I like to...
  16. Rob Williams

    ATI's Radeon HD 5670 - DirectX 11 for $100

    AMD has delivered a couple of firsts over the past few months, and it's keeping the tradition going with its release of the market's first $100 DirectX 11-capable graphics card. Despite its budget status, the HD 5670 retains the HD 5000-series' impressive power consumption and low idle...
  17. Rob Williams

    OCZ Teases Portable USB 3.0 Solid-State Drive

    As I have mentioned in our news a couple of times over the past week, USB 3.0 is a fast-growing technology, and the vast number of equipped products either on the show floor or in one of the many hotel suites around Vegas proved to me that we should all be expecting a quick upswing of adoption...
  18. Rob Williams

    VMware Fusion 3 - Windows on the Mac Made Easy

    Own a Mac, but require the use of Windows from time to time? With today's robust virtualization solutions, there are far better alternatives than rebooting with Bootcamp or using emulation. VMware's Fusion 3 is one of these, and we put it to the test to see whether or not it's worth its $80...
  19. Rob Williams

    Thermaltake Shows Off USB 3.0 BlacX Hard Drive Dock

    Of little surprise I'm sure, USB 3.0 devices were all over CES this year. So much so, that it was just plain difficult to keep track of them all. You can expect us to be posting reviews of many of them in the months to come, from flash-based drives to external enclosures, as there's going to be...
  20. Rob Williams

    OCZ Shows Off Modular PCI-E Solid-State Disk, Z-Drive p88

    Mentioning the name "OCZ" a couple of years ago would have spawned thoughts of the many different kits of memory that the company offered. Today, the company's major focus has shifted towards SSDs, and this was evident by the fact that not a single memory module was on display at its Aria suite...
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