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This news can be filed under "rumor", because nothing is verified, but the word that's spreading like wildfire is that NVIDIA's first Fermi-based graphics cards are going to be delayed until March. As you may recall, Fermi was originally supposed to launch late this year, but was rumored to have...

That's quite the conspiracy theory, and I'm not too confident that it's true. As far as I'm aware, the UK leads the world in serveillance already, so I'm not quite sure how much more "spying" they'd need to do, or what good it would do. The record industry has always been hugely vocal about...

Yesterday, Linux Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, turned 40. While birthdays for the most part aren't too important for someone other than whose birthday it is, this one is special for a couple of reasons. It was 19 years ago that Linus took all of his Christmas and birthday money, and...

This thread has gone a little bit further than my brain can handle, but where CPU lifespans are concerned, I am not quite sure heat is a major reason for failure. Someone at Intel once told me that overclocking has a far greater life-threatening effect on CPUs than heat does, so they pretty much...

Over the past couple of years, media companies have been battling piracy in many different ways, but at the end of the day, their measures all but fail, and prove to be nothing more than an inconvenience to those who ran into the temporary roadblock. Despite draconian measures like DRM, sales...

To be honest, Bill was rather clear that he wasn't referring to extreme overclockers, but rather those regular consumers who can achieve a completely stable, yet high, overclock on a mid-range motherboard. Extreme overclockers are an aside to this... I don't think a motherboard vendor who...

I know absolutely nothing about receivers, unfortunately, but I agree with Bill's logic. Sony has never been known for its poor quality, and if that's what he's used to, that receiver looks perfect.

Yes, when used properly, GPUs are incredibly fast. There's a reason that the GPU client for Folding@home is far, far, far faster than the CPU client.

I'm not a good measure for this, since I seem to look for different things than others, but I'd go with Gigabyte's, because I appreciate the extra functionality (S-ATA and USB-wise) and don't truly care about the 3.0 technologies at this point in time. But aside from these two, I'd pick up...

I'd cringe if I put a product through such torture! It's great to see that it lives up to its name.

Wikipedia: "Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ." I don't need a special day to realize that I should be spending time with family, or renewing old friendships. I actively do that all year long.

I am not religious, and it's a religious holiday ;-)

It goes without saying that data security is important, because let's face it... it's not unusual for a hard drive to crash. But what about taking measures to prevent a drive from dying from things other than a simple crash, such as a fire, flood, or receiving a good beating? After tackling...

I don't celebrate Christmas, but hope everyone enjoys their holiday and break from work :)

That is indeed a nice one! I have a "To Do" list in my taskbar that I use for somewhat of the same thing, but Sticky Notes is far superior for those who like to have the notes right on the desktop all the time. I don't see where I did that, but it would be kind of difficult given that it's no...

Thanks for the heads-up! We'll be sure to get one of the F3 drives in and put it to the test as soon as possible :)

Correct, the non-PRO does not feature the PLX chip. It's not "good", but I still don't know whether it's bad, either. Soon, I'll be getting in S-ATA and USB 3.0 devices in order to test things out, but as it stands, I really don't think the PLX chip is going to make a major difference in the...

Apologies for my mistake... I cannot believe I overlooked that. Thanks to Kougar for noticing it. Don't make building a new rig sound like a bad thing! Whatever you'll upgrade to will be a huge improvement over what you're using now. You certainly won't be looking back ;-)

You contradicted me, but it's a good thing, because I completely overlooked that. For whatever reason, I read "Intel Quad Core Extreme Edition", and with that, I knew that everything underneath it would work fine. That board doesn't actually state Core 2 support at all (of which Pentium E5200 is...