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A quick format is all that's needed for most people, regardless of whether the drive is new. A full-fledged format isn't going to render data unrecoverable, which is a problem if that's what you're going for. There's not going to be a performance hit, either, since regardless of file system, the...

I'm not a fan (pun also intended). Sure, it's a cool concept, but $300 for a fan? Especially a fan with such an ugly base? I'll take a bladed fan, thanks.

Haha, after reading that other rant, I never expected to see a thread like this merely a week later ;-) I am not familiar with water-cooling at all, so I can't very-well recommend anything, but that HK 3.0 looks to be a clear winner. I need to commend whoever made those graphs as well... they...

In that case, if anything did happen, I'd assume the drive would be formatted for a lower capacity, and just render the extra space gone. When I found out our server drive died, our host told us we needed an identical drive, so perhaps it does have to be identical. Kougar would know the answer...

You make a good point, and I guess I didn't consider that the reason both the DS and Wii are so successful boils down to the overall cost of ownership (although the Wii controllers are expensive as heck with both pieces). Same. I bought a Wii a few weeks after it came out, played it for a bit...

When Conan describes girls in a restaurant "touching each other", I busted out in laughter. I can only imagine what was going through Ajay's head, because I'm sure this kind of humor isn't what he deals with often.

PSU calculators in the past were horribly inaccurate, but I put my current hardware configuration through this one and the result was 383W, so it seems fairly realistic. What I find ironic is that a calculator like this is likely to hurt Thermaltake sales more than help. I am running a fairly...

Are you comparing the HD 5770 to another HD 5000 card? It should be compared directly with the HD 4870, since for the most part, it's the most comparable from a specs standpoint. The HD 5770 is slower because of the memory bus. Downgrading from 256-bit to 128-bit makes a rather significant...

From our front-page news:I'm a man who does not enjoy his commercials. Like the ads on our site, I understand why commercials, online of off, are necessary, but the truly good commercials are far too rare. Most are boring, repetitive, and grow old fast. There are special occasions when that's...

From our front-page news: One of the hottest TV shows of the season, and even previous TV seasons, is Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy. I admit that I personally thought the episodes so far this season have been mediocre at best (and I'm a huge FG fan), but it seems like I'm one of the few who feel...

From our front-page news: The harsh economy is making it harder than ever for companies to post profits, but Intel is one of the rarer exceptions. It isn't only publishing impressive revenue reports, but is even exceeding its own expectations. So much so, that with the posted revenue of $9.4...

From our front-page news: If you've ever wanted to try the acclaimed indie hit, "World of Goo", the time to do so is now. To help celebrate the game's first birthday, the developers are allowing you to set the price. Simply pay for it what you think it's worth. Sure sure... that's kind of hard...

From our front-page news: In the fall of 2006, the world saw the launch of the first desktop quad-core processor. It came from Intel in the form of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, and although it wasn't overly fast when compared to higher-clocked dual-cores, the fact that the chip contained two...

Haha. Well, I didn't create this image, else I would have used someone like Cesc Fabregas ;) I don't disagree, really. The same could be said about a lot of football the world over. Luckily, real football (soccer) is the most popular form of football in the world, so it deserves to be called...

Yes this is true, and I don't see it changing for a while. If I used Windows as the primary OS, then sure, but I don't. I still need to look into TRIM support for Linux (and how it works), but I'm considering to move over to an SSD there sometime in the near future. When I reinstalled my OS' a...

Given what I do for a living, I don't find myself needing to purchase hardware all too often, but when I do need something, I tend to go straight to NCIX or Direct Canada (both are essentially the same company). Choices are slim in Canada, but luckily their selection isn't too bad, nor is the...

Well, I've heard this a lot, but I don't entirely agree. Both OS' ultimately feature a similar back-end, but that's where the similarities end as far as I'm concerned. What's on top of the Unix (or BSD) kernel is completely different on each OS, so if there's a potential security risk with OS X...

I agree there, but it's one thing to not upgrade because it's not broke, but it's another to reject possible enhancements that 7 brings to the table. It's a nice OS to use, and improves upon XP in numerous ways, especially where things like networking are concerned (at least in my experience)...

Ahh, I didn't realize ATI was also caught cheating for higher benchmark scores as well. I didn't take hardware too seriously up until I launched Techgage, so I missed out on a lot of history there. Well, no one would consider it cheating if the enhancement affected all gaming applications, but...

Haha, well to be fair, the Q8200 is a lot more capable, but it's also more than twice as expensive, so that might make the decision easier. If that PC was a main machine, I'd get the quad without question, but since it's more of a secondary PC for you, the dual-core will suit you fine. It'll be...