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  1. Rob Williams

    IDF 09 SF: More On Clarkdale & Arrondale

    During a private meeting with Intel during IDF 09, more details were divulged about their upcoming Westmere architecture, which includes the Clarkdale desktop and Arrandale mobile chips. Although most of the information has been speculated for a while, we have some initial performance and power...
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    The one provided will be just fine. Chances are the core is still warm even when it's not active, so you'll be fine. The differences in temperatures wouldn't be too noticeable.
  3. Rob Williams

    Lucid's Multi-GPU Solution Out Next Month

    From our front-page news:We first reported on Lucid's multi-GPU solution last fall, and to be honest, I didn't expect much of an update by this point. I was wrong, as the company states that they will be shipping product next month. It won't be an add-in solution, at least right off, but rather...
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    S-ATA 6 HDDs and Motherboards Right Around the Corner

    From our front-page news: At IDF, there are many technologies floating about that are close to shipping, including S-ATA 3 (6 Gbit/s). On the show floor is Marvell, showing off their latest controller for upcoming S-ATA 6 Gbit/s drives, along with an ASUS P7DP55D Premium motherboard, which will...
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    Upgrading the HP dv2 to Windows 7 Home Basic

    RobbyBob: To an extent, I'd agree, but Windows 7 is still far, far better. I abhor KDE 4's task bar... it's horrible. The best part of Windows 7 is that I can move the icons around while I'm using them... I never lose the application order. I hope that other OS' take after this feature...
  6. Rob Williams

    Google snapshot of XFX 5870 product page

    Embargo lifts tomorrow. We didn't get a card, but Nate's been killing himself over his article, so I recommend checking back to his site tomorrow to give it a read. I can't wait for these things to launch!
  7. Rob Williams

    Accused Domain Name Thief Faces Jail Time

    Exactly. That's why we keep seeing torrent sites skip from country to country.
  8. Rob Williams

    Windows XP Usage Continues to Drop

    That's a little strange... that's the first I've heard of XP being more secure than Vista. Even at launch, I'm quite sure Vista was far, far more secure than Windows XP.
  9. Rob Williams

    Benchmarking the Latest Hardware is Fun... Redux

    Woo hoo, thanks for volunteering :D In all seriousness, I'm glad you got it sorted out.
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    OCZ Announces Availability of its Z-Drive PCI-E SSD

    From our front-page news:There has been some doubt over the past few months (especially from competitors) as to whether or not OCZ would deliver their PCI-E "Z-Drive" solid-state disk to market, but according to a press release issued late last week, we should be able to expect immediate...
  11. Rob Williams

    Upgrading the HP dv2 to Windows 7 Home Basic

    From our front-page news:It's a little embarrassing to admit, but up until now, I haven't given Windows 7 much of an honest go. It's not due to a lack of interest, but rather boils down to available time, which has been scarce lately. But, since we received some RTM copies of the OS recently, I...
  12. Rob Williams

    Win a Core i7-870 gaming PC (9-21-09

    Here's another from our friend's at PC Perspective, which is for a great cause: http://pcper.com/raffle.php
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    Benchmarking the Latest Hardware is Fun... Redux

    Bah, I wish I had more time to respond to this thread but... Since other S-ATA drives work, along with the IDE, I have a feeling that the drives still have RAID flags, or something to that effect. What you might want to do is boot up with Ubuntu, or GParted Live CD, and load up GParted to make...
  14. Rob Williams

    Who's a sportsfan around here?

    Whenever I think of hockey, I feel so anti-Canadian, because I truly have absolutely no interest. I loved it growing up, but for some reason, I just lost complete interest over time. The strikes and drama sure didn't help much though.
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    US ranks 28th for Internet speed

    When I was in Taiwan a few months ago, I was sitting at a cafe (85c) with a friend, and since I had my laptop with me, I decided to crack it open and show him a few pictures. Little did I realize, I forgot to copy my photos to the laptop before leaving home. Luckily, there was an open WiFi...
  16. Rob Williams

    CM Storm Sentinel Advance Gaming Mouse

    My request to you is to copy and paste absolutely anything I said in this thread or elsewhere that made me a rightful target for any of your comments. I stand behind anything I said, as I have never alluded to the fact that I'm the one who doesn't care. To add to that, I'm not the one who's...
  17. Rob Williams

    ATI's Eyefinity Brings Multi-Display Gaming to New Heights

    That's a really good point. To have the ability to run 7680x1600 off one GPU is a damn nice proposition. I wish I had room for such a setup... ;)
  18. Rob Williams

    AMD Launches Industry's First Sub-$100 Quad-Core

    That's pretty-well how I see it as well. I admit that I'm a little stumped on the target audience for this chip, though. It would seem to me that if you were looking for a lower-end chip, then you probably don't care or need four cores to bounce your applications around with. Of course, for the...
  19. Rob Williams

    Seagate Unveils BlackArmor 440 - Great Design, Huge Storage

    Well, like I mentioned in this news post, NAS boxes go beyond the hardware, and I would have little doubt that the software is responsible for a rather sizable chunk of the total price. The KISS mentality works well here, because rather than have folks do everything manually (or write their own...
  20. Rob Williams

    Could this be the best motherboard review ever?

    Hah! Welcome to the forums bcom33!
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