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Very few people care to know what the EPL is. It's not as though footy is big in either Canada or the US. We do have a lot of people from outside the US who frequent here who would know what it is, though. As for Vick... I'm not entirely gung-ho about that, either. He paid for his crime, I...

From our front-page news: It used to be South Park, but today, it's Family Guy that likes to push people's buttons. This fired-then-rehired show is one of my personal favorites, and while I find it hilarious most of the time, I can understand why some people get up in arms that it's broadcast on...

Ahh, a fellow Linux user, nice! I agree... the training is sad, but the fact that people believe whatever they're told is worse. Like my illustration above, if you are not already really interested in something, you're far more likely to believe what you're being told. It's sad, but I could see...

Perhaps for Windows 8, we can wish for a complete OS re-write like the one OS X just received? *wishful thinking* Of course, there's more to it than that, but the definition of bloated will vary. A lot of what you don't use on a machine, someone else will. From Microsoft's viewpoint, it's better...

That bugs me a <em>lot</em>... especially when I'm expecting a response faster than 10 minutes! I blame the MSN protocol wholly for any issues experienced. I've been using Pidgin/Gaim for about four years, and I've ALWAYS had the issue for as long as I can remember. On the other side of the...

Like Quad-Cores, Hexa-Cores are not going to be for everyone. They're not useless, but you have to have very specific reasons to need something more than a Quad-Core. At that point, it's less about "encode a video and play a game" and more of "I need this render done fast". Not all video encodes...

Good insight, and I agree. I was wondering the same thing. It's one thing to have an SSD with 8 - 16 SLC chips, but it's another to have just one. I'd have to assume that the user would have the ability to disable the function, or that the BIOS would realize that the chip is bad and then just...

Haha. I admit I didn't pay attention to the cooler, but I did notice that whoever took the photos is a good photographer. The focus and skin tones is amazing. Yes, I feel like a douche by pointing this out. I also notice she didn't threaten the CPU cooler with a hammer like I did to the...

It sure wouldn't be the first time a company has deliberately crippled functionality to help push people towards a more expensive model ;-) Simple: don't install the system drivers as part of the backup. It's not as though NLite takes away the requirement to install required drivers after the...

For the sake of bandwidth, I can't see lossless downloads happening for a while from Apple. It's something I really, really want to see, but it just doesn't seem likely. If they do offer lossless, I say they should add just $1 to the price. That way, the people who download it are the people who...

Yup, it's a damn sweet build. I admit... I'd still have to splurge for an mATX form-factor though. If I'm going to build an HTPC, there's no way I'm doing it without packing in a TV tuner. Yes... that's where NVIDIA's ION saves the day. Without it, I don't think many people would be building...

We found out earlier this week that Intel's Lynnfield-based processors are fast, but who said that cranking the clocks to make them even faster was a bad idea? In this article, we take both the Core i5-750 and i7-870 for an overclocking joyride, and the stable overclocks we were able to achieve...

James Balog is a professional photographer who has spent the past ten years studying the extreme climate change facing earth, and he took to images to help prove that there's a real problem going on. This video is well-worth a watch. <object height="326" width="446"> <embed...

From our front-page news: Today is significant. No, it's not because we launched a totally kick-ass contest (although that IS cool), and no, it's not because Apple updated iTunes to version 9. Rather, today is special because it marks the 10th anniversary of when Sega launched their Dreamcast...

From our front-page news: As expected, Apple today released a deluge of new products, from an iPod nano featuring a camera, to a $59 iPod shuffle to the revised touch line-up (which for a given density costs $10 more than the Zune HD, rather than $100 more). Of all the press releases we...

I now have an idea of where our own reviews might be lacking... http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.php?tid=30655

From our front-page news: Have you ever been in a situation where you wished something would just go away, so that you could finally just get on with your life? It could be anything, from a person, a nasty software issue, to anything, really. For Microsoft, the bug that won't disappear is...

From our front-page news: Where Sony's PlayStation 3 is concerned... there's one aspect that's a little interesting. To understand it better, take a look at Microsoft's Xbox 360. Since that console's launch, there have been multiple revisions made, and to my knowledge, all of them are for the...

Hi Misha: Nice to hear from you again! Good choice on the i7-860, you will not be disappointed! Well, as we discussed before, I do want to begin including overclocked results. Due to time, I couldn't make that part of this launch article, so a follow-up will be posted at some point today...

I'll have to disagree and say that I think the current organization is fine as is (the organization is almost identical for all forums that run vBulletin). I do agree, though, that it's rather needless to quote entire posts, and especially news posts. The structure works like this. There are...