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I do have to agree... it makes sense that most people simply wouldn't want to switch over to Linux because of the time involved, and chances are, the same people would feel the same way about moving to a Mac. It's easy to become too comfortable with your current situation... something I battle...

From our front-page news: According to a post over at Slashdot, the Windows 7 launch date has been leaked, although it's hard to say right now whether anyone should hold any credence in it. The date mentioned is October 23 of this year, a date that was carelessly thrown out by an Acer executive...

That's a typo, sorry about that. Vsync is never on... just forgot to take it off when I took the screenshots.

From our front-page news: In the past few months, whenever the term "PCI-E SSD" was mentioned, the company 'Fusion-io' usually came to mind first. They were the innovators where the technology was concerned, but it was only a matter of time before others followed suit, and so far, those...

Believe it or not, despite the HD 4890's launch last month, the HD 4870 is still totally relevant, thanks to ATI's current pricing structure. There's a card for every budget, and if you're willing to spend around $180, you can get hooked up with a 1GB version of the card we're taking a look at...

That is indeed a SODIMM slot, and it's not the first I've seen on a desktop board, but I have no idea what purpose it's supposed to serve. It could be just a showing of what can be done, and maybe the SODIMM slot would be used as a supplement to onboard GPU memory or something. Either way, this...

Kougar... man. You've really turned me off of RAID, to say the least. It seems like everyone I know who has dealt with RAID has been unhappy in the end, and it seems like the benefits are far overshadowed by the drawbacks. Things are improved if you keep constant backups of things, but to reboot...

By that chart, it looks like 4GHz and a 6x multi would still give a DDR3-1200 clock, so I'm still not sure faster memory is needed. I still believe that DDR3-1600 is a sweet spot though, from both a price perspective and also performance, especially since timings are getting a lot better. I...

Wow, what a perfect demonstration! I can just picture the dropped jaws after the third set! Sadly, I think this applies to <em>many</em> things, not just audio. It's all about building a good product nowadays that longs just enough to keep the customer happy. Thinking about all this makes me...

I have nothing against 3D Vision, but the monitors to me are just not worth it. I gave up on 20" monitors a long time ago because of the resolution, and I've been in love with 24" displays ever since. It makes no sense for me to run out and purchase a 20" 120Hz display for $399 unless you...

From our front-page news: When NVIDIA first launched their GeForce 3D Vision at this year's CES, no one was sure how it would take off, if at all. 3D gaming up to this point has been nothing more than a joke, and personally, I've never been impressed with any implementation up until I first put...

From our front-page news: From the title alone, you can probably guess what this article is going to entail, and you're probably going to be correct. But, it's good to be refreshed of things from time to time, because Linux does need some improvement in order to take over alternative OS', at...

From our front-page news: Today officially marks the 40th anniversary for Advanced Micro Devices, and what an exciting forty years it's been! The company was founded on May 1, 1969, just one year after Intel, and was formed to produce a number of "logic chips", and believe it or not, they even...

During the Q&A, I didn't think to write the responses down for some reason, and I wouldn't have even had the questions either if I didn't get the press deck given to me later. Sorry... I wish I had them.

The North American regional final of Gigabyte's GO OC 09 overclocking championship took place this past weekend in the City of Industry, and we were there to take it all in. Although no world records were broken, no one disagrees that it was an exciting event, and the result is one lucky...

Hah, most new system builders fall into that mistake, so don't feel bad. I'm with Kougar... don't go for the 3DVision unless you are a huge gamer and want to take it for a test drive. To be honest, that 20" monitor would be near $400 of that total price, which is ridiculous. It would make so...

Good point. I tend to take Vista for granted a lot. XP is still the dominant OS, but it's easy forget just how out-of-date the code is.

Don't worry, Tiger Direct usually overcharges for shipping to make up for deals like that ;-)

Some more updates... Super Pi 8M benchmarking going on now (lowest score so far is around 32.5s).

Some more, including a Core i5-based motherboard (this is not a real model, but just a prototype):