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From our front-page news:Last week, we talked about a rumor that said iTunes would be moving over to their variable pricing scheme on April 7, and lo and behold, it has happened. This would be about a week behind their original schedule (they originally said "by the end of March", but you can at...

The lack of an award or even a pros and cons list was a total accident we didn't realize until after posting. It's all been fixed.

From our front-page news: If you consider yourself to be a hardcore PC gamer, chances are very good that you've played a fair share of first-person shooters, and there's reason for that. Who doesn't love some fast-paced action where you get (most often) to kill anything that moves? Talk about a...

From our front-page news: One of the coolest things about Linux is the fact that there's a ton of choice. In some regards, "Linux is Linux" is true, in that the backbone tends to be similar from distro to distro, but the truth is, there's so much more choice where Linux is concerned than any...

From our front-page news: Alright, I'm willing to go out on a limb here and take a guess that most people reading this have at one time overclocked something in their computer, whether it be the CPU, GPU or anything else. There's just something about taking a stock-clocked product and making it...

The majority of the high-end PC audio cards targeted at enthusiasts typically focus on multi-channel performance, with a variety of decoding modes, DSP enhancements, and other features tossed in. The Xonar Essence STX from ASUS has an entirely different focus - delivering audiophile-quality...

I had that all wrong. I thought I was trying to explain the concept of overkill to you ;-) As for the Extreme CPU, it wouldn't be in this machine if I didn't have it lying around (review sample). I needed a good CPU that ran well under decent temps, and so it made sense to throw it in here...

Thanks for clearing that up Matt!

I'm taking a look at things from a current perspective, and where graphics cards are <em>now</em>. I didn't say that the HD 4870 was ever worth the money for people running 1440x900, but rather that lower-end cards are going to provide more than enough power for most gamers there. I chose $150...

The keyword in my last post is "most". You happen to be someone who truly appreciates the highest possible framerates in a game, and that's cool - I'm the same way. However, I'd be hard-pressed to see most people who game at 1440x900 unsatisfied with a $150 GPU. Yes, people like higher...

I'm cheap, so I'll just wait for a full-tower to fall into my lap. I'm still incredibly fussy though, and really don't care at all for the HAF. I like clean-looking cases, and aside from SilverStone and Lian Li, it's hard to find that.

Haha... :D

To be honest, I don't think my original thought really changed too much in between posts. For most people who game on resolutions lower than 1680x1050, I think a $250 GPU is going to be a huge waste. As the example I gave above showed, a $100 GPU offered decent framerates at 1680x1050 with...

Thanks for the follow-up comments. You may be one of the more serious gamers, and I respect that, but I still stand by my opinion that people who game at lower resolutions don't need an expensive graphics card. In the example I gave, I wasn't talking about barely-playable settings, but...

I thought the same thing, but it doesn't matter it seems. The issue was simple... in Linux, each file is assigned an owner and usergroup (rwilliams:users, for example). On the Synology NAS box, it removed all traces of those permissions, so it kind of ruined it for me. The Maxtor Shared Storage...

I agree. It's pretty-much the only wallpaper site I use now.

Still, half the battery-power? That seems a little ridiculous. I mean, with a notebook on Windows XP, it doesn't last twice as long as if it had Vista, and the same goes for Linux. I'll just have to believe that OS X is much bettery for battery-life. Hopefully Windows 7 will fix things for...

Geez, it is amazing how much time has flown by since I built this thing. For the most part, it's almost identical to the original configuration, except I replaced the CPU (because it ran way, way too hot), upgraded to 8GB of RAM, took out one of the 500GB hard drives and put in the 750GB I had...

Well, I guess it would help to just NOT look at things as well. If you pass by a store, don't go in. I mean, the reason most people spend cash is because they end up getting bored and want to go browse. If you stay at home, you are much more likely to save money. If you are the type of person...

I'm going to agree on the color denotations... I mean it makes sense. I'm just not sure, and I'm positive I'm not going to get a straight answer out of Gigabyte about that (we talk to their PR, not their engineers). If anyone would know this, it would probably be Matt... I'll see if I can push...