Search results

Yes! You are truly an upgrading wizard, but that must get some expensive. Hold out for the GeForce GTX 480 or Radeon HD 6870 X2 :-D

He's using a Techgage processor, so there is no wasting of cash. With the recent methodology revamps, it made sense for me to stick with the QX9770, since it will be on par with the launch Nehalem Extreme edition, and since he was using an ultra-hot QX6850, it made sense to make an upgrade...

Ahh man. I forgot about that application quicker than I found out about it. Doh. I'll have to download that one and begin stressing our own processors with it. I hope that it supports Nehalem as well.

Well, Penryn did include a sweet set of SSE4 instructions, so I'm not sure Intel had plans to gimp the CPU for the sake of holding off the good stuff until Nehalem. I do know that SSE4.2 is supposed to add a few killer instructions though for media buffs, although for some reason, none of those...

Good point, I wasn't even thinking along those lines.

That makes sense. It's just another one of those exploits against the consumer that I hate. To help "justify" the added cost, they add a whack of features, features that a lot of people wouldn't even use (like the LCD poster that comes with ASUS boards). Sure not cheap nowadays to be a hardcore...

Yup, that sucks Craig... enraging even. To see someone win a massive prize like that wrongfully is retarded, and frustrating. You'd think that the admins would notice something gone wrong when every-single other entry had negative votes, but no. Whatever... not much can be done now it seems.

That's a good point... someone would have to be out back. Even still though, I can't see that really being a one-man operation. Someone is BOUND to catch you at some point. It's not as though your car is that close. Scary indeed though. I don't usually keep important things in my checked baggage...

From our front-page news: It's no secret that I'm "pro-Linux" and that I've been using the OS as my primary for a number of years, but I'm also one of the first to point out a fault if there is one. In this particular case, I find that the default desktops available aren't eye-catching...

From our front-page news: Theft is a huge issue... anywhere. Regardless of where you work, there's sure to be a bad seed employee or a customer who's going to swipe something at some point in time. It's inevitable. But, there are a few places where something like that wouldn't even come to mind...

From our front-page news: Adobe announced their latest Creative Suite release just over three weeks ago, and fans sure didn't have to wait long before the "Add to Cart" buttons were enabled on the official site. As always, each new application is available as an individual purchase, although the...

Hah. Go figure. All it took was a BIOS update. Funny how they didn't realize that before. /sarcasm

That goes without saying... I don't think anyone can deny that. I still think that one of the formats would have come out the winner, but I honestly believe it could have been HD DVD. There were -far- more Xbox 360's on the market than the PS3 for a long while (I'm sure it's still the same way)...

Good to hear, and glad the product seems to be worth the cost of admission. It's just too bad that it's so expensive to cool these already expensive graphic cards.

You'll wind up with Nehalem at some point... that QX9650 won't last forever! "Time for the upgrade cycle to flatten out so that programmers get off their lazy asses and start doing some proper multi-threaded coding for EVERYTHING." I agree, and agree for the most part with your sentiments...

It goes without saying... you don't need a huge GPU if you are running less than 1920x1200 nowdays. Even a Radeon HD 4850 or GeForce 9800 GT is going to offer kick-ass performance to power 1680x1050 or lower. Heck, for the most part, a lowly 9600 GT could handle most games at 2560x1600 with...

Well, mATX motherboards don't cost near as much as full ATX boards for the most-part regardless, so the price that the IGP costs is probably negligable. I do agree though... I'd never use it either. Some who want to keep heat and form-factor to a minimum might appreciate it, though. At most...

From our front-page news: AMD might have been holding the mATX chipset market for a while, with their 780G and 790GX, but NVIDIA was tired of sitting around and decided to go ahead and release an Intel-based chipset that could compete with Intel's own G45, which we've found has a few issues of...

Have what it takes to become a successful PC modder? If there is one person who has confidence in you, it is the master himself - Tech-Daddy, who's built multiple mods worthy of attention that you are probably already well-aware of! Over the course of the past few years, PC modding has exploded...

Hmm, so it's not just me. Matt had slight issues like that while reviewing, but we thought it could have been the network, or a fluke. I have a separate unit though, and I have the exact same issue you are mentioning here. I'm going to toss up an addendum in the review.