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  1. Rob Williams

    Yahoo! Up for More Negotiation with Microsoft

    Good find Bill. It's going to get interesting... maybe.
  2. Rob Williams

    ASUS Shows Faith in Splashtop

    DeviceVM's Splashtop embedded Linux environment looks to be sticking around a while, thanks to ASUS' decision to make the technology available on all of their upcoming motherboards. To find out what's new, we are taking a look at the latest version, as seen on the upcoming P5Q Deluxe. You can...
  3. Rob Williams

    OCZ to Bring Out DIY Notebooks Later This Year

    From our front-page news: OCZ has long been known as a company to offer products for the enthusiast. We have memory of course, CPU coolers (even thermal paste), power supplies, flash memory and even a mouse. So what's next? How about a do-it-yourself gaming notebook? Yea, I didn't see this one...
  4. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte's Atom-Powered M528 3G Due Out in June

    From our front-page news: UMPC Portal has the scoop on what could become the first MID on the market to feature Intel's new Atom mobile processor. It comes courtesy of Gigabyte, and is called the M528 3G, the 3G representing the upcoming mobile standard. The device packs in a speedy 800MHz Atom...
  5. Rob Williams

    Soar Through Space with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

    From our front-page news: Google Earth is an amazing application for spending hours scouring our beautiful globe, but it's not that great for surfing through space. The options there, but it's clunky as best. Microsoft hopes to one or two-up Google Earth's attempt with WorldWide Telescope, a...
  6. Rob Williams

    Cooler Master Centurion 590

    When the budget is tight and you have to have a quality free flowing case for that next gaming PC you are building, who are you going to give your money to? Once again, Cooler Master has a new release for under $70 that looks to be jam packed with the features you are looking for. You can read...
  7. Rob Williams

    Enthusiasts should avoid the 780G platform

    Hah, can't complain about that! I mentioned it on the last page. For the stock option, which includes an Intel T5550, 120GB of HDD and 2GB of RAM, it is $999. The "as tested" machine, including the fast 2.5GHz Penryn (I love this thing), 4GB of RAM and 200GB hard drive, it will be $1,599. It...
  8. Rob Williams

    Windows XP's SP3 Makes Reverting to IE6 Impossible

    I have no doubts that you are correct on the stability issue. Firefox for me crashes at least twice a day, and when it doesn't crash, it stalls on a regular basis. I can't exactly blame it all on the browser though, since I'm in a 64-bit environment and emulating a 32-bit Flash plugin, so I'm...
  9. Rob Williams

    Student? Get 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate

    I agree... it's built for the novice and that's where it "excels". I wouldn't mind that so much if it still produced good code though. There's little reason for the code it did produce... just needless. Of course for a small personal site, it doesn't much matter, but Dreamweaver and the like...
  10. Rob Williams

    AMD Updates CPU Launch Schedule - Phenom 9850 Due In a Few Weeks

    Oh, that's interesting. I thought the Cell was an 8-core chip with one disabled... I didn't know about the spare chip solely for system use. So I guess AMD could do the same thing. Produce a 13-core processor and up the yields, and disable one core if it happens to come out perfect, haha. Good...
  11. Rob Williams

    Data Recovered from Shuttle Columbia Hard Drive

    I couldn't agree more, and you are right, it IS a little odd. I know that the Columbia Shuttle did have a tape recorder, as it was one of the few pieces of debris that was actually found in fantastic shape. It's so odd to see something so robust with technology use such outdated hardware. A...
  12. Rob Williams

    Super Talent Releases (Somewhat) Affordable SSD Lineup

    That was impressive as heck, but still, it was using 16GB drives, which are still not cheap. Pair nine together, and it's ridiculous. Sure it's super fast, but that doesn't change the fact that it's 16GB! I'm sure a similar effect would happen if you were to RAID 9 regular hard drives together...
  13. Rob Williams

    Grr, motherboard benchmarks!

    Well for the time being, we can just agree to disagree, since I still don't believe that the multiplier has anything to do with the stability of an overclock. The fact is, with a 9x multiplier, the clock speed is high, so it's hard to blame the multiplier for anything. If the same overclock...
  14. Rob Williams

    Enthusiasts should avoid the 780G platform

    In some regards, I blame both the board manufacturers along with AMD, but more so the board manufacturers. In all the testing they do in the lab, there is no way this kind of issue wasn't caught. Adding better power solutions would have indeed raised the price, but that's when two different...
  15. Rob Williams

    Is Intel harming USB 3.0 before its release?

    Well that's the thing. The theoretical bandwidth limit for USB 2.0 is 36MB/s, but even the fastest current thumb drives on the market don't max that out. It might be due to the shared bus though... other peripherals are hogging some of the bandwidth also. Still, I do think we can see...
  16. Rob Williams

    Weird system crashing problem

    I should ask again, is it only a few select games that this is happening with? I know for a fact that UT2004 is very fussy with regards to computer settings, because when I used to overclock in the past, I used to have similar things happen. My computer usually just BSOD'ed though. Because you...
  17. Rob Williams

    Directron.com

    That is a very good price. I love the pricing of storage nowadays. Not long ago, we wouldn't have dreamed of having 1TB in our rigs, but now it's easier than ever to have 4TB and beyond.
  18. Rob Williams

    Modding the House

    Are you sure that's not 720p? I've never heard of 720i before, and though it's possible to exist, I can't see it being used anywhere. 720p would actually probably look better than 1080i. As for those huge AVI files, can't you somehow lower the resolution a little bit, or no? Filling half a hard...
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    Intel's P45 Shows Promise, As Does ASUS' P5Q Deluxe

    From our front-page news:It almost feels like Intel just launched their P35 chipset, but it's been close to a year. Since that release, we saw both the X38 and X48 chipsets come to fruition, so the next step is of course the P45 (and G45). We are in the process of working on a review for the...
  20. Rob Williams

    Dell to Phase Out XPS Gaming Systems

    From our front-page news: Dell's XPS machines have long been statures in their product line-up, but according to the Wall Street Journal, it might not remain that way for much longer. In an attempt to either have a slimmer line-up or push more people towards their recent acquisition, Alienware...
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