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It's interesting that you posted about this Rob. The ongoing Folding@Home discussion on the Off Topic forum, spurred me yesterday to try and take a look at the reasons behind Intel staying behind on the graphics processing arena. This is particularly interesting because AMD very successfully...

Indeed the 2600 would seem the ideal processor for me. Never the 2600K. Gets in fact very confusing sometimes. When early this year I upgraded from a 5 year old machine, I had trouble keeping up with the new developments and bothered more than a few forums with what I perceived to be annoying...

Not much into the English Premier League. My British team plays on the Scottish Premier League. It's the Celtics. I'm a fan since childhood. But have been loosing interest in the league. It's just not competitive. Same reason why I've been loosing interest in Portuguese football. In here I...

I don't have any problems so far. The current game version is 1.1.622.0 and there hasn't been a new patch since last Thursday. I did notice a few issues with Steam last week though. It would flag me downloads as complete that weren't in fact. This happened while I was updating the Orange Box...

They usually don't. Not at this level, that is. They do add to existing hardware support, but only rarely will they add new native support. The last time I remember them doing adding an entire new device driver stack to an SP was Windows XP SP1 that added exactly support for USB 2.0. And it's...

I think it does. It's a provocation :rolleyes: Most Windows users can take it though. We aren't exactly fans of many UI choices. But neither we are of MacOs'. :D

Not just an Arsenal fan. Ugh! :p

Oh yeah, absolutely. Screen real estate suffers from the ribbon too. It's even somewhat ironic that it's exactly vertical space that we lack the most on mainstream monitors, but that's exactly what every new UI design seems to want to use.

I'm a little divided about this myself. But I think what is annoying most is the fact a product can be defiled by the retailer to the point of removing gift codes. Certainly this isn't about a love for OnLive specifically, or a hate for GameStop. I certainly can understand this; I'm not happy...

The thing I liked most was the merging of multiple copy and move operation into a single dialog. With the added benefit that clicking the details button lets us see a graphical representation of data transfer rates for each operation. We can then pause and resume operations based on more...

I dunno. They were so much trashed that even fans realized this wasn't just what you expect from a bad team. Had they lost to Man Utd to 4-0 or something like that and everyone would be asking for heads to roll. But as is, they even got a pat on the back from their fans. The British press tends...

Thanks both (Rob and Kougar) for this review. Unfortunately, Marvell's is precisely the SATA 3.0 controller on my board. What's more disheartening, they don't offer software updates. My driver 1.0.0.10.42 is listed as current on Asus downloads and yet the date is from July 2010. The...

I'm not so sure they will. USB 3.0 native support will be a huge incentive for users to upgrade. Especially those who in the next few years start to buy newer boards. Microsoft has been experimenting, since Windows XP, with purposely withholding from earlier versions new features/advancements...

I wrote about it last year on my blog. It was mostly aiming at programmers, But I used exactly web browsers as a source for my argumentation. Here's the link: The false prophets of performance And here's an excerpt if you don't feel like reading the whole thing: In that article I essentially...

I have no love for GameStop. But here... I dunno. There's more to it than what meets the eye. The thing is that GameStop wasn't informed by Square Enix that those coupons where inside the boxes. They should have so they could have refused to receive them and ask instead for the games to be...

Steam: Marfig Raptr: Rahtgaz You should not see me online except when I am. If you see me online when I'm not, report it to me!

It would be a fine day indeed if they announced native USB 3.0 support was coming to Windows 7 in a later service pack. As is, this is sort of an almost not far from being a good news. Windows XP did taught a harsh lesson to Microsoft; You can't have a good enough operating system, or people...

>> Are any of you guys going to pick it up right away? Wait for a sale? Have no interest? Inquiring minds want to know! Hugely interested. But will have to wait a few months. I was very happy to see the glowing reviews as they were becoming available. It's one of the games I wished to become...

I find really awesome that you are putting this much effort into the folding@home project. I think the machine is excellent for your requirements. Power consumption is awesome. The graphics card is listed as consuming around 35W. So it's possible you can reduce power consumption a bit further...

The article centers itself too much around the best cards money could buy at the time. I don't think those were ever the Greatest Graphics Cards of All Time. Most of them where power suckers, heat vents, or inefficiency gremlins. Most of them brought to the user desktop "performance at any...