Recent content by cygnusx-1

Respectable performance but the heat/power/noise issues are too much to ignore.

TechPowerUP has some of the least informed reviews I have ever read, lol. Pages of canned benchmarks with no analysis are useless these days and don't lead to informed decisions.

Even if the performance numbers are close in some games, the obscene noise and power consumption make it a loser.

It only depends on benchmarks and power/heat numbers, coupled with price. Everything else is an emotional appeal. Why would you say you are gong 'green' without all of this information first? I hope you don't think ATi/AMD owe you a price drop just because nVidia releases a new card? The only...

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with being a console port, at least in this case.

I plugged the fan into the CPU header and my pump right into the PSU with an adapter. I bought an adapter from FrozenCPU with and RPM cable so I can monitor pump speed as well. Works like a champ.

Hmm, board length wasn't up last week when I looked. Thanks.

How long is the 5770 Hawk, my Asus CuCore is obnoxiously loud and I might swap it if the Hawk is not over 9"?

Preach on Gabe, Steam provides just the right amount of DRM to be painless to me and still protect the publishers content. The problem will be all the people who will still pirate the Ubisoft titles in some kind of self-righteous protest. All this does is justify the DRM in the minds of the...

lol, the only thing Kyle stuck up for yesterday was page hit count, posting unsubstantiated "news" is not reporting. Leveling assorted accusations at Newegg and D&H without all the facts was beyond unprofessional and did no service to the enthusiast community. Yes, the rabble all feel like they...

Of course they did, and no one expected anything less. But the fact that some people don't care for the language they used and think this is a reason to doubt their commitment to their customers is just a waste of time. While it might be nice to know the whole story, it doesn't really impact...

Newegg owes those who got a fake CPU a replacement and some kind of 'gesture' to wrap it up, a discount or something, which I am sure they will come through with. They don't owe you any special language, deep explanations or results of their internal investigation. They need to make sure this...

Yes,let's change points since you last straw man fell down. You stated that anyone who doesn't think what nV is doing with CUDA just wants crappy console ports. A fallacy on so many levels it's painful, from insinuating we can't get good PC games if nV doesn't add proprietray code to games to...

Wow, you don't get to see such a perfect straw man very often.

But the only direction they are offering is vendor lock-in, if all they wanted to do was offer direction PhysX, the Batman:AA debacle and some of this other hinky stuff would not be happening. nVidia might just be making some nice gestures, but based on past behavior they are probably looking...