Recent content by riggs58

ymmv but i picked up an external Seagate Backup Plus 3TB at 'best buy' a few months ago thinking the drive inside would be a Barracuda ST3000DM001 (7200rpm) but no, inside was the lessor model ST3000DM003 (5900rpm). on an unrelated note i would have to agree about Seagate's dubious...

will these games run OK without the disc if installed to the HDD?

I feel your pain, i have a Gigabyte Windforce 7970 OC and it has coil whine too. its only audible in games but it's still disappointing, especially coming from a Radeon 6950 that was virtually silent in that regard.

Xbit Labs 680 review has 680 OC vs 7970 OC benches.

Too loud? I have a Gigabyte Windforce 7970 and i can barely hear it.

tried to buy but my card kept failing the Verified by Visa authorization (?) applet. was in the process of going through Paypal but now it's back to regular price ($53.99). Sigh :(

you will get a Steam activation key in your receipt. your keys are also viewable within your greenman account.

well how come Amazon collects sales tax in Kansas?

i remember many years ago when PC games went to the much smaller retail boxes there was talk that the cardboard savings might be passed on to the consumer. They weren't. Then just last year it was announced that, to save on cost, many game publishers would no longer be including paper manuals...

Steam is 'not' a brand, it's a resident DRM client that you have to have running in the background every time you want to play a game. Sure, Steam has other possibly useful features built into its client but if you just want to play a game and nothing else it's annoying that you have to open up...

i don't understand why is it such a big deal for some that so and so game works on Steam? i have plenty of games on Steam due to sales but if i had my choice, i'd much rather not have to run them through a DRM app like Steam. It's like Steam has created a whole new customer, the "Steam game...

same thing happened to me. i bought L4D2 awhile back and was just trying to learn the ropes in a server when i guess i didn't follow orders and was kicked (lol). i was in there less than 3 minutes; so frustrating. see, this is the reason why coop multiplayer is so overrated to a guy like me. you...

dang, was hoping to see the Fallout games and/or Interstate 76' on sale.

Gamersgate currently has Dead Space (PC) for $6.78

well, phooey! I hate it when supply and demand works against me lol