Recent content by Sandman

"Sure we lose money on each transaction, but we'll make up for it with volume!"

Depends on what you prefer. ~2 months longer before you get the game or allow the devs to use the "wasted" pre-launch time to continue making the game better. Yes, huge day 1 patches suck, but at least the reason why they exist is generally good. Only thing I hate about them is when a game is...

No, he's not confusing the two. I agree that "a little bit" of socialism doesn't hurt, but the US is well past that amount. As for the results of "more than a little" socialism, see Greece, 2015. It's coming around the world, this I promise. And finally, some free life advice. Don't...

Working to bypass encryption? Sounds like a blatant DMCA violation to me. Of course, expecting government to follow its own rules is beyond ridiculous, I know.

No, they're the same ones who are trying to rewrite history to "prove" they were right all along. People on the left must be so conflicted about this. On one side it weakens US "imperialism". On the other, omg internet has been privatized. This was such an obviously bad idea, you just...

If you've seen any reviews or owned one in a rig, you already know why seasonic makes great PSU's

MSI twin frozr in stock http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127672

Pin-compatible and supported are two different things - be sure you do your research before booting that mobile CPU. They have different power requirements, and the VRM's on the board need to support that. Honestly, I would say to try both out and see what you think.

You're looking at less than a 5 watt difference. I'd guess (back of the envelope) more like 1-2w. So it's not a big deal. You can probably run the OCZ at 5-5-5 at spec (1.8) voltage. It definitely won't need 2.1v to run at those timings.

Of course that can be shown on a graph. There are many ways to accurately measure and show ping reduction. In fact, the network is so slow (relatively speaking), it should produce very deterministic and reproducible results compared to CPU's and GPU's. I agree, hearing what people think while...

I second the argument of not polishing. Sure, I admit, it looks awesome. But IMO, it's a waste of time and money. I never go beyond 600 grit, I doubt there are any significant gains past that. I also don't know why people say no circles. I've always used figure 8's, rotating the part 90...

I can't tell you exactly, but since you're around the C2E's speed, along with the voltage, I'd put you near the 75W of the Core 2 Extreme. Remember, wattage goes up linearly with clock rate, and exponentially with voltage (did a statistics course project on it a while back, it's indeed true).

Just some random thoughts as I read the article: I'm not sure what "diversifies" means. My comp today has the same general parts as my old pentium 2 300mhz machine, and they both perform(ed) the same tasks. That's fine with me, I usually skip to the graphs anyway. I do see the value in...

Here's an idea for a followup - show which CPU is the most "future proof" by simulating a video card upgrade that a user may do in the future. Rig up some high-end SLI action and retest a handful of the games (same settings). That would be fairly close to a next-gen video card upgrade on each...

The review showed us the results of his testing. His question under test was "How will these CPU's affect gameplay with current games at popular resolutions". The answer was "not much". Any other conclusions drawn from this data are pure extrapolations (i.e. "C2D barely caught up with...