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Thanks for the replies, but I'm still a bit confused. Is anything above DDR2-533 only useful for OCing? Or can I buy something like DDR2-800, run it at 533 speeds, but with tighter timings?

Interesting...unlike the earlier pics, it looks like EVGA went with the NVidia reference cooler after all.

Pretty much all of which are doubly true for G82, the G83, etc, etc. There's always something better on the horizon.

I've been out of the loop on DDR2, but an E6700 Duo is calling me back. What speed ram do I need to buy if I'm not interested in OC'ing, and just want synchronous operation with the CPU? Would buying faster ram allow me to drop timings and cut latency, same as with DDR?

I think anyone who labels those whose buying patterns don't match their own as needing "serious help" is themselves in need of help. :p Let people spend their own money how they wish.

The Inq is 100% reliable...20% of the time.

Except that the DX10 cards run DX9 games faster. And except that foward-compatibility is always a welcome thing.

He needs them about as much as you need _one_ gaming computer. Anyone who uses the word "need" in conjunction with recreational activities should rethink the issue.

Thanks...so do you think some etailers will have order links up then?

I was planning on buying an 8800GTX today, but I can't find an order link on any of the sites...I thought NDA expired today as well, and was expecting to see new reviews posted everywhere. Am I still early a few days?

Are you expecting some major, heretofore-unexpected announcement by Intel here?

Just so. Intel is still maintaining nearly an 80% market share, even with inferior chips. The "empire" isn't going to vanish anytime this decade, regardless of what happens.

source article AMD fan boys start your engines...

Any cheap video card will work fine...the only thing you want is a decent-quality RAMDAC, so I'd avoid "no name" cards, but an older brand name card in the $30-$50 range would do nicely.

Well, there was talk of each manufacturer getting a key pool, large enough to allow them to assign unique keys to each production run, or even uniquely to each device. I don't know if this made it into the final spec or not; anyone else know?

It did work out well, though content was pretty sparse in those early days. Had to have the player shipped over early from Japan, and the only source for DVDs was online...out of a grand total of maybe 40-50 titles. Still, it was worth it to dump VHS and be watching DVDs many months before...

For a bunch who all hate HDCP and swear to stand on their principles and never buy any HDCP content-- you sure are getting upset over a card not supporting it. :rolleyes:

You're new eh? Anyone who dealt with CSS in the early days of DVD knows better. There were real and serious problems...some early DVDs would not work on some players....and there was NO software decoding (and hence ZERO ability ot watch through your PC) in those days.. The situation changed...

Err, HDCP is protection for Blu Ray and HD-DVD disks. Your OTA broadcasts will continue as usual.

There is a VAST difference between your first statement of "if Microsoft gets their way" and the above reality of what they are being required to do by the HDCP licensing committee. If you want to display HD-DVD or Blu Ray, you have to follow their rules. No choice.

Some people here are apparently under that impression :) Ok, first of all HD-DVD players are likely to start out at around $500. Blu Ray might be as much as twice that. Thats for low-end players...high end gear is going to be triple that. Second of all, if you own an HDTV *now* then you...

In every large corporation I know, notice given when laying off a person ranges from two weeks to six months or more. Now, if you're fired for cause, that's a different story totally. But in that case, you shouldn't expect notice anway.

No, you'll be able to watch them, just in reduced quality (though still higher than normal 480p DVDs). No.

First of all, HDCP isn't "disk based". And it (or some variant) will still be needed to protect content downloaded directly over the cable. This is quite frankly wrong. There are some hardware manufacturers who didn't want to support the ICT flag and downgrade the signal, but that's...

Remember that 99% of the market is going to just buy a standalone player and plug it into an HDTV. If that TV happens to not be HDCP compliant, and they get a downgraded signal, most people won't even notice it. 50% higher than 480p actually. 960x540.

If you don't want to buy new equipment, then you won't have any HDCP-protected content to watch anyway, so its really no big deal. If you're willing to spring for a player or cable-box, you can watch non-protected content at full res, or protected content at a lower resolution. Or you can buy...

It stops them when they go, hat in hand, before the HDCP licensing committee to get their keys. And if it doesn't stop them at that point, their key(s) merely get added to the blacklist. You can use non-compliant monitors with HDCP sources. You merely get a downgraded signal...which is still...

No, he's wrong on a few major points....see my post above for just one of them.

Sorry, but it doesn't work. The keys have to be requested from the HDCP licensing body, and the keys themselves are never exchanged directly between devices. Instead, AKE (Authentication Key Exchange) is used to send a 'mutually agreed' value. So a "black box" can't "steal" keys. And if a...

Its not an expensive player by any means. Still, if you put $300-$500 into a Denon, Sony, or other decent brand, you can expect it to last most of a decade. Networking features from an 8-year old player? When I bought it, the cheapest DVD player you could find was well over $500...there were...

Did you just use "government" and "help" in the same sentence? :eek:

This is why I usually advise against using ethylene glycol-based mixes :(

Nothing; I use a tri-monitor setup. Used to have quads, but my desk started to bow under the weight of 4 21" CRTs :(

My $1300 Sony begs to differ. Its nearing 8 years of hard labor, and still going strong. A $300 player isn't an 'expensive' player. It's a cheap one with a few extra bells and whistles. If you want upgraded mechanicals, you need to get into the $500+ range.

Not true at all. Because your hard drive won't have an HDCP handshake and therefore your Blu Ray drive won't talk to it....and if its a drive that ignores the handshake, it won't be allowed decryption keys in the first place. And actually, one thing that's being missed here is that, even...

Other way around. It's 480i24 material that has the RFF flags set, to instruct the decoder to do 3-2 pulldown and thus convert it to 30 (29.97) fps. Native 30 fps video doesn't require the flag, as the MPeg-2 data already contains 60 fields/second Actually, 3:2 pulldown is effectively...

If you don't need the time to the exact millisecond, you can always write a little batch file that redirects time output to your log file. Something like this should work: :start time /t >> log.txt ping -n 1 >> (mysite.com) >> log.txt goto start Or, you could download a shareware ping...

Well DVDs are stored in 480i, not 480p, so a DVD player has to either weave or deinterlace to generate a 480p image. Some are better than others at it....and if you do a poor job on the deinterlace, then upconversion isn't going to help the IQ.

If it causes bad data to be written to the disk-- sure.

Ah, that's why you said "trust Google"? Nice try. Your usual reply when being proven wrong....well, one can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.