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"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...

You're fine. The CPU should be spec'd up to at least 100C, and at that temp you'd get steam in your tubes, which pressurizes the system and something would blow. Since you didn't come back to a fried and wet system, you didn't hit 100C. In the future, you should do what I do to protect...

I have yet to see any benchmark on any card at any resolution that has had a noticable (> 2%) difference between x16 and x8 on the same board with the same set of hardware. And yes, I've run quite a few tests on my own in this scenario to prove it.

The FSB will always be able to handle 100% of the bandwidth to system memory. If it couldn't, you'd potentially create large (think cacheline reads returning) backups in places that normally don't back up. So basically, you'd have to put extra effort into designing around this, which isn't...

awesome deal, may have to grab one myself... I remember compusa's $99 400 gig seagate deal right when they came out. I'm still kicking myself for only buying one drive... :(

oh em gee. I completely forgot about that... Thanks for reminding me, I'll check those asap. Yeah, I'm fairly sure the drives aren't dying, it does seem like a communications issue. I was also thinking of ponying up the $$$ for an IDE/SATA PCI card and using that, since I've also maxed out...

IIRC, A520 didn't score as well as A75/A85 in a few reviews. Check a few online reviews to be sure, I may be remembering incorrectly, but the A85 may be the better bet as far as image quality goes.

I usually just wash it with soap. Dishwashing soap sometimes, hand soap (dial) other times. Sounds to me like your mouse is what's dirty. did you clean it too?

The drives seems to work, but I'll toss this out to see if anyone's seen it before. My seagate 400gig drive sometimes pauses when I access it (usually by double clicking one of the drive letters that's on it in My Comp.). During the pause the computer is perfectly usable, except for anything...

doh, my bad, skimmed right over that. In your BIOS there may be a setting for legacy USB or non-PnP OS. Something along those lines, it lets the BIOS control the USB keyboard and mouse. Try that.

If the drive has a lot of bad sectors and seems to keep getting more, then it's probably close to dead. If it's not gaining more bad sectors, and just keeping the ones it had, then I wouldn't store mission critical data on it, but it should be ok.

SATA is fully compatible with PATA, there shouldn't normally be any drivers for SATA. There may be chipset drivers that came with your mobo, and those may have drivers that affect the storage subsystem. But overall, SATA should just work with no extra steps. After all, you can install DOS on...

you don't have a ps/2 keyboard laying around anywhere? Plug it in, install XP, plug in the USB keyboard, let drivers install.

simple, it didn't work ;) Chips this complex have so many issues. Logic bugs, speedpaths, race conditions, etc etc. Not to mention the fact that simulating something this complex would be nearly impossible. Maybe they can emulate it in hardware, but a machine that can hold that many gates...

100% correct. And might I add to the end of that, they can force the issue with local law enforcement and they WILL win. I can't see what that person you quoted was thinking (or if... ;)). It's like saying I stole your car, then sold it to someone else, so it must be their car now no matter...

sirens are usually dead CPU or dead RAM. Basically, the two main things you need to begin booting, and if it can't find them it whines. May also try a different video card, but it's most likely CPU or RAM.

I disagree. For the high end cards, most customers know what's best and buy accordingly (or just buy their brand...). Mid and low range cards are where the less informed people are buying, and they buy new and not best. But, odds are they'll only release the top end at first, and fill the...

http://store.westerndigital.com/product.asp?sku=2439812 Google can answer questions like that much faster than the forum can.

When you say "it must hit 100% cpu utilization", do you mean you've seen it hit that? Or do you just mean that things slow to a crawl? You can open up task manager and under the Performance tab you can see what your CPU utilization is. The first thing that jumps out at me would be the...

Interesting, it didn't occur to me that they'd use a cheap heatsink on the NB. If that's the case, then yeah, I can see why you'd want to replace it. And you're absolutely correct, cooling upgrades on the MCH can only result in greater stability. But as far as the specs go, they don't require...

Random thoughts: 1. It's possible to get a virus within a few seconds of going on the internet w/out a firewall. Did you update the virus definitions on the scanner you installed? 2. The 24 pin ATX power supply is a bit of a mystery. It came about once PCIe arrived, and the only reason I...

Generally, no northbridges today need active cooling. it definitely helps, but isn't necessary. Your symptoms sound like a video card overheating. Possibly a marginal component that gives errors only when very hot (hence the 2 hours). One way to verify this would be to remove the side of...

Make sure you try different ports. my card reader and mouse won't work on one set, but work just fine on the other.

Sounds like there's a part somewhere that has issues when cold, but once it heats up it's fine. That's not an uncommon problem with electronics, the characteristics of devices change when they warm up, and that can "fix" intermittent issues. The problem is finding where the problem is. I'd...

1. Hard drives use about 10-15w of power each. The highest draw is when they spin up on boot. 2. If multiple systems are accessing the NAS, why would a raptor help your speed if all the data is on the 250's? ;) It would probably only help shave a few seconds off booting. I'd recommend a...

I've only had mine a week (and I have to send it back, there are 2 stuck red pixels next to each other). So far, I love it. Very clear photos, pretty easy to use, and the zoom is awesome. I can't find some of the pics I took yesterday, so here are some from a few days ago. They're not the...