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It's possible - however granted as Kyle stated, the Intel quad-core will be 2 conroes, while the AMD will be a native quad-core. As for performance, I don't think simple ramping of clock speeds will gain Intel too much ground without some sort of architectural upgrade as well. We all saw...

As much as I agree - hiding never helps. I admire him taking the time to register on the forums to respond to a poor review. That shows, at very least, caring about their public face, which a lot of OEMs won't do. As much as I refuse to ever buy a PC from them, at least I know their...

Remind me never to buy a Systemax PC. What dealings I've had with them were inadequate at best - but I've never full out bought a system from them, and after seeing this, I likely won't.

s754 see why i'm having so much trouble!!! so yeah, i'm thinking i might have to upgrade to a 939 board and pci-e we're pretty much aggreed that there's no best bang for buck on agp?

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I'm a bit slow on the video card side of things, as I've been watching the whole Intel/AMD drama unfold quite closely. My question is this: My current video card is getting aged. I have a 9800 XT 256mb with a huge-ass zalman cooler and it's overclocked to hell and back. I've been...

This is going to sound really silly, but it's beyond me, and it's probably something really simple. I notice over here and on some other forums, they have a section to the side of the forums that the ads show up... over there --------------> where in vbulletin can I add that? edit...

oops - wrong forum.. sorry

Yeah, for now. :P -- anyways all flamebait aside ;) FX60 is a solid performer, but for the price you're lookign at the 4800+ is a good bet imo future proof is true as well, however DDR2 isn't going to yield an immediate increase in performance. down the road, sure.

/agree -- Conroe is impressive. Yonah was a step up. Basically Conroe is what the Intel !!!!!! have been waiting for... it's only a matter of time though. Really, neither is better. Sure. AMD is faster right now. But it's going to turn into the video card race from this point on. AMD...

I'm not one to peek my head into Intel !!!!!! range for chopping, however I will comment that from an AMD guy's perspective, Conroe is downright impressive. Hands down. I say to wait until release time to give opinions on it, based on preliminary benchmarks it appears that the A64 has met its...

Wow, you're right. I haven't looked too much at Conroe, but a quick browse around the internet shows some interesting results. It looks like Intel is picking up lost ground really fast in that case. I guess the coming months will show a lot, yes? We can only hope. I'm really looking...

gg :)

That's awesome, I look forward to seeing it. I was in the process of writing one myself, but unfortunately haven't had the time to finish it up. Not to mention I don't have a whole lot of information that isn't widely known or available.

I can't get my contact to comment on that. PR guys are so hard to get to say "Yes", but I'd have to agree with you on that. After acquiring Alienware, they'd have to try really really hard not to go that direction, and honestly I don't think Intel is paying them enough to keep being the...

Quite frankly, I would be suprised if the PS3 was more than $499 USD. I think that at that price it will sell fine. A lot of places I've read info on the PS3 say it's as good as if not better than the XBox360, and really, both will be better than Wii. :) *snicker* Regardless of the price...

I think the non-intel option would be the best one. :) *busts out the firehose*

Honestly you should be fine for now. I'd wait until the next gen video cards come out.

Here's my $0.02 (read it, it's too much to paste here)

A birdie told me that graphically the PC will have no advantage over the X360. In essence the XBox360 version will be running at the "Highest Settings" whereas some PC hardware today may not be able to run it at those settings. I do believe that eventually PC will have an advantage, but right...

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lol... gotta love logic... this thread = owned

Oh snap, time for the mods to bust out the water hose!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bethesda has done a load of work in the area of SM3.0. That is going to be one of the most shader intensive games to be released this year.

It wouldn't be too hard per-say, but more than likely the issue would be advertising revenues. Perhaps if HardOCP had a subscription system where you could remove the ads/download articles. I know I'd pay for it. Then again, the ads aren't really too obstructive, unlike gamespy where you have...

Absolutely - Although the [H]ardOCP staff now officially hates me, I still love them and their site. Keep up the awesome work guys. I really like the new redesign as well.

Absolutely it's a wonderful laptop. It's been nothing but stable, runs all the games I play CS:S, EQ2, WoW, FFXI, HL2, etc.... Runs them all great. Not only that, but overclocking for the video card actually does very well. I turned on the omega drivers auto-overclocking and it substantally...

One thing I've been disappointed with Dell about though, when I bought my laptop it was standard with a 256mb DDR2 chip. for some reason the upgrade to 1gb was $300+ ... I bought 2 gigs of Corsair XMS memory for $330...

Overpriced? Absolutely. Cool? Maybe ;)

wow that is pretty bad. i have an inspiron 9300 with a geforce 6800 and its awesome, but i immediately reformatted and installed my own xp pro disc. i really don't dig dell's preloaded software, and honestyl when i ran 3dmark05 before and after my format/reinstall there was a huge difference...

Funniest thing here is I'm perfectly happy with my first gen XBox. It's really dusty but it still works every time I play it.

You know what this looks like? MS Exec 1: Okay, they're ready. MS Exec 2: How's the quality testing coming? MS Exec 1: The what? XBox fan: My new XBox360 broke! MS Exec 1 & 2: *glare*

Yeah right, deep down you're a Sony fan-boy, admit it! ;) And before you ban me, yes I'm joking :p

I kind of agree, and I kind of don't. I mean firstly, I would think a company as big as Microsoft would have taken the time to beta test it themselves. It was widely said that they rushed it and even moreso that a lot of games weren't finished until just prior to launch. It's a simple matter...

Do you have any idea when they're going to be popping the 65nm XBox360's out? Chances are I'll wait until around then.

Actually at this point, quite a few. Got a small story on my site about, has quite a few links. I actually think HardOCP should have something interesting to say about this soon, as consumer-oriented as you guys are.

Sexy setup there Steve ;) You've inspired me to clean/rearrange my room and dump endless amounts of money into making it look cool ;)

worked fine for me.

I have quite a bit to say about this subject, so bear with me. To me, this has always been a rather annoying topic, as ultimately the cause of these laws is pissed off parents who see this content in front of their children and go ballistic... Well here's a tip. BE A RESPONSIBLE FREAKIN...