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I just installed a 250 gig in my gaming rig today (got it off Newegg for $159.) The write speeds are nothing special, but the read speeds are fantastic for the price. From a dead stop, I get to the Windows 7 login screen in ~16 seconds. General use programs like VLC and Word load almost...

Hello, everyone! My wife recently started using a Toshiba Satellite L505D-GS6000 laptop we have laying around for playing Minecraft. Unsurprisingly, it gets really warm while the game is running. Not dangerously so, but definitely to an uncomfortable degree (ha! See what I did there?) Can...

Ah yes, totally forgot to mention that! Their recent (last 2 years or so) I/O shields are definitely the best I've found due to exactly what you just described.

Same...for myself, I think it's because of their dual-bios and general board layout. I've never had a problem fitting heatsinks on their boards, I've always been able to keep my case wires neat and tidy without having to put them in weird positions, and I've also found that there's always a...

Both my wife and I have a gaming PC, a decent 2-3 year old laptop, and a tablet (she a 16GB 4th-gen iPad, myself a 32GB Touchpad running CM9.) Each serves its own purpose: - The gaming PC usage is obvious. We use them to game. Dur-hey. - The laptops are used while traveling, or when going to a...

I'll admit that, for a while, I felt like the CPU wasn't all that important for gaming. It was when I upgraded from a 120 MHz Pentium to a 200 MHz K6 that I learned otherwise :)

After thinking long and hard, I decided to go with an i5 3570k and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H...got them both from Microcenter, and at quite a deal, too! The i5 was going for only $169, and the mobo was going for only $179. Since I bought them together, I got $40 off, so I only paid $308 for both...

Indeed. "Hey boss, looks like people are uploading more recordings from our channel again, so that people in other countries can watch. Want me to get accounting on the phone and figure out how much it would cost vs how much we could make if we offered an online subscription to these folks?"...

I love watching him bang his knees on his desk and send his webcam flying as much as the next guy (as in, it still makes me laugh maniacally even after seeing it multiple times), but after having seen literally every single video he's uploaded, I'm glad to see him expanding beyond just straight...

He's partially acting...he's said in a few different interviews that it's tough to do horror videos every day, since they require him to be so energetic. If you watch his early videos (his playthrough of Dead Space 2 is a good example), you can tell that he actually does get really frightened...

I don't understand all the hate he gets. His playthroughs of Heavy Rain and the first four episodes of The Walking Dead series were phenomenal. In between cracking jokes, he offered up some truly insightful comments on what was going on, and at some points seemed to be genuinely affected by...

Ah, see, that's just it...I don't even have an AM3 mobo -_-;; it's an AM2+. To give you an idea of the mobo's age, the built-in GPU is an ATI 3200 :) (Yes, ATI...it came out before the name change!)

Really? I would have thought the X4 would be a bottle neck by this point...do you think I'd get a better performance boost going for, say, an nVidia 670 instead of upgrading the CPU/RAM/MOBO?

I'm able to run the game quite smoothly with almost everything on high using the rig in my sig, but I noticed that any time I open up a menu (inventory, badass achievements, etc), things get super choppy. As soon as I close the menu, it starts running smoothly again. Anyone else experience this?

Hello, all! So, my current build is in my sig. I game exclusively at 1920x1080. I'm able to run most games on medium-to-high, and I average between 30 and 50 FPS, depending on the game. Would upgrading from my aging Athlon II X4 to an i5 3750k (along with a new motherboard and a major bump in...

We don't do it for EVERYTHING we watch...the types of things we watch in normal speed are movies that we deeply love, or movies that have a lot of action in them. However, for movies filled with a bunch of talking (examples: Network, Dragon Tattoo Trilogy, etc), a LOT of anime (you wouldn't...

Interesting, thanks!

It's when a DVD player plays a DVD at 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x, or 1.4x the normal speed it plays at. Very useful for documentaries or slow-moving TV shows/movies. It's the reason why we're able to watch as many movies and documentaries as we do (as of the time of this post, we get 8 netflix DVDs at a...

I think it's been long enough to give this another shot. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

I can vouch for the 560ti Twin Frozr II. My GPU rarely goes above 58c when under full load, and that's with a 70 MHz overclock. Fairly quiet too, all things considered.

The primary thing that I LOVE about 7" tabs over the 10-inchers is how easy they are to hold with one hand. They're also the perfect size for reading manga :)

I just checked the connector itself, and it looks like there was a minuscule glob of some kind of gloop on one of the pins. I scrapped it off, and it hasn't gotten hot since ::knock on wood:: Super, super strange :confused:

Awesome, thank you!

Sorry, should have noted that this is only while the battery is charging and the laptop is on. Thanks!

Hey all. I have a 6-month-old L-shaped magsafe charger that I use with my mid-2006 blackbook. I've been using it without incident, but I just now noticed that, when charging, the magsafe connector gets hot. Like, REAL hot. Hot to the point where it kind of hurts to hold it. Is this normal?

I have a feeling that his extra touch may go missing, as it's nearly impossible to replicate the contributions someone makes to something as esoteric as design...but overall? Nah, I don't think it will impact Apple too much. As others have said, Apple employs tens of thousands of people...

Considering Thuban represents the near-end-of-life for an architecture, and Bulldozer represents the first step in the life of a different architecture that's unlike anything they've ever done, I'm willing to give AMD a pass on this one. They don't have the capacity, size, or cashflow of Intel...

I think you're missing the point. We're not saying that Bulldozer was supposed to compete with $1,000 CPUs, we're saying that the FX name is supposed to be.

That's his entire point: the FX processor line, at one time in history, DID compete with $1,000 processors. If I'm remembering correctly, the FX-60 went for around $800-$900 when it was first released.

FSM forgive me.

Gotta love the unexplained "Percent" label on the X axis, using 100% as the base measurement. 100% of what???

::moment of silence::

I've had great luck with Western Digital's Green series for my archives. Quiet, runs cool, and it's Good Enough™ for use as a backup or archive drive. Interestingly, I've also had AMAZING luck with Maxtor drives ::knock on wood::. I've had a 250 gig Maxtor churning away 24/7 in an email...

Nah, never used the keyboard....always hated it :) It's just a bit banged up after all these years, and I'm ready to move on to something newer and peppier. I'm already running Liquid Gingerbread v1.7 on it (2.3.3), and I haven't had any problems whatsoever from a stability standpoint, so that's...

Hmm, very true. Well, I'm in no real big rush, so I guess I'll wait for now. Thanks!

My only problem with the Prime is that it's supposed to be 4G from what I've heard, and like I said, I'd rather not deal with the crap battery life. Do you know anything about its connectivity?

Hey everyone. First, just a quick rundown of how I use my phone: I listen to MP3s via Winamp all day at work, do standard Facebook and Twitter stuff, take the occasional picture, and even sometimes make a phone call or two. I very rarely game with my phone (with the exception of Kairosoft...

Hey all, I've been reading around on various places, and I've found conflicting information. I'd trust you folks over anyone else, so I come to you in the hopes of finding a common answer. Can someone give me a quick paragraph crash course on why certain motherboards don't work/can't...

The only time I encountered an artifact or PCIe seating issue was when I installed my sound card; at the time, I was only using the no-tool holder on the PCIe slot rather than an actual screw (yeah yeah, I know...I have no clue what I was thinking.) Anyway, after booting up, I got all kinds of...

I don't know anything about the DS line, but I'm extremely happy with my Twin Frozr II 560ti. Here's a link. It's quiet, it stays around 50-55c under full gaming load with a mild core overclock (in sig, up from the stock 880 MHz), and it's real easy to clean. Highly recommended, AAA++, would...