TechPowerUP has some of the least informed reviews I have ever read, lol. Pages of canned benchmarks with no analysis are useless these days and don't lead to informed decisions.
It only depends on benchmarks and power/heat numbers, coupled with price. Everything else is an emotional appeal. Why would you say you are gong 'green' without all of this information first? I hope you don't think ATi/AMD owe you a price drop just because nVidia releases a new card? The only...
I plugged the fan into the CPU header and my pump right into the PSU with an adapter. I bought an adapter from FrozenCPU with and RPM cable so I can monitor pump speed as well. Works like a champ.
Preach on Gabe, Steam provides just the right amount of DRM to be painless to me and still protect the publishers content. The problem will be all the people who will still pirate the Ubisoft titles in some kind of self-righteous protest. All this does is justify the DRM in the minds of the...
lol, the only thing Kyle stuck up for yesterday was page hit count, posting unsubstantiated "news" is not reporting. Leveling assorted accusations at Newegg and D&H without all the facts was beyond unprofessional and did no service to the enthusiast community. Yes, the rabble all feel like they...
Of course they did, and no one expected anything less. But the fact that some people don't care for the language they used and think this is a reason to doubt their commitment to their customers is just a waste of time. While it might be nice to know the whole story, it doesn't really impact...
Newegg owes those who got a fake CPU a replacement and some kind of 'gesture' to wrap it up, a discount or something, which I am sure they will come through with. They don't owe you any special language, deep explanations or results of their internal investigation. They need to make sure this...
Yes,let's change points since you last straw man fell down. You stated that anyone who doesn't think what nV is doing with CUDA just wants crappy console ports. A fallacy on so many levels it's painful, from insinuating we can't get good PC games if nV doesn't add proprietray code to games to...
But the only direction they are offering is vendor lock-in, if all they wanted to do was offer direction PhysX, the Batman:AA debacle and some of this other hinky stuff would not be happening. nVidia might just be making some nice gestures, but based on past behavior they are probably looking...
What does this have to do with anything? nVidia is pushing CUDA for the same reason. SLI, PhysX and CUDA are all designed to create vendor lock in and associated profits, nothing more. They aren't adding this stuff to Just Cause 2 out of the goodness of their hearts, but to keep from bleeding of...
Got home at 5pm last night, kicked off download, came back down at 6pm ready to install. Played 2 rounds of Squad Rush then the EA log in servers started taking forever to respond so I played MW2 and figured I'll wait for the rumored Friday patch and try again this weekend when things have...
Yea, I'm going to have this game for... well forever since it's tied to my Steam account. If it's typical of new DICE release it's be a much better game after the first patch. I plan to play MW2 tonight and download BF:BC2 while I sleep.
One place to see/launch/backup/restore/buy my games...
I don't think ATi will direclty kill nVidia, I think nVidia will. Bad decisions and wildly fluctuating cash flow has done more damage than direct competitoin from ATi. Not countering the 5xxx series at all, not decisively countering the 4xxx series and these weak "rebadging" schemes are signs of...
While I don't agree with the devs reasoning I think it's out of line to call for a boycott for a feature that really only impacts a small percentage of gamers (see Steam Hardware Survey). State your opinion, but don't call for a boycott. I've lurked here for years, and this is really a new low...
This.
I find with either brand the major issues that draw headlines usually impact a small but vocal group. My personal issues with both companies have been minor and generally dealt with quickly.
Yea, I've installed dozens if not hundreds of mobos over the years between work and home. The only time I've seen a big, dirty thumbprint on a backplate was when the board had already been messed with by someone else.
I own 2 XL2370-1s for about 3 weeks now. Out of the box one was nearly perfect with no black crush and only a minor tweak to the Blue levels to get an amazing picture. The second had serious blue tint and crushed blacks and took about a half hour to massage a really decent picture out of. I...
This review made me wonder and obviously worry a little so I did some additional testing. Obviously since I own this card I'm clearly not a hardcore PC gamer these days, but the few games I do play I want native resolution and some AA/16xAF with full details. So I fired up HWMon 1.15 and let it...
I never tried it with the cables on the bottom, but I'm idling one degree above ambient and loading around 45-47c so I'm not too worried about it. The vast majority of installs I have seen have the coolant tubes on the top, and that is how it was installed in the Corsair how-to video as well.
It's specualtion, but it's somewhat reasonable speculation if you are watching the business side of the industry. No matter how you slice it right now, nVidia is in a tight spot which translates to a tight spot for it's board partners. If you didn't find the sudden migration of XFX shocking, you...
They are designed to run at full speed and that should be around 1400rpm. A couple people on assorted forums have said they were getting good results running it lower, but for the little bit of noise it might make, I'm more comfortable with mine at 100%.
I get a very mild hum/buzz sound in a...
The demo material in Best Buy typcially runs at 1440x900 to accomdate their lowest end displays, they are all fed from the same box. HannsG monitors are typically some of the lowest quality panels I have ever seen.
Considering the 1156 is the newer socket and has been shown on Intel roadmaps going into 2011, I'd say there isn't much to worry about. It is the mainstream socket to replace LGA775, which we have had since mid-2006.
Since the odds are pretty high the day the 5830 shows up you'll have a very short window to get 4890s does it really matter? Clearly once they burn through all the 4xxx stock they have left there won't be much to debate.
Just because people are willing to accept some trade offs with a TN panel doens't mean they don't care about the color issues. I'd agree just about everyone accepts the viewing angles, and for most I'd bet that has little impact since you usually worry about how your screen looks head on. But...
I had one for about a month. I was initially wowed by teh size, but the pixel density and colors were too awful to bear. I managed to hammer a semi-decent picutre out of it, but I just never warmed up to it. Got about $10 less than I paid for it on eBay, glad I sold it now. Same results with my...
I've had this card for about 2 weeks and I can say the performance numbers match my experience, but my load temps (alt-tabbing out of a game and looking at HWMonitor or CCC) never get that high. I don't game as much as I used to so this card is okay for my needs, but if it got that hot I'd have...
Outside of 120px I'm not sure what is missing? I wasn't entirely sure about this unit, but since Best Buy has a pretty liberal return policy I threw the dice, and I'm glad I did. Great image quality with some pretty quick tweaking, stand doesn't wobble (as some have reported), no blue bleed...
Add me to the Arctic Clean list of fans, it's cheap and a single set of bottles last a looong time. I don't change heatsinks out so often that it's an issue, but that stuff works.