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Happened across Void Destroyer looking through some of the Steam Greenlight candidates. Normally wouldn't bother too much with random guy making over ambitious game in his spare time, but he's got quite a few gameplay videos up and looks like most of the game there already and mainly trying...

Saw A new Feature coming to Steam today. Similar to the XBLA Indie games stuff you can do through XNA (although, I'd be surprised if the community vote by itself would get games approved here). Seems like a good idea to help Valve pick through the noise, and bring attention to the...

Saw this was up on Steam the other day, Had played this while it was in beta, and a bit after the full launch, but the competitive multiplayer was pretty weak with limited numbers of people playing, poor match making and serious imbalances based on the loot you had equipped; so I didn't stick...

Anything out there recently that did that true 3D fleet to fleet battle? Sins of a Solar Empire was fun, but fairly constrained by the 'hyperspace lanes' driving the location of battle in each planet's gravity well. I really didn't care much for AI war, battles seemed a jumbled mess of...

It looks like an interesting concept, but the demo is basically only one mission (other than the get your feet wet tutorial) with no multiplayer or random play, and the few reviews around are a mixed bag. Anyone have anything to say about it? Been a while since I've picked up a strategy...

Trying to install vista home premium SP1. When I have just my SATA drive(s) (I have two, a 250gb and brand new 500gb, if either or both are installed this happens), neither my Vista boot nor the install DVD (32 or 64 bit DVD) will make it past the black screen with 'microsoft corp' and the...

We're starting to support MS SQL server for our software package at work, and while I have a decent understanding of SQL as a language, and databases in general (though largely limited to IBM DB2 which we have historically used) I need something to help with the finner points of MS SQL server...

Sign up: http://game-on.intel.com/eng/geekout/wic/default.aspx Downloading starts Monday, online play July 11th - 31st. Sign up to put those commie bastards in their place.

I'm working on a low budget upgrade for a friend, trying to minimize noise, power and cost so I'm looking into a 35W Sempron, but it seems no one is actually selling them - or at least no one can label them correctly. Every '35W' part I've come across so far is still labeled 'SDA*,' not SDD*...

I've been playing through the Medieval II Total war long campaign the last few weeks - so I will probably focus mainly on that, and the battle A.I. in particular, but only because that is what's fresh in my mind. It is not many turns into the grand campaign that I arrive at the frustrating...

I'm going for a mid budget (600-800) overhaul of my current system, either AM2 X2 3800+ or Conroe E6300 and something like a 7600GS, and I'll be giving up my current 1gb of Corsair VS PC3200. I've pretty well nailed down the builds I want to make, other than the ram I think. The current...

As the title suggests, I want to record cable TV to my comuter, and play back the recordings on my TV. The ideal video out would not be coax, but s-video or composite (component works too, but is overkill for my current TV) so that I can run the video out to my surround sound reciever and...

I've spent the last 3 years making little upgrades to my AXP-M rig (bigger hard drive here, double the ram there, new video card last summer), and am having a bit of sticker shock pricing out a full rebuild for Conroe. So in the interest of penny pinching, I was going to try and reuse my...

Browsing some XPress Crossfire 3200 / NF 590 SLI reviews and saw a interesting trend. http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?page=21&articleid=822 http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/am2-chipsets/index.x?pg=19 Running the same system the NF 590 SLI was consuming 20-40W more from...

I've done a bit of searching, but haven't found much specific info (maybe just because it doesn't exist yet) on Yonah compatible motherboards. I know AOpen has the i945-whatever availible overseas (haven't seen it in a US based store yet) And Asus announced the N4L-VM HT. So 1. Do we...

Needs: a new case for a full ATX motherboard. $100 (to my door) maybe $110 price limit. No power supply needed. I'd like: 120mm rear fan. Side fan, if it comes with a side window. I have no trouble cutting a fan hole in metal, but me, saws and plexi don't mix well. Some sort of noise...

Not being much of a gamer, I survived with a 9600SE untill recently. I'm very pleased with the upgrade, ohter than having to go from a passively cooled card to a fan that is not terribly annoying, but is constantly audible. Given that I've put an emphasis on the rest of my computer being a...

I'm upgrading the home theater from a Pro Logic reciever to a dolby digital / DTS ect ect (finaly) and need a sound card that will give me a digital out. Basiaclly the entier purpose of this sound card is to transmit the audio signal to the reciever. (Actually that's the sole purpose of the...

Maybe, leaked pics And that ain't PGA.... They also claim it supports DDR II 533, 667 and 800. No word on whether or not it actually ingerates a PCIe controller.

RealWold Tech has a nice roundtable discussion regarding Newisys' HORUS Chipset for Opteron, designed to scale the architecture to 32 CPUs, and potentially beyond. Not so practical for us, but nice to drool over for a bit.

Wanted to ge some opinions, reviews, experiences from you guys on this monitor. It's primary use is just text (documents, code, web, ect), but there will be gaming on it. (So I'd like to keep the 16ms response time) I'm most interested in the quality / readablity of text, good color in images...

The boys over at TechReport go their hands on the new PCIe chipet from ATI. Performance is nothing short of average. Hangs right in with the K8T800 Pro every time. No surprises here though. Just rounding out the complement of PCIe chipsets we can sit around waiting for.

Just a little something different. 2400+ 45W AthlonXP mobile. stock, 1.8ghz 1.45V of course, 45W TDP. Volcano 7+ HS (no fan of course). 2 80mm intake fans, 1 on the back panel drawing air over the HS, one on the side panle, well because it's there. 1 92 mm exhaust fan cut into the top...

Tech Report has a nice review up of alot of the 'hot ticket' supplies, plus a few buget entries. Perhaps not the most spectacular all around review (I'm particuarly disspaointed Thermaltake and PC P&C opted not to participate), but check out the AC ripple tests. While all (expect one) are...

is signifigantly lower (TechReport article) 20-30W lower (at the wall outlet) than the 130nm version. So, with reasonable efficiency in the PSU (say mid 60's%) that's a nice 14-20W easier on the PSU. This of course doesn't imply they are cooler (though in this particular test they were)...

I'm finaly ditching my old Tbird 800 for something that won't choke on UT2004 or Far Cry, but my trusty Epox 8k7A only supports up to a Tbred2100+, and I'd like a little more of a boost than that. I think i've decided on a 2400 Thorton or 24/2500 Mobile (want to stick to using my 512mb of...

Mirosoft just opened their 'Customer Preview' program for XP64 today. The trial version expires in 360 days. They will presumably finish beta before then.......

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