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    NY Times PS3 article..

    Huh?? Maybe I am misunderstanding here but I never had to plug my 360 controller into the console to get it to work. Also is there actually people that do not turn on their 360 with the controller (accomplished by holding the big 360 button)? I don't think I have touched my 360 power button...
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    HDTV Xbox 360 users?

    I run mine at 720p. 720p means you are getting 60 frames a second and 1080i means you are only getting 30 so most of the time 720p feels smoother.
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    How's this HDTV for X360/PS3?

    Listen to this man. Do not get a 4:3 tv. You will regret it. Nothing beats gaming on a good widescreen.
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    What Orig-Xbox game should I get for my 360?

    Crimson Skies High Road To Revenge Is A Lot Of Fun.
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    Do I need the HDD to play Halo 2 on my 360?

    Yes you do need the harddrive for all backwards compatibilty. And yes they did add AA not sure about AF.
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    Video card vs. Processor Question

    I agree. Second option is your best choice. And you can always overclock that 3200+ easily.
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    are 360's still not generally available?

    Up here in Canada I saw my first 360's core and premium in a walmart the other day.
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    nintendo revolution question

    I doubt cube games will be downloadable. For something like RE4 it would be over 2 gigs most likely since it comes on two disks and the disks hold 1.8Gb. I would guess they will release only up to the N64.
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    Upgrading from 1GB to 2GB- Any difference?

    If you play games like Battlefield 2 or Fear I would say it is worth it. Load times go down, can alt-tab out of the games quicker and so on.
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    The benefits and costs of overclocking.

    One thing you did wrong is RMA a card when you killed it overclocking.
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    64-bit OS performance?

    I would say so. I have not noticed a benchmarkable difference, but things do seem to just run smoother. Take that as you will.
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    x360

    The newer consoles will have to run at 60fps for the progressive resolutions. 480p, 720p and 1080p.
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    A64 owners do you run Windown 64bit edition?

    I am using it with my winchester. Overall excellent OS.
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    Battlefield 2 worth getting, or still horribly buggy?

    Just as a note, if you want to improve load times you need more than a gig of ram. I put in a 2nd gig and load times were halved.
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    Wattage question

    Have no fears. That should easily be enough to power those speakers to quite loud volumes.
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    GTA:SA, Stuck on "Freefall" mission...

    I just flew to an altitude much higher than the plane, than when it went under I angled down and towards it, and that gave me more speed to catch up.
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    Cool and Quitet

    Is there any trick to get Cool & Quiet to work on an AMD processor? My processor is currently overclocked to 270x9 or 2430mhz. Now reading around I thought that Cool & Quiet would still work when overclocking. But when I enable it in the bios my processor runs at 1350mhz in windows. I tried...
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    s939 AGP motherboards that support A64 X2 out of the box?

    Pretty sure the Neo 2 will not come with that bios. I am running one and that bios is fairly new. As far as I know though, as long as the bios supports the venice core the cpu will work just in single core mode.
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    Looking for new speakers, logitech z-680 worth it?

    Definetely good speakers. As said pair it with an Audigy 2 ZS and you will be in heaven.
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    Pariah anyone?

    It is a fun generic shooter. The ability to upgrade your weapons was kinda nice. Graphics were ok, nothing astonishing except for the cutscenes which look like complete shit (on the PC version). Story is completely crap, makes no sense whatsoever. Seems like a bunch of disconnected events to...
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    No way bf2 will run on a gf3?

    Actually you need SM1.4. Hence why the 8500 can run it and the GF4 can't.
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    DTS versus Dolby Digital 5.1

    DTS most definetely.
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    New game

    Far cry is a great single player experience but so is republic commando. Only problem with it is it a lot shorter and I found it much easier. Warcraft 3 has a great story and is a lot of fun to play. I found Area 51 to be a fun romp as well but way to short. hmmmm, so to summarize my...
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    Athena speakers any good?

    I have a set of athenas and they are great speakers for the price. I listened to many different sets before I bought them and I thought they beat many other higher priced speakers. I bought a Yamaha RX-V 1400 to power mine. Great reciever. I put on 12 gauge speaker wire just because I got a...
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    MSI K8 Neo2 platnium clocking problem

    This is cool & quiet running. Basically it downclocks the processor when it is not under full load. I would not worry about this. Under load your processor is running at it's rated speed.
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    BF2 Hud Question...

    I used to do that in Diablo 2 if that counts.
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    Soundblaster X-FI?

    I would think the X-Fi should be out soon considering Battlefield 2 already has support for it.
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    Is GeForce 6600 SLI (nonGT, total 512MB memory) worth the money?

    No I would not say it is worth it. The extra ram is absolutely useless on that card. Either get the Normal 6600 or spend the $200 on a better card.
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    Looking for an EAX games to 'wow' me

    Call of duty was great. Liked republic commando as well.
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    Pariah..........worst story ever?!

    I don't really care about the history of the conflict. The story in the game made absolutely no sense. It did not feel continuous at all. For example the one mission where you are captured and put in one of those stasis pods. After you are attacked they wake you up to defend the ship...
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    Pariah..........worst story ever?!

    lol, no, you are absolutely right. I could never figure out what was going on in that game.
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    Fatal1ty loses 11-1

    I had always heard that he is not the tops at any one game, but that he can pick up any game and be very competitive in it in a short period of time.
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    What... Slow down in the new console games..Already

    Ummmm, no they will not. They display 60 frames in progressive mode and 30 in interlaced. That is like saying a CRT monitor will display as many framerates as you send it, it is not true. Hence the need for the Vsync option.
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    XBOX360 Revealed: Implications for R520?

    Very true. I guess it all depends on how you define new core. If that is your definition than I am ok with that. I am more curious, if (speculating totally here) the R500 is a new core that is the base for the R600, does it have the Geometry shader hardware that is supposed to be a...
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    [H]ard|OCP Xbox 360 Sneak Peek

    You are halfway there. 1080p = 1920x1024. 1080i=1920x512. At 1080p the framrate is 60 times a second. At 1080i the framerate is still technically 60 frames per second but it only displays 30 unique frames. For the display of 1080i it will show all the even lines of the frame and then all...
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    XBOX360 Revealed: Implications for R520?

    I don't know if you can use transistor counts to tell if it is a new core. From what I have read, they speculate that adding FP32 will add aprox 30% more transistors. Add 8 more piplelines and SM3.0 tech and the 300 million transistors reported for the r520 is reached. I am not saying that...
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    Guess i'll never own current gen video card

    You aren't just paying for the materials. You are paying for the millions of dollars of R&D that goes into these cards. As they get more complicated the cost of that is going to go up.
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    R500 (xbox 360)

    I don't see why they couldn't do it in something like the current Xbox HD pack.
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    R500 (xbox 360)

    Can you post links proving that? Obviously this is all speculation at this point. Most of this stuff came from the Beyond3d forums so take that as you will. As for the transistor count, they say adding FP32 functions will add about 30% to the transistor count, which would make 234 million...
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    R500 (xbox 360)

    Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to go unified shader architecture till they have to which is required for longhorn which isn't out till 2006. It would make sense to just extend the current architecture a little to make a stopgap product.
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