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... is what I thought until I saw this: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/29/thunderbolt-cable-teardown-reveals-electronics-and-firmware/ Frickin cables got frickin computers in it. ... in other news: Monster cables are still made of two bucks worth of raw materials and labor, and 98...

http://planetside.station.sony.com/news_archive.vm?id=67981&section=News&month=current The main Planetside website has been updated with a countdown to something. This interests me. For those who don't know, Planetside was an MMOFPS which came out about 7 or 8 years ago, which was...

So I was skimming over some headlines and I gather that one of the major gpu makers will probably have dx11 cards in stores before the other does. I got to thinking, while that might look good from a marketing point of view, it seems to me to be an utterly trivial thing in real terms, for...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2009/may/19/tech-weekly-steven-spielberg-gaming-transport So, well known expert on video games, and movie director who was good a decade or two ago, Steven Spielberg, reckons that gaming through the tv without a console and virtual reality helmets...

Yeah, so I play WoW. It's by no means the only thing I play, but it probably takes up about half my gaming time. Not that long a go I upgraded my PC, I had been running a gtx 260(192), and I stepped up to a gtx295. I was happy with the gtx295 for most things, but I found it...

Hi. I find myself looking longingly at the 4870/4850 x2 cards as possible upgrades, but having mostly skipped the world of Crossfire, SLI and dual CPU cards so far I have some gaps in my knowledge. I have two questions: First, the x2 cards use crossfire to work but, for a single x2...

...makes server 2008 run so nice? I was in the "wait for sp1" crowd with respect to Vista, and following it's retail release, I took a look around, checked driver support and such and came to the conclusion that the time was right, so I'll be installing it this coming weekend. However, one...

So, folks who bought AoC at launch, your free month is about to come to an end, do you think you'll "convert" to subscription, or will you just move on to the next thing (or go back to WoW :p) ?

Once upon a time there was quake, it was a good shooter, but mostly brown with some bits of grey. Then theFPS makers discovered that colors could work too, Half-life came along, it wasn't brown and grey, it had a fairly decent palette of colors, FarCry also, managed to be bright and colorful...

Yeah, so Vivendi games, which includes Blizzard, have just merged with Activision: http://blizzard.com/press/071202.shtml Scary.

I haven't upgraded my PC for a good while now and my A64 3800+ is looking a little long in the tooth for some of the games coming up, I'm more or less totally out of touch with which boards/manufacturers are on top of their game (I have favoured Asus products in the past, but for all I know...

Seriously, what marketing genius though it was a good idea to release any MMO less than a month after everybody in the entire world re-subscribed to WoW to try out the expansion. Vanguard may be the shit, but that's really, really stupid timing.

I figure this is a good forum to ask in. I got me thinking, say I had a smallish partition, and I installed a game on it, would NTFS or FAT32 yield the better performance, My (limited) understanding of how the two systems work leads me to believe that, quite possibly, FAT would be the...

...in the security sense. The term came up today with reference to securing logins to an online service, but I am not familiar with the term. I don't think it refers to a physical card, there are too many users to deploy and control such a system. My current supposition is that it...

What's the big deal exactly? Yes, I've been looking forward to this tech for a while, yes, I get that it's faster, more robust and more efficient. That's all marvellous, and why I will probably get one of those drives next time I'm upgrading my Gaming rig. But why is this such a big...

So I just downloaded the patch and my terrain replacement mods don't work anymore, this is not a big deal, I'm sure they will again soon, but looking at the awful default distance textures again got me thinking. Why, Bethesda, why? I love Oblivion, don't get me wrong, it's the best game...

I was just thinking about this today, I know CoD2 was patched, but I havn't got that so I don't know how it panned out, but how the heck does this work? I know that Oblivion will be receiving a patch, but it seems to me to be a horrific kludge. Consoles don't install games like a PC does, on...

I'm in the market for a new TV and I'm looking at LCD screens, however, I've noticed that most of them in the size range I'm looking at seem to run at 1366x768. This vexes me, I'll mostly be using the screen for my Xbox360, PS2 and watching SD DVDs for now (probably from one of the consoles...

Since reinstalling Windows and installing my 7900gtx I've been having a problem where the screen image on WoW just freezes, it sounds like the game is still running underneath, but I can't do anything, or alt+tab/alt+f4. At first I thought it might be a borked card, or temps, but a good...

Okay, so I'm not a total Headphones n00b, my current stable starts with senn hd 497s and peaks at my beloved, eargasmic, beyer dt880+cardas cable upgrade, with a couple of other decent sets in between. However, I'm having trouble finding a sweet set that will work for general listening...

Projectors are the way to go for big screen fun! Anyone know any good value for money projectors? For now I'm still very much an SD kid, so high resolution isn't that important, given the decided lack of casual HD content this side of the Atlantic I'd rather have a good quality 640/800x480...

So I've noticed recently that two high profile games, namely FEAR and COD2, released single player demos that ran really rather badly on pretty high end hardware, when in both cases the retail version (or patched on day of release version) ran significantly better. In both cases I was pretty...

My trusty iBook has died, based on my research it would appear that the logic board is fuxxord (I had brief hope it was a PMU thing, but that proved fruitless, if you'll pardon the pun), and it would seem that for the price of an out of warranty logic board replacement you may as well just buy a...

Through necessity I've had to purchase a boxed French copy of nod32, this opens the possiblility that I will not be able to understand the interface options fully, I was using SAV 9.0 corporate, but my copy is a bit out of date (and I don't have access to higher versions anymore, and I'm not...

I was just over at www.xbox360.com and maybe it's just because I'm using a non MS os, but that site appears to be really, really terrible. Go and look, tell me if I'm insane or missing something. It may just be the worst designed site in the history of the internet.

At the moment I have a first generation single core 3800+, I'm more or less satisfied that there isn't enough of a performance increase down the current single core range to make the cost of the top FX worth it, so I'm looking at X2s. Now, my primary performance application would be gaming...

This is slightly odd, my ability to access .mac has just stopped as of yesterday, I can't open the website (in safari or firefox) it just hangs, and mail.app won't retrieve mail. The apple website works fine, as does every other that I've tried. Here's that slightly odd bit, I can access the...

Yay! I suppose technically this should be in the movies forum, but given the content i think it fits here. http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/doom.html

Okay, for reasons to arcane (and) dull to go into, I'm without my dell2001fp until at least the middle of next month, but I'm going to implode If I can't get some PC gaming in soon (I've been stuck with just my iBook for two friggin months, no BF2, GTA:SA or anything else for poor martin, and...

At the time of posting the above message has appeared on the front page of www.overclockers.co.uk . And by "arriving" they mean they'll have them in stock.

You know, that disk that comes with their machines. How strenuous is it? I'm selling on my (hardly used) Mini, I swapped out the RAM when I first got it, and it functions perfectly as far as I can see, but I want to be able to stand behind it. Does the Hardware Test in fact Test the...

This was just posted in a thread on the OCUK forums: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=4914371&postcount=5 For context, Overclockers.co.uk is retailer with a really good track record for getting high end kit early on (I've been buying from them for years), and the poster...

What's going on with Longhorn?, the timeframe keeps getting longer while the feature list gets shorter. How does that work exactly? At this rate it'll end up being released as service pack 3 for XP in 2010. I didn't mind some of the other stuff so much, but the .NET/Managed code stuff...

Sweet dancing zombie Jeebus! http://www.thestreet.com/tech/software/10225293.html

I have just got back from sitting the Comptia Security+ , and let me just say: WHAT A FUCKING BASTARD EXAM! I went in moderately prepared for trick questions, and questions so poorly worded that you'd need a divining rod to figure out what they wanted. I came out shocked at how badly...

The only study material I used was the Exam Cram2 book, for those interested in such things, it really isn't enough. I have a few years of networking behind me so I was only using it to get a bit of an exam taking vibe/mindset going on, but I can say to anyone with little/light experience...

More info on ATI multi-rendering, don't think there's much new here but so close to the predicted launch the likelyhood of accuracy gets that much stronger with each retelling. If this works the way it sounds (obviously a big "if") then SLI is getting some serious competiton. MVP...

Ouch! Double Ouch!! They call it a "Settlement" but, pending more info, I'd call it "Vivendi getting kicked square in the nuts by Valve".

Apparently there's some kind of survey being run on Xbox Live that includes a pretty strong indication that there will be ability to play XBox games on the 360, but only with the hard drive attached. *Edit*Yeah whatever*Edit*

Despite several years of experience and massively impressive competance and intelligence I have deduced that my utter lack of IT "Paper" is possibly off-putting to some potential employers, therefore negatively impacting my marketability. I'm planning on certing up real good over the next...