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It's because quickly-growing Asia is buying up everything from slowly-dying America they can... Does no one else see this???

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Nice stuff! Until we hear about GDDR6... :rolleyes: This is all getting pretty crazy! And while it's all well and good RAM getting faster all the time (both GDDR and DDR), I would like to see big improvements in hard drives... Where's our holographic storage??? Hybrid drives still aren't...

I liked the game itself, I just didn't like the multiple spots that would crash the game EVERY TIME, so I had to figure out ways around them (even having to download someone's saved game just past the crashing part). Even had to walk around a part looking backwards, as looking at the group of...

Coolaler.com has an early look with some benchmarks with an engineering sample of an Intel Penryn X9000 cpu. It is a 2.8GHz part and includes 6mb cache, 800mhz bus, and is made on the 45nm process. Original Chinese Translated to English

What's annoying is, my buddy bought an original EVGA 8800 GTS in September, and will probably miss the step-up by literally a few days... :mad:

Well, then we have different issues all together... If his CPU is only 800 Mhz, then his board likely doesn't even support PCI-Express, let alone AGP 8x... New system all the way... :rolleyes:

You can get an HD2600XT that can run WoW at 1600x1200 fully maxed out for about $100. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161178 Hurry up and get it, since the rebate ends tomorrow. It's the 512mb version too.

There's a good 40,000 people in my zipcode, and we live in a very affluent area (suburbia about 40 miles from Chicago). We get bent over big time.

WTF??? The best we have in NW Illinois is 8Mbps/768Kbs "Power Plus" for $53/mo... :mad: We tried starting with the 6Mbps/512Kbpa package originally (was the fastest at the time), and no matter what we or Comcast did, never got more than 4.5Mbps at our brand new house. So, we just get the...

Is the XPS M1710 going to be upgradeable from the 7950GTX Go to these monsters??? They'd better... Anand's article about the upcoming 8800GTS/GTX Mobiles: http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3155 Looks like 2-times the performance of my 7950GTX!!! :eek: I WANT NOW!!! Maybe there...

We were lucky. They not only took off the $250 and the 5%, they ALSO took off another 10% from an email I got the day before! We were originally going to get the 61" Samsung LED DLP, but it looked SO much worse than the Sony 60" KDS-60a3000. We ended up with the Sony OTD and delivery charge...

So HOW much does Comcast pay you??? Good GOD... Plugging Comcast, Powerboost, AND trying to justify bandwidth throttling/shaping in a couple sentences? :p

Let's see here... It's all mathematical. Going by "The Law of the Gaming Man" (I just made this up), you must cut your gaming time in half for each new big thing in your life of those 3. Your time to game, broken down: No kids, single, unemployed = 100% time No kids, single, full-time job =...

Woops, double post...

Oh... MY God... Dude, just stick to complaining, it'll get you far in life... :rolleyes: (meant for Ogilvy -- kinda funny we both said basically the same thing at first, LOL!)

It's amazing how people like me can put up with 20 fps in games with no problem, since we are used to it... Then there's those freaks who say that EVERYTHING has to be at 60 +fps average or else they won't buy/play a game... Which means they aren't actually gamers at all... It's really the...

I know what you mean, my laptop's LCD is 1920x1200 native, and even though it is still technically top-of-the-line, I have to play all the newest games at 1440x900 or 1280x800, and yes, it's blurry, but not THAT blurry. Hell, it works as a bit of a weak antialiasing, LOL! ;)

TOO many... More than I'd like to admit... Hell, I remember staying up all night playing Family Feud on the NES... :eek: :p I used to also stay up all night with Gemstone III back in the free-on-AOL days. More that I can even remember: Starcraft FOR SURE, Deus Ex (the first night I had it)...

MOST of the time, people having Torrent issues haven't spent the time tweaking Windows to handle all the half-open connections and in other ways, as well as opening the correct ports on their routers and/or firewalls. But, I have to say, even when I do these things correctly, my Torrent speeds...

I didn't bother reading many of the previous posts, but my buddy runs the settings on "Very High" in XP (yes, using the .ini "hack") and 0xAA with an [email protected], 2GB RAM, and a slightly overclocked 8800 GTS 640 at 1152x864, and averages 30-34 fps on the timedemo. It runs perfectly smooth...

Two words: "Duopoly" and "Lobbyists" That's all I have to say... :mad:

The problem is, all these stupid people automatically equate video games with little kids... They need to check the facts first (straight from the ESA): TOP 10 INDUSTRY FACTS 1. US computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2006 to $7.4 billion – almost...

Which he said he did if you read the OP's post at all... And yes, two GT's in SLI will mop the floor with a single GTX at that resolution, and do it with less heat/noise and only slightly more power consumption at load. It's pretty much a no-brainer IMHO. Unless, of course, you want to wait...

You CAN get 2-8800 GT's in SLI for LESS than what you just paid for that GTX. $230/ea. GT http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5434329 With 2-day shipping, it would be like $470. Do it...

Sounds like your typical woman... Issues, bringing up things that happens A LONG TIME AGO, malice, spite, sneaky, over-emotional, etc... :rolleyes:

That's true, but really, how much bandwidth are PC2-6400 (800MHz) FB-DIMMs going to give you? Add in how insanely hot FB-DIMMs get, higher latency, and insane cost, and I'll take DDR3 ANY day. And I'll second the comment about Intel moving away from FB-DIMMs and moving towards DDR3 -- what...

I'm sorry, but did no one else seem to notice the "FB-DIMM" part once again??? Talk about sucking a golf ball through a garden hose...... :rolleyes:

You can get the EXACT SAME deal at Newegg.

I think all they do is send the serial to any old ".edu" mail address and direct you to a download link after you pay. So I would bet teachers are good to go also. The first software I have actually paid for in I can't even TELL you how many years! It's the best idea EVER, IMHO. Better to...

Well, after my status has been at "Open" since the 31st of August, I called CompUSA today, yet have been on hold for over 40 minutes, and have yet to get someone to pick up to explain this. If past experience has been any indication, they are going to cancel my order for no reason... :mad:

That's actually his plan. He just wants something relatively cheap to tide him over until he can get an Extreme Quad Core and the next nVidia top-line cards in a full on expensive new system. It's kind of just an interim 1-year update before the REAL substance, LOL! And the DDR2-800 is just...

Yeah, I know it limits him, which is why I am going to try to get him to go for my original config that was posted. But I doubt that will happen, which is why I am trying to get alternatives, and so far I have been given some excellent suggestions. He was buying new stuff when the new...

I was looking at that HX620 too. It could work well. But that PC Power is such a good deal right now, it's hard to pass up! Thanks for the link on the DS3L, that is a HOT deal! He may "only" have a 19" monitors, but running at 1600x1200 is still moving more pixels than 1680x1050, and that's...

We end up playing pretty much every good new game that comes out, LOL! He is looking forward to a lot of games that are coming out, including Crysis, the next Call of Duty, Battlefield 2, Company of Heroes with the new expansion, Unreal Tournament 3, a bunch of older games, etc... I kinda like...

Hello everyone! Well, my buddy is ready to upgrade from his old rig (3.2GHz Northwood P4, 1GB DDR-333, BFG 7800GS AGP, etc.), and is willing to spend around $700, though he said he's willing to go a little higher if needed (MAYBE $100, but he'd rather not). He already has the hard drives, the...

Nah, I'm just a giver, so I'm going to give them away to friends, family, and co-workers. :D

In for 10! At 10+ and if you use the "coupon code" BULKRATE, you get some air shipping charges added, but the price per unit goes down to $1.31!!! The air shipping was only an extra $1.70, so the total for 10 of them was $14.80, making it $1.48 per pair of headphones EACH!!! Thanks OP! If...

Hello all. I currently own an XPS Gen 2. I was under the impression that the Gen 2 supported SATA-150 hard drives, so I purchased a new Hitachi 200GB 7200RPM SATA-150 2.5" hard drive for it. But, upon cloning my old stock 100GB 7200RPM Hitachi, I discovered that it was ATA/IDE with some sort of...

Well, see some of us don't have the luxury of being able to USE eSATA... I own a laptop, have always owned laptops, and probably always WILL own laptops. As of now, USB 2.0 is my one means of external hard drive usage. So, to people like me, this is a good deal. 500GB is the sweet spot now...