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The OP is right. Everything about this game is underwhelming. Let's start with the most obvious: it is a caterpillar that was birthed out of a console cocoon. No wonder it looks like John Carmack vomited all over a DVD. If even HE pukes up a console game and tries to sell it to us, then there's...

Well I was using RivaTuner to monitor video card memory usage, and it stays stable. Same with my system RAM... My card is hitting 105c during gaming sessions could it be overheating problems? I've used this pc in hot stuffy rooms before which i'm sure the CPU hit these kind of temps before...

Hi, A couple days ago my games started slowing down to like 10 FPS after playing them for more than 5 minutes. It doesn't matter what game -- Far Cry 2, GTAIV, FlatOut, etch they all do it. I have tried restarting my computer with all startup items disabled but it's a no go. Also i just...

Well, I received my I-Inc iH-282HPB on Tuesday and I am quite impressed. It took me two days to post here because I was so busy staring at the dang thing it's hard to peel my eyes away. I'll give you guys a run down of my impressions: The monitor itself looks very sleek, almost like a hybrid of...

Ok i'm glad to hear that! The only last detail that I'm unsure on is the input lag (I should be fine if it's under 30ms or so). There weren't any reviews that I could find to cover it.

Wow you're right... They are selling the I-Inc iH-282HPB 28" for 289.99! It has all positive reviews (so far) on TigerDirect and I found a AnandTech forum thread saying that the previous model got rave reivews. So like that poster, I ordered it and since TG has a 30-day return policy, I can give...

Hi all, Due to my crazy mother smashing my (then $600) Acer AL2423W 24" monitor with a cereal bowl, I am shopping for a new display. I was wondering if you wonderful folks could help me speed up the research since I've been out of the display loop for a while. I'm hoping to get a few...

Any ideas?

I like the idea of having a floppy drive in with the card reader. I think I'll get one like that next time, my current card reader just died on me. Does the floppy on the card reader plug into the USB as well? Or can it be hooked up the the FDD cable on the mobo? (I ask because when I update my...

I regularly scan for viruses and spyware. Just did again today, nothing found...

Yeah, well you can be shocked but not surprised. I do find it appalling some of the things these PC companies do, still, might even make me shocked. But not surprised. This reminds me of the time I had a Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB graphics card in an HP computer, and after normal gaming it...

*EDIT* In the third post he said he's going to get the Wester Digital WD20EADS 2TB. I started typing a long post about what to get instead of the 300GB WD VelociRaptor before seeing this :P

When I thought I had a failed BIOS flash, I called there asking if they knew whether or not they had the tools necessary to do a direct flash to the chip (Which would require something like an EEPROM burner). I knew they didn't but I had to be through. I explained the situation and the guy was...

Hi all, I've had a problem that's been occurring for a couple of months now. It's two different symptoms but they seem to occur at the same time. I did some searching on Google, and found little helpful information on 'CPU Leaks'. I'll be using my PC, and I'll close for example Notepad and...

Yeah, right now I'm looking at probably a month (at least) to have it RMA'd to them. And can you imagine how I feel, I'm having to use my Pentium 4 2.9GHz laptop right now with a mobility radeon X600! :cool: P.S. My board is a Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4.

Hi all, Long story short, I attempted to upgrade the BIOS of my motherboard to use a newer Athlon X2 processor and it failed. I made a bootable USB key, used the included flash program and did the flash in DOS. Get this: It said the update / flash had completed successfully but upon reboot my...

Thanks. It's very strange... most independent hardware sites show the 7750 as performing just above the 6000+, yet if you look at the Tom's Hardware CPU charts it rarely pulls ahead and sometimes even performs below the 5600+...

Arg, I'm trying to find some benchies comparing the 7750 Kuma to the 5800+, 6000+, and 6400+ but most of the ones I can find are either comparing the Kuma to Core 2 Duo's or slower procs like the 5200+ :rolleyes:

Alright, thanks. One more question: The Brisbanes are clocked typically at about 100MHz faster, but have half the cache of their Windsor counterparts. Which do you think I would notice more... 100MHz or twice the cache? (Power consumption is not an issue for me on my list).

Well, looking at the support list for my motherboard, I don't see any Kuma cores listed however I do see some newer Brisbanes such as the 4850e on the list. Same for the Rev 2.0 of the motherboard (I have Rev 1.0). One interesting thing, though, on the google cached version of the CPU support...

P.S. This is a little off topic, but I have to ask. I was reading some reviews on the Core 2 Duo e8xxx series on Newegg, and people were making some crazy claims like being able to overclock their CPU 1GHz above stardard clocks. If they can go so high, why doesn't Intel release them with higher...

Hi all, I built a socket AM2 system in late 2006, and I'm planning to upgrade the CPU. I would build a Core 2 Duo system but can't afford it right now. Due to AMD being so far behind these days with their outdated dual cores, and focusing so much on their [currently expensive] tri/quad cores my...

Wow, what do you know! I had a Saitek joystick plugged in and as soon as I removed it the problems stopped. I just assumed it wasn't causing the problems because since it was wireless it doesn't turn on at all unless you press a button on it. :rolleyes: But I guess GTAIV is screwy like that.

Update: I just installed GTAIV on Vista SP1 thinking that maybe these issues are for XP only, However, the symptoms are still here. Has anyone else had these issues?

Hell all, I have a couple strange problems with GTAIV that I'm asking about here because Google turned up virtually nothing after searching. First, I'm having a problem that is keeping me from being able to play at all. For some reason, when I'm not moving the mouse or holding a key (such...

Ah, thank you TechieSooner! That's almost 100% what I need. It allows me to change the format and order of the time / date, and use any font I like. However, it looks as if it was made before Windows XP was released, and the clock can only have a solid background color instead of being...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here knew of a way to make the Windows XP clock display the "short date" (ie 01/01/2008) next to the time in the system tray. I did some googling and found a free software app that displays the date and time, but it doesn't allow you to make it display the...

My CPU usage stays low to mid 50's and only hits 60 for maybe a split moment when turning fast. Also, to quote the [H] Enthusiast article: It sounds like they're saying bumping up the resolution takes away some FPS. That's a tell-tale sighn that a game is GPU limited when raising the...

I run Oblivion with no 3rd party mods. I only run it with Frostrcrag Spire, and the Orrey. Also, no texture packs, and the game is @ 1920x1200 with no AA. As far as my CPU goes I did some investigating: Most of the time during gameplay CPU usage stays in the low to mid 50 percentile...

Hi all, I've played Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion off and on for a while now on my PC (Since sometime in late 2006). Anyway, last year I upgraded my PC to use an 8800GTX video card and a nice system to go along with it. However recently I realized I had not changed many settings from the default...

It's sad, virtually none of the emulators out there (Virtual PC, or VMWare) can run 3D games. Hell, not even 2D games. Since the older Command & Conquer games (made in the mid ninties, DirectX 3) would have random crashes on my Windows XP and Win 2000 system I thought "Oh yeah I will run C&C Red...

I agree. And It's good to see some real-world benchmarks, Danny Bui. Even though some new bleeding-edge games may show up to a 13% improvement with 2 to 4 cores, you're going to see a much larger performance decrease in single-threaded games that IMO makes the switch not yet worth it. Quads are...

Yeah CS can be frustrating until you play for a few days. I usually play a couple rounds on the stock maps, and then search for ones with some custom maps. I personally avoid de_dust servers like the plague because I'm overly tired of that one ;)

Hi brunner, First of all about the stuttering / jittering. Ever since I've up upgraded to a dual-core I've noticed that quite a few games have this jittery effect, and I believe it's simply caused by older games not being fully compatible with the new technology in dual core CPUs. You can...

Hey all, I was having the same problem where I could not force AA for EVE Online with the Nvidia control panel. I couldn't force it with RivaTuner either, however. But I just used nHancer and I can confirm if you make a profile and set the "Anti-Aliasing compatibility" under the Compatibility...

An MVA panel (Like my 24" LCD) should have consistent color even if you're looking at it from a 90 degree angle (Maybe slightly lighter but without big differences in color). It's hard to tell by your pictures head on there.... don't confuse an uneven backlight with poor viewing angles. Do...

Lol, yeah, run out and buy the 245T because a bunch of sites say it has good image quality. You'll be happy until you go to move your mouse and it moves five seconds later due to input lag: DigitalVersus comparison (Make sure to select 'Delay compared with CRT' section) It's maximum is 68ms...

Well LCDs and CRTs are kind of "opposite" in a way when it comes to resolutions. With CRTs, the more dots they have to fit on screen, the blurrier they become because the tube has a hard time showing that many pixels with enough accuracy. With LCDs, they have what's called a "Native...

Yeah, if you were experiencing 80ms lag, that would be unbearable, you'd barley be able to use your mouse. What website page are you using for that sweet stopwatch counter? I'd love to do some testing myself...

Yeah it really sucks the Vista drivers from Nvidia are still missing the custom resolution menu. Up until a few months ago, the 8800 drivers were even missing the digital vibrance control, and the entire video color adjustment page :eek:. These were all eventually added back in; I'm sure that...