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I am liek teh über fisherman :cool:

From my experience.. I have always had to defrag drives after clean installs. Seems XP's file system writes to the disc more like a shotgun or exposive diarrhea to me. :( If I use a defragged image on other systems though... they have no fragmentation...

Methinks you will still get 0wn3d by all of the kids Digi. :p You should compare it to one of them thar Nostromo game pads.

Would be good to hear about your experiences. :)

Yep, the point about 4 gigs of ram on a WinXP32 system is valid. I'm pretty sure that WinXP can run on 4 gigs of memory, but I think that is total memory. Meaning you'd need to turn your pagefile off in order for things to register properly. The effect of the 4gig size of memory will most...

Sounds good to me. However I'd recomend 2 sticks of memory with the X2 or other Athlon64 for that matter, unless you don't mind running @ 333 instead of 400 (due to mem controller limitations currently). If you go Opteron, you don't have this issue. There are some single socket Opteron mobos...

I think the X-Fi's are a decent replacement for the Audigy line, but I take exception with some of their higher end products. I just don't think their prices are justified.. I bought a Platinum X-Fi, and it's great. Still haven't seen anything really take advantage of onboard memory yet...

They're not worth the extra money IMO. Just pull out some zip-ties, electricians tape, and put some elbow grease to it. :p

I think to some degree this is a chicken/egg thing. Game developers will only enhance their graphics as cards can support those features. If we want mega-textures, we will need mega-amounts of memory. There is also a rise of large screen monitors out there with a native resolution above...

S3 will conquer all!!! *disclaimer* MasterBaiter has never worked for, beta-tested, or "sampled" any of S3's products. Use of S3 products may cause oily discharge, menstruel cramps, and narcolepsy. I agree, and understand that if I am injured, or become ill, or disabled due to use of an...

I'm with RobertR1. I'd like to see some good competition between them mainly for the sake of no one company becoming too complacent about their performance title. Just in the last year both companies have learned a farily decent lesson.... Paper launch = teh bad. :p My semi-recent (last...

1. Yes 2. No 3. Well I don't use it, but I've seen a ton of people complain about it. 4. Going off of memory here... I do not think you need to hit F6 (it just uses the Microsoft IDE driver for install as default driver) 5. Related to cpu throttling do some...

I'm gonna probably go over to dual core some time this year (maybe on the new socket change). Back to on-topic though... I couldn't justify buying these new Raptor drives unless they have improved the arial density on them. The only benefit I can see to these dudes is that they have more...

What I'm mainly curious about @ this point is do these new drives have a higher arial density then the previous Raptors, or does it just have more platters? :-| Some of the 7200 rpm drives are starting to catch up to the Raptors (not in seek, but everything else), so it would be nice to see...

Who said Ferrari's were cheap? This definitely isn't a HD for people with a modest money tree. I'm gonna have to whore myself out to afford a set. :-(