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Last month I bought a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M3438 for under 1700€ which offers very good value. I'm pretty impressed by the Pentium M's performance at 2.0GHz which is mostly in the same ballpark with my Athlon 64 at 2.4GHz. The NV41 is also a pretty good performer but you definetly need...

Wow, thanks for the great answer. That's as straight out as I could ever hoped for. It's true that downsampling to SDTV resolutions may look pretty nice, but I 'm not convinced that downsampling to 720p is going to look good enough compared to a native 4xMSAA'd 720p image. Ahh I can hear the...

Do you mean "near future" in a "RSX-near future" way? :P From all the talk i gathered around this forum, and especially Dave Baumanns excellent Xenos article, I can only conclude that supporting hardware MSAA with HDRI is purely an implementation issue in the ROP's. It "simply" requires...

Hi pascal, you should check out http://www.doom9.org/ . They have excellent guides on the matter. For best quality I recommend DVD2SVCD with CCE, but you may want to use TMPEG because it's cheaper (but slower). DVDx is very easy to use and you may want to start with that. It's also...

I still use vi. It was a bitch to learn back then, but I've never ran across a Unix or Linux machine without my trusty vi installed. Laziness is king! :D

:lol: I thought about that too! Really, we should wait for more information before it is declared a failure. Don't forget there are plenty of uses for tires with all kinds of sizes and velocities, so they may turn out to be useful in even other areas than cars.

Two weeks ago my brave Ilyama 19" CRT died after 5 years of extensive usage. I've seen several TFT's at my friends houses and I took a good look at a variety of displays at LAN parties, or at shops where you are allowed to try them with more than "swirling-the-mouse-over-the-desktop", but I...

For converting DVD audio streams to mp3 I used DVD Decrypter to rip the audio and converted the ac3 file with Besweet to mp3. It can be a bit confusing if you aren't used to these programs, but it is guaranteed to work. There are some excellent guides on the matter over at...

Hhmmm, after rereading the thread and considering every post, I have no other choice as to agree to the obvious: Try booting into safe mode and deleting it. :)

What kind of file is this? Many people have your problem with .avi files, as the Windows explorer preview feature is hogging the file. Booting into safe mode will not always help. The DOS Box is your friend. If you have this problem frequently try disabling the preview feature...

As you obviously know so much about the relationship of RAM types and size I think you need to specify under which circumstances you obtained your findings? Which OS did you use? (I think you know what can happen on Win9x with 1GB of RAM.) Which applications did you benchmark? (I think you...

This thread is kinda sad. :cry: Anybody who is truly interested in this topic should read the two threads Reverend was linking to as they contain tons of information. If you are to lazy to read all of them, atleast take a look at sireric's post as a perfect explanation for the decision to...

I had a similar technique (move a small mouse with your fingers) until I switched to a trackball which I am very pleased with. I still have a mouse connected to my PC for the sole reason of 3D shooters. I managed to get pretty good with the trackball in 2D applications or strategy games, but...

Excellent point! The following is copied from the Mission: From the above statement and from my impression of the site I would extract the following points: 1) Honest view of 3D architectures: A truthfull description of various elements of 3D architectures that goes beyond marketing...

The biggest letdown IMO is the absence of Single Player Coop. This was very good on Xbox and I was really looking forward playing Coop with a few people online or in a LAN. :?