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    What game or game moment has most pervaded your life?

    I probably have several such quirks but one I can think of off the top of my head is from the ancient Psygnosis Barbarian game (not the fighter game by...Palace?). In Psygnosis' game there was this werewolf thing which would come at you, swipe at you with its paw and say "Rawr!" Me and an...
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    Dual Shock 3 Secrets

    What does that controlletr hide beneath its matte-black exterior (well unless you live in Asia I guess; then i tmight be white instead)? I was tired of wondering about that so I took a jeweler's screwdriver to mine and opened it up. At first it refused to budge after removing the 5 screws...
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    Resistance 2

    Sure you're not talking about Duke Nukem here? ;) Peace.
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    WD VelociRaptor VR150 300GB

    They're tlaking about older generation Raptors which drew more power and generated more heat and noise. This drive is by all accounts quieter than most modern 7200RPM 3.5" unit and draws less power than any of said group of drives. Peace.
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    Phenom X3 reviews

    I wonder hw much power that disabled core pulls even being disabled. If there's tens of millions of inactive transistors sitting there and leaking pwoer.. Peace.
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    WD VelociRaptor VR150 300GB

    That Raptor's what - a year and a half a year older than the Hitachi drive? The 7k1000 also has 32MB cache on it, I think that's like 4x more than thatRaptor. It's also more than any desktop drive so far afaik. Hard as it may be to believe for 60 year old tech, harddrives evolve over tme and...
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    Phenom X3 reviews

    How come AMD so often stumbles on clock speed? Ever since K7 they've had problems in this regard. Surely they ought to know by now how not to design to cause this behavior to happen.. You don't see this happen to Intel after all. Or is it just that the engineering expertise and silicon...
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    PS3 Firmware 2.30

    The store needs to cache graphics. It's really friggin slow. I don't know why console internet access has to be so shitty, regular sufring on PCs is nowhere near this lousy even if the page isn't cached at all. Nintendo's and microsoft's online stores are crap too from a speed POV. It takes...
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    Virtual Console and the Wiimote - recommended titles?

    I really liek my Wii and the accompanying wagglewand. It's such a nice controller. I also like the virtual console, partiulary games for systems that can be played with just the wand. I tried super mario world with a gamecube pad. It didn't work; the button placements were all wrong and none...
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    Any VideoPlayback Program Can FastForward w/ Sound BESIDES WinMP?

    PS3 plays back at least DVD/BR movies at +50% with sound. Not sure abotu individual files tho. Probably not the droids you were looking for, but hey.. I though tI'd just mention it. :) Peace.
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    WD VelociRaptor VR150 300GB

    Only if you care about neither money nor capacity.. The storage is pitiful for the cost. Peace.
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    WD VelociRaptor VR150 300GB

    It can't hold a candle in that regard perhaps but it's about ten times bigger than an affordable high-performance SSD. Capacity is nice too; there's not going to be an affordable 300GB SSD for a few years. Only rarely can we keep the cake and eat it. :) Peace.
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    Can one have a PC with four GF 9800GX2 cards ?

    I like SLI also. It enables me to run most games at 1920*1200 res with 16xAA so I have no "venom" about it at all. I guess the problem is it doesn't do much good once you go beyodn 2 GPUs. Like mentioned, input lag and such. Many games also don't display even 100% improvement over 1 GPU...
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    WD VelociRaptor VR150 300GB

    Unfortunately this is unavoidable with a mechanical drive mechanism. If you want a high performance actuator it needs to accelerate the heads quickly thus leading to quick abrupt starts and stops. This causes noise. Silent drives by this measure are thus slow drives. This new raptor...
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    teh PS3 knows how to... (PS3/console dust cleaning thread)

    What a jib. I thought the page linked to said it was FOR 60GB units while 40 were out in the cold? Meh. Peace.
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