Posted 11/29/2008 at 07:48:58am

what are you talking about?

GPU's dontuse anywhere close to that kind of power.

look here

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334&p=9

a quad core system with two GTX 280's in SLI only used 508W!  700W? entry level? what are you smoking?

as you can see here

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3372&p=10

two 4870 X2's only used 752W thats about as high end as you can get. and still 250W shy of 1KW

please do research next time

Posted 11/06/2008 at 02:10:37pm

well assuming you use all three screws to secure it the weight shouldnt be an issue.

props to palit, at least sombody is thinking out of the box. love all the connectors on the back

Posted 11/04/2008 at 05:08:25pm

well i was gonna tune into CNN anyway. this should be interesting

Posted 11/03/2008 at 07:26:18pm

this is great, steam continues to get better and better. this is the change weve been waiting for STEAM/VALVE '08!!!

 ah, ummm maybe that was a bit too enthusiastic?

Posted 11/03/2008 at 02:13:59am

interesting, your saying the overspeed protection is simply a locked multiplier. Toms is saying that it's something all together different. they say that the overspeed protection limits the TDP of the chip. if a chip goes over the prescribed wattage the chip resets to stock speed. its unrelated to the locked multiplier. in effect this means that large overclocks on i7 are impossible without the EE version (which lets users adjust the "protection" wattage)

one of you is wrong and it could certainly be Toms, in fact i hope it is, cause otherwise it would suck

Posted 10/30/2008 at 09:26:42am

your title says its home basic, the pic says home primium. now i know you can pick up HP on the egg for $100 so it doesnt matter much. but you should probably clear that up

Posted 10/28/2008 at 10:59:22am

the only "issue" with 64 bit OS's was support. now that the big OEMs are shipping 64 bit systems nobody can ignore them anymore. let 32 bit die, its had a good run.

Posted 10/25/2008 at 07:22:30am

QFT

what there describing is pretty much Steams DRM. the game is assigned to YOU, not your machine

Posted 10/22/2008 at 07:36:15pm

I think the 1600 ram is the sweet spot.

weve all been spoiled by DDR2 prices so much are hard to think of those as reasonible.

then i remembered i paid $145 for my 2GB of DDR2 800 2 years ago. so 6GB for $300 thats twice the speed isnt that bad.

its just tough to swallow right now

Posted 10/21/2008 at 01:41:03am

true, but this plan has too many positives. as long as its not based on something like a no cd crack (which many gamers use for convinience not law breaking) then it could be the solution weve been waiting for