Posted 07/02/2008 at 07:36:10am

Actually, I would think two monitors to be pretty normal. Right now I'm surrounded by six (two 24", four 19") but I quickly found that the motion of extreme Left to Extreme right got VERY hard on the neck. I haven't used two of them since the first week I set it all up. Still... only ONE monitor? For a "dream" machine? Seriously, while you're playing [fill in favorite monitor filling game here] what are you using to look up stuff on the net', watching your video cams around the house, seeing new email coming in, etc.? (true, that's what I use the two 19" monitors (on a 2nd system for).
But I applaud the Microsoft keyboard. I had really gotten to like the "natural" keyboard layout and was shock and saddened when my black PS2 gave out during a rousing LAN of Diablo II. The G15 I have now lights up the keys nice and pretty but it's a PITA to use just like all other '102 key layout' boards. I can already feel my hands and fingers urging carpal to join them. Plus I have yet - 2 years later- to use ANY of the 18 extra "macro" buttons.

Posted 07/02/2008 at 06:48:44am

And here I thought Hellgate London was supposed to be the new Diablo III. But since it takes place only 20 years in the future... well that makes sense. Hopefully it WON'T be Online ONLY like HGL. One of the things that made Diablo II so much fun is the mini-LANs of 8 people we could have. With HGL, you might as well not leave the house.

But, I do hope they take some of the HGL ideas like shared stash, better graphics and First Person views (for shooting) and put them to good use.

Posted 12/27/2007 at 11:17:24pm

I'm having serious problems with the 3dMark link on ie7. It completely locks up my machine. Till it's fixed I would steer clear of it.

Posted 12/27/2007 at 01:16:29pm

Thanks One4yu2c. I was just about to apply some grease to my newest Xmas build and thought I'd check to be sure the amount to add was still "about the size of a BB". Now I find it's a thin LINE for dual cores. Thank you VERY much for the link!

Posted 12/23/2007 at 02:51:49pm

And that's about the extent of my spanish other than, "One beer please" or "Where's the restroom". However, lack of understanding aside, I did not see any external power cabling abilities. No extra P6 connectors required under PCIe2? Any ideas how they will stack up against, the current 2900s or Nvidia 8600s-8800s?