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I know this sounds weird, but it bothers me. I like the key cap to be rigidly attached. I don't like that there is a little bit of play before the key starts to travel down. It's like I have to balance my finger on the key for a split second, to stabilize the key before it goes down. My...

For office type work. Excel, e-mail... basically text. I'm not doing anything that requires color accuracy or a wide gamut. I just want something easy on my eyes.

I have highly parallel CPU bound code that will eat up as many many cores as I can give it. I will also game on it when not working. I have Asus P6T Delux (v1) which I'm fairly happy with overall. Can anyone recommend a motherboard that's not stupid expensive? All I want are 2x16pci-e...

The laptop is slow, but has access to stuff. I can't upgrade the laptop, but I thought maybe I could tunnel through it.

I'm using an Intel 80GB G2 SSD as a backup drive for various drive images. i.e. work, games, internet, etc. The images rarely change, but I switch frequently. I'm currently using Acronis, but the time it takes to boot into windows & step through the menus takes longer than the re-image...

Price difference is negligible when using x58 onboard raid 0. I make regular backups, so drive failure isn't an issue. My only concern is speed. For real world performance is a single drive better or a raid of 2 half size/priced drives? I have 2 hardware ram drives raided now. It really...

The SLI bridge that came with my Asus P6T deluxe is only long enough to span 1 slot between my GPU. I want to move one of the 280's to the last slot (2 slots between GPUs). Anyone know where I can get a longer SLI bridge from?

I bought a Asus P6T Delux and it works well for my 280gtx SLI but I want to add a raid card (Areca 1231ML-2G) and the third 16x slot is covered by the GPU. There is an open 4x slot which would work ok since the 1231 tops out at 1.6GB/s but I don't think the slots are phyiscally compatible, are...

I have 280gtx SLI and they seem really hot. I can barely touch the cooler shroud at the end of gaming. I can't imagine what the chips are running. They're rock solid for hours on end, but still I'd like to check just out of curiosity. I downloaded the latest nTune... but it's Nvidia...

Running the drive as a boot disk, it's blazing fast, but I get random system freezes for 5 - 20 seconds under Vista32. XP as a boot drive seems to run fine. I also tried using it as a data disk under Vista64 and the drive freezes up there too. I can reproduce the problem running HDTach Pro...

I wanted to use this to manage images on my 16GB Acard 9010 ram-drive. I'm storing the images on my boot drive (velociraptor). It backs up from ram-drive -> hard drive in a few minutes, but when I try to restore the image, it's horribly slow. The Raptors read speed and the Acard 9010 write...

I'm not willing to go x58 yet because of the cost of entry. I would like better game performance, though. I have 8400 and a gtx280 on x48 chipset. Thinking of upgrading to gtx295 or possibly a 4870x2. Which is better? The $60 difference in price doesn't really matter to me. I mainly play...

I'm pretty happy with my 8400 wolfdale system, other than GPU performance. I would like to step up to dual (from single) 280's in SLI on Intel chipset. Looking at some of the initial benchmarks, hardware required, and the prices... the jump to x58 for SLI gaming seems quite pricey. Maybe that...

What are the options on ATI & Nvidia's latest cards? Does the HDMI audio replace the need for a sound card? Or is it only intended for use with HD-DVD / Bluray sources? My GTX280 came with a SPDIF cable and the instructions said to run the cable between my card and motherboard :confused:

With Nvidia releasing a new card every month, the 8800GTX looks like an old card. I couldn't find any reviews that directly compared a 8800GTX to the 4870 or GTX 260/280. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought there were a lot of people like me waiting for a worthy 8800GTX successor that decided to...

Instead of compromising detail to run at a given resolution, I'd like to know what compromises in resolution are needed to play at max detail. Which card offers the highest resolution Crysis experience at playable framerates with details maxed out?

I remember seeing a case that was basically open air. It had mounts for a motherboard, dive bays, and a 120mm fan that ran over the top of the MB. They sold an ATX momentary switch to turn it on. It was billed as a workstation... for people that tested/changed parts regularly and didn't need...

My 680i board died and I replaced it with an Asus Maximus. Works great on my game drive because I reinstalled Vista64. On my work drive, I really didn't want to reinstall because I've got like 30 apps all highly customized. It would be a huge pain to have to rebuild it. Everything...

I've never used a radiator with water cooling. I always just use a big reservoir. I've done closed loop and evaporative types. I have 2 PC's setup for LAN gaming and am going to return to water cooling to keep the noise down as well as the heat in the room while I'm in it. I was thinking...

I've read that 680i chips can work for a while, but then the heat gets to them and they die. Is it all or nothing? i.e. works one day and then won't boot the next? My evga 680i has been stable for almost a year. I have 2 sata drives - one for work, one for games. I haven't changed...

Are there any known issues on this? I have 4 x 2GB of G.Skill DDR2 800Mhz. Any 2 sticks work, but 3 or 4 sticks are unstable. It doesn't matter which sticks I use, or in what slots I put them in... it just won't run stable with more than 2 sticks. I boot up and usually bluescreen during...

Do 18x DVD-R read back at 18x? What about Bulray (BD) and HD-DVD. Looking for the fastest optical drive/media type to copy 1 large image file from.

I know I could go look up all the speeds, but I'm lazy. Anyone know off hand? I see 16x DVD drives listed with 18x DVD-R. I know that's for writes, but what about about reads? Do 18x discs read at 18x, or back down to 16x for reads? Also, what about HD-DVD and Bluray. I think BD has a 1.5x...

Lenovo ships with Vista Basic now, and charges $67 for XP. I already have a copy of XP with a valid license, so I figured I would just get it with Vista then reload XP when I got it. That was probably a big mistake. I expected I might have some problems with drivers, but the XP installer...

Newegg reviews seem to indicate a lot of compatibility problems with 8GB of RAM. GSkill doesn't support more than 2 sticks of 2GB on nvidia chipsets. Is anyone successfully running 8GB on an nvidia (evga) 680i board? If so, what brand / modules?

I'm wondering when DDR2 will no longer be an option for high end systems? For gaming, I'm trying to decide between 8GB DDR2 (most used as a RAMDrive), or buying a SSD. They're about the same price. A RAM Drive will be much faster, but the SSD drive would be bigger and probably last through...

I get a crash to desktop when I run my games over 2 hours. I originally installed Vista with the Nvidia monitoring tools. Temps were all ok, but it would crash within 20 min. I'm back on XP and things are better, but not great. My previous system ran the games for 6+ hours with zero issues...

Can anyone recommend a case that allows easy drive swapping (SATA drives)? I want to have multiple OS builds for different tasks and put them on different hard drives... then swap in the drive I want and boot from it. I'm doing it now, but I have to leave the cover off my PC and...

I would like to get an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard because of the problems everyone is having with the i680 chipset. I had planned on 8800GTX SLI, but there's just too many people still having problems with Nvidia mobo chipsets. The Intel board supports Crossfire, but are there changes in...

I have a 120" 1920x1080 screen, so that's what I play at. I have a AMD 3700+ and 7800GTX 512MB. Where do you think my bottleneck is? Both? I had hoped to hold out until Crysis shipped before upgrading.

Kingston has 4GB 133x Compact Flash cards. They sell CF -> IDE adaptors pretty cheap and old 4 channel IDE RAID 1/0 controllers aren't much either. I was thinking of getting 4 cards (16GB) and building a RAID 0 set out of them. Should be dead quite, low heat, have great seek time, and...

With HDMI you can run 1 cable for audio that carries 8 channels of high resolution PCM audio to a receiver. It's a digital connection too which has several benefits. I know most sound cards today support Coax/Optical digital output, but it's only for 2 channel PCM, or as a pass-through for...

I end up running most of my PC's on just the slide out mobo tray. I found this "case" which looks even better since it includes a drive rails, fan mount, and a table top for the PSU and optical drives. Tech Station

The RAM layout cloth pads on the bottom of the heat pipe cooler look the same as the standard 6800/7800 layout, but I haven't seen a naked 7800gtx 512. Anyone know for sure? That new cooler looks pretty expensive. I wish they would sell a bare card with no extras for a lower price for...

VisionTek seems like it has better availability. Just want to make sure VisionTek doesn't call it the PE because of a special software bundle or something stupid like that ... basically deceptive, but legal. Lots of companies do it, even ATI with the 9800 SE being slower than the 9600 XT. I...