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I have been playing Human Revolution the last couple of days (since updating to 8.1) with zero increase in mouse lag. So I suspect this might be an issue only for a small percentage of people.

If a password has only 7-8 digits it's the exact opposite of secure. 12+ characters are a requirement for a secure password (there's a lot more, but 8 or less characters is absolutely worthless as it can be easily brute forced, which isn't realistically feasible for 12 character passwords yet).

As a developer I don't feel like there's anything to complain about here: the consumer preview is feature-complete in terms of the API. As a consumer, I want to put Windows 8.1 on my PC! Of course I COULD use the Preview for that, but it's not upgradable to the final version which makes it...

Access to shut down and restart is exactly the same in Win 8.1 as it is in Win7...Search in start is in Win 8 and is superior to Win7 or 8 search in Win 8.1 (it's awesome)...Metro apps can be closed with alt-F4 (same as before) or by clicking and dragging from the top of the screen (I agree it's...

This was mentioned in the very first XBox reveal...

I think you have to give credit where it's due, the Playstation 4 is just a beefed up Playstation 3, the new XBox certainly offers a lot more in terms of value. The statement that the PS4 offers more for less is quite absurd. The PS4 offers less for less and for people who only game, is probably...

I don't think "Purchasing because of the DRM policy" is a joke answer at all - I'm going XBox One partially because of guaranteed digital download availability and the ability to share my games library with 10 people! I have never and will never buy or sell a used game, so whatever used-game...

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@Boatz: Dude that is awesome. I was going to purchase the Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 because it posts super fast with the right settings, but my favourite retailer is out of stock! That youtube video makes me want to get the Intel board I had my eye on previously :).

Great review, but something I'd really like to see covered (that is being covered by your competitors over at anandtech.com) is POST times. This is information that a lot of people are after, but nobody can find out except those with the hardware on hand to test it :).

Hi guys, thanks for the assitance but I've now found some helpful info over at anandtech.com -> Their latest Z77 mobo roundup has POST times benchmarked and it looks like they will be including this as a standard feature of motherboard reviews which means I"ll just keep reading their 'board...

I was perhaps overly hopeful because I saw that monsta seemed to say he had seen reviews where motherboards were compared in this way.

Wait, where can I find this information? If you could link me to any site that tests this I would be eternally grateful. I have seen it mentioned in motherboard reviews from time to time, but not regularly and not in any of the Z77 board reviews I have read.

Thank-you for the feedback, unfortunately it doesn't help me directly, but I am appreciative for the effort nonetheless. There are motherboards out there that begin loading Windows in only a few seconds and Windows 8 CP can be loaded up off an SSD in about 5-6 seconds. My problem is that I...

Hi guys, I am about to buy a new computer (for the first time in ages, I'm running a launch-model Conroe E6300 OCed to 3.29Ghz as my CPU, that's how long it's been since I started from scratch). I'm settled on components almost entirely except for one thing - I can't figure out which motherboard...