Recent content by brenro

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    Best Graphics Cards For The Money: October 2014

    Some of us care about power consumption, heat, noise, and driver issues as well as fps.
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    How To Calibrate Your HDTV

    350 bucks and I still can't calibrate gamma or gray scale?
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    System Builder Marathon Q4 2013: System Value Compared

    Just curious. Why don't we test at 2560X1600 any more? I'm sure a lot of us doing a $2400 build have a big monitor to go along with it.
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    NEC V801 Review: Benchmarking A Massive 80-Inch Monitor

    One more thing: you need to test more TV's. Most reviews show current Panasonic and Samsung plasmas now surpassing the old Pioneers.
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    NEC V801 Review: Benchmarking A Massive 80-Inch Monitor

    The moral I get from this article is that lcd still hasn't caught up to plasma.
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    Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012 (Archive)

    Why do we have a new article with year old comments?
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    Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review: GK110, Fully Unlocked

    I'm glad there are enough AMD fans to keep Nvidia on it's toes development-wise and pricing-wise. As for myself I prefer products that work 100% right out of the box.
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    Radeon R9 290X Review: AMD's Back In Ultra-High-End Gaming

    Acoustics be damned. I game with a headset. Where do I sign up?
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    Tom's Hardware Talks To Champion Rally Drivers About Technology

    Why isn't this more popular in the US? Production based cars racing in all weather conditions on all road surfaces. I'd support this in a heartbeat over boring NASCAR.
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    Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System Builders

    Have to look at this again. Were there computer parts somewhere?
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    Whoops! 20 Of The Funniest Fails From Apple's iOS Maps App

    nebuni have had my phone for over a week and i haven't had any problems so far I think you've nailed it. Tim Cook making a public apology was only a mirage.
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    Whoops! 20 Of The Funniest Fails From Apple's iOS Maps App

    Looks normal to those living in a reality distortion field.
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    Eight 5.1- And 7.1-Channel Gaming Headsets, Reviewed

    Sorry but in these times something like its not available in the us is bullshit as an argument. You can mailorder these in within a few days from europe. Ever priced shipping costs on something like this from Europe? Nearly as much as the headset. Not a viable option for most people.
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    Crucial's m4 SSD Tested At 64, 128, 256, And 512 GB

    burnley14No, not failed logic at all. Go ahead and buy a SSD today, I already have, but why spend 8x as much money on a larger drive to get marginally better performance when everyone knows a better product will be out so soon? My logic would be that for the price of a single large drive, you...
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    Second-Gen SandForce: Seven 120 GB SSDs Rounded Up

    Tiger Direct's selling the Solid 3 for $165. That's only about 50 bucks more than a Velociraptor. I think it might be time to pull the trigger. Are these things reliable enough now to use them as the only drives in a RAID?