Recent content by icepop456

What is it with the editors not proof reading things? Where are the charts? How in the world is it possible for almost all of Tom's Hardware articles to be missing graphs, wrong charts, or have conclusions that are not supported by any data? I've been reading TH for 8+ years now and I think...

Very simple - this is done for those of us who are not willing to be beta testers of Vista just yet. There are no DX10 games out. Obviously hardware changes rather frequently, but some of us do try to hedge our bets and buy something that can be useful in the future. Yes I would like to see...

Current motherboards usually convert 12V to Vcore and Vnoth_bridge. The reason is simple: 12V allows higher efficiency for the DC-to-DC regulators. The regulators themselves are powered off the 5V rail, but some can use the 12V rail also. I highly doubt any PC has regulators off 3.3V...

What the heck is this crap? A review is supposed to show how the items performed. How do we know if the writer has a bias towards one particular item? Just when I was starting to get annoyed at the typo's and picture errors in articles, we now get a review without any review. Does anyone...

Your solution only work for over-the-air ATSC signals. Many of us are unable to receive those signals and rely on cable, Direct TV, etc for HD content. These signals require a QAM tuner. The "HDhomerun" looks promising, but it still a work in progress from what I read. Currently, MS Windows...

HDMI in? Uncompressed digital video is the dumbest thing to try to capture when the content is already available in compressed form. Yes it would be nice for the pirates to get hardware to capture it to avoid HDCP/DRM, but they already have found a solution. Anyone who wants HDMI in has no...

Read the power requirements for the drives. I bet no more than 15-20 watts per drive. I had a Intel Prescott 2.6Ghz with 7 hard drives and an nVidia 6600GT running easily with a 450 watt supply. Most people have no clue about how much power they really need. Yes, your two video cards are...

Is it too much to ask for them to include a recent PCI-E system for comparison? One could argue that some of the games were GPU limited. I understand that is not the case, but it would be nice to have a graph showing what these GPUs are really able to do.

Considering 100C is perfectly fine for chips to run at and that is boiling for water, I don't the "it feels hot" is an accurate enough basis. If you cannot touch the back of the card without causing a lot of pain, ok that could indicate a massive heat problem. However, I would expect the...

Did the game crash? The IC's I work on will operate up to about 150C Beyond that the semiconductor starts to behave like a block of silicon (transistor control overwhelmed by extra carriers). The chip would be harmed at 233 but would probably survive a short time. This assuming a short or...

I know this will depend on drive size, but anyone have any stats on RAID 5 rebuild time? I attempted the Win XP RAID 5 tweak and 4-250GB drives took like 9 hours to build the array. Testing to see if the array worked took forever in my case. I'm pretty sure these chips will still use the CPU...

I believe there is a mistake in the article. I use Robocopy and there is a switch you can use to control whether or not you remove files from the target directory if it is deleted in the source. I purpose never have robocoy delete anything because I feel I'm more likely going to need to...

Although the 7600GT can do more, most people I know are very content with a 6600GT. That is what I use and recommend. You can find one for about $85 now. If you are slightly into games, etc, then it may be worth aiming for the typical $150 - $200 range. I use the 6600GT, nVidia decoders...