Recent content by Linenoise

Its the Law of Unintended Consequences. The actual instruction to the CPU might indeed be faster. That's not the entire issue at hand. But the program doing the math will use more RAM, something which will vary greatly from program to program. Since the program uses more RAM, you get into...

You know that Photoshop and all the other apps the OP mentioned are 32-bit only, right? A 64-bit OS won't change the fact those apps can only use 2 gig of ram. Also.. it's for your mom. I assume since she's not the one posting she's not a computer guru. The Vista vs. XP argument really comes...

I'm not arguing the fact that Microsoft probably should have just extended openGL. Of course they did it for their own reasons. But as it stands now, it kind of is the dominant platform. And if you want to develop cross-platform games between Windows and Xbox360, you're using it, end of...

Yeah, but Linux doesn't have DirectX. When 3d cards first came out, some games used OpenGL, some DirectX. There's a reason DirectX won out in Windows, and it wasn't all because of bullying by Microsoft. I haven't kept up, but DirectX also supports audio, input devices, networking, etc etc...

Check out this link. It's from a blog of one of the developers of Photoshop, on why the CS3 version is 32-bit and not 64-bit. A quick summary - yes, they could use more ram that way, but since all pointers would then be 64-bit, the memory bandwidth kills them. He claims that currently...

If you're coming in to a forum asking for help, it is in your best interest to use a language people understand. Typing in all caps, not using any punctuation, and a liberal use of "U" generally means you won't get any help, because it's just not worth most people's time to attempt to read...

If you're not overclocking (which you shouldnt really do right away.. make sure the build is stable normally first!), there's not all that much to deal with. Most of the options you won't need to even touch.. just browse through to make sure your harddrives show up, check temperatures (you wont...

Could be overheating, although in the past this has always been bad RAM in my experience. It could be the video card too, especially if you're getting this on the BIOS screen. It's sometimes hard to tell - my friend's PC died, we eventually narrowed it down to the video card. Annoyingly...

The last PC I was on, I upgraded to 4 sticks.. got very unstable until I bumped the RAM voltage up a notch. Everything was fine after that. If you broke a pin cleaning your CPU, you're doing something wrong. Pretend you're a surgeon - figure out what you need to do before cutting open and...

You also should look at the programs you're using. I'm not too familiar with 3d rendering either, but it is highly math intensive.. I'd be surprised if any "professional" packages don't use multiprocessing, since unlike many other applications, you -would- get a huge benefit from multiple...

With regards to the harddrive - buy for price, not space. For a long time, harddrives followed the same pricing curve. There's a "sweet spot" around $100 where the drives are the best price-per-gigabyte. Drives less than that cost more per gig, and drives higher than that cost more. Newegg...

You -really- dont want to run a PC without the NAT stuff in place that the routers provide. Firewalls are great, but it's nice having that extra layer of protection. With firewall software, it's still your PC that's talking to the outside world. With the router, the traffic doesn't make it...

Tom's has ads? Two words: Adblock Plus. You can even take out that Intellitext nonsense that underlines random words as if they were hyperlinks.