Recent content by mr_tan

Again, people pulling numbers out of thin air ($1600). No one knows how much these cards will cost, especially in a slow economy where value may be more important for many than reckless spending. Lets wait for launch day to see where this lands.

Its what usually happens when they dont have much competition for 3 years. They decided to take a break to fiddle around with ray tracing. :D

Exactly. Not even an explanation why only 3 Pascal GPUs and an integrated AMD used. A year after the "just buy it" RTX editorial, not sure if Tom's even cares about serious content anymore or the integrity of the site.

Well, have you found out or not? Others also interested in this.

Surprised none of the MS-MVPs here knew the answer to the OP's query, lol. You can change the name of the Administrator account in XP Pro with Gpedit.msc: start > run > gpedit.msc Computer Config > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options

I had a spare set of 2gb RAM lying around but was a firm believer that it would do nothing for my performance if added it to my already existing 2gb. However, when I installed Vista 32bit recently, I got curious and added the RAM. Well I found it DOES improve performance, and you have to...

Sounds like another disgruntled Windows user, couldnt figure out how it works, so blame the 'evil' MS for wanting to make money for something they've created. Look guy, I use, and Love *nix too, but OSS is way worse in many ways to closed source 'Projects'. If you think the DRM in Vista is bad...

I'd love to stick with the F7, the F8/F9 Bios were horrible. But I have an issue with my X-fi card sometimes not being recognized booting into Windows, so I have to keep trying new bios's to see if its fixed.

Oblivion, FEAR, NFS-Most Wanted, Carbon, many of the newer releases do. I know this for sure through testing my page file usage with this program: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/XP_PageFileMon.zip (XP PageFile Monitor). With the above games and 1gb of RAM, my page file usage was around 300mb...

Memory. What are your memory specs?

Can a week 29 e6300 do 3.766ghz? Heres a week 26 e6400 at that speed. So can it "beat the hell" out of it? :lol: http://www.firingsquad.com/special/ocdb/view.asp?oc_id=178

No CPU :lol:?

I dont think its worth buying an 8800 now (unless you're an Oblvion freak). Maybe in a few months when a few DX10 titles are released and the price goes down, then definitely.