Recent content by mrubermonkey

Finally, a rugged SSD.

Wow $293 per month. I think I just eat and drink that much consumables per month. Maybe if they save up for two months they can afford a PlayStation 3 and a game.

For a billion dollars I am sure Google will continue taking it up the arse from China.

Proper SSD evaluation is so complex that lengthy reviews are need to get an idea of how well a SSD might perform. Anyway, instead of the 75 MB/sec read and 30 MB/sec write specifications, you should tell us if it is using MLC or SLC NAND flash and what type of controller it is using or at least...

Doom 4 will be based off of DirectX 9.0c when DirectX 11 will already be out according to what John Carmack has stated in past interviews. Doom 3 was about the graphics and was the Crysis of its day if anyone can remember those days anymore. This made sense since the Doom story is basically very...

Sequential read and write performance is mostly a marketing tool and means little. I would still go with an Intel SSD for typical use due to the superior I/O of Intel's controller unless I had the unusual need for fast sequential write performance (Maybe for uncompressed 1080p 4:4:4 recording...

Buying proprietary systems is bad. Go with equipment that goes by industry standards and the whole issue with home automaton being a long-term investment goes away for the most part. Unless some company's proprietary technology always leads industry standards by leaps and bounds, but this is rare.

Nice article Chris, but do not be scared to put "Atom platforms are crap when it comes to the HTPC" at the beginning of the article. I do not mind a spoiler summary.

At least for $8000 there is no seam where they screwed the two 1440x900 monitors together.

I have my own pointless complaint about it. It looks like crap.

Doom II at 46 FPS. A dream come true.

I have a feeling that this idea of releasing two separate sockets for Nehalem is going to be one of Intel's biggest bad ideas since NetBurst.

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Based on how dangerously close you came to the capacity of your power supply at load, I think you should have went with the BFG Tech EX-1200 for this build. Pretty much the same price point with more wattage and a lifetime warranty to assuming you register it online within the first four weeks...

Kind of surprised you did not pick two 4890 1gb cards for top spot at $470. There are factory overclocked versions of the 4890 that could take on reference GTX 285s and two of those would go for just over $500 at a similar price point to the GTX 295. You would need a Crossfire capable...