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    Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Pro Upgrade $39.99 Promo

    boiler1990For $40 I'm willing to give this a shot on my laptop. You might want to try out the Release Preview first for free.
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    Kickstarter Project Has Gamers Creating Thier Own MMORPGs

    Doesn't Minecraft already do this?
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    New OCZ Firmware Boosts Vertex 4 Performance Up to 210%

    blazorthonAlso, Vertex 3 uses more power than Vertex 4. According to the tests in the article, The Vertex 4 takes twice the power as the Vertex 3 when at idle, and under load took more power for every test except the "4 KB Random Read". You are right about the importance of reliability though...
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    New OCZ Firmware Boosts Vertex 4 Performance Up to 210%

    blazorthonThat depends on a lot of factors such as the queue depth and how compressible the data is. The Vertex 4 already won in non-compressible and slightly-compressible performance, but the Vertex 3 might still win in highly compressible performance and low queue depths. However, it's now a...
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    Six $160-220 Z77 Motherboards, Benchmarked And Reviewed

    Thanks. I'll look forward to the review.
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    Six $160-220 Z77 Motherboards, Benchmarked And Reviewed

    CrashmanLocked does mean locked. You can use different settings to keep Turbo Boost operating normally at higher-than-normal multipliers Hi Crashman, Thanks for the comment. (I'm the same person as "Master Kirby". For some reason I'm not able to log in using that email address.) In the second...