Recent content by Shnur

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    Are Premium Gaming Peripherals Worth Your Money?

    zendaxI can't see spending 200%+ to jump from the G15 to the G19. Sure the fancy full color display is nice, but I'll be spending most of my time fixated on the monitor, not the keyboard. For a $50 or less premium over the best price you can find a G15 for, it may be worth considering. Anything...
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    Are Premium Gaming Peripherals Worth Your Money?

    From personal experience I can tell I saw a bigger change from a normal mouse to a G5 rather than switching from a plain old beige keyboard to a G15 v1, although the macros did help a lot in WoW and other applications like photoshop that need a crazy amount of macro keys... Years after, G15...
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    Ex-Alienware Founder Launches Origin, New Rigs

    AMDnoobi didnt think the desktop price was toooo bad of a deal. i mean dual cards, w/ blu ray drives, and OC'd CPU's (prolly intel i5/i7's) so 1700 isnt bad when you factor in a kick ass case, (hopefully) very good air system, and good wire management. If you actually take in account the...
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    QOTD: Will You Be Running Win 7 Tomorrow?

    Yes! It's 9h58 here in Montreal and I've just called my retailer to get a brand new Windows 7 Pro x64 English (sorry can't stand French windows, I don't understand ANYTHING...) for an awesome 145$ CAN :D *gets dressed up and runs away*
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    Businesses Find That Win 7 Saves Time, Money

    yeah I was actually really looking into our company adopting it... although it's still not awesome to make it run on P4's.... which is what my company uses as computers... interesting to see in the long term though.
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    Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions

    well, it's all just money, the important part is if the trust between the companies... if that happens that much, contract could be broken, and that's a lot more money lost than 9.8m$...
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    QOTD: Is Free Antivirus as Good as Paid Software?

    I had issues with Norton until 2008, then they did something very weird and it ran fine, not good, just fine. As for McAffee, I never got it working while other computers in my home network got bombared by messages saying: AHHH YOUR WHOLE NETWORK IS NOT SECURE WITH MCAFEE BUY MORE LICENSES AND...
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    How Much RAM Does Your Graphics Card Really Need?

    Great article! I am actually looking forward a 5870 (or nVidia next-gen if it comes in this year) after prices are settled and early drivers are out of the way so I can really see an improvement over my 4870 1gb. This is the kind of article I wanted to see for a while and I give you guys a big...
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    Core i5, Core i7, CrossFire, And SLI: Gaming Paradise, Redux?

    Thanks for the review Tom's! I've recently decided my way through a P2 for a simple reason; being able to have multiple boards to choose from and being able to put it in a HTPC later if I ever get to upgrade the CPU and keep my 790FX board... I'm all about compatibility; kudos to nVidia and...
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    AMD Tigris Notebook Platform is Good at Video

    I'm really excited about all the things they are bringing to the table recently. There's a new competition that will be created between Intel and AMD and that's great since we need lower prices on new technologies... I'm tired of seeing only slower CPUs from Intel in the Mobile market... and the...
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    In Theory: How Does Lynnfield's On-Die PCI Express Affect Gaming?

    Great article! But then again... I don't see why a 955 wasn't used in this scenario... since the 920 is thing that nobody uses. Already that we know that i7 is superior to AMD flagship in multi-GPU configurations you're taking a crappy AMD CPU, buying a 790GX doesn't mean you're going to cut on...
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    Chinese Minister Says Green Dam is Optional

    As a guy that lived in USSR I can tell you by "people's choice" they actually mean that it is up to you, but if you don't, there's going to be big consequences.... (like Apple iPhones blowing up in your faces so you throw yourself of a 10 story building because you searched with Bing and tryed...
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    Nvidia Takes $119.1 M Charge for Faulty GPUs

    Anyone ever heard of Nortel Networks? Their shares went from 100$/share down to 0.08$, but since they are the only ones that provide certain kind of telecom materials, they're still in "business"...
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    New AMD $1300 Build for Gaming

    yeah, the keyboard is a keyboard so I wouldn't count it in the actual price... it's part of the system yeah... but with Logitech you have almost life-time warranty so he can use it forever, also compared to the old blue G15, this one the keys don't get washed out by use. (Had both, the blue died...
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    AMD Releases Catalyst 9.7 Drivers for Win 7

    ATI Stream technology implemented in Windows 7? Awesome :D