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Pretty sure there's 4800's for 939 but either way you've got a good point,

Pretty much the 4x4 quad core chips. They'll be becomming pretty popular in a bit. Early adopters are pretty impressed but I don't think they'll dethrone the Core 2 duo's and quads in the gaming department anyway.

The single core 4000 is an amazing deal but I will admit that it's probably best to save up a bit of cash and go dual core. It's a very gradual process but we are just beginning to see some dual core support here and you'll need all the help you can get with Vista anyway. For almost any game...

Thanks man, I do seem to recall one of my more tech-minded refer to kilobits before, totally lost track of that though. This makes a lot more sense now that I get about 3-5kbs if it maxes out at 7kbs. But if that's how most files are measured then why don't they just call it a 7k connection?

And in case there's any concern using an adaptor doesn't degredate the image quality in any noticeable way so you'll be fine if you end up with that route.

Happy b-day big man. Enjoy that cake and keep it real for us.

Thanks for clearing that up some for me guys. I feel a little better now. It's just crazy to think that out of the 56k potential we dial-up users only ever see a smidgen of it actually utilized when downloading, making a loser connection seem every junkier.

Hey guys, I have a really n00bish question that's kind of been bugging me for a while. It's embarrasing that I don't know but I've always been pretty clueless about networking and connectivity anyway. So say you have a looser connection like me. I've got a 56k modem, I connect at 48k or so, I...

Tom's Hardware isn't always the very most accurate source around but I think it's safe to trust this aspect to some extent. The X800XT was always a superior card as far as raw power goes. The only exceptions are pretty much anything with the Doom 3 engine. Otherwise the X800XT seems to win...

Glad you found a sweet spot, granted it lessens the sense of scale but it's better to have a smooth frame rate then all the bells and whistles.

Generally speaking the 7600GT goes pretty neck and neck with the 6800Ultra but occasionally you see oddities like this: Videos | Tom's Hardware Apparently massive clockspeeds can really go a long way.

No prob man, I was only aware of this one recently myself. As far as performance difference goes, the X6800 is going to win out just out of sheer brute clockspeed force, 2.93GHz is the highest for the Core 2 line. The quad core 6600 is probably the best in a select few more scientific...

Just keep in mind that Radeon is planning to release it's R600 series cards soon and they are looking to dethrone the 8000 series in case you were planning on upgrading shortly.

The reason every steam game runs really well is due to you haveing a radeon card which the source engine is optimized to take advantage of. WoW is a little more friendly with nVidia cards.

If price is not an issue than PC Power and Cooling is probably the company you want to look up for their powersupplies. They're pretty much make the PSU's for Gods own PC. 4 gigs don't really offer and distinct advantage in almost any app right now but I guess if you can afford it it's not a...

Which is the bettre card The 6800XT is not quite in the same league. Yeah it's got a 256-bit interface but its also a 8 pipe card with pretty standard speeds. The 7600GS is a faster card in any test but it would be worth concidering the 6800GS or the 7600GT or a mid range X1800/1900 series...

Wow, totally forgot about Jazz, that was a load of fun and still holds up okay really, as does Duke.

Windows for this one.

This was actually an old like version 5.1 or something but I'll just reinstall anyway, no biggie.:good:

Sweet dude, I think that just makes more sense. Vista, at least not yet anyway, simply isn't enough of an upgrade from the looks of it to warrent the performance loss.