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All that you will, well might actually, get with a managed switch (other than the possibility of a faster backplane) when compared to an unmanaged switch would be features that during a LAN party or most home networks would never be needed/used; VLANs, QoS, etc... This is not to say that I know someone who is running a Cisco 5000 series switch in their apartment with multiple VLANs, VMPS, etc.... But that setup is far from ordinary. Cliff notes: If the backplanes are the same then you will not see any performance increase.

You should draft Tom Brady.

What are ya gonna do with 8Gb of RAM?? Just got a 24" monitor (sounds of tim allen!) I was thinking the same thing. You'd need a 64bit OS to take advantage of anything over 3-3.5 GB of physical RAM. 32 bit OS'es can only address 4 GB total... that includes video card memory. SSD HD's would really show their stuff in a desktop. They suck too much power in a laptop (currently), but in a desktop that would not be an issue. Wonder what a 15K U320 SCSI or 15K SAS drive would pull on that test....

i wouldn't trust just anyones computers to be on my LAN either. If I were going to a LAN party w/ people that I did not know, I too would lock my system down quite well. Then again, if someone decided to start to actively 'attacking ' everyone else would be another issue entirely.

GRAW (ghost recon: advanced warfighter) is like that too, but they use some unholy hacked version of gamespy. Even if you already have an account (i.e. BF2, etc...) you have to create an account through the game in order to use it in the game....

that is my feelings also. Unless it is the 'public' computer that other people use... AV all the way...

what browser needs to use 100MB+ of RAM? I guess FF (and the other too) are keeping their entire 'cache' in RAM instead of writing it to disk.... it would be rather easy to tell I would think... lynx anyone?

thanks for the picture PurSuiT. I guess it really depends on how much space and the shape that determines how everything is setup... Normally we have either done the same ally configuration that is in the picture, or done a square w/ the cables in the center. CRT's have been good monitors over the years.... And they usually have a great death throw.... Not to mention that LCD's have come a long way in the last 8 years or so; and you can get a decent one for a reasonable price.

Hi everyone, I've lurked and posted a little around here but never have made it to one of the LPE's (I no longer actually live in WNY) but was wondering how you guys have the tables setup for your parties? Some friends of mine and I do our own parties but we always fail to have a good table setup to keep the cords out of danger and provide enough room for everyone.

woah, really? wtf.... glad that I did not get it then! i'll stick with FO2

do you guys run AV on your gaming boxes? if so what are you using?

It will hopefully not be a bad thing. How much worse games can they produce compared to EA? Hopefully the Blizzard style of game producing continues within Actizzard.

At some point I would like to get one... too bad I cannot justify a PS3 and a new PC....

we have a Wii, too bad we only have Zelda, Sports, and a few VC games. I have wanted a racing game since GT3 came out but seeing as I never bought a PS2 I will not be getting that either.... Love Sports, bowling is giving me issues due to the fact that I cannot up my score and I end up loosing my Pro status....

nice. And I saw the 2 booster packs for $20 tonight... what a rip off.

you do get the global point for those repairs, well as long as you had used it, from what I have seen. yeah, there are a few badges that I would have had, but I got screwed because I did not have the correct amount of playing time per kit...... Not cool, since I have tried and have not been able to get back to the kills per round! haha, just means that I need to work/try harder.

from what I have seen... what would be the point. There are few if any DX10 games out, and if there were not like I have a DX10 card! Take the price of Ultimate and add ~200 and you could get a Mac Mini. I highly doubt that I will ever legally purchase a copy of Vista, maybe if at all, an OEM version.

I do like the G3, the medic guns are nice, the Spec-Op guns are ok, not sure about the supply ones, but they are better then the SAW if you are playing as the Marines, I too have not managed to take a chopper pilot with the 1st sniper rifle, and have not played with the 2nd (about 1,500 points away....). I found that going with the MP7 is ok as long as you do not try shooting someone from mid distance and beyond. I have not unlocked any of the Antitank and probably will not have the chance sine I'm sure that EA will can BF2 before I can reach 50,000 points.

I need one of those in black for work....

yeah, once the system update works it is pretty nice.

Try this http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html they update it as they do new testing thanks.

damn, I hoped that it would be out soon....

it should be interesting to see how the hardware scan on Vista will impact gaming.

And to think that they did not earn enough off the expansion pack 2142, and now this.

and I thought that my old Athlon 1.2GHz socket A was getting old! Good reading guys. I've been pricing a new system and I was thinking about the sapphire 1950Pro card with a CF mobo, and at some point grabbing a second one, but as usual it sounds like they will be dead and cost too much by the time I could get a second one..... Hopefully the DX10 cards will drive the DX9 cards down in price quite a bit.