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Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM - $299 Its FAST,,, and its HERE!!!!!!!

It that price is right it would be tempting to get (2) 3870 x2's for under $230 TRUE......

Cheap, I will have to pick this up!!

Why deal with crossfire issues when the 4850 is suppose with similar performance. and available next month?!?

Abit reportedly to phase out the market after Intel 4 series chipset launch "Second-tier motherboard maker Abit is reportedly concidering phasing out of the motherboard market after evaluating its shipment performance of Intel 4 series motherboards, according to channel sources."

[First Look] AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4800 Go read the english slides!!!!

NICE! I will have to try once I'm off some of these new meds....

Vista nails rootkits with UAC "Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install."

After some thought.... Just fire up the 3 Stooges on all the TVs in the house. They will clear out mighty quick!!!!

I wouldn't mind some company....

101 tech-things we didn't know last year 2. That people would pay a whopping £70 for Nintendo's Wii Fit (which is basically an intelligent bathroom scale). And then get annoyed when it called them 'overweight'... 3. That Panasonic was hiding a 150-inch HD plasma at CES, eclipsing its own 103-inch set. Want one? It’ll cost you $150,000 (£75,705). 4. That Low energy light bulbs could be dangerous to your health. Apparently they can cause nausea, dizziness and migraines.

ATI Catalyst™ 8.5 8.5 Release Notes New Features - Catalyst™ Control Center Component Video - ATI Graphics Driver Un-install Enhancement - SECAM TV Out Support - 1080p HDTV custom mode - HDMI Audio for non-standard TV modes - Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst™ Control Center - 1080p24 Mode Support - Windows XP Service Pack 3 support Performance Improvements - Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product - Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI Radeon™ series of products - Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product - Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products - World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems contianing an ATI Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System - Clive Barker's Jericho: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34260 - Colin McRae: DiRT: Setting the display to 1024x768 with AA set to 4x, and CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in lower performance being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34254 - Crysis: Flickering shadow corruption no longer occurs in hallways of the ship when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34256 - Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to 1600x1200 no longer results in the image next to the text failing to be rendered. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603 - Farcry: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed during the introduction of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34262 - Gears of War: Launching the game under the 64 bit version of Windows Vista no longer results in momentary corruption of the desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34261 - Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Launch the game demo on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X11x0 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34199 - Halo 2: Enabling AA in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the Halo 2 logo flickering when loading or quitting a campaign. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32541 - Hellgate: London: Flickering is no longer noticed when quitting and then relaunching the game when the in-game setting are set to their maximum levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32604 - Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia: Shading over 3D characters no longer results in flickering being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34255 - Shrek: The game no longer fails to launch on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD3100/3200 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34197 - Stranglehold: The game no longer fails to load on systems running the Windows Vista operating system with default values enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34259 - Tabula Rasa: Setting the graphics option to enable Deferred Lighting and Dynamic Shadows no longer results in corruption being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32597 - Team Fortress 2: Enabling CrossFire™ and playing the game on a system running Windows Vista no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34257 - Tomb Raider Anniversary: Performance improvement is now noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32598 Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System - Crysis: Catalyst™ Control Center->Advanced View->3D: Setting the standard setting to Optimal Quality and having certain in-game settings no longer results in missing textures being noticed when playing the game under either Windows XP (32 bit version) or Windows Vista (64 bit version). Further details can be found in topic number 737-34163 - DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the application failing to launch and an error message being displayed 737-29554 - Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts: The game no longer runs out of virtual memory and no longer fails to load on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ X1650 series of product and running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34148 - Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing to respond 737-28492 - SecondLife: Corruption is no longer noticed when AA is enabled on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product and running Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34149 - Tiger Woods 2008: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game with Adaptive AA enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34163 - World of Warcraft: Connecting an Apple 30" display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 26x0 series of product and running Windows XP no longer results in poor performance and intermittent flashing display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32576 - World of Warcraft: Playing the game in a windowed mode under Windows XP no longer results in the game failing to respond when attempting to go full screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32586The floppy drive no longer fails to read or write under Vista on a Dell XPS410 system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31148 - World of Warcraft: Poor performance and flashing on screen are no longer noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32584 Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System - Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels may result in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34137 - Crysis: Momentary corruption may be noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599 - Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31189 - ZT: Attempting to play the Asian game in a windowed mode or at a display resolution of 1280x1024 may result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34152 Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947

Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration "GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely class of software running desktop. What will be possible is fascinating to see on a monitor, nut it is not tangible, if you just hear about it. It appears that the next Photoshop will be one of the first mainstream applications that will tap into the GPU for a speed up. And, at least from what we have seen during a first demonstration, the progress is simply stunning."

Hmmm, classic UT. :toot: Its been a while....

Yep, you had some quality time with the switch!!

4800 possible specs Probably not correct, but interesting never-the-less!!!

So who is going to see this?!?

GPU vs. CPU Upgrade: Extensive Tests "Geforce 6 and 7 cards are hardly suitable for current games and modern LCD resolutions—the higher graphics settings in the test show that the older graphics chips really have reached their limits. This is obvious, at the very latest, when you try to combine a Geforce 6800 GT with a more powerful CPU, which does not achieve any palpable increase in 3D performance. However, games are not 100% dependent on the graphics card; the Geforce 8 and 9 require a basic level of power, otherwise they are unable to exploit their 3D potential. The speed of the CPU should lie somewhere between 2600 and 3000 MHz; any lower, and the new graphics chips lose considerable performance."

Age Of Conan Collector's Edition Sold Out "Funcom is proud to announce that the Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan is now completely sold out in all markets. The exclusive edition was announced in January, and has since topped retail charts at numerous retailers. In some markets, the Collector’s Edition has been sold out for weeks, and as a result additional boxes were made. These are also sold out, and the total print run stands at 111.000 units. Lucky customers may still find some copies on retail shelves, but no re-orders are available."

The 4000 GPU is yet more powerful, "the 4600 series will have 240, the 4800 series will have 480, and the 4870 X2 will sport a total of 960 SPs" Keep in mind the 2900XT and 38xx have 320. That is a 50% boost just in raw number. Who knows if efficiency is also improved.

Extra latency at the same speed.... FTL. Not to mention DDR4 is only on video cards atm.

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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts v2.300 to v2.301 English Patch - 77.86MB Online - Removed game matching information in the console. - Resolved a game arbitration issue when the game resulted in a sync error. Fixes - Fixed World Builder to export correctly. All custom maps should now save correctly. Be sure to re-save your custom maps to carry over these properties. - Updated save game version. Save games previous to 2.300 will not be compatible with the current version of Company of Heroes. - Fixed a bug that allowed the player to teleport garrisoned troops. - -dev mode has been re-enabled. - Modified FOW related commands in the console to be single player only. Gameplay - British Bren carriers and Bren gunners will no longer be able to button Flakvierlings, 88s, AT guns, Howitzers. - Strafing run has been tuned. - US M8 Greyhound and Wehrmacht SdKfz 234 Armoured cars have had their target accuracy modifiers increased from 0.73 and 0.82 respectively to .9. - US M8 Greyhound and SdKfz 234 Armoured Cars moving accuracy modifiers changed from 0.6 to 0.8. - Light vehicle received accuracy modifier on light engine damage critical changed from 1.25 to 1.35. - Sniper detection radius reduced from 3m to 1m. - Panzer Elite Defensive Veterancy Vehicle modifiers tuned at vet levels 2 and 3. Received accuracy and damage modifiers reduced, health maximum modifiers reduced. - Panzer Elite 222 Armoured cars have their health bonus at Vet 1 reduced from 30 to 15. Maps Changes - Several map weather settings have been tuned. - The Scheldt - Two bridges to centre island replaced with land bridges. - Hochwald Gap - Tweaked territory near bridge crossings, widened bridge crossings from each base, removed a large number of fx markers. - St. Mere Dumont - several buildings replaced so window facings are more equitable between north and south facing. - St. Mere Dumont - moved some fuel points to prevent them from being captured on the wrong side of a wall. - Wrecked Train - cleared some debris from the center of the map - Wrecked Train - removed some tank traps blocking access to one of the fuel points - Langres - Moved one of the strategic points slightly. Rebalanced VP locations slightly so that both have equal coverage from defensive buildings. - Beaux Lowlands - Updated to 3 VPs - Beaux Lowlands - replaced high munition point with strategic point. - Sturzdorf - bottom player has one extra ramp up to the high fuel area. - Minor pathing changes to Linden to enable Kettens to capture a point. - Verrieres Ridge - added version of map with no repairable bunkers (playable with Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts).

Creative launches second PCIe X-Fi "The X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Creative seems to be on a roll this week with a third product having been announced in one week. The X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series is the second PCIe sound card from Creative and this time around it's a high-end card." Kinda interesting it has a cover over the card, like the ASUS Sonar cards do. Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

Cool, that will keep the games a flowin nicely for a while!!