The BIOS will pretty much auto-detect everything anyways, so that's not a big deal. Personally the biggest problem I had was getting the damn fan on to the CPU. Of course, that was a Pentium III, and the fans then were more stupid (or so I've heard).
1. If static shadows on objects provid very much the same (if not the same) effect as fully dynamic shadows, then why not use static shadows and save some CPU power for other things? If they can have static shadows cast lines across players/objects the same way dynamic shadows can, then you’ve...
Every blurred thing that passes by you at the very end of the full E3 video is an object. I did a whole lot of, "play, pause, play, pause.." and tried to note down each one. Take a look. I doubt this is an easter egg, but interesting nonetheless.
1 - Barnacle tongues, six in total all appear...
AMD's Athlon64 should be out by the end of this year, same with the new Prescott core for the Pentium 4 (which may very well become Pentium 5). Not too sure about the Athlon64, but the new Pentium will debut at 3.4GHz.
Athlon64 is a 64bit processor, and the new Prescott core is rumoured to...
1. Drop the "ASUS P4C800 Deluxe" motherboard, and get something like the, "Asus P4P800-Deluxe".
The "P4C800" gives you the following over the "P4P800":
- PAT (Performance Acceleration Technology) - which essentially lowers memory latency giving you a 3-5% performance increase.
- ECC memory...
Lets hope Valve learned something from the 1.6 beta release fiasco. Not that I'm putting them down, but it seemed like they greatly underestimated the required bandwidth for that situation.
Everyone should just expect the media next week. If it comes out tomorrow, then great, but if it comes...