Scan for viruses, and check your HD fragmentation.
And since you have the always-awesome Antec 900 case, shine a light into the case to look for any physical defects.
Ah I see, so apparently Bush's ranch makes up for everything his presidency and policies has done to weaken national and global environmental policy. My bad indeed.
Not to be a PC-monger, but the texture details on the PC (according to website screenshots) put the X360 to shame. I thought it looked pretty good on my friend's 42" HDTV, but this takes the cake. :D
If I'm not to get this Xbox 360 + Blu-Ray, I would not buy a Blu-Ray player over $100 USD and I wouldn't start buying movies until the $19.99 USD pricepoint.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/xbox-blu-ray-360,5272.html
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080502PB200.html
Wow. Just wow...
Now realize that MS says "no comment", and that the main source is a Chinese Economic newspaper. Still, this just runs counter to everything MS has been saying...
I'm going to earn mine.
Worse comes to worse, Valve decides to play fair and reset everyone's achievements, or perhaps everyone's who tinkered with that particular console command. That IS very careless.
It was still released around that time. It wasn't only a competition of money and PC, but of time. People only had "x" time to play so many games.
So the question then became, why play a game that they KNEW their computer would either struggle with, or play with a low multi-player population.