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You make it sounds like these downloads will affect your gaming, it won't. Changing bits and bytes here and there randomly or at specific locations will take what, 1 byte per second? On a 56 kbit modem you can transfer 7000 bytes per second. If you load a small packet into that, say ten bytes...

Lots of rumours and opinions floating around. To get a better understanding, read this forum thread on Ace's Hardware: http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105033827 Basically, ATIs R3xx DX9 GPU is a lot better than the GF NV3x line. On most true DX9 games, 30+ % faster, on some Pixel...

The Enquirer is a paper tabloid in the UK, correct. The Inquirer, however, is an online news site which also posts a lot of information give anonymously by employees of companies in the computer industry. The rate of true vs false rumours originating first at The Inquirer is a lot better than 50...

Can't get into the web site, can anyone post a mirror link to these interviews, dig up your web cache and post?

You will gain a lot more FPS spending that extra $100 on a better gfx card.

The latest P4s produce more heat than any Athlon CPU today, cehck the thermal specs. The Prescott CPUs coming this autumn from Intel has specs over 100 Watts! Tbred-B/Barton uses 9 layers, I think.

I would not make that upgrade. The difference between these two CPUs is not very much at all. Save your money and get a $90 CPU in January instead.

Of course. But discussing whether an Athlon XP 2500+ or Pentium 4 3.2 GHz will play HL2 better, I think, is a waste of time. Both are good enough to drive a Radeon 9800 Pro, which is what is more important that you have. 9700 class graphics card is a requirement for all the goodies in the...

Oh come on! TF2 and HL2 is the same game, just different scenarios and API programming. Valve clearly explains how you can build a BF1942 game out of the Source and HL2 API. How hard can it be to build TF2? Last November a Valve guy went to a public interview and explained that TF2 was...

2500+ will be more than enough. HL2 taxes the graphics card, not so much the CPU. See Ace's Hardware for an analysis of 3DMark03 where they show that in most game tests a Pentium II 350 MHz with a Radeon 9700 Pro beats a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz using a Radeon 9600! 3DMark03 supposedly shows how...

My GOD! This forum is so full of trollers I wonder if anyone knows anything about computers and gaming in here? (refering to all replies after your post) Gaming graphics programming today is done via an API, usually either DirectX or OpenGL. We know HL is optimized for DirectX. DirectX...

This has been discused TOO MANY TIMES! Steam is still in beta before The Big Launch. In the Beta Valve has stated over and over that the games are always downloaded in full, while in the real release it will only download changes to the games . Now stop it and dwell about other things.