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The 4850 is an awesome card to upgrade to and it is in your price range so now is a good time. Prices are always dropping but I'm not sure how much the 4850 would drop coming up. Nvidia comes out with their expensive new card and ATI may drop prices on their 5000 series but since Nvida isn't...

I'm actually really interested to see what they can do with GPU compute stuff. But I won't be buying at high prices which is where those type of features will probably be. And if making a card that can do awesome GPU compute stuff makes it bigger and cost more then it probably will be difficult...

Nvidia has an event planned to show whats hot and next (AKA Fermi or GF100). "Come see NVIDIA unveil the next generation of PC gaming. Want to see what's hot and what's next? If you're even vaguely a fan of PC games and miss this special event, you'll likely be spending the next few months...

Repeat? Techreport quotes some of Charlie's article (semiaccurate.com) and Anandtech in an article about ATI's 5000 series also mentions similar things (long read but a good inside look). There are 2 things chip companies have to iron out and tweak as they sell cards and they only do one of...

Maybe this applies.

What is the max res of the LCD? What res and Hz does the Xbox360 send via VGA?

Yeah, you can do PC (HDMI) to Monitor (DVI) with a simple adapter. But of course that direction doesn't include audio.

If your laptop supports VGA and HDMI out then you should be good assuming you do VGA->VGA, VGA->DVI* or HDMI->HDMI. Using a short adapter or cable adapter probably won't convert the signal unless it has a box attached to it. Those type of adapters are just used to fit the plug, not convert the...

that is pretty funny. hehe

It's a combination of that and "we want to grow our Xbox360 base, we don't care about PC." Or maybe they are the same thing. Not only is the excuse they gave us lame but so is the reality of the situation (not supporting one of their platforms). It's not like the game is for platforms...

If I have 1 window open then I click the X. If it is behind window(s) I right-click it in the task bar and close. (voted for since I do it the most) I Alt-F4 a browser or explorer window if it is in front when I have a full-screen game in the background. If I go for the X I might miss and...

Is your PC a HP Pavilion Media Center a1440n? Here it says the board is a P5LP-LE Emery (aka Asus brand). Says supports Pentium D 800 series Smithfield core up to 3.2GHz or Pentium 4 Prescott up to 580 and 670. However This shows a similar board, P5LP-LE Leonite, supports: * Core 2 Duo...

I like 3.5mm sets just because I plug them into the volume dial for my desktop speakers and control it from there. Plus the audio seems to be boosted by a headphone amp vs plugged in directly to the back of my PC. For gaming I just have a sennheiser set similar to the one Krynn linked to.

Mice! hehe I'm letting my brother-in-law use one of my PCs and I go over there once a month to clean that sucker out. Lot of dog hair in it and he smokes (thankfully not in that room otherwise it would be worse).

It won't be as sharp since it is converted from Digital (PC) to Analog (over the connection) and back to digital (in the LCD). But I'm guessing since you are looking at value deals it won't matter much to ya. Plus a bigger screen is an improvement over the laptop's. VGA vs DVI on PCs is similar...

I just did a test encode and it was quite a bit faster than I guessed above. I bet your 2hr job can be improved. CCE, TMPGEnc and others use their own encoder. ConverX2DVD and DVD flick use ffmpeg. I think convertx2dvd has more options like VBR? What about HC Encoder? Or apps that use HC as...

How about CCE? Fast encodes after you spend $2,000. A lot depends on the source file like the resolution or if it is xvid or divix (it's quicker to convert a video when the source is Xvid instead of dvix). Also how complex the encode of course matters too like if you add filters (sharpen, noise...

A lot of supercomputers do use off the shelf chips, like AMD's Opteron, because they are easily upgradable. The supercomputer 9th on the list is made up of 15,744 quad core chips. The got $59 million to build it. $2 million for 2000 PS3s seems like a good deal just on $/computer or per core...

That would be good.

I didn't like the last couple CS versions. I have very little play time with 1.6. I played 1.4 and 1.5 but it wasn't as fun. 1.3 and prior were awesome. I remember when steam beta and CS 1.4 came out. That was interesting... I go back and forth with my opinion of DOD source. DOD was awesome...