To me, the "Pentium 4 Extreme Edition" seems like a cheap marketing tactic by Intel. I don't think it'd be a wise investment for gamers.
The specs look good, but in the long run the processor wont be that beneficial for you to notice anything. It'll just be a novelty processor or such, for...
I said "Yawn." in regards to the Pentium 4 "EXTREME EXTRA SEXY COOL ULTRA HYPER POWERFUL" model. It wasn't directed at spitcodfry.
This sums up what I was thinking when I posted "Yawn.":
I'm sure the next Pentium 4 product is just built around Hype. It's probably going to give games a 5-10 FPS improvement or something, and that's about it. It's also going to cost a fortune, and about 2% of the gaming population will probably buy it.
Okay, um, guys, if everyone needed gas masks in Half-Life 2, you would see everyone using gas masks. But you don't. The resistance faction / barney / scientists / alyx / etc. so far have not been wearing gas masks even though they were clearly out in the open.
Why the hell would the G-Man kill himself at the end of Half-Life 1 if he didn't step into the portal, then?
Were you smoking something when you thought about this? :x
What's with the issue regarding if Tim took a "dig" at Valve? Who the hell cares, seriously? How does that affect Half-Life 2?
Neither company did anything wrong, so just leave it at that.
Other way around. Half-Life 2's physics engine is Havok. Valve only did a few improvements along the way so that it could work better with their game engine. Valve didn't actually make their own physics engine.