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I think these articles speak well for themselves. Article #1 Article #2

I very much hope this to be the case, for everyone's sake...although it certainly sucks for the writers of the havok engine.

Practical effect could be multiplayer hacks. It could also be to take down steam (which I'm going to be turning off and recommending to my less computer savvy friends to do the same until some of this gets sorted out). A lot of people don't like steam, or the concept and implications of such a...

Hopefully that will work! However, my 9800pro hasn't had a problem with fastwrites. It's possible that this is just a bad card :frown: good luck to you sir.

Show me. I looked everywhere else and wasn't able to find this.

I've heard rumors of high FSB issues with some ATI cards. Nothing consistent, but you might want to try default FSB just to see if that solves the problem. Further, as a personal note, I don't trust driver cleaners. I would just do a format/reinstall of the OS. I just installed a 9800 pro...

For those of you that don't know, power in the northeast from NJ to northern Ontario (canada) to michigan was either unstable or completely out yesterday starting around 4. I live in upstate new york and we lost power completely until about 3am. The story as it stands...

In the past, I have done a lot of computer tinkering. I've decided that the cost of the slower processor + faster ram + OC mobo is almost the same as what I'm doing here. Take a 2.4C. It weighs in at approximately $180 dollars, saving me approximately 200. Now, I get an OCer board for...

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Well, I'll be heading back to school in a few weeks, so it's time to upgrade! A couple of things first: This is not a machine for overclocking. I want this thing to be stable as a rock for a long time, hence the intel brand mobo and crucial ram. Also, I'd like a reccomendation on the hard...

Well, I was one of those people on the halflife2.net forums that spoke to Valve directly, so I'm going to do what I can to shed some light on this problem. First, I'd like to say that I find it very obnoxious that any time a video issue is raised, it instantly turns in to a ATI vs. NVidia flame...

Nope, if you check out the review linked originally, you'll see the 9700pro outperforming the 5900 Ultra in many cases...

I simply find this hard to believe, since the DX9 feature have time and time again proven to be MUCH slower on the FX cards than on the Radeon cards...especially the shaders. I don't see the FX cards keeping up with the radeons in next-gen games nearly as well as they're keeping up now (which...

Thanks for beautifying my links Schadenfroh :) BoomAM: This will only happen if the reviewers release the timedemos they're using. It's not possible to optimize for a specific timedemo if it is not being released. Of course, this would then rely on the credibility of the reviewer because the...

Firstly, I would like to state that it is not my intention to fuel any burning fires. I simply think these are things that should be brought to people's attention. Secondly, I would like to state that it is obvious that none of these reviews that I will be pointing to are perfect. I don't...