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The show in question is called "Pitagora Suicchi". In english, "Pythagorean Switch". The segments of the show (including the opening and the closing) are bordered by rube goldberg machines, which are called pitagora souchi (Pythagorean Apparatuses) in Japan. The show is a childrens show...

Turning on triple buffering pretty much eliminates any performance hit from vsync. With it on, it isn't a question of 100-30 vs 75-30, because at 75 you've got power to spare, so if the demand goes up the card can still render at 75. The reason double-buffering speed drops with vsync on is...

Why is this an improvement over the MX700 and traditional opticals? Simple. I have an MX700. GREAT mouse. But because of the LED (The problem the MX1000 fixes), the mouse (ALL optical mice to a certain extent) are EXTREMELY picky about what mousepad they run fine on. My Suprnova mousepad makes...

Err, don't they all have TV out and Silent X PSUs? I was under the impression that the K8M800 chipset was out of date and that it had been replaced by the K8T800? Ideally I'd take an nForce 3 250Gb in a Shuttle... but Shuttle seems to be behind in chipsets. Ionizer, I realize that many other...

I've recently begun considering a Shuttle SFF. Call my old-fashioned, but Shuttle still seems to be the best SFF to me. Anyhow, moving on... I've noticed that Shuttle doesn't have any SFF with a recent AMD chipset (nForce 3 150 only, no 250, Via K8M800, no K8T800). Does anybody know if that's...

Quote from Dell's site: "Inspiron 1100 Intel®Celeron®Processor 2.4GHz, 14.1 XGA" There IS no P4 version, and in fact, you can't even change the processor speed; it's locked in at a 2.4ghz Celeron.

I'm finally coming down to a final decision on a laptop, and I'm starting to think I might as well buy a full desktop replacement notebook to replace my slow ailing AthlonXP 1900+ desktop. I'm pretty into the Area-51m Extreme, does anybody have any experience with them? Can you give some good...

I'm going to be buying a laptop soon, and I'm looking for a model that fits what I want. I don't think weight is much of an issue as I plan to get a backpack designed for laptops. I'm hoping if I put out the specs I'm looking for people can suggest a model. Any speed CPU NON-widescreen monitor...

My friend just bought one. It seems pretty good, if a bit bulky. Audio from the built-in speakers is, of course, total crap. I'd assume audio-out would be much like any other 16-bit soundcard. I haven't seen TV-out so I can't comment on that. I think the biggest drawback it has (He doesn't...

I'm still not of a good opinion of NewEgg, mainly because they still don't ship to Canada. Yes, you might argue, opening a presence in Toronto or something might be expensive and not worth it (Though I'd think it WOULD be), but it's very simple for them to just allow shipments TO canada...

I was looking at: http://www.samsung.com/Products/Monitor/LCDMonitor/Monitor_LCDMonitor_172X.htm Samsung's 172x, and apparently it has a 12ms response time! When can we see reviews of 12ms LCDs on Anandtech?

Last time I looked (2-3 months ago) Futureshop sold the CHEAP budget LCDs for 700$ (The cheap 25ms Samsung ones) +, I'd like to know where you're buying them... He probably doesn't care about DVI; it doesn't make much difference anyhow.

Yep, I goofed, I meant LCD :(

A friend wants to buy himself a 17" LCD, however he's an avid gamer; He looks to me for advice, and I don't want to dissapoint him. I was hoping I could get some suggestions. Please list what is in your opinion the best LCD that meets the following category, and any reviews if possible: 1) Has...

The CPU is a bit old here (AthlonXP 1900+), but these results are disgusting: Date / Time: 27/09/2003 2:14:19 PM (6342209ms) 1600MHz, 768MB, 128M ATI Radeon 9700 PRO (DeviceID=0x4e44) Driver=6.14.10.6378 Shader=1.4 D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe -vidmode 1024,768,75 -timedemo...