Recent content by jwix

Doom 3 will get EAX support. This is definately a marketing coup for Creative. Anandtech, please do a before/after EAX benchmark comparison. A little subject analysis on the sound effect quality wouldn't hurt either. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040726/sfm055_1.html

Drakino, I have a shuttle SN41G2 (Nforce 2 sound) which I used for gaming and home theatre for about year before buying an Audigy 2 ZS. Nforce sound did support up to EAX 2 standard, and did a fine job of it for the most part. However, there were bugs in some games, and background hiss during...

I have a lot of digital photography, music and data that I'd like to keep backed up on a mirrored (raid 1) drive, but I'm wondering if there is a big performance hit suffered while playing games in a RAID configuration. Like many people, I'm building a new rig for the DM 3 and HL 2 releases...

Thanks to everyone for their input. Degrador - the CM Stacker is interesting but over-kill for my needs. I'm going to stick with the Lian Li V-1100B and a 480 watt Tagan (thanks Operandi) power supply. The case is now $230 on New Egg which makes it only $80 more than the more conventional...

Operandi - The Lian-Li 6070 is truly a sweet deal for $150 but I'm concerned about it's ability to keep cool - I'd like to do some modest overclocking of cpu, memory, and video. Has anyone had success overclocking with this case? So far Anand's review is the only one I've seen where heat...

Tiamat, my wife gave me this opportunity almost 2 years ago but I didn't jump on it then. Instead, I bought a shuttle with an Nforce 2 chipset and integrated graphics/sound and called it "her" computer. :) She loved its understated style and small size (small enough to sit on her desk instead...

Lucky, me. My wife hears about all the Doom3/HL 2 hoopla and tells me I can finally build the dream gaming rig I've always wanted. First on my list of goodies is a really nice case. I've always wanted a sweet case that I could build on and upgrade down the road. Now that time is here and I'm...