Posts by petri

Once Santa Rosa hits I would like to get one of the hybrid drives as Vista will support it. This will involve getting a whole new laptop of course, so I guess the price per gig would be pretty darn high!

Chicks and beer is all you'll need.

Too bad the new perpendicular Seagates aren't out for SATA, that's what I would recommend. As it stands now I would say either:...

I've been using Vista since the public beta release and I have a feeling it will stay on my machine for a while. The wireless is a little iffy and every once in a while my system seems to thrash endlessly (perhaps the indexing/defrag...

Quote: Originally Posted by Atothek302 Still runing the previous version. Does this release have the H.264. Does is make any difference? According to this site:...

Anyone tested the H.264 hardware decoding on this release yet?

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. K6 Bingo. But F.E.A.R. is pretty damn CPU intensive, and the only reason I'm saying this is because I saw the change myself. As I was saying earlier, get into a real game and look at...

Quote: Originally Posted by shoman24v Yes, CPU is everything. A little while back I said pairing a 7800 and a 1.6PM would be dumb, I got flamed for it, but you know what I was right, some guy with an overclocked 7800...

Quote: Originally Posted by ||T34418L3|1|| Had those stats you posted been benchmarked in 640x480 with no AA you would have seen a substancial difference. That's the whole point, in real situations the CPU is...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, examples like FEAR or COD2 are not good reasons to try for a risky CPU upgrade because they are majorly GPU dependent. Like mentioned previously, a pin-mod only benefits you if you plan to...