Posts by CryHavoc

Yeah, that's pushing it. Source is a beast (and a poorly coded one at that) on GPUs.

Let's see: For a decent plasma HDTV - $2000 Xbox 360 - $500 That will buy a hell of a rig or even a great laptop. And you can do 10x the stuff on a laptop as on the TV/Xbox, not to mention the portability issue. Saying that 360 will...

mjp - Pretty good. You need a program to compress the files though. Jack: Hauppauge seems to be willing to replace this one free of charge, so I'd prefer not to pay for one unless this becomes a recurring problem. But if I could land...

If you're going for max settings, go with the Dell. Not only does it have more memory (512 vs 256), but the 7900 is the fastest GPU on the market right now. Have you looked at the CPU's? The Dell has 2.16 GHZ core duo, which could...

bcn - Do you plan to game? How much transporting are you planning to do with this laptop? Price range?

I use a Chromebag Metropolis to tote my notebook around with my books. There is MORE than enough room for both of them. It's a GREAT bag. =) Just get a cheap sleevecase to fit over the laptop to protect it from corners and off you go!

I Have a Hauppauge WIN-TV USB2 tv tuner which I use with my XPS2. Recently, the product started smoking. I've called for a replacement, but I was wondering... could anyone tell me everything that goes with the tuner? I've been moving...

This is insane. The AW thread on this is nothing but one great big Dell bash. One of "our" users went over and asked an honest question and they practically threw him off the board for a "personal attack". Man,...

Yeh, I'll admit it's beyond the capacity of current vid cards, but I don't know if it's that far off. If they designed it well, people would be buying new computers just to play that game, IMO. Maybe that's just me though. With the...

Quote: Originally Posted by srtjustin That sounds like its in the process of being made you put alot of thinking into that aye? Hey, I love games. It's not hard to think of something like that when I've...