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I would think it should work fine. 6-pin plug is 75w (6.25A x 12v = 75W) GTX 470 has 2 6-pin plugs right? Looks like they are on their own rail or share 1 which is fine (6.25A + 6.25A < 18A) PCI-Express slot provides another 75W (6.25A) from a different 12v rail probably. Could try using 1...

LCDs have improved. My personal example was 2003/2004 LCD tech vs CRT. The viewsonic was a TN and my Samsung is a MVA. It was a side by side comparison in the same pictures and games. From reviews I've seen LCDs are close but still can't hit what a good CRT can. It's a limitation of the LCD...

haha I was wondering when someone would bring this up. If you are wanting to know $$ for selling that's one topic completely separate if you are wondering if they are worthy to buy.

I don't think smaller transistors give off more heat but that the heat is not as spread out and harder to cool. Which is why we now have heatspreaders on our CPUs and we didn't before.

I have a 19" LCD and 17" CRT (2 actually but one is not being used). I actually tried a Viewsonic before I stuck with the Samsung I have now. The viewsonic was WAY too bright and the color was WAY off, especially side by side with my CRT. You couldn't even see objects in shadows that you could...

Actually Intel and GPU drivers happens to be.

This is the first thing I thought of too (new drivers getting applied to a PC that does not need fixed and bugs in new drivers causing a bad experience that did not happen on old drivers). But it is good for AMD and ultimately good for the people who run the drivers since the install base of...

Hmm I would need 2.3 tb to hold all my DVDs if I ripped them to the drive (movie, 1 audio track, no extras). The drive is not big enough... But I might have to dive in.

I never liked list view. If I know the file name then seeing more files on the screen does not really help imo. (pluses and minus but it is pretty much a wash in this case) Moving files into sub folders (same screen) seems to be pretty daring in list view. Just imagine those times you let go of...

A lot of people are weary of the 1.5/2TB drives. At the beginning they were more failure prone. Maybe they got pushed to market too quick (covered all brands). Maybe that is why most are 5400rpm? But at the same time people are buying them and most do not have issues at all. It is probably just...

I used to partition my 2nd drive to keep fragmentation less of an issue. But of course a dedicated drive is best for reliability and speed. best - multiple drives each with 1 partition OK - 1 drive, 2 partitions not good - 1 drive, 1 partition all with OS and storage files I do have one of my...

3 to 1?

Exactly, virus. I deleted part of my reply above since this sums it up better than what I wrote. "Kanter notes that there's no technical reason not to use SSE on the PC—no need for additional mathematical precision, no justifiable requirement for x87 backward compatibility among remotely modern...

What is funny about this speculation is that it might be possible to get not just equal but better performance on a PC with 4-8 cores if they switched what they optimized for... (CPU running physx instead of GPU) See, when AMD bought ATI they could have made crossfire 'run faster' on AMD...

Oh yeah, there is nothing bad about the card. It's great right now and might be enough pressure for ATI to adjust it's position at $200 which has not happened at any price point yet. It's just not exciting when looking at the cards position when zoomed out looking at what has been out for a year...