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Its a basic economic principle...cutting out the middle man. The reason why you can't get HL2 early via steam is due to an existing contract way back when Valve was a fledgling development house and agreed to exclusively distribute games via Sierra/Vivendi for n number of titles. If Valve...

Nice post twat. I think perhaps you meant that I have no clue about graphics card, none the less thanks for the well thought out response. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your testicles.

nVidia cards support this and ATi don't (Probably end of the year or Q1 2005). So if buying a high end Ati card are you effectively crippling yourself even the likes of XT800 PE jobbies and will need to upgrade within next 6-12 months to be able to play new stuff at a good rate. Comments...

Bugger, my laptop is ATi driven

The only thing I wish you could do is extend the taskbar across both monitors.

I use a laptop and an 17" LCD, so very small border anyway. You don't even think about it. I couldn't cope going back to a single monitor for work.

Thanks for all the advice chaps, most appreciated.

Hi Chaps. Thinking of finally putting a new system together. I have selected the following parts and would be interested in any comments on any of the items. Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200XL Platinum TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 Asus A8V Deluxe (Socket 939) Wireless Edition Motherboard AMD...

Does Paper Mario have Multiplayer?? Paper Mario Death Match anyone.

Gamesradar has a partnership with Future publishing with publishes PCGamer, therefore the screen shots (Only twelve of them) are not infringement of copyright.

Just some more about it not being announced. http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=32107&subsectionid=1589

I'm in much the same boat as you..new job too. However I think I'm going to wait until PCIE mobo's come out for the AMD chipset. That way it should be upgrade proof for the future.

ohh ohh ohhh thats ace. :thumbs:

Maybe the VU issue only occurs in the US and all of us in Europe will get it in a few days. Can you imagine. lol.

Its just such a toughie... I run a 1.6ghz Centrino with Radeon 9000 mobility whuich is DX8.1 compliant I believe. So in theory my machine will run it fine on moderate settings. However I really do want to see it in its full glory, so need to go and buy a desktop machine...Next dilema is that I...