Quote:   Weird. Something tells me you are running it at higher settings than you think. Source games usually detect your hardware and set settings accordingly. I have an Xbox 360 for games as well, but a mouse and keyboard gives me way more control over gameplay. For example if...

    Quote:   That's all you really need honestly. Our eyes operate at 60 Hz as I understand it; there have been studies done that show PC gamers with high-end rigs used to excessive frames actually adapt so that they react faster and see more fps. Not sure how substantial it is, but I...

Mac's are not cooler than PC's. They just use worse components or the same components underclocked. I could use any GPU (e.g. 5870 or gtx 480) or CPU (e.g. i7 980x or thuban x6) I want on a PC and still get better temperatures using liquid cooling, which you can get from an OEM or do yourself...

I just installed Kubuntu and Ubuntu on two separate flash drives. They both run great. I would put OS X on a flash drive, but since Apple's driver support is non-existent it would be a waste of time, even Linux has better support than OS X and it's free. I might do it for laughs when I finish...

By the way it's not as if there aren't student discounts for other PC's I know for a fact Dell and HP have them. I was just on dell university looking at Alienware's. A few weeks back they had some decent 1080p monitors going for $130 and some 1600 x 900 monitors going for $110.   And even...

  Quote:   What it boils down too for me between PC and Mac is, what does a Mac offer me that I can't get on a PC? Hybrys has clearly shown you guys are getting ripped off in the hardware and price department for the exact same components. In fact his build included a gtx 285 which is...

I bought a pair of HDJ-1000 Headphones last summer (pic below for ref), which were epic for trance, but the build quality was less than amazing. The new Pioneer HDJ-2000's are a more than worthy successor, but I'm not giving up on my old pioneer's quite yet.         In short I...

Quote:   I got one. Conclusion: Don't buy a Mac, the Cake is a Lie. I can see Steve Jobs singing "I'm still alive," quick put a portal down and get out of Apple.   Quote:   More like a toaster that if you take care of it can make you a chocolate chip muffin versus just toast...

I'm impressed Hybrys, you know your stuff. How about the shipping? I'm kind of curious what the cheapest possible functional build would be using used/open box/combo's including tax + shipping. If anyone wants to see the hardware edge of PC's suggest a price and purpose of the PC and I'll see...

  Quote:   Yeah I know, you can actually build a quite nice rig for cheaper (extreme budget game build below:; 1 week old), but with SFF you pay more for the size and since it would have been a "PC Mini" it had to play games. I just wanted to prove a point, plus I'm a sucker for SFF...

    Quote:   Honesty, I had high hopes for the iPad, when I first heard about it I was hoping it would be a full fledged slate with keyboard and mouse support instead of just the keyboard. If apple had used a CLV or CULV (c2d or i3), thrown in a decent IGP from ATI/NVIDIA such as the...

    Quote:   I agree with the fact that mac's generally have very nice screen's but a screen can always be purchases separately for desktops and there are laptops with nice screen's out there. PC's get a bad rep because of the average consumer who spends $600 or less, or users who...

    Quote:     Most Mac's are rather sturdy, but they aren't designed for heat flow (therefore underclocked) and we all know they copied the keyboard from Sony. I find the touch pad irritating. It doesn't have a separated left and right click button (or any right click button at...

I've been looking around at some of the cool tech on the market and noticed a few concepts:   1) streammygame.com; haven't seen it first hand but according to what I can read you can play games on a low-end laptop (pc/mac/linux) etc. and stream your gameplay over the internet from your own...

  Quote:   The problem with MXM's is not the cards but the laptop's motherboards which are designed for very specific components. It doesn't help that AMD/Intel/ATI/NVIDIA release a new card or socket every other month. You couldn't upgrade from a gt 230 to a gtx 480 because of heat and...