LOL You need a new mobo for Vista???? WTF :lol: Bah why rush off and buy it anyway - XP is still a better option, until Dx10 titles start comming out by the buckloads, and the optimisation is better.
If Linux was soo good then it would be the most used...... No Windows is still the Best os - but yes for the Ungamers (guys who are freaks with PC's) Linux all the way. OSX is good for computer illiterate fools ;)
Overclocking hardly reduces your hardware's efficency. I used to have a 9600 Xt on my old PC. I overlocked it to almost twice its standard mem clock and another 1/4 of its core clock, on a stock fan. Though I did start to get artifacting (i switches to a huuuge copper heatsink cooler, and it cooled it down by 12c, then it was better) the preformance jump was HUGE. I mean I could run FC, D3, HL2 and BF2 with ALL the uber shiny bits on, with no slowdown. Now apparantly my old vid card + pc should be kapput, but no it still works just as well as I first bought it, why? Good Cooling. A decent PSU + well ventallated case X OCing = maxxxx preformance (thermaltake soprano and super lanboy all the way :D) Oh and right now im running my X850 pro 40mhz higher on core and 40 mhz on mem, on a standard heatsink, with standard temps; the preformance of the card is much much much better :D (thankls to my tidy case + lots of fans) Oh and the fans dont even make the case louder, I can sleep with it on @ night :P Its time to Overclock people. Just do it!
hMm the Heavy Rain vid was good, but I thought the Woman looked a bit like a horse. Seriously, check out how big her top teeth are, and you cant even see her bottem ones. I reckon the character in HL2 look fantastic, he facial expressions are damn good, and Iim not 'scared' by them.....
What about that game Operation Wolf (i think, that brings back loads of memory from after school care when I was a young sapling. Ah and also Mario Bros., of course :D
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