Recent content by Darren

Indeed its nice to see Intel react aggressively, I hope this forces AMD to pursue the competitive route further in pricing, I'm looking forwards to AMD's Athlon II X4 series, they are rumoured to be priced sub $100 if this is true I feel that AMD will continue to hold their ground at low end...

I agree with you, Intel do offer great overclocking potential and possibly better than everything else out today, I 100% agree now that I've got an explanation, if you said this to begin with I would of thanked you. But if you say "I do not like x company" without explanation then you are...

Nobody is attacking you, they are attacking your narrow views, its your right to dislike AMD but you've offered no justifiable reason to dislike the company. For example if you said "I dislike AMD because they do not offer enough value for money" one could argue this to be correct and perhaps...

The E6500 is a good idea from Intel however they have made a slight flaw in my opinion, the new CPU would have a bigger impact on socket 1366, despite the E6500s cheap price on socket 775 Intel are beating a dead horse, a lot of people with low end E-series will probably hit up to 3.5 GHz...

Rocketfish may be popular in certain regions, in the UK they are a non existent entity. Thanks for the links I'll just take yours and MN12BIRDs word that they make good but expensive PSUs.

Indeed but apparently according to a lot of forums the 550s have a far greater success rate of unlocking cores in comparison to the 720, some people claim its a near 100% guarantee. I think they are exaggerating slightly. F430, This thread is getting ridiculous, its been a few days now and...

I thought ram in the states was cheaper? like I saw OCZ Platinums PC8500 2GBx2 for $53.99 on Newegg.com

So if you are saying that the 8800 GT is better than the 4870, does that mean that you are also saying that the 8800 GT is better than the GTX260?

This thread is becoming stupid, the only person we should be disagreeing with is Qubit for being a fan boy and troll. Lets just end this argument now, the GTX 260 and 4870 are equivalent in performance. GTX260 192 core = ATI 4870 512 MB GTX260 216 core = ATI 4870 1 GB Argument over, I do...

You haven't really posted your brothers system specification its all well and good recommending video cards but without knowing how much ram he has and the CPU we can not take into consideration of the bottlenecks. It depends what your brothers budget is, the 4870 is so cheap now it makes...

Sir_Real, Its not quiet as simple as switching the cards, 3Dmarks can be very temperamental, for example, when I went from my ATI x1600 Pro to Nvidia 9600 GT initially the performance increase was small and my 3Dmarks 06 score didn't change much, it was only when I did a fresh format and...

I'm glad that its worked out well for you :) The 4890 is a good choice overall, nice and powerful card, however I still disagree that it was the best choice for you because of the potential processor bottleneck, although your gaming experience is great its not nowhere near as it should be...

animal007uk, I just sold my current PC6400 OCZ memory ebay (2 GBx4) and I'm going to order the PC8500 OCZ gold from eBuyer. We'll see if I manage stability at the rated speed!

The Tannoy Mercury's are good, I've seen them for cheaper on another retailer, for example on Lambda-Tek they are £66.99. Satellite speakers are just small lightweight speakers, most computer 5.1 speaker systems are satellite speakers! For example the Logitech Z-5500 consists of a subwoofer...

human_error, isn't the entire point of having the ASUS Xonar DX and the Z-5500 is to take advantage of the soundcards Dolby Digital Live encoding? Why use analogue?