Recent content by MatTheCat II

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the only way to make Windows 8 tolerable, is to use a 3rd party program that enables the user to circumnavigate all the Metro UI and its nonsense apps and proprietary stores that Microsoft is trying to ram down our throats.

Cos clock for clock there is no difference in performance and the IB will be able to clock a good bit higher than Haswell. The Haswell chips runs very hot. Much hotter than all the review sites will have everyone believe due to Intel cherry picking the early review samples. If I was buying a...

This would be really funny if it happened. I would install it and game on it just to spite Microsoft. I am p1ssed with them right now for forcing me to use Windows 8 on my new laptop.

'Designed' to run hotter, or arbitrarily 'designated' as hotter running? As far as I am aware, a mobile version of a chip is simply an underclocked undervolted version of its desktop counterpart. Perhaps I am wrong, but if I am right, how is heat going to affect one differently from the...

So do laptop users just have to accept that their equipment will degenerate much faster than the desktop equivalents? I guess this must be part of the unspoken deal when buying a laptop.

I have recently bought a GT70 Haswell/GTX780M laptop. I feel that the laptop runs a little hot and I have also witnessed artifacting on a couple of occasions and what seems like temp related graphical glitches on another. From just one 3DMark benchmark, I getting 91C on the GPU and 82 C on the...

Stop moving the goalposts please. QX9650 did not come out until 2008. XBox was out 2006, and that CPU alone cost more at release than the cost of the whole 360 console.... PCs consoles PC consoles PCs Consoles ........jeeeezus. We all know that PCs are more powerful than consoles and that we...

You guys can delude yourselves all that you want for whatever reasons you wish. But if you had access to any 7 year old rig, even one that was high end at the time and would have cost much more to put together than the price of a console, and tried to play any modern title on it such as CoD...

Back then, I still had a 3:4 CRT monitor that I ran at 1025*768 or whatever. I can assure you, that my Radeon X1950XT did not run CoD4 anything near as well as it ran on the 360. I should know, I had that card and I tried it. I considered the game unplayable on my PC at the time, but very...

Impossible to prove, but I beleive it is a general consensus amongst games developers that twice as much horsepower is required in a PC to match console gaming performance. The fact that we now have PCs 20 times more powerful than the 360/PS3 makes us forget that.... ...when xbox360 came out...

ach c'mon.... This is a PC tech enthusiast website...of course everyone here has a powerful gaming desktop, a powerful gaming laptop or both. I have both. But I am almost the only person I know who has either. 5 years ago, the non-tech nerds that I knew (almost everyone) all tended to have a...

You can barely buy a decent gfx card for that sort of money. So, I will bet that you could not build a PC for $400, that would compete with the PS4. Also please bear in mind, that you will be needing about twice the processing power of the PS4 to get the same PS4 level of performance on a...

Not without the couch potatoe console gamer getting to know all about a whole loads of headaches and issues that PC gamers just take like water of a ducks back, and there will be loads more issues besides that, issues that most people wont want to know about...... aside from that......crappy...

Ease of use, lack of issues, much better value for money than PC gaming, great in-game social networking facilities....sits comfortably in the front room, next to the TV, operated with gamepad on/off No, you cannot!

It is not just the interface....it is everything. All the weirdness. All the strange retarded apps that want to hi-jack the running of my files. The fact that when I went to play an mp3 file, 'X-Box Music' took control, and I could find no way of turning the thing off except for through the task...