Legit Reviews

I don't think i'm ready to take the plunge (get it water... plunge... i'm hi-larious) into water cooling.. so i was wondering what Air CPU coolers would you recommend for a q6600? I'm using a scythe ninja rev b at moment and while it works it really doesn't have any room for overclocking (i.e. 70C u...

Well from my experience building my first PC last week (was a gaming system as well but a bit more money.. though if you are in america you might get things cheaper).. Go for a dual core processor I went quad and I don't think anything is really taking advantage of the extra power. (intel chips are ...

HONkUS wrote:crysis does dx9.

ah.. ok did not know that..

vicaphit wrote: After working with it, I will NEVER use it EVER again.... XP or vista from now on

..just wait for crysis .. then you'll eat those words.. well or find some hack if thats even possible for direct x 10

o yeah ment to say thanks to you as well tris... guess i just got caught up in the game playing and it slipped my mine

Digital Puppy wrote: Given that the California team beat a Canadian team make it that much better, imo.

most of the players on the california team probably are from canada anyway

Anyone know how to slow down the side scrolling speed in supreme commander?

I get my mouse to the edge of the screen and boom it flys off like a bullet...

well i ran with the follwoing settings 4xAA HDR medium Texture Filter 16xanisotropic shadow quality med shadow resolution default resolution 1280x720 all other settings high ..on a side note turned off AA and turned filtering down to bilinear.. ended up with 94 on snow and 67 on cave... a worse perf...

with that much power you could run two microwave ovens... that's gotta generate quite a bit of heat..

did they change the defaults in the demo.. i just ran it and got 71 average on snow and 69 average on cave...

Overall:
10333

..ahh.. no more stupid clicking sound.. i can't believe that sound was intentionally put in by microsoft..... next thing you know they'll be putting that annoying crazy frog ringtone as the startup sound..

..or you could buy an new 8800 ultra to go along with you old case

729$ ouchies...

ok im getting 5.9 on all now that my cpu isn't boiling water for fun...

If you didn't see my thread in general computer forums about my high cpu temps.. here another warning about the scythe ninja heatsink Basically the clips on my scythe ninja (plus rev.b) when fully "locked" (if you can call it that) did not securely hold the heatsink flush againgst the proc...

Well a big thanks to ken for coming over and checking out my system... there seems to have been two problems.. and both seem to be scythe problems.. For one the plastic clips(pegs) on the ninja were loose.. ie. when locked in they did not apply sufficent pressure between the cpu and heatsink.. this ...

I have the game and enjoyed playing it for a bit.... then i got my modem working on vista and found processor was way too hot.. so until i sort that out no more fancy stuff..

But it ran well with max details on my pc.. only played a couple missions so far but its pretty fun

I'm not really sure what you would really need from vista premium from the sounds of things.. but at the same time all the crap you hate on premium can no doubt be disabled and it would be more then a little inconvient to buy basic then find out a couple months down the line you actually want some o...

i'd say you could keep running it until crysis is released

i tried the stock cooler and im getting around 77 underload whihc is about 8c less then the sythe ninja... but idle like 57 which is about 7c more then the ninja idle..

arrgh..

O and btw im using bad axe 2 motherboard

I have a feeling the clips on the ninja aren't locking tight enough..