TMoney

The fact that both the PS4 and the upcoming XBox are going to be x86 based platforms can mean nothing but good things for the future of PC gaming. Currently the PC now accounts for only about 5-15% of the sales of AAA titles, thus leading to the current situation where developers targeted the XBox 360 as the lead platform and then ported from there. The focus on the last generation console hardware was clearly dragging down a lot of the games ported over to PC. Now that porting will be an order of magnitude simpler, I think (hope) we are going to see more and more games where the PC is the lead platform and the next gen consoles are the ports. Having just put together a monster PC, I have high hopes for the future of the PC as a gaming platform. Crysis 3 is absolutely stunning when maxed out at 60fps and quite fun to play to boot. I dl'ed SimCity last night and from the few hours I was able to play I can already tell that its going to be a ton of fun as well. The kind of graphics and smooth-as-butter gameplay you can get on a PC is an incredible upgrade over the current generation of consoles. It's a shame it doesn't show up better in the (compressed) YouTube video comparisons, because the difference really is night and day.

^ +1

^ Give Justin a call and see what he can do for you, natch.

In that case I'll have my fingers crossed for you!

I'm also glad to see you got this resolved. So, does the RAM you wanted to add work in the replacement?

So when you pulled the apple stock dimms and dropped in the new ones what happened?

You'd think the Ivy Bridge iMac (presumably Z77 based) would be able to take any DDR3 Ram up to 1600mhz. Too bad Apple locks you out of the bios leaving you no way to check.

Was it this part? "We don't base the design on some interpretation of the market needs or potential."

Justin is exhibiting, right? Wait... don't see his name on the list.

So I'm guessing we can probably count out Voltron and Mikey as well. Bummer.

Who did you call? Your local store or the national number? Might as well give it a shot and see what happens

A worthy choice, Monkey. I bought mine the 24th of January so I don't think I'm eligible to trade back in. Bummer.

So thats 3 of us. Plus Purrin and Particleman makes 5. Anyone else?

http://www.head-fi.org/t/644426/sf-bay-area-meet-on-sunday-february-17-2013-the-one-which-is-really-going-to-happen Who all from HC is going?

Ha, if only

Well, in case you change your mind I'm sure Greg (horio) or I would happily forgo brining a source in lieu of using your turntable. If not, then maybe next time we have a mini-meet.

So Rick... Two questions. One, are you going to the Bay Area meet, and two, any chance you'll bring the turntable and a couple of these 45s? That'd be friggin' sweet!

Kind of an interesting read. http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-how-monster-lost-the-world

I believe Apple's built in Quicktime player has a screen recording feature that might fit the bill? I'm on Mountain Lion though so I'm not sure if the Snow Leopard version of Quicktime has the same feature.

I contacted Oppo customer support last week to check in on the status of a Windows 8 USB driver. They had no updates and said they are still waiting on XMOS to deliver it to them. That (lack of) news after all these months makes me a sad panda.

Well, went ahead and made my big newegg purchase. I ordered pretty much everything but a graphics card, as I figure its probably best to wait until NVidia and AMD announce their 2013 slate. I'll just plan on running the Intel integrated graphics until then. It should be a fun build. As far as MOBOs go, I went with the ASRock Z77 OC Formula.

Looks like we (mostly) have our answer. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/surface-pro-disk-space-to-fall-a-long-way-short-of-what-youd-expect/

Congrats! Welcome to the retina club.

So, quick GPU question. Can you do SLI/Crossfire with two mismatched graphics cards or do they have to be the same make and model. For example, could you SLI a 660 Geforce with a 680? or would you have to do a pair of 660s/680s?