(On another note, DRMs suck. Big time. If not for the occasional sales, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Steam. It's much preferable to get a no-cd fix to play these games with a piece of mind.) Aye. Bioshock 1 and 2 are the worst I've seen - the first one I don't think can be re- …

Star Wars - Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was and is a great game. Playing it through right now actually. The 90s was a Golden Age for Lucasarts. Aye! :-D If you like strategy games more than action/adventure games, you might also consider: Empire Earth (may be a little rough depending on how …

Celeron D is a Prescott core with less cache - the board has to support Prescott in order to have a chance of supporting the Celeron D. Like Mau1wurf1977 points out, look online if possible for documentation of what is supported - it may require a BIOS update or something in order to be compatible. …

Steam and Gog are nice, but I still want something to be able to archive things to long-term. Not to mention the internet/cloud isn't always available. I've thought about picking up a floptical drive for certain things since they have a really long shelf life, but I'm not sure how much longer media …

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas should be considered a lost cause with multi-core systems, even if they are running Windows XP (and I would assume Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will have similar issues). I got San Andreas working on an Athlon 64 X2 by running it in Windows 98 compatibility mode. (It …

I prefer more memory over memory speed if I am not benching :) Fair enough. :happy: Honestly this thread is making me wish my X38 and X48 systems were more similar, so I could compare this in more detail. It's kind of bugging me - "I have the technology; I can test this" but...not quite. :dead: …

What an awesome thread! :happy: I'll spare the boredom of listing all of my gears though. :dead: Make me wonder: what manufacturers have tried similar design? Is it hard to build? Right now I'm more interested in scalpel-accurate sound of exotic tweeters, but who knows someday I'll be more …

There is no gain at all using DDR3 vs DDR2 on a Core 2 Duo platform. But you do need fast enough memory. For 333 mhz FSB you need 667 mhz memory 400 FSB needs 800 mhz memory and so on. An E8400 3 GHz Core 2 Duo (FSB 333) with the memory @ 667 MHZ with 3 3 3 8 timings will be just as fast as using …

Within a laptop's casing it may very well overheat, but I run a Pentium 3 1GHZ (29W TDP - little bit more than a K6-2; specs I found are 12W typ and 20W max) under a Thermalright SI-97 with no fan, with no issues. The fins don't really get warm in that setup. I guess the bigger question is how do …

I think those applications still require registration thats not provided within the installation. From what I remember of my Audigy 2 ZS (has almost identical CD package) it doesn't require any registration of the software, but the installer performs a check for the bundled hardware when run. For …

I know there are several XP era games that take advantage of duel core but my question is are there any XP era games that will NOT play due to multi cores? I know of only one, the ever-problematic Need for Speed: High Stakes (not technically an XP era game). I was able to fix it with the Imagecfg …