I learned how to properly resolder the GPU after mine red ringed. Cost me $2.99 in supplies, about 20 minutes reading an instructable and watching a Youtube video, and maybe 10 minutes actually doing it. Never had a problem with it again. As reprimandation towards Microsoft for making a faulty product, I also replaced…

To everyone complaining or wondering "WHY TERRIBLE 16bit GRAPHICS?!":

There are two halves to making any game, art and programming. Art is (almost) always going to be the most expensive and time consuming portion of any game, and not by a small amount.
I worked on an indie game called Theta (not released yet) which is…

Sadly, I don't see a U.S. release of Mother 3 ever. There are far too many things in that game that can fly with the Japanese that would cause a damn riot here because Americans are so easily offended. The Magypsies? *Spoiler* Lucas gets his powers when one of these gender-benders *violates* him in a hot spring.…

Are those average or max framerates? The review I read claimed it to be unplayable at anything but low. Regardless, let's use Anandtech's numbers; we'll be optimistic. A thousand dollars for a PC that is, at best, marginally better than seven year old consoles?

This thing is launching with a 3.2Ghz quad core AMD CPU (R464), which makes it the A10-4600M, which gets less than 30 frames per second at 1366x768 on the absolute lowest Battlefield 3 settings, which means it's on par or worse than current consoles.

Scratch that, the Piston is using a 3.2Ghz quad core AMD CPU (R464), which makes it the A10-4600M, which gets less than 30 frames at 1366x768 on the absolute lowest BF3 settings, which means it's worse than current consoles.

Actually, I just looked closer at the specs, which claim it uses a 3.2Ghz quad core AMD CPU (R464), which makes it the A10-4600M, which gets less than 30 frames at 1366x768 on the absolute lowest BF3 settings, which means it's worse than current consoles.

It's not powerful, and that's the problem. The specs say it uses a "quad core" AMD CPU with on die HD7000 series GPU. That's the AMD A10-5800K, which gets about 30 frames per second on low settings in Battlefield 3 at a resolution of 1920x1080, which is the resolution you'd be playing at on a big screen television.…

If it's using a quad core AMD processor with integrated graphics, the best one it could be using is an A10-5800K. Other rumors state it has 8GB of ram and comes with a 128GB SSD. I went and put together the exact same build, along with sources and prices to see what total I could come up with.

If it's using a quad core AMD processor with integrated graphics, the best one it could be using is an A10-5800K. Other rumors state it has 8GB of ram and comes with a 128GB SSD. I went and put together the exact same build, along with sources and prices to see what total I could come up with.

If it's using a quad core AMD processor with integrated graphics, the best one it could be using is an A10-5800K. You also gave me the rest of the stats, so I went and put together the exact same build, along with sources and prices.

As everyone has mentioned, all modern x86 processors are 64 bit. Aside from that, the 3GB limitation is due to THE OPERATING SYSTEM (Specifically Windows), not the processor. 32 bit processors have been able to address up to 64GB of RAM since the Pentium Pro (1995).

Actually, I pirate everything; movies, television, books and games. In fact, the only games I've paid for in the last ten years or so were World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, and that's only because I absolutely had to. I've never bought a single CD or mp3 ever, yet I have a 40GB music collection. I've never bought a…

Well, they pulled that "They have weapons of mass destruction" bit last war, and then everyone found out it was a lie. I don't think they'd do it again so soon.

Woah, this is an almost exact copy of Battlehearts.

How did you have enough money to buy a Mac, but don't have enough to build a PC? I just got done building my cousin an APU (the processor has a "built in" video card) based PC for $220. Plays your average PC game at medium settings fine, high end games at low settings. Want to make it more powerful, just throw in a…

We're looking at it all wrong.

WINE runs a lot of Windows only games just fine. However, it only supports up to Direct X 9. This makes me think that Valve is most likely working on its own fork of WINE that implements at least DX10 or possibly 11, and optimized for games.

Valve being the biggest seller of games, if Valve switches to Linux, devs will make games for Linux. To develop games for Linux, you have to use and run Linux. Valve is going to Tyler Durden the gaming community.

D&D-esque game where the person with the gamepad is the dungeon master. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!