We have our benchmarking philosophy pretty well laid out on the main page, but sometimes people still ask about our benchmarking selections and test set up. I'm of the firm opinion that benchmarking is really a small overall part of any review. Before you flame me completely, stop and think about it......Take a system and run a benchmark ten times......and you'll usually get 8-10 different results with that same system....with the same settings.

We use several different benchmarks in...

Capper

As many of you have noticed, the HL tag line rotates frequently....once a week or so, depending on what gives us a chuckle. While most sites use the tag line for something witty about their site, I've decided to use a rotating tag line to reflect something humorous from the forums or from around the web.

A couple of weeks ago, I took some cheap shots at Tom Brady of the despised New England Patriots, much to the chagrine of Paul, who has Tom Brady PJs and a large Tom Brady poster in...

Capper

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This comes as another blow to those of us that were early adopters of HDDVD. After the departure of Warner from the HDDVD camp it seems that all the rats(big companies) are leaving the sinking ship.

I for one dont see the big deal in any of the HD content on these discs. They look better and sound better than a normal SD(standard definition) disc. But I dont think they look and sound good enough for the premium that one has to pay to view...

onebxr

Have you seen Tom Cruise talking about Scientology?

Unfortunately, I saw it today at the request of my wife. She was rather adamant that I see how much of a fruitcake this guy has really become. I have absolutely nothing against Scientology's organization. I completely disagree with the whole premise of this "religion", but that's my own personal beliefs.

According to this website, Scientology is the fastest growing religion on the planet. Funny, I thought Islam...

Quakindude

So there I was, posting to one of my forums. My ire had been raised, stoked, smoked and let loose over some guy saying that ATI was now the King of Gaming performance with the new X2 GPU it will release in the next few weeks. It's called the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB (R680).

This guy was adamantly proclaiming, and still is with very bad grammar and spelling, that a comparison of the ATI X2 GPU was a fair and balanced comparison to a 8800 Ultra. Give me a friggin break! But I digress....

Quakindude