Shaw is pretty good, but you have no other alternatives, Telus is really really REALLY bad in terms of pricing.

OMG THAT AIR CRIT STICKY!

Edit: So this is what it's like to get your heart ripped out from your chest.

https://code.google.com/p/broesels-crosshair-switcher/

Sets different crosshairs, colours, viewmodel on/off and indiviual weapons' fov

Edit: Note that this script only sets 1/2/3 with primary/secondary/melee and doesn't not have the ability set crosshair and other settings to weapons, so what Snowy wants for individual weapons does not exist (as far as I know).

If you want to overclock the 7850 it will destroy the 660. In recent generations AMD has really been kicking GTX's ass interms of performance and price because of its ability to OCed much better. Around the same price point I would suggest AMD GPUs over GTX cards. However, the only thing GTX has over AMD is lightboost, which almost gets rid of input lag on 3d monitors.

Overclocking is like the lottery, not all K chips are created equal. Some might be able to get to 4.6GHz at 1.200V while others need to push 1.400V (which make the chip much hotter).

Please check the temperatures of the Haswell chips because they don't overclock well due to high heat output. Unless you are planning on dropping around $100+ on an aftermarket cooler you might not reach acceptable temperatures on the the i5-4670K with a high clock like 4.2GHz+.

Every generation of intel CPUs seems to be getting worst at overclocking. The 2500k Sandy overclocked better than the 3570K ivys with lower temps, and the same with haswell vs ivy. A lot of overclockers are disappointed with hawsell and I personally went with the 3570K after seeing hawsell results.

If somehow you are lucky enough to get a good haswell chip without overheating, they do perform 10%~20% better than ivys.

I wanted timmy to get his 5th, but it didn't happen :(

In the end nothing will really change for PS4 or XboxOne if big publishers still wants to push online passes to combat the used game market. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Even 64GB SSDs are too small for just putting the OS, let alone pulling the rest of the startup programs that you use everyday. I have no idea what you mean by using an SSD for TF2. Last time I checked you custom map folder gets pretty big pretty fast, you might run out of room in a 128GB SDD in a few months.

To prevent leaks so that E3 or whatever event they wanted was the actual reveal? Like Linus said in his stream the fact that the PS4 and XboxOne wasn't leaked until Sony and Micro revealed it was pretty amazing, Internet has been really good at killing surprises for the past decade.

As for your complaint. It's the new industry standard: use PC-rendered graphics that looks way better than their console counterpart, pre-release review copies to reviewers that are "encouraged" to give great scores, have "interviews" with the developers that feed you bullshit about how their games are "innovative" and "game of the year".

My advice? Don't buy into the hype, don't worry about pre-orders, don't really believe anything they say because they will pull every trick they can to get you to give them money. Wait until the games/console you want is out and read actual consumer reviews and impressions.

To be honest this is probably what PS4 was doing and what most hardware was doing before. The fact is that the hardware is not 100% ready and it was easier to just emulate the console using similar hardware on windows than trying to fully produce enough XboxOne for E3. I really doubt that the hardware used at E3 would really be more powerful than what the XboxOne actually uses. Unless some news comes out about how the PCs were running Intel 2011 socket CPUs OC'ed and GTX Titans x2, this is really a non-issue that people are blowing out of proportion as an excuse to hate the XboxOne even more.

EDIT: BIO LOVE THE LINK FOR THE LINUS STREAM.

Just got my i5-3570k and MSI Z77 GD65 Gaming yesterday and installing updates to OS and other crap right now. Waited sometime for the 4th gen intel cores but the overheating from overclocking made me get this 3rd gen instead. Hopefully I have won the sillicon lottery and have a decent CPU and overclock well.

Big night for AG, playing Mad Men and Tri Hards, 2 important lan spot matches!

Summarization, not a real translation.

這次的表演賽場地是在台北101地下1樓的SPARK所舉辦，待會兩位電競高手比賽時所使用的電腦平台中，主機板以及電源供應器皆是採用了與FATAL1TY合作的產品。
"This time the stage is set at Taipei 101's B1 Spark arena. The PC used by both competitors will be powered by FATAL1TY branded motherboard and PSU."

至於硬碟的部分，自然也是採用了OCZ所推出的Vertex 450固態硬碟。
"As for the hard drive, naturally we used OCZ Vertex 450 SSD."

雖然這場比賽算是表演性質，不過兩位選手一坐上比賽位置的時候，眼神突然變得超認真，果真是專業的電競選手。
"Although this is said to be a show match, you can tell they took this very seriously with the look in their eyes. They are truely professional."

這次表演賽是屬於1對1競賽，主要勝負評斷是看誰在限時的5分鐘以內KO對手最多次則算是獲勝。表演賽一共比了兩場，在第一場比賽的時候，兩位選手似乎都在熟悉彼此的遊戲套路，並沒有太多的正面對決，不過薑還是老的辣，第一場比賽還是由FATAL1TY以2比0的成績勝出。
"This showmatch is a 1-on-1 format, whoever can KO the other the most in a 5 minute limit is declared the winner. This showmatch consist of 2 maps. In the first map, it seemed like both players were trying to feel each other out, therefore did not have many face-to-face encounters; but old ginger is the spiciest (hahahahaha chinese proverbs) and FATAL1TY was able to win with a 2-0 score."

FATAL1TY的表情看起來還蠻老神在在地。
"FATAL1TY looking intense and focused."

情勢稍為落後的Relic似乎稍微顯得不安一些。(題外話：海報上的Relic還真的是不太像耶!哈哈)
"Falling behind Relic looks a bit worried (Sidenote: Relic doesn't really look like his picture, haha)."

到了第二場比賽的時候，FATAL1TY似乎已經摸清Relic的策略，一開始沒多久就馬上差距拉開到8比0，不過Relic也並未放棄，在最後一分鐘的時候Relic便急起直追，連續獲得三分，殺得FATAL1TY無招架之力，只可惜剩餘時間不多，最後還是由FATAL1TY獲得這場比賽的勝利啦！
"In the second map, FATAL1TY appears to have figured Relic out and pull a quick 8-0. However Relic was not to be deterred and managed to rally a comeback in the last minute, scoring 3 consecutive points, "shitting" on FALAL1TY. Too bad time was not on his side and FATAL1TY was able to hold on for the win!"

The rest of the post just talks about the PSU and Mobo FATAL1TY is selling, hardware stuff nothing really that interesting.

［小惡魔福利社］ = [Little Devil canteen] which is just the name of whoever posted this I think?

Try this motherboard if you can fit it into the case and want overclocking:

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71116&vpn=P8Z77-I%20Deluxe&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1360

It has a vertical extended part which offers better cooling to the CPU and allows OCing capable of reaching the magical mythical super-not-useless-to-gaming 4.6GHz on the 3570k, but it is rather pricey.

Also CHECK THIS SHIT OUT:

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71144&vpn=BFC-PRO-300-WWXKW-RP&manufacture=BitFenix

2 videos on the new Haswell chips

Overclock3d(TinyTom): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLtjgbga5g - this is a loooooong one
NCIX(Linus): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxnnwnSt4Sk

Few things to note:

Power usage! Haswell uses very little power, which conflicts with current PSU trend of more-power-more-efficency, which can be problems for low-end PSU to stable low voltage to the CPU. Be sure to check with PSU manufacturers compatibility charts before risking frying a haswell chip. (also buy a more recent decent quality one just to be extra safe?)

Overheating? Tinytom's vid points out this issue with the 4770k which ran at almost over 90c for 30mins at 90% load, which is a bit worrying, although the chip was OCed to 4.6

1150: No long the old 1155/6 socket, 1150 is the new direction. Cannot just direct upgrade without a new motherboard.