It's sort of sad that my first interaction with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on the PC was as a benchmark. But after answering a bunch of emails and responding to comments, I finally got a chance to sit down and play the game.

Yep, that's right - I took this evening off, no benchmarks, no writing, nothing. Vinney and I played a bit of Splinter Cell with a friend in D.C., only to realize that we are both very bad spies (Vinney is a bit better than me, she's much more patient than I am at this kind of stuff).

NVIDIA sent me a replacement nForce4 SLI Intel Edition board, but I'm waiting for ASUS' board to arrive tomorrow before beginning my testing. I'd rather test on a production board anyways and the ASUS board should have dual core support so it'll be a good test platform. I'll keep you all updated on that as things progress.

It's looking like the nForce4 bit will be my next article; I haven't decided if I'm going to hand Derek the x64 article or not, I'm waiting to hear back from him on his schedule. To those wanting a 2P Opteron vs. Pentium D comparison, that one's not going to happen but I have one I think you'll appreciate even more in a couple of weeks.

The Theater 550 article is almost complete, it got cast aside to make room for the dual core stuff but hopefully I'll be able to finish it up soon. That's all for now, I'm going to enjoy the rest of the night off :)

Take care.