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I think PC gaming is more likely to die out than console gaming, if you look at things like Modern Warfare 2 you can see the way the wind is blowing at the moment.
I hope it doesn't, keyboard and mouse are both more precise and offer a more sociable environment than console.
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Mr Scruff - Nice Up The Function Feat. Roots Manuva
Experimental turntablism/trip hop/jazz/electronica stuff.
Signed to the Ninja Tune label, which I'm in love with, possibly the worlds best label.
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I attached everything except cables before screwing the motherboard in, it's much easier. All I had to do after mounting it was connect wires.
Do this, it helps.
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Configuration files?
Good point, I grabbed my application data but where would my various config files probably live, not game ones but stuff like Azureus?
revoke any cdkeys that use securom?Unfortunately I have some of these, but that gets revoked by default if you uninstall the game right?
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Well people I need to reinstall windows XP (again, if you can remember my past with reinstalling XP you may have some clue how irksome I find it)
Anyway to get to the point, I'm backing up everything I can think on my external hard drive and making lists detailing what I'll need to reinstall.
So far I've:
Backed up saved games
Pictures
Music
My documents
game mods.
Program skins for rocketdock and CD art Display
Fonts
Can you think of anything I've missed and suggest anything else I should consider copying?
Thanks
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thank you so much for all the responses so far but it has left me with a few questions:)
These have been pretty well answered already but I'll give my input
1) Which is faster HDD or SSD ? SSD all the way, they are the future
2) How much RAM will a 64 bit system recognize? More than we're likely to have for a long time, limit for motherboards is the question here, usually 16GB
3) What is the difference between ATX and mini-ATX? Both are form factors for motherboards Mini(micro)ATX is smaller for more compact systems, ATX is bigger (standard form factor)
4) Is Blu-ray the better choice for a dvd player? Depends on what you want them for, I would get at least one of each if I could as they are dedicated to different media formats
5) What is the highest resolution current games are using now? Highest I've heard of is 2560x1600
6) Is it better to go with a wide screen monitor? Yes, unless you intend to play old games on this machine (assuming you don't your current one would be much better suited)
7) Should I get a RAID configuration? If yes, what type? Possibly, the build I suggested had two HDDs which would be put in RAID 0 if I had that computer. With an SSD drive for the system. (Just like Timo.)
8) Is there a big difference between 7200 and 10000rpm on HDD's ? Ditto on Timo, 7200RPM with 32MB cache is a better buy now.
9) Should I go with the integrated ethernet port or get a dedicated card for it? Depends on if you want to spend the money, integrated is fine but if you want to splash out for the small improvement go for it
10) I heard something about a card that does computations that frees up the GPU's...what is it and should I get it? Avoid anything like this, especially if you put together an SLi/Crossfire system as you'll have more than enough power to deal with anything
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I use Avira.
I'm -mostly- a safe surfer.
All I've ever encountered are false positives (normal considering what the files were) and one actual threat, which it neutralised without breaking into a sweat.
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Steampunk = Awesome
Skull = What on earth?
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1280x1024
because I can't afford a bigger monitor
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Right if money isn't an issue, or at least not until 5-7k I'd advise:
(Oh and I warn you in advance, this is going to be an Nvidia based system)
CPU: Go with an i7, I'll agree with Yarasa as well, go for the 8xx, although if you have the money left and want to spend it when you've thought of everything else, you could get a 9xx, your choice
Heatsink: this perhaps. Look around at reviews and find out what brands perform well.
Thermal Compound:.........http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835100007 < Arctic silver, no argument there
Motherboard: If you truly want all the bells and whistles and don't mind the price get something like this otherwise go with Timo's advice and get ASrock
Harddrive(s): I recommend Seagate. And you might wish to invest in 10,000 a 10,000 RPM drive or Solid State Drive (which appear to be the future)
CD/DVD w/r: Not much variation with disk drives, Plextor are reported to be very good. You might want to consider a Bluray drive as well.
Case................................http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129021, not sure what this was. I personally like my case (Akasa Mirage) it has plenty of room and space for fans, Antec 900 is a cool looking case too, meant to be good
Power Supply: Corsair PSUs are good, (though actually made by a company called seasonic for corsair, so Seasonic's are good too.)
RAM: I recommend like timo DDR3, assuming you're going 64bit, so get plenty I like Corsair but there are other good makes
Video Card(s): I think for this much money you might as well get Nvidia 295 GTX(s)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty perhaps?
Keyboard: Whatever you like the feel of I use a Microsoft basic one from a previous computer
Mouse: As above
Monitor: Get a nice 22" or above.
Speaker System: ...
Fans: Akasa make good fans
PhysX Card?: Unnecessary if you have Nvidia cards, they've integrated PhysX
Hope I've been of some help
EDIT: A selection I chose, brands seem to differ over there which surprised me. Anyway, it's just over $5000 - $1500 of which is the 3 GTX 295s, I'm not sure the PSU is the right power as I didn't check and I didn't look into custom graphics card cooling
Oh you got some gifts, I didn't look at those
EDIT 2: Compatibility wise I'm fairly certain this lot fits together, I can check to be sure if you prefer though.
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Thanks for choosing me guys
Uh, heh, I'm no good at speeches about winning stuff, so yeah
Better get to work on my avatar
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They're fine.
Doesn't really bother me, unless perhaps there's any chance you could change the set here on Darkmatters?
it's just that some of them are rather tasteless (evony and imvu)
Actually, I'll echo the others, I'd rather donate.
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As my old thread feels a bit redundant now, I'm making this one
Sometimes I pretend I can draw...
And others I try to make somewhat decent wallpapers
EDIT: Wait wait, Photobucket has murdered the original resolutions of those
They're 1920x1200
1280x1024
and 1920x1200 in that order
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It was my browser that didn't work properly, just started up Mozilla Firefox and then it worked fine.
I know all about having a childish name, I used to have the name Spunky666 at SIF
Oh lord, 666, I know all about that number...
*shudder*
My normal name now is ChaosTheorem, but fRACTAL fits sigs better
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As I need to reinstall shortly, this looks very useful, half the stuff I need can be got off there.
Thanks Yarasa!
(And a pity it doesn't feature Avira Antivir)
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I can't see your second pumpkin, but maybe it's just my browser that mucks thing up.
It's a PNG, what browser, and did you try fullscreening it?
EDIT: It's the same as the first, just with a transparent background for easier cutting out
Also, @ Schot, you can use my real name, it's cool
but TimOfDoom just seemed so... childish
EDIT again: I seem to be Mr.Edit today, anyway, Schot, I'd love to be able to do the vector one, but I can't for the life of me understand the pen tool, I need a really good tutorial to explain it to me before I could use it.
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Nice Timo!
This seems pretty fun, and I have time on my hands (probably) as it's half term
So I'm going to try this too
Also @ Erling, what's that grid you have on that picture?
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I'm not so happy with the first 2, the eyes are... bad
This one's eyes took far less time but are better in my opinion
I still don't feel they match the rest of the picture, but I couldn't figure out how to make them look 3D properly while painting
(Or maybe I just didn't think about it properly...)
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Well I fought through this tutorial. No way any tutorial is gonna beat me down. Nuh uh! I'm actually starting to have a bit of fun with this tutorial. I really had to follow every detail in the tutorial as closely as I could since the written guide is minimal at best. After a lot of experimenting I'm starting to develope something I like though. Here's what I got so far.
There's no escape lil pumpykins!
Ok... Not sure what;s up with the arm. I think I'll try a tentacle. Oh yesh!
Nice schot!
I'm brushing mine, because, well, I can't use the pen tool...
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Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen
Just saw them live, were amazing.
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*Get's out staff, casts raise from the dead*
Thread Necromancy aside, I'm listening to
Air - Moon Safari
Great band
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You dont technicaly need to know how to draw to use one, my school just got them and I cant draw, I use them for everything else though (would be better if we had the screen wacoms but those EXPENSIVE X[ )
Best regards,
Nicholas
aka
Nostalgic Ninja
Screen wacom's are awesome, had one at my work experience.
Wish I had one myself ;_;
But for now, I'd prefer to draw on paper before a tablet
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My username will be changing to fractal shortly, still me though, not being replaced by some alien or anything
cheers.
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Hurray for this, much better than adverts. Community powah!
EDIT: I just noticed, is the post/sig separator ever going to get reuploaded?