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That's a very excellent rig and I think you're right on with those components. You might not need that beefy a PSU unless you plan on going SLI sometime but it never hurts to be prepaired I guess. DX 10 cards will be very available and much cheaper this summer and we'll see a handful of games...

Nope you're right on. It used to be that Apple worked with companies like Motorola or IBM to produce some propietary components and then relied on standard hard drives and a few basic video cards from ATI and nVidia (that kind of sucked). There were a ton of arguements about performance and it...

It's a great idea and I'm all for it but that'd be a whole lot of work for Sniper, B, and AT to link every single flag to it's own wiki and map.

Oh, that makes a bit more sense but either way that's the best upgrade for you. Might as well just get some stuff to match what you already have.

Man that's a tough one, too bad newegg doesn't ship to Europe, that'd have a ton of business.

I can't really remember exactly but I know I at least got a replacement mobo, hard drive, XP Home (not really hardware but still computer stuff), psu, and I think I had to replace ram, and RMA my video card. So yeah basically I just replaced what died. No actual upgrades, pretty depressing really.

That's amazing you can run FEAR and Oblivion etc. on max with half a gig. But yeah like the other's I highly recommend that. It'll only be like 30 quid or something and I found that it pretty much made things go from medium settings and choppy to maximum and lag free. Granted the rest of my...

I'm seeing it, seems a little steep to me. Perhaps you're other taxes are a little more mild in comparison?

That's true but, like with Oblivion, these features aren't there from the get-go, you have to download some 3rd party patches for them to work, it's not in the origional game design really. (so console versions need-not apply I suppose).

That's killer B, a 3700+ is really temping now, they're only $80 for a skt 939 model. Can't beat that.

The one thing that really differs about videogame ratings and movie ratings is videogame ratings are very generic and there are only a handful of reasonings floating around. We've all seen violence, or now intense violence (I'm still not sure what in a game warrents that exact rating, FarCry...

When I think sexually explicit games I don't think of ones like Oblivion where there's a patch to show off a few boobs. I think of games (the very, very few that there are) that actually involve sex on some heightened level. Singles and Leisure Suit Larry: Uncut and Uncensored are the only...

I know we've discussed this but in brief what is the VAT tax used for? Is it just like a rather inflated sales tax?

It wouldn't worry about that OC, the 6600GT's won't get too far as they're already pushing the limets at 500/1000 for the memory they're given and cooling provided. Plus a lot of cards just won't OC well for whatever reason. There are some people that will get pretty impressive OC's for a...

I don't know about that. Currently the GTS goes for about $450 or so. But summer's a long way away and as ATI releases new cards and nvidia makes updates the GTS will have to drop in price a lot of stay competitive. Not to mention any mid/high end cards coming out, like a DX 10 equivilant of...

Thanks guys. Only a select few cards actually can be unlocked with RivaTuner, which is just a program that allows you to tweak graphics cards in a number of ways, from overclocking to color correction etc. It's only really the cards that are based off of higher end models that can be unlocked...

Yeah it's weird they'd do that but if it's coming from their site itself I'd hope not.

Can't say at this point, I'll have to see how they handle crysis and UT2k7 and gage it by that. The R600 is looking a good bit stronger at this point though. I wouldn't want to spend more than 300 either so that would kind of determine a lot.

Exactly, and there should actually be a few games out to take advantage of that I'm hoping.

I know I told you guys about how I fumbled around and managed to overclock my video card and Processor (see "my computer") and I decided to unlock the pipelines and vertex shader in my card to get a full 16/6 in hopes of getting better performance in addition to getting my video drivers updated...