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well i had a similar problem, my vent had "changed" the IP to the old one i think, so i change it back to vent.steam-gamers.net

at least you didnt get me banned for nothing again!!!

corei7 for less than £1000 case: antec nine hundred two http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Antec-Nine-Hundred-Two-Plastic-Steel-ATX-Case-Window-without-PSU £99.47 MoBo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R socket 1366 X58 Chipset Supports DDR3 1366, SLi http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigabyte-GA-EX58-UD3R-Intel-X58-Express-S1366-PCI-E-20x16-DDR3-1333-SATA-3Gb-s-SATA-RAID-ATX £149.70 CPU: Intel Core i7 920 8MB cache 2.66GHz (easy overclockable to 4.2GHz on air ) http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Intel-i7-920-D0-(SLBEJ)-Socket-1366-(B)-Nehalem-266GHz-QPI-48GT-s-Cache-8MB-130W-Retail £225.60 RAM: (3x1GB) CorsairXMS3, DDR3 PC3-10666 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/3GB-(3x1GB)-CorsairXMS3-DDR3-PC3-10666-(1333)-240-Pin-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24 £44.97 GFX:896MB Palit/XpertVision GTX 275 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/896MB-PALIT-GTX-275-PCI-E-20-(x16)-2268MHz-GDDR3-GPU-633MHz-240-Cores-2x-DL-DVI-I-HDTV £195.39 HDD: 1TB Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1TB-Samsung-HD103UJ-Spinpoint-F1-SATA-300-7200-rpm-32MB-Cache-89-ms-NCQ £67.82 PSU: 680W Tagan TG680-U33II http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/680W-Tagan-U33II-SuperRock-Series-DC-to-DC £107.24 Disc Drive: Dual Layer DVD Writer http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/LG-GH22NS30-22x-DVDR-16xDVDDL-DVDplusRW-x8-RWx6-12xRAM-SATA-Black-OEM £16.43 TOTAL: £974.42 build does not include monitor, mouse, keyboard, or OS. as i assume you have these If you dont fancy building your own here are a few options http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/yoyotech-water-dragon-coolermaster-case-500w-phenom-coolit-water-cooler-memory-750gb-hard-drive-radeon-4890-graphics-card-bluray-reader-onboard-sound-p-1892424.html £892.43 http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/yoyotech-intel-viperi-system-lianli-case-800w-q9550-memory-320gb-hard-drive-geforce-graphic-card-rewriter-onboard-sound-p-1313080.html £999.81 are to name a few. hope this helps in your decision

i got banned and didnt even do anything wrong

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whats your IP again???:crazy:

same, its your CPU thats the bottleneck, you could have a 295GTX, it would look shit hot, but you would still only get 20-40 fps more 9800GT's arent really worth your while honestly. buy better ram then see how much more performance you get, then see about getting a new GFX Card. just remember, dont use mis-matched ram modules as they will run at the slowest one installed

its not about the amount of VRAM, its at what speeds the VRAM and GPU speed are at. with the new gfx card and ram i would say an extra 20 - 40 fps, but its your CPU thats causing the bottleneck

well said, its what you like and what u want to do with it.

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honestly, your processor is out of date, but depending on your motherboard, you could consider overclocking it a little if you feel confident, but you would need a better HSF (HeatSink Fan), you can get a good one for $30 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185125 and you could push the CPU upto 3GHz ok, from the chipset u have on ur current mobo, it looks like you can get better ram, at the moment its pretty slow, so spending $40 on better ram would increase your performance. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227181 = $31.99 then i am assuming that your graphics are along par with your setup at the moment, buying a new graphics card would increase your framerate and the quality of the graphic you can get good cheap cards for less than $100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150340 the 9600 GSO is an amzing card for the price, and will play all the games you currently can play at the moment, but i suspect that your CPU is hold you back. so unless you got $400 - $500 to build your self a new rig, this would be the cheapest option for you to increase your performance

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whats its make and model, and what OS you have? you can either to a clean install of the OS and with the System restore disc your laptop came with install all of the drivers again, or get the drivers off the interent by google'ing ur the manufacture and model number. im pretty tired atm and cant think of any other solutions

whats ur budget? AlienWare are good, but ur mostly paying for the looks, the professional built quality and the stable over clock. if you have got the moeny though, go alienware, ive heard they have excellent customer service. but what is ur budget so u can get mos bangs for bucks

My New case (Antec 1200) HSF (Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ Cooler) and VGA Cooler (Akasa AK-VC03-BLUV VGA COOLER) i got today with birthday money so i got together 2x500GB samsung spinpoint 1x250 WD Carvar, Q6600 G0 stepping, 2GB Giel 1066MHz RAM, ASUS P5K-Premium Motherboard 8800GTS 512MB and Thermaltake toughpower 600W PSU. I have not yet overclocked it, but i will do. i get a CPU temp at 20 C idle, GPU 30 C idle i stressed the CPU with the new HSF and it never went above 30 C not yet stressed GPU heres what it looked like it pieces another when fitting it into the new case and the finished product with once dark pic

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