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So how about some volleyball?

Well, assuming he is in high school. He will get 5 minute passing periods, about 7 of those a day. And a 55 minute lunch. Passing periods are nearly impossible to play unless you are some type of super human. So that leaves you with lunch. Half the time you will be eating your lunch (which I assume you don't have any friends because you can easily make time for games at school), so that leaves you with 30 minutes. Now if my assumption is wrong, and you do have friends, that eliminates all possible time to play games at school. Unless you bring a laptop, which will just blow gorilla. All I can say is good luck? You will REALLY need it.

Correct. 360 are controlled by ATI.

This.

Well, his budget just went done to 500. Now I downgraded on a bunch of stuff and are still downgrading. Sorry for later reply, I slept over at his house last night. Cart Item List: MSI GeForce GTS 250 N250GTS-2D512-OCv2 Video Card $119.99 Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive $56.99 OCZ Blade Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory $49.99 COOLER MASTER ELITE 335 RC-335-KKN1-GP Black Computer Case $39.99 ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor $267.981 OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W Power Supply compatible with core i7 SAMSUNG DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223L LightScribe Support $80.98 Grand Total:$615.92

Is that the official logo?

Still no go! = (

ASUS seems to have really bad ratings on Newegg. Gigabyte gets way better ratings. But then again, the rating system is not trustable and I have no experience with either company. I only know that Gigabyte is used in overclocking competitions, so I know it is reliable. And the power supply, I think the one I have is good. My friend is computer retarded. He won't be overclocking and utilizing those extra amps. As long as I meet the minimum requirement for ampere on each, that is enough.

Does the flashlight really kills frame rates that much? The first time i heard/read about flashlights lowering FPS was on LOTR Escape, since they force it off.

Nope.

Can't see it. = (

This made my day.

Wow! I never knew HighSky read OTF! Amazing!!ONE!#!

Oh yea, this can be true. Also, I read that some wireless mouses and keyboards use the same channel/frequency as many wireless networks, so when people use these products with their laptop, they get connection problems. EDIT: I'm just listing possibilities, tinkerbell. Don't kill me and my post just because this is not the reason for PleaseDon'tShoot's problem.

Maybe you were really unlike as well. You get 1 Nvidia card and it fails on you. I've gotten like 4 Nvidia cards and none of them have failed on me. As you have proved, the soldering or whatever is bad on the chips. Even with this tragic event, my Nvidia cards are still running strong.

Haha. You are right. I'll tell him when he gets back from CA tonight! :O I think I am going to tell him to go with the ASUS X48, since the X48 was made for gaming and this is also the cheapest one.

Setup with Gigabyte P45. Setup with ASUS X48 Setup with Gigabyte X48 In all 3 of them, the rebates are not included into the total. The prices with rebate are respectively, $648.94, $641.94, $656.95. I think those are correct costs. I was rushing through the calculations.

Looks around Newegg for deals and I found that the ASUS Rampage Extreme LGA 775 Intel X48 and the GIGABYTE GA-X48-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X48 had a deal with the Q9550. The total price after rebate for the deal is $315 for ASUS and Q9550, which is cheaper than the Q9550 + GIGABYTE GA-X48-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X48, which costs $355. Is the ASUS better than the Gigabyte?

Haha. Forgot about his budget. It's 800, nowhere close to a i7 rig. I just wanted to present him with more than 1 option. His uncle works with computers and will review my setups before buying. BTW, they are both Core 216s. I don't know why the XFX doesn't list it. But I don't like the XFX because the memory clock is 300 lower than that of the EVGA. And I am a EVGA fanboy.

Okay, this is what I have so far. I have dumped the C2D. Processor: C2Q Q9400 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115131 OR C2Q Q9550 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041 Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358 Video Card: EVGA 896-P3-1258-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130441 OR XFX GX260XAHBF Black Edition GeForce GTX 260 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150399 Power Supply: OCZ Fatal1ty OCZ550FTY 550W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022 OR OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017 This is all I have for the C2Q build so far. Comments please.

Hmmm. Thanks for the reply. I never knew Nvidia chipsets were not that good. The P45 only has 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, but it has a PCIe 2.0 x8 slot. BTW, he is not going to overclock. He doesn't even know what a processor is. :/ I might just go with the P45, but then I will have to go with ATI, since Intel and Nvidia are not the best of friends, and he might CrossFire it up. I'm not a big fan of ATI though. EDIT: And I need help choosing RAM. On my last computer, I bought 4 different 2x1GB sets of RAM and none of them worked. I need DDR2 RAM for the C2D/C2Q setup and DDR3 for the possible i7.

Remember that friend I was going to help build a computer for (AKA buying a prebuilt and slapping a highend graphics card into it)? Well, he told me that he wants me to build a computer from ground up for him. Now this will be my first time actually building a computer from ground up. I have only been slapping RAM, graphics cards, hard drives, fans, power supplies, etc into a computer. Now comes the real deal. So I will need help choosing the parts first of all. I will give him 2 configurations to choose from. An i7 configuration and a C2D (maybe a third C2Q). Before I list the parts, I am still choosing them and need help. Choosing a motherboard for the C2D/C2Q is the hard part since there are so many chipsets. Which chipset should be the minimum for an Intel chipset and what is the minimum for an Nvidia chipset? I don't want you to post a link to a motherboard on Newegg or whatever. I just want opinions on the chipset model. My current decision is a P45 for a minimal Intel chipset and a 750i for an minimal Nvidia chipset. EDIT: What's the difference between the Intel G, Q and P Intel chipsets? I know that the X series are for enthusiasts.

Haha. I'll try to remember this.

I wish I had a brother who knew how to hack.

You should contact Valve about this. I don't think a lot of people will know about this one.