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Take your pick from these processors (Newegg.com). They are the only ones that will be compatible. If you want my recommendation, there is no need to upgrade the processor. The one you have is very good and the upgrades aren't much better since they're limited by the socket. In fact you have one of the best ones possible for that socket. Saving for a better video card (assuming you need a better one) is a better option, or start saving for a new motherboard + CPU combo.

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Bandicam - Bandicam is high performance Game, Video, and Desktop recording software - High-quality, Less Lag/CPU/HDD usage. Thanks for that.

The breakthrough is they finally managed to create a feasible method of mass producing these. To be fair, it's not an "OMG we skipped 100 years with this technology!" breakthrough if that's what you're expecting. The planar transistors that are currently being used are close to approaching limits in how small you can make them with the problems that come with making them smaller. The 3D transistors alleviate a lot of these problems.

Story here. Basically, we get faster, more efficient CPUs. The biggest change is in the handheld market (smartphones will likely get a hell of a lot smarter), but high end desktops will see some change as well. The new CPUs are scheduled for release in 2012. The technology isn't particularly new, it was theorized long ago. But Intel is the first one to bring the technology into mass production.

On the topic of BF3, I'd say it's one of the most anticipated games coming out. Of course, that doesn't mean it's going to be particularly good... depending on how the multiplayer experience turns out getting a BF3 server early would probably be great to get people into the community, when people are still looking around for good servers. I know that once I find a good server, I tend to stick to it even though there are others out there (even if it's full, I wait). The other things is TF2. Why balloon race was picked as a map still is a mystery to me, but if we get a TF2 server it would have to be a beast since there are so many other mature servers and TF2 communities out there. I get 5ms ping on the current servers I stick to, I'm not going to switch unless I can play without lag.

Thanks for providing an excellent example. Who "owns" SG, and who is the person who dictates where SG will be headed? Edit: Since I just heard we're getting a General Section separate from OT, can you make it so posts in OT don't count toward post count? Other option is remove post count altogether, but it does sort of have a tradition here. 1- Nobody 'owns' SG. It's an intellectual property. I am entrusted to manage the community and grow it. I however have the powers as obvious in my role. However, the path which Sg takes will be based on the consensus of the entire community. I just enforce those ideas.

Aww, comments are moderated. D: Might check it out later, I'm kinda looking for new crap to watch.

If it's an OEM version, technically you aren't allowed to install it on any other machine than the first one it was installed on. If it's a retail version, the previous copy had to be uninstalled. There might be other ways to cause the "not genuine" message to appear, google around and there might be a fix. And then of course there's the possibility of it being a non-genuine key.

Oops, I completely forgot about this thread. I updated the first post with a tutorial on what I did to get this working. Feel free to tell me about anything I should add, or if there are mistakes.

I had to change a light bulb not long ago. Cat killed it.

I figured it was some wort of a copy paste error. For some reason it's always the dumb mistakes that are hardest to find.

public function onKeyRelease( keyboardEvent:KeyboardEvent ):void { if ( keyboardEvent.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN ) { ... } }//onKeyRelease Why is everything enclosed in that? What you're basically doing is saying "If the event is a DOWN key release, check if the event is a LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN key release." What ends up happening is that none of the keys (except for down) are released, so once they are activated they stay in the true state. (Even though DOWN can be set to true, I think your UP key higher priority, so your ship keeps moving forward even if down is true.) I'd imagine this would work: public function onKeyRelease( keyboardEvent:KeyboardEvent ):void { if ( keyboardEvent.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN ) { downKeyIsBeingPressed = false; } else if ( keyboardEvent.keyCode == Keyboard.UP ) { upKeyIsBeingPressed = false; } else if ( keyboardEvent.keyCode == Keyboard.LEFT ) { leftKeyIsBeingPressed = false; } else if ( keyboardEvent.keyCode == Keyboard.RIGHT ) { rightKeyIsBeingPressed = false; } }

Already took an Computer Engineering Intro final, a Spanish 3 final, a diffeq final, and an anthropology final. Leaving for home in a few hours. I'm interested in what my grades will be though, I did very well on all the exams although I hardly studied for any of them. I hope it doesn't turn out that I was actually so bad at it that I thought I was doing good...

Well, my overclocked desktop computer hits 62 max at completely full load... so if these readings are correct for an idling laptop then yes this is very high. Do the temperatures shift when you do something more CPU intensive? If they change according to load, then I'd say those temperatures are correct and it's very hot. Maybe dust out the inside with air or something? If they stay the same, I'm not sure what to tell you other than your temp readings are probably not working. I use Speed Fan for my temp, downloadable here. It will probably give you the same thing though.

One random possibility I've come up with is that space and time are basically infinite, and the "universe" is just a clump of matter in this infinite space-time. This would mean that there could be multiple "universes" in the sense that we know them, but we can't exactly see or prove their existence as we aren't even able to see the edge of our own universe. No idea if that was disproved already...

This flash thing blows my mind: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 It goes from the very smallest to the very biggest.

If your CPU isn't soldered in, it's replaceable. However, there is a lot of crap to keep in mind. First of all, you can only replace it with a CPU that has the same socket as the old one. I'm too lazy to research which CPUs have the same socket as yours, but I figure the higher CPUs of the same series (namely the T4300, T4400 (possibly not?), and T4500) will work fine. Next, it's a lot of work to replace. While the difficulty varies from laptop to laptop, taking one apart is usually a lot of work, and you have to remove a ton of components to get to the CPU, such as the keyboard, GPU, and heatsink. You would also have to clean the heatsink to remove any residue thermal paste from the previous CPU and apply your own. Of course, you then have to put it back together again. Also, you would have to update your BIOS, or at least check if your BIOS can support the CPU you would plan to upgrade to. Otherwise, your laptop won't boot at all with your new processor and you'd have to redo everything to put the old one back in, update it, then do everything a third time to put the new one in again... All in all, it's a pain, and it might not be worth the trouble. Are you sure there isn't anything else that could be causing slowdowns, such as RAM or interfering applications like virus scanners? That's impossible, unfortunately. You have to stick with Pentium.

Phew, that took a while. I'd love to see your analysis on the results you get and what course of action you'll be taking as a result as soon as you get everything you need.

I heard GTX 460 is amazing for the money, and I agree. For $200, it will play nearly every new game at almost all high (if not all high) settings, at any resolution. It's arguably one of the best designed cards by NVidia as well, as it's well priced, runs cool, and performs great. I would recommend you get the 1GB version as well, it shouldn't cost much more than the 768MB version.

I have similar interests, and am currently studying Computer Engineering. I'm still debating whether or not I should switch to computer science, but computer engineering probably uses a lot more physics, while comp sci focuses more on math.

I read the key as "Person ---- Is eaten by ----> Another". So the person at the base of the arrow is being eaten by the person at the tip. But maybe that's only the impression I get because I'm so high up. o.o

I used to play this a lot, not enough to get good at it though. I always wondered what happened to it. Glad to see it back.

I dunno, I read somewhere (Read: in a possibly unreliable source) that by using some magnetic waves or some shit like that, that "savant-like" abilities can be created in individuals, for a small duration. I don't find it impossible seeing as we normally only use ~10% of our brains at any given moment, so even a small jump in that number would do a lot in increasing what people are capable of. I'm guessing that savants also use about 10%, it's just directed towards other activities. But I find it hard to believe that not all people have the potential to get abilities like this. No one really understands the brain quite yet, so once we get a better understanding of how we think I'm sure a lot more will be possible. After all, that guy that the Rain Man was based off of could read two pages at a time (one with his left eye, the other with his right), at about 10 seconds per page. I wonder if I'll still be alive when we begin to truly understand how things like this can happen.

They don't actually start downloading the video unless you hit play...