Shadowex3

Did you accidentally the whole bottle too?

Gigabyte/asus are the two best mobo companies. Gigabyte for lower price ranges, asus for the more expensive ones. The rest aren't really taken all that seriously anymore although DFI used to be one of the major players.

Wrathek, dude, if you're going to get pissed about someone's post at least get pissed about the part that was directed at you rather than the guy at the top of the page saying how great the fatal1ty headset is.

Torn wire somewhere inside the cord or headphone frame. See my posts in the other running headset thread for likely reasons for something like this happening.

WHOOOOOOOOSH. fisher price "my first headset" with a really expensive logo or real electronics, your call.

Or alternatively you can use 2k DPI and the lowest ingame sensitivity like I've got. You can't do 360's with a flick of the wrist but you get pixel perfect accuracy if you move slow and can still whip around 180 without too much movement.

At no real money limit just wait for the next round of cards to come out and buy the mid-range card. The reason you're not buying the top-end card is twofold: 1. Crysis is coded terribly, half the problems are from the game and not weak hardware 2. Get a mid-range card that'll last about 2-3 years and with the money you saved you can get another one sooner than if you had bought a top of the line one that only got ~10fps more.

And this is the other thing I need to keep debunking, here's this post from an even older thread. Bonus points since I KNOW someone's going to bring up bose and I hit that too in the old thread: Seriously, I'm not joking. THINK for a second about what you just bought. You bought 2 sets of ipod-headphone sized earbuds that are wrapped in a plastic case with two on either side and are a few centimeters apart from each other. Surround sound speaker systems have the speakers several FEET from each other most of the time. Do you really think that a couple tiny tinny-sounding weak little earbuds stuffed inside a plastic box will actually somehow manage to "simulate" surround sound? HOW? There's just no principles for it to work by, it's confirmation bias caused by the placebo effect. But on the other hand I'm sure someone will be willing to sell you a $230 pink noise CD to burn in the $500 replacement monster-cables you can stick on those "surround" headphones and they'll sound just great. At least as long as you can keep the magnets tri-polarized so they allow the interoceter to operate on a non-hertzian frequency.

Beforehand lemme just say that (and I'ma let ya finish) this is about how to pick a good headphone set (and especially how to avoid shitty ones) moreso than an actual recommendation of which one because of your budget: Now $50 or less is obv in the low end of what headphones can be, just like over $150 is pretty squarely into the "overdoing it" range most of the time. But you can still be careful about what you get and how you get it. Sennheiser and Audio Technica are obv good names, Plantronics is relatively trustworthy if on the lower end of the quality scale, logitech makes fairly decent but pretty quiet microphones, and naturally USB or "gaming" anything is going to be a gimmicky POS compared to actual quality goods.

It gets better dudes and dudettes. One of my friends had, around that time, a first run pentium D. Literally two-prescotts bolted together.

$50 is honestly in the "not worth it at all" category of cards that most of us repair-nerds use as throwaways for troubleshooting.

The computer next to my left leg (as opposed to the one that I'm on right now next to my right leg) has a 3.4ghz pentium 4 w/ Hyperthreading cpu, that means it's a prescott core. Also known as a preshott. It literally melted a motherboard.

Overcomplicated, understable. http://www.themexp.org/ http://customize.org/xpthemes Google "xp themes" dude? [edit] Also suprisingly deviantart is quite useful for this.

PC components can take heat just fine, it's the plastic casing and your weak and tender flesh you need to worry about.

It comes and goes, they keep getting bought and sold by various people. Good place to get ubuntu distros when they get released.

Not on a laptop. In a PC that ~110 odd degrees has room to dissipate. In a laptop it's got fuck all going for it and there's usually a bungton of plastic pieces RIGHT THERE, let alone your precious tender flesh.

Meanwhile america is overall, what, 40% of the speed of the rest of the world?

^^ The problem with laptops is that there isn't anything like the ATX standards for desktops, so everyone just goes making proprietary parts. Esp since even among the same maker they tend to redesign their chassis every other year or so. The reason they can do it is because they're massively vertically integrated a lot of the time, for any ordinary person it's an exercise in frustration. Now what you CAN do reasonably is find a decent laptop and see if you can customise it as you want before buying it. If you've get a decent knowledge of electrical work you could find compatible parts and swap stuff out, soldering it in place as need be and so on and so forth. Void your warranty for sure but blah >P

They tend to use proprietary parts, you can't really build a notebook.

then run memtest.

Get gcf explorer (google it) and copy the default galil files from the CSS GCF, you're guaranteed to be fine then. If it still gives you the same error (IMPORTANT: On the same w_rif_gal file, not on another different file) the server's fucked up somehow. Also clientregistry.blob's a generic craptastic file that you can delete just fine, steam will just redownload/reform it when you start it up again without any problems.

What happens when you stick a potato in a car's exhaust? Hold on that thought. Now, what happens (thermally) to your PC when you direct airflow towards your PC's exhaust fans? if you want to check for thermal issues use a benchmarking program to stress your CPU (prime95 is the gold standard), then use something like furmark and/or ATItool to benchmark/stresstest your GPU. Possibly both at the same time. It could also be a crash-to-reboot in the program itself hence the 10 minute timer.

A laptop will either have a decent battery life and no overheating problems or problems with both and be remotely capable of gaming. Think really hard about whether this is an impulse buy you dont really need or you'll actually have a use for this laptop.

Well everyone's already said Seagate/WD so I'll just throw out one last trivia tidbit: Maxtor hdd's make music when they die.

Akaru: seriously man, Tink saying something like that suprises you still?