Shadowex3

The spinning/jerking is prolly the sensor on the bottom thinking it's moved really far/fast when it hasn't due to the surface it's on or due to age. The rest sounds like a gunked up button.

prolly just the mouse getting old.

Given that the price is actually reasonable that's better but still for $1300 in the US you could easily do better and with Core i7. Cant you just pay someone to forward the stuff to you or something?

Those are network funnies, what you see clientside doesnt agree with what the server thinks you should be doing so the two fight it out a bit. The problem with wireless for gaming is that there are just too many things that can cause problems and unlike web browsing if the packet stream in a game is interrupted it causes serious problems. Most games dont send every speck of data to the server and client, they only send what's changed since the last tick and interpolate the rest on their own clientside. 1/4 of a second may not seem long to us but that's a damn lot to the game (250ms, over the ping limit) and when you lose that stream of updates for that long all sorts of problems occur, especially since both the server and client now disagree on what's happened and the interpolation clientside has kept going despite losing contact with the server.

Impossible to troubleshoot as long as you use wireless.

Phenoms, even the Phenom II's, are phenomenally underpowered processors. An overclocked Phenom in a game of Supreme Commander is so slow the game needs to run slower just so the processor can keep up while a stock settings Q6600 (intels original now discontinued quadcore) could do just fine with almost 4000 units going. For ~$800 you should be getting a Q9550 and Gtx 260. p.s. Dual. DUAL. You're not using those ram sticks for 20 paces at dawn.

If it fits that budget I'd get the Asus ATX (not matx) board. I think the P6t SE, as stripped down as it is compared to the rest, will fit your budget and still have a decent 8 phase power supply.

Fixed that for you. Unless you're doing workstation type tasks like arranging music (overclocked remix style), modelling, rendering, or doing some SERIOUS multi-gigabyte photoshopping you will not have a use for more than the sweetspot of 6gb of ram until well beyond the useful life of this computer. I've posted a bucket of core i7 newegg builds in this forum, pick one you like from my post history and swap out the graphics card to one of your liking.

G500 as in the new gaming mouse shaped in the tradition they started with the mx510 but with 3 thumb buttons and their new awesome mechanical scrollwheel?

I think I already reviewed N3wbie's comp (if i didnt let me know) but dude, august, you just spent $800 on a computer literally about half as powerful as what I could've build you for that same price. You've got an athlon x2, which even the now several years old E6600 beat to hell and back, and only 2gb of ram and 250gb of hdd space. For $800 you could have had an intel quadcore (beats the hell out of every AMD basically), 4gb of ram, 750gb of hdd space, at least the same level videocard if not better, and far better quality parts. [edit] Dude seriously just to get the point across you paid $850 for this processor. Scroll down. Keep going. Yeah, that's the one at the very bottom of the chart. Whoever sold you this didnt just rip you off, they sold you something so bad I'd say that this is outright scamming someone. Get your money back man.

No do NOT reboot before you kill that thing! Viruses like that are built so that they use a reboot to spread their infection and resecure it. Download Spybot Search and Destroy (and update check with it obv) and AVG free and run the two of them, between the two you should be clean. AVG isn't nearly the best antivirus out there but in combination with Spybot it's in the "good enough" category for uses like this. Do that THEN reboot into safemode (start->run->msconfig go to the "boot" tab and checkmark safemode) and scan with both again then go back to where you enabled safemode to disable it and reboot again back into normal mode and check a third time to make sure it's dead. If it survives that you've got something truly abhorrent on your hands and need to reformat without trying to save any files Pronto because anything that spybot can't kill is nasty.

Umm, k, which one? There's a bit of a difference between the logitech optical office mouse I'm using right now, the G5 rev2 I have at home, and the G500 that everyone who didn't like the g9 is currently busting nuts over.

The first number doesnt mean anything, it's the "500" part that tells you its shite.

the E8400 is an okay processor, it's a dualcore rather than a quad but it's got the full 6mb of L2 cache for intel's duallies. The downside is its prolly got a very untrustworthy power supply and a low end mobo (although the mobo shouldnt take anything with it if it dies) and the videocard is a 9500 which has probably less power than an 8800gt. If you can afford to buy just a new power supply and videocard (corsair 550 or 650 and gtx 260) it would be a decent gaming computer that could handle valve's games at high settings and MAYBE crysis if you dont do too much with the physics. Thing about crysis is that it's just coded badly, even my 3ghz quadcore and gtx 260 get blah framerates. Source games you should be fine since I ran l4d just fine on a worse comp. The real problem is that unless you get a rig like this thats actually got a decent power supply and videocard you generally need to replace those two and that adds another $270ish onto the price ($99 psu, $170ish videocard) and that raises your total spending to $800ish at which point you can do a lot better building it out of parts off newegg out of a $30-40 case you buy locally (i recommend anything from coolermaster that uses 120mm fans). For non-gamers who get a moniter+mouse+keyboard combo with their computer these deals are generally good but for a gamer it just doesnt really work out. Besides every gamer should have an understanding of the computer he's playing on, it helps you realise how to optimise your FPS without making the game suck in the process and also lets you keep comps going longer than you'd expect. Up until crysis came out I used a 6600gt and a pentium 4.

in my proffessional opinion as someone who's been making damn good money building computers since 1998 you should go to a pool and try to dive into your own asshole and dissapear. Buying a prebuilt and swapping out the power supply and graphics card is a legitimate tactic for people on extremely tight budgets since they can take those two parts forward with them later, i've done it before and as long as you replace the psu none of the other parts should be physically able to take something with them if they die and if they did you probably have a decent cause to go after someone for replacements.

Go with a reg drive rather than SSD's, they've still got some issues.

Wash your damn hands before handling your porno discs next time and it wont gunk up the motor.

It's core i7 but using DDR2, and it has 12 motherfucking gigabytes of ram? Probably a noname power supply or from antec or some other untrustworthy maker, probably a noname or untrustworthy mobo (foxconn like macs use... ewwww), doesnt say what kind of heatsink but prolly stock or not as good as a TRUE. Go to Fin's thread and copy my core i7 rig there. For $300 less than that I built a computer a damn sight better for the man.

thread already exists... several times.

Shit yes BUY THESE NOW. If I didnt already have a set of HD595's I'd be on this like henda on a cade breaker.

Try it and anyone more intelligent than 4 and 6/8ths of a bag of left handed hammers will just swing that rocket around the obstacle and still have it hit your side or even rear armor. They're faster, more maneuverable, can turn their turret faster iirc, and also do more damage than tanks in a given amount of time.

No, you can't. First off in order for it to be an inchoate crime ("conspiracy") it'd need to be an agreement between two or more people to actually commit a crime, just discussing the crimes themselves does not pass corpus delicti as there's no mens rea and because (once again) it is not illegal to discuss illegal activities there is no violation of the law. To quote: "There must be a real agreement with the parties having agreed all the major details of the "crime" or "crimes"" and that's not even getting into the need to actually cross over some "final step" before it can be a chargeable inchoate offense. It's only conspiracy if you're actually CONSPIRING TO COMMIT a crime, not discussing the nature of a crime and whether or not it should be a crime to begin with. If it were illegal to even discuss a crime then the very law which makes it illegal would be a violation of itself. You don't need to be a student of the law with an actual district attorney for a professor like me to realise the inherent fallacy of your claims, let alone the factual innaccuracy. That being said, why would you even TRY to make such outrageous and inherently self-contradicting claims of law that could be easily disproved by someone who knows something about anything? Personally I find your entire post condescending, patronizing, and insulting because it means you think we're all that stupid to not realise that your bs claims actually contradict themselves by being in and of themselves illegal if they were real. Oh and also making every single newspaper, magazine, reporter, judge, police officer, government official, and pretty much everyone anywhere ever guilty of your mythical definiton of "conspiracy". Even the MAFIAA waits until they thing they've got someone whose actually DONE something before suing them in... oh yeah... CIVIL court. None of this has been criminal, ever. Which just makes your post even MORE laughable. And insulting. [edit] And deliciously nutricious!

Those rockets are homing ultramarine, if you're avoiding them it's because you're playing such newbs that they don't even know to home the rocket in on you.

Again not even close. Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and the Noctua U12p are the two best heatsinks out there in all three major categories of temp, noise, and "SONOFABITCH GO ON YOU MOTHERFUCKER"

Not even close. The first few google pages of benchmarks I saw either had it barely holding steady with the more generic heatsinks and beaten by the TRUE and U12P or barely holding a bit below those two. The TRUE and U12P are still the two best heatsinks, especially when you consider that the U12P. The real question is why the hell would anyone buy an AM3 system when Intel is still faster and cheaper.