Shadowex3

Nope, just an OEM drive which means you get a hard drive and nothing else with it. I don't know how it works over there but here in the states one of the few regulations we have says that they need to tell you plainly and obviously if it's an open box or refurbished item or something. WD makes good drives, they're Seagate's primary competition (or the other way around depending on who you ask).

This isn't an automated system, a human being has to actually review and do all of this by hand. Give it 3 days and THEN pm someone with a yellow name and we'll ask the account peoples.

There is no such thing as amperage...

The average modern gaming computer, at it's absolute peak load, will only draw about 400w if you have multiple hard drives and cold cathode lights. The reason we don't all have 500w power supplies and instead go from 650->750 on average is because a modern gaming computer also has an extremely high ampere requirement, so even if it doesn't need too much voltage the wattage is still kept high by the high amp requirement certain parts (graphics cards mostly) have.

PC Power and Cooling and Seasonic. Seasonic's kinda special since they're also the OEM for most of the handfull of off-name power supplies that aren't terrible, the few reliable Antecs for example were just repainted Seasonic power supplies.

No, if you can't afford a good power supply you cant afford anything to begin with. This is like insulin and car brakes, you don't half-ass it or try to "save money" on it. Either you can buy it, or you can't buy anything. A power supply handles enough volts at high enough amperes to kill several grown adults at once, especially since you will almost always be taking the shock right across your heart. There are a great many ways it can go bad and kill you, destroy your computer, or your whole apartment, and none of them are even unlikely since they're all very common electrical faults. I'm not being an elitist prick, or an alarmist fearmonger. I've already nearly been killed several times, burned even more, and had to stop an electrical fire from off-brand power supplies. There's a reason I still refuse to work on dells older than the last few years, the little shits didn't follow the ATX standards when they wired the motherboards and power supplies and you can kill yourself trying to do something that would ordinarily be a GOOD habit.

They say Crystal Meth is pretty bad for you, are you gonna try that out for yourself too?

Do people think I'm kidding when I say off-brand power supplies are shite? Do they think Jonnyguru makes those test graphs in MSpaint and pulls the numbers out of his ass instead of actually using a proper electrical testing... thing?

Well there you go, there's your problem right there.

... Unless you're running multiple video cards or more than 4 hard drives your computer is probably only drawing about 300-400 from the wall under absolute maximum load. A 550w corsair, seasonic, or PC P&P will handle that just fine but a "550w" off-brand from antec or worse may be a rebadged 350-400w power supply that's just outright lying about it's specifications. So if you're using a REAL power supply, like you should be, then random shutdown like that probably has far more to do with heat than power.

All of the above. Nvidia, EVGA, et al still use shitty electrolytic caps and low-phase power designs. Good ratings doesn't mean anything most of the time. People will rate an Ultra brand power supply (known for catching fire and exploding) highly just because it's got lights. Plus... dont waste $22 on a cooler like that. Either get a TRUE or something and be done with it or stick with stock. Oh and for $230 its stupid to buy a 5830 when it's performance is virtually identical to the $100 cheaper HD 5770.

Programs like this rely on people not knowing wtf they're talking about. This is the same as going Ctrl-Alt-Del and going to the processes tab to get rid of a hanfull of those 0 CPU % usage and ~200kilobyte processes that are actually pretty important for some things to work right and will just get restarted automatically in a minute or two anyway.

I think for that much money most of us here could put together a newegg build thats even better. Which you'll promptly ignore and go buy a half-assed off brand exploding power supply and shittastic nvidia motherboard anyway just cause its XTRRRRRRRRREEEEEEM.

Choke is when the server wants to send you more but cant. Maybe your rates are too low, maybe the server's rates are too low. Most, if not nearly all, servers have a problem of habitually setting the server's rates far lower than they should be for a given tick rate.

With a computer you can almost always put something better-than-spec into it, as long as the power requirements aren't a problem it'll probably just run at whatever speed the rest of the computer can keep up with. Think about it this way: A Lamborghini can still drive at the speed limit just like a Smart Car.

Wrong, all three make their own and when you look at the designs it's extremely obvious that even the internal electrical design is unique to each. It's Antec that used to be OEMed by Seasonic.

Actually most power supplies do fail extremely dramatically, Jonnyguru even had one outright explode on him. It's just that Corsair, PC Power and Cooling, and Seasonic make really good shit so you don't hear about it from people smart enough to buy from them most of the time.

Jager's on it. Gaming is directly responsible for the rise of modern technology and it's ubiquity. Virtually ever major advance in technology we have today was driven by and marketed directly to gamers at first.

BACKUP THAT HDD! I've heard those symptoms once before and it was right before a head crash, there's no recovering from that one. As far as the corsair dying... that's almost unheard of. To be honest it sounds like a true hardware fault, possibly an internal short or a bad cap that slipped through QA. That your computer didnt die from a DC spike is probably a testament to corsair's engineering. Anyway send it in for a warranty, they've got 5years.

The Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were both technological marvels of their day, some of the things they did still leave programmers wondering how the hell they pulled it off using the hardware. In coordination with early hardware graphics processing like the 3dfx Voodoo cards they dominated the consumer electronics market, leading to the dawn of the videogaming age as we know it.

Then you need to tell them to lighten up and pull the stick out of there ass. Things I have seen happen at the end of the round: 1. Mass murder 2. Many explosions 3. Sequential beacon->freeze->slay of everyone (it looks and sounds cool ingame) 4. Everyone getting frozen and slapped a million times then unfrozen to rocket around 5. Beaconned 6. Jetpacked 7. Teleported somewhere interesting and possibly quite harmful to your health