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Hopefully not at a construction site and it is not related to a sport.

Quote from Graphics_I

Could you find the item in an electronic goods store?Edit: Am I allowed to ask another question before my next one is answered?

It would not be found in an electric goods store.

Go for it, just dont go crazy and ask like 10 questions. Although I guess that isn't really against the rules, so I dont really care. I just think it would be more fun to ask a few at a time.

Quote from ScyberDragon

Do you keep the object in your house?

No.

Quote from hoboman27

looks pretty good, just 2 things

I think for your memory, 1600mhz are the mainstream now and are deadcheap, so why not.
And look for deals on ssds, i personally feel 64gb is a little small, its definitely enough for windows + some important programs + diablo 3. but that'll probably be it. Since D3 is probably going to be 10gb+ and you always want free space on C drive due to continuous updates in the future.

But thats just what I feel, a lot of people have used 60gb ssd for C with no problem and plenty of space. Just depends on how you use it, how many games you are going to install (ssd doesn't increase fps at all, just the load and tab-in/tab-out time).

Happy Shopping

All the rest of your suggestions made me spend more money, but somehow the 1600mhz ram is 1 dollar cheaper than its 1333mhz counterpart on newegg. Weird.

As for the SSD, I think 64 gb is a good size for me. I will probably have at most 1 game on it at a time, as a lot of the time I just play 1 game religiously for a while, take if off my computer and then find a new game to worship.
And sinze 160GB ones cost twice as much, I think i will be happy with 64 Gbs.

I do not believe so, but there are some crazy people out there.

I am going to go with a no though, because that is a weird mental image and I want it gone.

Quote from Azriel

I always thought that it would be a good idea just to spread everybody out. Like, I have this idea that works off of The Giver where there are communities separated by a few miles of road to allow for alternative energy sources to be implemented. Like, for example:



And these communities can be about medium sized. Large enough to accommodate a good amount of people, but small enough so that combinations of alternative energy can be practical enough to provide power for the whole community. Each community has their own power grid so if one community loses power due to natural calamities, other communities retain power. Also, this would allow for technicians to operate more efficiently in the face of a total power outage.

Wind power is highly overrated as it is extremely unpractical as a main power source. Wind power without a stable power source, such as coal or nuclear plants, will have frequent power outages and if you want each community to be on its own power grid, then having a coal or nuclear plant in each town is also unpractical. Solar would not be much better and as for hydro, in order for this plan to work, you would have to dam an insane amount of rivers, which would fuck up the environment, and a drought would deplete not only water but power from any nearby communities.

The main benefit of our current power grid is its reliability. If everybody decides they want to turn on a light at the same time, the power grid will be okay, however if each town were to be on an independent grid this reliability goes away and people either need to be told how much energy they can use during which times, or there has to be a large amount of excess power being produced.

Quote from Azriel

I just think it's crazy that so much can be accomplished with alternative energy. I hope I can at least see some advancement in my lifetime. We need to lose our hard-on for foreign oil and fossil fuels.

I don't think it can really be described as a hard on, when we choose the most practical choice. Solar, wind and hydro are all nice additions to our energy production, however they cannot be the backbone of our power supply. Due to the media, people hate nuclear power, so coal is really our only current option. Its awful from an environmental standpoint but when it comes to environment vs having a stable power supply, people choose the latter.

The same can be said for oil, it is currently the best option. Hybrid cars are a great thing, but they are only a temporary fix to the problem and so far no better fuel has been created. Ethanol is a joke, solar cars are not practical, electric cars are great for short distances, but can't go very far and hydrogen fuel cell technology isn't there yet. And having a dependency on foreign oil is not necessarily a bad thing, we live in a global market, countries are dependent on each other it is the way the current world works. The real reason why people hate foreign oil is the media always spins stories to make it seem like OPEC is all powerful, but in reality the country we import the most oil from is Canada, followed by Mexico.


I think your ideas would make more since in an ideal world, but thinking about an ideal world is useless and boring.

Okay then, current build:
Case: Cooler Master 690 II
Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V Pro
CPU: Intel i7-2600k (I do plan to oc, so i'll spend the extra $20 for the k)
Hard drives:
Crucial M4 64GB SSd
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM
Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws X series 8GB(2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333
PSU: Corsair HX650
CPU fan: Cooler master hyper 212
Monitor: Asus VW246H 24" widescreen LCD

Then GPU choices are
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB or
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 1GB (Edited that to say 1GB, not 2)

I am going to get a new mouse and keyboard too so,
Mouse: Logitech G4000
Keyboard: Either cheap standard keyboard or a mechanical keyboard (probably das keyboard professional silent).

I'll probably wait until near thanksgiving to see if any of these parts are on sale to decide between the GPU's and the keyboards, but as of now this is between $1700 and $2000.

Thanks for all the help.

I don't know how I wrote down a 6gb set of ram. I was just copying stuff over from a wishlist I made on newegg and somehow I messed that up :S, but I'm going for this:
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333

The ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68 does seem like a much better choice than the motherboard I picked and its cheaper. I was under the impression that the z68 series was more expensive and I wouldn't get much gain out of it since I probably wont ever use the integrated graphics, so I never even looked at those boards.

I couldn't decide between corsair and antec psu's, but since I heard good things about both, I went for antec because it is cheaper, but if 2 people recommend corsair, i will probably go with the CORSAIR Professional Series HX650.

I'm going to look into cases and GPUs some more than probably post again, thanks again for you help so far.

Quote from Nekrodrac

Cowking left us.

He only posted in the treasure thread recently. Even the malevolent king of Hippos posts more often than him.
If it goes like that the kingdom shall be overrun. Hopefully the enemies of the throne won't notice the weakness in our defenses just yet.

Although if you thought you had an enemy, and they haven't overrun you yet, then they are probably not your enemy.
Or they are just really sneaky.
But since you mentioned it, you should all try to guess the treasure. I don't want to be stuck being the treasure long enough that I forget the password.


As for Siaynoq's cat (a creature more thought provoking than Schrödinger's cat) my vote goes for tail in an power outlet.

Pawn Stars is good though.

My favorite type of character in rpgs is a dexterity based melee character, usually a rouge or assassin or something along those lines. So ideally I would like to be a fast character, probably dual wielding short swords, having light armor, and probably being decent with a bow, as dexterity based characters usually are, however I don't know if this will be possible in Skyrim.

The main purpose, in my opinion, of being fast is to be able dodge attacks and to try to get behind the enemy, however try to do this was rather weird and clunky in morrowind and oblivion, and although the combat system in skyrim looks a lot better I am still kind of skeptical about this style being able to compete with the standard from the past two games, which was "alternate blocking their attacks and swinging all while slowly moving backwards."

But if combat doesn't work out for me, I will probably just attempt to sneak past most enemies, as a rouge or assassin probably should do anyways, engage when necessary, beat the game and then play the game as a destruction mage or strength based warrior to get the opposite effect where I can just go and fuck shit up instead of worrying about critical strikes or any of that pansy shit.

Not being able to block while dual wielding kind of frightens me if there is not a good roll, sidestep or other dodging mechanism. I haven't really looked far enough into this game to see if those are a possibility.

I dont remember where I got it from, probably walmart or gamestop, as those are the only two places to buy video games where I lived.

Here is an interview with bethesda claiming that you would need steam for new vegas: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101221-Fallout-New-Vegas-Switches-to-Steam

and another one: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/19053

I think there are convoluted ways you can install the game to get around the steam requirement, but when I inserted the disk and went with the standard install I was forced to create a steam account and it sounds like Skyrim is the same.

It could be a regional thing I guess, if you're not from North America or something that could explain it.


Edit:

On a slightly... offtopic note. How is the steamclient handling other steam games that... suddenly magically appeared on my HDD *caugh* And those games could or could not be there without being bought Oo Not that I have such games... but lets say for future reference...^^

Unless you buy the game from steam, or it has to be played through steam (like they say skyrim will) steam will have nothing to do with your games, however if you wanted to add such a nefariously acquired game to steam client, I do not know how well that will work as I have not tried it.

Quote from Hpnot1Q

Buying the game from a store has absolutely nothing to do with activating it on steam, IF it has a serial included you can always add it to steam IF you like this way you have the digital game AND the hard copy, aka cd.

BUt its not neccecery.

I don't think this is right. I bought new vegas as a hardcopy, but in order to play it I needed to create a steam account(although I have sense never regretted that decision because steam is amazing) and from the sound of the quote Tenhi posted it sounds like Skyrim will be the same.

This quote:

Do I need Steam to run Skyrim on PC?
Yes. Skyrim is strictly tied to Steam for both physical retail DVD discs and online digital-only purchases. To play Skyrim, you launch the Steam client and then launch Skyrim from the Steam library, leaving the Steam client running in the background. Directly launching the Skyrim executable found in the Steam folder will also launch the Steam client, as Steam is hooked into the Skyrim executable.

Hello,

I am thinking of building a new computer soon, probably wait for after thanksgiving sales, and i was wondering if anybody can find any problems with this build.


I was wondering if everything in this build is okay. I am really unsure about motherboards and GPU's, so did I pick two decent ones or are there better deals for products that perform about the same? I also don't have a strict price range, so if anybody has any suggestions that are slightly more expensive, I would not be opposed to them.

I am planning on using this for gaming, CAD use and everyday uses like web browsing and word.

Pretty sneaky. I'm not going to be the treasure though, I want Nacho to do it.

When Diablo 3 was first announced I read every news story on it and new pretty much every piece of information that was announced, but i have pretty much completely stopped reading up on news and I haven't even watched any beta videos.

I can't tell if this is because I am not interested anymore, or if I just don't want it to be spoiled, it is probably a bit of both.