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Little update on your wait. AMD has all but said they won't be releasing a new GPU until next year, with speculation on lack of market need and being too busy making parts for the new Xbox/PS4. Haven't been paying attention to AMD's next generation CPU release, unlikely that they will compete in the mainstream performance market. Intel's Haswell desktop parts are scheduled to be released this summer, June 2. Haswell should bring slightly better performance per clock - usually listed around 10%, along with new instructions, massively improved integrated graphics, Thunderbolt(woot!), new cache/TLB design, and moving the CPU's VRM from the motherboard directly onto the CPU which I haven't seen from Intel since the Pentium Overdrive upgrade processors. Power consumption will be around the same or lower vs Ivy Bridge parts with the quad core performance parts having TDPs ranging from 35W to 84W, however I'd assume these numbers include the new onboard VRM which makes for significantly lower overall power consumption. nVidia's 700 series has a few parts out - the Titan with it's $999 price tag and and some mobile parts which are just rebadged 600 series parts. No word yet on mainstream performance cards, but it should be interesting. The Titan is based extensively off the Tesla K20 and sports some 7.1 billion transistors, nearly 3 times the number of the Sandy Bridge-EP parts with their 8 cores and 20M of L3 cache. With that level of complexity and a die size of some 551mm^2 matched against TSMC's dated 28nm process it's pushing the limits of practicality, with which must be an extremely long lithography process with poor yields. Even if nVidia's neuters Titan and drops the total number of GPCs from 5 down to say 3, and moves from a a 384 bit to 256 bit memory bus in order to reduce die size and increase yields(and likewise reduce cost) it'll be questionable whether they'll offer enough of a performance increase in today's software verses current solutions to be of value. If you were looking to use software that utilizes OpenCL or CUDA then the Titan and any descendants of it would be an excellent choice but for gaming vs the dollar it is up in the air. It may just be a moot point for nVidia at this time until TSMC(or GlobalFoundries) offers a smaller process with reasonable prices and yields. TL:DR - I wouldn't wait for nVidia or AMD at this point unless you feel like waiting a year. Intel's Hawell should be available in a little over 3 months and bring improved performance and new features, but probably not enough to be a deal breaker if you don't want to wait.

Little update on your wait. AMD has all but said they won't be releasing a new GPU until next year, with speculation on lack of market need and being too busy making parts for the new Xbox/PS4. Haven't been paying attention to AMD's next generation CPU release, unlikely that they will compete in the mainstream performance market. Intel's Haswell desktop parts are scheduled to be released this summer, June 2. Haswell should bring slightly better performance per clock - usually listed around 10%, along with new instructions, massively improved integrated graphics, Thunderbolt(woot!), new cache/TLB design, and moving the CPU's VRM from the motherboard directly onto the CPU which I haven't seen from Intel since the Pentium Overdrive upgrade processors. Power consumption will be around the same or lower vs Ivy Bridge parts with the quad core performance parts having TDPs ranging from 35W to 84W, however I'd assume these numbers include the new onboard VRM which makes for significantly lower overall power consumption. nVidia's 700 series has a few parts out - the Titan with it's $999 price tag and and some mobile parts which are just rebadged 600 series parts. No word yet on mainstream performance cards, but it should be interesting. The Titan is based extensively off the Tesla K20 and sports some 7.1 billion transistors, nearly 3 times the number of the Sandy Bridge-EP parts with their 8 cores and 20M of L3 cache. With that level of complexity and a die size of some 551mm^2 matched against TSMC's dated 28nm process it's pushing the limits of practicality, with which must be an extremely long lithography process with poor yields. Even if nVidia's neuters Titan and drops the total number of GPCs from 5 down to say 3, and moves from a a 384 bit to 256 bit memory bus in order to reduce die size and increase yields(and likewise reduce cost) it'll be questionable whether they'll offer enough of a performance increase in today's software verses current solutions to be of value. If you were looking to use software that utilizes OpenCL or CUDA then the Titan and any descendants of it would be an excellent choice but for gaming vs the dollar it up in the air. It may just be a moot point for nVidia at this time until TSMC(or GlobalFoundries) offers a smaller process with reasonable prices and yields. TL:DR - I wouldn't wait for nVidia or AMD at this point unless you feel like waiting a year. Intel's Hawell should be available in a little over 3 months and bring improved performance and new features, but probably not enough to be a deal breaker if you don't want to wait.

As for an added conspiracy theory post I'd like state the Meteor happened in the same area that Dyatlov Pass incident happened where nine experience skiers had left their tent in the nude in -30F weather and were found dead with various injuries and high radiation. Also the home of the largest nuclear fuel processing plant in Russia which had one of the worst(or the worst) and most covered up nuclear incidents of all time. Ah, Russia.

How is it in any way comparable to porting software to Windows ME?

I'll go 75.99 EDIT: I can't read/type.

The cake is a lie.

Just a few more months till the new season comes out

I hate biggs as he think's he is better than me 'cause he has ten fingers. jerkface.

We have at least 5 consistent players right now

Hard to say how much better Haswell will be until it's out, but it will require a new motherboard and socket(LGA1150) and will feature new chipsets. At least a card of nVidia's 700 series is supposed to be out this month, already been pics and benchmarks and retailers taking pre-orders. AMD's 8000 series is supposed to be out within the next few months as well, certainly wouldn't hurt to wait unless you're in a hurry.

You probably already have 4G of RAM, you just have Windows Vista 32 bit which won't use/recognize over 3.5GB and you have 512MB of video RAM which means Windows will only use/recognize around 3GB of RAM. Minecraft will run on your laptop but you may have to turn down some settings, I'd suggest downloading OptiFine 1.4.6_L_B5 and MagicLauncher. Start magic launcher, press setup, then add, and add the Optifine zip file you downloaded. Then hit the advanced tab and change memory to 1024.

Hah, my baby has competition, good work. Only question is from the first screenshot, why is twm your window manger?

Pet hamster? Lucky.

Uhh, cut off your right hand middle finger just past the second segment and send it to me. I need one.

Err, links posted to pornography(real or not) on the forums probably aren't the best idea.