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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.

Impressive. I'm guessing the CD had physical damage/flaws that you couldn't/didn't see, as polycarbonate doesn't really break down unless exposed to long term UV. These guys tested CDs all the way up to 175X(35,000RPM) way back in 2003, and never had one come apart until they released it from the shaft - then they fly across the room, up walls, and explode. You can find plenty of video on Youtube now too, and Mythbusters did an episode on it.

The video from the top link, gotta love englishrussia.com

You can just delete everything in the steam folder but steamapps, when you reinstall it'll find your games. You sound like you may have a network issue more than anything now. You get the samething in Chrome? Run Malware Bytes Antimalware and make sure you're not infected?

Hrm, didn't really read anything I wrote. Bewilder's PSU will be loaded to 50% under typical gaming, maybe 65% under a heavy burn-in. The math for it is even above.

Done the standard deleting of the ClientRegistery.blob? and restarted steam? Or just deleted everything in X:\Program Files\Steam\ besides steamapps\, and reinstalled?

Yea, forum load times seem stable quick now mother/FK.

Err, PSUs are least efficient at minimum load there bud, usually peaking at peak efficiency at 80% load. That's why the 80 Plus compliance levels rate efficiency at three levels, at 20%, 80%, and 100% load with 20% requiring the lowest efficiency 80% requiring the highest, and 100% in the middle. If you'd read the wiki link you'd know this, or any PSU review site that does 80 Plus compliance testing. Many transistorized loads are most efficient at near peak power loads, like Class AB/B/C power amps. Bewilder's build during gaming I'd bet pulls less than 250W DC on average, mine with a similar CPU/GPU TDPs draws about 395W AC at the wall according to my Kill-A-Watt so at 85% effiency i'm drawing 335W DC, and I have four 15K 73G U160 SCSI disks and a power hungry RAID controller that I'd bet pull 100W on their own. If he ran Furmark in it's burn in mode and ran SuperPi on 4 threads he could probably hit 300W but that isn't exactly average use. EDIT: I'd also say the Seasonic PSU I posted uses all solid caps other than the input stage which uses high quality Nippon electrolytics, those components should stay very close to their specification under load for I'd bet 5 years minimum. The MOSFETs and diodes are typically well within tolerance for a decade, and other passive components like the metal film resistors even longer. It's also all in HardOCP's review.

I still get random longish load times - like this page took maybe good 1.5 seconds with an execution time of .47 at 14 queries. Happens on Chromium 26.0.1387.0(nightly build), Firefox on Windows 7 and the same from home on my FreeBSD box running stable Chromium. Not a big deal but an odd little delay that happens every 3 to 4 page loads.

Err, power supplies push what they are rated at on the DC side, a 450W PSU will just 450W of DC power. The efficiency loss due to the AC to DC conversion isn't included in the rated power output. That's why when they review power supplies they load them to the rated power as it's what they should put out. See here or even wiki