prophetik music

power supply in my music system took a dump again, so i've gotta withdraw. no way i can replace it in time to still finish what little i had on my track. =/

i would have linked my HoM stuff, but i forgot my login for guild wars =(

i can't afford borderlands 2 this year =/ not with the burrlet on the way. as it is, though, TL2 and GW2 (which someone bought for me) will be dominating what little time i will have over the next few months, so it's just as well i've gotta wait on BL2.

it's pretty hard to recommend upgrades when you don't tell me what he's running. what gpu, ram, and cpu are in it? how old is it? i would not recommend upgrading to any AMD chip at this point. some of the numbers look ok, but real-world performance is lacking. that said, i wouldn't pay less than 100$ for a CPU on a gaming machine, so there's that too. the APUs that AMD is selling is OK if you know you can't go with a graphics card, but who builds a gaming machine with no graphics card? it wouldn't make any sense.

read this for my opinion on hybrids. i am of the opinion that, since laptops should never be primary storage, SSDs are always the better option. they're more durable to the dings and knocks that laptops often take, they're exceptionally fast, they generate little heat, and they last as long as the laptop if not more, whereas standard HDDs are expensive for the size, noisy, slow, and susceptible to most of the environmental issues that laptops are exposed to. a 120gb Vertex 3 or Agility 3 or Enhanced Cronos is 85$. this is stupid cheap. buy that instead. my desktop primary is a 120gb SSD, and not only does it boot W7 cold in 30s, i've got six games (including two MMOs) on it and don't have issues with space or loading times. get an external for heavy storage.

release in two weeks! who hasn't preordered yet and wants to do a group buy?

blues are fine for general use. HDDs have come pretty far in the last year or so, honestly, as the removal of most of the taiwanese factories from the production line forced them to actually fix the issues plaguing their factories (and in turn, the drives themselves). i'm fine with most of the new seagate drives, and the offbrands are decent if nothing else. i still prefer caviar, though, over other drives if price is equal.

the HDD should be the same as any other one...just plan on formatting it when you get it out. blu-ray drive, no. honestly you can usually sell the whole pile of parts on ebay or craigslist for ~50$-75$ if you really want.

i'm going to come up with awesome, that's what!

well, shoot - i didn't see this thread for a few days and now i'm two days behind on mixing. gotta catch up!

i am so excited!

i should point out that the thread was 52 emails long before i told him to put up (buy the stuff) or shut up (go away) =)

DLUX =DDDDDDD ohaithere

why couldn't he just use an extended KVM to handle it? USB has huge ranges when you put a repeater in there. and HDMI cabling can go over a hundred feet without requiring repeaters if it's shielded and installation-grade. kanthos and i chatted about this over PM and we both think that this is easily solvable by the occam's razor option.

YEARBUMP gogogo

nice, k-wix =) i now require that you pay me eight meeeeeeeellllllion dollars for my assistance with your computer.

prophetik.7826 is me! i'll be on anvil rock.

derrit, edit the first post with usernames!

i believe i'll be on anvil rock, with some friends from LoL and RL.

nice, this is actually a good theme. EXPECT TO GET BUFFALOED.

this would involve having money =) only reason i'm getting gw2 is because someone bought it for me!

amen to that. some really great stuff coming from him lately.

graphics card comparison. you're way above minimum, lol. i can't really recommend a processor without recommending the motherboard as well, since there's so many sockets, but any of the sandy bridge or ivy bridge high-clock duals or reasonable-clock quads are fine for the game. i'm still running an i5-750 and it runs totally fine. find a motherboard that gets four eggs on newegg and is in the 125$-150$ range. asus and gigabyte's got some good ones. if you want let me know your budget and i'll give you a more specific recommendation.

i bought olaf a little while ago and started playing him to give him a shot after getting beast-mode'd by him in a few games in a row. i have discovered that he's bloody awesome and fun and if you think about what you're doing with him you can beat almost any top. the ones i've had trouble with were zyra (shaco fed her both buffs early and she was bursting a third of my hp off every time her CDs were up) and lee sin, who is tough anyways. i have had one terrible game with him, a few that weren't too great, and several that were really good or just plain awesome. picked up a quad in a 2v4 running late into a teamfight that had just ended, which was great. besides the fact that his axe allows him to farm effectively at a long range when against a higher-level foe, he's just plain fun to play. i've been using one basic build with him and modifying it a bit each time, but i'm getting the hang of what's good and what's not on him, and he's just entertaining to play. maybe it's because i haven't played top in a while. i wasn't as impressed with him when i jungled him. he vomits damage early so it's easy to cream jungle creeps and gank hard when the lane is pushed, but he can't manufacture kills like characters with a solid stun or CTG can (mummy, noc, xin, lee sin). the only reason i'd jungle him is if we had an ap-heavy team - like, an ad/lux bot with a bursty mage mid - to allow a non-jungling tank to farm top. most of the builds i see for him have him building items like maw, mallet, warmogs, tenacity boots, GA, atmas, and wriggles. i like that set but i feel he doesn't do much at full hp because he doesn't attack fast enough until he's absorbed some damage, and if i'm building mallet and maw before warmogs or atmas, it's tough for the game to go long enough to buy them, even with a lot of farm (you're looking at 10k just for wriggles, boots, mallet, and maw). he's very item-dependent late-game but he's still fun =)

what's the difference between them? also a buddy of mine just bought me the game so he'd have someone to play with, so while i won't be in the early access i'll definitely be in the game itself. i am excited!