Shadowex3

Hey panda's banned now. someone should memorialize these last posts he made. So can I laugh at him now?

add spybot search and destroy to your comp and give it a go, if you dont have it already.

hence why i suggested overheating, you can get some... Unique Funnies that way. Old asus mobos with onboard stuff you could overheat just enough and get a wallhack.

check for overheating too. ideally vidcard temps peak at 80deg.

There's a kokomo joke in there somewhere.

and that's not all either! Sometimes this guy named Henda would come along and if you made a typo he'd hang you by your thumbs next to the board so other people wouldn't do it either!

In my day we didn't have membership. We had an actual bulletin board we would put sheets of notebook paper on, if you wanted to start a thread you needed to bring your own thumbtacks. AND WE LIKED IT!

http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13162 ^^^ numpad based buyscripts that are specifically for zombiemod.

Why? I'd just hipthrust every time I wanted to fire.

I'd so use that for firing AWPs.

And of course the ever not-safe-for work (NSFW!!) Fleshlight Mod

I'm a bit late but largely I agree with everything posted so far. Except for a few points. 1. I would get 4x1gb sticks of a matched set from OCZ, Corsair, G.skill, or Geil but of DDR2-800. The diff between DDR2-1066 and DDR2-800 is negligible to anyone not benchmarking, I've gone from 2.6ghz to 3.4ghz and can get up almost to 4ghz using DDR2-800 and that's with a QUADCORE. 2. IF you were going to buy a heatsink I would spend the extra $9 and get a good thermalright like the xp-120 and AM2 retention bracket. I use this heatsink and while it's a bit of a bitch to put on (aren't they all?) it can keep a prescott cool. 3. PCI-Express is on your mobo so you're set for modern graphics. However instead of a $90 super-stripped down 9600GSO get a full on $120 9800GT. You should be able to power it. If not I can find you super-cheap yet still reliable power supplies from the likes of seasonic/corsair as well that will still keep you in your budget.

Download a program called CPU-Z and give us the results.

I hacked your mom last night...

Ram isn't worth it because everything's going DDR3.

"All computers operate on FM, They're Fucking Magic." As for the facepalm I just really thought that was a great pic.

Greater performance does not necessitate greater power requirements, just look at ANY Core2 compared to the pentium4 series. Especially the Prescott's. I see a LOT of recommendations that people get 35-40a and 500-550 watts for 260s and 280s but the thing is their peak power consumption is pretty pathetic all things considered. But lets take it a step further and look at real numbers. Here's anandtechs from-the-wall reading of total system power draw under load. This was read with a QX9770 @ 3.20GHz, nForce 790i SLI, 4x1gb DDR3 1333, all being fed by a PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W. ALL of that with a GTX 260 draws a staggering ~262watts from the wall. For the whole computer. I ran a Prescott core hyperthreading 3.4ghz P4 with 4x512mb DDR1-333, three 5200rpm hdds, two dvd burners, and an 8800gts 640 and later an 8800gt all on a generic ~400w power supply that came with that computer. P.s. Your calculation method of 27a*12v for a 324watt PSU doesn't make sense since by that logic a corsair 400cx would be a 360w, a 550vx would be a 492w, and a 520hx would be... a 628w. You can find more inconsistences in total wattage vs 12v amps by your calculation method all over the place, especially when you work with low-watt high-amp power supplies. Math, advertising, and the real world very rarely line up and building computers is far more art than science.

The name and model number and I can look its specs up. Well it's true, wattage doesn't really mean much compared to being able to deliver the amps. I used to run a GTX 260 core 216 on a corsair 520hx.

Never listen to the wattage, always check the amps. The GTX 260 requires about 27a on the 12v rail. The reason wattage requirements are so overblown is because almost all of the power supplies out there not from a very select few brands are literally just last year's psu with a higher number sticker pasted over the old one.