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Word on the street is that this is like the new XP – not as bloated and annoying as vista – very fast and relatively streamlined, but with all the extras. Basically the OS people like me (who have studiously avoided vista on their own PC) have been waiting for since XP came out!
I haven’t actually tried the beta myself yet – but most of what i read is very positive.
Hmmm – it just frustrates me now…. they cheat by making the enemy units tougher.. not smarter. Also end up with loads of games where they push you back to your base but you still end up beating them… 2 hours later! I fancy some more 1vs1 or 2vs2 games within ourselves… thats where its at.
Yeah right – like you guys have lives!
Our shitty island internet has been down all day anyway… anyone free tomorrow night?
Lol. I appreciate you Insane. 😀 Keep it coming.
Why dont we make tonight XDC regrouping night? Get as many of us on TS as possible and get some games going??? 1 night a year at least!
I have COD 4 and COH, empire total war and BF 42 installed at the mo. Anyone up for it? From 8?
@11thSignal wrote:
Any of you guys still playing COD 4? if you are give us the server addresses you are using!
Hey m8. Get on TS any night and there might be one or two of a rare breed on there …. ‘XDCers who play online PC games together.’ 😀
I should be on after 9 or so…. if i don’t smash up my computer trying to work out how to use wordpress correctly.
Looks good to me Turks, but Nom is right to be wary of PSU’s – you could always ask them for some more info re exactly what make they use and how reliable it is / what other options they have (though like i said it worked fine for me.) Custom PC did a PSU test this month though and it was interesting to see that the 2 that blew up in testing were from reasonably well known brands (arctic cooling and cooler master) – so there are dangers whichever way you go. The benefit of buying from a company rather than building yourself of course is the overall system warranty of course.
Up to you re GFX – 30 quid aint a lot of cash… but there is a law of diminishing returns so….
1.5T hard drive? That is a LOT of porn.
How about using 2 smaller drives to give yourself some redundancy?
Personally i have gone for a very fast raptor drive that only has my OS on it then a ‘normal’ HD for everything else – but that may complicate matters unecessarily for you.
Arghhh!
I give up. Nom and i are arguing over how important 4gig of ram is in your build… you plump for 8gig?!?
The graphics card is the worst of all worlds – wont play modern games that well, but adds to the cost of the system… might as well stick with the onboard one if you are serious about not wanting to spend money on GFX at the moment?Quad core processors DONT MAKE ANY SENSE. I dont usually encode videos whilst playing games… the only people who do are usually people who bought quad cores and are wondering what to do with them. 😀 The chip makers have hit a bit of a wall you see in processor design…. instead of just focusing on increasing the speed they hit on this wheeze of sticking multiple cores in. Only problem is there are bugger all applications around that can make any use of them! Custom PC had a great review of dual core pentiums versus quad cores a few months ago and the lack of performance for the money on the quads was very surprising… in some cases they actually seemed to slow things down! Marketing bullshit wins again.
Maybe in the future they will solve the technical issues of using parallell processing in applications… but until then i would forget it. (Alan Wake may change my mind I guess… but from what i read it will run fine on dual cores too.)
(Disclaimer: This is a personal opinion of an internet forum and doesen’t amount to much in the grand scheme of things – if you disagree then post away but don’t fall out with me! 😉 )
Oh… and PC specialist lets you open your case to change components too… I am seriously not on commission… but I did a LOT of research before i bought from them – they were a) the cheapest, and b) I was very pleased with their service.
@To0THBRU5H wrote:
Buy watercooling, it’s fun. I installed mine myself, was very cool 😀
^^^^^ see what he did there? Genius! 🙄
Turks – you can use that spec and drop the GFX card a few notches if you are totally stuck at £600
Just to give you a comparison… Custom PC seem to rate YOYo tech computers occasionally. Found one for 600 quid exactly without an OS.
FULL SYSTEM SPEC’S
PC CASE SILVERSTONE PS02 ATX CASE
POWER SUPPLY OCZ 600W ATX
MOTHERBOARD P43 ATX MOTHERBOARD
PROCESSOR INTEL E8400 – DAUL CORE
CPU COOLER GLADIATOR MAX COOLER
MEMORY 4 GB DDR2 MEMORY
HARD DRIVE 500GB SATAII
CARD READER NOT INCLUDED
OPTICAL DRIVER DVD REWRITER
GRAPHICS CARD RADEON 4850 – 512MB DDR
GRAPHICS MODE SINGLE CARD
SOUND 5.1 CHANNEL
OPERATING SYSTEM NONE – CAN BY ADDED AT TIME OF PURCHASEhttp://www.yoyotech.co.uk/yoyotech-intel-baseline-8400-system-silverstone-ps02-case-600w-e8400-memory-500gb-hard-drive-radeon-4850-512mb-graphic-card-rewriter-onboard-sound-p-1457656.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
I specced the EXACT same build on PC specialist (making substitutions for things like the cooler and PSU) price came in at 432 delivered.
Spunker – where the hell you been man? COH tonight?
gastroenteritis.
Dont celebrate too much – it might be swine flu! (Some people present with diarrhoea only!)
And for 600 quid you can get a fine card now…. why wait? We need more COD4 players now, Wolf is too crap to be my wing man for long and Spunker has dissapeared.
@TurksMeister wrote:
ummm cheers guys!
Although not after a big graphics card, as dont play PC games anymore!
Will have a gander at it all .. ta
Well that would be a shame wouldn’t it? If you have 600 quid to spend you could have a competent rig for playing modern games on… maybe not with all the bells and whistles… but fine for some multiplayer games with us!
Dont you fancy some COH/ COD with XDC? As well as anything else that might crop up in the future?
