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I was one of those die hard fans who followed the entire timeline of development - and ever since I saw them demoing it on Xbox instead of PC I knew it was doomed.

bros the current build actually dates from ~2006, pls disregard anything previous. also duke 3d was released in the same era as quake with vastly better graphics, yet still held its own through awesome level design, gameplay and interactivity, unlike the consolised piece of shit sequel (the last build of it specifically, the 99 and 2001 demos looked awesome for their times).

done a bit more fiddling around to mine, mostly longer term upgrades. Case: Coolermaster HAF 932 Advanced Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel i5 760 3.8ghz 1.264v stable, Coolermaster Hyper 212+ (bloody awesome for $35!) RAM: 2GB x4 dual channel G Skill Ripjaws 1528mhz (CBF fiddling with it anymore to get it closer to its original rating, still at a CAS 8 latency) Monitor: 24" Benq Graphics Card: 2x Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb OC Edition in SLI (currently running @ 870/1740/2004 mhz 1.025v) HDD(s): 2x 300gb WD Velociraptors in RAID 0, 1TB Caviar Green 2TB Caviar green storage drives PSU: Silverstone Strider 850W Soundcard: Asus Xonar DG Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 OS Used: Windows 7 x64 Peripherals: Dell Multimedia Keyboard, Logitech MX518 mouse, OCZ mouse mat

it's only the Sandforce ones that are problematic, our first batch of Latitudes with the OEM Samsung ones are solid as rocks, despite being imaged multiple times and used quite a lot. From what I've read, data is actually safer on SSD than mechanical disk

why do you have what appears to be a Cisco 7941 phone sitting on your desk at home lol

trust me Ash they are, but 3 dead OCZ drives out of the 20 or so in circulation in and out of the office in peoples home pc's etc dosen't really fill me with confidence vs 0 dead raptors

tl;dr version: compete or die shitkunt retailers.

still not totally sold on G2P, from what i've researched, they can be fairly inconsistent, and dare i say it suss. might try and squeeze 20 bucks off from EA support a la OCAU BF3 thread

yeah no point buying a prebuilt desktop unless you're a total noob. tbh I'd rather have a light, portable laptop with good battery life for laptopping (think 14" w/SSD) and a proper desktop for gaming, not some gimped out compromise that costs 3k and still has to play everything on low with zero upgradeability or expansion / overclocking potential.

dude don't even try and troll here, even the best alienware 17" lappy is still no comparison to a similarly specced desktop and they tend to overheat. Mobile GPU chipsets are gimped, and even a high end sandy bridge i7 is only comparable to an i7 920. Buying one is like getting an SS Commodore and expecting it to handle like a Porsche, not a good value family car.

well I got my Raptors at a really good price, which is why I bought them, but TBH, if I were to do it over again I would have saved my pennies up for a Crucial M4 128 gig (have seen too many firmware issues with OCZ ATM). Would not buy one new though. Velociraptors in RAID 0 are comparable in some ways to a Vertex 2, and when we installed Windows 7 x64 on both setups to compare, took around the same amount of time to install. That said, after using a Vertex 3 in my workstation, I'm sold on the SSD thing even if it's not cost effective; I used to be a big naysayer about the whole SSD + storage drive thing, but they are that much faster it's incredible.

all that and one 7200rpm OS drive?!

IIRC that was only in the later patched versions of DN1 when they thought that the company that owned Captain Planet owned the rights to the name!

here's a result with the latest drivers; for some reason I can't push the cores any further or 3dmark freezes, strange given that could get the first card up to 950mhz also swapped in a pair of Sata 2 Velociraptors in a 128k stripe http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1670000;jsessionid=5hzujouc0u8l?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1670000%3Fkey%3Dbn39BVvDMH7dx

i played the shit out of the first 3 games, dosen't detract from the fact that DNF was not a very fun game to play. Should have seen the signs when they demoed it on 360 at PAX

I actually waited 14 years via updates from PCPP mag and later the 3dRealms / DN4.net forums for this. I suppose on one hand, it was great that Gearbox took the plunge to bring the game out, but on the other, it would have been better off stillborn. If it had come out at the same time that HL2 had it would have been excellent, however the gaming industry has moved forward. They took out most of the fun things from DN3D, and replaced it with the usual dumbed down consolified crap; should have seen this coming from the way that George Broussard carried on and on about the 360 on his twitter page. I was very disappointed in the game, which whilst it made me laugh (you kind of need to have an idea of the previous games to get most of it), was just plain unfun to play. I had to force myself through the rest of it after Duke Burger.

not sure if you're being sarcastic... will probably lean on the cards a bit more, but given that I'm sitting on the edge of PSU output as it is, I might hold off

it was a while ago; could give it a go again with updated drivers, but AFAIK, the physics test, at least in the demo version is a CPU test, not PhysX. Would explain the huge discrepancy between the score you got and the score I got.

meh maybe if ID were able to produce something to make them a relevant force in the FPS market again, since Quake 3 was their latest market leader. BF and COD are the big dogs of the FPS world these days

must be a bloody good agreement TerminalWraith; I work in education though, so we only buy 4-5 Alienware spec laptops (and they've since dropped out of popularity in favour of smaller, lighter corporate ones)

if you have a Z68 board you can use the integrated GFX + Quick Sync, think it is limited to a particular program or something for encoding. http://3dmark.com/3dm11/805476?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F805476%3Fkey%3Dwf5kxcDcHeZrKCn4rTeQkPycqmLbBh P6383, physics test really boned me, think it would go up a fair bit when I get around to fitting an aftermarket cooler and cranking it up some!

looks alright, might go through there - then at least it's not a huge deal to buy the Steam version again if / when it comes out!

I admit, the single player in MW1 and 2 was cool, and the story interested me. The multi however, has been exactly the same since COD2. I dislike intensely how the video game industry has become not only dumbed down console focused, but the whole thing of having to release a franchise update every year at around the same time. How can a quality game be made or innovation had when everything is pandering to a tight schedule and lowest common denominator?! BTW BLOPS single player sucked because of the ridiculous historical inaccuracies (like having M16's with 30 round mags and fancy scopes in 1960), and the multi was lag central on PC!

don't trust the cdkey sites generally, was looking at Direct2Drive; I bought a Black Ops key for $40 there preorder (still a waste of 40 bucks haha)

going for the one that's not based on Quake 3 games technology. Hoping that MW3 will be the one that FINALLY kills off a stale cash cow franchise.