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Living Room / Re: Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 08, 2008, 07:46 PM »

So what's the real story behind ATI vs nVidia? I see you guys talking about the 8800 GT, which is nVidia, but I've always gotten ATI myself. Not for any particular reason, other than perhaps the price.

I've been kind of stingy in the past when it comes to prices, but these days I would consider spending $100-$200 on a video card. I'm more concerned about value than price.

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Living Room / Re: Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 08, 2008, 01:10 AM »

256MB DDR3 I would assume - faster is (almost) always better, but that depends on if you need to load a little bit of things onto the GPU fast, or a lot at a slower rate.

-wreckedcarzz (February 07, 2008, 10:48 PM)

Yeah but DDR3 would need to be twice as fast as DDR2 to make up for having only half the MB. At least that's my logic to it.

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Living Room / Re: Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 07, 2008, 09:44 PM »

When it comes to video card ram, what's the better choice between 512MB DDR2 or 256MB DDR3?

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Living Room / Re: Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 07, 2008, 09:20 PM »

I want this:

SLI Motherboard, Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, 4GB PC6400 DDR2 Ram (2x2GB) for $400

Of course, then I'd also need to buy:

Hard Drive: + ~$100
Video Card: + ~$100-$200
Case: + ~$100
Power Supply: + ~$60-$80

And add shipping and the thing would cost nearly $900 and still have no monitor, keyboard, or mouse.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 05, 2008, 09:15 PM »

Hello!

-ciderman (January 28, 2008, 04:48 AM)

Lime cat is not amused!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Divshare shuts out most of Asia

« Last post by Deozaan on February 05, 2008, 09:07 PM »

I'm American so I can arrogantly say that Asia doesn't matter anyway.

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Living Room / Re: Moving

« Last post by Deozaan on February 05, 2008, 01:58 AM »

Does anyone smell a mouse? I think I do and he smells awful!

-Josh (February 04, 2008, 07:14 PM)

Are you saying mouser isn't being a very good mouser? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mini-HowTo: Handling Cookie Privacy the Right Way

« Last post by Deozaan on February 05, 2008, 01:51 AM »

How does mouser have 4GB of ram unless... 

Is mouser running Vista x64? 

EDIT: Okay, I'm not very observant. It says right there Windows XP 64bit SP2.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Psychonauts

« Last post by Deozaan on February 05, 2008, 01:49 AM »

Deozaan: since you're more informed about it, could you make a post here on DC about it?

-jgpaiva (February 04, 2008, 04:03 AM)

I don't know that much about GameTap. I just downloaded it when I heard it was offering Psychonauts for free, since I never got a chance to play it on PS2. Sadly, I haven't even played Psychonauts yet even though I downloaded it from GameTap some months ago.

I'm not fond of the idea of installing a game download service that has to be installed and running to play my PC games. I'd rather just buy the game. I haven't yet bought into the idea of a subscription format for movies or games as I'm very stingy when it comes to spending money.

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Living Room / Re: Endless Zombie Rampage

« Last post by Deozaan on February 04, 2008, 12:16 AM »

It's hypnotically mindless. It's fun, but too easy and now I'm growing bored. The gun you'd think would be the best in the game (costs the most to buy) is actually quite a downgrade from the FN Scar. The FN scar does more damage and reloads in a split second, so the significantly lower magazine capacity is hardly noticeable as it only requires the occasional "unclick, reclick" of the mouse button.

After you get the FN Scar (which shouldn't be hard if you keep your expenses to a minimal) then you're basically invincible. The only "skill" involved at that point is making sure you have the dexterity to wave your cursor back and forth as you literally mow them down.

I give it a for the short term, but in the long term.

I hate to say this, because I think if it was this way I would totally hate the game, but the unlimited ammo makes it way too easy. If ammo management were a part of the game then it might add a little more reason to have all those weapons, etc.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Psychonauts

« Last post by Deozaan on February 03, 2008, 09:36 PM »

And just an FYI, last I checked, Psychonauts is free from GameTap. Anyone who is interested can try it out.

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Living Room / Re: Run for your life!

« Last post by Deozaan on February 03, 2008, 09:27 PM »

I'm very thin, and don't engage in any "risky" behavior (i.e. tobacco or alcohol use, etc.) and I'm definitely not healthy. It's a weird kind of stigma--people think that if you're not fat you must be "in shape" when the truth is that I get winded pretty easily too doing exercise.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How much email do you keep…and why?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 01, 2008, 02:40 PM »

Maybe I should also clarify that my description of my e-mail retention behaviors are for my personal e-mails, not business correspondence.

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Living Room / Re: Another cody spotting? CAPTION THIS PICTURE CONTEST

« Last post by Deozaan on February 01, 2008, 02:38 PM »

probably a pigeon that got sick of being chased by little kids...

-tomos (December 29, 2007, 08:45 AM)

He was definitely sick of something. He's got the runs!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Digital ink/tablet pc: worth the effort?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 01, 2008, 02:34 PM »

there is just no way taking notes with a pen on a tablet is going to be used over taking notes by typing on a keyboard, unless all he does is draw diagrams.

-mouser (February 01, 2008, 08:10 AM)

Or unless he writes faster than he types. Which is sadly still quite common these days.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How much email do you keep…and why?

« Last post by Deozaan on February 01, 2008, 02:30 PM »

I used to keep a lot of e-mail but also delete a lot. Then I got Gmail. Now I archive everything except spam and the occasional stupid chain e-mail that comes my way.

I have two Gmail accounts now, but the one I've had the longest (back when invites were still rare) is only at 19% storage capacity. The one I use most often these days is only at 1% of capacity.

My inbox is tidy because I only keep a few in the inbox, but nearly everything else goes to the archive.

EDIT: As to why? Um... Not really sure. Most of it I could do without, but I have to tell you it has been very helpful when a year and a half later I vaguely remember an e-mail conversation I had with someone about some topic (such as coding) that I'm suddenly very interested in remembering. A quick Gmail search or two and I've found it. It's very, very useful when you need it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Money saving budgeting options

« Last post by Deozaan on January 30, 2008, 02:25 PM »

The best way to increase savings is to save early and think long term! I opened a new savings account at my bank last week and the banker showed me a sheet, where, starting at age 20 (kinda late for most of us here) if you save $1,000 a year (less than $100 each month) for 10 years and then never contribute another penny, you'd have more than $460,000 on a 10% interest rate by the time you're 65. Whereas if you start when you're 31 and invest $1,000 every year until you're 65, you have only about $350,000.

In other words, your total investment is $10,000 in the first example, but your total investment is $34,000 in the second example and you make about $100,000 less!

My wife left this open on my computer yesterday: How to Make a Million. It tells you how much you need to save each month at certain ages to have a million when you're 65.

I also recommend reading The Total Money Makeover by David Ramsey. He'll get you started on steps to take to come into big savings.

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOTHIC!!!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 30, 2008, 01:07 AM »

Happy birthday!

P.S. The cake is a lie!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bits Du Jour and GAOTD one-day deals

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2008, 04:53 PM »

How about a locked sticky that has their dynamic signature thingy that automatically tells you what the deal of the day is, how much time left, etc.?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wallpaper Generator

« Last post by Deozaan on January 28, 2008, 09:47 PM »

I don't see the point of this. Can't you just select your own photo and choose "Use this as my Wallpaper" in Windows?

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Living Room / Re: Anyone Getting a Spamalanche Lately?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 28, 2008, 12:31 PM »

My spam amounts seem to be about the same.

I use Gmail.

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Living Room / Re: Find names for old games...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2008, 11:10 AM »

Looks like Qix was ported to all kinds of places. DOS, NES, Gameboy, Amiga, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix

The one I was thinking of was called Cacoma Knight in Bizyland for SNES

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Living Room / Re: Find names for old games...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2008, 11:05 AM »

By the way, that link to the variants is NSFW!

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Living Room / Re: Find names for old games...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2008, 11:03 AM »

Jezzbell was a lot better on the PC, not some poor browser-embedded remake.

I think I remember that game you're talking about papoj1. I played it on my grandma's computer or on the NES or something when I was young. But I can't remember the name either. I'll check out those variants and see if I find it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Time to Wipe this Machine! Clean install? Or XP Repair?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 24, 2008, 02:45 PM »

I agree with mouser on starting from scratch. But I've never used any kind of imaging software so formatting is all I know.

I don't have much more to add other than to second what mouser said.