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Meh. Let them rob me. I've got about 50p for them. Nobody seems to care anyway.

I think imma take it to work again tonight. Friday nights are always dead anyway. I'll have to see how much space I've got, but if it's enough I'll pack the 7950 as well. I'll try download rift. Not sure how long it'll take but it's worth a shot. And for the drive I meant bad. It's so slow compared to an ssd, and that scratchy noise is enough to drive anyone up the wall.

Right so I finally managed to test it out a bit, albeit only with WoW, and out in the open I was getting average 70FPS, peaking to over 100, and here's the clincher: I had everything set to Ultra. Obviously WoW is very easy going on GPUs but I'm still amazed that it did so well. This means I could raid with it quite easily. Excellent, and a good start. I've got the system at home now so I'll assemble it at some point soon and give BF4 a run, see if that helps at all. On a side note, going back to a mechanical hard drive is just.... wow.

Yeah, if you've been playing recently I'd say skip it, but if you've been away for a bit then it's actually quite fun.

I wish that Battlelog had an ignore feature so you could simply remove some servers from the search results.

Dude, search for "scan" in the filters. They're the guys from hardware emporium scan.co.uk and run their servers tighter than a duck's arsehole. You also start building up some familiarity with names which makes it even more fun.

Oh and I typed up that post on this system, before anyone wonders if it works

Tired of being bored shitless at work, I decided to pack some hardware into a suitcase and take it with me for tonight's shift. I've got: Thermaltake Berlin 630w PSU Asrock H61 PRO BTC motherboard Celeron G1610 CPU 4gb DDR3 Nvidia 750 ti (MSI Gaming edition) Now a few notes, this is going to be a mining PC, hence the 750 ti. I've got another one at home and they're excellent low power cards which actually perform very well for gaming for their price. They have basically revolutionized the GPU world because not only do they perform well, but they don't even require a separate power plug - they get all their juice from the motherboard, and draw no more than 40 watts. Compared to my 290, which is happy to suck 300w from all it's power connnectors. What this means is that you can plug one of these babies into any PC and play games. These cards will NOT run in SLi, which is a real shame. Two of these in SLI would spank most cards out there for next to nothing. I'm assuming Nvidia did this on purpose because two of these in SLI would make most of their mid-range cards obsolete instantly. The CPU I've gone with is the lowest power model on the market, the Celeron G1610. It's a dual core 2.6ghz jobbie with no hyperthreading. It's made for low power and low cost, and at £30 it's a steal. Running with two Ivy Bridge cores too. The RAM is half of my main PC's RAM, so Corsair Vengeance 4gb 2133mhz. I've got it running at 1600 because I'm not fussed about performance here, it's all about the mining, so the GPUs are where it's at. The motherboard is a model designed specifically for mining, and as such has extra power connectors and PCI-E slots. It will take up to 6 graphics cards on risers, although I'll only be using three for now. I will probably load up some games on to this at some point and see how they fare. Unfortunately the internet here in the headquarters of the biggest telecomms company in the world is so slow I could probably feed this PC binary and it'd be faster, so that's not going to be a for a little while. Here's what it looks like right now: Once it's all set up at home, I'll add another 750 ti, and then a 7950. This will be a cracking little miner which will hopefully turn a wee profit slowly. The only issue I foresee is that these 750 tis are Nvidia chips, and the 7950 is AMD, so I might have to work around some driver conflicts but it shouldn't be too hard. That's it. Just felt like rambling on a bit. Any questions, fire away!

I didn't get any notifications, however, if you mouse over the name, it does do a lil' pop up thing showing my status and whatnot.

Sennex makes some good points but personally for me, I care very little about lore or stories. I come to the game to make gold and kill shit. The motives behind that are mostly irrelevant for me. Yes the game has been dumbed down immensely but it also makes it much more casual. Viewing the game as it once was is just going to piss you off. Instead, view it as a game you can sit down and enjoy for a bit without having to read spread sheets and books of articles to suss out mechanics and stuff. Yes it's all still there but it's not as hard as it once was. That said, I do miss some of that so will probably make a toon on that private server he mentioned so I can enjoy the less dumbede down aspects of the game too.

Absolutely. I had a year-odd year hiatus from the game and I just recently came back, and I'm loving it. If When you do come back, make sure to come to Grim Batol as an ally. You can guild up with us. Dunno about warlords but I'll be getting it anyway so whatevs. I'll throw a bit of gold at you to get you started.

Yeah baby, you maintain that shit. Ooooh, yeah, maintain the shit out of it. Yeah.

Oh my, that is some excellent news! I also made a lil' toon on her server and sent her the link to this thread. Maybe she'll join up and we can dish out the pain, who knows.

Sweet baby jesus that last one was fucking awesome. I honestly almost fell off my chair.

Yep. For a regular HDD, it goes like this: Uninstall unwanted software from the control panel. Malwarebytes. CCleaner. Defrag. Voila, job done!

HAHAHA Dude that's epic!

Makes sense, I've got no idea. Anyways, on topic: Remember all the whinging and whining when Google linked their + service to the comments (myself included)? Look at the comments now, it takes half the time it used to to sift through all the bullshit. It's almost, dare I say it, a good place for discussion, whereas the old system was 99% trolls and 1% genuine people. Still, some of the comments are brilliant. //and anyone who thinks that a 250kg piece of steel moving at 200mph isn't a projectile capable of wiping out a bus full of people is an idiot.

I thought Ghost Rider was in France? Either way, I'm assuming you mean the guy with the turbo hayabusa that was rumoured to put out 500bhp? If so, I've seen his vids. He apparently crashed into a bridge and killed himself, and good riddance imo. I wish death upon no one but that guy could've taken out so many people it's just sick. Someone with such little regard for human life doesn't deserve to live at all. I'm just glad he didn't take anyone with him when he splattered himself all over a bridge and the next 200m of asphalt.

Ok, Just Cause 2 is epic. Really, really good. Red Dead is also excellent and probably goes for a fiver if you go online. Saints Row 3 is also fun, in a GTA sort of way, but with loads of funky humour thrown in.

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Agreed, but you need to take into account that since starting my new WoW experience, I have levelled a pally, busy with a warrior, then I still have to do a few more (mainly for profs) so I'm getting tired of grinding. I love raiding, and that's what I want to do, but fuck starting at level one again if I don't need to.

Fallout for your RPGness. Far Cry 3 for your shootybangness.

Better photo of my gloatiness:

What's the pop like though? The last time I quit WoW was because the server was dead. Seriously dead, like 40 people tops in SW on raid night. It was pathetic really, and it killed the experience. I only came back to WoW now because they've merged servers and whatnot so there's WPVP and actual people around. Granted I get ganked all the time but rather that than just wander around solo. I also love manipulating the AH, to the point that I get fan mail from people moaning that I'm always undercutting them. This is also not very possible on a low pop server, it's just boring. I loved the LK raids and I'd join a server specifically for those but outside of them, unless the server is really busy, I can't see myself going for it. Also! According to the link you posted I can bump right up to 70, is that still the case? I don't mind grinding out NR to get to 80, but if I have to start at level one, for a server I only really raid on, then there's no hope.