Father Xmas

I think the Mekman taps it's feet impatiently if you stand around too long, like at the market. It might also "cheer" while you fight but I'm paying more attention to the things I'm trying to hit than look at my pet.

That's what happens when you are on dial up and load up in tabs all updated threads, then read them and decide if you are going to reply.

It should. Won't it be better to ask this in the Discussion thread on the pack?

You're lucky, for some people it will take 10 to 12 hours. The game is approaching 4GB in size now.

Fragging isn't a problem for SSDs period. The purpose of defragging a conventional hard drive is reduce head seeks. The average seek time for mechanical hard drives are around 1/70th of a second, that's nearly the amount of time it would take to transfer 1.5MB of data so getting rid of extra ones is generally a good thing.

Well I started my reply before you changed your wishlist.

Video card length isn't a problem with the CM 690 II case. It can handle a video card up to 11.96" long.

That Cooler Master PSU isn't all that great. Check out the conclusions from the reviews at HardwareSecrets and JonnyGURU. As an alternative, the Antec TP-750 is currently $95 after rebate and is semi-modular.

Well with the adapter that CPU cooler should fit. But it was designed in the era of single core P4 and Athlon 64 CPUs. I don't know how much better, if at all, it will be over the stock Sandy Bridge cooler. You can always give it a try.

And while I'm not a fan of CrossFireX or SLi, my opinion isn't in the majority which is why my $1375 build is speced to handle a 2nd HD 6850 as well as overclocking the processor (another opinion I don't subscribe to) without needing to upgrade the PSU or improve the cooling of the case or CPU.

Don't know. Devs would know. They aren't talking.

First your friend's heatsink won't work, it needs to be Socket 1156 compatible. Socket 1155 is compatible with Socket 1156 heat sinks BTW. If you are planning to OC, I would think a 3rd party heat sink is a must.

Case - I still prefer the Antec 300 Illusion but the Rosewell does come with an SSD adapter.

PSU - It's fine, a little on the low end if you are planning to OC the CPU.

Memory - Tall memory heat sinks may interfere with a 3rd party CPU cooler. Otherwise fine. Note that Intel now lists 1.55 volts as the maximum voltage for memory for Sandy Bridge CPUs.

Motherboard - Most notable thing about this is the lack of SLi and reasonable CrossFire support. No, I don't consider the 2nd PCIe x16 but what is actually a PCIe x4 slot reasonable CrossFireX support. But if you have no plans of ever doing either then it's fine.

Drives - Fine.

CPU - Personally I think the i7-2600K is overkill for gaming. It's not clocked that much faster (3%) than the much cheaper i5-2500K and while that and the extra 2MB of L3 cache will help, what you are paying for is Hyper Threading, which is of questionable usefulness for gaming but great for highly multithreaded applications like video compression and 3D rendering. (Run on sentence much?) Anandtech Bench comparison.

Video - If you can afford it sure. But double check if the board can fit in that case. The card is listed at 10.7" long at Diamond and power is along the top so that helps.

That's my 2 cents.

I'm guessing vibranium. I noticed near the end of Iron Man II, when Stark is being debriefed by Fury a map which I assume is all current SHIELD operations. One is in Africa. Another is off of Greenland.

Oh poo.

I had a crush on her when I was little.

Surprised nobody through these pics up here of Peter and Gwen.

Actually El Nina, colder waters off the western coast of South America not warmer which is El Nino.

Sorry, bemoaning wasn't the right feeling I was going for, perhaps "resigned to" sounds better.

I'm a very old school gamer so even 15 fps is fine by me but 20-25 "feels" a lot smoother and I really don't notice the difference over thirty. It just struck me that you may be someone who had their options turned up just a tad to much, seeing that you had some UM settings on.

Assuming you are upgrading from the motherboard based GMA 900 and since you are stuck with the limited bandwidth of an old fashion PCI slot, then an 8400GS should be enough to see a reasonable improvement in performance.

That and they couldn't Trademark/Copyright the word SciFi up the yingyang for marketing purposes.

Another reason for the abundance of Level 50s is that they just added the start of new content for Level 50 characters (Incarnate system) so there are six years of Level 50 characters being dusted off and played to prepare for expanded content.

This is on top of those players looking to pimp out there level 50 with the best "loot" (rare and ultra rare Invention Origin Enhancements) in the game which necessitates grinding for drops or money, which is easiest to do with a Level 50.

Also after six years, classic sounding superhero names are pretty well used up leaving you with names like the The Flaming Lisp (note this video, "Your Superpowers and You" was done 4 years ago and we had this problem back then). Also not all characters need to be traditional spandex clad superheros, this is City of Heroes, so secret agents, aliens, dimension hopping elves, accidental time travelers, mythical beings (admittedly have been used in comics as superhero origins) are wandering about, why shouldn't they have "names pulled from a telephone book".

The original selection of costume parts for CoH were quite limited until CoV came out. The number of items for things like shoulders and belts tripled or quadrupled. Yes this meant there are 35 bone spikes and a dozen skulls pieces and let's not spend to much time discussing eye plugs but basic chest and leg pieces, the addition of jackets and coats (original CoH had the whole suit as one fixed piece) have added valid "hero" looks as well as the "darkity dark dark" pieces. And now with side switching, "villains" can be found anywhere now so if they want to keep their edgier look, who am I to disagree.

Lastly, nobody likes unsolicited advice. Nobody likes a spelling or grammar Nazi. If you want to hang and play with people who are willing to RP their characters, basically Virtue but there are a few RP groups on every server, players who bothered to include a character description and background, then wait until you become friends with them.

The Tumbler reminds me somewhat of the Bat Tank from Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

No Idol is on Fox, I'm saying ABC simply has accepted that Fox will own that time slot the same way ABC owned Monday nights at the beginning of the season with Dancing With The Stars. Doesn't matter what you have up against it since a good size chunk will be watching them.

So instead of ABC trying to put something very good from their schedule against Idol, they are happy to put a series that I doubt will have a 3rd half season. However to maximize ratings and possible future DVD sales, they won't provide replay online.

Thursday morning EST normal maintenance. Down Tuesday morning means a patch is being pushed live.

My comment was more toward Johnstone bemoaning his around 20fps and fretting over high resolution costume sets while still playing with some UM settings enabled rather than performance problems with that room.

Remember all the performance problems with Arachnos lab maps when CoV came out. They eventually got better, this should as well.

Seth Rogan is on Mythbusters tonight for their Green Hornet episode. Wonder if they plan to flip a car upside down, then flip it back and see if it runs.

Well I just found out that everything isn't all peaches and gravy (???) here either. It seems that ABC decided NOT to put any of the second season of V on their site or Hulu, only telling us after two episodes aired.

Gee thanks ABC, I guess I have no reason to tune into your serialized TV series for the rest of the season since I can't catch up. Actually it sounds like they've given up hope for the series and are simply gave up that time slot to American Idol when it starts.

It was already scheduled. It will or already been shown on USA as well. USA and SyFy are NBC, I mean Comcast owned so often a premier of a new, somewhat quirky series is also shown there. They've done it most recently with The Event.