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Quote:The original Core 2 CPUs is more than twice as fast per clock per core than the Pentium 4. That means one of the two cores in the original 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo E6300 (not to be confused with the current 2.8GHz Pentium Dual Core E6300 [thank you Intel marketingOriginally Posted by BlackSun17
<----- not too familiar with what I am about to ask
Could someone (nicely) help me understand what the differences are between a Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz CPU and a Intel Pentium 4 3.6Ghz CPU?
Is my CPU finally at the end of its lifespan? Can I still run software properly that has a minimum requirement of the Core 2 with my CPU?
Thanks in advance for the info and feedback - much appreciated!
]) has about the same performance as your single core 3.6GHz Pentium 4. Then realize you have a second core of the same speed raring to go. On top of that there's been a round of performance improvements on the Core 2 line that boosted performance on the current crop by another 10-15%.
As for the P4 end of lifespan. Yes, that time came and went when the Core 2 was introduced in July of 2006. When the low end of the new CPU line performs as well as the highest end of the previous CPU line, that era is over.
Right now Intel is looking at nearing the end of the Core 2 line of CPUs. They haven't introduced any top end CPUs for Socket 775 since the Socket 1366 Core i7-9xx series came out last year instead introducing CPUs in the sub $150 range for dual core and sub $200 range for quad core. Now with Intel starting to roll out the Socket 1156 Core i3, i5 and i7 series it pretty much closes the book on Socket 775 within the next two years. -
I use the Vault a lot, mainly to store invention salvage drops that I know I will be using shortly to craft the common IOs I'm planning to slot at level 12 and 27. Well the ones that are currently going for a pretty penny at the market.
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You can't. Sad but true. Contact NCSoft and see if they will credit you.
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Well two of the three have inferior graphics to the GO 7600 which leaves the Asus laptop using the ATI Mobility HD 4570, which should be on par, maybe a bit better plus Dx10.1 support.
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Actually I've seen a few other MMOs advertised as well as the 800 pound gorilla.
There was Pirates of the Caribbean but that's got some Disney money behind it. Also saw ads for Disney's ToonTown Online.
Cartoon Network's Fusion Falls but only advertised on CN and possibly during CW's Saturday morning cartoons.
Then there were a few of the microtransaction, kid oriented MMOs. But again only on CN/Nick/Disney but only for a couple of weeks. -
And how is this a bug or technical issue?
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It's been noticed.
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That's right. If they can fight and be defeated, they can see you. If they are just some random researcher/student/office worker then they can't see you if stealthed/invis/hide.
As for movement speed, even sprint is to fast for them and they will stop (non-fighting NPCs) and be recaptured if they encounter an enemy. You can't ghost in and rescue people without at least clearing a path back to the exit. -
Two words, white space.
Let's see if I can fix this.
Quote:The way multiple types of defense is handle is the To Hit calculation will take the best one based on the attack. For instance if you have 10% defense against range attacks, 30% against smashing and you get attacked by a range/smashing attack your defense will be 30%.Originally Posted by Airman_America
I left a great deal of my in depth knowledge (not that it was very deep) with the Great Defense Nerf of 2005 and went on to build resistance based toons. After 5 years of play, and 21 honestly made (meaning NONE were of the "shake 'n bake" overnight kind or where the "PLMEH" variety) Level 50 toons I decided to make my first SR Stalker.
Looking at the build I note 2 types of defense... that of Melee/AoE/Ranged and then specific type of defense like Energy or Psionic. In the game calculations, which type is done first?
Is it like To-Hit and how it is figured in first, ahead of Accuracy, in the calculations?
How is Defense figured if (just giving a number here) you have 10 Melee Defense and then have 10 Smashing Defense?
One last question, I was always told that SR was hard to play, heavy cost to endurance, and only really good for PvP. I have found that to be untrue personally, he survives as well or better than my Regen/Dark Scrappers I made and seems average to light on Endurance, did something change?
The only real nemesis I have found so far has been DE Guardians with that crystal pet of theirs. FYI the build is Dark/SR and I mostly solo at a 3/+1 since level 23 and the toon is now 44. Oh has anyone else found the level 32 big power of Dark Scrapper/Stalker to be rather anti-climatic as I did?
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9600GSO came in two varieties. The original was a renamed 8800GS. It was a cut down G92 GPU (8800GTS/9800GTX) with only a 192-bit memory bus instead of 256-bit and 96 of 128 shaders enabled.
Later a version was produced based on the G94 core, the one used in the 9600GT. This card retained the 256-bit memory bus but only had 48 shaders instead of the 9600GT's 64.
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You have to be careful about some of the USB 3.0 implementations. For instance Gigabyte has their GA-P55A-xxxx motherboards. If you choose to enable the USB 3.0 connectors, you disable SLi/CrossfireX and reduce the primary graphics slot from x16 to x8.
Why? Because each USB 3.0 socket requires one PCIe x1 data channel to work. That board also has SATA 6.0Gb support which also requires one PCIe x1 data channel for each SATA 6.0Gb port. It's a rather poor solution for USB 3.0/SATA 6.0Gb which is why my $1200 rig avoids those motherboards. -
Oh and the official reason the new Antec Earthwatts Green series of PSUs don't come with a power cord; you should recycle your old one by using it with your new power supply.
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Well, depends what you are looking for.
First there motherboard size, either a full size ATX or smaller uATX.
Then if you plan to go to a multiple video card setup, make sure that the motherboard supports the multicard standard, SLi (nVidia) or CrossfireX (ATI) you prefer. Several of the newer P55 based motherboards (since you list the i5-750 as your CPU) can support both but not all. Also you need to check to see if the second video card slot is x8 and not x4, which can be found on some CrossfireX only motherboards.
At the very least you should search for actual reviews, not forum or seller sites, on the motherboards you are considering, use the word benchmark instead of review for your search. Also checking the actual manufacturer's site is always a good idea.
Then there are the extras. IEEE 1394 firewire support (fading away due to USB 2.0), multiple gigabit ethernet support (why?), the craze of n-phase CPU power regulation (better regulation as n increases but more power wasted and heat generated, good for extreme OC of the CPU). Power and reset buttons on the motherboard, boot information displays, CMOS clear button instead of jumper, more copper etc. All to make one motherboard unique from another, tough to do when all of them use the same motherboard chipset and 95% of other components.
Often it ends up to preferred manufacturers. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte seem to be popular among the tech sites.
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SinOfEnvy,
Yes, in all probability the GTS 250 is overkill for a 1.8GHz, single core Sempron. But the Corsair PSU and the GTS 250 would be a good start toward future upgrades.
Also compared to what you currently have as graphics, you should see a fair improvement in performance as well as image quality through higher world texture quality settings as well as higher shader settings. It will seem like a whole new game with non-fuzzy signs and shinny/bumpy textures.
But still, your bottleneck from now on, presuming the graphics and PSU upgrade, is going to be the CPU, having enough memory to prevent excessive swap file usage during play. Problem is that finding a replacement CPU that fits a Socket 939 motherboard would just be throwing money away that could be saved toward the next upgrade.
As for the performance of a GTS 250, it's nothing to sneeze at. While it's true that it's a twice renamed, overclocked 512MB 8800GTS, there are still only a handful of single GPU cards that outperform it. Also don't let the price fool you, ever since ATI came out with the HD 4xxx series and took control of setting price points for certain performance levels, video card prices in general have taken a nosedive and you can get quite a card in the $125-150 price range, 18 months ago this would have been a $300+ card. -
Well, you could consider Conserve Power as an endurance buff. Sort of the same way a ToHit debuff is like defense.
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The one thing I don't understand about wanting perma-hasten nowadays is that Hasten combined with the recharge bonuses you need to get hasten into the perma range well reduce your attack recharge times to the point that if you don't have someone buffing your endurance recovery, you'll run out of endurance faster than a Gunstar after Death Blossom.
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Quote:Or you do a little cut and paste magic on the URL'sOriginally Posted by Human_Being
If you want people to see these, you need to make them public rather than private lists.
First, an AMD based build with your original choice of nVidia card for under $500
Next, the same build, but with an AMD/ATI videocard for even less
Did you forget the hard drive Gamma? Well that's one way of getting the cost under $500. -
Quote:Easy version first.Originally Posted by SoulSpark
Can someone help me with some kind of formula to figure out the real recharge time for a power if Hasten wears off while it's recharging?
Like, for example, say I have Benumb from Cold domination. Let's suppose no Recharge enhancements or bonuses for easier numbers. Benumb has a base 120 second recharge. With Hasten on, that Recharge would go down to 70.6 seconds. (I'll assume it's 71 seconds for sake of easier numbers, again)
Now, let's suppose that Hasten is active, and Benumb was activated, recharged for 50 seconds, then Hasten expired. How much more time would Benumb really need to fully recharge?
Would it be something like... 50 seconds while Hasten is active meant Benumb has recharged 70.4% of it's full downtime. And now that Hasten is off, it would take 29.6% Of the original downtime (120 seconds), which would be something like 35.5 seconds. Which would make the total recharge time 85.5 seconds?
Am I shooting in the dark way off target?
Now..the more complicated version. Let's assume Benumb has two 50 Recharge IOs, which makes for a 83.32% Recharge, and a recharge time of 65.5 Seconds instead of 120 while Hasten is dead, and 47.7 second recharge if Hasten was active throughout the recharge. And then add ontop of that a 12.5% Global recharge from two Decimation sets. Which would further reduce the recharge times to 45.1 seconds and 61.3 seconds with and without Hasten respectively. (Yes, I"m aware that when calculating recharge for a specific power recharge bonuses from single IOs in the power would simply be added ontop of the global recharge. So in the previous case it's simply a case of Benumb having 95.82% recharge on it. And yeah, I know that global bonuses are simply added ontop of the value you have, and not subject to ED. So having say... 107% global recharge bonus would make a total of 190.32% recharge for benumb, not less) how would all that work out?
Honestly, my brain hurts just from typing all that lol. Never been too good with number crunching.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Benumb recharge is 120 seconds.
Hasten has a 0.70 recharge bonus.
If Hasten is up for the entire time it takes to recharge Benumb then the equation is
t = 120 / ( 1.00 + 0.70 ) or 70.6 seconds. So as long as hasten has this much time left, all of it will count toward recharging Benumb.
Now if you only have 50 seconds of Hasten what you need to find out is how much time remaining after Hasten clicks off. So the equation for that is
120 - ( 50 x ( 1.00 + 0.70 ) ) or 35 seconds. Since there isn't any recharge applied to those remaining 35 seconds the entire recharge time is 50 + 35 or 85 seconds.
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Now the complicated case. Actually it's not all that different except you now have a 0.8332 from enhancements and an additional 1.07 from global IO bonuses.
First lets figure out the recharge time if Hasten is up for the entire duration.
t = 120 / ( 1.00 + 0.70 + 0.8332 + 1.07 ) or 33.3 seconds. So as long as you have 33.3 seconds or more left on Hasten, Benumb will recharge in 33.3 seconds.
Lets say you only have 20 seconds left on Hasten. Again we calculate how much recharge is left after that 20 seconds
120 - ( 20 x ( 1.00 + 0.70 + 0.8332 + 1.07 ) ) or about 47.9 seconds.
Now take that 47.9 seconds and calculate the recharge time without the 0.70 Hasten provides
t = 47.9 / ( 1.00 + 0.8332 + 1.07 ) or 16.5 seconds.
So the total recharge time in this case is 20 + 16.5 or 36.5 seconds.
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Fu is no Fay.
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That power cord connector into the power supply has been around forever, possibly as far back as the original IBM PC.
Actually my 2nd recommendation, the 400 Watt Corsair is probably the better deal. -
Looks like it uses HP's standard "Zinfandel" 250 Watt/13A at 12V power supply so that will have to be replaced. This should do the job nicely, providing a maximum of 28A at 12 volts and has one six pin PCIe power connector. Only downside, it doesn't come with a power cord (just reuse your current one).
This one is also a good buy, 30A at 12 volts and a power cord.
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I agree. Big fan of eVGA but they are somewhat pricey.
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No, the GTX 260 isn't huge at 10.5" in length.
The HD 5970 is HUGE, topping out at 12.1" in length and that's still isn't the max length for the ATX standard.
It's just that most case manufacturers acknowledge the fact that cards of such length are rare. In the case (no pun intended) of long, very high end videocards the assumption is that if you can afford that, you can afford a large gamer case to install it in. -
Oooh, forgot about Birdy, that falls into Ultraman-esque body time sharing category.