Father Xmas
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Easy enough, leave off the Arctic Silver and the FZ120 if you aren't interested in OCing. You may even want to save a few more dollars going with "standard" CAS 5 DDR2-800 memory.
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Miss not knowing how many new posts are in a thread before opening it. Easy way to spot hot debates/flamewars.
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While we are at it.
Automotive
Hood - Bonnet
Trunk - Boot
Gas - Petrol
Truck - Lorry
Misc
Bathroom - Loo
Elevator - Lift
Panties - Knickers
Briefs - Pants
Sweater - Jumper
Pants - Trousers
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Over on the Tech forum I miss Shego. Her belittlement of player's hardware while they were simply seeking solutions to non hardware problems had a comfortable predictability, much like that neighbor that always flips you off when you wave and say 'good morning'.
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I watched nearly all of 'Karin' and 8 or 9 episodes of 'Lucky Star'. Also borrowed 'Cloverfield' to watch the extras, what little there was.
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You can disable the display of yours. It's in Edit Options.
Quote:Your current reputation level is displayed to other users whenever you post a message. If you would like to hide your reputation, disable this option. -
C'est la vie. I wasn't wild about "Clarke's Third Law" but it was nice to be recognized.
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Problem with that is multi-fold.
1st) $500 isn't a lot even taking the fact he has a case and drives already.
2nd) uATX mother boards tend to be more expensive than inexpensive full size ATX motherboards.
3rd) The OP wants to overclock. This adds the need for a 3rd party cooler that can fit into his compact case which may not have the clearance for the usual selection of 3rd party CPU coolers. Then there's the extra power overhead for needed for CPU overclocking. Also uATX motherboards almost always come with some form of integrated video which is one reason they cost more.
I'm assuming the OP also has an optical drive to use. Hopefully his data drive and/or optical drive are SATA and not PATA since modern motherboards are rich in SATA connectors and very poor with PATA (ATA 100/133) connectors.
OK after looking around some, finding a review on the case which indicates that there is plenty of room for a standard "heat pipe tower" style of CPU cooler I priced the following at NewEgg
Pentium Dual Core 2.8GHz E6300 - $84
Gigabyte GA-EG45M-UD2H uATX motherboard - $130
ZEN FZ120 CPU cooler - $42 ($22 with rebate)
Tube of Arctic Silver - $9
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Platinum DDR2-1066 memory - $54
eVGA GTS250 512MB - $125 ($110 with rebate)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W PSU - $59 ($34 with rebate)
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Total $503 before and $443 after rebate.
Just tossing this configuration out there for comment. Not sure if the OP has any brand or Intel/AMD - nVidia/ATI preference.
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You will simply have to remember the title of those threads and do a search on them.
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Quote:Not the best color choice if you are looking for help.Originally Posted by Malice_A4Thought
I have tried uploading an image that fits the 600x120 but to no avail. Is this just a *come on* ?
Mal
Is your sig image smaller than the size limit of 162.5KB?
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Quote:I figured out a lot of this after a couple of hours of poking around so yes I now know about jumping to the first new post now and finding out that the full editor has a preview.Originally Posted by Texas_Justice
I'll answer what I can, but someone may be able to clarify what I say.
1. Use the New Reply button instead in the lower right corner. It will open to the default editor you have selected in your UserCP. I have mine set for the WYSIWYG editor.
The Quick Reply box here really isn't a Quick Reply box. It's just named that. It's more of a Same Page Reply box since you have to click a Quick Reply icon in a message first. A true Quick Reply box wouldn't need you to click anywhere else first.
2. Will come back to later.
4. Does make it a bit difficult to tell what's a link and what's just underlined text. Needs to be HIGHLY differentiated that it is a link.
7. Griped in Beta, as did others, apparently fell on deaf ears.
8. Only if you use the Quick Reply box and don't click Go Advanced. If you use the New Message or use the Quick Reply with the Go Advanced feature, you get a Preview Post button.
10. If I am looking at a list of threads and see a thread with new posts, I click the white downward pointing triangle. It takes me to the first unread post. No 2 clicks. Just one click.
11. Not sure I follow that one.
As for the blocking of images from devs and the like, right now that's a small price to pay to blot out sig images. Just waiting for the first 1920x1200 screenshot to be embedded in a post in the Tech section just to show the poster's netgraph. -
Quote:Then I guess this warning (Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 600 by 120 pixels or 146.5 KB (whichever is smaller) ) only applies to uploaded sig images and not ones embedded in a text sig with [img] tags then.Originally Posted by Stargazer
I've seen sig images at 965.55kB and 699.34kB.
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At least you can configure your account to block image tags, displaying a link instead. The downside is while sig images seemed to be limited to a relatively small size, avatars still have the problem of simply being a link, already blocked one in this thread that was over 960KB in size.
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Quote:We can disable all image tagged items including sigs separately from avatars. Already disabled that on my account. In theory they are limited to under 162.5KB or 600x120 whatever is smaller.Originally Posted by Texas_Justice
Well, on the forums alone, FatherXmas uses dial-up, but yeah, I know several people who are stuck with dial-up. My wireless ISP is barely above dial-up, but it's the only option (aside from the horrendous HughesNet) that is available to me.
If we could get a split of the options on whether or not to show images in sigs, text in sigs, all images in a post or just avatar images, I'd be happy. Since I often browse the forums from work, being able to turn off the images in Signatures alone would help, since they often stand out more than the Avatars do. And the ESC key works nicely to stop the animations in the avatars.
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In no particular order
1) Needing to hit quick reply in someone's message before being able to type in the editor box.
2) Gray bar above square avatar.
3) Needing to add background image to ad block (at least bouncing Posi was blocked auto on my system by flashblock.
4) Links not being highlighted in color but underlined instead.
5) No obvious way in editor to add color ... never mind found it.
6) Truly dislike use of game password to login to the forums. Ripe for "harvesting" since I don't even get a secure login icon in my browser on the login page.
7) We can have a signature image now but no more than five lines of text in our sig, not a character count, five lines.
8) No preview, just post.
9) No way to stealth edit for grammar/spelling.
10) No way to jump to new posts without a 2nd click. Not a big thing when the new post is on the first page, annoying if the thread is multi-page.
11) "New Post" isn't clearing reliably after loading the thread.
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Quote:I use Irfanview.Originally Posted by xoxman
Ok, I tried SkyDrive, but now I have another question, how do I shrink the picture down to 100x100 pixels? Its just a little too large.
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I weep over this, and the fact this new fancy reply editor breaks Firefox's spell checker.
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Well that should take care of the players who took the buy 6 and get the 7th month free subscription plan back during the holidays to resubscribe through this holiday season.
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I can so see a "Click on the above post's reputation" topic over on Forum Games.
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Seems a tad quicker as well.
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I use photobucket as well.
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Forum stability would be a plus. No more of those annoying "can't post now" messages.
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You can disable image sigs in your options.
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While we aren't official support and while we can't really do anything about bugs, the old location still had it's share of players looking for official help and replies. Neither place is a perfect fit. The ideal solution is a Technical Help board under Player's Help and leave this board for bug reports only.
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The new forum is the