Father Xmas

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Grimm reminds me a bit of Buffy. Family line curse/gift to hunt the monsters of fairy tails.

Once is more ... Disneyish. It's interesting how the characters translate into our reality. Didn't see it this evening due to the fact cable is out (at least I'm now somewhere with power and heat) and I can't pull in ABC with an old set of rabbit ears.

Last time I got that it was just after a patch. Had to reenable the game in the firewall.

Well any old character who took the fitness pool needs to respec. If you didn't take fitness at all before that character should now have all four powers, just like Level 2 new characters.

Bookending the episode of Grimm with the two versions of Sweet Dreams, opening with the Eurythmics version and ending with the much creepier Marilyn Manson version was a nice touch.

Well I was very misinformed about Grimm. It's more Buffy-like than a simple police drama with a twist.

I would rather see Daria return. Imagine what she would say about current events as a post college, under employed 20 something.

We sort of have that with Two Broke Girls (Yum, Kat Dennings).

It's Friday!

Chuck is back at 8p EDT.

Followed by Grimm, NBC's storybook meets reality police drama. Sounds like either a serious take on Special Unit 2 or Jim Butcher's Special Investigations unit in his Dresden novels. I'm going to check it out but it's NBC on a Friday night so ... not expecting it to last. Plus it's opposite of both Fringe and Supernatural. (Yes, let's divide the SciFi/Horror fans even more so everyone fails! Except for Supernatural, CW is happy with any amount of viewership.)

$300-500 isn't going to do a lot. Can't buy a new system with that and your current system is tough to upgrade in a meaningful way.

The system is capped at 2GB due to the Intel chipset on the motherboard. So no joy there.

It's unclear if any of the currently available Socket 775 CPUs you can buy today would even be recognized by the BIOS in that motherboard. Still no joy. Also this will limit your gaming performance even if you get a descent modern video card.

And the 300 watt PSU will severely restrict what video cards you can use but you might be able to swing a GT 430 as a video card with that current power supply.

But a better choice is swapping out the PSU for one with more wattage that will allow you to use a significantly more power video card. Again for these microATX cases I recommend an Antec EA-430 power supply. It's physically the same size as the PSU in that case but cranks out up to 384 watts at 12 volts, more than enough for a very decent video card. Again not sure your CPU can properly feed a card like the GTX 560 fast enough for maximum performance. You may be better off with a lesser card like the GTX 550Ti with money in your pocket, unless you plan to move whatever card you buy to a better platform at a later time.

Here's the instruction FAQ for your case. At least it includes how to swap out the PSU unlike HP.

Oh and for reference, Gatway's support page for your system.

Well I assume both the web page displayed in the Launcher and the web page being displayed in the market are generated by some Paragon or NCSoft web monkeys and their starting framework always include Google Analytics for the tracking data it can provides.

Their bosses still need some kind of metrics to analyze and put on power point sides for their bosses.

On the other hand, the farther you knock a critter away or up, the longer it takes for it to get back up on it's feet and return as a threat. I believe the term is "soft control".

All the cards I listed should be able to run ultra mode to some degree (at least minimum UM settings with the GTX 550Ti or HD 6770).

Why in Odin's name do you want to stick a 800 watt PSU into that tiny microATX case. Honestly, not a lot of room between the rear of a standard size, 140mm deep, ATX12V PSU and the optical drive once you include the tied up bundle of excess cables. Antec's EA-500 is also a standard size PSU.

Waiting for the conspiracy buffs' explanation on Coast to Coast AM.

Where do they find music videos on TV? VH1?

I like the idea of adding a salvage item you can buy that's equivalent to 1 billion inf and is tradeable.

Of course then we'll have people complain that they can only have 9,999 of them.

Are you still VIP and if not are you at least Tier 4 of the Paragon Rewards?

For $300 I would still go with the Antec EA-430D and pair it with a GTX 560.

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Now whatever video card you get, before you do any of this, go to either AMD or nVidia, depending on the GPU brand, and download the latest driver or in the case of AMD, the last driver that works with this game. Remember where you saved this so when your bring the system back up after the PSU swap and video card installation, you can run this.

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Well it uses the same case layout and motherboard as my parent's HP they got earlier this year.

My only concern for a novice is knocking loose one or more somewhat undocumented case cables to the motherboard. This is where a digital camera and a bright light can come in handy, photograph the motherboard and document what goes where before you start to yank things out. Digital cameras are a godsend.

This is the motherboard. There are only two cables you need to concern yourself with, the large 24 pin cable whose connector (2 by 12) you see midway on the lower edge and the 4 pin cable (2 by 2, two black and two yellow wires) whose connector is rotated 45 degrees and is located in the photo between the CPU socket and the connectors that stick out of the back of the computer. It's next to a silver heatsink.

The only other two power connectors are to the hard drive and the optical drive. I believe they both use the standard SATA power connector. I'm pretty sure that no 4-pin old style Molex power connectors are used (the optical drive's power may be via an adapter Molex to SATA power. Hyper's previous post shows what the connectors look like.

Also before rummaging around inside the case do the following, turn off the computer, unplug the power cable, turn the computer back on. This discharges any power that's built up in capacitors on the motherboard. Best not to have any power hanging around.

This is the service manual (PDF file) for that PC (assuming you got the p7-1003w, it fits your description). It will go over the steps on how to open your case (note, you just need to open the side, no need to remove the front), add a card and describe how to swap out the hard drive and optical drive. I know you swaping them but it will tell you about the power cables and show you where the drives are located in the case. What the manual won't tell you about is how to swap out the power supply.

Once you've shut down the computer, unplug the wall cable from the back of the computer, discharge any remaining power by trying to turn it on unplugged, take off the side and lay the case over onto it's side do the following.

Unplug the two power cables from the motherboard and carefully move them out of the way, making sure to not dislodge any other cables plugged into the motherboard. You may have to thread them through and between other cables until they are clear.

Then unplug the power cable from the hard drive and again carefully move it out of the way, making sure to not dislodge any other cable plugged into the motherboard. Again you may have to thread it through other cables.

As you move these cables out of the way, the only one that should be left is the one connecting to the optical drive. Unplug that now. This cable should be in the clear.

The power supply is held in by four screws. Simply unscrew them and you should be able to remove the power supply.

Now just do everything in reverse with the new power supply. Note that you are going to have a lot more and a lot longer cables with the new power supply than the old one. You may want to estimate how long of each cable you need and bundle up the excess before you try to install it. If not certainly do it after word, there isn't a lot of space in that case and you don't want the excess cables hanging around all over, it interrupts the air flow.

Now install you video card according to the manual. It uses the two, six pin PCIe power connectors coming from the new power supply. Plug these into the video card so it will work.

Now if everything was done right you can close up the case, plug it in and power up.

Was there anything I overlooked Dr. Hyperstrike?

He is the one God
He is the sun God
Ra! Ra! Ra!

- old Egyptian cheer

What I found interesting in that piece was the actual numbers we are talking about, only $30 million USD. I don't think that Hollywood could to a fake docu-horror film for that little.

And guess what? Chuck's back this Friday at 8p. Decisions, decisions.

As I said in one of your many threads Blue, my recommended upgrade path is an Antec EA-430D coupled with a GTX 550Ti. I'm assuming you are on a budget.

The Antec if physically the same size as the PSU that comes in HP Pavilions plus it provides a lot of 12 volt power (384 watts), which is what both the CPU and a real video card.

The GTX 550Ti is listed as using 116 watts.
The GTX 560 is listed as using 150 watts.
The GTX 560Ti is listed as using 170 watts.

The AMD Athlon II X4 650 is listed as using up to 95 watts.

Well next week on the Talking Dead they are scheduled to have Felicia Day as a guest.