Psychic Guardian

It depends on how much you want the mouse to do, but I've heard the Razer Naga is cool with the full numpad under your thumb, if you like a wired mouse.

Thanks Gaia and steve, those helped a lot . I was planning on a single vidcard system but was just wondering about the SLI/Crossfire stuff. Gaia what form of cache do you mean? If you mean the system or windows or whatever I didn't know that could be moved lol. And what is TRIM and how do I know which models/brands have it? Cyberpower's "configurator" doesn't have details on the Kingston ones so I'll have to look them up.

If a Phenom II x4 is around i5, what is i7? I see you selected the x6 1075T, is there anything particularly bad about the 1055T? I saw the GHz was less but im not sure what those mean.

Are the 5770 and gtx260 really able to max the ultramode settings (at 1280x1024)? I thought it would take more than that, I think I had been looking at a gtx470 last time I ran through the configuration tweaking things and watching the total price move.

Probably stupid question; I see most of these range cards have 2 DVI outputs and 1 HDMI, is there such thing as an HDMI splitter if I wanted to use 2 HDMI? I use my HDTV as 1 screen and if I get a new monitor for my desk it would be using HDMI too.

I've been trying to get "the dream pc" designed for a couple months but haven't had much luck with picking a good graphicscard; I'd think I found one that was good and then see it complained about here as someone was looking to upgrade away from it.

The goals for the PC would be 1. maxing CoH with UltraMode settings (@ at least 1280x1024), with nothing turned down at all, I've been playing for years now, mostly on Performance/Minimum, I wanna jump to the opposite end of the spectrum with the new PC.

2. High processing speed, I've been looking at AMD processors over Intel, something like a Phenom X4(High end) or X6.

3. 8(or at least 6 if it's intel) gb Ram

4(?) I saw a demo of a side-by-side comparison of an SSD pc's boottime compared to a fast mechanical one, and am now looking for one of those too, the way I've been configuring pc's on sites lately has been 1 30gb SSD bootdrive and a 2TB sata III data drive.

with a highend processor and ram like that can someone just give me the name of the ATI/Nvidia cards required to push all settings to the max? I've read like 5 different detailed explanations of how to interpret GFX card benchmarks but it makes no sense to me, the names would be easier .

If anyone knows a good configuring site and is up for posting a configuration here that'd be incredible. As far as building goes, I have experience assembling a PC from a one-time thing at work so I could probably do it, but I'd be more comfortable receiving something assembled ready to go.

I was hoping to keep the price under $1500ish, but with the SSD and a gfx card that can play coh how I want it that probably isn't possible. Another thing I have been trying to understand lately is Crossfire/SLI; I know it involves using 2 identical cards and raises performance, but (stupid question) can the ports on the 2nd card be used? like a 2 HDMI output setup? And is it really true certain games/apps can choose to "not support" crossfire leaving you with 1 mediocre card to work with for that app? (without fiddling with drivers? I tried updating a gfx driver this summer and got nowhere, I'd like the new card in this new pc to just come working lmao)

Sorry if this post sounds ridiculously needy, but I've been trying by myself and haven't made much progress.

hmm, do you play windowed or fullscreen mode? Fullscreen "fights" "always on top" applications usually, especially on ATI cards from what I've heard (like mine).

jp I've been playing with CyberPowerPC's custom configurator for weeks experimenting with things until I can actually afford a new PC (I bet I know the options better than their employees)

if you could scrounge up the $ by midnight tomorrow they have an awesome offer; an update from a Phenom II quadcore to the hex free. As well as a free upgrade to the GTX 460 from the nvidia model below that.

I built -This- that comes to $936 before shipping if you're interested

the quick specs of it are:
1 TB harddrive (Sata III instead of II so it's faster)
8gb RAM
Nvidia GTX 460 768mb
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T
700watt powersupply
NZXT Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (also a "sale" but it's been free since august )
MemoryCard Reader
Windows 7

The motherboard also has a couple USB 3.0 ports on it and is Sata III, and I threw on a built-in Wifi adapter idk if you'd want it though.

I just selected the base case for it, not to be cheap but because you said you liked the portability of one you found, this one has fold out handles in the top. But cases seem to be more of a style thing than what's required by the system so pick one you like if you don't like that one


(With your system requirement preferences if you want to lower the total for this PC even further the HD can be dropped to the Sata II 1tb, as well as removing the wifi if you don't need it, and the 4 gb ram you're ok with is quite a bit less than the 8[and that drops it to $806 I just checked lol])

I also haven't been able to quit CoH without getting "CoH has encountered a problem and will now close" Error message from the game lately. But I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 not anything Nvidia. And my graphics manager CCC (as I said in my other thread), doesn't even launch now so it can't be that. At least in my case.

I don't know how to fix it, but if you want one thing i'd try is binding /unloadgfx to something and hit that when it's frozen and see what happens.

I tried opening my Catalyst Control Center this morning and realized...it won't open. I click any of the CCC shortcuts from the startmenu and watch the processes in the taskmanager, CCE.exe starts up and then disappears, and the program or taskbar icon never open. So I tried getting the new CCC from AMD.com, I downloaded the installer which said it installed it but nothing is different lol. They had a bunch of options, and I didn't think updating a "display driver" on a laptop was a good idea from AMD so I picked a different option, maybe I didn't update anything idk .

I spent the morning on CyberPowerPC, this is what I'm up to now:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1CLB54

I wasn't sure if the AMD Phenom II X2(the dual-core) was particularly worse, so I added the X4 to the one above. I also raised the powersupply from 700 to the 850 and upped windows 7 a step. The ATI RadeonHD 5830 should be great for maxing ultramode if 7770 is usually the bar for that right? The only thing that concerns me is CyberPower doesn't say which brand they're gonna give you.

If it's easy to gauge would the Phenom II X2 be like Intel i7 range or significantly lower since it's dualcore, I'm probably gonna keep the X4 but i'm kinda interested lol.

Here is the GPU-Z for my current PC, im not sure how the software works, I had video streaming on my screen and the sensors tab sat at 0.


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I tried finding the drivers for it, but couldn't on AMD.com or any of the sites you listed, you mention the Radeon HD 2xxx series, but only with vista, and the site only had the drivers for Vista, but my laptop shipped with that on XP. I looked at gateway too, but they want my serialnumber and I am too tired to get my laptop disconnected from everything to read the bottom lol.

It looks like you run your numbers by the superhigh resolutions. By personal preference I really don't go higher than 1280x800/1024, just because I don't like everything so fine on the 20" screen i'm on. Since you are aiming at 1440x990 does that mean it'd be substantially better on the res I use?

Does the PC I linked seem like it could max coh or get near it? I've never even taken a step with reflections and shadows turned on, I enable them and crash, so if I can't max them all the way but can get close I guess it's not really a loss.

Edit: Oh, and my current graphics card is ATI, not Nvidia or Intel, so I guess I don't get a quick driver fix :/

I saw a couple with Phenom but I didn't know how it ranked against the Intel line. So the i7 is slower than Phenom II?

After i17 hit, even with ultra-mode turned off, I've been forced down from recommended to minimum graphics settings (yes the devs said nothing would change if you didn't want it to with ultra-mode. They lied apparently ).

My laptop is 5 or so years old anyway, and it's screen died, so rather than upgrade it I figured I'd just get a new one finally. Since they are less expensive, and I don't really need a laptop I'm looking at desktops.

I want to be able to pretty much max coh's graphics with the new computer, so first of all I was thinking i7 processor would be a good start? I am on windows XP and 4gb of ram now and i'm not really satisfied with it's power, and I know the OS wastes a ton of ram now so I was hoping for 8gb of RAM, maybe 6 I guess.

Videocards are where I really am clueless. The computer I found I am starting to think is the one to get has a Nvidia GeForce GT 320, it says it has 1gig of it's own memory, that sounds pretty good but again, I have no idea lol.

My pricerange I was going to give was $1,000-$1,300(max), but i'm pretty interested in this one i found now, for $999.99 it looks like a great deal, but I'll let you guys point out what's wrong with it . I also really wanted Windows7 Premium, but this one is Home, however it has an upgrade thing that can be purchased with it for like $89, is that a good deal, and does upgrading require a harddrive wipe?

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Lenovo - Ideacentre Desktop / Intel® Core™ i7 Processor / 8GB Memory / 1TB Hard Drive

Edit: I have 2 accounts I -used- to play at once I would like to again, does this setup look like it could handle 2 accounts on performance/performace, if not UM/performance or better yet (and sounding impossible) UM/UM?

I have this issue too actually. It doesn't lag, but the 2d images will load gray, or halfloaded half gray, or pixelated out. It gets quite annoying loading an old toon and picking a costume, or picking a costume where 2 are close to identical except for the blurred part of the image.

My computer is pretty old, it's a gateway laptop with an ATI card and 4gigs of ram if I remember right.

Ocho the players are too good .

I wanna see a screenshot of the wall of a random building near the back of boomtown with 0% uncovered as the first pic so we can prove the crazy RL superheroes really are psychic or technopaths

Wow, I just read this and went "I love this idea, i've thought about it once or twice myself and didn't post". lol it's by you Nezz .

The problem with tailoring the statues would be getting the costume file uploaded to CoX or transferred to your pc by the other player, and if they left without warning you can't contact them 98% of the time . (Lightbulb: Maybe have a character creation screen for the statue, allowing for you to make a "rough sketch" of how you remember them looking if you must)

I usually vote yes/no on suggestions by how hard it would be for a dev to create the feature, if it's possible at all. I'm not sure how hard it'd be to make different texture overlays for the costumes should you get your hands on it to use, but if they could get presets to look decent on all shape/sizemodels of characters it'd be awesome.

This feature would be a great addition to the game, it'd also add great personalization/interactivity to base items, since as of now none available are customizable.

I have thought about this several times and finally got here to post it:

Has transferring characterslots from one server to another ever been considered? Not the characters themselves, but the ability to transfer the empty slots?

There are various reasons some people dread the thought of "diversifying servers", so for many players they'll have one server with 2 full pages of heroes/villains, and all the other servers holding 12 blank slots. Every way I've thought of it moving them to another server wouldn't affect bandwidth-per-player which I know the devs DO care about.

Someone mentioned in-game while discussing this that it would defeat the purpose of buying slots; going past 36 per server would be a godsend for some players. "But it's -36- slots already", for players that have been around for several years, some for all 6, 36 is nothing, as a player pointed out, that's 12 per year for 3 years, not much for alt'ers. The point of this paragraph being in order to keep the need for purchasing slots around, only be able to transfer slots to a server of yours you've already purchased a certain amount of slots for. Maybe the full 36, but 2 pages or so would be cool.

Hopefully this idea will be taken well, but I saw one of my suggestions here added to the game with 90% negative responses once already

~The Psychic Guardian

P.S. Devs I'd love a job at ParagonStudios lol

This is something i've thought of a few times but never got around to posting, it'd be a great feature IMO