PumBumbler

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Well I had an aftermarket cooler as part of the high price rig since the very beginning, back when it was a Core 2 E8400 dual core processor. Heat is always the enemy of silicon so it seemed logical to spend some small amount on a better cooler, since the stock Intel one was rather poor and loud. However now with the Core i5/i7 series of processors, there may be a concrete reason to use one regardless.

This series has a feature called Turbo Boost, essentially self overclocking based on a number of conditions. Now according to Intel, one of the factors looked at to determine if it's okay to overclock and by how much is processor temperature. In the case of the 2.8GHz Core i5-760, it can self overclock to 2.93GHz with 3 or 4 cores active, to 3.33GHz with 2 cores active or to 3.46GHz with a single core active.

Now while the tiny stock cooler from Intel may be sufficient for an office based PC, a gaming system with a discrete graphics card dumping a hundred or more watts of heat into the case, just below the CPU, may just end up hindering the effectiveness of this feature with a stock cooler. So it seems to me that using an aftermarket cooler that can lower the processor temperature by 20-30 degrees Celsius over the stock cooler can only improve the odds that Turbo Boost will reach it's maximum.

Seems like a good use of $40 for decent aftermarket CPU cooler and a tube of Arctic Silver 5.

Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord

The veteran Assemble the Team teleport power could be handy, but really wouldn't work with the way that I run Rikti mothership raids, imo. Once the mothership's shield goes boom, everyone is supposed to head directly for the mothership's bowl, with the exception of one or two designated members of each team, who locate an unused grate and place a bomb. The team bombers would have to be sure to have the team teleport prompt on, and even then that'd be something extra for them to click while trying to place a bomb.

Originally Posted by je_saist

Um, if you give them to somebody, the +/++ should stay, that won't do anything to strip the +/++ off.

To the OP: good luck, but I really don't think you are going to have much luck on this.

Originally Posted by ArwenDarkblade

I got it

Originally Posted by gameboy1234

That's a rather creative solution. Personally I think they should just fix the AI and/or collision detection. The error conditions seems to occur:

1. When foes take Knockback and are pushed into corners and tight spaces. The collision detection doesn't recognize or work with animations, so a foe who stands up in a tight space might stand up in a object or wall.

2. When #1 happens the foe's feet are attached to a surface inside some geometry, but his head or body are in a space that can't be pathed to from that surface. Thus, he's stuck because he can't get his body to go anywhere his feet can go. It seems to me that the AI pathing should be able to recognize this situation and provide a little help when pathing becomes impossible.

Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea

And Virtue is a server.

A strange server filled with catgurls . . . that do naughty things in Pocket D.

Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro

They'll disappear from your pet window but still be active some how and your powers will fail when you try to summon. The only way to fix this is to leave the zone and zone again and then they should go back to normal.

Originally Posted by Mirai

That's the one. Although Frostfire was easy to miss, in the cascade of Malta operatives. Now he should be a more noticeable part of the story.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

This is what happens when people who can't play the game get their way.

Originally Posted by Gilia

My only concern with the changes is that if Ice Slick took KB enhancements, it'd become Knockback instead of Knockdown. They'd have to lower the KB magnitude to avoid that (it's 0.5 now, vs say 0.1 of Freezing Rain), but that could mean HAVING to enhance Knockback to make it work on some enemies. Of course they could work around that. Give it a 0.25 enhancable effect, and a 0.25 unenhancable effect. That way it starts at the same base, but doesn't turn into knockback unless they're a lower level than you and super enhanced.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

shoot I'll be working- have fun Pum!

take lots of screenies!