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I think you mean GTS 250. There's no GTX 250.

Also: recommended specs: put all Ultra Settings on low if you want 1680*1050.

Also: as a note, the backing processor is a Socket AM2 Dual Core A64 @ 3ghz.

point...

I also need to change my font. I read that as a 1.80 ghz mistype...

well, incarnate is level 50 content... so... not really within his 21-49 levels.

My suspicion is that more mid-range content is going to be tabled as updates to existing story arcs / task forces.

OpenGL versus DirectX

First, I'm calling B.S. on that. The GTX 260 would NEED to come with a free game and movie because it's a Freaking Rip Off

That being said: which one? I just clicked through all of the GTX 260's I linked earlier from PriceWatch, and not a single one claims it comes with a "free movie" or a "Free game" :: Of the 3 "new" GTX 260's Newegg lists, again, none come with a "free movie" or a "Free game"

So, either show me where you get a "free movie" or a "free game" with a GTX 260, and I mean something that's actually worth more than $5 from the used section at Fry's.

Okay, with that little distraction out of the way, one of the base problems here is that comparing the GTX 200 series to the HD 5000 series is comparing Apple's and Oranges.

First, there are two different models of the GTX 260. There's the base 260 and the Core-216 260. You'll also find that most of the 260's being sold today are branded "Superclocked" to indicate a factory overclock.

Second, there is another major problem with comparing the cards:

HD 5000 series supports DirectX 11 / OpenGL 4.0
GTX 200 series... does not

That's a pretty major feature shift that does result in better in-game image quality; so you really need to look at games that support DX11 / OpenGL 4.0. Given that no commercially released game yet supports OpenGL 4.0, that's a bit of an unfair comparison. Unigine DOES support OpenGL 4.0, but the Heaven Benchmark isn't really a live-game test. However, several games on the market already feature DX11 support a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ctX_11_support

So, you need to take a look at these games instead

Dirt 2: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/...ce_iq_preview/

Metro 2033: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid..._11.html#sect0 :: http://hardocp.com/article/2010/04/0...performance_iq :: http://hardocp.com/article/2010/04/0...performance_iq

You might notice that the GTX 260 is MISSING from these games because... oh yeah... it can't do DirectX 11 or OpenGL 4.0

Now, if you've already GOT a RadeonHD 4870, 4890, or a Geforce GTS 250, or a Geforce GTX 260, a RadeonHD 5770 isn't going to bring anything new except it's DX 11 / OpenGL 4.0 support.

If you are buying new to have, why on earth would you want a card that costs more and has less features?

The RadeonHD 4890 is one thing. "SuperClocked" editions can punch out GTX 285's. Most of the ones available now still have excellent overclocking potential, so even if you couldn't find a factory overclocked version (and I'll admit I haven't seen any for a while), chances are you can still overclock the living daylights out of a stock card.

If you have $200 to spend and don't care about DX 11 / OpenGL 4.0 support, the GTX 260 is STILL an awful buy compared to the RadeonHD 4890's that are left on the market.

Well, the FSAA + AO conflict has been fixed on AMD's OpenGL 3.x series of cards, so RadeonHD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series cards should be able to run the two together.

The conflict has not yet been addressed on the OpenGL 4.0 cards (the 5000 series), as the implementation of AA is... different... Well, new architecture, new ways of doing things. So, yes, it was supposed to be implied that the performance figures were given without AO. I also directly stated sans AO when covering UltraMode options. Some people like AO, some people don't...

question: have you bypassed that Belkin router and connected straight to your modem?

A quick look at Price Watch shows that GTX 260's are around the $200 mark: http://www.pricewatch.com/search?q=GTX+260

Radeon HD 5770 is around the $160 mark: http://www.pricewatch.com/search?q=R...5770&gallery=1

That's not a "little" less. That is a LOT less. Also, the 5770 can drive Ultra Mode all details (sans Ambient Occlusion) maxed in 1920*1200 with in-game 8x AA.

yeah, but those weren't "never"... those were "we can NOT do that with the tech we have now"

I now have this mental image of Wolf Bane Spiders chunking the husks of Toxic Spiders that failed "small door entry training" off of a barge...

google docs.

possibly... quite possibly...

*wonders if the Sackthingy has a watch and will be late for his ... "session" with the "queen"*

I need to get my calling cards changed...

Keep telling yourself that.

The analogy sticks.

There just ain't no way that anybody could have been on the Internet for 5 years (forum join date 2005) and NOT have heard of Slashdot. Not when New York Times has mentioned them. Not when Fox News has mentioned them. Not when CNN has mentioned them. Not when CBS, NBC, ABC, Reuters, and the Associated Press have mentioned them.

You would have to have your head buried in a lump of concrete to have been on the web for that long and never have at least HEARD somebody refer to Slashdot.

Dark Armor was originally built on the idea of "toggle" management. The basic gameplay premise is that you, the player, would select which armor to have active at any given time.

The set has never been "rebalanced" for the "toggle and leave running" play style actually used by players of the game.

The result is that Dark Armor with all of it's aura's active is the second most endurance intensive armor set out of all of the defensive armors. Only Stone Armor's stackable toggles consume more endurance.

Even if you discount Cloak of Fear, the endurance drain is pretty close to all of the Stackable Ice toggles.

The reason why I'm telling you this is that because of the original game design there may not be anybody in your particular level range that Murky Cloud protects against damage from.

Something else you have to consider is that Murky Cloud is also your Endurance Recovery Debuff Resistance power.

Enemy Groups that can drain endurance include: Clockwork, Malta, Carnival, Tsoo, Banished Pantheon, Rikti, Freakshow, Crey, Rularuu (AV), 5th Column (AV / EB), Arachnos, Circle of Thorns...

well, actually, it's easier listing enemy groups that do NOT have an endurance drain really.

So, it's a bit of a two-edged sword. The end-drain on Dark Armor is pretty high no matter what you do, but if you don't run Murky Cloud, anybody with a -recov power is going to knock you out of a fight even faster.

On SO's... Dark Armor sucks. I'm sorry, it just does. On IO's you can make some pretty good Dark Armor builds, but it will generally be expensive... and Soul Transfer will still seem like a must-have power.


Now, Dark Armor's pathetic SO capabilities and omg that end-drain is just way too high for what the set does have been brought to the attention of Castle.

A proposed change of adding a +recovery rate buff to Dark Regeneration has been made... I don't know if Castle will actually go for the change though.

*spots a puppeh hiding*

Ah Ha! I knew it was a puppeh plot!

Now... Now I just need to get my revenge on the puppeh! but... how...

I know! I shalt find the Mad Hatter!

F Series Page.

C Series Page.

Sony Europ Recall Page.

Now, as far as I can find, Sony has yet to set up an actual US site for the near 260,000 F and C series computers shipped to the US. So far every site reporting this recall only links to the EU site.

Now, I know what everybody is expecting me to point out, rather gleefully, so I'll go ahead and get it out of the way. As with the Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer, Asus, and Apple recalls... these recalled laptops all have Nvidia graphics chips.

That being said, what is different is that the models listed and linked by Geek.com are using the GT 330M.

On one hand, this is "good" news as no Nvidia discrete G200 GPU mobile laptop (the GTX 260, 280, or 285) has yet to be involved in a recall.

The "bad" news is that this means that every other Nvidia mobile chipset released since the NV41m, outside of the Quadro series, has been involved in a product recall. It's also bad news as this indicates that Nvidia still has massive thermal issues even with die shrinks (remember, the mobile GT 3xx series is on a 40nm process), and still isn't telling manufacturers the full story on just how much power their GPU's consume, nor how much heat those products put off.

If you have picked up a laptop with an Nvidia chipset over the past couple of years, I would take the time to contact your laptop manufacturer and make sure there are not any firmware or bios upgrades available to help bring the run-away thermals under-control.

Maybe we could petition Ocho to change his name to "The Doomed Storm"

*stumbles into the thread wearing one of these*

Okay, somebody is going to pay for this. I don't know who. I don't know how. But somebody. Will. Pay.

We've also had requests for help from Aion players... Champions Online Players... and going back far enough... there have been threads on Tabula Rasa, WarHammer, and FFXI.

Uh huh. Looks like I need to pose the same question to you:

... you have seriously never heard of Slashdot, Slashdotting, or the Slashdot effect?

Technically, it's possible. It's just extremely unlikely.

... you have seriously never heard of Slashdot, Slashdotting, or the Slashdot effect?

That's sort of like going into a computer store and asking who Microsoft is.