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I would say...go cyrix!!! cos as everyone here well knows, they rule! Also you are extremly lucky to not have any via problems, i havent been so lucky and i certainly wouldnt recommend them to anyone else.

I agree tis very intel here, but ppl dont just say 'go intel' for no reason. They must have experienced problems with amd (more likely via) to recommend intel.

Make sure you disable Winamp Agent in the options, that thing has caused me a few probs

Personally i would advice not to go for RAID, especially RAID0, seeing as the whole point of RAID is that you have a safety net for your data. RAID0 just makes you twice as likely to lose your stuff and its really not much faster, infact i didnt notice any difference when i was running it. SCSI would be nice but i dont think its really worth it considering what you have to pay. Think I would just get a nice fast single IDE drive and maybe have a 2nd 1 to store stuff on

Well i take CS seriously if im not winning it aint fun OK im sad, its a team game and i realise there is no 'I' in team but hey

A shocking 11000 not even tweaked, im well pleased to say the least. http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3352621

I get about 130ms to driventech. On DSL, in the uk.

Post the IP i wanna shoot stuff !

Oohh someone is going to tell you off for this post (or maybe the other 1). Anyway, if you want an athlon i would go for an nforce board, they seem fast and stable and you know that nvidia will provide good support for them. Think i would go for an abit TH7-II with pc800 memory, a 2ghz + p4 and a geforce 4, ti4200 or 4400

Shadows have a big fps hit, just disable them and it should be ok, it ran anywere between 20-60fps on my 8500 but it seems ok on the 4400. Still, it really shouldnt take a p4 2.4 and a geforce 4 to get it to run acceptably, they really need to sort this out.

I would be up for that but some ppl are in US and some ppl are else were so i dunno what pings would be like

What sucks is people being so paranoid about cheaters that if they see someone who is remotly good they get kicked for 'cheating'. Ive had this happen to me many times unfortunatly and ive never even downloaded a cheat

Anyone know of a program that is able to rip CDs to create ISO images?

I think you may just want to do a format, windows is probably having trouble working with having a new cpu just swapped out

The basic test wont wipe it and its usually enough to tell if its fault or not, you can do a full read/write test that will wipe the drive. All these HDD companies have the same sort of thing though.

hey...im working on it

What motherboard are you using? Ive got exactly the same card and there is no way its supposed to be getting 40fps in tfc.

ooohhhh never done 1 of these desktop type messages before Cool Also that makes it a shocking 500 posts [Edit]Really shouldnt have deleted that pic

Thanks Sounds pretty funky, i was considering getting either 1 of them or 1 of those little shuttle things.

Have you just read that they cant write drivers or have you actually had an 8500 and used the drivers ?

Can you smell...what the rock...is cookin'!

Hey whats that asus terminator like btw?

Yeah me neither and MSI are suprisingly good.

Thanks ill give it a go later

Atis drivers arnt really what you would call bad, the last set, the 6058s were pretty fantastic, i really have 0 complains about the 8500 apart from that it wouldnt play CMR2