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Personally, I wouldn't bet money that the socket that I'm using now would still be available 3-4 years from now. Even if that were the case, there would be enough northbridge improvements and faster RAM that may or may not fit/work with the northbridge that would cause me to seriously look at upgrading motherboards. I'm taking my laptop as an example: I bought a ZOMGWTFBBQ high-end Dell in 2004. During its life I ended up maxing out the RAM, and that was the extent of the upgrading, however, that rig was able to play decent games (half-life2, TF2) for about 5 years before it seriously began to show its age. In the desktop world, that's a complete gutting as your processor is outdated, and since the socket isn't used anymore your motherboard is going, so therefore you need to replace RAM, and you'd be about 4-5 generations behind in vidcards so that'll have to go as well. tldr: When you swap processors, you'll be swapping mobo's as well.

Check out reddit.com/r/buildapc, the sidebar there has a shit ton of information. I understand what you mean about futureproofing, even with that once it's time to upgrade you'll probably be into a better video card before a better processor. Get the i5, and sink that extra cash into a better vid card out of the gate. Stock HSF is fine, unless you want to dick around with overcocking, (one, two penis jokes! ah ah ah!) and at that point you're going to be in a struggle with heat/noise/room in case. Stick to stock for now, it's plenty fast for what you want to do.

Dad's going on 3 years now. He quit in the hospital after he had a heart attack in Sandusky on the job, then drove himself home to North Ridgeville, THEN had my Mom call the medics. Quad-bypass later he's still kicking, but the docs made it very clear that he won't be for much longer if he keeps up smoking. Hospital offered him all kinds of stuff to help him quit, at the end of the day it was just a decision he had finally made for himself. He turned it all down and hasn't had a cigarette since. You can do this, all of yas.

Anyone dick around with the Momentus XT's as a storage drive? I'm curious to get a 750GB with the 8GB NAND "cache", but I noticed they only made a notebook form factor. I can fit it in my case, just wondering if anyone had any real-world experience with it.

Hope it goes well for you, if I had a dollar for every bi-level I flipped through 5 years ago when I bought my house I could have paid for my house in cash.

Oh yeah, and Microcenter's got some sweet prices on parts, at least processors and mobo's. I picked up my entire rig from there, you should stop by when you're next in Columbus. If you want some build help (or just want me to do it ), you're welcome at my house anytime.

I knew there was a reason why I kept exarch on ignore, now to just have all of you yahoos stop quoting him so I stop seeing his posts completely. jizzbotopotamus, I'm running that OCZ Vertex 3 in my gaming rig, and a Crucial RealSSD C300 in my HTPC. I'll venture to say that the OCZ is a faster drive, however I only have a i3 2100 in the HTPC vs. the i5 2500 in the gaming, so overall processing I know is faster which may skew my observations. With SSD prices being as they are, there really isn't a reason why you wouldn't run one as a OS drive. Just remember if you're going to chop capacity for budget, that not only are you providing for the OS (at least 8GB or so, I haven't looked at a vanilla Win7 install in a while), but the pagefile (however much RAM you have, you carry the same amount in a pagefile on the local drive, if you rock 12GB, you're chewing up 12GB of usable SSD space), and the entirety of Diablo 3 plus any other games you want to install locally to cut down on load times. You could move the pagefile to a spinning disk if you have one, but performance would suffer as a result.

unless you're trying to run retarded amounts of crypto shit all day long, a i7 is just throwing your money away. i5 2500K is more than adequate, and you retain the possibility to overclock if you want to. Mine's been running at stock without incident and is plenty fast for MW3 at max settings for everything (AMD 6870) Ivybridge didn't wow me based on the limited reading I've done. It kinda looks like Intel saw how badly AMD fucked up the Bulldozer and decided to phone it in themselves this time around.

I might be able to help thar, I just built a rig about 3 months ago for roughly $1100, not counting the $110 in rebates I finally got back.

I'm the opposite, I suck something awful at RTS's and RPG's. I can get into a good story, but the monotony of the gameplay always seems to do me in after a while. Your peoples' standards are, in fact, stringent. I've heard of deportations for weak Zerg rushes and canings for not spawning enough overlords. You've got some big shoes to fill, I suggest hopping off OR for the next few days so you can grind enough gold to at least try and fill them.

I'm more than a little surprised you don't have IV fluids and a supply of needles for the morning after...

I haz no battlenet, as I'm not a huge fan of all things Blizzard. However, if you would like to saunter over to CoD:MW3 world, I could pwnz0r you something fierce. Oh, and I'm only PC, bitches. I got no time for your xblippitybloopityboxes or you sadstations that get hacked every weekend. Keyboard/mouse represent!

Hey, here's an idea that I hear thrown out all the time by cops in speeding threads: You don't want a ticket, don't speed! I don't care if you're a cop or not, unless you're in a marked cruiser with it's lights on, you're exactly the same as civilians you are supposed to "serve".

I've been popped with aircraft, and can confirm this to be true. If it's a nice day out there and you start seeing the telltale lines on the side of the road, slow down and start looking up. This weekend I never had it above 70, and ended up driving to Dayton and West Chester. Roundtrip I must have seen at least 20 OSHP's out there. Those guys don't give warnings.

If you break down, tell the moto escort to identify you to the dispatch center, I'll make sure I send out the choppah instead of the piddly mech van to get you on your way.

This doesn't apply to leases, provided you don't turn around and buy out the lease at the end of the term. You're just essentially renting the car, depreciation is the bank's problem when they get it back in 2/3 years.

that, and her palm had to have been shredded.

don't forget the armored personnel carriers, retarded amounts of automatic weapons, and dash cameras that seem to go buggy at the weirdest times...

damn straight, and dat overtime.

or 5 grand for a flight on the vomit comet.

Nowhere, because the guy's not breaking any laws.

Possibly, but once those tires get changed out and the wheel weights get removed there's going to be a nice little spot there. Looks good now though, if it's that easy to redo it might not be a huge deal, but should have thought about moving the wheel weights before.

Nice pickup man!

Looks to me like your boss is a) not very technical and b) easily swayed by bullshit. Sounds like if you still want to get ahead in that company it's time for a change of tack, drop the passive approach and just start baffling him with bullshit. If you can muster the confidence to back it up, according to this he should fold over pretty quickly.

Fuck. Thoughts go out to you, Scott.