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Upgrading a PSU is way cheaper and easier than you'd think. Popping into your nearest Staples store will get a new one installed for ~56 bucks. At least that's here in Canada, and if I remember my price chart at work right. If you want to do it yourself, just check out a local computer retailer, I've bought 450-550 watt PSU's for ~30 bucks. Swapping them out is a breeze.

I also ran a card that wanted 400 watts on a 300 watt supply for more than a year and then put that card into another system I made for my sister. Sometimes you can make things do things their not supposed to. It's only bad when you don't notice you did it.

So Father Xmas, what's your opinion on the 5850, is the 5870 that much better, or is that a worthwhile sacrifice?

Edit - Hmmm... looking at pricing the 275's and 5850's are all in the $325-375 range, which is in my 'save up until July' category, so it looks like either way I'm waiting. I don't want to go with something 260 quality, seems like a band aid solution to me. If I'm upgrading might as well get nearer to the top.

Well a GTX275 should fair fairly well for Ultra Mode, and the price is certainly right on the 5770's. I might go that road.

Other than 250 dollars, what's the big difference between these two cards? Would it really be worth while to save double the cash?

I mostly know nVidia cards, anyone care to shed light on equivalencies between these and nVidia cards?

Obviously this is in ref. to Ultra Mode.

This doesn't necessarily mean inf will dissapear though, perhaps toons will now be able to hold both influence and infamy, influence of course would not hold much sway in the Rogue Isles and vica versa.

I both use BotZ on most of my characters, and craft and sell 'em regularly. Their super useful, and normally lucrative.

Most companies would love to sell things everywhere in the world. Netflix would love to stream movies to Canadians, hell we share the same cable stations and broadcast networks as the US, and I as a Canadian would love... LOVE to give them my money.

Due to legal restrictions, they can't offer and I can't pay. I understand and live your frustration, but I think you're anger (ie you getting the shaft comment) is misplaced.

The difficulty for a US company to do timely and affordable business in a multitude of countries, lies not necessarily with the company itself, but often with the countries involved.

From what I've read his point is not that Spartans were Roman, but that Cimerorans may not have been.

I was.

Yes. Yes you do. Transform and Roll out.

Damn, the coords did it, I owe you a million internets MB.

Well it's ten to one am, I got a zephyr drop and a few other rares and of course the cash, I'll call it a wash and try again next time I run this toon.

I must have got the bug and between resetting the mish, petitioning etc, I'll just wait.

I've got no waypoint on my map, and I checked all my map options are set to show... I cleared the map but still no posi...

In Horror of War, the third mission, where the heck do I find Positron? and the Glowie, I'm sure I've clicked on every door even a cave door off in the middle of nowhere. Anybody have any ideas?

I don't see this as unfair, you are paying 15 dollars for early access to the powers and that seems reasonable to me.

So I saved a bunch of canes from last year to sell during the price spike which didn't occur this year. Do I sell off my canes at ~80k per cane which seems to be the going rate, or do I cash em in for winter's gifts to save until July?

Winter's Gift seems to have moved below 10M for the crafted, and the requisite fifty canes would yield a pretty much guaranteed 4M. Anybody play the WG market last summer? And do you think the higher cane supply this year will spoil this summers WG crop prices?

And windows Millenium sucked, and Windows XP had a ~15 year run. Let's hope it truly is the same situation, because Vista Sucked, XP ain't comin back... long live Win 7!

It's a shame that this thread will be locked soon.

I will be working to bring Child's Play to the IWK Children's Hospital in Nova Scotia myself as soon as my current financial slump is taken care of (sorry but my own kids come first). I've spent time in children's hospitals and having the kind of entertainment Child's PLay provides can really change the experience for a child.

I wonder if I roll a Mastermind, and make it a Rogue and hit 50 which epic would I unlock. I'm thinking VEAT, but I wonder. Mechanically it makes sense, but from a story perspective not so much.

My 8600GTX runs Halflife 2 Episode 2 just fine (a little slow down when the portal storm opens over the citidel) and alot of the features of Ultra Mode remind me of the features of that game. That's a weak point to stand on, but until the devs release something a little more hardball I'm going to think that that might be near the minimum.

I think people may be overblowing how high end things need to be for ultra mode. They said they wanted to take advantage of the new tech to come out since the games release, but keep in mind when this game hit shelves the 4800 was a great card. I know, I ran the game on a 4400 for my first two years.

Why would you buy an e-machine?

I'm sorry, more timely notices is a valid request, but formatting issues? No offense, but get over yourself. I don't think we need to feel this entitled. Do you really expect a dev to come in and apologise for not linking timeanddate.com?

Sometimes the ASUS laptops come with a spare battery too, which is interesting.

I would just buy a TV that had DVI in. I find when I connect via an adaptor to an HDMI port from a DVI port I don't get as nice an image as when I connect to a DVI port. Unless of course the HDMI port on the TV is PC enabled.