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Actually, I'll bet he has trouble. That's a BTX board. I doubt a double-wide video card will fit. The case likely lacks the extra back slot and the fan shroud will probably interfere with the CPU.

Looks good on the whole. Nitpick-wise, I'd suggest changing the memory a bit. Right now you have six 1GB sticks. Odds are that's all the memory slots in the machine filled. You might consider changing to say three 2GB sticks. That will leave room open for future upgrades if you ever decide you need more memory. 6GB total is good and may well be enough for the life of the system, but just in case... And you could consider a bigger HDD. Storage is generally cheap. But if you don't think there's any chance you'll fill it, don't bother increasing it. As an alternative to bigger, you could also look at a faster HDD.

Hm, this look familiar? http://www.fspgroupusa.com/everest80plus-700/p/405.html

The 2GB 5870 should be the new Eyefinity version that's designed for a six-screen setup. Unless you seriously plan to try and run CoH on that kind of scale, I'd doubt you will have any need for it. Also, I'm not sure you *could* get CoH to do that. But if you have deep enough pockets to try, let us know how it works out.

Your monitor's refresh rate will restrict your max FPS. Most top out around 60 as I understand it so that's most likely about the best you're gonna get.

The 480 is overkill most likely. The 5850 will do fine. I have one and run UM with all the bells except the ambient occlusion right now since it doesn't play nice with FSAA. Once they fix that, I expect to turn it on too and be ok. I get good FPS everywhere I've tried so far. And the 5850 is a released card. Been out for a bit actually. Why you're showing preorder is beyond me though there have been some supply issues keeping up with demand I think.

So you have a modular PSU. Those are nice. The model of the PSU should be on a label on the PSU itself. If you're lucky, it will be the side you can see. That will tell us a lot about what we're dealing with. Once we know that, we can determine how many rails it has and what the strength(s) are. That will determine if any plugs need realigning.

Well it's equally possible they just don't know squat about video cards. So...

Well let us know how it goes. Given both drives had the issue then you're right to look elsewhere. Sounds like you're on the right track to finding the problem.

I wonder how old the Seagate is. In any case, I'd run a scan for bad sectors on it. I suspect you just have a bad drive. It does happen, can happen, and will happen. Hard drives are far from immortal. Now if the new drive starts doing this, then there's definitely something else in play here. Or is that what has happened?

You pretty well hit all the stuff worth keeping. Also if you have AE arcs or whatnot, save that too. Pretty much anything you may have modified in some way. Beyond that, you can do an nunistall and then delete anything left over to be sure you got it all. Then run the updater and let it do it's thing. I'd avoid putting anything customised back right away just in case the problem originates there. It shouldn't, but you never know.

As for the mystery plug for sound, I'd assume that has to do with HDMI. I didn't know HDMI needed it's own power before. My card doesn't need it. But I have a Radeon so there's bound to be some differences. That being the source of your issue seems a bit unusual to me but maybe? I'd also make certain the PSU you think you have is what you have, just to be certain.

As for DirectX, I think this might be what you're looking for. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Realistically, the best idea I can suggest at this point is to try a clean install of the game. You can salvage your binds and such for later if you salvage those files before deleting but it's the best way to be sure it's not your local game client causing the issues.

If that still won't fix it, contacting Support, your manufacturer and/or whoever sold you the thing may be the only option. Because if the client isn't it, given everything else is brand new and fresh, then I'd almost have to say the problem is your network somehow or the PC itself. I suppose the network is something you could look into as well. Make sure you're getting a consistent fast connection to the server. I think the in-game command is /netgraph 1 or maybe /shownetgraph 1. Something like that anyways. It should give you an idea of how good your connection is. If you're seeing a lot of lag spikes and such, that could be at least partially the problem.

Well here's a couple reviews that might help you decide. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...5830,2564.html http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...d_5830_review/

What I would love to see is you guys show up at a con I could actually go to. Like something more in the center of the US. You guys are West Coast I know but if you can hit East Coast stuff, how about something in the middle? Something I don't need a plane ticket to get to? I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and we have all sorts of sci-fi/anime/fantasy/comic cons roll through here all the time. Heck, hit the right ones and you can hobnob with folks from Star Wars.

Fundamentally though, you guys really need to get the word out there more. Hit cons all over the place even if it's just with a small crew to raise visibility. Be loud and proud of what this game is and refuse to ever let some upstart like CO steal your thunder. Get into the comic and gaming shops more. Sceam it from the rooftops if that helps but get the word around however you can.

And frankly, if you guys were paying the fees and providing the swag and perks, I'd bet you could get plenty of volunteers to run booths at cons you can't get a big official presence at. Send out a lackey to help coordinate and keep things official and you'd be good to go I'd bet.

Possible solution: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328934

Your scenario sounds like what that KB article describes.

General procedure is to download the new drivers so you have them ready. Then uninstall the old ones using the uninstaller for them. Reboot system to safe mode and run a driver cleaner. http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/ is a free one. That will scrub off any remaining bits. Then reboot and install the new drivers.

Well you're in luck as I17 will fix the ATI/CoH issues. Go hit the test server if you want a preview. The issues on Live stem back to the old partnership with Nvidia which caused the game to be more optimized for Nvidia cards and left ATI users out in the cold to a certain degree. Once I17 hits Live, you should see a nice improvement in performance.