Father Xmas

He was getting pretty buffed in the last few seasons of SG-1. He wasn't the skinny little nerd from the first season anymore.

CyberPower isn't as bad as it use to be, I would say about 10% above what the parts would cost on NewEgg. They also play it safe by getting you to buy a much larger power supply than you need.

More elite boutique shops like Puget Systems charge a lot more but has an excellent reputation and highly touted support. You can't really spec an inexpensive system there. Something similar to my high end rig, which at NewEgg is currently under a bit under $1200 due to sales is nearly $1700 at Puget and at CyberPower it's shy of $1300.

Building from parts means you can control all aspects of a build instead of settling on compromises from places like Dell or HP where you can get a lot of memory, or a really fast CPU but have a very limited if any choice of low end video cards, simply because they don't bother equipping most of their systems with a reasonably size power supply but install one that can guarantee to work with the system as built, with little room for upgrading. I never tell people that building your own is "cheaper".

Grew up watching a LOT of his shows in the 70s and 80s. Rockford Files, Baa Baa Black Sheep as well as the shows Wayfarer mentioned and many others.

He was also a prolific mystery writer which he played up in his poker buddy cameo twice on Castle.

Well TK is sort of a one sided power along with Matt's Jedi mind tricks or Hiro's Time Stop. It's not a fight unless the other party gets a swing or two in.

Yes, it's only one episode of NOP and as far as we know they blew their FX budget on it, we'll see next week.

Coen Brothers remake True Grit. If it wasn't for the Coen Brothers, I would be outraged but because it's them I will give it a chance.

Except to have a supers fight on camera instead of just implying it.

There is such a thing as a PCI slot (different from a PCI Express slot or AGP slot). It has very limited data bandwidth (CPU can't talk to it fast) so it's not really worth using a medium or high end GPU in a card's design.

Here are the ones available at NewEgg.

Personally I think they got Tony's voice fairly close to RDJ's voice and clipped abrupt delivery style. Same with Pepper and Rhodey, very similar to their movie counterparts.

I remember the Corvette had it's valet/kid's key that limited the HP of the engine. Sort of opposite of that Top Speed key.

For DC Superman and Batman were in the movies and TV for 60+ years. WW was relatively recent adding a woman to the all boys club. Those are my A+ list from DC.

Marvel is and always been more diverse. I still remember the old original Spiderman cartoon along with early Fantastic Four and a still frame Avengers cartoon from the 60s. This was way before Spiderman and his Amazing Friends or the first X-men cartoon series.

Marvel tended to be more team related while DC was about single star power.

... with sprinkles.

Of course. The draw of Frankenslotting is to try and hit the ED limits on as many aspects as possible in one power for the fewest number of slots.

DVI/HDMI/Display Port are all digital interfaces. DVI is video only while the other two allows audio to be multiplexed along with the video.

Display port is relatively new with Apple embracing it for their monitors. Few PC monitor manufactures have yet to hop on the DP train choosing to go HDMI for now. There appears to only be one at NewEgg with a Display Port connector.

AMD/ATI has started to use DP out on their EyeFinity 6-port video cards because they can mount 6 mini-DP connectors on a standard height card. HDMI or DVI ports are simply to large to use that many. And since there are adapter cables to convert DP to DVI or to HDMI it is appearing on more video cards as a way to add an additional output port in the space available.

steveb is right in some regards. Once you hit 60fps, everything else is gravy. He's also right that most games are GPU bound and once you hit that, it doesn't matter how fast the CPU is, frame rate isn't going to get better. However CPU performance does matter on multiple GPU rigs since the CPU isn't idling waiting on the GPU to finish rendering the frame it's working on but is feeding the 2nd GPU data to work on the frame after that.

Best example of this is at Tom's Hardware today. They compared two $2000 rigs. One with a six core Intel i7 with a pair of GTX 460s and one with a six core AMD Phenom II with a pair of GTX 480s. While a GTX 480 utterly crushes a GTX 460 in one on one performance, the higher performing Intel CPU with slower graphics was able to soundly beat the AMD rig with faster graphics, even when both CPUs are overclocked to the same 4GHz.

This wasn't a vote of confidence for six cores over four or even Intel over AMD, it's more about spending all your money on the CPU or the video cards. The Intel six core was half their budget on one rig while on the pair of GTX 480s was nearly that much on the other rig. Tom's had a number of articles talking about balance between CPU and GPU and in all of them, except for the lowest end CPUs they tried, CPU performance only significantly mattered on multiple GPU set ups.

98% of all video cards on the market are PCI Express x 16. PCIe Version 2.0 is allows for twice the bandwidth but is totally backwards compatible. A V2.0 card will work in a V1.0 slot and a V1.0 card will work in a V2.0 slot.

All nVidia 9xxx, 2xx and 4xx series are PCIe V2.0. For AMD/ATI cards, it's the HD 3xxx and later series that are V2.0.

The increased bandwidth only seems to matter if the card is of a dual GPU variety like your old 9800GX2 (or GTX 295, HD 5970, etc) since it's essentially two cards in a single slot.

Of course there's going to be an animated series, there's a MOVIE COMING OUT.

For better or worse, Marvel and DC animation hangs around live action movie releases, either to keep the character in memory between films or to introduce them the viewers who've only heard of the A+ listers.

I remember him from Houdini.

You can always take a gander at my $1375 rig link and use it as a starting point. Yes, it's currently no where near that price due to the current video card price war and the drop in memory and 1 TB hard drive prices.

If you really want a AMD CPU, then go with the faster quad core over the slower hex core. Better 4 core performance at a lower price.

Start with my $1375 rig and swap out the i5-760 for a 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 or a 3.5GHz Phenom X4 970. Personally $24 (15% more) for 3% better performance doesn't excite me.

Then swap out the motherboard for either one of these if all you ever plan for is a single video card or one of these if you plan to go Crossfire now or down the road.

Then double up on the memory since you want 8GB.

If you get an SSD I'm not sure what's better. Using it for the OS drive or using it for a "current games I'm playing" drive. We are talking about $3 a GB for a good performing SSD. Check reviews before buying, SSDs are evolving rapidly.

They also had GTS 250s when I wandered though a Best Buy Saturday. The GTS 250 is essentially a 9800GTX+ which is a bit more powerful than a 9800GT (128 vs 112 streaming processors, the GTS 250 is also clocked faster than a 9800GT).

They also had the 768MB GTX 460 which is a whole lot faster than either the 9800GT or the GTS 250 (the GTS 250 is roughly 20% faster than a 9800GT, the 768MB GTX 460 is roughly 85% faster). Needless to say it's a lot more expensive as well.

Well to be fair, magic aliens didn't save the day, they saved an innocent and only appeared to one person in a Contact kind of way.

I see it as a way to not saddle the show down with a baby while reducing the trauma of TJ so she's functional next episode.

It's nice to know that their are aliens that exceed the technology of the ancients. While the ancients may have been able to panspermia entire galaxies, even they couldn't Genesis solar systems.

I'm waiting for Eli to make a ST: Voyager joke now they have a group of Lucian Alliance members on board.

Chloe suddenly gets turned into Wolverine. Sudden mutation in space never ends well.

The result of the two part episode was eliminate the baby and adding more permanent cast members on the ship.

I'm not in a position to watch said trailer so I'm assuming it's more than just showing the invasion of the giant space Dysans with Cyclone Technology.

Just to be clear, a single Level 24 Dual IO isn't the same as a single +3 SO.

If you slot two similar dual aspect Level 24 IOs or three similar tri-aspect Level 20 IOs into the same power, it will beat +3 SOs (38.375% vs 38.4% vs 38.33%) for each aspect.

Ah no, unless you mean +1/2/3 SOs at any level (35.0/36.67/38.33%). Even level SO is 33.33%, Level 30 IO is 34.8%. Level 35 IO is 36.7%.

Well B:BatB has a lot of 50s/early 60s style throwback to it if you look at the Batmobile and Batplane. I sense there's a lot of "here are the characters back when I enjoyed them as a kid" vibe to the series without all of the 80s and on dark edgy vibe that invaded the comics.