PumBumbler

I neg repped you for spelling humour wrong. Americans.

Welcome to Justice.

Snacks are over to the right.

Depends on what you're running. Ice control immobs with -kb works wonders to keep things from flying all over the place, if you're an ice/storm.

Slotting a razzle dazzle proc in tornado keeps things from flying too far as well (they just 'bunny hop' instead).

From what I remember about XP 32, you won't be able to address the full 4GB since the driver model for the graphics card will take up the addressing space, meaning that XP will only allocate the 4GB minus the GPU RAM size, which in your case will be 4GB - 1GB = 3GB usable.

This shouldn't be that big a deal since any single program has a 3GB partition limit anyhow, and CoX usually uses around 1.5GB at the most. These limits would only be constraining if you were dual boxing or running another bunch of memory hogging programs along with CoX.

If you want to take full advantage of 4GB or more, you'll have to look at 64-bit operating systems.

RAM should be (usually 'must be' on high performance systems) installed in matched pairs (or triples in some cases) to take best advantage of performance. That being said, the performance difference in the real world is usually less than 1.5%, even though benchmarks may show substantial differences. Usually in gaming interleaved RAM gains are in the 0-5% range.

Moving to ATi isn't a bad idea right now, and you can see how Nvidia is getting beat up in the marketplace for not having their next generation parts out right now. Nvidia's strategy of targeting the high end has really been trumped by ATi's taking of the middle ground in the past year.

Good luck on the new gear.

Right now is kinda of a blech time to get a card for CoX. ATi has the best gaming card out there with the 5870, but the current CoX driver support for ATi cards is inferior to Nvidia's support.

As well, since CoX currently doesn't scale with multi GPU implementations, a 3870x2 pretty much will act like a 3870.

Nvidia's next generation GPUs won't be out for a while (not even any specific part numbers yet), so their last/current generation cards are still at a relative premium while they are getting their behinds kicked by ATi right now.

Of course, muddying things even further is that Going Rogue is going to introduce an upgraded graphics technology, Ultra, which will support SLI/multi-GPU implementations, and support ATi cards much better as well.

So right now if you want the best performing card out there for CoX, it will be a GTX285, but when GR finally launches, the best card(s) will likely be the ATi 5870x2, and in dual or triple card configs if you're rich enough. Nvidia's GTX295 successor will likely be competitive performance wise, but price wise it might come in significantly more than ATi's best.

You might also try to hedge your bets by grabbing a mid range Nvidia card, like the 250GTS or GTX260, and then upgrading or changing once GR launches. You might plan on adding another card for SLI in about a year, but it's usually difficult to find the same model card a year down the road since technology moves so fast, and your motherboard needs to support SLI/Crossfire.

I've always wondered why they never made a client just for chatting, whether mobile or not. Being able to chat at any given time or monitor a channel or two would only foster a better sense of community, which means people would want to hang around more.

It's obvious that he has powers that no regular player has. Just look at the custom logo he has on his costume. I call hax.

Who are you again?

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I know a bunch of people who didn't like to do TFs because of the -1 bug.

Also a few people were ToTing or doing zone events as well.

Also the lure of PvP IOs has people doing other things than just farming PvE maps.

I doubt the drop rate is whacked, rather the rate at which people are doing the activities that drop 50 Pool A recipes has declined somewhat. I think things will pick up mildly and then the Winter Event will blunt the comeback of the recipes until Mid to Late December.

I did. If "money is no object" you could also take $100 bills and burn them. Still won't improve performance one bit. Running 2 dual GPU cards doesn't give any further benefit to CoX regardless of my literacy anyhow.

Your original statement of "would be better" comes with an implicit thesis that it should perform better rather than just burning cash. Besides, if you were looking for the ultimate in CoX performance right now, a single GTX285 OC would outperform a GTX 295 anyhow (aside from a 5870, which has driver issues in CoX).

Multi GPU cards and SLI mode won't give any performance boost to CoX until Ultra debuts (I hope it will boost performance in Ultra anyhow).

Awesome, I never looked at that for a long time so it's probably been fixed for quite some time now.

So Mids is incorrect in it's cap warning of 7.5 recharges when factoring in LotGs with set bonuses?

Heh I get hassled by my friends about some of my 'builds' too. Part of the reason this particular toon hasn't been rebuilt is because it is an i4 build, which is hami'd out, and that I have a celerity stealth stuck into swift.

I was always too cheap to chuck away the hamis and I didn't want to go through 5 respecs to pull out all the hamis, but now with dual builds I suppose I can 'archive' the current build. But that would entail spending time building the toon when I could be out TFing...