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Definitely going to recommend losing AVG and keeping Avira. I've just switched to Avira from Avast... what a huge difference. Everything feels faster.

Thanks guys. I just wanted to double-check before I started playing around with it and trying to cool it.

Recently, I came to notice that my 8800GTS has been reaching exceptionally high temperatures. When I first built this PC, it idled 65-70C. Now, it usually sits in the 75-80 range idle, but under load it can quite easily reach up to 100. I've not modified or overclocked the card in any way - it is stock. There does not seem to be an abnormal amount of dust in the fan from what I can see, but I'll unscrew the card and double-check later. Here are some screenshots from GPU-Z: Overview: Idling: Max temp after playing Portal for five minutes: My screen resolution is currently 1280*1024, 60Hz, and I was running Portal at the recommended settings (all textures set to high, 4x AA). I am aware that I am slightly behind on driver versions, but my Internet connection is not stable at the moment so I will upgrade those later. I have searched Google for optimum temperatures and some people are reporting idle temperatures of <60C. Are XFX cards known to run hot, or is mine really abnormal? I have nothing between the bottom of my case and the fan of the graphics card. I am not experiencing any lag or screen artifacts whatsoever; I'm just curious as to why it is running so hot when it doesn't seem to have anything blocking the airflow.

Number Girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ_zAuxaDRc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDoNX0lRL1g From post-hardcore to noise rock influenced by Japanese music. They changed their style a lot in five years, whilst still retaining the doom-laden, echoing sound of their earlier albums.

I'd say it is at the upper end of average. Mine is generally around 45ms to servers in GB. The highest I've ever seen it at when using local servers is 145ms. However, latency can depend on other factors; e.g., the load of the server you are playing on. The first thing I would do if I were to start lagging is change to a different server.

大塚愛 - Happy Days

The new Hidamari and Nodame.

Probably not hip-hop as much as folk music with rapping, but Asa is my favourite hip-hop artist. Also Nujabes, GZA/Genius, DJ Shadow, J Dilla and Madlib.

Ne'er mind.

The actual picture quality of the displays can't be faulted - whites look white, blacks look black, greys look grey - it's just annoying that I had 4 or 5 stuck pixels suddenly crop up across both screens in less than two weeks of use.

Massaging them with a stylus is all I did. There weren't as many as I made it seem, anyway.

Well, they were actually stuck and I've managed to unstick the majority of them, so all is well again. I still have one on my main monitor that won't come unstuck, but it is in kind of a redundant portion of the screen so I don't think it matters too much. It would be nice if I did get it to turn on again, but not essential.

They aren't even two weeks old. :V I have terrible luck with monitors. All that has lasted of mine is my 17" LCD from 2005 or so. My last widescreen died also.

Having to send my two back because of 3 dead pixels on one and two whole lines of them on the other. What a disappointment, ASUS. I thought they were supposed to be a reliable brand. I shall be asking for a refund because I certainly do not want another pair of them.

Anything off Meshuggah's Catch Thirtythree. Hint: the drums are programmed.

Who else had a lonely Christmas here? ;A; On another note, I'm going to finish up Minami-ke completely soon. I'm unfortunately in the minority about Okawari; i.e., I really liked it and thought it was a vast improvement over the first season. Other than that, I've just been playing VNs and grazing bullets.

I usually set the sample rate to 44100Hz.

I think you're ripping in Apple Lossless. Try setting it to 320kbps MP3 or the highest quality VBR MP3 setting. Unless you're really acute and know what you're listening for, you won't be able to tell the difference between high-quality MP3 and lossless. You'd also need sensitive headphones and probably an amplifier. Not to mention lossless formats are meant for archiving and not for listening.

Oh man. 4 glasses of cheap wine later... Merry Christmas.

Picture as promised! I like them a lot - nice and sharp and brilliant contrast. Couldn't have asked for better for the price.

I have bad acne on my back and shoulders, but it's starting to die down a little now. I hardly ever get any on my face apart from under my hairline. It doesn't really bother me too much.

Okay guys, cool it down a bit. No need to argue over who had the worst school life. -- I don't avoid talking to unattractive people. Actually, I don't avoid talking to anyone. I'm not terribly social, (and by that, I mean I prefer to be on my own and I find myself at a loss for something to say in groups of more than four people) but I'm not going to avoid talking to someone because I deem them to be "unattractive." In fact, that's a really shallow way of thinking. You could be passing up an opportunity to meet a great person just because they're fat, have acne, or any other things that you deem make a person "unattractive." I won't say I've never judged a book by its cover, but it's always fairer to judge after you've read it.

I posted this in the movie thread, but I didn't really want to go too in-depth there (and not to mention, it's far more suitable for this thread anyway): 5 Centimeters per Second. Wow; just... wow. I was not prepared for it at all. Actually, it completely destroyed every expectation I had of it within ten minutes. I was expecting some kind of awful tragedy for easy tears, but no... I was captivated by it. I found the first episode to be particularly painful (I could relate to that kind of nervous waiting all too well) and I'll have to admit to tearing up a couple of times. It was almost too much in some places. The second episode... well, it's almost impossible not to be able to relate to that sort of situation. It wasn't quite as painful as the first, but still, it was incredibly touching and beautiful. The depiction of the scenery of Tanegashima was superb, and the skies were just completely stunning and added to the incredible atmosphere that this movie has. The whole e-mails thing was pretty depressing, too... I really can't think of anything to describe this movie well enough; you need to experience it if you haven't. I didn't like the third episode quite as much, mainly due to it being so short. It almost felt unresolved and it was hard to keep up with, but I figured out what was going on eventually. I liked the ending of this episode very much, though. I'm checking out other Makoto Shinkai works now, such as "The Place Promised in Our Early Days," "Hoshi no Koe," "She and Her Cat," and so on.

I've ordered two 1080p displays as my Christmas present. Hugely looking forward to using them as it's going to be a massive step up from 1280*1024. What I ordered; I'll take pics when I get them and set them up.

Martyr's album "Feeding the Abscess."