Doomster

If you just want to pump smithing, then buying in ALL the materials should still allow a profit on bars or cannonballs. You'd lose out on some XP with bars, but it may be as well not to smith them all into cannonballs, in case the market is a bit too slow for them - you may find it easier to cash up a k or 2 of bars, to keep things rolling.

FSB = Frontside Bus, a measure of how fast the CPU commumicates with the motherboard (and RAM). FSB is 4x the actual CPU clock, as the Intel FSB uses quad data rate. The new generation Core 2 - E6x50 models and some previous "extreme" models operate at the fastest current FSB - 1333 and require a motherbaord that sypports it, using one of the more recent chipsets. FSB 1066 - Used by previous generation E6x00 FSB 800 - Used by the lower versions, E4x00 and E21x0 NB, the E21x0 series (2140, 2160) are badged as "Pentium" but are actually bottom end "Allendale" core 2s. Most of the 800 FSB models are robust overclockers, and will handle a push to the next FSB level without needing extra volts or heroic cooling. Equally, motherboards capable of higher FSB can operate down to lower levels, so a 1333 FSB motherboard will support pretty much any LGA775 socket CPU you can find. RAM - DDR2 (not sure if they are starting on DDR3 yet), current motherboards, certainly any beyond 800 FSB, will not support older DDR RAM. One thing to be sure of with heatsinks, are they "front fix", attaching to the Intel standard mountings or "back fix", requiring their own mounting arragement fitted to the reverse of the motherboard - you don't want to have mounted the motherboard in the case and then discover a back fixing heatsink.

Could be a pretty boring interview, but there's a level 16 with Skull Sceptre open to offers.

The resources close to Rimmington are: Mine: Clay Well or sink: Soften clay, needs water containers Store: can sell noted, buy back un-noted stuff You need level 15 to start using Oak planks The other materials are: Clay - 10xp Iron bars - 10xp Steel bars - 20xp Planks - 28xp - need nails Oak planks - 60xp - no more nails At level 12, with a kitchen, you can make a firepit/hook, Pump/drain and shelves 1 or 2, to be able to make the first level tea (+1). The big "bonus items" are mounted - recoverable items: Eg. Level 28, Skill hall, armour stand (needs smithing level to make full mith, 3 piece skirt set), or CW armour set. At level 17, with a workshop, you can start flatpacking with a workbench, flatpacking avoids the sequence of build and knockdown, as you make falatpacks which can be sold, given away or dropped - don't expect any call for low level flatpacked stuff, as anyone with a room to fill probably has the level to make it themselves. If you don't want to pay a servant, then planking Oak at the sawmill, running back to varrock bank, and then carrying un-noted, noted stack and cash to un-note at the store could work well. There are fast ways, and there are cheap ways, never both - though some ways have less reload time. The most expensive (and fastest) is to buy in the highest logs you can use (or buy them ready-planked), use a servant to bank and/or plank. If you cut your own wood, then you chop away at the price, lose some time, but gain some woodcutting xp.

Not as good as: Go south, dash through the next room, then head for the spot on the south wall, close to the door in the south middle room. That spot is not too difficult to control, as anything approaching you generally gets hung up on the corner. Coming back from a "elsewhere" random usually drops you in it, as anything already at the south wall, in your spot or beside it, will go for you. If you counter by reversing to put the monster in the spot, then you soon get attacked, but with luck, you can soon corner catch and regain the spot. The north room is better for melee, or mixed melee and mage or range, since the spot is frequently invaded until you lose aggression. Great for melee, as you don't waste time on the wrong monsters.

Mix it - half & half tiaras and symbols, as you don't give away much xp, but you do much better at the stores. I'll give away my favourite route (40 crafting): Start: Falador 1. Equip pickaxe, brown apron, air tiara, + light kit if you run from combat randoms or good armour if to fight rock golems. 2. Inventory (& reload) Water rune, law rune, 26 ess 3. Go to Air altar, craft runes (result, 25 spaces & air runes) 4. Go to crafting guild and mine silver and/or gold. Use stairs or door to escape a Golem, as they now throw rocks. If you get any gems, pick up the chisel and cut them, unless you are going to trade uncuts. 5. Collect moulds - more moulds mean less ores carried, but a better store price when you mix up the items. For silver and a little gold, using both silver moulds and altermating the gold moulds ofetn woks out well. 6. Teleport to Falador, the airs you made at step 3 complete the spell. 7. Smelt & craft 8. Sell at the store, moulds as well. 9. run back to the bank and reload, repeat. Gold without gems is not great xp, but bumps the cash per run up from just silver.

World hop, take lower store prices and hop less, or sell in 5's and hop after each sale, though you'll lose a lot of time in world wait. You could also try camping at the Wilderness bandit camp store, as it pays specialist store prices and is unlikely to be overstocked. Problem thare though, is agressive bandits and PK multicombat, and world hopping increases the risk of running into a PKer. The other way to dispose of a large stock of something, is the trickle method, carrying 5 noted any time you go anywhere - the karamja store is a good place to dispose of a few items on every fishing trip, for instance - only general store prices, but never short of space and rarely any items that are not dumped monster drops.

Forget stocking up (other than the bank stacking) unless the items are significantly easier to obtain in P2P than F2P. Laws, Nats, even buying Deaths in the mage guild. If you can thieve them, grab some Black Scimitars - F2P rarity makes them command prices closer to Addy. Not fast trading, but handy to have in stock. Go for good clue droppers, treasure trailing may bring in some top-grade trade stock for F2P.

Your stand-out skill appears to be fletching... make & alch 6 1/2k Yew longs (nats @ 300, all other materials woodcut / gathered) Arrow making might be one profitable line. Crossbows & bolts? Steel bars or cannonballs? If you want to spend some to make some, then maybe mine iron and buy coal or buy iron and mine coal at the coal trucks. Yew logs? - though it may be better to fletch them than sell them. Can you invest in Miscellania? That might be a very good way to spend to gain, as you could get a steady supply of cheap coal. Another useful Miscellania profect would be herbs: Herbs are above Marrentil, and you could identify up to Toadflax, leaving Unids Irit or above.

The 8400 is bottom end DX10, but aces a Radeon 9200 no trouble. It's low by current standards though, very low, but better than pretty much any onboard. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=157593 Just about sums it up. New releases will struggle badly.

When I looked at the options, sure I saw other RAID... 500GB and 640GB performance RAID (2x 250 & 2x 320) But I couldn't find any Duo CPU options Was it Dell US, and a 720 Red?

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3034 One suffestion is that 64 bit mode (Vista 64 bit running a 32 bit app) can be used to get round the 2GB virtual space problems that some applications may suffer. In Windows XP, the /3GB switch could be used to change the App/System division from 2/2 to 3/1 Using the Vista (32) option "IncreaseUserVa", they were unable to get reliability at more the 2.6GB user / 1.4 system. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... spx?i=3044 The situation was more managable under XP, with lower virtual space usage http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdo ... i=3060&p=1 There is now a Vista patch to assist with the excessive virtul space usage, so the need for 64 bit as a "hack" to give more virtual space to applications recedes for now. NB. You do not need to have more than 2GB RAM, to hit a 2GB or even 3GB limit, since this is virtual space - combining the actual RAM used, mapped space of devices, video card etc. and the virtual space used in swapfile - though with 1GB or less, any application in danger of hitting the virtual limit would probably be getting choked by swapfile activity as well.

Things that restore aggressiveness: 1. Going outside their "patrol range", maybe as far as a "loading..." 2. Getting a teleport away random Not sure if they forget if you've been there long enough after a system update.

Windows XP MCE is normally OEM'ed with systems that have some form of TV card, and the requirements for MCE are a little stricter as regards having WHQL drivers and so on - all the components in an MCE system have to be fully logo compliant and so on. For most tasks, unless fully optimized for multitheading, a faster Duo should beat the Quad. 8600 GTS versus 8800 GTX - this is midrange graphics versus high end, if you want to game at high resolutions, filtering and so on, there is no substitute for the 8800 GTX. If you are happy to turn the options down a bit (a lot), maybe the 8600 would do. They usually have a PCI slot or two, but DELL can be awkward, they do things like leaving out AGP slots, so I wouldn't trust them to have PCI slot even if you would expect it. The other thing I'd look at, would be the disks, unless you need 1TB, maybe there is a slightly less exotic set, maybe a pair of 320GB instead. Another thing, if I was getting Windows XP now, I'd be making sure it came with a Vista upgrade option.

With 56 construction, +3 tea and the crystal saw +3, you could make a mahogany altar with burners - 150% xp without burners or not lit, 250% with both lit. Alternatively, ecto your better bones for 400% xp, not worth it for normal bones, may as well bury those on the spot, or work out on the low level stuff around Rimmington and take them back to your 150% altar (not worth wasting Marrentils on them).

Firemaking can be "bought" fairly cheaply, with surplus willows from stores, though you could also cut your own logs/oak/willow and boost woodcutting as well. Cooking can sometimes be bought cheply at Karamja/Musa, if the store is loaded up with raw Tuna down to 30gp a piece (sell back at a bottom price of 10 when cooked, so it's 5xp per gp unless you burn). Can't be bothered working out how much RC would cost you before toy could actually begin to profit, though id you want to try W16 crafting, I'd suggests powering to 33 RC using other methods (Bodies, tiaras whenever you have talismans, other runes if you need them). Still won't profit at 33, but losses may be less meteoric.

If there was no player trading (but still stores): 1. The autoers would be out of business - FULLSTOP 2. Players would buy the runes they needed at the rune stores, but the air and law companies would also be out of business 3. Rune armour (plate/legs) could be bought, but the helms are monster drops and the shield would be unavailable other than by self-smithing, or as a members treasure trail. With no stores either, it would be a different matter.

You might have to go for a bluetooth mouse (more expensive), if you want to avoid a dongle-forest of bluetooth dongle and mouse receiver. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/108401 Bluetooth mouse http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/cat/Bluetooth/ ... h-Adapters -Adapters, take your pick from ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã2.99 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/106145 Unpowered USB 2.0 Hub http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/113962 TV tuner

Use a TCP tweaking program, and give him an RWIN that's only 2x MSS (or 4x, if you're feeling generous). Then when his video goes all jumpy, tell him it's throttling coz he's used it too much. Also, if wired to a router, make his connection 10Mbit, not 100, as you have a considerable latency disadvantage on wireless

Fishing stands out as one of your better skills, and there are better spots to fish and bank Lobs in members. Pure ess is another thing you can already do. You need level 10 crafting to make bowstrings, but you could pick the flax. A simple skill training, would be to cut logs and fletch arrow shafts or headless arrows (shaft + feathers) to level 10 (77 logs, 1154 feathers), unstrung longs to level 15 (126 logs) or carry on with the headless arrows, then finish the arrows with iron heads. You could make finished bronze arrows at level 1. I'd be inclined to get some more F2P levels.

The piano picture made me think... are they going to add a constructable piano for a house room?

Box is usually junk, but can be some nice runes or a gem. If struggling for coins, take 1k, if you'd rather have a surprise, take the box. If you count them on prices to sell to stores, pretty sure you lose out on the boxes, but if you get even semi lucky on items you want, then you could end up on the positive side. I usually take the box, as I mine and smith for coins, and I want gems for crafting, runes for maging, and I'll sell or give away the miscellaneous metal items.

"My rock, your rock" only works if everyone sticks to it, as it is the most ordered arrangement. With a few players, "area control" often develops, where a player can keep a number of rocks "down" as they appear. The least ordered etiquette is "first takes" - if there are any spare rocks, then you do not mine a rock that someone else has started on. When it gets busy, every man for himself, or go and do something else with a better hit rate.

The plus side of using their own soundbank is consistency (or that they can tweak the sounds if they wish, a model which would be closer to MOD than MID). The disadvantage of not simply recommending the large Java soundbank, is that it makes the sounds another download element in the client.

Bank-stuffing has a few small drawbacks. 1. Ensure that, before you lose membership, you have banked all members items, and are wearing a F2P set which you have extra banked duplicates of. 2. You can only re-bank items which you have placeholders for, meaning that random event clothing cannot be re-banked if worn. If you want to display a rare, you must have a second one the same to hold the bank spot. 3. Anti dragonfire shields - prepare a good collection if you use them , as you will not be able to note them all to con more out of the Duke. 4. Other items... placehold ANYTHING that may be worth keeping, in all possible states... also anything that you may collect, produce, buy or scavenge... Copper, Tin, Bronze bar, Bronze armour ? - just depends, if there's a bronze bash, you may be glad of it - even stuff you thought you were way past, may come in handy. Using bank stuffing, you can be F2P with a virtually unlimited bank capacity.