Doomster
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I thought the standard F2P STR pure was 40 atk, rune wep, iron armour (or iron / green D-hide mix with 40 range), STR 50+ and always on strength.
30 Attack would be addy weapon, with higher bonuses, so as well as hitting less zeros, it should still increase average/max hit.
Could be a way to go, only thing is, what's the market like for addy scimmy, the price could be over inflated compared to the more popular rune and store available mithril.
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The other factor in F2P gaming is that many are not quite F2P.
Witness the usual rolling arguments that:
1. F2P Runescape is an unending trial for P2P
2. P2P Runescape is an upgrade to F2P
The model of many F2P games is either optional member upgrade, or "item buy".
Battlefield heroes has a bold idea to have "fair" item buy, with the items being visual, possibly experience boosting, but not altering gameplay, so F2P and item buy compete on an equal footing.
Runescape ensures fairness by making member items and powers unusable on F2P.
And as for MMOG, the general consensus seems to be that persistent worlds make a MMO, while an online server that fills, empties and resets is not.
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Maybe a level total, or a high level in a single skill, or maybe Champions guild access (eg. almost all F2P quests).
Just depends, do skill pure players count, and then how likely is a skill pure player not to have a main?
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Maybe as an Intro to higher level capabilities, Jagex should run their own version.
Call it "Runescape Express trial", and have everything available, but everyone will be "Guestnnnn" and scores not kept. Any quest available without prerequisites etc.
One golden rule, of course, if you ever use a private server, then do not use your registered username and pass, as it could be stolen if the private server owner chose to.
I'm sure we all know the major name of server M----scape - and it ain't Mechscape, and it runs around the net keeping one step ahead of attempts to check it - good luck to the M!
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WEP has some significant defects that make cracking it easier than it should be.
WPA-PSK (aka WPA light / home etc.) does not have the weakness, but the pre-shared key mode is not 100% robust. WPA with radius server is more robust than WPA-PSK.
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RS uses a lot of CPU.
The latest Java (6u12) has had some tweaks, though more to its D3D pipelines, but updating to latest Java may still have other performance tweaks.
The driver version number seems to be a Windowsupdate driver, and those are often lacking the finesse of a main release driver
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_no ... _beta.html
Note, this is BETA, and also some laptops will not take reference drivers.
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The 8800GTS performance comes from having 3 or 4 times as many texture units (G80 or G92 core) and 2 1/2 or 2x as many raster operation units as the 8600GTS.
Comparing clock speed between different cores or even different feature disables of the same core does not work.
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If the Home Hub is version 2.0 (Black) then it supports 802.11n
Earlier versions are only 802.11g/b
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149672 - cheap for an N (Draft 2.0) standard USB
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139901 - PCI model (illustration incorrect, according to reviews, it is supplied with two antennae)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149584 - Buffalo PCI, with 3 way antenna on 0.7m cable
If the supplied antenna is on a cable, or if you use a USB extension cable for a USB model, then you can hunt for a better signal
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Yes, but flaming expensive!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-12189006
If $1.99 at Newegg is too dear, then how about $1
http://www.2cooltek.com/3-pin-fan-extension-cable.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812119147 - Better still $0.99, it's sleeved (UV), and if there is anything else you need to get from there (for delivery), it's a bargain
In the end, comes down to who is cheaper on delivery.
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With 300 Catalytic and 1000 Elemental Runes, and if the level of 68 is right, you can cast:
37 Blood Burst (get to level 70, and move up to 50 Ice Burst, much better).
50 Smoke Burst (does poison take effect?)
75 Ice Rush (with bind)
83 Shots of Water Wave (or earth wave when you get to 70)
37 BB has a total max damage of 777 - so with a total HP of 175 including banadages, you must average better than 23% hit/damage rate, not counting damage taken from the arena itself.
Moving down to Smoke, the total becomes 950, or 1200 for Ice Rush
Water Wave gives the highest maximum, but has no special effect.
Really, there is little reason not to load up with autocast ancients, when you are not paying for the rune usage, as ancients burns a lot of expensive runes.
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Know the feeling.
Got several accounts, main, a few pures and fun runners, and usually I'll do the events on all of them, but after the second or third bash on th Christmas event/quest, just couldn't face that wretched sliding thing again.
On the other hand, I wanted to get to Great Orb project, so on one, I processed more ess than I normally ever would at one sitting.
I like challenges such a "lowest level to", such as my fun runner "Skeleton Fun", with the Skull sceptre at level 16 (and the Skeleton suit that goes so well with it).
Some days, you can just chug away at getting levels or resources, other days, you make one run and get instantly fed up.
Other times, you may like to go against a monster that is quite capable of killing you, or a dose of PvP - just depends where you are at.
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Not sure if they are available in the US, but the Medion X81000 gaming mouse is a blast.
I have a similar model, the E81000 "Professional".
Features of both:
Laser sensor, max 1600dpi
5 button (4/5 are thumb side)
4 way scrolling, tilt wheel
Shaped with rubberized side grips
E81000:
2.4GHz wireless
dpi select button 800/1600
X81000:
Wired
dpi select button (200/400/800/1600)
dpi indicator (colour change logo)
Weight tray
Fire-lock button
I decided I'd rather have wireless than the extra "gaming" tweaks - even allowing for wireless delay, the laser sensor is still far superior to any optical I've used, smoother and more responsive.
Wouldn't hesitate to recommend the gaming model.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card
If you think that's bad, there will be a 3rd standard, and worse, they each have a common edge.
SD - up to 4GB
SDHC - 4GB - 32GB
SDXC - 32+GB
There are also possible compatibility issues with SD 1-4GB sizes
A further issue, is speed ranks, normally ranked similarly to the X od a CD-ROM, where 1x is 150kB.
Some speeds I have seen a few times:
8x - fallback speed
32x - best speed of the built-in system reader
88x - my best SD card in another reader, falls back to 8x in the built-in.
If you are in the UK, check out the Signalex USB card reader in Poundland. It can carry the card internally (like a somewhat oversized USB stick) and claims to support SD-HC. Not able to verify HC, but it is capable of running my difficult card at full speed.
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For video, you may be better off with an ATI Radeon HD4 series card, as the supplied software can support GPU assisted encoding/transcoding. To do GPU assisted encoding with Nvidia, you have to buy an extra program.
Several articles suggest the E5200 as the minimum CPU unless you really cannot afford it at all, as the performance falls away faster than the price as you move lower, and the price tends to rise faster than performance as you go up.
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Which did you get, if the motherboard details are correct, then the ALC653 is an AC97 codec, not a HD one, so you would want the AC97 driver version A4.06
You may also need the VIA chipset driver installed before anything else can be properly configured
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Somebody already picked up one point on the random article, The description of dropping an item and takeing advantage of the certers being outdated, as they now teleport you as well.
There is also a banking random, banking services provided by Leo the Gravedigger, the Mausoleum deposit box.
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Dell, everything will be locked, so the only feasible overclock will be the Coolbits tweak or Rivatuner on the graphics.
Also, a P4 HT 3.2GHz gets pretty warm at full tilt and isn't known for great overclocking - in fact, the clock to heat problem is what ended the P4 family, as the power consumption rocketed as they tried to scale the clockspeed up.
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Readyboost is effectively a "swapfile accelerator", so with enough RAM not to be hitting the swapfile, it will have no effect.
Looking over a basket of tests, it seems that readyboost has a negative impact on some applications, though for the majority it will show significant improvements with 512MB RAM, some improvement with 1GB and diminishing returns with 2GB or more.
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Main aggro I have with cordless, is batteries running out - just imagine that happening in GWD or with a revenant on your tail.
There are 3 styles of cordless, battery, dock charging, cable charging. The cable charging style can be used while cabled, if power loss is completely unacceptable.
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If it needs a 6 pin graphics power connection and hasn't got one, then it may be clocking down.
The other issue, is PSU quality - a decent 350W unit is probably as strong as many off-brand 450W units, but if you thrash a cheap 350W to the edge of its capacity, it will quite likely burn out and could well take something else with it!
Many cheap PSUs CANNOT sustain their rated output, especially not when the system is warmed up.
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151911 - How about that, uses the Q6600 Quad core, only comes with an OS (no software bundle). PSU is only 350W, so that may be a little limiting on what graphics card could be added.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152657 - Aha! The same Zoostorm as above, equipped with a 500W PSU and a 9800GT - at £493.95 inc vat - a quad core (ok, a slightly older quad) and what is now an upper midrange card.
The Q6600 is Quad core 2.4GHz, the E5200 is Dual core 2.5GHz, so the E5200 could have a slight edge in single or dual thread working, but the trend will be toward more tuning for multicore.
A friend had a Mesh, and they were pretty decent for support, while Ebuyer, well, horror stories - the only reason anyone uses them is because they are cheap.
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1. Yes, that's how I keep my spare pieces, as assembled pairs.
2. One complication, it can be in several conditions as teleports are used, so if you could have more than one, it has to keep the status for each (or treat it like enchanted jewelry, when you hold the status, rather than the item). Mind you, you can own Fog Robes in multiple conditions, but then that's newer.
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A PSU will give as much as is needed, if you're lucky...
It's rare to see budget units tested, but take a look at these shockers!
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?na ... y&reid=123
On page 3, note the creative use of grossly inadequate Axial lead diodes soldered to a pitiful heatsink in an effort to increase the load capacity.
While this lame duck 350W generic measured 235W, at anything above minimal power, the ripple would be not just a technical specification failure, but probly a system crash or worse.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?na ... ry&reid=92
A less ghastly example, an Apevia (formerly Aspire) supposedly rated 900W but regulation breaks up over 800W - as the conclusion says, call it an 800W, and it's good, call it a 900W, and it's bad.
Actually, most PSUs that are not prime brand could probably do with derating by about 30% (or more) to allow for hype, one-off sample testing under ideal conditions etc.
The mark of a good PSU in testing, is:
1. It delivers what it says it will
2. It keeps in spec across all reasonable load patterns (crossload test)
3. It has eaither (or both) a decent degree of overload tolerance, or a clean protection shutdown.
Shutdown circuits (if present/working) tend to cover one or more of:
OVP - Overvoltage protection - this would only be activating if something has gone badly wrong already.
OCP - Overcurrent protection - often more hinderabce than help, if oversensitive in limiting 12V split rail drain.
OPP - Overpower protection
OTP - Overtemp protection
Another reason for some shockingly bad units, is that some of the worst hark back to the days when most of the action was on the 5V, and all the 12V did was run fans and drive motors.
IE8: Dawn of stupidity
in Tech and Computers
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Couple of tips for IE8 slowdown...
http://www.softwaretipspalace.com/softw ... w-tabs.php - Problem relating to Spybot S&D immunize
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2443 - the file register trick!