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Yeah it must've been fairly new. Ah I see. Yeah, I'm not looking to build a rig that can run Crysis on high settings, just one that can chug along nice on most games. I'll go see if I can find a cheaper AM2. edit: I'm looking through Newegg and whatnot, and the good rated AM2 motherboards are all just $10-15 cheaper than the AM3, and support only 4-8gb of RAM, whereas the AM3 is 16gb. Idk, I might just get the AM3, since it would be better if I plan on upgrading later on. Oh, and they don't have the RAM that OldJoe suggested on Newegg.ca :( Oh ok, gave me a bit of a jump there, thought I had to go do more digging to find a compatible one.

Germany alerts the Pope to this new project, who decrees it as an abomination and decrees disaster on all those who play God with creation. So I guess you can either stop the project or get rid of the Pope. No way in hell am I going to let a country that shares a border with me build a clone army. If I knew what country you were I'd bomb you as a preventative measure against this new disease. Unfortunately you don't have it displayed what country you are, so I'm just going to bomb the Czech Republic. German News: My military project is in its final stages, and the new technology has started making its way to Germany's elite soldiers. So, I can finally unveil it. With its huge budget and co-operation between nearly all of Germany's top scientists, the German military has invented a new computer chip that allows complete integration with the human brain. Reflexes, intelligence, and a minor increase in strength were some of the initial hopes for the project, but research leaped ahead at a crazy rate, and so huge amounts of data were included onto each chip, allowing for all of human kinds military history to be added to them, which could be immediately accessed by whomever has the chip installed. It also has a wireless transmitter that allows near-instantaneous communication between soldiers, as the chip flags human responses for danger and alarm and transmits them to all nearby troops. While this has lead to some people inadvertently revealing their fear of spiders, the tactical advantages far outweigh the privacy concerns. The main side effect of the integrated chips are the rapid degeneration of brain tissue and membranes due to the brain handling input and output that should be impossible for biological species. Aneurysms and brain damage are expected to be very high in prolonged users of these new devices. The other project that was being developed has been moving along steadily. However, it is too unstable to be worthwhile giving to soldiers in the German army. It is a new biological parasite that has been created that eats away at the bones and muscle of people who come into contact with it. The original purpose is to use it to strengthen bone density and allow for increased weight to be carried, however, the agent is not performing exactly as expected, and as often as not it decides to simply eat away at someone from the inside and not replace what it has taken away, effectively killing test subjects in a very painful manner. These agents are being kept in extremely secure facilities so as to prevent any apocalyptic-minded groups from releasing it unto unsuspecting populations.

True enough, but those are only the stories that the news media finds out about. I'm sure that if I dug around in WikiLeaks for a while I could find more sinister arms trades going on, but I don't actually give a [cabbage]. Meh. My reasoning was that if he had no links to terrorists (as the Pentagon discovered he didn't), then he must not have liked them, considering that utilizing them for his own means would've been incredibly easy. I don't really have to convince you of anything. This is the same stuff that it starting up with Iran now, though. True enough.

Oh dear, now I feel silly. When did that come up?

I'm Canadian, so I don't know if a site like coolermaster-usa.com would actually ship to me. Newegg won't ship to me either, I'm using newegg links to just show the parts though. I can get them from somewhere else.

They're both 4gb of DDR3. What's that difference between DDR3 1033 and DDR3 1066? What's the real difference between the two? Perhaps. I'll look to see if I can find something better then, though the case does look to be pretty newb friendly. eh whatever, I was in a rush and didn't really look at anything other than the specs.

Is your Java full updated? Try doing it on a different browser as well.

I was kind of thinking about Firefly at the time :) (if you have seen it you know what I am talking about). :cry:

mmm bricks

Would these be better then? Motherboard - MSI 770-C54 AM3 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130228 Processor - AMD Phenom II X3 2.6GHz - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103648 and for RAM 4gb DDR3 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134718 and a Sony SATA DVD drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118031 ? And what's wrong with the PSU that comes with the case?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601625_pf.html http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol2/v2n9afr.htm http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35148&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&cHash=83faf38f19 That's not to say that the USSR didn't also supply arms to the area, but it's pretty ignorant to think of the US in a "holier than thou" light. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0211-11.htm All the stories are incredibly convoluted though, so we probably won't know the full truth until another decade or so. Except they had had a nuclear program, and that nukes are exactly what the inspectors went into Iraq looking for before the war. Everyone knew he had biological and chemical weapons, but western countries have had those since WW1, so the hooblah wasn't about those, it was about nuclear weapons. http://books.google.com/books?id=rwsAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=&f=false

My suits are on the way.

Who said anything about paying?

dux is the new ironman prototype.

Put it whereever

Sorry fixed. Nice ninja btw.

Gotta work on that quick draw mate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFLwe98rYM#t=4m46s

All I know is that you have a bunch of the islands in the Caribbean, but if I tried to add that in then I'd have to colour code everything...and well, [bleep] that.

I have an appliance here that says made in China. Does that mean I bought it from the Chinese? Weapons have a tendency to float around from country to arms dealer and whatnot. Then when you look at all the Kalashnikovs that went "missing" after the collapse of the USSR... Just like virtually every country in existence. The Americans slaughtered the Natives, the Germans the Jews, the Turks the Armenians, the Russians the Eastern Europeans, the Spanish the Mayans/Aztech. What does it really matter? You aren't the world police, and if you decide to be, you'll just end up over-extending your military and racking up a huge debt trying to pay upkeep for wars you can't win (oh wait, that's exactly what's happening). It's mostly used in reference to nuclear weapons, which is what America went into Iraq looking for (even after inspectors found no evidence that Iraq could even manufacture them, [garden tool] hum) What a respectful debate participant. I envy you sir. Please include all relevant [/sarcasm] tags in you post, as my detector is under repairs atm.

I'm only human :( I'm allowed to forget about things too, y'know! I updated it...

I agree with you on this one though, one less dictator is good, and more democracy. I could add some more, but I'm tired of debating :P. You guys are delusional. The US supports and provides money to dozens of dictators - just look at Africa ffs, at least 50% of the weapons being used there were given to warlords by western countries (predominately the US). I don't really much care, I just find it quite annoying when people present steaming piles of opinionated [cabbage] and actually expect people to agree with them. + here's the funny thing. Saddam Hussein hated terrorists. There was no Al Queda in Iraq before the US came in, and Saddam would routinely execute known terrorists in public. Also, if there are modern industrialized western nations that can't get nukes, why do you think that some little pissant country like Iraq could get a nuclear arsenal without people noticing anything? (oh look a strawman!) /rant

Not an up-to-date map in terms of borders, but if you're just looking at countries that are being played (as far as I know), here they are: Red underline is currently in play Black lines filling a country means it has been destroyed The underline below Germany is for Luxembourg (as it is too tiny to warrant naming on the map - lol) Israel is actually the "Kingdom of Jerusalem".

Depends. Is your sister hot?

You can export sand :lol: :shame: I'll be the one laughing when global warming hits and your beaches are made of grass. I highly doubt that. If global warming hits Africa will become uninhabitable. Germany's temperature will transform into that of a Mediterranean country - meaning lots of $ from tourism. Just remember, to get us to the point we're at, it took us, in total, 15 years, and over a trillion dollars. Also, to any prospective members of the space program, I'll have to talk with indy500fan (norway). Tell him I say that Oblivion's level scaling was an atrocious game design fault.

Alright, sort of a follow-up to my previous thread, since Nadril pointed out that my computer is in all actuality a piece of [cabbage] (if you read that with sarcasm there actually isn't - glad you mentioned it Nadril), so I've been digging around and I'm planning on putting together a custom PC (I'll probably end up getting all the parts, looking at them for 30mins then deciding to get someone to build it anyways), so I'm going to post what parts I'm looking at and hopefully some of the resident hardware junkies here on the TIF T&C forums can tell me if they'll work together/are actually worthwhile. I'm looking at a budget of around $600, as I don't need a top of the line PC, since graphics have never really been that big of a deal for me - I still occasionally play DOS games lol. So, here they are (intros are annoying, eh?): CPU/Processor: AMD Phenom Agena 2 (2.3ghz): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103244 Case: Raidax Smilodon: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156062 (PSU comes with the case, 500W) Motherboard: ASRock A780LM AM2+: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157153 RAM: G.Skill 4gb DDR2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231226 Video Card: Radeon HD 4670 512mb: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127415 Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319 CD/DVD drive: Sony Optiarc Black: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827131061 I have an old Audigy Sound Blaster sound card sitting in the drawer next to my desk, so hopefully I can just use that. If not, sound cards are cheap as hell anyways. :P There. Have I missed anything? Heatsinks, fans, or any other doodads? And if anyone who's pretty well rounded with computer hardware wants to take a look at them and make sure they're compatible with each other it would be mucho appreciated. All the random computer specifications give me a huge headache (I actually read a giant article detailing the difference between DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 RAM. And I always thought DDR was a dancing game that Korean kids played in arcades...) In total everything comes out to just under $450 USD.