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Havent figured it out yet but the 960 is supposed to have hardware encoding of h265. edit: NM, got it. Duh.

If the case has good airflow, yea that should be good. Dont go cheap on the fans tho if you want low noise.

I agree price aside I would go with samsung. You do get what you pay for.

I also recommend to later get an inexpensive sound card if you listen to a lot of good music (meaning not Taylor Swift) and have a good pair of headphones/headset. Onboard is decent but even a low cost card is better. I think mb audio... and the software... these days is tuned for gaming not so much for music. asus dgx pcie would be a good inexpensive choice if you primarily use headphones for music like I do. When I was investigating new parts a few months ago I had no idea the size of some of the monster air coolers out there. Im not an expert on cooling but if you plan any overclocking or lots of processing under load.... %80+ cpu... then that one likely wont be enough. Or the single fan will run so fast that it will sound like a turbine. So far I like my corsair water cooler but it was a bitch to install into the case correctly otherwise it would block important mb connections. Every second I thought I was going to break it and spill coolant everywhere. However the rear fan wont work at the moment because the hoses interfere with it.

Just use dirty language?

I got the black drive for the 5 year warranty as much for as the performance. The typical 2 year warranty these days just seems too short and suggests that after two years the failure rate goes up.

Maybe better cooling if you are going to do gaming. amd runs hot and will start throttling at 60c.

ambient occlusion I think. Pretty sure there are ways to stop that, to one degree or another, by messing with the actual smoke fx. But only mods can do that of course. Still, I am quite certain that everyone here plays fairly and doesnt use such trickery to gain an advantage. Like not using lag binds. Riiiiight?

The one thing I would add to that is more ram. 8gb isnt going to cut it. 2x8 for 16 to start. Later you can get two more to max it out to 32 if needed.

Need to go to 1.7 Dont worry about PB since you will have to install that manually anyways.

I could easily restore the cod4 default jumping ability here at any time instead of the server bunny hopper wet dream.

My WD Black 2TB failed the various tests with too many bad sectors after about 5-6 months. The tests would get to a certain point then either slow to a crawl or come to a dead stop. However they quickly replaced it with an rma 3TB drive so I have no complaints.

Never spent much time looking at those seagate hybrid drives. Are they actually significantly better than a good hdd or just a gimmick?

Depends what you want to do with it. Some things benefit from the 8 cores. Others from the higher per-core power of the i5/7. Another thing to consider, based on cost, is wattage over time. 65w for the i5 6600 and 125w for the 8350, if that is what you are looking at. That extra 60w can add up in electricity bills. Also takes better cooling for all that extra heat generated. Both even more so if you do a great deal of long term processing at full load.

I assume you did that to screw with him. That looks far far smaller than default settings.

Ok yea anything made within the last few years is good to go. Each BIOS is handled differently but somewhere is the setting to enable it. Probably in the same place as raid control.

If you use it only for the OS and programs that dont take up 50gb of space each... meaning games... then 256 should be good. But if you do want your games on it then 512 would be essential. Personally, I have games on a secondary HDD since they take up so much space and I dont use them much. Dont know about that brand but never had a problem with my samsung. Just be sure your mb can handle achi. It should. Also, you will need to either reinstall the OS (better in the long run) or change out all the needed drivers.

Its fake. http://www.gamepur.com/news/22899-new-battlefield-now-going-be-battlefield-1944-leaked-image-confirmed-fake.html?PageSpeed=noscript

Yea I hate that one also. However in that map I tend to use combat medic for the 12 seconds of spawn protection if that side is being pressed. Because its a relatively small map that 12 seconds is long enough to get out and nearer to one of the closer enemies trapping you and shooting him. Combat Medic + Lightweight it very useful. Include 3X emp and you could potentially get quite a few of your teammates to do the same thing and sneak up on them.

Open your console and change these two settings as needed. 36 is standard sized. Find one that works for you. I assume they could go in your configs as well but never tried. waypointIconHeight "36" waypointIconWidth "36"

ok, some uploads. This time, so far, people are not getting frozen again. First thing you will notice is on match begin. After the match timer ends you will see a short hud element telling how many rounds you need to win. This is for the future and maps that do not follow the standard requirement of 5 rounds to win. So if a specific and unique map only requires 3 rounds (out of 5) it will tell you. EMP nade anti-defrost should now only be 1/2 the range of the normal EMP blast. 150 units. But a good throw is still going to get you. The Counter Measures mine. It should always disable the car, hardwired or not. EMP nades are unchanged. Sees players with 'stealth' (being counter measures). If you trip the mine stealth will be disabled for 60 seconds. 'Recharge' time is 10 seconds, down from 30. However as before it will only work twice before being removed unless first picked up and placed in another location. Various bug fixes.

Yes thats what was meant by 'banzai'. The enemy is doomed unless they can find and kill you first. Otherwise whats the point. Might as well just stand there and smoke your last cigarette until you are extra crispy. Currently, mines are removed once you 'spawn' after death and seeing the ragdoll etc. Meaning after you are spawn frozen.

Well, there needs to be protection against EMP nades of some kind for those that want it. If they choose hardwired to protect against emp or cars then they dont get stealth to protect them against mines or any of the AI weapons like sentryguns and helicopters. I am sure people that call those in are unhappy with enemies running around with stealth. I have been going through the countermeasures mine to make sure everything is set correctly and will check out the car.

It isnt low primarily because it ends the round, unlike normal TDM. Make it much lower and it would encourage even more spawn camping. The part about enemies nading themselves, that also has always been around with the idea of keeping the enemy from scoring off of you. Could be any explosive weapon. Maybe someone cornered in a building by five enemies. In the normal Last Stand option some kill themselves early to avoid humiliation kills by stun grenades. Yes knowing a nuke is coming the enemy might also rise as one and scream banzai hoping to get you first. Especially if they are down 4-1. Lowering 10 seconds to 5 or something isnt a good idea either. It would essentially make that banzai charge pointless and remove the fun. They also wouldnt be able to marty themselves by running towards you with a nade hoping to get you before the nuke hits. So there really isnt much I could do about it other than make suicide impossible somehow. Which invites a bunch of other problems. But even then it wouldnt stop them from going to spectate until the next round either. Kinda funny tho if the whole enemy team eats their nades out of spite. If the sever had the 'negative score' option I'm sure I could make it so eating a nade while a nuke is inbound worth negative 500 points.

Hmmm. There are two settings. Remove on death and remove on spawn (persist through death). Not sure which one the betty/clamore uses but I dont know which one the server has always used anyways. edit: Both are currently set to death on spawn. Since I never changed this setting afaik I assume its supposed to be this way. Which in fact is the default. However if the admins tell me differently I will change it.