Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[Jeffy]

I'll have to get one of those.  Not going to have chance to get one locally, so I'll just order it.

I got mine from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Controller/dp/B000B6MLTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280541679&sr=8-1

I didn't care for teh wireless since I'm sitting right next to teh computer and didn't want another set of batteries to tend to.

[Jeffy]

Thinking about selling my Evga GTX 280 SSC while it's still worth something.  It's a great card but I want something a bit faster.  ARMA 2 is a hardware hog.

How much do you think I should sell it for?  I was thinking $250.  I have it OC'ed to 280 FTW specs and have no problems.

Still not sure if I want to get a ATI 5870 or a Nvidia GTX 480.

[sharpxmen]

Thinking about selling my Evga GTX 280 SSC while it's still worth something.  It's a great card but I want something a bit faster.  ARMA 2 is a hardware hog.

How much do you think I should sell it for?  I was thinking $250.  I have it OC'ed to 280 FTW specs and have no problems.

Still not sure if I want to get a ATI 5870 or a Nvidia GTX 480.

not sure if it's worth selling though, 280 is a good card

[Jeffy]

not sure if it's worth selling though, 280 is a good card

Yeah it is a good video card.  Still pretty damn good too.  Plays just about everything on HIGH or Very High, except for ARMA 2.  Although I get anywhere from the 20's to mid-50's.  Portal played pegged at 75-76.  L4D2 as well.  Dirt was pretty good as well, too.  It's just I want to eek out a bit more.  Supposedly SLI 280 will be about the same speed as a 480 though.  So someone with a 280 already could get a nice performance boost for about the price of a 260.

[chrisfranklin]

I went ahead and ordered an xbox controller off amazon, so I should be ready to go in a few days.  I'll probably give Dirt 2 a buy.  Will let you guys know my username

[Mozman68]

Downloaded BF Bad Company yesterday. I've hadn't had a chance to try multiplayer too much, but I am very impressed with the single player game so far. Graphics are a huge step above previous BF games. Love the destruction in the environment and better death/blood graphics.

[Jeffy]

I went ahead and ordered an xbox controller off amazon, so I should be ready to go in a few days.  I'll probably give Dirt 2 a buy.  Will let you guys know my username

If you don't have Dirt you might want to give that a try first.

[Jeffy]

Dirt 3.  Looks nice but I'm getting tired of Ken Block.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mduzTcQ0SXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/mduzTcQ0SXM</a>

[sharpxmen]

i wonder how long it took to render that clip

[chrisfranklin]

I've got the controller, but my main Seagate HD apparently died on me a few days ago after 1 1/2 years of use.  I have all the files backed up on a couple of external drives, but that's the only good news about the whole deal. 

I just received the new HD I ordered, so I am putting things back together. But it's taking forever. 

[sharpxmen]

I've got the controller, but my main Seagate HD apparently died on me a few days ago after 1 1/2 years of use.  I have all the files backed up on a couple of external drives, but that's the only good news about the whole deal. 

I just received the new HD I ordered, so I am putting things back together. But it's taking forever. 

check the warranty on the drive, i know seagate had 3 and 5 years on some of them at some point.

[chrisfranklin]

I think it's 3 years.  I'm personally still kind of surprised I had problems.  And maybe I misdiagnosed.  But I spent several nights pulling the system apart, replacing all the SATA cables, cleaning the whole machine out for dust while I was in there.  But on startup it still wouldn't detect the Seagate drive and I could hear the drive still repetitively cycling.  I am assuming failure. 

I ordered a Kingston SSD and installed that, but its just 128GB and will just be where I keep OS and the programs I generally use. Right now I've got video and everything else sizeable on external drives.  But I am probably going to order another Seagate internal drive or two, since coming in I had had good luck with that make.

[sharpxmen]

I think it's 3 years.  I'm personally still kind of surprised I had problems.  And maybe I misdiagnosed.  But I spent several nights pulling the system apart, replacing all the SATA cables, cleaning the whole machine out for dust while I was in there.  But on startup it still wouldn't detect the Seagate drive and I could hear the drive still repetitively cycling.  I am assuming failure. 

I ordered a Kingston SSD and installed that, but its just 128GB and will just be where I keep OS and the programs I generally use. Right now I've got video and everything else sizeable on external drives.  But I am probably going to order another Seagate internal drive or two, since coming in I had had good luck with that make.

How Long Does The Coverage Last? Our warranty periods are 1 year, 2 years, 3 years or 5 years from the documented date of purchase, depending on the type of product and where it was purchased.

http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp?form=0

[Jeffy]

Squeezed out an extra 100mhz to make it to 4.3Ghz.  I might try 4.4 but I don't think I'll make it to 4.5 without upping my CPU voltage from 1.40 to something higher.  Don't really want to do that though.

[chrisfranklin]

Downloaded BF Bad Company yesterday. I've hadn't had a chance to try multiplayer too much, but I am very impressed with the single player game so far. Graphics are a huge step above previous BF games. Love the destruction in the environment and better death/blood graphics.

I'll have to give you my username/password to my EA account.  I had my BC2 guy up to level 29 or 30 out of 50 and had advanced pretty far with weapons for all 4 characters -- medic, engineer, assault, sniper.  So you can try out stuff like the Barret 50 cal sniper rifle with that account

One of the problems with random multiplayer is apparently you've got people using cheat codes that are ahead of any kind of punkbuster updates.    One guy administering a server said this to me.  So those players are basically milking other random players for points so they can advance up the ranks faster.   

Its a good game, but I've kind of backed off playing random multiplayer for the time being.