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@Milkman said:

PIPING HOT SCOOP FOR YOUR MOTHERFUCKING FACE RIGHT HERE

Is it weird I thought you wrote piping hot poop?

Jeff, you just made my Wednesday.

Edit: cross-posted at http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/362506-31-upgrade-video-game-computer-targeting

It's been… four and a half years since I last built a computer for video games. I'm here to share my excitement and get some feedback on my proposed build. Let me know your thoughts. (Oh, I stole the template from Tom's Hardware.)

I last built a game computer in 2008. It's long outdated.

Background

• Approximate Purchase Date: October 1, 2012
• Budget Range: $1000 Before Rebates, Before Shipping
• System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming only
• Are you buying a monitor: No
• Parts to Upgrade: CPU, mobo, RAM, video, PSU; adding SSD
• Parts to Reuse: case (Antec Solo 2008), SATA DVD, two SATA HDDs, X-Fi Titanium sound card
• Do you need to buy OS: No
• Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon.com, newegg.com
• Parts Preferences: Intel CPU
• Overclocking: No
• SLI or Crossfire: No
• Your Monitor Resolution: 1600x1200
• Additional Comments: My preference is for quiet components that don't run hot. I'm not interested liquid cooling. Games I'm looking to play are newer (to me!) games like Skyrim, Witcher 2, Metro 2033, Borderlands 2, Civilization V, the new XCOM, the new SimCity.

Draft Parts List

• PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/g5tq
• CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.99 @ NCIX US)
• Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Amazon)
• Memory: G.Skill Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($47.99 @ Newegg)
• Storage: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($98.98 @ Outlet PC)
• Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card ($404.62 @ NCIX US)
• Power Supply: Cooler Master 600W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($110.17 @ Newegg)
• Total: $1012.74
• (Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
• (Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-09-09 01:34 EDT-0400)

@shodan2020 said:

@clumsyninja1 said:

Thanks Obama...

How did Obama cause Onlive to cut half their staff? Please explain this to me.

It's a joke. The way I read it is: Obama blames everything on Bush, so now we blame everything on Obama.

I think everyone can agree that it's better for OnLive to survive with half its people losing their jobs rather than all of them losing their jobs. However, OnLive sure made it look like it was hiding something dirty by saying "everything's fine, nothing to see here, move along" rather than just being straight with everyone.

OnLive: you now look sketchy.

Never did get around to playing this. Doing so now; can't pass up a good, free-with-Plus game.

What I said in another thread: I was delighted by the Beck album and would love to buy it if possible.

My sign-in success rate is 12%. I've given up trying.

@dropkickpikachu: I'm impressed; nice job!