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A Good read, didn't think GB actually even cared about eve-online as a whole, and there are some stories to tell in EVE that you will never get with any other game, which is just one of the many things that make EVE-Online such a unique experience and basically still, 10 years on, a one-of-a-kind game...

Took a break myself after getting a little tired of stuff that was happening in eve and how CCP constantly change ever single detail once every couple of months that change the gameplay drasticly one way or another... It will be intersting to see how the new scanning system fairs up in the June expansion and will properly re-sub for a month see how the game is... For people that have never played eve-online before I urge you to at least try it, it is worth your time for sure.. but it has become a different game over the years with the introduction with the pay-to-win system which is known as "Plex" as you can basically buy any item or any ship in the game using plex cards, EVE-Online is targeted for a vastly different audience now then it was 3 years ago, but me personally, will always follow how eve progresses, a game like this just always stays with you no matter what..

"EVE is not just a game....... Its a lifestyle"

I can sort of see where the OP and others might get the impression that AMD could be so called "winning" but really their not. AMD is about bankrupt if all the money they've sinked into consoles doesn't pay off, hence why they have closed half their factorys recently. To be honest, I cant see them failing in the console market, but it depends how well PS4 and the 720 actually sell... When you double dip into 2 completely different projects like having your hardware in both competing consoles, one is going to out sell the other, and depends how much AMD have actually spent on each console to see if they warrent a massive loss on one of the consoles. Details on xbox720 are still very sketchy at best !! while we know pretty much the whole shebang with the PS4's hardware. Its a MASSIVE risk and I hope it pays off, why do you think nvidia snubbed box microsoft and sony when fronted with the same idea of having nvidia in the consoles? Nvidia is going mobile instead of the consoles, Nvidia is the one company thats making massive amounts of proffit and while they still do that, they'll be around forever. AMD have been falling rapidly since the birth of the Intel Core2 Quad and even more further behind with the i7 and i5. Nvidia aren't in a CPU war either, which makes them a much more healthy company in general.

Nvidia have taken a big risk on their new hand-held device, when everything is going to tablet, I think their a little behind in the market, the 3DS is still a vallid piece of hardware but its really showing its age now next to no competition until the power of tablets have come to rise. I always hear tablets are the death of the desktop PC as well, when in fact thats wrong, It will be the death of laptops. Laptops are big, and heavy if you want one that can do anything like gaming on it with reasonible performance, and tablets are about on par with those now, but when it comes to an actual desktop, no matter what, there is no mobile piece of hardware they will come even remotely close to the raw power a full desktop machine will have and the core components of those are the graphics cards. So long as new games, new generations of entertainment keep on comming, nvidia and amd will always be at the forefront. There is NO WINNER!! everything goes in cycles, and right now, AMD are behind which could change rather rapidly in the next 1-2 yrs if the console sales are a complete success with the extra money and resources to get back on track competing with Nvidia and Intel. Nvidia will continue to grow and will eventually be the dominant force is powering mobile GPUs to new limits.....

you got to at least say what you budget is or people have absolutely no idea what they have to work with in order to help you

Kind of pointless now but I would have chosen the Logitech G510 keyboard with inter-changeable coloured LEDs with a possible 256million colours to mix and choose from, with an awesome LED screen display at the top of the keyboard. Keys feel absolutely perfect for gaming, and the screen and LEDs look so nice, helps with midnight gameplay also :D

I would stay clear of OCZ for SSDs. There are really only 3 brands I completely trust, Corsair/Kingston/Samsung.

When it comes to tomb raider and TressFX, that is an AMD version of physX basically, it doesn't run properly on any nvidia cards so i wouldn't worry too much about that effect..

I did think about strongly going with a single 680, but the problem is for new games its actually still not powerfull enough, yes for "most" games any of the top gfx cards are MORE then enough at 1920x1080 res's but then you'll come across a graphical milestone in gaming like crysis 3, where a single card just simply is not powerfull enough to max out at 1920 or above at get 60FPS. Crysis 3 is basically only the first next gen game, just imagine whats over the horizon in 6 months time? Regardless of what ppl think about compatibility with SLi, there has only been a few games where sli wasn't supported right at launch, for example, new bioshock game is out today, and nvidia released a supporting driver, yesterday for it, driver support for nvidia isn't like it is for AMD where you'll have to wait weeks to get a compatible driver xfire profile to work properly.

If i actually had the option, I would absolutely wait because next gen is just around the corner, but sadly I dont have the option of waiting due to money issues thats going to pop up later this year and my machines capacity to fail soon lol.

when it comes to the PS4s design in how it shares GDDR5 memory, its basically a work-around for the console so it doesn't have to use a SSD, its quite clever, but if you have an SSD in your system, it will just negate any advantage the PS4 will pull in any performance test. Its a good way to cut the cost of the console down as well, as adding a SSD into the PS4 well, you can add at least an additional $100 to the total cost. The only real advantage over a PC the PS4 will have when it comes to the unified memory, is the fact that there is a LOT more video memory there then on most modern desktop GPUs right now. The 2nd chip is not known if its another graphics chip or a 2nd CPU, they never mentioned that in the PS4 presentation, that just specified a "2nd chip".

I'm still learning towards 2 660 ti's in SLI, but looks like my build is going to be on hold for now.... thanks to the IRS fucking up my taxes and messing up my financial aid for college...

This is exactly why he had to go.... regardless of the catastrophe of what happened with SimCity, this business model as a whole is completely ridiculous and simply doesn't win you any fans, it stops people from buying games with the EA brand on the side of the box, and the firing of this man could not have come any quicker in my opinion, but this wont change anything substantially at the core business model of EA. but this guy really was a complete douche and has destroyed many series of games that have fallen under the EA name.

a GTX670 2GB is better then a 480.. so yeah

If your changing the graphical settings, from medium to low to disabled! and nothing is changing in your FPS, then you have either a bottleneck somewhere or perhaps the gfx card is defect. as thats an old CPU, are you running PCI Express 16x 2.0? or PCI Express 16? is your RAM DDR2 or DDR3? do you have a slow 5200RPM harddrive, or is it a 7200RPM drive? is your harddrive full of stuff? run defrag at all recently? check those things out, aswell as making sure you are using the most recent nvidia driver as well