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BTGBullseye

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  1. Looks like Halo, TF2, and Borderlands all crumpled up into one.

     

    You mean Halo looked kind of like Tribes but slower and without jetpacks when it first came out in 2001.

    Halo and TF2 also have significantly smaller maps.

  2. Israel would face world condemnation if they used nukes. Also, we don't know if they have any (as in the public; I'm sure my government knows quite a bit). Iran will get squeezed by these sanctions, especially if Japan and South Korea find alternative suppliers.

    Wait, are you saying you don't know that Israel has nukes?!? They've had them since the late 50's. It was the only thing deterring the USSR from going after them.

     

    As far as anyone getting squeezed by sanctions, that isn't really going to hurt them at all. They don't need the trade. It's pretty much all profit there.

  3. Benevolent Consulted Tyranny with a Meritocratic succession selection process.

     

    So basically, you have a sort of liberal libertarian dictator, with a handpicked cabinet of expert advisers (or a pool of them to call upon), and his successor is chosen and trained well in advance, by a merit-based system.

     

    That's how I'd run things.

    Same. Best form of government right there.

  4. I'm in the process of building a new gaming computer, for Crysis 2 and stuff like that. Originally, I was going for an Intel i5 2500k, but after some research, AMD doesn't seem as bad as I am always told. Cheaper, so I can invest in the new Radeon HD 7970 video card, which will be about $550, and a great video card is the most important part of a gaming build. I believe that using AMD CPU's and GPU's together adds a performance boost. I'm thinking about the AMD Phenom II X4 975 with a Noctua D14, and I don't know how far I can overclock, but 4.5 GHz should suffice, so hopefully I can do that. Another option is the AMD FX-6100 Zambezi, which seems like another good option, 4.5GHz with the D14 will do. I am really confused as to which of the two I should get. 4 cores vs 6 cores, does it matter that much, as the X4 975 has more GHz, but they are the same price. Another option, is the Intel i5 that much better to spend the extra money on the MoBo and CPU? I like the fact that the AMD sockets are more universal so MoBos are more future proof. Well this is as far as I know, so please tell me more.

    Same cooling for less: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835207009

     

    Intel processors are designed with overclocking in mind, AMDs aren't. For a real comparison of processing capabilities, look here... http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html (I5-2500K IS $220, and it outperforms the AMD FX-8120 8-core processor, and it's designed specifically for overclocking, can hit 4.5GHz on air cooling, AMDs can't go over 4GHz)

  5. I contemplate death on an hourly basis... Never very successfully because of this feeling that I can't get over that I won't allow myself to die.

     

    Not the physical me, but the me that I am, the one that composes these segments of text that you're reading, the one that dreams through time, that part that senses the existence of God despite all the things that try to conspire to remove my faith...

  6. They tend to be cheaper and just as good as intel.

     

    AMD is for low-mid range PCs, nothing they have is good for gaming rig. Sandy Bridge demolishes the Bulldozer in every benchmark, stick with the SB IMO. I'd suggest you get it factory OC'd because you get a warranty, but you don't really need to OC the SB ATM anyway.

    And the i5-2500K is cheaper than any of the Bulldozers... ($230, with much better performance)

     

    Of course, the best gaming-grade CPUs are the i7-3930K, and the i7-3960X. ($600 and $1050 respectively)

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