ken_cinder

Man.....I haven't even spent $700 on mine yet, and as soon as my Radeon x1650 Pro gets here, I'll be up and running. If you spent that, I'm either scared of what my finished setup will cost or bewildered at how much you spent. Edit: I just went back and read, and the only thing I won't be spending coin on is a monitor and a DVD burner. I'm bewildered.

/me raised hand and say's "Send to me! I fix!" See - http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php...21730&st=11 Gamecop, I want a Modding and Repair services on 1Emu! We with the skills can offer our services for a nominal fee + any required parts.

Religion and Politics on general places and more-so topic specific places is like an unwritten rule of the internet. It ALWAYS starts a flamewar, ALWAYS. Just you watch.......

There are several things that should be instituted to be allowed to connect to the internet, and grammar is one of them. All these AOLer lingo's need to go away too. "LOL" is about the ONLY thing I want to see in short-form on the internet, and theres to much of it with EVERY word/sentence these days. ISPs should implement testing before activating accounts, and you should be adhere to these things. 1: Not using shortforms of anything but known context, such as "lol" "lmao" "roflmao". "IGOIBBL" (I'm going out, I'll be back later) is NOT proper usage FFS! 2: Get some spelling lessons dammit! How hard is it to type "Your" instead of "yer"? You look like you're trying your hardest to have your words make you look like some loser gangster rapper. Get lost with that! 3: Grammer, as stated above. Spelling comes into play much here. But moreso, it's the use of your words, and the order you put them in. If you can't put a proper sentence together, get your ass into summer school and stay off my internetz!

Sometimes the bottleneck isn't your video card, as in my case it's my CPU and somewhat my RAM (Can't wait till the video card gets here for my new PC!). I tried this though, and to a point it helps. I ran Stalker, and in places where it was just a touch slow before, it's smooth. Doesn't help where theres heavy load though, infact it makes things worse. I used a value of 10100 to get just a slight increase, anything more drastic is just like watching in fast-forward. This just increases the cycles made to the CPU. I think this would be best for slowing down things with old DOS games that run too fast. Using it to speed up a game that your PC can't handle in the first place, is useless.

Religion has no place on a gaming forum.........

Prototyper's wash PCBs in dishwashers, hell I just cleaned a video card in my sink........as long as everything is 100% dry before introducing an electric current, it's all good. Gonna check this thing out, though I don't know why.

Can't say I'm interested, I own a copy of Starcraft and it's been on my PC ONCE for no more than a half an hour. Didn't like it one bit. Don't like Warcraft either. I can't stand their gameplay styles. To hell with SCII, where's my Diablo III? Blizzard does RPG's better than RTS.

You don't need this software for ANY mouse, and personally I recommend you DON'T install it. A generic mouse driver is not only more lightweight, but less of a pain in the arse. I own an Optical Intellimouse 2.0 FYI But if you insist - http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/Download.mspx

Pigmy - Series of clicks and clacks of the tongue. And English is my first language, French my second, and even I sometimes find myself staring at a block of text in English with my head titled sideways thinking "WTF? That just LOOKS wrong, not to mention sounds wrong".

I'm the one vote for the first. None of the others are sacrifices I'm willing to make, I have a wife and a kid........and I'd kill 10 OTHERS for them.

Well it's simply true, ANY economic power could disappear tomorrow, and in the long run it wouldn't make ANY difference. Sure, there would be initial chaos and restructuring, but once everyone sorted where they would base their supply chain, and their end market it would be no different. Let's take Canada off the map. And I quote: Now, that leaves the US missing ALL those Canadian imports. What happens then? They go elsewhere, as now not only is Canada's GDP no longer a variable, neither are any of it's imports which put those back in the market. Certainly some of our imports are US exports, and the US would have to look elsewhere, but that leaves those exports open to trading for necessary imports from other countries. No single country in the world has a stranglehold on ANY single resource despite what you may read (Iraq may have the most ACTIVE oilfields in the world, but untapped resources are abundant and/or yet to be found, elsewhere in the world), so what is needed CAN be traded for elsewhere. If you didn't read close enough, read the quote again too, where does most of the US' fossil fuels come from? Not Iraq........not even the Middle East as a whole. But they COULD. And I quote: Not a knock, but highly overestimated given the fact that the US imports more of what they need than every other non-G8 nation in the world COMBINED. Finished goods and technical based goods and services do account for most of the GDP, but more than half of that is based off NON-US raw materials, and at LEAST 75% of those things are directly imported. You don't actually think that ANY TV you buy in the US, was built there do you? If you do, you're blinded. Even the quite American White-Westinghouse doesn't make ANYTHING they sell, it's all rebadge. Sony, Panasonic, JVC are not even based in the US, yet they are THE big names......the list goes on and on. Don't think I'm "hating" either, just telling it like it is. Anyway, what I'm getting at, is that any of the worlds economic strong could up and disappear tomorrow. It wouldn't mean a damn thing once the dust settles, as not only do the things that country pushes across it's borders disappear, but so too do the things they pull in. If the world only consisted of the G8, that would be an entirely different story, and one hell of alot of chaos.......but the G8 don't even make up 1/3 of the worlds economy.

You obviously have ZERO understanding of how global economy works. As a simple afterthought, the more money that stays in the US the better, especially US citizens money. The more money that leaves the country, the lower the value of your dollar becomes if that money doesn't return in some form. You want to keep as much of your own money circulating in your country, while bringing money in from outside the country. This isn't a simple matter of "We can't boycott Chinese exports". Many companies that are importing Chinese goods, are importing finished goods that in turn, send money outside the country for the cost of those goods. When it's an American company doing so, it doesn't make as large an impact, as most of that money remains inside the border. When it's a Chinese based company, selling that product and all profit leaves the country, THAT is where it hits hardest. There's no money going back into the economy in anything other than wages and overhead. Company A belongs to Company B, both originating out of the US, produces finished goods for sale in US. Wages paid to US citizens (At least we hope), profits stay within US borders to US shareholders (For the most part) and the only money leaving the country is inital costs of imported goods or services. Minimal economic losses. Company C belongs to Company D, C is a US company but is owned by offshore investors from (As an example) China. Goods are purchased from China, most profits distributed to Chinese investors, and the ONLY money staying inside the border is wages and any internal overhead. THIS is why governments charge surtaxes on things like offshore investment income etc, the losses here are MUCH larger than a US based company, selling goods to US citizens using as much US raw materials as possible. Hey look at me, I'm Canadian, using the US as a reference only because you inferred it dammit! Stop thinking the worlds economy revolves around the US, it could disappear off the face of the earth and it would continue to spin.

there's also a 340 mb video card o.o or is it 320mb? Same make of card, but 340MB. Who is coming up with this crazy crap? Neither makes any logical sense. Multiples of 2 pairings make far more sense than an odd number. The only way for an even pairing of RAM is 10x64, and thats just nuts......though it might explain the rather large size of that card. Looks like it is indeed 64x10, and the same PCB is used for the 768 version as there are 12 BGA points on the board. http://www2.bfgtech.com/Preview.aspx?imgID=1506 As far as I'm concerned it's a gimmick. For the price of those cards, give me 1024MB FFS.

There's a difference between cutting corners to save money, and adding ingredients that don't even belong in a product. These ingredients couldn't even be considered a substitute, let alone be more cost effective than any ingredient they could have been used to replace. Where does melamine (Used in the manufacturing of high grade plastics) find it's way into a dog food manufacturing facility? Where does diethylene glycol find it's way into a facility that produces toothpaste? I can't see a dog food plant, making HDPE plastics in the same building, and I can't see a toothpaste manufacturer, making engine coolant in the same facility. Now I'm no expert on the laws regarding industry in China, but even some 3rd world countries have laws in place banning the use of such things in places that deal with anything manufactuered for human consumption, or even that of animals/pets.

That's a first, and very strange indeed. Wonder what the RAM pairings are.

No such thing as a 640MB video card (And never will be), RAM is always doubled on video cards, and that simply isn't possible as it would require at LEAST a 5x128 chip configuration (And odd numbers DON'T happen). Oh and a rather poor choice in a video card from my standpoint. Neither to do with manufacturer or price, but the pairing of GDDR3 with a 128bit bus? What a waste! That GDDR3 is bottlenecked right on it's own card. And why would you buy PC5400 DDR2 when your board supports PC6400? With the money being spent, the difference in price between the 2 is negligible but the performance isn't. As for the CPU, good price, good chip.......but unless you're looking to overclock, you could have done just as good, if not better for the same price. All in all though, good stuff.

TV tuner make/model would probably help. If it can only handle 30fps, that's not going to help any, plus you simply have lag in the processing time to begin with, with ANY consumer line tuner card. TV tuner cards are not designed to handle realtime input, even when you watch TV on them using tuner software, it's not realtime. The playback is shown post-processing. Simply put, it's just not a good idea. You'll need to go the Component > VGA route. And it's too expensive to be worth it, even if you have other consoles you'd use an X2VGA with.....the Cube component cable is expensive. However, if you're set on getting one, I suggest you ask someone from Australia to help you. Nintendo of Australia still has them in stock (I had a friend get me one not even 6 months ago). You'll pay less than you would on Ebay, but they're still marked up like all that is imported for sale in Australia. I think I paid something like $52 CAD for mine with shipping.

Is it just me, or all the concerns over Chinese import products a little fishy? It's quite striking that these things are only occuring in the US, and in some cases showing up only in Canada due to importation of tertiary industry products here? We should all know about the dog food problem, and some may know about others. Now we have diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical used in engine coolant, showing up in toothpaste? The chemicals found in ALL the concern products has me calling BULL$HIT! These aren't chemicals that would be found ANYWHERE near the types of manufacturing facilities the raw products and finished goods are made in. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6684563.stm I believe nothing more than a global power scare from the US/UK about the fact that China is poised to become the worlds leading economic superpower. Sure, the above story originates from Panama........not surprisingly one of the western worlds largest through-ports for import/export to Asia and South America? But a UK news source making a leading article of it, when it's halfway across the world, and there are far more pressing matters in the world that could be reported on? I just find all the recent speculation and scares about Chinese exports to be startling, China has always been very vigilant with quality control of it's exports. Sure, you'll find cheap garbage IN China, but for the most part exports are of a significantly higher standard to local fare.

I didn't realize CPUs had AV ports.........hmm, have to check my new Athlon X2. Anyway, judging by his wording, he could mean either emulate or hook his Cube up to his PC monitor. In the case of the latter, the cost of doing so would be VERY not worth it buddy. For Cube on VGA you would need 1 thing and some know-how with electronics, or the same 1 thing + another. 1: A Gamecube component video cable. Hacked for VGA. Cable is near non-existant these days, and you'll pay nearly the price of a brand new Cube for one. 2: A Gamecube component video cable, and a Neoya X2VGA. You could easily buy 2 Cubes for the price of these things. If it's an emulator you seek, forget about it. You can't play anything well enough to be bothered, except for Puzzle Bobble 2k. Even if you have a top of the line PC, most of the games that do run at a playable speed, have enough glitches to make them impractical to play. Buy a Cube and a modchip.

I'm surprised it's not set in a retirement home, with Stallone wielding a walker as a weapon. I know the guy's not ancient, but give me a f**king break, he's TOO old for another Rambo movie.

Same thing works in Windows XP Home as well. I use Windows XP Media Center 2005 Which is just Pro with added (And useless IMO) bells and whistles.

Are you running XP Pro? If so, go into the START MENU > RUN and type services.msc From there you can set ATi Smart and ATi Hotkey poller to disabled. They're useless. You can also go through and disable anything else you don't need running. But be sure of what you're touching. Google "Black Viper's Service Guide"

Google the process name, you'll find out what it is.

Even if I lived somewhere they could extend their reach, I wouldn't fear it. They go after the big sharers mainly, and secondly.........BRING IT! They'd need more than circumstantial evidence against me, I'm VERY hip to how the law works.