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And it looks like pretty much any new motherboard takes 240... geez, looks like I'm pretty much buying a brand new computer...

That was the only thing I was concerned about. I need to find out what my ram is.

I have 2GB of ram. These are some items that I've been looking at... Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17713 Processor http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17446 Video Card http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17948 That would run me 710 bucks plus tax. No shipping because I can pick it up locally. I'm also using the comp for doing 3d graphics work, hence the intel chip rather than the AMD.

Ok, so I got like $900 in tax refund money, and I want to upgrade my computer. Right now I have a Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon system with a Geforce 4 Ti4600. My motherboard doesn't have any PCI-E slots so I want to upgrade to a system with that. So far, it looks like it will cost about the same to switch to a dual-core system rather than just upgrade my board to handle PCI-E, only the dual core boards are a lot better. So basically, I have 900 bucks, and I want to know the best video card/motherboard/processor, or motherboard/video card combos I can get for that. I prefer nVidia cards for video mostly just to avoid the driver issues that come out with pretty much every game for ATI cards. note: this is in canadian funds.

You'd like The Art of Dying. They sound identical to Nickelback. I mean identical. I actually thought Nickelback had two new singles when they both released their singles.

Metallica Adema(Mark Chavez period) Mudmen Saliva Lost Prophets Billy Talent Our Lady Peace Chevelle Disturbed Cold 30 Seconds to Mars Story of the Year Spineshank Ra Minibosses and more, but those are the only ones who's websites I have bookmarked so I know when they're coming out with new CDs.

I liked the Earth X, Universe X, Paradise X series. It was a neat take on the future of the marvel universe.

Nice. I need to watch Howard the Duck again. It scared the crap out of me as a kid.

Are they the party that lost in the latest elections? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. They lost based on the Conservative campaign that the Liberals were untrustworthy and all they did was reward their friends. Then the first thing the Conservatives did was lure a Liberal to their side with a cabinet post and appoint an unelected friend of the party to another cabinet post. They then reversed the low income tax exemptions the Liberals put into place so they could lower the GST by 1% now and another 1% in the next 3 years. Basically saving us 25 cents on a latte. They also reversed the Liberal child care plan which would supply a free public child care system, and instead is giving out 1200 bucks a year for child care, which comes down to something like 25 bucks a week, which is just a fraction of the cost of child care. They also were going to support a US invasion of Iran, but backed out of that after some public backlash. Basically, nothing good has come from their government so far. Go NDP.

a 5th person has entered the Liberal Party leadership running in Canada. Whoo!

Hey, nothin wrong with that. As you said, you WILL be buying it. Just don't pass judgment on the leaked version. I did that with the first Audioslave album... the leaked demos were awful. Final CD version was much better. Same with Frank Black's Honeycomb. Black Sabbath - Supernaut <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The first Audioslave album was good, the 2nd one had one good song, yet the worst song on the CD gets all the radio play. God I hate "Doesn't Remind Me"

Currently Listening To: My filthy pirated copy of the new Tool Album that comes out in a couple weeks that I will be buying.

Oh sure, They all get a birthday thread but I was ignored last month. *Cries... but like... in a manly way* Anyway. Happy B-Day.

It's a decent enough game, but it's not C&C. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed. Part of what made C&C C&C was the storyline and those awesome cinematic briefings. Generals was just a bunch of random missions jammed together.

I think that was A Different World.

Late to the discussion but: BOOOOO SHARKS, knocking my 'Nucks out of the playoffs. Well, they can only blame themselves with our 3 star players doing **** all all season. They should start adding clauses to contracts where if a player doesn't perform reasonably well in comparison to their last season, they get a pay cut. Because Naslund, Bert, and Morrison got those big pay raises because they were some of the top players in the league... yet this season they just didn't perform. And now I'm hearing talk of giving Jovo a big raise, yet he seems to end up injured for half the season all the time.

I think for the most part, metal is more intelligent music, though there are a LOT of really stupid metal bands out there. But the listeners aren't any more intelligent. Also lately it seems like metal is just pop music with heavy guitar. Lyric wise.

I love Invincible. Its a parody of superhero comics, while being one of the best superhero comics out there. I love how Robot has that permanent grin, yet when he's sad his eyes get all droopy.

X-Japan's Art of Life always ends up as one of my choices on this list. Mostly because it manages to be 28 minutes long without being boring.

That reminds me of that one episode of Batman: TAS where Penguin's goons were shooting at the Batmobile and Robin gives Batman this "WTF" look and Batman says "They must be new"

Just want to restate that Frank Quitely sucks.

I wanted to switch to Shockwave, but couldn't find a good avatar. Then I found Dancing Banana Bumblebee so went with that. EDIT: Found one.

If you're going for lightsaber effects and such you're going to need a compositing program not a video editing program. After Effects or Combustion are two of the big players in that category. I think Nuke is a big one too. I've used Combustion and After Effects, and of the two I prefer Combustion.

Kingdom Come was awesome. Mostly due to Alex Ross' art though.

of the above my top 5 would be Planescape Torment Fallout 2 Fallout Baldurs gate 2 w/ TOB Icewind Dale 2 In that order.