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Moot point for this particular CPU since the paste comes already applied to the heatsink.

Well, medallion is in indeed. You buying it? :D I'm going digital on gog.com So no Triss Merigold body pillow?

All aboard!

I use a card to spread a thin layer covering the whole surface myself.

Nobody HAS TO die. You get the No One Left Behind achievement if everyone survives the suicide mission.

I'll get the digital edition from GOG unless they put out a collector's edition with a Triss Merigold body pillow.

Same way you boot to disk in Windows. Linux installers come with formatting and partitioning tools, generally far more robust tools than the ones that come with Windows installers. There's a splash screen booting to Linux, you can even customize it yourself if you know what you're doing. I'm going to toss a SteamOS iso on a USB stick (possibly a custom one with better partitioning tools than the official SteamOS iso) and adjust BIOS to boot from the USB stick. From there in a few steps SteamOS will install itself on my SSD. It will be a few extra steps for me since I like to do custom partitioning schemes. Once everything is installed and I reboot and remove the USB stick, I'll get a screen that will look something like this: If I was doing a dual-boot setup then it would look something like this: But I won't so the first image will be closer to what it looks like. If I don't press anything then after 5 or 10 seconds it will boot into the first option (I'll likely fiddle with this myself and change it to 2 seconds). From there it boots up just like Windows into a login screen then either straight to Steam Big Picture Mode or the desktop.

But blue LEDs are purrrrrrrrdy.

Sick is the feeling when you hit the power button and nothing happens. But then it turns out it's only because you forgot to flick the switch at the back of the PSU. At least, that's how it is for me. That, or the power switch wasn't properly connected to the motherboard header. I always get tripped up by that. The ASRock mobo documentation and the actual writing on the mobo itself are fairly clear, so I think I have it all connected properly, but I won't know for sure until I put the chip in place and plug the PSU in later today. Why can't all the mobo manufacturers get together and make one standard layout then make that whole thing one connector that can only fit one way instead of several small connectors you need to **** around with? Is it because it makes too much sense?

Okay, the argument of "I put LeBron 3rd in MVP voting behind KD and Blake, and since both KD and Blake are forwards, I voted for them 1 and 2 for All-NBA 1st team, which left no forward spot for LeBron" makes sense from a since I voted this way for MVP I should also vote the same way for All-NBA perspective. That doesn't answer the question of what possessed him to put Blake ahead of LeBron in MVP voting in the first place? Blake had a great year, that's for sure, but no one was even in the same stratosphere as KD and LeBron during the regular season this year. That's just silly.

The box art for The Witcher 3 has leaked out: Everything shown in the picture comes with the standard boxed edition of the game.

Everything is showing up today. My Tux super key keycaps, yay!

I was shocked at how tiny the box it came in is. I haven't opened the box to look inside yet, but I can only assume the heatsink and fan are pretty small. No worries, though, as I won't be doing any overclocking anyway, so heat shouldn't be an issue, especially since this is one of the Haswell Refresh Xeons (it's the successor to the E3-1230v3), and the Haswell Refresh chips supposedly run a bit cooler than the original Haswells (even the unlocked ones, not just Devil's Canyon).

Got my Witchblade up to lev 28 in Grim Dawn. I wound up finding the pauldrons for the Guardsman's Set, which now gives me 2 pieces of the set, since I already had the big ol' mallet that's part of the set. I found the entrance to the Steps of Torment, though I didn't go in yet. That's the big, deep, super challenging, optional dungeon. I want to clear out everything else before I head in there.

Speaking of Xeons. The final piece of the puzzle is here. Suddenly, I'm starting to feel sick. I may need to go home early... (j/k )

Wouldn't be surprised if they push the launch a bit later, but things are going as I planned. Built a xeon rig as cheap as I sensibly could and it will carry me nicely till skylake arrives. And actually little over it for a slight price drops. Then it's monster rig time. Edit: Build -> Built. That's my plan, except substitute Broadwell in Skylake's place, reason being that switching to Broadwell will be as easy as popping the Haswell Xeon out, selling it on eBay, and popping a Broadwell in. Skylake will require a whole new mobo as it's going to be a different socket and all that jazz. Broadwell will be the last hurrah for LGA 1150, to the best of my knowledge. If Skylake does show up next year, I think it will be very late in the year. Skylake showing up in July or August doesn't make any sense. We'll see Broadwell this year, so Intel has said, but I'm very convince it will only be the mobile chips. Pushing out the desktop chips this year makes no sense whatsoever. They just put out Haswell Refresh and Devil's Canyon, why put out desktop Broadwell this year if there is no competition whatsoever from AMD? Pushing out the mobile chips as soon as humanly possible does, however, make all the sense in the world. They need those chips out in the wild yesterday to take the battle to ARM. My prediction is mobile Broadwell November or December 2014, desktop Broadwell April or May 2015, Skylake early 2016.

Nah, the Xeon will work for me just fine until Broadwell comes next year. Don't get me wrong, 5.5 GHz on air cooling is impressive, regardless how many hundreds of dollars this particular air cooling setup cost, but I don't feel like playing the silicon lottery.

I'd like to know who the one dumbass who didn't vote for LeBron for 1st team All-NBA was. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11031947/nba-thunder-kevin-durant-lebron-james-lead-all-nba-selections

I finished the first act, killing Warden Kreig, then moved on to the act 2 area in Grim Dawn. I'm probably a quarter of the way into the lands west of Devil's Crossing now and left off after finding the Conley Gang hideout (damn work breaking up my gaming). My Witchblade character is up to lev 25. The combination of Soldier and Occultist is working out beautifully. I'm a lot more heavily into Soldier than Occultist and am heavily invested in Physique, making my character very much a tank. From Occultist I put a little bit into the raven pet. The raven does very meager damage, but it does heal me every once in a while, which is nice. I have some points into Solael's Witchfire, which gives my weapon a bit more pop (adding chaos damage). By far my biggest investment in Occultist went into Curse of Frailty. I have that skill maxed out now and it's wonderful as it makes all enemies within a rather large radius significantly slower, weaker, and less resistant to physical damage, making the skill work both as an offensive and defensive boon for my character.

Tremendous

Luigi Death Stare Compilation

I don't think that routine check up went so well.. Warden Kreig vs. Luaxanna - The Showdown! I got The Warden's shield and a big ol' mallet (among other things) for my trouble. That mallet is part of a set, but I don't have any other pieces yet.

I'm not sure I will ever tire of Turn Down for What parodies.

You know you can still listen to the radio while on foot in SR4, right? Did not know that and I was getting so good at driving normally with the flow of the rest of the traffic You haven't lived until you've ran at hyper speed, jumped hundreds of yards into the air, and soared around Cyber Steelport while listening to Stan Bush ~ The Touch.

You know you can still listen to the radio while on foot in SR4, right?