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Took me a while to figure out why my SSD was almost maxed out on a clean format and install. The windows swap disk was a whopping 64 gb. x2 of the ram per default. lol. It's quite the leap in performance from what I'm used to. There are practically no load times all the places I'm used to seeing them.

Yes, it was a just a matter of installing the driver.

So everything fit together nicely. With the case closed the CPU is hovering around 42-43 degrees in the Bios, 39-40 with the case open, which probably means airflow is not ideal, but it should be fine. Everything is really quiet, except my GFX, but I think I can reduce fan speeds in the control center. Sometimes it's hard to predict how fans react to eachother and you get a perfect storms that create nuissance noises. I hope I won't have to look into another cooler for the GFX. It sounded quieter in the old case.

Ok so it isn't eating up 88w idle, but it's pretty bad at low load as well. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmark,3659-17.html

Doesn't it say 88W idle from the first link, and 300 something under load. ATI are deliberately trying to obscure how bad it is, I'm sure they are aware it's a point of contention. http://anandtech.com/show/7457/the-radeon-r9-290x-review/19

Yeah Finland is historically a dangerous place for Russians. (when all else fails, go with the war)

I've wondered with high end high power consumption cards and the commonplace of CPU or board based graphics why someone hasn't though of making a card that could be turned on and off like a harddisk, working with light load and 3dmode as well as a manual toggle. There would probably need to be a motherboard standard as well. Maybe there already is ?

I'm about to watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Qo74_L3vo

The power consumption is quite bad though, the listing I saw for it had a 750 watt PSU as a minimum requirement. For a single card... nuts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24786119 Moar hot russian Oby butthurt, or something. I'm gradually learning the syntax I think.

Depends on the alcohol level obviously. People drank beer for its health benifits, and because the water was full of bacteria in the major cities, throughout medieval europe.

I guess now we wait for 4k displays to become affordable.

I've been looking into sync center and it seems to me it should be possible to use it for updating and managing shared backup folder over multiple local drives for no other reason than multiple backup redundancy. Basically whenever something gets written to a specific folder on the C drive it does the same thing in your identical folder on your other local drives, like a raid configuration for people who don't bother with that. Windows also has a backup function, but that seems to be related only to system functionality.

The levels actually look better in the xbox version in the gameplay. Too crappy rez in the video to tell the textures appart.

And just now I realise that the guy from the clip is not actually Garret, but the game's narrator. Still, nerdrage !!!

I heard that the orginal Garret was dismissed as voice actor because he couldn't come in to do motion capture, or he sounded too fat or sormething. If that is really true that's just colosally stupid. New guy is not cutting it at all compared. The voice of Garret is the single most recognisable bit of continuity in the series.

Isometric also seems to last a lot better than 3d which looks dated relatively quickly. No one would contemplate playing the EI games again if they had been made with then-generation 3d.

Would be an awesome game if it had proper PVP and bout 10-12 levels rather than 50 or is it 60. Starting to sound like a broken record here.

I just watched Ezio or whoever hotwire a galleon and high tail it out of port GTA style. It didn't exactly fill me with confidence. Looks like everything is still too easy with win button, in this case counter or disarm, mechanics. Don't know if it still has automatic fail when being discovered. The setting looks really cool. Think of all the awesome games they could have made with that kind of budget. Instead we get a severely worn out formula. I don't expect or demand developers to cater to my demographic, I understand the reality of the market, but it still annoys me to see so much effort wasted.

A bunch of kids just showed up at my door wanting candy, felt like I was in a movie or something. That's not a Danish tradition, well it is now apparently. They must have been sorely disappointed with my random assortment of fruit.

Well then don't do it.

I get a patchy beard that makes me look like a homeless person. I try to stay clean shaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrlTijuhVOA

Being a major arms dealer is not usually compatible with many other forgein policy interests. You just have to weigh out how much you want the money vs possible negative consequences to international relations. Common conundrum.

I'm kinda interested in that STEAM controller. It doesn't look terrible. I have the one fot Xbox, I think I've used it once didn't like the feel of it. The pointing operation look ok, expecially if there a handy modifier switch which allows for minute adjustments. I hope all the buttons are programmable.