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Sounds like it might be overheating. Was it an assembled or used system? You can take off the sides of your case and blow it out with compressed air and it helps a lot of overheating issues. Beyond that, I'd look at to make sure the RAM is seated correctly. That is good advice. You may need to reformat, though. Sounds like something is wonky if it isn't a heat or RAM issue.

They were, but they are getting down to ~$1-$1.25 per Gigabyte. And for the performance, its well worth it.

I want his job.

Very good buy and value. I like the GPU a lot, but I may have gone with a different manufacturer, but only because I have no experience with Sparkle. What about your monitor? 1920x1080 would be the sweet spot for that video card, but it could probably push something even higher-res. If you are only running 1 1920x1080 monitor, don't upgade to an SLI setup. Get an SSD. Excellent bang for the buck on those right now.

Holy crap, that looks like it was made for me! 15 years ago...

And yeah, they work without safety gear most of the time.

Yeah, graphics drivers are kind of a big deal. Glad its working for you.

For $500, its a good deal. Core i7's, even pre-Sandy Bridge, are very potent processors. The GPU could use an upgrade, but there is nothing wrong with the GTX260. As long as someone assembled it, and it isn't a Dell, HP, or some other name brand, I'd pull the trigger. Reason being is that you can then upgrade and swap out parts instead of building/buying complete systems.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129071 Case w/ quality PSU - $89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102908 Video Card - $149.99 You could use my pretty good mobo and cpu (I'll send it ups, just like Newegg) - $150. Right now, you'd have to spend ~$220 for an AMD PhII x4 975. Its a 3.6 ghz stock, but will OC to 4ghz. Re-use your RAM - that'll save you a good amount. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822152181 Hard drive - 500 GB (and very, very fast) for $89.99

Handbrake. Get it.

I'm looking to unload my current cpu and mobo. PM me if you are interested. Phenom II X4 975 and mobo for $150. Fair deal, and I'll cover shipping. Also, let me try to build you a complete system for cheaper. I'll price it out. What is your overall budget? And what do you already have that we could use for upgrades?

Pretty awesome vid. I'm going to have to record other people doing great stuff while spectating them so I can make it, too!

Unfortunately, I bet this is to drive more teams to make more money so MLB can make more money. While the Wild Card is kinda nice, 2 of them seems to make playoffs less special. That being said, if the M's ever get back into it, and win the 2nd spot, I'll be a huge fan of this new system.

The sad truth of the matter is that you would probably be better getting a Core i3 rather than anything from AMD, unless you need a bare bones basic build. Also, find a nice Z68 socket 1155 motherboard and you'll be good.

So, have a fun or happy memory playing DODS? Well talk about it. Was it a time when you were very lucky? Or had just the right position? Or you were able to do something almost extraordinary? Share it here!

USB microphone's are a bit tricky. And by device drivers installing and such, what drivers was it getting? Can you get me the specs on your motherboard or computer model number?

Depends on your timeframe. If you can wait afew weeks, the 78xx series cards are ciming out from AMD. Nvidias are few months out. However, what is your monitors maximum resolution?

I lose.

You keep those biceps of yours in a box and strap them on, don't you?

It really depends on what sort of applications you are running. The question gets a bit indepth..... There are three factors in play as to whether more cores will give you greater performance. 1. How many "real" cores vs. additional "lesser" cores (more on this later). 2. Which version of Windows you are using/will be using. 3. What programs you are using. 1. What do I mean by real vs lesser cores? Well, going back to the old Pentium 4 HT days, they introduced something called Hyper-Threading. Its not quite a full-blown core, but it gives a nice boost. They don't make chips that just have Hyper-Threading cores, they are additional cores. Right now, some of the Core i3's have 2 cores and 2 ht cores. However, the Core i7's have 4 cores plus 4 ht cores! Wowza! The new AMD FX-series (Bulldozer architecture) is also a 4+4 architecture as well, but a bit different. They have their older 6 core processor as well, but those are essentially Phenom II's with 2 more cores. 2. Windows XP was terrible for multi-threading. Vista was much better. 7 is pretty nice at it. They made a patch for AMD FX processors to give them a boost, but it only resulted in a 1-4% increase. For Windows 8, MS is trying to essentially (and this is a poor explanation, but it gets way to technical any other way) agregate the cores and threads. If they pull it off, the core war will begin. 3.Programs/games must be coded for more cores in order to take advanatage of them. Right now, the best games out there today can support up to 4 cores and that's about it. Going back to Far Cry 2 to today, game designers are happy to take advantage of multi-core settings. Civilization V is a great example of a solid game that very much benefits from more cores. Shoot, even DODS supports mulitple cores. So up to 4 cores, most people can realize anywhere from minor to enormous benefit. Beyond that, those cores sit idle. However, if you have anything running in the background (say a virus scan starts, or a music player, or whatever) this can make a very slight impact on gaming. Not much, and you may not even notice, but it is there. The real advantage for multiple cores comes in video encoding/transcoding. If you are looking to do any sort of video transcoding. These programs have generally been coded to take advantage of as many cores as you can throw at them. If video work is something you want to do at all, I either get an Intel i5/7 right now, or wait 3 months for the next generation to come out. Prices will fall, performance will increase. This is what I am waiting for for my upgrade.

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I hope they include the brawls he got into when he was younger. Awesome stuff.

I would download Chrome or use IE or something to see if it is a computer issue or a browser issue. If we can iron out which is the issue, we can go from there. Until then, I'll just be offering wild stabs in the dark.

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Sounds like either a bad FF plug in, but more probably some sort of malware. Run Malwarebytes and see if it picks up anything. Any time you get slowdowns, think malware.