Greco

Ill message you on steam....

like I said a 5770 is a good card and cheap. If you can afford better then you can also look at the 5850 and 5870. Also Nvidia just released their new cards. I have no experience with them and they are brand new on the market so wont be widely available for another month or 2 most likely.

for what you get that price is... decent. But that is a Canadian website so their prices will be higher than here, still not too bad tho. I still think you could build a better one yourself...however if you dont know how to do that then getting that package deal then adding a good video will really do well for you. Make sure you get a decent graphics card. The 5770 from ATI is a really good budget card.

If your gaming on wireless internet, then you need wireless N. There is no way you can increase wireless G bandwidth enough for it to be stable in gaming.

NP, all in a days work. =)

even if you were holding down a key i dont see how that could automatically change key bindings. Especially for more than 1 messed up keys as are you are describing. Try a different keyboard, try and different USB plug and also try using a PS2 keyboard.

Then it is either 2 things, bad keyboard or bad USB plug.

some kind of software conflict if it is a virtual keyboard. try reinstalling the drivers for it. Other than that idk cause i dont deal with them too often.

nono...im not saying intel isn't better....it is the better chip hands down. What im saying is in gaming they perform very similar...so for someone buying a new computer looking only to play games its only wise to choose the AMD especially if you dont have a lot of cash. Of course if you have the money to blow get the i7. Mot of this kinda stuff is a matter of personal preference and opinion as you said. Different people have different views. Also in reference to this: I like the fact that when I finish gaming I can load up a file in flash, edit it without lag, work in Hammer editor to make maps and not lag, listen to music while i'm surfing the net, downloading a movie and still not lag. I can do all that as well. I used to map a ton.....hell I mapped back when I had a single core 2GHz processor and it took FOREVER to compile, sometimes an hour on big ass maps!!!!. Now I can do anything i want without lag. Like I said... a lot of this is a matter of personal preference. And hell if i did have the extra money to blow I woulda gone i7...I mean wouldnt anyone get the best of the best if they had the money for it?

oh that is cause of how i recorded them. I do a continuous demo for the entire time I was playing that night....so like 4 hours. then i went back and recorded the parts I wanted with fraps. While watching demos you get 0 ping etc...

Traditionally AMD has not always been behind intel, only lately they have been. P4 was blown away by Athlon. And the only reason the core2 series picked up the pieces was because of the help intel was given from AMD. And the fact that AMD has better price/performance is that..its a fact so it will continue to be used comparatively as such. If you are doing extreme multitasking and/or video encoding, then of course the i7 will pull ahead. However in countless benchmarks, differences between the i7 and 955 in gaming are minimal. So for someone who is a gamer, I go with amd and save a few hundred dollars and laugh at everyone who think they get an i7 because "it makes my gaming faster and i gets me more fps". If you want more fps get a better graphics card. Iv had more than enough personal experiences to back this up. I do this for a living. Iv had 2 i7 920's as well as my 955 I have now and I have to say im glad I did comparisons of them cause I made a lot of money selling all the intel stuff i didnt need cause the 955 was more than good enough.

thanks.

sweet! =) cant wait maybe tonight after i get home we can play. should be home by 8 CST. Oh crap nvm today is thursday....I wont be home till 9pm CST at the earliest. But ill still play when i get home.

it depends. With an i7 system your looking to spend around $400 more at least than a PhenomII based system. In gaming the PhenomII 955 or 965 both perform the same as the i7 920. I use amd, I personally have a 955 and have loved it for a year now since it was released. I personally suggest you get PhenomII 955 or 965. AMD also has some new 6 core processor coming out soon...cant remember when exactly. If you go i7 920, that is $300 for the processor, $300 for the motherboard and you have to buy the ram in sets of 3 because it uses triple channel instead of sets of 2. You wont regret AMD. Get the 955 or 965 if you can spare the $30 more, 8GB of OCZ, Crucial, corsair, or mushkin ram which will last a while before needing to upgrade, and a Gigabyte motherboard and you will be set. =) Also solid state drives are nice. =) I want one. I also see a lot of votes for Intel...yet no one explaining why you would want to spend the extra $400 to get the same gaming performance. If you guys are going to suggest he spend more money on Intel you need to explain why. At this point in time there is no need to have an i7 for gaming. There are plenty of benchmarks on the web showing that while gaming the i7 performs little differently vs the 955 at stock speeds. Sometimes the 955 actually beats the i7.

lol well now you know. =)