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  1. Oh wow, thanks for that! 

     

    ***spoilers***

     

    Very nice to see him have similar problems I did. But I always forget to use smoke. I also never considered going down the left side through the trees. 

    I got waxed by the AGS and the HMG big time. Then on subsequent tries by arty as well. Gotta keep moving I guess. 

  2. So I got the new pc and holy crap it flys. Ran some RT scenarios last night and nearly 100% settings and had zero issues. Smooth smooth.

    Also a shout out to Puget Systems. Wow. What a company!! From the date I placed the order (Tuesday) it was 6 days till I got my machine. And I could follow the build in real time on the website. Complete with pictures and benchmarks as testing went along.

    Now if I could get this freakin elicencing thing sorted out on Normandy I'd be happy. Ugh. What a pita.

  3. Ended up going with a system from https://www.pugetsystems.com/

     
    Asus Z97-A
    Intel Core i5 4690 3.5GHz Quad Core 6MB 84W
    Kingston 8GB DDR3-1600 (2x4GB)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
    Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5inch SSD
    Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA (Black)
    Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 w/ Window
    Antec TruePower New Series 650W Power Supply
    Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler
    Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound Upgrade
    Windows7 Home Premium
    Lifetime warranty Labor and Support 1 year parts. 
     
    Must say, was VERY impressed with customer service so far. Emailed them some questions and had replies
    in about 5 minutes. 
     
    Yah, definitly costs more than building one yourself, but I don't wanna mess with that. 
    They do all the burn in testing and stuff and I don't have to deal with any DOA parts.
     
    Also decided against trying the over clocking stuff. I figure I'm going from a 6 year old pentium something or another 
    with an ancient hard drive to the I5 and the fastest SSD around, that should be plenty. :D
  4. Intel Core i5-4690K is just what I would recommend, what motherboard do you have in mind?

    Was looking here - http://www.logicalincrements.com and thought I'd get one that was rated "excellent" and thought this would be good. https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z97g45gaming

    OC means Overclocking

    That I've heard of. But what's the "OCable" mean?? Did he mean OC capable?

    What is needed to overclock the CPU? Is it easy? No jumpers and crap I hope. (Been 20 odd years since I built a PC)

    The 660 is a budget card, won't stand many modern games (assuming 1080p >medium settings) but is still overkill for CM

    Well..hmmm. I don't play anything else. To old for shooters anymore.

    I would strongly advice against a laptop

    Good points, thanks!

    What about this for a video card. Only 33 bucks more.

    Gigabyte GV-N760OC-2GD REV2.0

  5. How's this - Intel Core i5-4690K $230.

    Asus GTX660 for $160. Appears to have dual monitor outputs.

    GPU doesn't really matter

    Im currently playing RT on a very old Nvidia card. Probably from 2007. Can't really hack RT in anything larger than small battles. (Which I happen to prefer, but still, not optimal)

    Maybe this is not the fault of the video card? Just the old quad core processor perhaps?

    I'm guessing anything is going to be a huge improvement. It's also OEM hard drive from however many years ago I got the PC (Dell)

    Putting an SSD in my 6 year old laptop was a HUGE improvement, so I'm betting I'll notice the same in the desktop.

    Hmm... How about a laptop for this game? Not sure I really want to get another desktop. I never use it for anything but CM.

    good OCable

    I don't know what this is.

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