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Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea all want a war especially with the United States. Being that all three are from all over the world and something does happen with them all at about the same time, it sure will look like a world war. Even united, however, they aren't even close to the power of Germany, USA, Russia, or the United Kingdom during the first two World Wars so it probably wouldn't last very long.
Yeah, and everyone thought Iraq would be a pushover too. Never underestimate the strength of a country who's values are derived from religious fanaticism.
No sovereign nation will be the first to start WWIII. It will be a Splinter Cell of fundamentalists. The reason no one country will risk starting a global war is because they know that the rest of the international community (save for a small few nations) will be totally against them. Look at China, they're concerned about N. Korea and the recent Nuclear test. Why? Because China's economy was 2 TRILLION dollars last year because of trade with the west. N. Korea detonated that missile for one reason only: leverage on the bargaining table when it comes to trade with them. N. Korea has had sactions on them by the U.S. for nearly the last 60 years or more.
Yeah, I'll probably have to look at Zalman for some GPU cooling.
I don't plan on overclocking it. I don't overclock any video cards anymore. Too muich heat for the small percentage of performance gain. When I buy components, they have to last me a very long time. This is why I'm still using a Radeon 9200SE.
The only thing that the X1600 has over the X800 is SM 3.0 support.
I think the consensus is that the X800 does what it can do better than the X1600 does what it can do. Anyway, I'm pushing for a Geforce anyway - ATI's drivers are about to drive me batty (excuse the pun).
THIS is a very nice free image editing application. Orginally written for Linux, it has since been ported over to Windows and is very functional.
You could also try Paint Shop Pro (http://www.jasc.com, but was bought by Corel.)
Or Adobe Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/)
Why don't you scan some of your work and let us see it? I'm an old school artist myself. I was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Atlanta out of high school, but I turned it down. I was also nationally honored in the \"who's who among High School students\" book.
One tip: Don't ever stop. Once you stop, its very hard to get back into it and the longer you're out, the more skill you lose.
No, not if the power to the system is off. But with the system plugged in and powered off, there is still a ground between the power supply and the wall outlet.
You wrap the strap around your wrist and then you ground out the other end. The most effective way that I've seen to ground it out is to slightly unscrew the panel screw in a wall socket cover and attach it to that while you work on your system. I know, not the easiest way to go about things. Most people just connect it to their case with the case plugged in so that there is a clear path for any discharge to follow (right into the ground of the wall outlet).
Dells aren't bad man...and any computer is better than NO computer.
I couldn't tell you anything about water cooling, just general info really. I'm sure that someone here knows more about it than me, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that air cooling is about the lowest maintenance that you can get. My rigs never get hot enough to require more than heat sink / fan combos with plenty of airflow through the case.
Yes, the FX5200 is older than dirt (with the exception of MY video card that is). I don't know about you, but I'd go ahead and order from newegg and just wait the few extra days. You'll pay much more and receive much less buying at a place like CompUSA (Best Buy, Office Depot...they're all pretty expensive).
Remember, patience is a virtue :)
Oh, and when you're ready to build your new rig, I'm sure that everyone here would be more than willing to help should you have problems. Its not very complicated provided you take the necessary steps. My personal tip? Go out and spend $3 on an ESD wrist strap. Failing that, you can ground yourself on your case while the computer is plugged in (but turned off). Any electrical discharge from your body will travel through the plug and ground out at the socket. I've fried several motherboards by not being smart about it and being in too big of a rush.
After taking a look at your list there, I suppose the GeForce 6800GS AGP would be the best. It seems to be the highest Geforce made that still supports AGP.
I'm assuming that since that computer is the family rig, you won't be upgrading the motherboard anytime soon. That 6800GS should keep you running fairly well until you get a new system / motherboard with PCI-E.
Your motherboard apparently supports 1.5V AGP, which is AGP 2.0.
The newest standard is .8V, which would be AGP 3.0.
There are several cards that will play Oblivion that are AGP.
If you like ATI, I'd take a look at some of the X1600 cards. Or if you like, you can look at some of the X800 cards, though they're older than the X1600's.
I'm not sure what Nvidia offers in the way of Video Cards that will run Oblivion, but I'm quite sure that they have some. You might want to ask some other members about Nvidia. One of the best Video Cards ever made, in my opinion, is the Geforce 6800GT, but I can't find one that is AGP. They all seem to be PCI-E.
Very interesting read. Looks like Intel will get the jump on AMD on the onset, but AMD is opting for the monolith design first and Intel will move to it later.
If you don't want ANY overclocking at all, then get the normal version instead of the Overclocked Edition.
I'm fairly certain that although its overclocked, the card will be stable and shouldn't give you any problems. Since its factory overclocked, you can be sure that its probably within set specifications for stability purposes.
