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My parents in law are flying to the US today, and next month I'll finally get the 16GB I won for Christmas. Unfortunately the motherboard I wanted, an ASUS M5A97 R2.0, is no longer being sold here,...

I commented what I felt was worth commenting. I hope you understand the rest.

Pointers to pointers are most commonly used in two ways: passing pointer parameters by reference and arrays of...

We have a time management schedule: I go with the kid to hospital and my wife stays at home worried to death.

(Normally we do have a sleep schedule on weekends.)

Anyway, looks like he's mostly...

On the topic of games I've been playing lately, been playing the "take the kid to see doctors at all hours of the day and night" game. Not anything serious (I hope), but a combination of ear...

Not playing much. I played a little Plants vs. Zombies on my Nexus 7 because of some argument on another forum about the viability of mobile gaming (I believe that many games can be moved to tablets,...

Thinking about it, this actually makes sense. I can sell a full PC sans MB/CPU and graphics card. One could simply add a cheap Intel MB and Pentium and some RAM and have an entry level PC. Still...

On second thought when it comes to a CPU I can get that from the US. That's what I did with my current CPU. There's someone who could bring it for me in June.



I don't think I need most of...

I'm in Israel. Which means that choice of components I can buy is a lot more limited and they cost more.

I won 16GB of DDR3, and I'll get it at some point, at which time I'll want to use it, which would mean needing a new motherboard. I've also wanted to upgrade my cramped case for a while, so will...

That was the last one before they changed to "limited features free edition", right? Plus there were low level tests which measured all kinds of parameters of the card, so it was fun to toy with. You...

My RAM arrived in Canada recently, but I have no idea when I'll be able to get it. Worse case will be June.

Amazingly I don't feel any desire to download this. I watched videos of the tests and they don't look that interesting. I feel that 3DMark is becoming more boring with each generation. Though I might...

I agree. He's a good guy, and after watching enough I think he's also a capable guy, with both design and technical skills. But marketing isn't something he's very good at.

These guys made Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, Supreme Commander and sequels and some other games. They ran out of money, and their only hope now lies in the Wildman Kickstarter project. This project also...

This doesn't require owning Windows 8. I used the form before I bought Windows 8 and got a key. Haven't tried using it yet (haven't installed 8 yet even), but I think it's safe to simply use this...

I started playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers on my Nexus 7. It's an adventure game from 1993, which means it has painful to watch low res graphics and a clunky user interface. However just...

Congratulations, blackplague, and if you don't know what that means just go google it you noob.

Thanks a lot to Bjorn3D for hosting the giveaway, thanks Kingston for the prizes, and thank you all...

Happy new year everyone! May this year bring you all the hardware you wished for. (And other things, if you're so inclined.)

Happy new year everyone.

Wow, CDs, you lucky *******, that's a totally sweet prize! Congrats to you and Pablo.

1366x768 is a bad resolution. 1080p is good. I'll never tire of this stupid pun. :)

Every year at this time I recount my display resolution. I had 1600x1200 for many years, but last year it was...

That was my thought. Maybe the "right now" wasn't needed in that sentence. :)

My understanding is that anyone ordering now will already hit the low. I'm not entirely certain that everything will...

I bought Wild Blood for my Nexus 7 yesterday and played some of it. It's an "action adventure" game, of the God of War or Devil May Cry style (but no platforming so far). The premise is that King...

From the link, croup is viral and causes coughing, so it doesn't sound exactly like asthma, although granted both are respiratory problems. CDsDontBurn, sounds like she's better, so that's good. I...

Merry Christmas everyone.

I think I've done enough reading to convince myself that there's no point in ordering the ASIC right now, as it won't be cost effective.

How are the devices from BFL expected to affect bitcoins? Will they cause the bitcoin value to drop sharply?

I think that most games can be played like this. Well, at least most PC style games that you can save instead of use save points. Broken Sword was originally a PC game, and it's quite long (I've been...

Here's another Star Wars Gangnam gem. Thanks to WhiteElk on the GOG forum.

http://i.imgur.com/P4cNf.gif

Congratulations Cody! I gave up on winning an SSD some time ago and bought one. :) Though of course I won't mind winning one for my laptop. :) (Or a large capacity one for the desktop.)

Regarding mobile games, they're not only casual games. Sure FPS fans won't find a lot to play there (and certainly not as comfortably as on the PC), but I'm a fan of adventure games and I'm playing...

My plan in case of a Zombie Apocalypse is to become a zombie. It's clearly the most stress free solution. I've yet to see any indication that zombies have an existence of suffering, they're pretty...

He's talking about Butterfly Labs. He mentioned them in the first post.

It's just way way easier to kill with a gun.

I'm a mobile gamer. I don't have much time to sit by my PC, and certainly not to hog the TV, which is why I bought a Nexus 7. This option isn't on the poll so I didn't vote. For most of my life I've...

I tried it on my Radeon 5850. Going to take about a month to generate 1 BTC, and it's slowing down the Windows UI. Doesn't seem worth it.

Congratulations Najiro.

I won? I won! I thought I'd get a PM or something. Good thing I checked this thread. Now I need to find out what's the best US address to send it to. Thanks everyone for the congratulations.

Would be interesting to fold on the CPU and mine on the GPU. But I think I'll stick to shutting the PC off for now.

Haven't used NVIDIA for a long time, but the impression I get from web is that AMD has lots of little niggling problems while NVIDIA tends to occasionally make a major blunder in the drivers, like...

Congratulations, everyone, and in particular to the ever winning James.

Congratulations to all the winners so far.

For anyone who missed this, you can get Metro 2033 for free on NVIDIA's Facebook page.

On a couple of sales you could get specific achievements in games which gave you a chance to win or get some free games or DLC. Some of these were fun achievements too. But the latest sales didn't...

It's $15 currently at Amazon (link) but I think I'll wait until it's even cheaper (or resist it completely).

I'm hording my keys without using them. I have tons of keys from indie bundles and other places which I haven't used. The only thing which tended to make me use them was the Steam sales achievement...

I played part of the tutorial of Deus Ex (the original, GOTY Edition) yesterday. It was mainly to check if I could download it from Green Man Gaming and make it DRM free, and installing New Vision...

Still playing Broken Sword on my Nexus 7. Good thing there's a walkthrough.

Followed your link. I might enter when I'm at home, if I remember.

I guess the subscription model just isn't working for MMO's (except for WoW, although it too has weakened). The Secret World sounds pretty interesting, and my thought was "if it's 75% on the Steam...

I played the demo of Data Hacker Initiation (Kickstarter project). It's a 2D RPG and IMO has potential.

I saw it on another forum, googled it and got it. Not that I'm sure what to do with it. Doesn't seem to be my kind of game. Plus I bought the Humble THQ Bundle, but as a gift to myself, and haven't...

Now that you've mentioned it you have to try to run it again and let us know if it works.

It's a nice idea, but it's a pity they use 40fps as the target, instead of something user configurable.

Tempting. :) Though frankly I haven't yet tried washing my Motorola Defy yet, and that's supposed to endure water.

Smell of anything new excites me, even the virtual smell of new digital game downloads.

(And grrr, I can't post on the forum with the latest version of Pale Moon, which is currently my default...

I hope they settle on FM2 for a while. I'd hate to see a new socket every generation. I think that AMD's motherboard compatibility is normally one of its strengths, so I don't like that they deviate...

I thought it was the dogs' jobs to pick up the things that the kids who don't understand napkins and plates drop. At least that's how it works for us.

Vibrant black.

What do you mean by this? An Intel GPU is faster than a discrete Radeon 5450, for example, or the graphics in a Brazos APU.

IMO SSD caching is the way to go. It generally provides speeds on par with pure SSD for most things, and is cheaper. It's perhaps not the best for enthusiasts, but just speeding up boot times and...

The only reason to have a nice graphics card on an HTPC is if it's intended for gaming. Normally they're intended for video playback, and even the lowest end CPU and CPU can do that decently. APU's...

Sorry, I didn't realise you were talking console titles. I'm not that familiar with them, most of the console titles I bought were discounted Wii games. On the PC you can usually get the games with a...

By the way, as for the original subject, I also played a little Crayon Physics Deluxe on my Nexus 7.

Except that nobody is forcing you to buy that game for $60. You pay that premium for wanting to play it at release and not caring how much you pay (not shopping around). Many games are discounted a...

I have no problem with single player games which are just 2 hours long. I just don't expect to pay much for them. $1 per hour is good value IMO, but I don't think that even $5 per hour is bad -- it's...

Bought a giftable copy for a minimal price. I already have Darksiders (which I haven't yet played) and I don't expect I'd play any of the others, but still...

I ended up buying a 32GB Nexus 7 for the equivalent of about $280 (less than I expected to pay), and an Xbox + Kinect bundle for $470 (more than I had hoped, but it did include an extra controller)....

Been playing Broken Sword Director's Cut on my new Nexus 7.

But $99 isn't the regular price. If I got to Amazon.com, that's $300. I saw it sell for $250, but not for less.

Here.

Where?

They're asking for the equivalent of $530 by the current exchange rate. That would be around $450 before tax.

Pity you missed the Bundle of the Damnded. For $1 you could have bought Legendary, Cryostasis and lots of miscellanea.

I've been told by some people that Zeno Clash is a good game and it's...

A large part of 11.1 is already available for 7 as a preview. I don't know why people still talk about it as if it's 8 only.

Regarding consoles, I'm sure they will be closer to 11.1 than 11....

Bug, a well known computer store here, is having a "Black Friday" sale for a few days. They have the official Xbox + Kinect, which is more expensive on deal than pretty much anywhere else. I think...

The way I see it, since Windows 2000 Microsoft has been releasing a new OS to test the waters, then one to tweak it. So XP was an improved Windows 2000, and 7 was an improved Vista. I imagine that...

Frankly it sounds reasonable. It's not like they advertised things greatly before previous changes, and I never got to vote, and frankly voting is less informative than comments.

Plants vs. Zombies? I played some of it on the PC, then later bought it for my phone and played it more, because it's more suited for a touch screen, but it was a little too small. When I buy my...

I played a little Adventures of Shuggy yesterday, because I got a key for it from IGN Prime and wanted to know if it's worth keeping or I'd give it away at Steam Gifts. So I installed the demo,...

Congratulations ryandigweed.

The Israeli Xbox site is live today but I haven't seen an official price or retailer list.

On the other hand I saw that the store I was planning to buy the Nexus 7 at has the new 16GB and 32GB...

I think that if you select a different country it works.

Congratulations foxmobouser.

No. Apparently also not in Argentina. MS is making it available for both countries today. Xbox Live will be available on the 29th. I wonder which content provides Microsoft partnered with. There's...

Preferences? Are these what I want to have or what I buy? :)

At home all my CPU's are AMD (Phenom II X6 in the desktop, Phenom II X3 in the HTPC, E-350 in the laptop) but I'll probably buy Intel...

I finished playing CSI: New York, which I enjoyed, and moved to Might & Magic II (mobile), which is considered a very good game. Haven't played much of it, but so far it's a lot more like a real RPG...

I would love one day to be in the US on Black Friday and experience the madness.

I won't be able to get any Black Friday deals, but tomorrow the Xbox 360 is officially released in Israel, seven...

So, is this the usual drill where a US address is good enough?

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Good one for the meme fans.

Nice bunch of hardware. If these are the spares, surely your system is better than what's in your sig.

Congrats CDsDontBurn.

I'm not a huge fan of Gangnam style, but I'm a fan of memes. :) That said, I already saw that one before.

I might have mentioned (not sure) playing Oblivion and CSI: New York on my Nokia 6120c....

Yes, that kind of game. Only it also had walls in addition to the mushrooms. It was pretty well made. I think it came as a source code listing in a magazine, like most games at the time.


I...

Really? What company is that and which projects did it support?

Congrats nKwoel.

What games would you recommend on the Kinect. I'm planning to buy Happy Action Theater and probably Disneyland Adventures (if it doesn't come with the console).



My father used to play a couple...

How do I change the poll answer? :)

I went back from the Motorola Defy to my old Nokia 6120c. It works better as a phone, fits better in my pocket, and I even enjoy its games more. I still use my...

When my daughter was two I was just starting Everquest 2 Extended, the free to play version of EQ2 which just starter. She loved seeing my character riding his horse in New Halas and seeing the bears...

I'm not playing much at all, but I've been playing a bit of City of Heroes here and there. It's an MMO which will be closing down at the end of the month, and I want to experience a little more of it...

He gave away tons of free keys. I actually bought it, and I also bought one and gave it away. Got two Infinity Bundle keys for them, because that guy is awesome. Gave them away too. :) But I have one...