Recent content by Zogglet

My family's main computer, a Dell Dimension 8200, is about four years old and works fine. It has also been extremely quiet. But just a few weeks ago it started making very strange sounds when I boot it up. It revs up, then down, then up, then down, and then it stays loud for as long as I have it...

Thanks for confirming that. I read that that is a good latency for what I'm going to do. :)

Yeah, I figured that by this summer the FX-55 will have gotten a lot cheaper; that's basically why I plan on getting it.

I'm building a new system this summer primarily for gaming and 3d rendering/animation. These are the main components I've picked out. Enermax (CS3171LB3A) Abit AV8-3rd EYE eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 Maxtor Ultra16 250GB I'm stuck on what kind of RAM to get. I...

I agree. And turn-based battles make me nauseous.

Eh I was afraid of that... :o

I just found this thread, and it seems that a lot of people can do it with minimal problems. Different people tell me different things whenever I ask them, so it seems like I should just try and see what happens. My one friend told me that Warcraft 3 actually works, but that most FPS's (what I'm...

I am fairly new to online gaming, having gotten really serious about it only a year ago. I live at college, so I am connected to the network here and everything runs fine (minus lag of course), but at home my family just has dial up and I can't convince them to get DSL. They will not budge. I...