Yes you are alone, it's Bioware, it's quality.

I don't use a mouse pad I use a precision gaming surface.

Unless you splice the LED wires manually to the switch, they won't turn off. So, you should get fans without LED's.

That statement is retarded. His thread is called LED case fans....case fans....meaning well they plug into the PSU therefore turn off with the rest of the computer.

Don't worry, if kungfool knew any more than you tyler he would have mentioned that your processor is socket 775.
Overclock the CPU (although given this thread I'm going to put my money on you don't know how.) a bit and upgrade your video card. Unless you want to buy an updated computer, that will be the biggest improvement to your system. But as mentioned in other people's replies you won't be hitting max grahpics with a 9500 regardless of the CPU. Ideal thing to do would be to update your entire system. Your CPU has a FSB of only 800MHz and since you're running a Pentium I'm going to assume your board can only handle up to 800MHz. Also given that you have 3GB of RAM you're probably running older 800MHz single gig sticks and not dual channel. You probably won't see much of a performance increase until you get a new system sorry to say.

Only going from 98,

25 June 1998: Windows 98
5 May 1999: Windows 98 SE
17 February 2000: Windows 2000
14 September 2000: Windows ME
25 October 2001: Windows XP
31 Octover 2002: Windows XP Media Center Edition
and so on for a few others until Vista.

Yes I'm aware some of them are still the same core OS (ie. XP, Media Center) but you can see the picture.

Windows 8 being released soon after 7 is nothing unusual and should not raise any questions...but the newer generation of people doesn't pay attention to things like that and thus we have "already?" beside the Windows 8 name.

The keyboard and mouse is just a lazy way of gameing that really doesn't requier any skill (just place the pointer on the target and click isn't much of a challenge). The controller does take some type of skill to use (can quick snipe, manuver a vehicle and fire at the same time, or a number of other combinations while someone is trying to get the mouse lined up on a target. Try flying a WWII fighter plane and drop bombs and fire the machine guns at the same time with a keyboard and mouse. jimm895

Also,

[QUOTE="jimm895"]The keyboard and mouse is just a lazy way of gameing that really doesn't requier any skill (just place the pointer on the target and click isn't much of a challenge). The controller does take some type of skill to use (can quick snipe, manuver a vehicle and fire at the same time, or a number of other combinations while someone is trying to get the mouse lined up on a target. Try flying a WWII fighter plane and drop bombs and fire the machine guns at the same time with a keyboard and mouse. bowlingotter

Well you exposed the hell out of yourself here.

FPS games started on the PC. Keyboard and mouse has always been the intended control scheme. They eventually made their way to consoles because analog sticks were the best way to adaptthe control scheme to the other gaming medium.

Sit down on a PC and play COD4 or Counterstrike with a keyboard and mouse and then come back and say it doesn't require any skill. Wait, I know what you would say, though. You would say that it's so easy to use that everyone killed you repeatedly, when that's really just a sugar-coated way of saying that you're not good at the game.

Trying to claim that you can do more with a controller simultaneously than you can with a mouse and keyboard is a good way of pointing out that you just haven't done any gaming on PC. That's like someone asking why dropping dedicated servers from MW2 is a big deal.

bowlingotter your post is an epic win.