BOOORING! I HATE this game. Yes, you create your own character and it's hugely open-ended (if you like that sort of thing). It can take you a gazillion hours for you to beat this game if you do everything. The open-endedness and storytelling of the game is really different from JRPGs, so don't expect anything close. Not that it's not enjoyable, it's just really different.

The bad part? Combat is just ridiculously/astonishling boring and stupid. It is simply not fun at all, and there is no way I'm playing an RPG game that has boring combat. All you do is swing your sword around aimlessly (which feels horrible by the way) as you mow down badguys. Unless you really like aimlessly exploring a HUGE world doing numerous quests along the way, I don't see how anyone can forgive the painfully awful, awful combat system.

Hi I was looking for advice to mod my PC case to keep it quiet. Particularly, I want to stick some type of insulator/fabric to the inside of my PC case to keep it from rattling. The aluminum casing vibrates very well, and the sound seems to sort of echo inside the case. I don't see why more cases don't come with this, as I'm sure it would help alot. I'm sitting here with a SonataII here afterall, a case built for quite PCs. Unfortunately, I've been browsing around the web and it seems those materials are way too expensive. Some look pretty nice in the $20 range like this:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/3039/noi-02/FrozenCPU_Noise_Dampening_Material.html?tl=g7&id=QCLF7tSM

I don't really have any experience with this so I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some of their alternatives. In the best case scenario, I just want to go to Home Depot or Michael's to pick up some cheap material and duct tape it to my casing. Anyone know what type of material I should get?

you NEED the GTX for a 24" monitor, the GTS 320 will not cut it at all.kruesader

Yup, I agree. 640mb GTS is probably the lowest you want to go. I'd get the GTX; you're getting the right performance boost for the extra price.

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Increase/decrease the resolution and if your framerate doesn't change, the CPU is holding the GPU back.

portujoel5

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Yeah thanks. Can you explain the logic behind that though? I don't get it... How is it possible to not get a framerate boost by lowering the resolution?

Well, I can see how someone would get one. That's something you use all the time, so if you saw something you really wanted to get, than I don't think spending the $100 is unwise. I'd definitely buy a $100 mouse if I saw something that was "the one". :P

But you sound like you don't have a particular preference, so even a good $30-$50 one would be more than enough I think.

A good rule of thumb - get the fastest components you can afford. Period.

ZBoater

Ummmm... Yeah I'm not going to have to worry about bottlenecking at all if I do that, but I don't think that's the most thing to do either. You're rig is disgustingly impressive, but I don't find it very practical for a user like myself.

Well, for actual gaming performance, it's mostly about your gpu right? A better cpu won't have much to offer in terms of gaming performance. So in a strictly gaming sense, the most important thing is finding a cpu that doesn't bottleneck your card right?

And how do you know if your cpu is bottlenecking your card? Is there some sort of numerical standard or something? Bioshock eats up about 65% of my OC'd e6750, so I don't know if that's good or bad for future games. I am very interested in upgrading to the G92 whenever it gets released, so I just need to know my cpu is not going to bottleneck it if rumored specs are to believed. And it really should be good enough, cause I bought a pretty darn good cpu!