it's actually better to leave it on than to boot up everyday, because boot require huge amount of current.

Don't believe me, strap a multimeter to your power cord and watch the spike

Farcry on PC is completly different and much better than it's console copycat.

Try Postal 2, it'll blow away with it's awesoness

Advertisement, sponsorship (if clan server), or just *i want my own* syndrome.

250$ a month may be pushing it for traditional games like shooters, i run a CS 1.6 & Source server with leftover parts from upgrades. It work wells and doesn't cost me anything, sure it's not uber great compared to the 8-cores Xeon monster but dedicated servers don't need that much.

the 250$ is mostly connection, personally i pay 60$/month for 10mbits and illimited upload/download (which are crucial to dedicated servers)

Steam uses SSL-128 bit encryption, it's very secure. possibilities = 2^128 

You should probably check your computer for keylogger and spyware before entering credit number just to be sure. They are the real problem

Might wait for the next generation of card before buying a DX10 part, or two depending on the time. That DX10 is a vista only doesn't really matter to me as Vista (like or not) will become the de-facto standard mainstream OS in less than year.

Don't like Vista get a *NIX and use cedega but that's hazy at best

Don't like *NIX and Vista, well...

Too bad DX10 is only for Vista, so I won't be seeing it any time soon.  Not until they get all the bugs out.Johnny_Rock

Price, Overhead, DRM(even though they kinda don't work), WGA are reasons not to get vista, but bugs is not, or maybe it's just me since i have a flawless experience up to now

They'll never get *ALL* the bugs out, just the major ones with time,

You can just ask someone in the store to buy it for you and you give them the money. I did it to get HL2.Paulioiscool1