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Redpower is amazing to play. However, you need the dedication and the time to learn how to fully use it. My favorite mod....
This is true.
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EDIT: Almost forgot, there is a new project in the works, which is the same program, but much, much better. Expect an alpha release within a few weeks.
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Ariel is one of my favorites. But as bc's post said, it seems a bit silly written in comic sans. And it's much easier to read 72pt impact on a sign than 72pt comic sans.
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I'll give you a short rundown. Your processor does calculations. It will do any calculations sent to it, and a good processor will mean that normal programs will run faster, and games will run faster, since the processor calculates things like physics and stuff most of the time. The graphics card is very well optimized for graphics calculations, which is what you see on the screen. The better your video card, the better games will run (however some games use the cpu for graphics, like minecraft, so the gfx card doesn't matter much), but it is limited by the cpu, the same way the cpu is limited by the graphics card. It is important to get a balance between the cpu and graphics. Ram is random access memory, and it stores all the data for running programs. The more ram you have, the more data you can store in active memory, and the more programs you can run. 8gb should be plenty, especially since ram is dirt cheap right now. Ram also has a speed, measured in mhz. Don't worry about that. Just go for 1333mhz, and you'll be fine. Your hard drive stores thongs (you probably know that) and there are two main types. Platter drives, which have a magnetic disk, and SSD (Solid State Drives). Platter drives have very high capacity, and a fairly long lifespan, and they cost very little per gb. SSDs have low capacity, are expensive (high price per gb), have a short lifespan, but they are lightning fast. You usually use an ssd as a boot drive, with only windows, and startup programs, and a high capacity platter HD (1-2TB) for everything else. That way you boot fast, but you have lots of storage. When looking for normal drives, look at the RPMs. 2500 is slow. 7200rpm is fast. 10000 is uneccessary. And that concludes your basic rundown of the normal computer.
Here's a decent $550 build: http://teksyndicate.com/videos/build-550-gaming-pc-june-2012Here's an even better one. I can knock the price down if you want: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/a6sS
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I copypasta'd bc_programming's post, but changed it to comic sans. Read below, it gets annoying fast.
Comic Sans MS was created for MS Bob. If you don't know what that is, the best equivalent is to think of it as a version of clippy for kids in Windows 3.1. One of the people who saw an early version of Bob noticed that the speech bubbles use Times Roman for the text, and he created a font more fitting the speech bubbles of MS Bob. Thus was born Comic Sans. It sort of ironic in it's way; he created a font because Times Roman was being misused, and now that font is perhaps the most misused font in the world, being used on probably a good percentage of formal documents. I always imagine stuff written in Comic sans as ending every sentence with a little clown honk sound.
Which was fine. When things went overboard was with the inclusion of the font in Windows 95.
Anyway, what is the font for? It's for it's intended purpose- which was to give a friendly and happy appearance to a font used for speech bubbles for a animated dog. The idea is that the font of type sets the tone of the voice speaking it. The characteristics of a typeface convey a meaning beyond the actual text; That's why we use different fonts. When you create an office memo, a "Please use other door" sign, or a diagram such as the one I provided as an example, using a font like Helvetica (Or Arial, it's poor cousin), Impact, or another heavy-stroked, font would be appropriate. Type-setting it with Comic Sans is downright ****ing ridiculous. This misuse is frequent, but unjustified. The very name tells you everything you need to know; it's "voice" as a font convey's silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for almost any purpose. And even for those it would fit with, there are far better fonts to choose from ("I did this!" being a rather good one, but there are dozens of others).
Using Comic sans is like showing up to an event in a clown costume. You wouldn't show up to a company meeting, a funeral, a wedding, or pretty much anything wearing a clown costume, so why do people typeset invitations and memos for the same in the font? The reasons are three: First, they are morons, second, morons will always manage to **** things up, and third, Comic Sans has for no good reason been part of the set of fonts shipped with windows.
I think the best summary is that if you love comic sans, you don't know very much about typography. And if you hate comic sans, you don't know much about typography, either.
Comic sans of course has it's place- 20 years ago in a single application that failed. I actually cannot even think of a good place to use it today; there are other fonts that would suite that purpose much better, and have the added benefit of not being Comic Sans.
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Okay. Thanks for this answer.
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There's you're problem. The only recorder that does games on mac is Screenflick, which is still really slow. And the fact it's a mac doesn't help. My macbook pro (2009) runs it about 50fps, max settings, and about 300fps under bootcamp.
If anything build a windows PC. Here's a nice $550 build (not including monitor, kb, and mouse!): http://teksyndicate.com/videos/build-550-gaming-pc-june-2012
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A bit off subject, but what do you think of Corsair's PSUs? I've been running a TX750 for a while, and you seem to know your stuff.
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He had an older one, not sure, but I think a higher end core2? I know it starts with a Q. And Blender doesn't use Cuda, unless you're rendering with Cycles or SLG.
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6850 actually. The 7850 goes in my old one.
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In blender, when working with more than a few million polys, it slows down a lot, and when I tried on my friends 1600mhz corsair, it was much faster.
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Also, is there anywhere I could cut cost on the rest of the components? Mobo maybe? I'm only planning to do a 3.8ghz OC on the 2500k.
I usually do, but it's bouncy, and I've lost a gfx card to it before (It had major heat problems afterward, kept overheating)
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Cool! I'll revise this and put it in the OP.
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Well, now that I think about it, the reason I wanted to get the h100 was because I was transporting it a lot, and the loki put a lot of stress on the mobo in the car. But since the new one would make my old one moved less, I think I would go for the phanteks. Would that fit on my p8p67 with g.skill ripjaws and their cooling fins?