I've got an i7 920 on a Asus P6T6 WS Revolution . It's watercooled on a corsair h100, rock solid at 4ghz+.
I'm in FL, but I'm pretty sure I'm way out of your budget.
Adblock plus and element hiding helper is your friend. Pretty good for "deleting" annoying content on any website.
Don't like a sidebar, pop up text banner or whatever, just delete it.
I really like how amazon has jacked up all the prices the past few days to not only negate the coupon, but to make them even more expensive to buy now with the coupon than before it was usable.
Perhaps whiny dev show program a game to work and stop wasting time putting in money grabbing features the studios or some bureaucrat wants. Stop bothering with DRM and ditch the paid DLC and stop releasing shit before it's ready just to meet a release schedule and fail over and over to patch it...
Using high res textures is fairly easy and gpus can do bump mapping on the fly with static lighting and contrast. Making it usable in a game from any angle or lightsource is another story though.
we are probably one a few years away from mainstream gpu being available that are able to render...
Yay, now you can have an encrypted USB stick that will die a few months after you purchase it.
<PSA>every kingston usb stick I've owned has died, been RMA'd a few times and died again shortly thereafter. cheaper and much less headaches just to buy another stick from someone else, rather than...
youtube just needs to make it really easy to claim fair use and tell the content people to fark off, and offer to pay the legal bills of obvious fair use dmca claims a few times and sue the hell out of the media companies and this BS will end really quickly.
I'll gladly pay tax and even a higher price to have amazons speedy shipping, customer service and return policy. Newegg is shiat now. 2-3 days delay in shipping. Repacked returns with missing or broken items sold as new. Non existent or form letter cs after a 3 day wait and an rma process that's...