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Sadly, it has been fed into some minds by the market mumbo jumbo that expensive is necessarily and staggeringly better. To be honest, for a lot of people, their choice in selecting a good pair of cans/iems is limited by their own choice.
I use a creative EP 630 and it's one of the best iem's...
I'd suggest the Lian Li PC A71F or the A70F Full tower case. Mine's just reached India straight from Taiwan and I just can't wait. Here's what both the cases look like:
http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/flashpage/a70f&a71f/
For reviews, you can hit these links...
HD2 is pretty much = any phone killer. It's like a netbook further shrunk in size with a 1GHz snapdragon. But my gripe is WinMo 6.5. The whole purpose is beaten if i have to go to the XDA forums or DuttyThroy.net and install a custom ROM. Sounds the same as Jailbreaking an iPhone to be able to...
I'm talking more from the perspective of pro-gaming than just casual gaming. The user-base might be bigger than PC now but consoles still don't have CPL, ESWC, WCG, Quakecon, ESL and the likes. Admitted that most of them faded due to the recession but these events should be constant reminders...
As far as your proc is concerned, since you're looking at an upgrade, you could get the Athlon II X4 (Quad Core) which is a sub-$100 processor. You're better off with a 600 - 650 Watt PSU and channel the rest of the funds towards RAM and other stuff or just save it :)
They do make a difference. Afterall, the community is a game's bread and butter. The community drives the game. That's why, tournaments get sponsors because the game has a strong community.
Plenty of people on here, including me have been loyal to the COD series, spending our hard earned cash...
I bet half of the COD fanatics are either going to fall back to playing COD2 and COD4 or shut the door on this franchise completely. COD = MP for me. I play it on every local LAN event and have one coming up in November with COD4 (sponsored) and COD2 (un-sponsored) tourneys. What a disgrace.
@OP: No one needs to flame you mate. Several threads on different forums are full of Eff you IW/Activision. I'm glad you brought this up.
Scrims will be a big problem with no control on dedicated servers. Also, let's not forget that there always will be morons who'll abuse the callvote...
@OP: You have to realize that 2 different developers are working on the same series, Infinity Ward + Activision doing mostly the even numbers (COD2, COD4) and Treyarch doing the Odd ones. It definitely offers more variety because one developer is continuously working on the old school World War...