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Kenny530 wrote...
1440 x 900. I think it could go more but I haven't seen any games that could exceed that.Excuse me, but what the heck are you talking about? I could run Mechwarrior 2 on 1600x1200, which is a 16 year old game. It's just that raising resolution for the heck of it is not worth it, since you won't notice the extra DPI (dot per inch) since the size of your monitor is fixed.
If you say, 1440x900 is the "sweet spot" for your monitor then it's a sensible answer... however this has nothing to do with what games can do.
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Dear FPOD!
I'm sorry that you've taken offense at a clearly sarcastic, offhand post that quoted a well known comedian who frequently used harsh language to ridicule hypocrisy.
I'm genuinely sorry, that I came off as arrogant and ignorant of your arguments. I was trying to argue from a Socratic position of "naive" ignorance that questions anything, but apparently this came off as being lordly and all knowing. This wasn't my intention.
However there are two things I can't do:
-I still have to claim that your arguments have an element of magical thinking to them. You ascribe significance or meaning to an event without rational basis. That is magical thinking. One could also call it bias. Unfortunately even rational arguments can be laden with bias, but accepting one's own biases is a necessity to properly place arguments in context. Instead trying to do so, you've taken offense.
-I also won't apologize in any form or fashion to having hurt either your feelings or ideas. You've failed to provide the same courtesy when you started to call me names and ascribe derogatory terms to my ideas. All I did was make a satirical, clearly off-hand remark in my initial post. I've never specifically ridiculed either your ideas or your person. Demanding respect when you've done just that is juvenile and offensive in turn.
Finally to the gist of my post:
You've failed to outline why natural conception necessitates certain moral obligation from the participants, while artificial allows the destruction of fetuses. You've failed to point out why preventive measures are moral, while reactive measure that lead to the the very same result are immoral. I even pointed out that conception - the fusion of sperm and egg - does take place when certain preventive measures are employed, it's just that the fetus can't embed in the womb due the chemical environment.
I'm *not* saying that your arguments have no merit. In fact I've never said so. The fact that people may use abortions frivolously is a fact one can't argue with.
In my initial post - quoting George Carlin - I pointed out the various burdens that are forced on the person being denied an abortion and how little support traditional conservatives are willing to provide in turn.
This has apparently been entirely lost on you in your indignation of having been called "stupid", whereas you might as well have simply pointed out that you have different reasons for being pro-life.
So here is my bottom line:
I can't accept your argument for the total rejection of abortions of convenience under moral grounds, as you've failed to provide a rational basis for them.
You've argued that rejection of a person's right at any point would unravel civil liberties and that there can't be point when said rights begin as the very idea of limitations leads to a slippery slope.
I provided a counter argument and listed several scenarios - both natural and man-made - where the same event (the killing / death of a fetus) takes place and asked for a rational explanation why those are acceptable while abortion is not. If your argument - that life is sacred from conception - is valid without *any* perquisites, those occasions too should be immoral. I've also asked whether the act of per-mediation vs. reaction was what made one action moral and another immoral.
Your response has been nothing, but to ridicule me and point out that you're an Atheist and therefore your arguments should be rational by default, ie. "not magical"... which doesn't hold water if one is has any familiarity with the various biases that come with the human condition. Being completely rational is *very* hard, as our biases by default are hidden from us.
My belief is that your bias is ascribing a significant meaning to natural conception and later ascribing a special relevance to fetuses resulting from this act.
Feel free to argue me. Feel free to point out my various failing or logical missteps (in fact, I'd be glad if you did so, as those would be beneficial to me). However if you're unwilling to do so, then either stick to your guns and admit your bias or lay off your in-discretionary remarks as they're unbecoming you.
I'm sorry that you've taken offense at a clearly sarcastic, offhand post that quoted a well known comedian who frequently used harsh language to ridicule hypocrisy.
I'm genuinely sorry, that I came off as arrogant and ignorant of your arguments. I was trying to argue from a Socratic position of "naive" ignorance that questions anything, but apparently this came off as being lordly and all knowing. This wasn't my intention.
However there are two things I can't do:
-I still have to claim that your arguments have an element of magical thinking to them. You ascribe significance or meaning to an event without rational basis. That is magical thinking. One could also call it bias. Unfortunately even rational arguments can be laden with bias, but accepting one's own biases is a necessity to properly place arguments in context. Instead trying to do so, you've taken offense.
-I also won't apologize in any form or fashion to having hurt either your feelings or ideas. You've failed to provide the same courtesy when you started to call me names and ascribe derogatory terms to my ideas. All I did was make a satirical, clearly off-hand remark in my initial post. I've never specifically ridiculed either your ideas or your person. Demanding respect when you've done just that is juvenile and offensive in turn.
Finally to the gist of my post:
You've failed to outline why natural conception necessitates certain moral obligation from the participants, while artificial allows the destruction of fetuses. You've failed to point out why preventive measures are moral, while reactive measure that lead to the the very same result are immoral. I even pointed out that conception - the fusion of sperm and egg - does take place when certain preventive measures are employed, it's just that the fetus can't embed in the womb due the chemical environment.
I'm *not* saying that your arguments have no merit. In fact I've never said so. The fact that people may use abortions frivolously is a fact one can't argue with.
In my initial post - quoting George Carlin - I pointed out the various burdens that are forced on the person being denied an abortion and how little support traditional conservatives are willing to provide in turn.
This has apparently been entirely lost on you in your indignation of having been called "stupid", whereas you might as well have simply pointed out that you have different reasons for being pro-life.
So here is my bottom line:
I can't accept your argument for the total rejection of abortions of convenience under moral grounds, as you've failed to provide a rational basis for them.
You've argued that rejection of a person's right at any point would unravel civil liberties and that there can't be point when said rights begin as the very idea of limitations leads to a slippery slope.
I provided a counter argument and listed several scenarios - both natural and man-made - where the same event (the killing / death of a fetus) takes place and asked for a rational explanation why those are acceptable while abortion is not. If your argument - that life is sacred from conception - is valid without *any* perquisites, those occasions too should be immoral. I've also asked whether the act of per-mediation vs. reaction was what made one action moral and another immoral.
Your response has been nothing, but to ridicule me and point out that you're an Atheist and therefore your arguments should be rational by default, ie. "not magical"... which doesn't hold water if one is has any familiarity with the various biases that come with the human condition. Being completely rational is *very* hard, as our biases by default are hidden from us.
My belief is that your bias is ascribing a significant meaning to natural conception and later ascribing a special relevance to fetuses resulting from this act.
Feel free to argue me. Feel free to point out my various failing or logical missteps (in fact, I'd be glad if you did so, as those would be beneficial to me). However if you're unwilling to do so, then either stick to your guns and admit your bias or lay off your in-discretionary remarks as they're unbecoming you.
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dalester23 wrote...
1620x900 im pretty confused tho, when i play games, i see Reresh Rate. It was set to 60 but i see higher like 75. if i make it 75 what happens?Nothing, you own a TFT monitor. Refresh rate has almost no effect on those, as they show a still picture between re-draws.
CRT monitors needed to produce higher refresh rates - preferably at least a 100 Hz - as their picture fades between re-draws, causing a "flicker" if the redraws didn't happen soon enough.
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The stem cells making up a zygote are not as special as you'd like to believe FPOD. Stem cells have the same genome as any other kind of cell. I specifically compared them to reproductive cells, as the later too have the ability to become a person, so they too are "special" in a way.
However I feel you ascribe a "magical" attribute to these cells - the "spark of life", instead a mere phenomenon of being able to diversify and and fill specific templates contained within the genome.
You also ascribe a significant "magical" meaning to the act of having sex. Even though today the same "magic" (or sacred act, or whatever value you ascribe to sex) can take place in a petri-dish and has in fact resulted in healthy people who were conceived this way.
During the process or artificial insemination, dozens of zygotes are destroyed. Yet I don't see pro-life people demanding an end to the programs, as these "create life", instead destroying it as they perceive it...
Whereas I see the bottom line not so different:
-Artifical insemination: dozens of zygotes destroyed, couple of zygotes implaneted... implantation often fails, leading to lots of destroyed zygotes.
-Abortus: destruction of a single zygote, preferably as early as possible to mitigate emotional trauma to the mother and medical complication from the process itself.
You also seem to ascribe an "absolute" morality to the act willfully having sex - if you have sex, you're bound to carry it term. Why? What inherent quality of sex necessitates this morality? We *do* have technologies that mitigate the risk of unwanted pregnancy and using those seems "fine" by your morality... why are post-coital measures - morning after pill, abortion - sinful by comparison?
One could only accept that logic, if the act of fertilization has an inherent "magic" to it... like God granting a soul.
However even that logic doesn't hold up when one examines the practice of what Pro-life people consider acceptable and unacceptable.
Preventive measures make the fertilization of the egg by a sperm unlikely... however some preventive measures don't work like that! IUDs work by preventing the embedding of the zygote into the womb! How is that different from removing the zygote before it can develop?
However I feel you ascribe a "magical" attribute to these cells - the "spark of life", instead a mere phenomenon of being able to diversify and and fill specific templates contained within the genome.
You also ascribe a significant "magical" meaning to the act of having sex. Even though today the same "magic" (or sacred act, or whatever value you ascribe to sex) can take place in a petri-dish and has in fact resulted in healthy people who were conceived this way.
During the process or artificial insemination, dozens of zygotes are destroyed. Yet I don't see pro-life people demanding an end to the programs, as these "create life", instead destroying it as they perceive it...
Whereas I see the bottom line not so different:
-Artifical insemination: dozens of zygotes destroyed, couple of zygotes implaneted... implantation often fails, leading to lots of destroyed zygotes.
-Abortus: destruction of a single zygote, preferably as early as possible to mitigate emotional trauma to the mother and medical complication from the process itself.
You also seem to ascribe an "absolute" morality to the act willfully having sex - if you have sex, you're bound to carry it term. Why? What inherent quality of sex necessitates this morality? We *do* have technologies that mitigate the risk of unwanted pregnancy and using those seems "fine" by your morality... why are post-coital measures - morning after pill, abortion - sinful by comparison?
One could only accept that logic, if the act of fertilization has an inherent "magic" to it... like God granting a soul.
However even that logic doesn't hold up when one examines the practice of what Pro-life people consider acceptable and unacceptable.
Preventive measures make the fertilization of the egg by a sperm unlikely... however some preventive measures don't work like that! IUDs work by preventing the embedding of the zygote into the womb! How is that different from removing the zygote before it can develop?
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Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
say what! wrote...
Imagine this a woman is raped by a random man or her own father(which has happened) and becomes pregnant so what should she do? statistics place the number of abortions due to rape and incest around 13,000 of 1.3 million abortions. That's about 1%. Better to base your argument on something that isn't the rarest of occasions.
Flaser wrote...
Most of you Pro-Life idiots can be summed up like thisI am disappointed because I expected better from you. Apparently I'm an idiot for thinking people have a right to live. Going to call me a religious zealot next?
Flaser wrote...
Am I the only one who thinks it gross and utterly villainous to force a woman to carry several pounds of burden, be forced have trouble (and sometimes pain) peeing, then force said package through her vagooo - her most sensitive part - just because the state demands it?Fuck it, it's not a person, it's just a collection of cells. A woman shouldn't have to undergo that kind of pain and suffering for some vague "inherent value of life" you crackpots ascribe to. Try delivering a baby first, or heck just carry it around for a couple of months... let's see how your tune will be then.
Am I the only one who thinks it gross and utterly villainous to arbitrarily end someones life because someone's convenience demands it?
"just a collection of cells" need I remind you good sir that you and I are "just a collection of cells" so, if that "collection of cells" doesn't have a right to live then I could justify killing you for my own convenience. I mean, you ARE just a collection of cells.
Let me ask you this Flaser (or abortion supporters in general). Do you have a right to live? Does a 18 year old have a right to live? How about 16? 8? 4? 2? 1? Anywhere along that line the right to live cease to function? I assume you'll say no and that they all have the right to live without being arbitrarily deprived of their lives. So where does being "a bunch of cells" become a human being? Is it a functioning brain? a beating heart? or does this "bunch of cells" only gain the right to live once it sees the lights of the delivery room?
Since it is just a "bunch of cells" do you support amending legislation so a person is not charged with double homicide in the case of a pregnant woman's murder? Murder by definition is killing another human being. It's illogical to charge a person with murder for killing "a bunch of cells"
Your argument FPOD is fallacious, because you don't make a distinction between a bunch of cells without any inherent function - what a zygote is - and one that has distinct characteristics that make up what we call a person.
I believe person-hood is established when the brain is formed. One could go into deeper arguments whether it need consciousness or experience to call it a person, however having a brain is pre-condition. So a zygote that hasn't developed to a degree where it has a brain can't be called a person... it's no different from any other scraping of cells you loose during a day.
Using your logic, I could argue that masturbation is murder, since thousands of sperms are wasted that had the *potential* to be a person. Any menstruating woman is also committing murder, as she just wasted the *potential* for her eggs to become a person.
Here's one more tidbit: a lot of pregnancies end is miscarriage and no-one are wiser as the zygote is expelled during normal menstruation. It's just a fact of life, that not all zygotes manage to embed themselves in the wall of the womb.
Whether late/mid term abortion kills a "person" is debatable... I have to agree to that, it's hard to draw a line when the fetus is developed enough to have a "functioning" brain...
...however outright rejecting abortion (except for extreme moral reasons) is just as, if not more abhorrent.
There's no valid reason - beside ones based on faith - that should prevent early abortions, as what you destroy at that point is no different from getting your hair cut or a teeth removed.
A zygote in the first trimester simply lacks all qualities that'd make a person.
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Age wrote...
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Age wrote...
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Age wrote...
I was wondering if my computer is connected to the internet and if I were to connect my 360 to it would I be able to connect my 360 to the internet. Or is there an other ways of getting DLC with out connecting you 360.also what is the usage rate of gaming on live like?
Just get a fucking router and put the X-Box in a DMZ... or Google which ports you need to forward to your gaming brick.
I don't have normal internet where I could use a router. I'm just wondering if I did what I said would it work?
Excuse me, but that's not possible.
Actually come to think about it I didn't know what a router was till now. How exactly do they work like would it work with mobile broadband.
Getting mobile broadband (I assume it's an USB stick) to work with a router is tricky, but can be done if the router has been smartened by a linux firmware like DD-WRT or OpenWRT. Of course this can only be done with a number of routers.
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Age wrote...
Flaser wrote...
Age wrote...
I was wondering if my computer is connected to the internet and if I were to connect my 360 to it would I be able to connect my 360 to the internet. Or is there an other ways of getting DLC with out connecting you 360.also what is the usage rate of gaming on live like?
Just get a fucking router and put the X-Box in a DMZ... or Google which ports you need to forward to your gaming brick.
I don't have normal internet where I could use a router. I'm just wondering if I did what I said would it work?
Excuse me, but that's not possible.
Flaser
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Am I the only one who thinks it gross and utterly villainous to force a woman to carry several pounds of burden, be forced have trouble (and sometimes pain) peeing, then force said package through her vagooo - her most sensitive part - just because the state demands it?
Fuck it, it's not a person, it's just a collection of cells. A woman shouldn't have to undergo that kind of pain and suffering for some vague "inherent value of life" you crackpots ascribe to. Try delivering a baby first, or heck just carry it around for a couple of months... let's see how your tune will be then.
Fuck it, it's not a person, it's just a collection of cells. A woman shouldn't have to undergo that kind of pain and suffering for some vague "inherent value of life" you crackpots ascribe to. Try delivering a baby first, or heck just carry it around for a couple of months... let's see how your tune will be then.
Flaser
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Most of you Pro-Life idiots can be summed up like this:
"Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach 'military age'. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. Pro-life... You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you? No, you don't see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do. And you won't see a lot of these pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire. You know, morally committed people in South Vietnam knew how to stage a god-damned demonstration, didn't they? They knew how to put on a fuckin' protest. Light yourself on fire! Come on, you moral crusaders, let's see a little smoke to match that fire in your belly." - George Carlin, Back in Town (1996)
...or course this isn't surprizing when you jackasses, just have no idea how much money Uncle Sam sands your way. In fact you believe you're "pulling your own weight" or "making your own way" ...even while you subsist on government programs:
http://www.good.is/post/americans-have-no-idea-how-much-welfare-they-re-getting/

...those are percentages of the population receiving some form of government "handout". Ponder that for a moment, before you start your libertarian crusade.
"Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach 'military age'. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. Pro-life... You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you? No, you don't see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do. And you won't see a lot of these pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire. You know, morally committed people in South Vietnam knew how to stage a god-damned demonstration, didn't they? They knew how to put on a fuckin' protest. Light yourself on fire! Come on, you moral crusaders, let's see a little smoke to match that fire in your belly." - George Carlin, Back in Town (1996)
...or course this isn't surprizing when you jackasses, just have no idea how much money Uncle Sam sands your way. In fact you believe you're "pulling your own weight" or "making your own way" ...even while you subsist on government programs:
http://www.good.is/post/americans-have-no-idea-how-much-welfare-they-re-getting/

...those are percentages of the population receiving some form of government "handout". Ponder that for a moment, before you start your libertarian crusade.
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Age wrote...
I was wondering if my computer is connected to the internet and if I were to connect my 360 to it would I be able to connect my 360 to the internet. Or is there an other ways of getting DLC with out connecting you 360.also what is the usage rate of gaming on live like?
Just get a fucking router and put the X-Box in a DMZ... or Google which ports you need to forward to your gaming brick.
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RinTsuchimi wrote...
Flaser wrote...
RinTsuchimi wrote...
If you still want to stick with the LGA 775 mobo. Buy a Core 2 Quad. Not sure if it will work though, you will have to update your BIOS for it to support it. As for your video card, the GeForce FX 5200 is PCI, not PCI Express. It might also be AGP. There really isn't a good upgrade for the graphics card. Might be better off buying a cheap LGA 775 motherboard with PCI exress with a good card and a core 2 quad, or an 1155 with a core i3 and a decent card if you don't like the i3's integrated graphics. I've built computers for friends for less than $300. Which included the an i3 processor, 4gb ram, and a decent sized hard drive. Buddy you're waaaay too late to the party.
1. His motherboard doesn't support most *dual* core CPUs, much less quad. (No, it *can't* be forced!)
2. His GPU is AGP based.
3. Investing in LGA775 is a waste of money. (All in all "investing" in IT hardware is a waste of money. Computers are not fine wines, they don't get better with age). If he buys a new MOBO he should buy one that has a couple of years of upgradability in it.
I learned something new about mobos today. By the way, would it be better getting an Intel motherboard, or AMD one? Considering upgradibility and such. I'm really a newbie knowing the differences between the two.
It's up to your religion. Right now Intel has a broader range of CPUs that go with their 1156 socket. AMD by comparison has a history of supporting sockets longer, so their new CPUs will probably work fine with the AM3+ socket.
AMD tends to dominate the low-end as their configurations are cheaper. Intel dominates the high end, and in that (price) quarter their CPUs are just better (at the moment).
...but in the end it's up to your religion. Wheter you baptize in the church of Intel or you ascribe to the gospel of AMD is up to you, as there's no true objective reason why one should stick with either brand.
Thus spoke the Intel acolyte.
Flaser
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RinTsuchimi wrote...
If you still want to stick with the LGA 775 mobo. Buy a Core 2 Quad. Not sure if it will work though, you will have to update your BIOS for it to support it. As for your video card, the GeForce FX 5200 is PCI, not PCI Express. It might also be AGP. There really isn't a good upgrade for the graphics card. Might be better off buying a cheap LGA 775 motherboard with PCI exress with a good card and a core 2 quad, or an 1155 with a core i3 and a decent card if you don't like the i3's integrated graphics. I've built computers for friends for less than $300. Which included the an i3 processor, 4gb ram, and a decent sized hard drive. Buddy you're waaaay too late to the party.
1. His motherboard doesn't support most *dual* core CPUs, much less quad. (No, it *can't* be forced!)
2. His GPU is AGP based.
3. Investing in LGA775 is a waste of money. (All in all "investing" in IT hardware is a waste of money. Computers are not fine wines, they don't get better with age). If he buys a new MOBO he should buy one that has a couple of years of upgradability in it.
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rober2 wrote...
Spoiler:
Just re-read this, and I had to ask; how'd you know my current PSU would suffice? I don't even know anything about my current PSU...
Open up your PC. There tends to be a "big damn sticker" on the PSU (the metal brick in the back) that tells you its wattage. If you can't read it, you might have to loosen the PSU (it's usually attached via screws in the back) and turn it around 'til you find the sticker. Usually you don't have to detach the cables to do this, but take care not to yank anything out.
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Tsurayu wrote...
1600x900 by way of a 20" HP LED widescreen montior. I hope you realize, the LED part tells *nothing* about the picture quality? It's just a marketing gimmick, like those obscene dynamic contrast ratios or response times for TN panels.
The LED refers to the light source, as they use LEDs instead a single fluorescent light bulb. Frankly the effects of this have been way exaggerated. The biggest plus for LED lights is they last a lot longer.
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rober2 wrote...
er... noob question alert:what is:
PSU?
GPU?
MOBO?
Edit:
PSU: Some sort of cooling piece of hardware to keep the PC cool?
GPU: Graphics card?
MOBO: Motherboard?
Did I get it right?
PSU = Power Supply Unit. The thing you plug everything into that gives 'em power. (...and into which you plug your power outlet). 500-600W is enough for anything. The reason why manufacturers recommend high wattage PSUs is because most "cheap" models are *very* wonky. When put under a proper load, their effective wattage can be as low as 1/2 of what the tag says. Buying a reliable model from a reliable vendor is the way to go. Never be frugal when buying a PSU! A cheap one can fry your whole system if it goes kaput.
GPU = Graphic Processing Unit. In other words, thumbs up, this is indeed the graphics card.
MOBO = Motherboard. Two thumbs up so far.
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rober2 wrote...
Spoiler:
Hmmm... well, I was thinking the line of around $330.00... think I can get anything nice with this much?
If you're strapped for cash you better go with AMD. (This was said by an Intel fanatic, woe what the world has come to!)
Check this huge poster for wisdom:

You probably don't need a case, and your old PSU will suffice.
Please note that since games are usually developed for consoles and *then* ported to PC (provided the port is not a hackjob, a'la Halo series) even Modest configurations are more than adequate for gaming. Will it play everything on max? No. Will it look good? Yes.
PS.: SLI & Crossfire are GIMMICKs. You're better off just buying a newer video-card and selling your old one on e-bay.
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Neruku wrote...
Flaser wrote...
Neruku wrote...
ASpamPanzerGrenadier wrote...
Ex got mindfucked over my size, she paused for a bit when she saw it. I was all "they don't lie now, don't they" :Ppencil on penis or it didn't happened!
*coffee*
awkward sex stories...where do I even start!..oh well I have a painful one, I fell off the bad with all my might on my bum and had probably fractured my coccyx, It hurt like hell, I didn't go to a doctor, you can't get a cast on your coccyx anyway, he was freaked out and apologizing all thou it wasn't his fault at all....
Although a cast can't be made for a cock, anti-coagulants may be injected into the corpus cavernosum preventing the forming of blood-clots. The later may lead to erectile dysfunction, painful erection or the loss of the penis is blood flow is impeded. Surgical intervention can also be used to correct the situation.
So what you did was probably the most irresponsible, foolish thing you could've done. Moral of the story: if your (or your boyfriend's) dick ever suffers a mishap, immediately seek medical attention!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_penis
I'm female and I was talking about my tailbone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx
and btw I'm a medic myself so...
FACEPALM! ...I've really put my foot in my mouth this time, didn't I? I hereby award you 100 cookies of righteous indignation, with factual supremacy icing. Still, I can't help but wonder what would've happened if you lived in a place where health-care is free and universal.
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Neruku wrote...
ASpamPanzerGrenadier wrote...
Ex got mindfucked over my size, she paused for a bit when she saw it. I was all "they don't lie now, don't they" :Ppencil on penis or it didn't happened!
*coffee*
awkward sex stories...where do I even start!..oh well I have a painful one, I fell off the bad with all my might on my bum and had probably fractured my coccyx, It hurt like hell, I didn't go to a doctor, you can't get a cast on your coccyx anyway, he was freaked out and apologizing all thou it wasn't his fault at all....
Although a cast can't be made for a cock, anti-coagulants may be injected into the corpus cavernosum preventing the forming of blood-clots. The later may lead to erectile dysfunction, painful erection or the loss of the penis is blood flow is impeded. Surgical intervention can also be used to correct the situation.
So what you did was probably the most irresponsible, foolish thing you could've done. Moral of the story: if your (or your boyfriend's) dick ever suffers a mishap, immediately seek medical attention!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_penis
Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
rober2 wrote...
yyyyeah, guess what; I was too stupid in the past when I told my dad that I won't be needing a DVD-rom drive... I'm regretting that decision now ;A;Optical drives are dirt cheap, as long as you don't want Bluray, one can be had as cheap as 20$. Having noticed the actual title of the topic, I could finally confirm that your motherboard only has an AGP slot.
All in all if you *need* a better PC for gaming you should invest in either an AM3+ board (if you ascribe to the AMD religion) or an LGA 1156 board (if you sacrifice your innocence to Intel).
I've also checked out what your motherboard could accept... well it can't even accept a lousy E5200, budget-rated Dual-Core chip. The board is just too old/was a low-end bargain (more like dumpster) bin "wonder" to begin with.
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Biostar/P4M800_Pro-M7_1.x_7.x.html
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Biostar/P4M800_Pro-M7_8.0.html
Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
rober2 wrote...
My current Processor and Graphics card is as follows:Intel Pentium 4 506
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Can someone give me a list of what I can use?
Edit: Let's say we're replacing the Motherboard; will the HDD/Processor/graphics card be compatible with other motherboards in this timeline or will I need to replace those too? And what's a decent Motherboard that's nice and not too expensive?
Getting a big hammer and crushing your own own balls is less painful in the long run than buying a motherboard to support obsolete hardware. Your CPU uses the LGA775 slot - almost 2 generations behind current tech. Does your GPU use PCI-E? If it uses AGP then it's waaaay too old for gaming.
Frankly both your CPU & GPU are worth very little. You're better off just buying low-end modern hardware then crippling your future upgrades with yet another LGA775 motherboard.
You could do two things:
1. Buy the maximum harware your currect motherboard supports. (If it doesn't have a PCI-E slot I wouldn't bother et all).
2. Get a new config. This means a new motherboard, CPU, GPU and maybe a hard disk + optical drive too if you've been using IDE drives so far.