I have exactly the same HSF as Bronco, the Zalman 7000 Al/Cu one installed on a P4. Idling I get 28C and after playing BF1942 for a couple of hours it gets to 35C (thats if I avoid DVT :D). However, this is also in a Thermaltake 1000A case with 9 fans !

I was also nervous at installing the sucker but, in the end, it was really easy. For a P4 you put a couple of aluminium bars across the motherboard mounting points and then screw it onto the bars. As Bronco said, due the sprung mounting design it's nigh on impossible to overtighten the HSF onto the chip.

The only word of caution I have is that this sucker is big and heavy, around 445g, the Intel reference designs for HSF mounting state that 450g is the max and the socket 462 on 300g ! Be careful if you have to move your PC once it's installed.

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I was under the impression that poodles have a few temperament issues, being more a bit more aggresive than the average dog.

At least for BF1942 and its mods if you use an external browser like ASE or HLSW you automatically skip the splash screens.

EA isn't so bad, I was just disappointed with the lack of features now considered standard on games designed specifically for multiplay and the speed (or lack thereof) of implementation. I'm talking specifically about an easy to use in-game admin interface, voice communications and cheat detection.

I think that of all the aspects of CoD the few cut-scenes that exist really stick out in my mind as the most memorable parts of the game.

Gliding down into the French countryside and listening to the pilot/copilot banter.

Not to mention what I consider one of the best gaming moments ever.. the crossing of the Volga and the subsequent shelling of the German positions... watching those artillery shells arc over the river was one of the most beautiful sights I've seen in a long while.

The newer bluetooth (2.4Ghz?) cordless mice and keyboards from MS and Logitech are meant to add no perceptable lag to gaming. The older ones definitely had some issues.

I'm sorry but there are some genres that just can't be translated as well to consoles. Looking Glass/Ion Storm games fit well into this catagory. System Shock 1/2 are (arguably) the finest computer games ever created. Deus Ex 1 was in the same league but look what happened when the developer tried to convert this into something playable on the Xbox... DX2. IMO this game has one of the most poorly constructed, most confusing interfaces I've come across. It was clearly constructed to allow gamepads to be used as a controller and has lost the finess of the original.

Most of the other genres are of the sim variety... flight sims, "life" sims, etc.

The biggest difference between consoles and PC is the users. To make a broad generalisation console users want instant gratification, action, colour, noise, etc. PC users don't mind doing a bit of scut work to learn a game if, in the long run, it improves their experience.

As for games that have been fun over the last year or so, I can immediately think of BF1942 (and the mod scene, Desert Combat is great), Tron 2.0, Call of Duty, IL2:FB and HL and Quake mods, my personal favourite mod is Firearms for HL. If I really thought about it I could probably name a few more....

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I can't remember, it's been a while since my Q3A days but was punkbuster actually incorporated into the Q3A engine or is it used as a 3rd party program (like Cheating-Death for HL) ?

It's my understanding that, if it's built into the game PB will automatically be turned on for all servers and clients. Thus the situation where you try to join a non PB server wont exist.

I wonder how this will screw up Desert Combat and EoE mods

ve never understood people using the cursor keys - with WASD your arm is in a much more comfortable position, and you've got a lot more keys in close proximity to assign to other functions (thumb for Alt and spacebar - Alt is always my 'use' key - left little finger for shift & ctrl, E,Q,R,F,C etc all in easy reach).

Firstly, happy birthday Blue. I hope that someday we'll be celebrating anti-birthdays where you get one year younger (well at least until you hit 18 again) but until then good luck with your crusade to opt-out of birthday spam.

Secondly, I've been using the arrowkeys for playing fps since Doom. This is because I'm a lefty and I find that my elbows are at the wrong angle if I use the "wasd" configuration. This isn't that much of a problem as I have long fingers and can easily use the surrounding keys for nearly all game functions. One particular boon has been the invention of the 5 button mouse, now nearly all my main action keys can be put on there (except for Q3 or Q3 based games as it doesn't support them )

Finally, re the auction of the day. I wonder if the model comes with the boxed set ?

EDIT:speelling doh! :p
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Funnily enough my wife got given one of those foodsavers the author mentions and it is actually really good at keeping food for longer than normal... chips, cheese, salads. Just don't put bread in it like I did (or at least dont use the vacuum)... the resulting hardened mess is quite difficult to clean up

@ #5 - Quake 3 originally had smp support but from what I understand one of the more recent patches broke it, enabling smp now gives worse performance!

@ #13 - I would love to get Crusader no Remorse, Crusader no Regret and Syndicate working in XP Pro but, alas, even in compatibilty mode they wont.

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Blue, my wife works at a grocery store in Putnam County ("upstate" NY :D) and is required by company policy to card everyone that appears to be under the age of 30. She tends to get 2 responses to the questions. Those that are flattered, usually 25-35 women and those that get huffy, usually 21+ males especially if they forgot their drivers license. If she doesn't ask then she can be fired.

In the UK I believe they use the "Scandanvian test". After 9(10?)pm UK TV shows are free to show nudity, however the male form isn't allowed to be elevated higher than the angle of the Scandanavian countries to Europe. I, too, wonder who works all this out

I guess its the same the world over... here is the US version

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Being up in Putnam county we also caught that storm. The power was only restored at 9am this morning and the phone is still out.

Still we're better off than the house 3 up from us which got hit by lightning and totally destroyed by the subsequent fire.

Needless to say we had somewhat of a hectic night.

I'm more concerned about the line that states that if too much ghost radiation is pumped into a quantum wormhole a new universe is created. What happens to our universe - instant anhilation I bet.

Has anyone ever thought that our universe was created by now long dead alien scientists trying out the same experiment.

This seems to be another re-telling of a very popular urban myth, I remember hearing this a number of years ago.

It's pretty similar to the one about the elderly owner who, after recently purchasing a microwave, tried to dry off her wet pet in it. With disasterous results.

The again just because something is an urban myth doesn't mean it didn't actually happen.

So, was the April Fools joke the fact that it's now called Pinks News or the fact that it was down from Friday til now.

Hope you had a nice break from work Blue

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I find it funny that Blue goes off on spam mail and then has advertising promoting ways to earn 4000 a week if you only click on the link.

I know that he has to pay for our continued enjoyment of this site but it just seemed ironic.

Blue

You do realise this is a FULL copy of your site as at time of capture. I don't know if the archive function is working but pressing ealier news at the bottom the page lets you go back even further. Found the announcement that Quakeworld had been released (and the master server subsequently collapsed as 4000 people trieds to use it). I went back to before Thanksgiving 1996 before I started to get problems with accessing the site, the volume of users was too high..etc.

Mirsky
No sig just a SSG

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Try the freeware program AdAware, this can be found here http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . It removes spyware and certain cookies (like the ones certain media companies use to track your browsing habits).

Be careful though, sometimes removing Gator stops the program that installed it from working
Mirsky