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Pemptus on 5/7/2011 at 10:38

Quote Posted by Koki

You sure?

I'm surely sure. I'm also assured that I lost my thesaurus and the ability to using grammar.

Yakoob on 5/7/2011 at 11:22

This is from a few pages back but going back to Koki's Fear install.

If multiple games use shared components (i.e. fear and expansion, HL2 and lost coast/tf2/etc) then when you download one, they all "download" because they share components, so the % downloaded increases on all of them. This doesn't mean the expansions are neccessarily installing, though, just that a good chunk of what they would need to download to work (i.e. Fear 1) is already that much downloaded.

lost_soul on 5/7/2011 at 21:39

The upside to buying all your games used is that you can consider buyign motherboards like this: (http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-990X-SB950-Motherboard-GA-990XA-UD3/dp/B0055QYKQ4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1309901875&sr=8-2)

*support for up to 32 GB of RAM
*supports both Crossfire and SLI
*6 SATA3 ports
*probably supports 8-core CPUs (bulldozer) too

Minion21g on 5/7/2011 at 22:04

AI War for 5 bucks? yes please.

EvaUnit02 on 5/7/2011 at 22:38

Gigabyte make absolutely appalling quality motherboards. Avoid like the plague.

Jason Moyer on 5/7/2011 at 23:39

Gigabyte's motherboards are as good as anyone else's, just depends on the model. As with anything hardware-related you just have to read as much about it as you can.

EvaUnit02 on 6/7/2011 at 00:09

Nope, Gigabyte mobos (http://www.gpforums.co.nz/showthread.php?threadid=329643) absolutely eat. Unreliable junk.

Lost_soul, do yourself a favour and get a Asus, EVGA or DFI mobo.

Jason Moyer on 6/7/2011 at 01:31

I've built tons of systems with Gigabyte boards and never had a problem. *shrug*

Of course, typically the quality of a mobo is down to the chipset and design, and that varies board-to-board and manufacturer-to-manufacturer.

Nameless Voice on 6/7/2011 at 01:59

Is this supposed badness a recent thing? My Gigabyte P35 motherboard is just fine, never given me any trouble?

lost_soul on 6/7/2011 at 02:40

Well I've had this (http://www.amazon.com/MSI-125W-CPU-Support-870-G45-Motherboard/dp/B003UT0S1E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309919936&sr=8-1) http://www.amazon.com/MSI-125W-CPU-Support-870-G45-Motherboard/dp/B003UT0S1E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309919936&sr=8-1870-g45 for the past six months and it has been rock solid, but I want to rebuild an old PC and I could hand down my current board to that system.

I went with a cheaper board because AM3+ was about to come out and I didn't want to pay a lot for a board that would have no upgrade path in a couple months anyway.