Dr.Minky

Couldn't agree more, particularly with being 16, thats like a turning point in maturity I think. You either become more responsible or go downhill and stay childish haha I understand when people apply that are say 14, that has to be taken into consideration, but theres a big big difference when you're 17. People forget that even Clavus was something like 18 when he owned the forums or something like that (according to Peon) Good luck with your application Lzize

Keep in mine the EA servers have always been a bit crap, similar thing happend when BF:BC2 came out, maybe the servers will settle down in a while like they did last time

Ah, I didn't know he was spending 1000+ when I suggested all that haha, he said about 850 originally which would of fit in nicely with those parts Yeah I have a 500W power supply too, not TOO sure what the difference is apart from more pins, which you might need if you ever got (for example) multiple graphics cards and such. Since your spending so much more now, get a better AM3+ mother board and definately a better graphics card. Personally I'd get more than 300 if I were you cause I'd fill that up pretty quick in the long run, but a great suggestion with your extra money to spend would be a hybrid hard drive instead of a HDD one, basically its a HDD drive with a few gig of solid state inside it too, so can store lots of data and loads/writes quicker too, so you have both the perks! Not too sure on the prices for them however, I'd have to check Don't rush into buying the parts, make sure you know EXACTLY what the best parts you can get are for your price and check it over with everyone on here too, at the very least to make sure all the parts are compatible (sometimes you can't use certain brands together), half the people here have home built computers too, I'm not an expert or anything myself EDIT: NEARLY FORGOT! Get some thermal paste if you don't have some already! It goes on your CPU and makes it cool much more efficiently, kinda a must have, only costs like £6/£7 maybe for some good stuff

Maybe you could do something similar to the TF2 server, with the upgrades you can buy if possible, but advertise this server more on YouTube and stuff, it'd only need like 1 video, then people might see it and join the community and donate to it? Ill probably donate a few times after christmas when I have more disposable money, just to help out haha. I'd certainly regularly donate if I were to play bf3 but I dont think I will for a few months probably..

Yeah this will serve you well for the next 5 years at least, its a top mid-range PC, mine has the same specs as this but a different case and I dont have the solid state hard drive yet (To back up what I said before, a solid state will probably boot up in about 15 seconds instead of over a minute), I would of got this case but I like being able to see inside it and go "mmmmmm" May get a case like this next time I upgrade, but that wont be for a while.. Before you order the parts make sure you pick a power supply as I said!!! No point having a computer without a power supply, I'm sure you can pick one yourself And yes you definitely need a cooler haha, With the money left over (-like 50 for the power supply or something) I'd say you could get a better graphics card maybe, or get a faster/bigger hard drive to store stuff on, but then you may want to save it and buy a decent monitor if you don't have one already, or as I said you could buy some games with it like battlefield 3 or skyrim or something, And if you like get a different motherboard thats AM3+ like he said if you want to upgrade it in the future as they can take higher voltages for the CPU and such, though I dont know if you'd want to upgrade anything for quite a while with this from what you've said.. The motherboard is always replaceable it wouldn't really affect any of the other parts. I've been using an original mac minnie with no graphics card, only a 70gb hard drive if it were completely wiped and 2gb of ram, one of which is broken, so getting this computer for me is like YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAA You're welcome xox

Wouldn't that be exactly the same with what this guy is suggesting already?

I take it you want the full gaming rig look too? There are decent fans which look awesome too so you can get both for pretty much the same price anyway. Any prices I post are just the prices that I've found but it may be a lil' bit different for you Here's a few things now for you, though I'm sure other greenies can suggest better alternatives, its still a good start. I don't know too much about water cooling either but it sounds like you want a mid range gaming PC so its not the end of the world if you dont have water cooling. Also I prefer AMD but other guys might have intel suggestions if thats what you want to get, I'm just gonna list everything and you can pick and choose NZXT Phantom Full Tower Case - This case is fairly expensive, about £110, BUT it does come with fans already and looks fucking awesome so its totally worth it, I spent about £45 on my cause and £35 on fans so its only a little bit more for something that looks much better. Comes in white black red and PINK! White looks the best imo AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition - 3.4Ghz, quad core and the best in its price range in terms of CPUs, is good for overclocking too it can be put up to about 3.7 £105 Corsair DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance - Ram, get 2x4gb if you want 8, thats about £45 if you get them in a bundle. Veeeery good make of ram, works well Sapphire HD 6870 1GB - Graphics card, its quite a good mid range one, you might want to get a better one though, £148 MSI 870A-G54 Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard - A good and reliable mother board, nothing to fault with it really, and it has a built in soundboard so you dont need a sound card unless you want surround sound or something hard core like that. (I got mine for £50 but I think that was just a really really good deal, its probably more like £70-£80 For a hard drive, thats really up to you, I dont know what you use your memory for. I'd recommend getting a 1 or 2tb HDD hard drive to store all your crap on which is anything between £40 and £100 depending on the brand, which will probably be fairly slow loading, but thats not something that bothers me. Get whatever is best for you, mine was just a samsung spinpoint 1tb or something like that, Then I'd recommend getting an SSD slave drive to boot windows and any programs you regularly use from, this will make an AWFUL lot of difference to your computer speed. Like, a LOT.. Crucial M4 128GB SSD - Probably will set you back £150, but considering the boost in speed it is well worth it, just youtube boot time comparisons with SSD v HDD. Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Heatpipe CPU Cooler - This is a cheap but good cooler, again great value for money, on idle lowers the temp by about 12c and on full load drops about 20-25c, though i'm positive someone can suggest something better/more expensive for this. CD READER - I wont bother suggesting one to you, any will do. Dont spend too much one one, like £15 is fine, Ethernet cable - Ethernets better than wifi so buy a cable, its like £10 for a 15m and £15 for a 20m, but you can pick them up dirt cheap for any length thats short, I have tons of the things. Make sure its CAT5e too. If you want wifi then just find something yourself Only other thing you'd need is windows 7, which can vary in price an awful lot.. I've seen it for £40 and then I've seen it for £110, just get the best deal you can basically. I would demand you got some blue cathodes, but with that case you don't need any! Only thing missing from this is a power supply.. Mine came with the case so I'm not sure what to suggest, ask someone else.. VOILA! An friggin' awesome looking, quite good, mid range gaming PC! You definately wont have to worry about lag unless you're really pushing the computer. That all adds up to about (gets calculator out) about £720 for the max end of it, then just assume it would be about £800 in total including Windows 7 home premium. That would leave you £50 to buy a decent keyboard and mouse or to buy a better part (e.g. you could buy a better graphics card, that would be a good investment) or you may want to just save it and buy a decent monitor or spend it on some games, (AHEM GET GUILD WARS 2 AND JOIN THE PRODIGUILD ) Hope that helps you out a bit, don't just use what I've said though listen to everyone else too, people here know much more about computers than I do haha, (God dang this took a long time, I was meant to be doing work :c )

Ah no I understand what you're asking now, I mis-understood as I read it on my phone in college! Yes this sounds like a good idea, although I dont think something that pufulet suggested would be possible without a client side mod on top of a server plugin, its too much of an alteration to the game, there is something similar as a world edit plugin where it highlights regions that you have selected in world edit on the screen. Alternative that may be slightly easier, highlight peoples faction areas on the dynamic map? It could be toggled on and off and be colour coded depending on how many enemies the faction has or whatever? I don't know if thats possible as I've never hosted a dynmap before but it sounds like something that could work

Well, an admin banned you, he will of got a warning that you were traveling unusually fast in the console and warped to you to check if you were or not. Can't really blag out of that if they caught you speed hacking and you're not admitting to it, unless they made a mistake which is quite unlikely

Gadget show! British TV is just the best after japanese game shows of course Imagine that simulator with Amnesia

AAAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAH! Russians dont have the skill or educationto build advanced warships, which is why they buy them from France, whose warships are quite equal to other countires ships, iirc. Also, they dont have the best nuclear weapons in the world. Y U QUESTION EVERY DETAIL. Fine, 'they have nuclear weapons', there.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Moskva I believe its THE largest non-flight deck war ship in the world, unless more have been made recently by other countries. This should be a discussion about the government and the occupy wall street thing instead now I think, probably nothings gonna happen from the whole Israel situation and thats much more interesting

Ah.. Shame haha Well what do you want your PC for? Gaming or editing or? I'm assuming gaming.. I dont know how the prices are different and the conversion of money so I dunno if I'd be any good at suggesting parts of certain prices, nor do I know any websites like ebuyer for where youre from.. Sorry I can still suggest parts for you though if you say what you want in terms of looks and speed and memory etc

I don't know if its true or not, I know a lot of it IS true e.g about the war plans leaked and biological weapons from israel etc, as far as how Russias warning went down I'm pretty sure it was quickly dealt with (Russia has THE best naval ships in the world and the best nuclear weapons, I'm sure they would listen to them). I'm not a conspiracy guy Baconeer, nor do I appreciate you implying I'm stupid, as I said at the very start, I highly doubt that anything would happen from this, but it's still good and at LEAST very interesting to talk about these things.. If I were to post half of the crap about this on the internet like the HAARP Turkey conspiracy and crap like that then fair enough. In terms of people getting on Russia, Russia is a great country. I fully support them on the Georgia situation a few years back, they were WELL within their rights, the media twisted it to make Russia seem agressive as things have been tense ever since the cold war. (edit: to anyone that didn't know, Georgians attacked people at a peace protest and killed a few thousand people so they strolled in and sorted it out, the same as any other decent country would do) End of topic, cudos to Russia!! And yes BlueYoshi, the human race is doomed to its own demise unless people buck their ideas up, hopefully with the amount of stuff going on lately things will start looking up like with occupy wall street and the restructure of government thats going on.. Check out this video about the Occupy The World movement that is happening, it really puts to light about how twisted the inbalance of power in the world is becoming. Brighter future ahead hopefully, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Nei3zRd8E It shows how hypocritical the American government is..

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS!! GOD BLESS YOU SIR! I am forever in your debt,

Are you from the UK Mathijs? If so, tell me the price you want to spend and what it would be for and I will link you to all the parts you need for a great price. (A ditto at what Corby said, Ebuyer is amazing!) I'm VERY near to finishing my computer, late next weekend poss depending when the parts arrive, its cost me around 600 including windows 7 and is a pretty decent build.. Not like a high end rig or anything, but certainly a good mid range gaming PC

Don't get what you want, but it sounds like a bad idea.. I've made a thread in which to put any ideas for the server so please post there instead of making lots of new threads

US politics always seems crazy to me.. Now I'm not saying that the UK government is the best at all, but at least the parties actually try and win based on their principles and such whereas whenever I see American politics they just seem to be slagging the other people off and insulting eachother without saying barely anything about their principles!

"US Gives Israel Green Light For Iran Strike" "U.S. & Israel Launch New Phase Of Cyber Warfare" "US forces 'massing on Afghanistan-Pakistan border" All of this is in the past 2 weeks I thought they were pulling out, certainly doing a shit job of it! I think they need to slow down a bit.. WW3 would be the stupidest thing ever, I don't see why they'd let it happen over it. Besides I mean what about Guild Wars 2? And Skyrim?! Who would play it then! Heartless. And people would die too I guess

Exactly. Not to mention how wealthy China is at the minute! Theyre one of the few countries that are doing well.. The most powerful country in my opinion, America is dropping.. Though obviously America is better armed in terms of soldiers (particularly civilians with experience using guns), biological nuclear and other similar weapons are a different matter.

"If NATO suddenly takes military actions against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, acting solely in support of Tbilisi, this will mean a declaration of war on Russia," Russian Ambassador. The aggressive expansion of NATO has brought the world more close to a third world war than it has ever been before. This stern warning came years before NATO´s aggression against Libya and its undeclared war in Syria and Pakistan. Following the recent deployment of US troops to Uganda, and military threats directed against Pakistan, the armed forces of NATO, Russia and China have never been as close to open and all out conflict as today. War plans from Nato have been leaked that include the release of biological warfare agents designed to kill millions if not billions of people. The NATO strategists rely on their ability to sue for peace when the coming conflict is at it's highest, to call for the establishment of a “New World Order” under the pretext of preventing the destruction of the planet and civilization as we know it. Last year plans were also leaked from America for a global war against Russia in the event of a case like this, which doesn't help the situation at all. A recent and sobering report of the Russian Intelligence Service FSB, details the fact that the USA and NATO are currently planning and actively preparing for all out war on all continents. After the recent meeting between Russian P.M. Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Huan Jintao, both Russian and Chinese military forces have been placed on highest alert. You guys should SERIOUSLY read some of these articles, if something isn't true then I'm sorry I'm just posting what I can find, don't mean to misinform anyone: (Ill be updating this as more pops up, theres not much about it yet) http://www.rense.com/general83/natoh.htm ^ definately read this http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22349 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8834040/US-forces-massing-on-Afghanistan-Pakistan-border.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/u-s-israel-launch-new-phase-of-cyber-warfare.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8809028/Nuclear-Israel-is-a-threat-to-Middle-East-says-Turkeys-Erdogan.html http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/usa-china-idUSL3E7L40IA20111004 Basically depending on how Nato plan their moves in the next few weeks, theres a slim chance that it could spark a global war, though obviously with anything you read theres going to be exaggeration and such so I genuinely don't know HOW serious it is. America and China obviously wouldn't want a war and would try and stop it cause it would be bad for the both of them, but America has a funny way of handling things, things are pretty bad as it is.. If there were a global war I think (Correct me if i'm wrong, I'm far from an expert on this) it would plan out like this USA - Nato - Europe (UK, France, Holland etc) - Israel - Japan - South Korea China - Iran - Russia - North Korea - The middle east - Africa - Venezuela So far: America are at war with Iran and have began huge military maneuvers and air strikes. Iran is at war with Israel. Turkey have gotten involved, backing up Nato. China has already warned USA of a trading war if they aren't careful. Please discuss anything about it here or your opinions on the matter and what you think about it. NOTE: Just to be clear i'm not a person thats prone to like 'conspiracies' and all that jazz, as I said this is just potentially very bad so good to talk about it imo

I've been saying this for a while! Suggested some ideas to Clav but I dunno if he liked them or not. I think the package idea is good though, where for example €5 gets you full iron, some whatever materials, a couple of diamonds and 1 safe chest thats kept at the spawn or something, then for €10 you get full diamond armour, a double chest, more resources and a name change if wanted or something like that, (the name change thing would be good I think?) What do you think of that idea? I, unfortunately don't like it. Donations shouldn't be game changers. Just hassle savers. I could walk into a server having never played, pay 10 euros and have my faction in full armour and raiding everyone. If there is ever a store established, ores shouldn't be sold - in any form. Paying a euro to save your self mining and smelting 25 stacks of cobble? Yeah. Paying a euro to dominate a server? No. And name changes would be problematic. There are already imitations of factions, there would soon be imitations of players and a lot of confusion. Plus, we wouldn't know who to hate if people went and changed their nickname. Ah but thats the point! People do that anyway, they'll come on and within a couple hours have full iron/diamond and start killing people, the people that donate are obviously not gonna be those type of people, so the way I see it you at least have people playing fairly and the server gets helped out! And the pack thing would have to be made balanced ofc, not just like €1 for everything..

I've been saying this for a while! Suggested some ideas to Clav but I dunno if he liked them or not. I think the package idea is good though, where for example €5 gets you full iron, some whatever materials, a couple of diamonds and 1 safe chest thats kept at the spawn or something, then for €10 you get full diamond armour, a double chest, more resources and a name change if wanted or something like that, (the name change thing would be good I think?) What do you think of that idea?

Solution!: Make a secure spawn I tend to make my spawns so that you can't get into them, only out, or just very secure underground or something. Then it's not a problem, but yeah it may suck but thats part of faction wars, the aim is to kill the other factions and take them over, which you can pretty much only do by spawn killing..

Excuse, me gentleman. May I just point out. CANNONBALLL!!!!