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Baldur's Gate 2 question about mages

Wisdom is useful IIRC for bonuses vs Charm/Hold type spells. Characters with low Wisdom tend to get constantly enslaved :S Some point, but not a lot. You can shave points off your Charisma instead and grab the ring outside the first dungeon...it gives you a CHA of 18.
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- Post #7
- Dec 31, 2006
- Forum: Windows
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Was the Pentium 4 the worst processor design in history?

You could get a K6-2 350 for about the same price as a P2-233/266. The processors might not have been as good as P2s, but bang/buck wise they stomped all over the Intel chips. I built my first PC on a k6-2 350, still have the board/cpu/voodoo3 in the closet. K6-2 was about bang/buck...
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- Post #70
- Dec 3, 2006
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Opteron 175 for $19.10

OMG Even more of a deal than the other opterons. In for a couple.
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- Post #2
- Nov 1, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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1gig Ultra DDR PC3200 $59.99 AR +ship

I had this ram ALMOST running cas2.5. I picked it up on the same deal at Microcenter earlier this year. I tried running it at 400mhz cas 2.5. It would pass memtest but I got random lockups, about once a week. Especially Civ4. I clocked down to cas 3 and the problems went away. So...
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- Post #34
- Oct 31, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Which OS would you use?

700mhz Celery is plenty fast for WinXP. Just drop some cheap ass RAM into it. Spend the $20 and put another 256MB of RAM in the damn thing. 200mhz box - that's a Win98 box for sure. If it's an old lady she's probably going to ask other people for help. Stick with win98.
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- Post #35
- Oct 28, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Who liked windows 98 back when it came out? POLL

Yeah, I thought that was him. That's what brought this thread to mind. My win98 box seems pretty good so far.
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- Post #228
- Oct 23, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Who liked windows 98 back when it came out? POLL

Well, I got my win98SE box up and running. Celery 333mhz, Voodoo3, SBLive. It's not actually that bad. Driver installation is a bit annoying, and I noticed that when I tried to get to Windows Update it didn't work right (page cannot be displayed - microsuck must have moved the page). but an...
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- Post #213
- Oct 21, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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backlit keyboards

Another recommendation for the Saitek Eclipse here
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- Post #11
- Oct 13, 2006
- Forum: Keyboards
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Any reviews of HIGH end GPUs with LOW end CPUS

Agreed. In my experience, people spending gaming boxes spend too much on CPUs. This has always been true IMO. It really isn't needed. I'm still running socket 754 for my gaming: Venice 3400+ @ ~2682ghz + x850xt I'll stick with this until I need more CPU power for games - that'll...
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- Post #30
- Sep 17, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Windows ME --- Socket 939

Again, I say, who the hell cares how many bits it is, if it does the job?
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- Post #50
- Sep 8, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Just go ahead and pick up a CRT?

That boldfaced, linked part implies that all LCDs are better than CRTs in everything. You link to a story about an LCD which certainly has potential, but will probably cost ungodly sums of money. LCDs are better for text, consume less power, and have a smaller footprint, and have perfect...
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- Post #11
- Sep 8, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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I just grabbed a westy 32" (updated)

Size > resolution for gaming I'd play games on my 800x600 DLP projector at 100" any day over my 24" CRT @ 1920x1200
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- Post #11
- Sep 6, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Windows ME --- Socket 939

Who cares if it is 16-bit, 32-bit, or whatever. There's no significant difference between 64-bit and 32-bit at this point, really, so what does it matter if it's 16-bit, or 8-bit like a NES? As long as it does what you need it to do, who cares how many bits it is?
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- Post #37
- Sep 6, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Who liked windows 98 back when it came out? POLL

I got nostalgic for win98, and so I'm buildnig a 98se box with my old k6-2/voodoo3 stuff. Just kidding. I actually got nostalgic for some DOS games that are flaky under DOSbox. Win98se will work great for playing the ol' DOS games.
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- Post #194
- Aug 29, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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How to reinstall windows in a new system?

I've successfully done this in the past a few times. My wife hates it when I kill her Windows install. Last time I just popped out the old hard drive from her old KT133/Athlon 1.1ghz and plopped it into the new KT333/ 1800+ system. No problems. Of course I kept the video card ATI...so no...
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- Post #22
- Aug 14, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems

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