aaron424

A sound card... Hadn't thought of that. I'll probably get one of the soundblasters (but then I'll have to upgrade my speakers)

AMD Athlon 64 x2 7750 Kuma 8gb OCZ Sli ddr2 800 Ecs GF8200 A Hitachi 1 TB 16 mb cache forgot how many rpm Hec X-power 585 Hec Mid-tower case 280 mm fans 1 120 mm fan Geforce 9500 Gt 1gb What should I spend my $100 on?

And buy a factory and research on your home planet

Go to the economics screen, and be sure to set the production slider to %100. It defaults to %66, so unless you change it you are only using two thirds of the factories you build. Also, to keep your economy out of the tank on larger galaxies, don't improve all colonized planets, you have to choose theones that will help you expand and not just suck money from your empire. On challenging, with a large map and this tactic, The AI and I are usually pretty equal after the colony rush.

Get the computer to do what you want to do. I wanted light gaming (galciv2) and didn't want to spend a lot. Total cost of this rig: $350 Shipped.

AMD Athlon 64 x2 7750 Kuma 8gb OCZ Sli ddr2 800 Ecs GF8200 A Hitachi 1 TB 16 mb cache forgot how many rpm Hec X-power 585 Hec Mid-tower case 280 mm fans 1 120 mm fan Geforce 9500 Gt 1gb Samsung Q2 (not part of my computer but my favorite new toy

That looks pretty nice, just got a new rig myself

On second thought, they don't count twords morale, so probably not

Don't think so

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="2" id="2340974"]Government is inefficient. Government is broke. Why someone would want them running healthcare is beyond me. [/quote] All too true!

The one in my town (Atlanta) Has allready been filled

In one game of DA, I kept finding pq 1 planets no one bothered to colonize. It was later in the game and I was neutral, so once I colonized them they went up to 12 or 15 pq!

Nevermind, i allready linked to that computer kit at the beginning

Thanks, I don't expect it to do miracles, just play mid-range games with a possible video card upgrade if I get the money. (I had noticed that the card didn't get the greatest ratings-thats ok, I dont want to play crysis and other high end games) Either way, this new system I've been waiting for totally kills and beats to the ground my dell optiplex gx270 with pentium 4 @ 1.8 Ghz with 512 DDR ram and a suckish mobo in a low profile office case with no video card.. You get the idea. This will

Yo momma was so old she owes Moses a quarter Yo mama so ugly when she joined an ugly contest, they said "Sorry, no professionals. Yo mama so ugly when she walks into a bank, they turn off the surveillence cameras

Thanks alot for yuor help. I think that I have finially decided (I had been researcing for about a month and the CPU was the only thing holding me back) I think this will be my final comfiguration: Hard Drive: HITACHI 0A38016 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM MOBO: ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Dual-Core black edition Pro

Unfortunately I only have $400 right now, so thats another reason I was looking at the Athlon

But looking at the reviews it seems like the Phenom is faster than the Athlon. But only on some of the tests.

Also, the reason I was looking at the Athlon 64 X2 is that in a year I can buy a Phenom II to put in that motherboard. The reason I was asking about the Phenom I is because it is the one that comes with a barebone kit from Tigerdirect that I really like.

Well I had those two computers that I linked to in mind, but anything between $300-400 would be fine (maybe $500 if its a really good deal) I dont need a monitor or mouse or keyboard, just the computer itself.

Okay so I finially have enough money to buy a new computer. I am building it from a barebones kit. Lets see... I have two different systems in mind. One has an AMD Athlon X2 64 7750 @ 2.7 GHz. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.194454 The other, at $40 more has a AMD Phenom X4 9500 @ 2.2 GHz. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4691267&sku=B69-008

I have had no trouble with my Vista 64 bit and Impulse. Not that that helps you.

Hey. I just got Xubuntu, a linux based os on my pc. It runs great and all, but I haven't been able to get Galactic Civilizations 2 to work on it. I have seen screenshots of GC2 running fine in wine, but my problem is that I cannot install it. I have tries SD central, but it is buggy and doesn't work. I tried the downloads from impulseanywhere and they gave me an error. I did not buy the cd, just the download version. I think that having a cd might be the ket. Anyways, if anyone could give me

YAY! But since IE7 won't install on my computer, I am sadly not one of those million.

Did I just ban myself? Oops