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A Ghost Hack

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  1. I'm confused. You want a serious and intelligent anime, but you want it to be like Death Note? or Elfen Lied? Sorry, but neither of those series are particularly serious or intelligent, they just try to be to appeal to a wider audience. (Also, calling Code Geass and NGO Intelligent is also a stretch...)

    Go with Steins;Gate. It's the best I can do based on the anime you gave me as information.

    Is this suppose to be a serious post?

  2. Thank you all for your help in my decision making. I will be switching graphics card to the GTX560 and also getting the SSD. I am not sure I will get the one with TRIM support just because of the price difference and capacity difference. Maybe if my budget was a bit higher I would. Thanks again for everyone who helped me making these decisions and for all of your input. It was all much appreciated :)

  3. I'd suggest changing the graphics card to the Geforce GTX 560, (fourth option in that list) it's $6 cheaper, the graphics clock can go as high as 950 MHz (compared to the Radeon HD 6870 you selected, which is 900 MHz) and its memory clock is faster too (560 is 2200MHz compared to the 6870's 1050MHz). Not only that, but you get PhysX. Take a look at what you'd be getting in PhysX enabled Batman Arkham City

    http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/exclusive-physx-in-batman-arkham-city-a-first-look

    Just keep in mind though that Nvidia says to have full 1080p, highest settings and PhysX enabled in Arkham City, you need a GTX 570 minimum, so if you do change to the GTX 560, you'll have to lower some of the settings. Although who knows, perhaps with processor and RAM options you've got there, you may be able to get away with highest settings.

    (As an aside, I just noticed that they're selling a 3GB GTX 580...for $1445! That would be a complete ripoff)

    I notice that you didn't select any of the freebies. Just select Deus Ex and Arkham City, two of the best games released this year...then the game that comes free with whatever brand of graphics card you get.

    One thing that confuses me though, on the page you get the option to select three Geforce GTX 590s...which is impossible, given that a single GTX 590 is really just two underclocked GTX 580's sandwiched together running in SLI. Having two 590's gives you the maximum that SLI allows, Quad-SLI. I've never heard of a 6x-SLI, and I'm pretty sure there are no drivers for it in any case.

    Hard drive wise...for your first hard drive, if I were you, I'd switch to the one that has the second yellow NEW sticker next to it. Its a 120GB Solid State drive, which will boost read/write speeds for your OS and applications. As a bonus, its $10 cheaper than what you've already selected. If you want capacity, then look into secondary traditional hard drives or external hard drives. If you already have external drives lying around, then great! You'd be set!

    As for Blu-ray capability...be careful there. I got a shocker when I got my PC Blu-ray drive...I thought that was all I needed to play Blu-ray movies, but turns out you have to BUY the software too. With DVDs, you can just use VLC or Media Player Classic, but Blu-rays require a paid for program. If you don't want to go to that expense, you may want to look into either downloading 1080p movies or ripping your Blu-rays (which again requires you to pay for the anti-Blu-ray-security program AnyDVD). If you decide to rip, you can get a 30-day trial of AnyDVD, which should be plenty of time to rip your Blu-ray collection (if you have one that is).

    As for getting a sound card...you haven't one selected. Onboard audio should be fine for your needs. If you decide to go for a sound card later on though, then I'll swear by the last option, the Creative Labs SB X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series PCI Express Sound Card. I've got one, and it's done me a world of good.

    Sorry for late post been really busy with school.

    Anyway Thank you sooo much for the help. I like your suggestions on graphics and ssd. I do have an external drive and capacity isn't that much of a problem. I am just putting a handful of games on the drive. However I heard that you can't defragment a SSD. And was wondering if you could possibly run the risk of the drive slowing over time and not being able to do anything to help speed or clean it up? I may look at sound cards but I am curious, would I need a good sound card to have decent audio in game? Because a lot of my gameplay I am looking to upload to Youtube/stream. And as for blu ray I don't plan on getting it now knowing those draw backs.

    Thanks for everyone else's input as well. I really appreciate it because this a large sum of money I am going to sink into this and want to make sure I can get the best I can with what I am paying for. So thanks again guys :)

    EDIT: I also noticed that with selecting the new graphics card (GTX 560) the frame rate, or projected frame rate, drops a bit on all ends. Is the physX going to make that much of a visual difference? Sorry I am not all that experienced with graphics cards x.x

  4. I am planning on buying a new computer and never really constructed one myself and I was hoping someone could tell me if a computer with these components/specs would be a good computer for the price. And if I could get any help or advice in making it better for lower costs, or any input at all would be a great help! This is for gaming almost exclusively (as I have a macbook pro for school and related things).

    http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1DLM0V

    Thanks for all of your help!

  5. I was just curious about some Black Lagoon information. I just watched the series dubbed and it was a surprisingly good series. Reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop which is a great show too! I was just wondering how the Roberta: Blood Trails worked exactly? I see that you guys have them as a currently ongoing series. However according to MAL they have stopped airing back in May of 2010. Are there really only 5 episodes to that part of the series? Thanks for any and all info :)

  6. So I was doing a little digging around the net and came across a link posting all of the new spring anime to hit Japan this spring (2011). And Ghost in the Shell 3rd Gig was one of them. Does anyone else know or care to confirm this? I was just wondering really. I'll try to find the picture/article if I can manage to dig it up.

    http://animesquish.org/showthread.php?285-Spring-2011-Anime-List

    There is the article^

  7. Hello All. I'm Stephen and am new here to he forums. Just thought I'd introduce myself. I love tons of great animes and am really glad to have found such an awesome site to find and talk about anime with :)

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