Profile of Ronald Dumsfeld

OnkelSam. Our very own Renaissance Man. Like Leonardo but different.

During the day he is a FizzyCyst. During the rest of the day he is a nartist.

a german doesnt leave full beer bottles inside for long

How fiendishly clever of you to think of that.

Here's me squandering hard cash on lumps of metal and plastic when I could have invested in Ale.

For case, corsair carbide 500r good?

I used that exact same model on my last build.

Corsair Carbide 500R

I used to buy Antec but this looks like being a good investment.

It's very easy to work on. Both sides, the top and front come off with a couple of clicks. You can even remove the floor. It's large but that's a virtue because you never have to fear something you might want to add in the future won't fit. There's access to the back of the m/b tray so you can change coolers without removing the board.

Cable tidy options are second to none. It is effectively 2 compartments isolated by many ribber flaps though which you can thread all the wiring out of the airflow. Looks neat. Solid rattle free construction.

Cooling options are awesome. Designed for when CPUs and GPUs used twice as much power and you might have needed a 750W power supply for overclocking. Up to 10 fan nounts including a giant 200mm extract on the side.

Downsides?

The top and side panel are made of mesh so there is the issue of noise coming out if you use fans and dust getting in if you don't. I solved that by taking out all the fans, except CPU cooler, and taping styrofoam over the openings from the inside.

After that I cannot think of anything. You might not like the colour and it is a bit larger than average. You can buy cheaper. That's it.

Biggest Concern for COH 2

Performance. The risk of slow, laggy, jerky gameplay.

I started playing vCoH on a 2GHz single core with 1Gb RAM and a 516Kb graphics card. I couldn't max everything out but on anything but random 4x4W it still looked great and I got > 30:1 Games disputes easy.

Now 5 years on I'd estimate at least 15% of my games are vs people with less than 3 performance bars, "xxx's settings are too high blah blah' with frustrating jerky gameplay and black hole starts. That's on a i7-920 and 2Kb 6870. If you filter lobby games for at least 3 bars and ping < 600 it eliminates at least 50% of all games, many of which are still yellow ping. Then there is the NAT issue.

True sight is bound to require more processing power and Relic will feel obliged to add gimmicky graphical 'updates'. The average PC is not much more powerful now than it was 4 years ago and people expect to be able to play on their schoolwork laptop.

I mean we have all figured it out (except the rump 10% who still play with games:disputes < 10:1) but a lot of new players is going to make for less than impressive gameplay lower down the ladder and will put people off quickly.

Any more for any more here please?