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Smokers are pretty annoying, my mom and dad both smoke so I'm use to it though. I find all the anti-smoke stuff much more annoying though.

I love the coloration of British Blue Shorthairs. That wonderful sleek looking gray without a speck of another color. And there often quite soft. Right now I have a mouthy Siamese Cat. A Male Wedge Head Sealpoint. He's neurotic a bit, always has to sleep in with me, if he's locked out of my room he'll wait by the door till he gets let in, or he'll meow to try and get let in. He never purrs for my mom or dad, only me.

Yup. I just find it really odd to think of a legend like Cash covering one of Trent's songs.

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. But it's the Johnny Cash cover that really gets me.

Well with Saltwater Testing the PH is pretty much required as opposed to freshwater which can be left. It takes a lot of work though, the fish all have their own preferred PH level, and some don't play well with others. Like Clown Fish for instance, it's not recommended to have more than 2 or they'll fight. Yellow Tangs will eat the plants that try and grow on living rocks, which results in bare rocks. The fish are all pretty neat though. We had a Porcupine Puffer. A bit like this one We named him happy because he always seemed to have a smile on his face, he'd come up and take shrimp from us, and if you stuck your finger in he'd take that....well try at least. He'd also occasionally puff up for no reason at all. Luckily no reason, they can release a poison while puffing iirc. We also had a Striped Cat Shark. Looked like this Well not exactly, ours had whiter white and fewer stripes. He was a neat little guy, he'd shovel mouthfuls of gravel all around and dig to the bottom of the tank and make a hill around it and stay there. Every once in a while we'd smooth it out and he'd do it all again. IIRC when small they're okay, but they get about arm sized and dangerous.

My sister had an African Silcata(sp?) Tortoise for years and years. Then through a slight accident he died. Right now she has a pair of Ferrets though, I use to have some too, but....stuff happens Other than that it's normal stuff, a handful of cats and dogs and 5 horses. Oh and a Quaker Parrot. At one point we use to have a 100 gallon (approx. 370 liters I think) Saltwater fish tank. With Clown Fish and a Puffer Fish and a few other things.

No need to be a jerk, it could be the file it could be the wrong application of the file.

Yup, the 4850 is a fine upgrade from the 2600XT, by a very long shot.

Not necessarily, if you go about something wrong the file may not seem to work when really it's you. Of course I'd need specifics.

From Ash's info and a bit of help from Google. I'm guessing this is the config. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=opera&rls=en&q=Xps+420&sourceid=opera&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=10307403177879862791&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=3&ct=result#ps-tech-specs Which would mean a 2400 Pro.... Of course if it's newer, looking at Dells site and the three q6600 builds. One them can only have a 3650 another can only have a 3450 and a third can go 3450 2600XT 3650 9800GT That on starts with 3450 and is the only one that mentions the PSU, which is listed at 375. :/ If ash had the 9800 GTAIV would run, so I doubt that's whats there. the 4850 is an upgrade from any of those, especially the 3450/2600/3650.

Yup, you can run 32 or 64 bit. That's dependant on the CPU and afaik all modern CPUs have 64 bit capabilities. And yea, 375W won't cut it, well it may but not for long and it could fry things if taxed too much. 650W is more than plenty, but it doesn't hurt to have extra, and it gives room for later expansion. Happy to help.

Here seems to be a decent PSU http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141006/show_product_overview And this Video Card is the best bang for the buck. It won't be maxing GTAIV, I don't think, but it shoult play it at least as well as consoles. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/512MB-Palit-HD4850-PCI-E-20(x16)-1986MHz-GDDR3-GPU-625MHz-800-Cores-2x-DL-DVI-I-HDTV-HDCP Together they come in about ~175 There are ways to drop that lower if the need arises. A Radeon 4830 is 10-20 cheaper. And only performs slightly lower than the 4850, and can be Overclocked to approx. 4850 performance.

I think a comparison for Wii games is XBLA games. Back when MS was talking about games rated 65% or lower being considered for deletion. I didn't look into personally but I remember someone making a big deal out of the majority of the games being at or below that number despite being XBLA hits and loved by most everyone except apparently the reviewers. Or something like that, it was a while ago and I don't fully remember. It's a combination of opinions and psychological bias. One may not mean to compare an XBLA game to a large big budget game, but they may do it anyways and it will affect the score. The same can easily be said for Wii games, multi-plat and otherwise. Edit: @ Gizmo, just because someone is reviewing games for a living does not mean they know more about the medium. Look at Gametrailers as a perfect example. The reviewers there are just horrid. There is one guy who came right out and said that he hates PC gaming, and I think he reviews PC games on occasion. If he blatantly says he hates it I highly doubt he'd keep that from affecting his scoring. They also like marking games down for being too difficult ala STALKER.

Alrighty, you have PCI-E x16. That basically means that any modern card will be accepted by your motherboard. I don't know about spacing though, the top cards take up two slots and are quite long. A top card can also run you £400+ Luckly you don't really need to go that route. There are much better options. Before I go off making recommendations I'd like to know your price range. Also you need to consider that your Power Supply isn't going to be upto snuff for a high-end card. To find out your PSU you have to pop open the PC case and look at it and find out the Wattage output (it's probably something like a 425W)

What about the CD-i versions? Are those also amazing? You did only say bar 2.

http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz_149.zip Click that and run CPU-Z, if you can post a screenshot of it on the first tab and the tab that says Mainboard. If you can't get a screenshot, tell us what it says at Graphics, bus. Or check our GPU-Z which does the same as CPU, but won't tell the motherboard. Also, GTAIV is bad PC port and needs a fair bit of power to run, and the more cores the better (ie quads are better than Dual)

I've always been partial to ALttP.

I've seen worse.

Renee Zellweger from the shoulders up.

I'm still in my Pajama bottoms, they're plenty warm actually.

Drew Barrymore isn't pretty, but she is by no means ugly.

I know just how to back this up Renee Zellweger!!

Ahh, I wish I could get the Phenom II. And if your think the 3870 is noisy, then you haven't heard the 4870, crank that baby upto 100% and and put 4 360s to shame. Although 60% is isn't too bad and works fine to keep cool. Defualt is a low low 20....

So it's about the same as here I think. We're both below freezing that's for sure.

It's too close to grill.