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I must be doing something wrong.
EVE Online seems to be catching wind with real cash.
Forget to pay your virtual game bill? Could cost you $200,000 - CBS News
EVE Online seems to be catching wind with real cash.
Forget to pay your virtual game bill? Could cost you $200,000 - CBS News
James Carl was asleep when the first shot was fired.
As he slumbered away in Costa Mesa, Calif., the 29-year-old banker's virtual space fleet was under siege early Monday morning in what's become the most destructive and expensive battle in the 10-year history of "EVE Online," a gargantuan online video game featuring more than 500,000 players piloting starships, trading goods and engaging in sci-fi espionage.
"EVE Online" utilizes its own in-game currency, and Carl expects the damage from Monday's conflict to equal about $200,000 in real-world cash. The skirmish first erupted after a member of Carl's coalition missed a payment to protect an area that's been used as a staging ground for a war raging between Carl's Pandemic and N3 coalition versus CFC and Russian forces.
As he slumbered away in Costa Mesa, Calif., the 29-year-old banker's virtual space fleet was under siege early Monday morning in what's become the most destructive and expensive battle in the 10-year history of "EVE Online," a gargantuan online video game featuring more than 500,000 players piloting starships, trading goods and engaging in sci-fi espionage.
"EVE Online" utilizes its own in-game currency, and Carl expects the damage from Monday's conflict to equal about $200,000 in real-world cash. The skirmish first erupted after a member of Carl's coalition missed a payment to protect an area that's been used as a staging ground for a war raging between Carl's Pandemic and N3 coalition versus CFC and Russian forces.
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Except that's completely wrong.
A. The total damage among hundreds of players was that much, not just one guy.
B. That's not actual money. In game you can earn your way with in-game credits that can be redeemed for your monthly subsciption rather than paying it with real money. "$200,000 lost" means the ships destroyed cost in in-game credits what could have been redeemed for $200,000 worth of monthly subscriptions.
A. The total damage among hundreds of players was that much, not just one guy.
B. That's not actual money. In game you can earn your way with in-game credits that can be redeemed for your monthly subsciption rather than paying it with real money. "$200,000 lost" means the ships destroyed cost in in-game credits what could have been redeemed for $200,000 worth of monthly subscriptions.
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Anyone have a good guide for overclocking? Like basic step one stuff? I can't get anything out of my old nvidea 780i with quad core q6600 without it crashing. I know the stuff is old but I just added a new video card and ram to hopefully max out my system for a while.
Google is your Friend! Try searching this "780i q6600 overclock guide".
here is a pretty good post on your mo bo
http://forums.overclockersclub.com/?showtopic=77324
I would maybe reseat the thermal paste if you havent done it since day one, for sure clean out the fans and filters if you have them. I wouldnt go for the full gusto and would stay around 3.0ghz (I ran it at that no problems). I got it up to 4.0ghz but it was just for a quick screen shot, it crashed right after.
if it is crashing you have to bump up Vcore usually. If you go too high on vcore you have serious problems.
Last edited by sigma pi; Jan 30, 2014 at 08:45 AM.
Btw, I'm new around here. I've been building computers for like 8 years or so, and always stay up to date with stuff.
I'm currently running:
ASUS z77 Sabertooth
3570k
GTX 780
12 GB RAM
Corsair HX750w PSU
Fractal R4 Black Case
Looks a little like this inside (this is the only picture I've got of it lol).
Obviously now it's got a 780 in it and a new PSU (and RAM, lol)
What card do you have in there now? Also, what cpu fan/cooler are you running?
Btw, I'm new around here. I've been building computers for like 8 years or so, and always stay up to date with stuff.
I'm currently running:
ASUS z77 Sabertooth
3570k
GTX 780
12 GB RAM
Corsair HX750w PSU
Fractal R4 Black Case
Looks a little like this inside (this is the only picture I've got of it lol).
Obviously now it's got a 780 in it and a new PSU (and RAM, lol)
Btw, I'm new around here. I've been building computers for like 8 years or so, and always stay up to date with stuff.
I'm currently running:
ASUS z77 Sabertooth
3570k
GTX 780
12 GB RAM
Corsair HX750w PSU
Fractal R4 Black Case
Looks a little like this inside (this is the only picture I've got of it lol).
Obviously now it's got a 780 in it and a new PSU (and RAM, lol)
Speaking from Exp the Saber tooth mobo is a joke/trash. It looks cool but when you have to deal with bios issues and need to reset the bios or change the CMOS Battery. IT becomes the biggest POS mobo ever. you should not have to remove every single item from your case and even the mobo just to reset the bios or change the Battery. The bios issue was cause by, wait for it... ASUS!! (the Asus tech support person admitted to it.). They did RMA the mobo and covered all shipping costs. I purchased an Asrock mobo to replace it and have had ZERO problems with it and have been able to OC my 2500k to 5 GHZ stable.
I mostly got it for looks honestly, even though it is a good board nonetheless.
Not overclocking at the moment. I'm happy with my performance for now, though I might soon to make sure I keep up with my 120hz monitor lol.
Speaking from Exp the Saber tooth mobo is a joke/trash. It looks cool but when you have to deal with bios issues and need to reset the bios or change the CMOS Battery. IT becomes the biggest POS mobo ever. you should not have to remove every single item from your case and even the mobo just to reset the bios or change the Battery. The bios issue was cause by, wait for it... ASUS!! (the Asus tech support person admitted to it.). They did RMA the mobo and covered all shipping costs. I purchased an Asrock mobo to replace it and have had ZERO problems with it and have been able to OC my 2500k to 5 GHZ stable.
Like I said, I mostly bought it for looks and I'm not ashamed to admit that lol
. At the time it was only like $40 more than the other one I was looking at so I figured why not.
Speaking from Exp the Saber tooth mobo is a joke/trash. It looks cool but when you have to deal with bios issues and need to reset the bios or change the CMOS Battery. IT becomes the biggest POS mobo ever. you should not have to remove every single item from your case and even the mobo just to reset the bios or change the Battery. The bios issue was cause by, wait for it... ASUS!! (the Asus tech support person admitted to it.). They did RMA the mobo and covered all shipping costs. I purchased an Asrock mobo to replace it and have had ZERO problems with it and have been able to OC my 2500k to 5 GHZ stable.
If there wasnt a swear filter here, I think you would have gone off more.
Temps are fine with it. I didn't install the little fan that it comes with that gives more circulation in-between the board and the shroud.
I mostly got it for looks honestly, even though it is a good board nonetheless.
Not overclocking at the moment. I'm happy with my performance for now, though I might soon to make sure I keep up with my 120hz monitor lol.
It has a CMOS CLR jumper that is readily available, but yeah, if you need to pull the battery it would be a pain.
I mostly got it for looks honestly, even though it is a good board nonetheless.
Not overclocking at the moment. I'm happy with my performance for now, though I might soon to make sure I keep up with my 120hz monitor lol.
It has a CMOS CLR jumper that is readily available, but yeah, if you need to pull the battery it would be a pain.
I was OCing 3770 and thought "why am I doing this?" it is plenty fast right now
Right now it doesn't even matter because my case window is right next to my wall since it's the only place I can put my tower lol.