Mako

Greatly enjoyed the video and any man that starts a build with coffee is ok in my book. I'm not going to be one of those asshats that nitpicks at your system because I can't. Excellent build my friend and enjoy!!!1

I like the 2630 a lot and it's a nice improvement over the the Clarksdale Quads because of the hyperthreading. The 2630QM compares favorably to the I7-950, 960, and the 2500k. My wife has a notebook with the i-7 2670 QM stepped to 2.2ghz and i think it's a small upgrade honestly. I believe your chip consumes 45watts? and can go up to 2.7-2.9ghz? I might have to look that up. Yes. the benchmarks between the 2500k, 2600k, and 2700k to the 3550, 3570, 3770 are minimal at best. Is 4-10% really worth buying a mobo, cpu if you already own the 2500k-2700k? Absolutely not. Buy a new GTX 670 or 680 and your 1155 system is off to the races. The 670 has shown a 25%-34% improvement over the GTX 570 in most cases. That would trump a CPU upgrade imo. Those differences can also easily be achieved with some mild overclocking. Now if your in the market for a new system by all the means go for the newest technology and go the 2011 cpu route. My rig is a I5-750 Lynnfield (1156 chip) 2.66 default OCed to 4.04 on a Gigabyte P55M-UD4. I could go higher but it's overkill for todays games. I have two GTX 470s in SLI and can play anything out there with high-enthusiast quality. I'm waiting for Nvidia to sort out the artifacting problem with the GTX 670s and then I am going to upgrade with two of those badboys.

Mountain Dew although i also like Dr. Pepper. I concur with Baja Blast which seems to be at Taco Bell only. I never cared for the Orange Dew Live Wire? because it tastes like baby aspirin.

I agree 100%. I think Activision needs to rethink the COD series altogether. This looks ridiculous as a story and to be honest the series has shown some serious fatigue. I have had more fun with COD 4 and BF3 as of late and like Death really looking forward to MOH Warfighter.

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Not worth the upgrade if you already own 2500-2600-2700 Sandy Bridge chip. Although overclockers of Ivy have reached 7.0 GHZ lol. My new build will be Ivy because of the PCIE 3.0 architecture (doubles the bandwidth from x16 to x32 for a single GPU) but honestly Dr. the percentages over the Sandy are minimal at best. For now I will keep my Sandy and upgrade when the Z77 boards get sorted out. If your a stat guy like me you might be interested in this. http://vr-zone.com/a...down/15637.html PS- i love AMD products but I admit the Bulldozer was a huge disappointment. Still an excellent alternative.

Geoff, the 2500 is a better gaming CPU which is what he is looking for. If your doing video or photo editing then the hyperthreading with the 2600 is the way to go. Save yourself 100 bucks and get a better graphics card or a SSD drive instead of wasting that money. For $90 the benchmarks only slightly favor the 2600 and for $20 more get the 2700k for that matter. Most people who bought the 2600 wished they had purchased the 2500 regarding gaming. Don't believe the Intel hype, look at the benchmarks.

You need a fast CPU to feed your graphics card or your system will "bottleneck" or be limited to the output of the CPU. My personal suggestion is the i5-2500k at around $220.00 dollars is one of the very best gaming CPUs you can buy. Motherboards are personal preference but anything MSI, ASUS, GIGABYTE, or AsRock will do the trick. You should also consider whether or not you want dual graphics cards (Nvidia - SLI, or AMD-Crossfire) and an adequate power supply to run multiple cards (preferably 850 watts and up). I build PCs for a living and love talking about it so please feel free to email me or message me in the forums. PLUR, Mako

If you install the game on your hard drive and then go to "Add a non-Steam game to your library" in your games library of Steam it should recognize the game. I had problems doing so because it only recognized the Single Player portion not Multi. After purchasing MW3 it gave me a free version of COD 4 again anyway so i decided to use the new one which worked much more easily with Steam.

I liked the multiplayer aspect of MW2 with the exception of the lack of servers and the epic fail that is VAC. I agree with Warning that fundamentally COD 4 is the best FPS of the series and the SP campaign was much more realistic. Activision needs to deal with the fact BF3 is a much better game and visually superior in every way. The now famous Frostbite 2 engine will now also be featured in the new MOH - Warfighter (which will be my under the radar surprise game upon release) and of course whatever new BF game appears. COD needs a major graphical overhaul and after the end of MW3 where does IW go from there? I believe Black Ops was a much better game than MW2 with the more realistic weapon characteristics, map designs, and sharper graphic images. Poor coding regarding CPU usage and the infamous lag that plagued WAW doomed what could have been the best COD offering since COD 4. This is clearly a major chance for Treyarch to surpass the talent depleted IW with another strong game that hopefully fixes those issues and improves upon the success of Black Ops. I do know they are carrying over the killstreaks featured in MW3 like support streaks, and other non-consecutive killstreaks that support team play. I think this cheapens the skills necessary to accumulate those streaks but does make the game more favorable to the newbies of the series (but seriously, who is not familiar with this franchise that plays FPS?). Sorry for the rant ;p Mako

I think it has been a bit of a problem as of late. There are some really good players that seem to always get on the same team leaving some of the opposing players extremely frustrated. Like some others stated I enjoy playing on the inferior team for the challenge. Not everyone sees it that way and I completely understand that position. Other than that it's a great server and the hacking is dealt with rather quickly. Thank you, Mako