WaterproofBeanie

I believe so. I don't play it myself, but that seems to be more than what many other people play it on.

Ooh... I could use all of these... Using a dodgy old logitech headset, no mousepad ad a logitech k260 kb/m combo which were the cheapest peripherals I could find.

My DDR2 ram kit. It is damn expensive. (Although on second thoughts, my SSD cost a little more.)

Wow! Followed.

For considerably less than the phones you mentioned, you can get a Moto X Style shipped to Sydney for around $520 Australian. (From Kogan, possibly others). Massive battery, great screen and leaves you with enough left over to start on either the cooling, case or power supply.

I would doubt that asrock cover bent pins. Contact the seller.

Really? You should move to Australia. Most people have caps.

I got a Q9400 for free.

It's an early beta. Looks like it could be a great game when it gets its public release.

Get the Sapphire Tri-X 390 in my opinion.

I have to second what stconquest said, at least look into the r9 390. It may be cheaper, and performs equal if not slightly better

And this is true for the desktop processors as well. One of AMDs selling points was that they had 'true' quad cores. Not that it made a huge difference at the time.

The C2Q is still very relevant. An overclocked Q6600/Q9400 won't bottleneck a 970/390.

There are a few possibilities. It could be that the fan controller is broken, or the molex lead. (isn't it a sata cable though?) Try using a different cable from the power supply.

Why do you think that AMD must go with AMD and Nvidia with Intel? There is no real reason.

Maybe spinoffs isn't the right word. But by looking at their website, there seem to be many games outside the main series.

So you would recommend working through them in order? They seem to have released so many spin off versions it is hard to work out the proper play order.

Ouch.

Seagate's barracuda range are their most widespread, and also their cheapest model. I have several decade-old seagate drives here, none of which have stopped working yet. (albeit under light load). I have no experience with their (or any) SSHDs. WD's product stack goes Blue-Black-Red-Purple (I think). There is also a 'Green' model which is supposedly more eco-friendly. The Blue model is the entry-level model, the black is the high-end consumer model, the red drives are for nas use (lots of drives in a compact environment) and the purples are for surveillance servers (24/7 writes with maximum endurance)

Thanks for all your help. Off topic question, does marking your answer as the solution do anything apart from showing the thread as solved?

Oops yeah of course. On the otherhand, I have a 2007 CPU... so... Being somewhat new to PC gaming, is there an advantage to buying the directors cut edition? I can't actually find a version that isn't the directors cut on steam.

So, buy the first one? What sort of settings can i expect on a 960/Core 2 Quad?

Ah thanks. Compute applications didn't occur to me.

That power supply is a 400w powersupply with some creative marketing. I wouldn't use it personally.

You can, but if you have plans to expand much in the future a 650-750w supply could be better.