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Delta, I'm going to sell your email address to a prince in Nigeria that happens to be a buddy of mine. He frequently gives out prizes so check your email often

it was coming, but 1.5 mill out of billions....

To be honest, I would be surprised if there were more than a billion users. Unless, of course, there were duplicate accounts. I'm strictly talking users.

Damn it. I want to make a joke about how the popular social network sites are being targeted and how Microsoft is targeted by virus makers because it is also popular. The joke would have something to do with how insert-unpopular-open-source/old-chat here (Linux users) are laughing at Facebook/Myspace (Microsoft) because they got hacked. I just haven't been on the internet long enough to come up with a comparison for the joke, if I were to guess; BBS?

Sorry Knight, I'm gonna have to disagree. If his GPU wasn't performing, he probably wouldn't even be able to open 3D applications. A question would be, do the other sensors work? Memory controller and all that? I just opened BFBC2 and set it's affinity to 2 cores and it had no affect on FPS. So, effectively using a 4GHz dual-core CPU, the bottleneck was still my graphics card (even overclocked). Keep in mind I the highest settings and run at 1680x1050.

For RMA, I'm sure they'll have plenty of stock and if not, I believe the 9800GT is the same thing, just different firmware and stickers.

You should figure out what you're using the most of. You might be maxing out your graphics card more than the CPU. The CPU will be an upgrade, it WILL help FPS and when you go to sell it to get a new rig, you'll get more since it's a newer high-end chip.

Yea, I kind of wished I tried the full retail version on my dual before I popped my quad in, I could give you a more definitive answer as to whether or not you would see a huge difference. The beta ran like crap but it's hard to tell what was going on in there. Look at it like this though, maybe by the time you upgrade, a i5 or i7 could be in your price range (not saying you're poor, but they're still outrageously priced).

Killaman, the answer is simple; cost. There's motherboards that have solder pads/holes for various features such as AGP, PCI-E and other chips but if you strip features, it costs less. Also it appears that the 530's with the G33M02 have a lower power supply.

If I were in your position, I would buy a new motherboard. Something that could be a drop-in replacement (i.e. supports your current CPU, Memory, GPU) that you could use to overclock or that would support newer CPU's. There's only 1 problem with doing this though, OEM's like to have proprietary front panel connectors so I don't know what you would do. Again, if it was me, I would re-wire the front panel connectors but you may not have the means or desire to do that. Now, you COULD purchase a new mobo and case and probably be under $150 for a nice setup. Lastly, I don't think the E8500 is worth it for you unless you can overclock it which you can't.

I made another one and refined the text so it's easier to see. One problem I didn't think about is making the rounded corners the same across multiple images. I'm going to get new background images for them and try to refine more.