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If anything, I'd use my full name for a professional account and a nickname for a personal account. That way if you go for a job and prospective employees decide to look you up on social media, they will hopefully see you professional side only. Was sent this earlier, seems fitting to share in this thread: BBC - Newsbeat - Warning about harming career prospects on social media Personal or professional? http://www.edugeek.net/groups/tweeting-geeks.html

Waited for 30 minutes with no one showing up. As it got close to reboot time, an executive decission was taken to hit the trigger.

Right! Re-re-revised spec list as it stands! CPU: AMD FX-8350 4GHz Socket AM3+ 16MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor (£15 more for the next one up! ) MOBO: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 Socket AM3+ 7.1 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz Ballistix Tactical Memory OS HDD: Samsung 120GB 840 Series SSD Kit Steam HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB Hard Drive (7200rpm) SATA 64MB Existing GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 280

We can play pick-up. We have cars. We did have a chopper but my lust for using a satchel charge was greater then the practicalities of chopper use.

Samsung wins then. Thanks again.

I just use my personal one for both, but to be fair, most of my tweets are pointless blether and have very little informative content.

I was going to add this to my post too as likewise we apply it and it fixes a lot of odd issues with reports not printing correctly, but assumed it would be covered by WSUS.

Are you using Offline File Sync for users Home drives? When this is enabled, it causes issues with caching when SIMS try's to access the tempSimsRpts folder. Also worth adding the users home drive to trusted sites. I guess it's covered by WSUS, but may be worth double checking that the Primary Interop Assemblies are installed. This hotfix works wonders at fixing odd reporting issues!

Does anyone know what Scandisk SSD's are like in terms or performance and reliability?

It saves your location. If you were in a vehicle, you should spawn in by it. Back in the day, if you were caught by a reboot whilst in a vehicle, you spawned back in stuck in the ground, and the only way of getting out was hoping a vehicle was close enough to you to get into!!!

Their basis on this was that "I" killed them 3 nights in a row which must = hax! Tuesday, it was actually Carbon who did the killing! They also claimed that where we were at the North East airfield, no zombies had spawned which is "IMPOSSIBLE!" they claim. It's not impossible if you play pro and hug the coastline and the trees to avoid spawning zeds which is exactly what we did! And both times Tues and Yesterday, it was them who just bombed in full speed in a chopper with no stealth or cunning. They just went gun ho which is bound to draw attention, and it did! We're all at the North East Airfield camped up by our base at the moment.

You did actually! Me and Carbon had a great time killing Mord and his bandit crew and stealing their chopper. Unfortunately it escalated and they started accusing me of cheating and warping to them with full gear (all rubbish of course!) In the end, we planted a satchel charge on the chopper and blew it to hell!

We've come across this a fair old bit too, and can confirm this is good information.

Indeed @sonofsanta, a dedicated GPU will be installed. I'm happy with 8Gb of RAM, should be plenty for gaming as most games are more CPU intensive. I can always stick more in down the line if required. Also, it means I can get a better quality SSD. Cheers for the heads up @Arthur. Funnily enough, my mate said on Steam last night that I should avoid OCZ SSD's like the plague and go for a Samsung instead as their SSD kit is excellent?

@Hawkeyez - Good to see you on the server last night mate. We saw your name pop up as killed around 10:15'ish? What happened?

If you have issues, I'm sure a quick YouTube search will find loads of vids on how to get it working with Steam.

I don;t have ARMA2 in Steam so can;t really advise, but found this on the DayZ Commander FAQ page:

Download DayZ Commander: Home › DayZ Commander Will download and install the mod for you, allow you to download the latest Beta and launch the game with the in-built server browser. I believe it works fine with the Steam version, I have AMRA2 as a stand alone.

Right, revised spec: CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 Socket AM3+ 7.1 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard RAM: Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz Ballistix Tactical Memory Kit CL8 (8-8-8-24) 1.5V OS HDD: OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 Max IOPs SSD SATA-III 2.5" Read 550MB/s Write 500MB/s 85,000 IOPS Steam HDD: Seagate 1TB Barracuda 3.5" SATA-III Hard Drive - 7200RPM 64MB Cache

It's in Capitas SIMS Technical Essentials training document that's available on SupportNet!

I know what you mean, from reading up, everyone raves about Intel CPU's these days and how i5 and i7's are the bomb. But an 8 core AMD CPU at 3.5GHz and 16MB cache is £130 quid. I can't seem find anything Intel-wise that comes close to that price in the same area. If anyone wants to suggest some similar options, by all means, I'll take them. My current O/S HD is 70Gb. I 'could' get away with a 64Gb SSD (as I'm only using 50Gb for the O/S and a few apps) but to play it safe, more is required methinks. I'd love a SSD for my games too (my current game HD is 300Gb with only 30Gb free). To get an SSD the size is too pricy for my liking, and to be honest, my Steam library size will only grow so a 1TB drive seems like a sensible solution. Now steam allows you to install games on different drives, I could put one or two onto the OS SSD drive.

I prefer AMD's. Intel CPU's seem to be rather expensive in comparison. It will only be for the OS and some software. Will be getting a separate 1TB drive for Steam/Games. Doh! Misred that as SATA-III!

Starting build as it stands at the moment: Case: CoolerMaster Elite 310 Mid-Tower Gaming Case (Blue Colour) CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology Cooling Fan: CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 with 3 x Direct Contact heat-pipes CPU Cooling Fan Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (780L) Chipset, Micro-ATX mainboard w/ 2 RAM slots, 7.1 Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-II, 1 PCIe X16, 1 PCIe X1, & 2 PCI Memory: 8GB (2x4GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston HyperX Blu w/Heat Spreader) Hard Drive: 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk Optical Drive: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE. Thinking of taking my existing 1000w PSU from my current rig. Also undecided on GPU but it will be a Nvidia card. Right now, I'll be happy just having dynamic shadows in DayZ! Existing rig: Case: Big broken thing with door cover hanging off CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5200 @ 2.60GHz Motherboard: ASUS M2N4-SLI Memory: 4GB (4 X 1GB) DDR2 RAM HDD: 70GB Hitatchi SATA @ 7000RPM GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 280

If you just install FMS with the FMSInst.exe installer, it will install all the required prerequisites by itself including the SQL 2005 Native Client.

It will be a rig for gaming mainly so my main focus will be on the CPU and GPU choice.