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[neilthecellist]

I don't see where I ever said "this and that". You are fabricating quotes that I never said prior to this post.

It's not a matter of experience, it's reading the OPENING POST to the thread, which tells you EXACTLY how to run Texmod for Mass Effect 3. My 12 year old cousin can run Texmod. No programming knowledge, no photoshop experience, nothing. He just knows how to read.

[-S-]

InBleedingRapture wrote...

ALIENWARE AREA 51 wrote...

no thanx, i'll better waiting until i can post images directly right here so everyone can see them realtime

when can i? how much time i need to get permission? 

I'm not sure how long it is before the system will allow you to post images, but when you can, it's just in simple BBCode.

If you have texture mods to contribute, you can still post your project(s). This is a great group for ME3 textures, as well: Mass Effect 3 Texture Mods

***EDIT***

Forgot to post an update on my male Shepard's "combat" fatigues outfit:

Download v1.0

***UPDATES***

- New specular/light map that more accurately reflects the composition of the armor's materials.
- Moved Alliance insignia up and more toward the center. The default was too low.
- Sharpened base texture.

***VIDEO***

Check out the video of the outfit in action on YouTube
- Best viewed in 1080p, of course.

That is awesome. Much better than stock one, though I'll hold off with the download until you have the damaged version ready. But definately gonna showcase this when doing the ME3 walkthrough videos.

[Lawrence0294]

Hey guys, i hope you can help me. I'm thinking of buying a pc but i'm not shure about the specs i should look out for so could you guys tell me more or less what i should seek to run ME3 with all those HD texture mods. Many thanx

Modifié par kratos0294, 21 mai 2012 - 01:08 .

[Dead_Meat357]

kratos0294 wrote...

Hey guys, i hope you can help me. I'm thinking of buying a pc but i'm not shure about the specs i should look out for so could you guys tell me more or less what i should seek to run ME3 with all those HD texture mods. Many thanx

Need to know your budget and the resolution of your monitor.

[Lawrence0294]

My budget would be around 1500 to 2000 and the resolution is 1920x1080

[saMoorai]

EDIT: Nevermind

Modifié par saMOOrai182, 21 mai 2012 - 05:56 .

[neilthecellist]

kratos0294 wrote...

 I'm thinking of buying a pc

I take it you're not going to be building it yourself then? Or did you mean buy computer parts and build it yourself? (cheaper, and more effective)

[Lawrence0294]

neilthecellist wrote...

kratos0294 wrote...

 I'm thinking of buying a pc

I take it you're not going to be building it yourself then? Or did you mean buy computer parts and build it yourself? (cheaper, and more effective)

I was thinking of doing that but it depends, is it complicated to build it myself?

[Dead_Meat357]

neilthecellist wrote...

kratos0294 wrote...

 I'm thinking of buying a pc

I take it you're not going to be building it yourself then? Or did you mean buy computer parts and build it yourself? (cheaper, and more effective)

I've found it's only cheaper at certain price points. Granted, the budget listed is in that territory. You can certainly get more for your money with that kind of cash. If you are buying a machine for $299.99 for browsing the web? Not so much. Is it possible to build a better system than what Dell, HP, etc. offer? Certainly. Does everyone have the knowledge and skill necessary to build their own machine? No. To you and I the task is simple. To most gamers, it is not.

[neilthecellist]

kratos0294 wrote...

neilthecellist wrote...

kratos0294 wrote...

 I'm thinking of buying a pc

I take it you're not going to be building it yourself then? Or did you mean buy computer parts and build it yourself? (cheaper, and more effective)

I was thinking of doing that but it depends, is it complicated to build it myself?

I used Youtube to help build my first computer. When it really boils down to it, it's just hooking up everything that fits into the hole that fits or has the right markings. For instance if a power cable says "PWR ON" and your motherboard has a pin that just so happens to match the number of pins on your power cable, and also says "PWR ON", then logically you can chance the conclusion that the power cable should go into that part of the motherboard.

http://www.newegg.com

I'll leave Dead Meat to give you more details on how to actually select the right parts. It gets tricky and really depends on what level of control you want over your computer. For me, I have fine motor precision fans installed into my GPU so I can force a certain fan speed without having to use automated software. Same thing with the fans on/in my computer case and on the CPU. Some people like water cooling. Some just prefer stock cooling (I don't know why)

[Lawrence0294]

Thanx guys i really appreciate it, i'm just not well informed at all in the pc department and i never know what is best to buy. I really want to get it right

[Dead_Meat357]

kratos0294 wrote...

Thanx guys i really appreciate it, i'm just not well informed at all in the pc department and i never know what is best to buy. I really want to get it right

The recommendation really depends on if you want to go with building it yourself. It's not that hard as stated earlier. The first time I did it in 1995 I didn't know what the hell I was doing either. I just did it because I couldn't afford to have someone else do it for me.

I've built hundreds of machines since then professionally. I've enjoyed working on almost every one of them.

Modifié par Dead_Meat357, 21 mai 2012 - 08:24 .

[InBleedingRapture]

Hehe, I built my first computer when I was 12. Of course, I had no idea what I was doing, but I learned. I've never built PCs professionally, but I've built all my own rigs since then, modded cases and mainboards, etc.

Probably the hardest part as a newcomer to PC building, I've found, is correctly mounting the CPU cooler. It requires a delicate touch and some knowledge of how exactly it needs to be done. For this, I would definitely follow nielthecellist's advice and watch a vid on YouTube. It will save you some headaches : )

[neilthecellist]

Yes, especially on the latest Intel and the previous generation of AMD stock and aftermarket coolers... For some reason they are designed as if everyone who builds computers has skinny fingers. Genius engineering.

[InBleedingRapture]

neilthecellist wrote...

Yes, especially on the latest Intel and the previous generation of AMD stock and aftermarket coolers... For some reason they are designed as if everyone who builds computers has skinny fingers. Genius engineering.

Latex gloves and a very small, long pair of needle-nosed pliers : )

[neilthecellist]

Or being a lean, skinny Asian male. I'm 70 inches tall and 107 pounds.

[InBleedingRapture]

Haha... bastard. I have Irish/Nordic roots, so my fingers were meant for manipulating big, clunky tools and weapons and lifting mugs full of alcoholic beverages : P

[Dead_Meat357]

InBleedingRapture wrote...

Haha... bastard. I have Irish/Nordic roots, so my fingers were meant for manipulating big, clunky tools and weapons and lifting mugs full of alcoholic beverages : P

Same here.

As for the earlier comments, I'd agree with the statement that the cooling hardware is the worst part of it. It certainly is. Though oddly, I haven't worked with any of the stock cooling hardware of this generation. So far all the Intel CPUs I've used recently have been LGA1155 or LGA2011 engineering samples. The LGA2011 CPUs don't even come with one at all in most cases. They basically have an optional self-containted water cooling system which uses this god awful retention mechanism. I installed a few Corsair H100's and H70's wich use the same basic setup. In fact all Asetek units like the Corsair H series and Antech Khuler units work about the same way.

As for recommendations for hardware, I want to keep the suggestions somewhat general because there are a lot of different ways to go about this. I haven't done specific pricing as of late, so keep that in mind.

PSU - Look for something from Corsair, Seasonic, Antec etc. Keep in mind that power supplies are all OEM'ed from various sources. So you can't just trust most brands across the board. One company may sell a great 1,000watt unit, but their 600watt PSUs are crap. So a lot of research needs to be done there. Check Johnny Guru and HardOCP.com for reviews on that. I think they've got the best PSU reviews out there right now. Others have since started using similar methods for reviewing power supplies, but these two sites were doing it first.

Memory - Go with at least 8GB of DDR3 memory. DDR3 1600MHz is cheap enough and really is about the highest clock speed in which you'll see definite gains in bandwidth that actually translate to real world performance. DDR3 2400MHz modules sound badass, but unless you are a benchmarking fanatic and or really have a high budget, I wouldn't go invest in them. An interesting fact I'll add though, is that according to ASUS engineers, Intel's USB 3.0 controller actually is sensitive to memory bandwidth. I've not yet obtained faster modules in order to test this. I've got some older DDR3 2000MHz modules but they are a bad choice for Ivy Bridge based CPUs due to being 1.65v memory. Memory brands don't matter a whole lot. But I'd stick to Crucial, Corsair, Patriot, Kingston, and possibly a few others just for the excellent customer service and great compatibility many of those brands provide.

CPU - This is a touchy subject and I do not want to spark an Intel vs. AMD debate here. I really don't. AMD's Bulldozer based CPUs are cheaper and do offer 8 cores, but frankly they are out performed by Intel's last generation quad core CPUs. In games the differences are smaller, but they are there. They use more power, generate more heat in many cases and use a dated platform. Especially as resolution climbs. To give you an idea of how bad the performance of Bulldozer can be, (in games at least) in many cases the Core i3 E2100 beats their offerings and it has only two cores with Hyperthreading. The Core i7 2500K, 2600K are great bang for your buck parts, but the 3770K is popular right now. K-sku CPUs are fully unlocked parts allowing you to adjust the turbo frequency (overclocking) to a large degree. The price premium for this is really small. It's also worth looking for a Microcenter in your city or state as their prices on CPU are unmatched. No one online even beats their prices.

Motherboard - This is an easier topic. Most motherboards perform about the same. Benchmarks with regard to them are irrelevant. The differences are all within a 3%-5% of each other, but tests typically employed on the boards all show that much variance from run to run and system to system. So that as data goes is fairly irrelevant. Review sites perform these tests because they are expected, but they are of little value when evaluating a board. Benchmarks are also hard to put faith in when you've got companies like ASUS, Gigabyte and even MSI cheating by altering the turbo frequencies of the CPU by taking them slightly past Intel's default specifications. In other words, they try to cheat at benchmarks. A CPU which might have a turbo frequency of 3.8GHz will run at 3.9GHz or so in order to win benchmarks. It's just enough to beat other stock configurations but not serious enough to cause problems with even the worst overclocking CPUs.

I recommend anything in the ASUS P8Z77 series. I'd also recommend the MSI Z77A-GD65 and GD80, but their UEFI is terrible compared to ASUS'. Intel makes a good board as well, but there are better choices. I've not done any recent testing on Gigabyte boards, so I can't speak to anything in their Z77 series. Just X79. ASRock is cheap but hit or miss on quality, ECS should be avoided, EVGA is over rated, etc. The latter isn't too bad, but I've found their offerings to be unnecessarily quirky. They work, and EVGA is a great company to deal with, but these boards are often a bit much for the novice as they sometimes require a little extra tuning to make them behave right. For your first build I'd always recommend getting something which just works out of the box with no tweaking. You can always tweak it later. You shouldn't have to out of the gate.

Storage - I'd recommend getting an SSD for your OS and maybe a handful of games you play most often. I'd supplement this with a mechanical disk for storage. That being said, an SSD does nothing for frame rates. It does however improve level load times in games if you install your games to it. The OS will also be more responsive. SSD's are always evolving and changing. In fact they are doing so at a rate faster than virtually anything else right now. Even I sometimes can't track all the latest drives on the market. Intel, Corsair, Kingston, and others have very good offerings. I'd really look for the latest Sandforce based controllers. Even Intel is using them on some models. Mostly for performance. For compatibility and reliability, Intel's own controllers and firmware are hard to match.

Mechanical Disks - Just stick to the major brands. Western Digital, Seagate, etc. Get what you can afford for capacity, tempered with performance. I wouldn't personally buy "green" or 5400rpm drives. That's just me.

The video card is probably the biggest dilema of all. It's also key to how your system performs in games. It can also take up the largest portion of your budget. I'd recommend the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 if you can spare enough coin to do it in your budget. It's possibly overkill for 1080p in many games. However that gives you longevity. Hardware that's more powerful than you need simply needs to be upgraded less often. The video card changes a lot, especially with regard to price. If the Radeon HD 7950 and 7970 drop enough in price, they'd be worth while alternatives to NVIDIA's offerings for what you need. But right now the GTX 670 offers a lot of bang for your buck eclipsing the performance of the older GTX 580 which is saying something. On the mid-range side of the spectrum the GTX 560 Ti is among your best choices and what I'd go with if I couldn't get a GTX 670. Of course if you've got more money to spend, the GTX 680 is a nice choice. The GTX 690 is available as well, but too much card for 1080P. That would be fine except that it's extremely expensive and would kill half your budget by itself. So it doesn't make sense in this case.

As for cases, this is a matter of personal preference. I like simple elegant designs like the Lian-Li offerings and the Corsair Obsidian 700D/800D. You just need something with good airflow. A good budget alternative I picked up for my server was the CoolerMaster HAF. They make several variants of this design and it's great for air cooling and some water cooling. But this is a very personal choice so I won't say too much about cases in general. I will say you do get what you pay for to a large degree. Poor quality and inexpensive cases have terrible airflow, don't look very good, break easily and at the worst of times will cut the crap out of you with their beer can metal. So keep all that in mind. 

OK, I think I'm done for now.

[Thiagobsbr]

Assembling most of computer parts really boils down to "put it where it fits"...
you only have to be careful with the processor, cooler and fitting the PSU..
I don't recall if it's still like this, but it used to have a power cord that would fit a graphic card and a slot on the motherboard, mixing them up would be disastrous. Just take your time and make sure to read the manual, or at very least, the assembly part of the manual.

Thank God we don't have to deal with IRQ conflicts and pesky jumpers anymore

[wentworthmeister]

That really was a great post Dead_Meat357, I couldn't have summed up the current market options better if I tried myself.

Modifié par wentworthmeister, 22 mai 2012 - 12:02 .

[InBleedingRapture]

Ha, jumpers... oh, how many have slipped through my fingers and been lost in the bowels of my case...

[neilthecellist]

 I'm bookmarking Dead Meat's post. It's quality s*** 

[Fredy AG]

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Added:

32. Tuchanka. Structural Materials in High Resolution.

33. Sentry Interface N7 Edition (viewer) in High Resolution with real information.


Salu2. 

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Modifié par smarteck, 22 mai 2012 - 01:03 .

[Dead_Meat357]

Thiagobsbr wrote...

Assembling most of computer parts really boils down to "put it where it fits"...
you only have to be careful with the processor, cooler and fitting the PSU..
I don't recall if it's still like this, but it used to have a power cord that would fit a graphic card and a slot on the motherboard, mixing them up would be disastrous. Just take your time and make sure to read the manual, or at very least, the assembly part of the manual.

Thank God we don't have to deal with IRQ conflicts and pesky jumpers anymore

Thanks guys. I tried to keep things general in order not to derail us too bad. If anyone wants more specifics, feel free to PM me about anything. If I don't have the answer, believe me I can get it. I know people (or people who know people) in virtually every corner of the industry.

But with regard to the post above...............

Intel processors are actually really sturdy. The most delicate thing on a CPU used to be it's pins. Intel CPUs haven't had pins since the introduction of LGA775 socket based processors at the end of the Pentium 4 era. As for the PSU issue you mentioned, that's not really an issue. 8 pin E-ATX / SSI plugs won't fit an 8 pin graphics card port. And now some boards have supplemental power ports in the form of graphics cards 8 pin and 6 pin cabling. Most still use 4 pin molex for supplementary PCI-Express power. This is really only needed on SLI and Crossfire based systems though. The trade off though is the CPU sockets. They aren't as delicate as people had feared, but I've had to fix a couple LGA1155 sockets here recently.

No, we don't have IRQ problems. Now we have option ROM problems which are actually far worse because you can't do anything about it. Fortunately, companies like ASUS and ASRock have listened and are shoring up their firmware. Though it took UEFI and prioritizing legacy firmware and UEFI in the proper sequence to fix it across the map. Still not every board does it right. The most common sign that you have option ROM issues is secondary drive controllers being unable to function in RAID mode with the built-in chipset controller in RAID mode as well. This problem really came about late in the X58 era and plagues P67 and Z68 boards badly. Later Z68 and Z77 boards are good for the most part as are X79 based boards. As UEFI has become more common, it's allowed manufacturers to solve a lot of problems.

BIOS was old and busted and needed replacement years ago. The sad part is EFI has been around for 7 years and we are just now seeing it leveraged.

[Dead_Meat357]

smarteck wrote...

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Added:

32. Tuchanka. Structural Materials in High Resolution.

33. Sentry Interface N7 Edition (viewer) in High Resolution with real information.


Salu2. 

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Fantastic. I'm working on the Recon hood right now. It's proving to be a real challenge to work with. I'd also like the Kawashi Visor to get fixed. While the textures aren't offensive, the fact that the targeting reticle on the display was never centered on Shepard's eye always bothered me.

Modifié par Dead_Meat357, 22 mai 2012 - 03:49 .