Comments for: Deal of the week: Two GPUs and a classic game

#2. Posted at 11:00 AM on Nov 21st 2008

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ludi

Obligatory whining about Newegg advertisements in the news section and other alleged inadequacies of a resource I get for free.

I wish I could justify that 4870 purchase. $210 after MIR is just about there if I didn't have an active case of New Monitor Lust going.

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#1. Posted at 10:52 AM on Nov 21st 2008, Edited at 10:53 AM on Nov 21st 2008

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mbutrovich

Everyone should have Half-Life by now. I'd have a ton of extra copies to gift if Valve hadn't only recently started keeping track of extra licenses. Over the years I've added my original HL key, a Silver ATI voucher, Gold Steam version of HL2, and the Collector's Edition of HL2. I suppose all of my friends have HL already anyway, so finding people to gift those 3 copies to would be a little tough anyway.

In unrelated HL news, Black Mesa Source released new images the other day and it still looks amazing:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/

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#36, Much rather play the awesome HL story than run acro... : TheBob! (#43) «

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#26. Posted at 02:49 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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MadManOriginal

That's a great price on the GTX260 and it comes with Farcry2 atm, if it wasn't 10.5" long I'd have gotten one. Good deal on the 4870 as well of course.

I know retesting is a pain but when there's a major release of drivers from NV, which doesn't happen frequently, that increase performance pretty nicely it is probably justified. Any plans of using the 180.xx drivers for the next video card review? I just think that's important to get a fair and current comparison and it might balance things out mroe vs the 512MB 4870, which of course has seen small consistent iperformance increases as well.

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#3. Posted at 11:27 AM on Nov 21st 2008

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2cans

i picked up hl. 98 cents, on my core2 clocked at 3.1 and my 4870 amd .4 gig sys mem. im getting an astounding 72 fps lol

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#16, I love V-Sync. : Usacomp2k3 (#25) «

#25, Yeah, I thought it was best to leave that on too. A... : 5150 (#27) «

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#45. Posted at 09:53 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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Umbragen

It's a pity they aren't offering the Source version of Half Life for that price.

#12. Posted at 12:17 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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ssidbroadcast

"Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!!"

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#31. Posted at 04:19 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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zimpdagreene

Nice deal there with the video cards. I am still chugging along with 2 3850 x2

#7. Posted at 12:05 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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glacius555

Still don't get it... Why do i have to download a 3rd party software, Steam (read another bloat for me), to get a game delivered digitally?!! Why not provide a goddamn http/ftp link with an image or even an installation package?? Isn't it the same, but without any software??

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#13. Posted at 12:25 PM on Nov 21st 2008

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TurtlePerson2

I already bought and beat HL1 a while back, but I couldn't pass up that sort of a deal, so I decided to buy it for my cousin who hasn't even played HL2 yet.