To put it simply, the advertising rule ONLY APPLIES if it is used to take players from WoS to a 3rd party unsupported website or game server of any kind. Such as someone saying "COME TO (SERVERNAME) IP is 127.0.0.1!" or something like that. It is NOT advertising if someone just brings up a server like "Do you play on crazybob's?" that's just a question to ask someone if they used to play there, that there I don't see any advertising intent in that sentence.
Bottom line? It comes down to the admins, because we take situations individually. Me? I ban if someone intentionally advertises other servers on WoS with intent to take our players to other SA:MP servers, or if they post links to Pornographic material (We have many underage members here, despite the game being Rated M, although I'm sure you already know that.)

But I'm rolling with admino's old rules, not eXpie's so eXpie if you say differently, please let us all know.

Sweet! It's nice to have my old forum account back along with all my stats.

Computer parts have just been ordered from Newegg!  I payed $2.99 extra for rushed processing so I should expect the computer parts to be at my house on Wednesday at the latest and be back on SA-MP on Sunday at the latest (I need time to put it together and get it configured properly and play some of my new games)

The name of the computer will be "BroschPOW3R" (lol)

Quote from: RoKyVx7 on January 04, 2011, 11:42:07 PM
A great PC for a good low price and one more thing is it going to be Windows 7

No problem with that, everyone that goes to my College gets a free copy of Windows 7 Professional x64 though The MSDN Academic Alliance. 

Oh by the way, I just bought a lotto ticket (I could win 20 million dollars.) If I win I owe Macress345 a $1,000 gaming computer!  I highly doubt I will win but whatever

Quote from: [WoS]Orion on January 04, 2011, 10:27:51 PM
Hi Brendy!

Lucky you, that's a kickass computer imo! XD

Hum.. for the CPU, just be aware, the best deal you can get right now would be Phenom II X6, Its currently at 179$ on Newegg, so it would unfortunately bust your budget a little.

The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T   is getting 28.78 passmark points [(CPU Mark / $Price )] for 179$
The Phenom II X4 955 would be a little below 4,267 passmark points for $144.99 (maybe more since its black edition??)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+II+X6+1055T


Also I have read on an overclocking forum that you cannot change the CPU/NB Voltage on your Mobo , so that could be an issue, but since you are cooling with 2 stock casing fans, and that you did not purchase an after-market cpu heatsink, I assume you wont overclock.

Cool setup!

Yeah unfortunately I cannot go for an x6 at the moment.  Maybe in the future I will upgrade but I don't really see it as a big deal since most games support quad cores, not 6 core processors.  Where have you seen that you can't change Voltage on an ASUS? Usually you can customize anything on an ASUS, and this board I'm buying is alot of money so I am hoping it can.  If not, oh well.  I would probably keep the voltage on auto anyways.  The biggest reason I am buying this motherboard is that it support SLI x16 configuation, while most Mobos in this price range only support x8 SLI.  I will probably never SLI anyways but you never know.

Orion, the Stock cooler on the Phenom II black editions are actually pretty decent.  People with this same processor (according to reviews) have gotten the clock to 3.8GHz with ease just on Stock cooling.  I will also be removing the OEM compound and putting on Arctic Silver, maybe that will help it keep cool more.  Worst case scenario (I can't overclock at all) 3.2GHz is just fine for me.

Quote from: macress345 on January 04, 2011, 11:01:07 PM
Nice work on putting that together. Why don't you go with a HAF 922 though? It's got more room than a Scout and it's slightly cheaper. I know Nka has one so you can ask him how it is.


Also, I'm not sure how much power two 570's will take, but Xion has an 80+ Gold Certified 700w PSU for $95.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817190027&Tpk=700w%20xion

If two cards can run on 700w then I suggest going for that Xion.


EDIT: Forget the HAF 922, it went up to $100 on Newegg, even though it was just $80 a month ago.

Thanks for the suggestion Max but I heard some pretty terrible things about XION power supplys (and their customer support).  I know someone IRL that has the same Antec PSU I'm getting and it's very powerful and quiet, and you can trust a big company like Antec to give support if you have any problems.
Also like I said, I might never SLI my cards.   When it comes time for an upgrade I might just buy a whole new card and keep my old one as a dedicated PhysX card or something.

Quote from: EviRax on January 04, 2011, 10:03:28 PM
Awesome pc for such a LOW price :O

Thanks, I've been working on it since October.  You just have to do your homework and you can come up with a great PC like this one for such great price.

Hello friends,

COMPUTER HAS BEEN ORDERED!

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=12666271

Regards,
Brosch91

Yes that is a great pc.  with that card you should be able to run most new games except maybe Metro 2033 at max settings at a resolution of 1920x1200.  And it shouldn't have problems running games at full settings for the next year or so.  But you never know, with the rate technology is advancing lol.  Last year we were all drooling over the Radeon 5970 now we are drooling over the gtx 580 xD.

Quote from: alpha500delta on December 28, 2010, 08:29:32 PM
But why do most admins ban players when they post sites in the chat? so they cant post sites in chat but they can in housenotes?

They shouldn't be.  We used to do that in the past but admino let us know that what he means with the advertising rule is that it's only advertising if you advertise another server but saying something like "Everyone come to (name of server)" or posting the IP of it.  But remember that we do take everything individually here.   This is the way I do things when it comes to advertising: I ban if I feel someone is advertising another server or  a potentially dangerous website (such as a Warez or illegal site) or a pornography site (because we have some kids that play here and many of them contain harmful viruses or other types of malware that can harm your computer), but when it comes to personal websites I wouldn't really be ok with them advertising a website directly in chat like "come to my website!!" but I would be fine to just have it out there with it in something like an hnote.

Too long don't read version: I won't ban advertising hnotes unless they advertise another SA-MP server.

It is not advertising unless they are attempting to take our players away by advertising other SA-MP servers.