I've been playing need for speed hot persuit. just upgraded my pc's main HD to a SSD drive and installed 8 gig of ram. also upgraded the cpu from a dualcore to a quadcore

I was playing wow and starcraft off and ssd for about a month, and it broke.
Works fine for a few hours, then insanely long load times. then missing file errors, then eventually just cant access anything on the drive. fails the intel diagnostics.
reboot, passes all diagnostics and everything says its fine...

Maybe the SSD is b0rk3d?
I'd love to have an SSD, but still seems to sketchy at that price.
I've never done Raid, so I might try that for an extra speed bump.

Mine is a kingston make paid £90 for 128gig drive. so far so good but I'm well aware of the stupid failure rates so expecting this to go long before my cheapo maxtor drives

I dunno, Maxtor has set quite a few speed records.
And if the ssd wasnt acquired by scrupulous means, I would return it.
Its sitting on my tower under my desk. ill wait a week or 2 and plug it in and watch it magically work.
Meantime I took 2 120gb xbox 360 hdds and did my first raid.
Seems good, basically was running starcraft and warcraft on it, but low on space so now its my 4th video/divx dump folder.

Time to scrounge up some change get a couple 500GB drives. They are dirt cheap.

Has anyone signed up to play DC online and want to give a low down on how good it is?

I was amazed at how quickly I uninstalled starcraft 2.
It bored the crap out of me for some reason.

To me it felt a lot like the first one, reskinned, and somehow less satisfying. I couldn't even complete the single player campaigns, which I usually enjoy.

The single campaign was boring
I didn't like how the buildings deploy
resource gathering somehow is dumb not having the fields of resources
I don't like the cartoony look of the soldiers.

I don't think it had full 3d rotation like generals, it was one angle, I didn't like that.

the maps were too symetrical.

blah.
It really bored me.

amazing how the original and brood war were so much better with their sprite tech.