Thank you both, Renegade & Sideout, for the explanation and feedback. Much appreciated.

Sorry. That was probably a dumb question. When a mobo is said to support Crossfire or SLI, is that only referring to multiple GPU's or the manufacturer? I guess that was where I was unclear...

I can't understand why everyone is so in love with Search & Destroy mode...Headquarters is by far a more straight-forward and balanced team-play mode and requires cooperative teamwork in order to be effectively won.  Search and Destroy mode is for hotdogs and lone wolves, IMO.

Sideout, does the asrock mobo support ati or nvidia cards?

Thanks.

http://now.msn.com/nickolay-lamm-shows-cities-underwater-after-climate-change?Gt1=50501

These pics got me thinking that this would be a fun and interesting game or even as a mod to an existing FPS game like COD4, L4D 1 or 2, or really any kind of FPS.  Running around (or in this case, swimming or rafting around) partially submerged coastal cities and other urban environments would be fun and introduce a challenging aspect to the typical FPS, IMHO.

Sideout, do you still have the asrock mobo and video cards?

looking around $180.00 to get a repair / buy a motherboard for it.  At least that is what I found in my 10mins of checking for you.

Thanks for checking, Code. I found pretty much the same results myself.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.  It was an $1100 laptop that I bought about 5 years ago, and yes, it is getting a bit long in the tooth, but I was hoping I could salvage it and keep it sputtering a few more miles down the road until I could build myself a nice desktop unit to bring with me to the LAN's.

I will probably check around to see if I can find someone to repair it, or just find a replacement motherboard myself.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Wasn't sure where to post this, so that's why it's on this topic sub-heading.

I have a Gateway P-7805u FX laptop that I bought about 5 years ago. About a year or so after I bought it I noticed that the graphics started acting buggy, black screens after gaming on medium or high settings, weird multi-colored freeze screens, etc.  Tried updating drivers multiple times, uninstalling and reinstalling nVidia drivers, and even reinstalling the operating system. After doing some research online, I discovered that Gateway sagaciously decided to use a certain kind of lead-free solder on their GPU's when soldering them to the motherboards on this particular model. After several cycles of heating and cooling, the solder would crack and cause the GPU to malfunction. It wasn't on all models, but it appears that a good chunk of models used this kind of defective solder. I looked online on different forums and others have had the same problems, citing the same issues. It turns out that the only fix for it, is to either replace the entire motherboard, or to re-ball the GPU to the motherboard using regular lead solder. SInce it is out of warranty, I have to fix it myself and at my own cost or pay someone else to do it for me. I found a company online who does this kind of repair and they would do it for probably around $400 when it's all said and done, but I would prefer to not have to do that if I can help it.

My question is this: has anyone in the group ever had to do this kind of repair, how complicated is it, and do you have any recommendations/

Sincere thanks.

Lincoln7

Has it been used/tested?

Yes, got it. I remember now. There are lettered control points to capture, Point A, Point B, etc.

Refresh my memory, please - how is Domination mode played? Is it like free-for-all?

Thanks.

Okay, I know it's a bit late now, but I got MW3 a few months back as a Christmas gift from my wife (I was in shock when I opened it), and now that I have it, are you telling me we are not having any MW3 tourneys??? :-)

Oh well...

Cool looking case. I am hoping to eventually start a case build from scratch so the cpu fans will come in handy, too. Fingers crossed...:-)

That system is sweet!  Oh the agony of waiting. :-)