Paals
Account Details
SteamID64 76561197991131594
SteamID3 [U:1:30865866]
SteamID32 STEAM_0:0:15432933
Country United States
Signed Up December 15, 2012
Last Posted April 2, 2016 at 10:37 PM
Posts 88 (0 per day)
Game Settings
In-game Sensitivity
Windows Sensitivity
Raw Input  
DPI
 
Resolution
 
Refresh Rate
 
Hardware Peripherals
Mouse  
Keyboard  
Mousepad  
Headphones  
Monitor  
1 2 3 4 5 6
#1 Northwest Fall LanFest in LAN Discussion

Link to Lanfest site

If anyone is bummed to be missing out on Sacremento's Lanfest and doesn't mind making the trip up to beautiful Portland, Oregon, this LAN will be great. Its on Intel's Hillsboro campus just west of Portland. I know there is a Portland TF2 scene which is probably going to try to go but if anyone else is down let's get this going. Registration is TOMORROW 10/2 so find out quick if you can make it.

Location: Intel Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Date: November 14th - 16th, 2014 (Friday 8:00pm - Sunday 12:00pm)

posted about 9 years ago
#12 Chroma in Other Games

Yea I did as well. Its all under NDA though so you can only talk about it in their forums. But I will say even in alpha this game is better and more innovative than most games that came out in the past 2 years.

posted about 10 years ago
#6 Looking to upgrade build - Recommendations? in Hardware

I've got a high end AMD rig like yours and have also been seeing if its feasible to switch over to intel. The price of the 4770k is just so high that your going to spending 400+ with that cpu and any decent mobo no matter what (unless you are lucky as hell and got a microcenter near you). Right now the gigabyte z87x ud3h is apparently the best band for your buck z87 board out there, seen some pretty good overclocks on it. At pcpartpicker prices that combo is 470 though, could probably go i5 to get it under 400 though.

posted about 10 years ago
#119 ESEA's possible demise? in TF2 General Discussion
hoolifood for thought

Even more food for thought

posted about 10 years ago
#37 Scouts are bad in Off Topic

http://i.imgur.com/hlnwo.gif

posted about 10 years ago
#535 stream highlights in Videos

http://www.twitch.tv/paals/c/3421042

posted about 10 years ago
#49 PC Build Thread in Hardware

To Sideshow: I'd get the R9 270X. As supply of the 7xxx series goes down, the prices of all of them have been going up ever since bitcoin miners started picking them up en masse. If you can afford about
$100 more, an ssd really improves every thing in your system as well. Apart from that it looks great!

To tgb: Same for sideshow goes for you. 8gb of ram is plenty, and the only real bottlenecks in your build at this point are your hdd and gpu. If you can spend the $40+ to get an ssd, instead of another kit of that g.skill, it is really worth it.

posted about 10 years ago
#2 UGC Gold Highlander: Cranked Gaming vs. Aces and the Gamers in Events

metawe to surf rockets

posted about 10 years ago
#38 TF2 Cookie clicker in Other Games

http://i.imgur.com/UJhsuoD.png

Started at 10 am pst today, and my browser has crashed 4 times as a result. I cannot uncrate faster than I autobuy keys since im generating so many crates. help.

posted about 10 years ago
#37 TF.TV WHIPS, what do you drive? in Off Topic

http://i.imgur.com/xrDdxI7.jpg

99 volvo v70 awd
just north of 150k
it is PERFECT (besides the few dings on the paint)

posted about 10 years ago
#462 It begins! in Off Topic

Please hat me, im bald

http://i.imgur.com/uxFSwv5.jpg

tyty

posted about 10 years ago
#26 CEVO in TF2 General Discussion
-Mike-Paals Put your money where your mouths are people and actually play, im sick of getting ffw's.
Everyone was busy taking their ESEA and UGC more seriously. But if people actually play some CEVO it will be a thing.

Thats what always happens. Preseason: "Lets play cevo! Screw ESEA!" week 3: "Sorry guise ESEA is too important." And taking UGC seriously? Have you seen platinum this season?

posted about 10 years ago
#23 CEVO in TF2 General Discussion

I've been in this season of cevo since preseason. We have played one match vs lonely hearts which we got 5-0 on, and since then have racked up 4 ffws. Of the 7 teams left, zero of the teams have played all of their matches. The top team is Bob & Weave (Pyyyour's team) which has 3 wins 5 weeks into the season. Even now after all this has gone down cevo isn't getting the support it should. I remember during the offseason ppl said "Yea CEVO!!!!" and here we are. Put your money where your mouths are people and actually play, im sick of getting ffw's.

posted about 10 years ago
#22 PC Build Thread in Hardware
Sylvercage-Does this sound alright? I will only be playing/streaming tf2.I was also going to buy an AMD FX-8350 for streaming TF2 but I asked rays, who streams using an 8350, and he said that Intel i5 processors outperform the 8350 in playing and streaming source games.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.97 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($119.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($82.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.65 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Tempest 210 ATX Mid Tower Case ($45.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($95.99 @ Adorama)
Total: $794.53
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-07 15:42 EST-0500)

Now this is my personal build for the future, and I'm looking for help on this. I know nothing about motherboards and basically anything that isn't a cpu or gpu. My budget's at $800 and I wanted use this to stream TF2, is there anything I'm missing like compatibility issues?

Is there any particular reason you aren't going for haswell? Also you haven't listed an aftermarket cpu cooler, so I'm assuming you aren't ocing. If you aren't then save some $$$ and get a non k i5 and non z mobo. As to the performance of the 8350 vs an i5 in source streaming: having a better single core core performance will help in tf2 for sure, but multi-threaded will always beat single threads in streaming.

posted about 10 years ago
#20 PC Build Thread in Hardware
cage-CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($197.97 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($55.25 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.05 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 650 2GB Video Card ($133.98 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($42.98 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $873.20
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-07 15:22 EST-0500)

Does this sound alright? I will only be playing/streaming tf2.

The video card is very weak in the current market. Hopefully you plan to update it soon, if not consider spending a bit more for the 660 ti. Also you may regret gettting only 250 gb of storage. Look for a sale on any seagate or WD drive: 1 tb will usually go down to the price of this drive you have chosen. Unless you need it this second, wait until black friday to buy the parts.

posted about 10 years ago
1 2 3 4 5 6