Chromatic Dragon Pet Video, Setup of the Month, Fan Art, The Daily Blink

Chromatic Dragon Pet Video
The Chromatic Dragon pet was updated since the last time we featured it, so here is a new video with the current model and animations. (The dragon's breath at 0:45 may be slightly bugged)



Computers - Setup of the Month (by chaud)
Each month or every 2 months, depending on the hardware evolutions, the lovely chaud will work on a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

This month
Even though hard drive prices have come down slightly, now is still a good time to buy a SSD, as the next generation is a good while away and the current prices are fairly flat.

AMD's Bulldozer arrived last month to negative reviews, citing excessive power usage and heat output and very poor single threaded performance. They are working on another stepping which may help the problem slightly, but don't expect any significant improvements on the design until the middle of 2012 with the arrival of Piledriver. There is a glimmer of hope for those of you who purchased one and play games however, a software patch that increases gaming performance by fixing some of the scheduling issues is coming in January.

New mid range AMD GPUs are rumored to be coming in Q1 2012 if you are thinking about upgrading. The new higher end 7900 parts will be here in January, with a press event and NDA lift possibly later this week.

Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.

Don't hesitate to post any feedback in the comments of that news post, and don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions! If you are interested in Folding@home, take a look in our team's thread.

Peripherals/Monitors
ComponentPuppy Dolphin
MonitorASUS VW224U 22-Inch Widescreen - $149ASUS VW246H 24-Inch Widescreen - $217
KeyboardMicrosoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000 - $20Cyborg V.5 - $47
MouseLogitech G400 - $35Logitech G500 - $61
SpeakersLogitech S220 2.1 Speaker System - $25Logitech Z313 Speaker System - $44
ComponentNarwhal Unicorn
MonitorASUS VE276Q 27-Inch - $303HP ZR24w 24-inch (IPS Panel) - $400
KeyboardLogitech G110 - $70Razer BlackWidow (Backlit)- $70 ($112)
MouseRazer Deathadder - $45Razer Naga (Buttons on the Side) - $70
SpeakersCreative Inspire T3130 2.1 Speaker System - $45Logitech Speaker System Z523 - $71



Puppy and Dolphin
Overclocked Puppy will outperform Dolphin when multiple threads are in use (Not WoW) and come close in most other cases.
Mix and match anything but the CPU/Motherboard combo between Puppy and Dolphin. Mix and match anything between Dolphin and Narwhal.
ComponentPuppy Dolphin
CaseNZXT M59 Classic - $50NZXT GAMMA Classic - $40
Power SupplyCorsair CX500 V2 - $41Corsair CX600 V2 - $50
CPUAMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition- $125Intel i3-2100 - $124
HeatsinkCooler Master Hyper 212 Plus - $21Corsair Air Series A70 - $26
MotherboardASUS M5A97 AM3+ 970 - $95Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 - $115
Memory4GB PNY Optima DDR3 10600 - $274GB G.Skill Ripjaws F3 4GB 12800 DDR3 - $42
Graphics CardXFX 6770 - $90MSI 6850 or EVGA GTX 560 - $168 / $165
Hard DriveWestern Digital Caviar Black 500GB - $118Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB - $170
DVDAsus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $20Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $20
Total$587$755


Narwhal and Unicorn
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn. SSDs are always optional.
ComponentNarwhal Unicorn
CaseCooler Master HAF 912 - $50Cooler Master HAF932 - $152
Power SupplyCorsair 650TX V2 - $75Corsair 750HX (7 Year Warranty) - $118
CPUIntel i5-2500k - $240Intel i7-2600k - $315
HeatsinkThermaltake Frio - $60Noctua 6 NH-D14 - $83
MotherboardGigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 - $160ASUS Z68 P8Z68-V PRO - $210
Memory4GB G.Skill Ripjaws F3 4GB 12800 DDR3 - $428GB G.Skill DDR3 12800 - $54
Graphics CardXFX 6950 1GB OR EVGA GTX 560 Ti- $210 / $220XFX 6970 2GB OR EVGA GTX 570 - $310 / $360
Hard DriveWestern Digital 1TB Caviar Black - $172Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black - $172
SSDCrucial 128 GB m4 (Review) - $213
OR
Corsair Force Series GT 120 GB - $200 		Intel 510 Series 120 GB (Review) - $275
OR
OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 (Review) - $170
DVDAsus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $20Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $20
Total$1029 - $1242$1604 - $1759



Blizzard Art Gallery Update
The World of Warcraft Cataclysm Art gallery has been updated with six pieces representing the Warcraft universe.





The Daily Blink - Zero Sum Games
The Daily Blink reports on a discovery that no one thought was possible.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Chromatic Dragon Pet Video, Setup of the Month, Fan Art, The Daily Blink started by chaud View original post
Published on 2011-12-19 03:36 AM
92 Comments
Comments 92 Comments
  1. Jenovo's Avatar
    Have you read up on Samsung's new SSD? They're super reliable and now aren't too slow. You might want to compare them to Intel's.


    newegg .com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147134
  1. Paleolf's Avatar
    From the Daily Blink: "says the Blood Elf rouge 'Sarcastyx' ". I now know the story is bunk! I hope you have rouge on your faces!
  1. Balmazer's Avatar
    One thing I noticed when doing Dragon Soul was that it appears that Thrall using the Dragon Soul to finish off Deathwing in the Madness of Deathwing encounter the chromatic dragon 'shot out' of the dragon soul to finish off Deathwing.
  1. matherl's Avatar
    So many animations for the new whelp O_O
  1. NilModern's Avatar
    They misspelled "rogue".
  1. Balmazer's Avatar
    After completing the Madness of Deathwing encounter I'm pretty sure I saw the chromatic dragon come out of the Dragon Soul to shoot mad beams at Deathwing and leave him in a cloud of dust.
  1. CrypticSoul's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Venteus View Post
    Star wars is nothing compared to WoW. Daily blink is off.
    You're right. Star Wars is so much better.
  1. Halicia's Avatar
    God I love Daily Blink.
  1. Amarynth's Avatar
    Stop.... the madness. Star Wars can never be as good as World of Warcraft because WoW is already perfect and there is no more perfection possible.

    Really. Believe me.

    My taste is the overall taste so I know what people like and they do not like SW:ToR. If people play Star Wars then they'er against my rules and so the servers shall get struck by a lightning.What Daily Blink does is digital blasphemy. Stop this or you will suffer the wrath of the Fan King.
    The last time someone descended from the MMO throne he was kicked from Godsole - you know him as Satan (or Darth Evader). He broke the first rule which clearly says: You shall not have any other taste than mine and mine will be the taste of all.

    So stop playing SW:ToR. NAO. Or you will all land in hell. Believe me, I am objective at all!1
  1. AspectRyan's Avatar
    So this dragon pet will have, Hyper Beam, Evasion, quick attack, Fly.MoP Pokemon.
  1. Spritely's Avatar
    definitely gonna have to get that pet.
  1. mmocd7eaea67b7's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chip Sodahoof View Post
    I think that comic is full proof that The Daily Blink is utter BS. This goes against everything we know. They have NO PROOF TO BACK THIS CLAIM. They just make the claims and run off hoping we believe them. There is NO SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE WAY to prove that 2 games can be simultaneously good.Seriously, I used to respect TDB, but after this "discovery" it's clear that I can't rely on them for PROPER news../satiresincesomebodiesgoingtotakemeseriously
    Nice footnote there. I was wondering whether soneone else noticed that the edited picture is the photograph taken of Bill Clinton together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords in 1993.
  1. mmoc4210ca0bf6's Avatar
    Only problem about starwars mmo is it comes right after wow mmo where people is already tired of that gamestyle and need a new type of game.
  1. mmoc264ec5d525's Avatar
    I really feel like playin' Spyro - watching that little whelping =)
  1. mmoc3eb006e951's Avatar
    Seems strange Chaud always goes with sub par logitech speakers for his highend build. Would at least go for Z623 or Z906 and some sort of THX sound card from Creative.
  1. bbr's Avatar
    It would be cool is pets could loot gold from corpses. Would save so much time running around picking scraps XD Items you should still do yourself though, but I'd love to see the little pet run around from corpse to corpse helping you out!
  1. Gavan's Avatar
    1) The AMD chips perform much better even with the little patch that MS released for Win7 last week.2) Jumping from two 125 chipsets to a 240 chipset is flat out dumb, I understand the punch for those, but there are at least 6 very good processors byboth vendors in the 150-200 range for the 3rd tier option. Not everyone can affort a 240+ processor, but can actually afford more than the "soon to be phased out" ones.
  1. mmocb3b54be47d's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bbr View Post
    It would be cool is pets could loot gold from corpses. Would save so much time running around picking scraps XD Items you should still do yourself though, but I'd love to see the little pet run around from corpse to corpse helping you out!
    Not sure about just the gold from mobs but maybe it will be easy for blizz to give pets a "use" other than the future pet pvp thing. They could make them like the engineering Loot-A-Rang.
  1. micho's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mistuhbull View Post
    Am I the only one vaguely offended that WoW is on the body of Arafat?What you trying to say daily blink?
    arafat is a hero you knwo to some , and to these ppl clinton is the terrorist , just saying , and no im not offended
  1. popzx's Avatar
    lol @ daily blink xd
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