There is no set temperature where overheating occurs, and the overheating temperature range all depends on what type of graphics card you have. The models turning invisible sounds like some sort of artifact, which might be due to the graphics card overheating. Are you overclocking your card...
A 70gb hard drive and 512mb of RAM costs $883? Surely there's something wrong. The only thing I could think of that would make those cost so much is if the 70gb hard drive is a Raptor and you're buying some sort of amazing $600 RAM. I know we're talking Canadian dollars here, but it shouldn't...
What are the specs of your computer?
It is possible that your computer is running to hot and your motherboard is automatically shutting down. If this is the first computer you have built, maybe you put the CPU heatsink on incorrectly and your processor is overheating.
Another...
What are your current motherboard and video card? You may not need a new sound card, as a lot of the time a new sound card is redundant and unnecessary.
No, they are not just for overclocking. The high-quality, performance RAM is good for overclocking, yes, but not made strictly for it. Performance RAM, like the Corsair XMS series, is much faster than regular, value RAM.
As for the threadstarter, I just bought myself this for one of my...
Well procedural textures are created by algorithms, not manual painting of pixels. It looks like the bump map you used is a procedural texture, while the diffuse map is a stock photo of rusted metal or something. What I was asking is if you were going to UV map it and make a texture in...
The model looks really good, projectile. It's nice to see some models with real smoothing. Are you going to be skinning this, or are you getting someone else to?
The only problem I can see are that there are some smoothing errors on the receiver. This could be fixed by chamfering some of...
Hey I didn't watch the video (yet...I probably will some time soon) but I just wanted to post in here to say thanks. It's people like you that make communities like this awesome.
I really like the idea behind this! Is this your first model, or just the first character? Either way, it's really good for a first. My fellow Iron Maiden buddy above me said, the texture is a little weird. Do you think you could post a larger picture of the model as a whole? Both textured...
All of the modelling looks pretty good. I can't wait to see it finished with the gigantohuge scope. It does look slightly thin, and not because of the so-called "bad lighting." Making it a little thicker would really add a lot to the model. It shouldn't take too long, but just make sure all...