5850 is overkill unless you'll be either 1) Playing tons of computer games non-stop 2) You plan to have 2-3 monitors constantly 3) You case can handle such a card. Either way look at some of those 5900s.
Update: http://i31.tinypic.com/2q2myox.png Fixed it. All of his bots now return a pathetic 380 byte 403 error page, instead of returning the large image per request. I took my bandwidth limit and converted it to bytes, and then divided by 380 bytes and got 254,307,274. So thats about 250 million requests he will have to do before we hit our limit. That attack idea was just squashed.
As of now and over the past 2 days we've been under a DDoS attack. My bet is that it is the same person as last time. After I called no-ip (DNS service for botnets) I got his first account suspended, but its been about a month and he could re-spread in that time. It seems his army now is just re-loading the logo image trying to "bandwidth rape" us. I've been writing a great deal of htaccess rules in order to prevent this. So far my rules have not only affected the bots, but also the legitimate users. I will continue to master this script to block all loads with maybe a 404 error to prevent resource consumption. The attacks have had random IPs and 1 IP that visited the site far too much. I am hoping that IP was the attacker trying out his idea, before he plugged it into his booter.
You made a bunch of mistakes ( I posted this to help others. Not to bash your mistakes. Its far to common for xbox live accounts to be jacked, and can be prevented by the following) 1) You put a false fake answer in your security question. Which could of been used for recovery. 2) Your old password was too easy. 3) You made a video and fed them. They probably went with that and bought tons of stuff. You can call your credit card company and tell them to suspend all purchases from Microsoft.
This is getting quite out of hand as the topic has changed to flamming. The AIM might have been real, but I tried the past 2 days and never received a response. Multiple questions were asked and the OP never responded to those. Its becoming quite clear that he posted these here and posted his IMs for purely advertisement purposes.
As the site expands (or I hope to expand) with Reach Stats. I've written up a new set of rules since I'll be adding a fee-based system for ReachStats. (Doesn't affect current VIP/Donors. You are grandfathered in) More in depth news on that to come. I'm still looking over the rules with some members in order to tweak and finalize them. New Rules ---------------> http://www.ibotmodz....tion=boardrules Thanks, Peaches edit: boring news is boring.