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Posted by Juim on Sun Feb 12th at 10:46pm 2006

Hey I am back. After over a week with upgrade problems. 2 bad towers and a bad graphics card from Fry's, and hours of trouble because I installed the CPU fan incorrectly, I am back up and running with a few new parts.;-)

Asus Pn532 SLI Deluxe Mobo

2 gigs of PQI 533mh DDR2 ram

A new Maxtor 250 gig SATA hard drive

a Cooler Master copper CPU fan

A fresh operating system(Windows Professional)

an X-infinity 600 watt power supply

new network card

New Memorex dvd/cd-rom

New Sony Dual Layer DVD

An entry level server case from Silverstone (It's so huge, I had to order Mobo power extentions to make them fit from the PSU.)

and 2 GeForce 7800 GTX OC graphics cards running in SLI mode.

Operating system still is a bit touchy about hardware changes but I am getting it ironed out. Scored a 5200 on 3D Mark06.I know my cpu (P4 3.4 LGA 775 chipset) is the bottleneck now, but I will save up some more and buy a Pentium D monster when Windows Vista becomes more readily available.

All this while simultaneously working on the re-model and of course, regular work.




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Feb 14th at 9:37pm 2006

You know Juim, you have this gift for making my monster machine seem so tame.

Nice rig. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/clap.gif">

I hope that I will have a few bucks to dedicate to my machine soon. Its still huge so its not imperative yet. I would like to upgrade before it becomes so though.





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Posted by FatStrings on Wed Feb 15th at 3:32am 2006

i like it





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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Feb 15th at 3:40am 2006

Me like. You need a roommate?


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Feb 15th at 3:47am 2006

Juim, what's your favorite game to play on that monster rig? I'm curiuos what one does with all that power... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Finger on Wed Feb 15th at 4:09am 2006

Mahjong



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Feb 15th at 4:20am 2006

I was thinking maybe Freecell.




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Posted by Juim on Wed Feb 15th at 12:06pm 2006

Your both wrong. Spider solitaire sails on this thing. The cards look alive.

COD2 looks rather impressive, but mostly I have been going back through my HL2mp maps and seeing them with a fresh eye and substantially higher frame rates.despite steams touchy nature, this really is a beautiful game.

F.E.A.R looks mighty damn good as well.

cough!..(PS dm_waterwerx is finished)...cough!

and looks fantastic in most spots. I was really getting tired of rebooting my system every 20 minutes, So when I upgrade, I like to be set for a couple of years.





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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 15th at 1:40pm 2006

? quoting Juim

cough!..(PS dm_waterwerx is finished)...cough!

Sadly, I left my crystal ball in storage so if you are not up to posting it in your thread, how were we to know exactly?

For the record, this map is one of the few on my watch list. So, it wasn't I who didn't retain interest enough.





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Posted by CLs on Wed Feb 15th at 9:19pm 2006

Nice Rig...you lucky bastard, i can only dream

_CLs_



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Posted by Juim on Thu Feb 16th at 12:25am 2006

Well I must apologise for that Orph, I updated the thread to show it, but then updated the profile and once I did that posting and new comments were turned off I think. I also posted a news story but it has'nt been put up yet. I hope you guys enjoy it more now.



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 16th at 12:28am 2006

? quoting Juim
Well I must apologise for that Orph, I updated the thread to show it, but then updated the profile and once I did that posting and new comments were turned off I think. I also posted a news story but it has'nt been put up yet. I hope you guys enjoy it more now.

Don't apologize. I am almost sure that that particular bug was posted, but not yet addressed.

I suspected as much.





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