am i online yet?

[MagpieFL]

technophobes victorius!

it only took me 5 months, but i think i am back online again, untill something goes wrong again.

and what do i find? loads of posts? tons of new pics? stimulating flame wars?

none of the above.

nb. thanks for the b/day thread.

[fitz]

lol

Hello matey, Toon r we !! doing well this season.

[Metho]

WB Mags. About the only flaming going on is garon lighting his farts. All the posting action is Eve jabber. Picks? ya, piss poor effort lately.

[fitz]

All you lazy parent types need to sort your shit out.

[CptUnreal]

Hola Mag's and Metho - Is something else to play BUT eve when not chasing your off spring off the Comp or chasing away teenage boys and sharpening you katana?

[frstkor13]

well then. get on irc so we can talk.

Hola Mag's and Metho - Is something else to play BUT eve when not chasing your off spring off the Comp or chasing away teenage boys and sharpening you katana?

[pH14]

Better late than never, welcome back Magz!

[MagpieFL]

so, what happened to frst's comp set-up? which configuration did u go for? i ask cos i am feeling the urge to buy and upgrade. if i keep the case & psu, and replace everything else inside i might have a nice pc again. i can turn my old drives into out side usb spares cant i?

[Metho]

If the old drives are standard ide, just connect em on one of the ide ports. Most boards are sata these days. Grab urself a chunky sata drive and run your system off that.

External USB drives suck shit for speed. Esp with transferrs involving shitwads of files. Use firewire instead or a dedicated USB2 port minimum.

Fvked if I know what frst wound up with. Sure to be a killer system tho. Be prepared to get very scared if you want a decent gaming system, graphic hardware costs have gone ballistic.

[frstkor13]

i went with a 2.4 core 2 duo and an evga 680i nforce motherboard. the cpu is at 3.2 ghz stable now. i got 2gb of nice corsair dominator memory. nice gigabyte case, dvd-rw dr. graphics card is a geofrce 8800 gts very overclocked.

it runs very well and i love it.

[CptUnreal]

I did the same - except bought dual 8800. Mostly to run dual clients - still have some reservations about that thou. But I do love runing dual screens. (mine was from cyberpowerpc.com)

[ReapZ]

frst, cpt - you both running windows XP or you get your 8800's working with vista?

[frstkor13]

i run xp and will continue to run it until tom's, anandtech, or firingsquad says that vista's opengl and directx drivers stop sucking so badly.

[Sprak]

Vista fails horribly. I wouldn't recommend upgrading for another year or so.

[CptUnreal]

Running XP here - have heard such BAD thing s about vista the only way I will go there is if I can either dual boot vista - OR DX10 games come out.