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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #135 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 10:00am Just in case anyone was curious.... Installing a NIC and bypassing the integrated NIC fixed the problem on my friends computer.
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Re: Computer Questions
Reply #136 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 1:52pm

Nice. Always good when computer crap like that gets figured out.

Well 7 of 9 (no not THAT 7 of 9) of my computer parts came in today. I'm just missing the motherboard and the DVD drive. They're still in Wyoming, MI.

I wish the MB would have come in first, I bought it from NewEgg as an open box (save $100) so I'm hoping all the cables and brackets come with it...esp. the mounting brackets.

Everything looks all slick and shinny and I can't wait to cringe as it boots up for the first time...but I'm not going to touch it until everything comes in *bites knuckle of finger*.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #137 - Jul 15^th, 2010 at 4:53pm
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #140 - Jul 20^th, 2010 at 6:25pm how fast is it at processing dvds? you know if you were into that sorta thing. Which of course you aren't...
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #141 - Jul 21^st, 2010 at 10:33am Totally legal, public domain DVDs, right? -b0b (...ha!)
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Re: Computer Questions
Reply #142 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 3:33am

Here are a few pics during the build and the result:

Putting in the main parts

Different Angle

The case was very good at winding the cables on the right side of the case.

The box to the solid state drive

I was very psyched about the SSD

All the wiring's done...needed to do some cable management first

Cables around back...more cable management needed.

The working model

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Re: Computer Questions
Reply #144 - Jul 27^th, 2010 at 7:27pm

Out of curiosity, what was the encode time on your old lapper? ;p

Have you given any thought to moving to Blu-Ray? Is it even on the horizon for you yet? Is 1080p compelling enough to justify the price of a Blu-Ray burner at this juncture?

Since I'm barraging you with questions, have you had a chance to get your game on yet? What have you been playing, and how does it look/run?

Lastly, what did you think about the Asus Rampage III motherboard? It's on my next build list, and I'm looking at a January build for the Bobulator VIII.

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(...points out that VIII > III.)

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Re: Computer Questions
Reply #145 - Jul 28^th, 2010 at 12:19am

Encoding on my old laptop took 3 hours...and that was just converting it to an Avi encoded at 702mb. Ripping took 30-40 minutes.

I thought about Blu-Ray...but after checking it out on Briney's PS3...I am underwhelmed. I think it should have died off with the HD DVD. There is no need for it unless you want to side by side compare it with a DVD. I have a 1080p monitor (and I believe Briney does to) and yes, it looks great...but so do DVDs. I can easily justify rebuilding a collection if it was as dramatic a transition like it was from VHS to DVD...but I just can't bring myself to pay another $5-$10 for a little, small, fractional improvement on a movie I probably wouldn't notice.

I haven't had any time whatsoever to play any games other than just installing them from my Steam account. I'm still working on a problem with my 2TB hard drive. I just haven't had anytime at all this week to work on it. I don't want to work on it after work when I'm all tired and do something stupid...and then running around before work and then work have my time in a pickle. However, I've been watching a few movies/tv shows/trailers etc. in HD and it's over my HDMI because my graphics card has a connector for it and it looks awesome. The text on webpages a little too digitized and sometimes there's a halo effect around them...but hopefully I'll get my games up and running shortly.

As for the Ramage III Extreme (notice the Extreme), you will not have to worry about under powering your mobo. It's the perfect board for overclockers and the perfect board to run multiple graphic cards. In fact, I probably have more than enough power helping my graphics card since the thing already takes 3 PCI express power cords to run it. The board is recommended for 650W but I was careful and went with the 1gigawatt PSU. I'm still amazed at the size and power of the graphics card. i think I could drop it on concrete and it wouldn't matter. The speed of the SSD is amazing. I would suggest to anyone to get one for your OS and your programs. The only thing I'm not running on it is my Steam program. Start up of Win7 is about 10 seconds after initial boot.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #146 - Jul 28^th, 2010 at 6:06am Have you had any issues with heat from the video card? I've got my eyes on the GTX 480, but I'm a little concerned about heat and power draw. That thing is a beast! -b0b (...wonders if your power bill will go up noticeably.)
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Re: Computer Questions
Reply #147 - Jul 28^th, 2010 at 7:16am

The case I have is pretty cool and the way my GTX 480 has a decent fan built into it and the thing takes up two bays in the back. One for the video connectors and one for just exhaust. The power draw is excellent with the MoBo I have...like I said, the MoBo is a bit overpowered as I could run 4 off the 480 and all I would need is another PCIe connector to the MoBo to be safe and each 480 takes 3 PCIe. You'd have to get another power supply just for the 480s if you got more but that's not too big an issue anymore.

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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #148 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 1:17pm Where can I find an ISO for windows vista? Don't worry, it's for a friend, not me. Should I just find the torrent?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #149 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 3:16pm If you want to come to TR, I can burn you a copy of Ultimate RTM. You're on your own finding a key for that one, though.
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