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I forgot to mention it, but LiamC passed the 20 million milestone. :beer: And after a long pause (two, three years?), Greg resumed his effort to the cause. Have you got your passkey? It's a quick step that will increase your point reward a lot. Ask SSDdrueding if you don't believe me.

What's the difference between those two models? The second is only sold at one of my suppliers and it's a lot more expensive than the first, yet their specifications look similar.

You could mount a follow spot and tow a trailer for the batteries.

And Mark produced >63000 points for the past two days. If it's a permanent upgrade, then I won't catch him ever. I'm done upgrading for quite a while (two i7 2600) and I should now maintain ~58K-60Kppd. Catching a guy doing 63Kppd sustained and who's already almost 2.5 million points away...

I hope it's worth it financially, but somehow I doubt it. I remember you complained about the electrical bill related to your F@H effort last year. If you'd earn what I consider a decent salary for the job you do, you wouldn't care about a 900$ bill. I hope at least that you like what you're...

How old do you think I was when the first one has been released (in 1977)? Only the first three movies were good.

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Indeed. I'm glad that I have the original version, but I'm less because it's on cassettes and I no longer have any VHS player.

I ordered it. I'll figure out how to pay it later (Monday). On Dell's website, an identical model to the one I'll get is sold 1829$. I get it for less than 600$, but with a single year warranty. No, I don't need it, but I should be able to sell it with a nice profit quite soon. It's not an...

Were you just waiting for me to ask before sending the following unit or what?

Thanks for the information. That's very good to know and it will save me from making a costly mistake. I already have two pricey X58 motherboards around, waiting for their better half to join them. I don't need any more.

Damn it pisses me off to be broke right now. I could have a Dell Latitude E6320 with an i7 2620M CPU for less than a third of the MSRP from Dell's website. With the standard one year warranty. Damn!

Were the two big units you completed on the 26th your last two before the Summer (our Winter) break? It sure looks like it because you are late for the following ones.

Fits on the ceiling.

Yes, do it Greg! YES YOU CAN!

When you have Win7 Pro, it's free. That's quite an advantage over paying 200$ for VMWare Workstation.

Or just replace the text part of the troubleshooting examples by comic books drawings.

Ouch, I almost broke the floor with my ass after reading Merc recommending a S*ny product.

Meh, found a way. I assigned a wrong fixed IP address in the Windows 7 host network setup for the secondary network card. The XP Mode has the card configured in DHCP and works fine. Why none of you told me it was so simple. You would have saved me a lot of high blood pressure.

There has to be another way of doing this than buying a 200$ VMWare Workstation lica<ence. Otherwise, I am so fucked.

I'm trying to do the same under Windows 7 Pro with the XP Mode VM and it doesn't work. There must be a way without having to use a third party VM software like VMWare. If not, MS is trully missing the boat.

You're waiting for a BTX case?

Another possibility : Thermalright True Spirit. X-bit Labs reviewed it and for 30$, it's very, very good. With the fan at 1000rpm, it's only 6C worse than the Thermalright Archon (the best cooler they've ever tested) when cooling an i7 980X clocked at 4.3GHz. I cannot think of a situation...

I went on an ATV ride with a friend yesterday. He owns a Bombardier Outlander ATV and there's a trail for those vehicles not far from his house. He often rides it and he is supposed to be able to handle it fairly well. I started driving on the go ride. I drove for ~5 miles. Then we...

The only way those smallish low profile vehicles could work is if they were the only vehicles on our roads. Otherwise, there's no way to make one that would pass collision tests. Against an SUV, it's little more than a critter.

I wouldn't bother with it unless you already have one. Like previously written, there's better for the same price. Prolimatech Megahalems comes to mind. A Xigmatek SD1283 GAIA rivals the Zalman 9700 in efficiency, but cost half as much. Same goes for the Cooler Master 212+. The Thermaltake...

Even after reading this, I still don't get it. I just don't see what's the appeal of seeing what you guys did there. Whatever.

So, what's wrong with your blood?

I haven't read anything written in this thread so far. Am I the only one utterly not interested in Windows 8? Windows 7 works ok most of the time and doesn't have hardware limitations the way Windows XP does. Why the urge to change? Microsoft does 2 billion in profit per quarter thanks to...

I do pretty much what Bozo said, with perhaps the exeption of the last step because if I'm the one doing the installation, I already know that it's gonna work.

The move to spin out the computers divison from HP is probably what sink him. I don't know if Meg Whitman will reverse that decision. Announcement

It's sure to be popular with the West Coast cartel (SSDdrueding and Santilli) : http://www.gigabyte.sg/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3508 That's a VM monster machine. Only 470$, supposedly.

CBC? Television network? Nope, I never watch CBC.

Last summer (our winter), you left at least one computer running the client. You expect higher temperatures this year? Anyway, your contribution this year has been phenomenal. In fact, from April to now, you're the only one to have out-produce me overall (with Mark being very close to me).

You've look at my bank account? Yeah, I know it's that bad.

I've used the FirePro 2460 for stock market consultants. It's ok, but you cannot ply more than two 1080p movies at the same time (with an i7 2600 CPU). Trying to play 1080p movie on all four (or even three) resulted in choppy playback. I was hoping the twice-as-expensive NVS 450 would fare...

SSDdrueding crossed the 10 million line :beer:

Since the video is integrated on the CPU, can you try another processor?

Then perhaps a Quadro NVS 450 is more in order. ~450$-500$. Four displayport outputs.

Those X2-6870 cards represent a nice value in the high-end segment. Will he be gaming in that system? If it's for CAD, then he'll need a bad-ass Quadro (like a Quadro 4000). Of course, no graphic card or probably even no combination of graphic cards will be able to play games like Crysis 2 or...

Not that I'm awared of. DDR3 1600MHz still should be the sweat spot even in February.

Nope, at least I haven't searched for one. But every time RAM has started to rise at my suppliers like it did today, the prices have rising for several weeks/months afterwards. I'm pretty sure it's a trend and it will last for a while.

RAM price have started to rise today. If you haven't stocked yet, I suggest you do. You've read it first here.

You didn't like "it" yet you work in "IT"? Capitalisation in so much better.

I've watched worst than Star Wars when I was a kid and today, I'm perfectly normal.

I have an old Pentium 4 2.8GHz on a cheapo s478 µATX motherboard with a VIA cheapset. I would put it in a standard mid tower (I have a few used ones here), but the only good AGP video card I have is a GeFarce 6200 128MB low profile, and, with a DVI output. I can't waste all that good vintage...

Then my sensible care and personnalised touch with cars seemed to have been the right way to go.

You know Greg, you've reached an age where you might do more things accidently than intentionally.

Canadians are POMs. Take for instance their stupid minister who ordered that every Canayan embassy display a portrait of the rotten British Queen. They are royalty ass lickers. Another of the many reasons I don't want to be related to them.

I managed to find the money to fix my car in the following days. However, the "check engine" light has lit for the past week or so. Regarding the business, I'll stop my operation at my current office by the end of the month. I've lost money for the past seven months and the bank account is...