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What does any of that have to do with communism? Totalitarian big-brotherism perhaps, certainly police-state material, but nothing to do with the commies. I hate communism/socialism because it's stupid. I hate this crap because it's evil. That's a whole nother level of bad ;)

Congrats Coug, it's always nice to have a sweet job ;)

I'm currently playing BF2 on a 3700+ with an AGP X850XT and a Gig of RAM. Really, really beautiful running 1280x1024 maxed. Looks like I don't have to spend that much money after all....

Sorry, DVD Decrypter combined with AutoGK to make Xvid-encoded .avi files. They are ~2GB a piece, I have ~2TB, it really isn't a problem. HD content might make them ~6GB a piece, I'm still not worried.

HDCP is not something that interests me, but thanks for putting a reminder into the conversation. I currently use DVD-Decrypter to convert all my movies into .avi format for storage. I figure I'll use some similar software to do a similar thing to HD-DVDs. Greg, What I'm looking for is the...

I'm currently running a 2.8Ghz single-core A64 with 1GB of RAM @ 511Mhz. Really my X1600Pro is the limiting factor in a big way. If I can get an X1900XT-class card (what is nVidia's equivalent?) for about $500, I figure that's what I'll do.

This seems to be a great deal

CougTek always impresses with his ridiculous degree of knowledge on gaming video cards, so here's another question. My experience with the X1900XTXs the other day was really phenominal. Never before had I seen BF2 played at 1600x1200 with EVERYTHING turned way up, and it was amazing...

I have had good luck with the MSI 6200TC 128MB card It actually does amazingly well in BF2, in addition to having good 2D performance.

Got it working, thanks for the help.

Great link, thanks Will. I'm heading out to the client now, we'll see how it goes.

Sweet, I was able to remember 3 of those...I forgot about the DIsplay Acceleration. Quake 4 still looked quite good.

Thanks for the tip, I've been playing with it, and it seems really cool. Right along the same lines as MoodLogic and Predixis MusicMagic. Perfect ;)

ugh...

And it seems MS Paint in Vista can't save compatible PNG files...

Posting from Firefox on Vista x64 Beta 2 (Build 5308). When doing my research into performance tweaking, I ran into this which made me laugh out loud. While poking about in the control panel called "performance", a tooltip popped up saying I had programs starting with windows that were slowing...

It's just the Web Edition ;) and you're quite welcome.

Installing the latest CTP into a VMWare machine. If anyone is interested in trying it, you need to jump through some hoops to make it work. Let's see how it goes...

This is inside a VPN, so theoretically every port should be open. Everything else I've tried (RDC, file access, exchange traffic) works absolutely fine. I'm connecting directly from a 192.168.5.4 to a 192.168.0.14, either via IP address or name (a ping by name shows its resolving correctly). Is...

Well after running 10 hours last night (calling it at 7AM) we got it to the point where all the hardware was detected, the display worked, and inside the catalyst control panel we could go to the "Crossfire" option at the bottom (only visible if you have the right hardware), but the checkbox was...

I can connect to an instance of MSDE using SQL authentication just fine locally, but when I move the server to the other end of a VPN connection, I can't see the server. Any ideas? Google gives me a bunch of junk.

Yep, v2.0 ;) I have the user on the phone with ATI, I'll let him deal with it.

Nope, the customer isn't satisfied with the performance of BF2 with just the one X1900XTX card in there. Even at only 1600x1200 ann everything else maxed, it lags when you get AF to only 4x :roll:

'Fraid not. The x1300 and x1600 models can do it via the PCIe bus, but the X1800 and X1900 models do require a cable. As you can see from the link I used above, information is damn sparse...

I was so excited at the opportunity to work on this machine; the video cards alone cost more than my whole rig. 1900XTX (x2 - master/slave) AMD FX57 Sapphire Crossfire Advantage PC-A9RD480Adv etc, etc... So, I have the Crossfire Edition 1900XTX (master) card in the master PCIe slot, and the...

I picked up a dark grey oriental at one point, it was fabulous. Think Dr. No

I'd definatly say stripping the HD out is a good first step. After that, I have no idea.

Even a hint of efficiency is not only not needed but is often unwelcome in matters of fun. I drive a VW that gets nearly 40mpg because I do 30,000+ miles a year. If I had a 10-mile commute to the office, you bet I'd have a 4+ Liter V-8 in a stomping beast, and would be most upset if they traded...

...and that car is hardly practical, not much leg room ;) Dunno why the image tag doesn't work...

But that car would handle for crap. We need a car with L x W x H Ratios of about 1 x 0.75 x <0.5 for the best performance.

What a stupid thing to say. It's like saying the Concorde shouldn't exist, or that the Ferrari Enzo or Ford GT shouldn't exist. Exuberance and selective waste are the spice of life! SLI and Crossfire are great! They just shouldn't be used for E-mail and word processing.

Out of curiosity, what would a car of this type have to look like?

I use CyberCafe Pro at the game center, and it has that functionality built-in, along with quite a bit more.

I'd need to admit that Incredimail users are the most daft, ignorant, and obnoxious users I have. They don't use OE, so they don't just take what they are given, but they don't use thunderbird, so they aren't particularly intelligent. These are the users that respond to SPAM and say "yes" to any...

Looke (kinda) clean to me.

That's really well done.

:P I got mine less than a week ago. :cry:

I wasn't taking pictures, just criticising them ;)

Considering that the photo had a 6s exposure time, he was pretty deep into the work ;)

And presenting: Greg's new PC! Still got some wiring to do, but it is quick. Unfortunatly, it has this: But my security expert is working on it: I'll let Greg know his PC is ready...

Quite so. Though I haven't been stoned in quite a few years.

I just put away an entire bottle of chianti while criticising my own pictures on a 5'x5' projector...damn I suck. I need better lighting, better diffusing, and a better camera with better focus and better control of the background. Of course, a better photographer would not need these things...

If anyone is impressed with really good juggling, you'll like this clip.

Probably has QoS built-in...

Vonage and Linksys have a package deal that has been flooding the retail markets (Office Depot, OfficeMax, Frys, Circuit City, etc) around here. Perhaps they are trying to only support the packaged hardware that they co-brand? It does make the tech support easier, I'd imagine.

The Cheapo P&S I'm using now is 7.2MP (3072x2304), and that gives me about 220 frames on a 1GB card. The camera I'm drooling over is 16.7MP (4992 x 3328) I can see a need for an 8GB card ;)

I could've sworn I posted in this thread earlier, must have been eaten... Use P180 cases on their side. They are beautiful, have the best airflow of any case I've ever seen, and are strong enough to hold a monitor on their side. Furthermore, they have a door with a lock across the front (good...

Spiffy! Where?

Just registered for a seminar No cool stuff, though. They could take a lesson from Microsoft.

As far as size goes, they are really nice as well. I've heard that they run pretty quiet as well.