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[SgtH3nry3]

Real name: Nicholas Bakker
Age: 15 (and a half )
Gender: Male
Nationality: Dutch
Languages I speak: Dutch, English, German, French (Pas bon, mais je peux parle fran?ais un petit )
Education: Metal-Electric Technical school 3rd grade (exams begin next year)
Job: Looking, now its mostly helping my father (computer mechanic)
Hobbing: Games, Military stuff, Casemodding (I did not do it yet but it will come), Tweaking (heh got my 5200 Ultra running @380MHz)...

Yes I use Internet Explorer but I have tweaked it, so much that I now have a download accelerator built-in Internet Explorer.

There is a Dutch program called Hitman Pro, its not a game but its a program which automatically updates all spyware-software that came with it.
It combines (Ad-Aware SE 1.06 Personal, Spybot S&D 1.4, SpywareBlaster 3.4, SpySweeper, HijackThis!, CWShredder, etc.)
It's great

I also have McAfee VirusScan, because Norton always had trouble with virusses and its LiveUpdater stinks...
And it uses 8% CPU power so its useless when you are a gamer...

[75thDeadMan]

ok... u wanted it, so here it is in all its glory

Real name: Brandon Skando
Age: 21...for about a month now, and hell yes i drink!!!
Gender: Dude
Nationality: Greek/italian
Scholing: 2 High schools, 2 colleges, now im at Nuclear Power school at Naval Nuclear Power Traning command.
Job: UNITED STATES NAVY SAILOR!!! We protect you while you are in bed having a nice sleep! yeah, sailors get like NO sleep.
Hobbies: BF2, modding stuff, Skinning/modeling/uvmapping/coding, studying...not by choice

Ah yes, and the destkoppp...

[75thDeadMan]

wow, no offense, but you have a boring ass desktop and... oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Maya unlimited 6.5!!! soooooooooooooooo expensive, must haveeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[<SaF>Sgt.S0apy]

u guys have sooo many games installed!! ur pc will blow up 1 day, all of yours then muahahaha you cant play 1944 dday!!! bwwuuuahahahah. anyyywaayyy i only got bf2 installed on my pc & steam.. soon cs; s, hl2, dod; s

[Blame Canada]

Originally Posted by Sgt. SoapDodger

u guys have sooo many games installed!! ur pc will blow up 1 day, all of yours then muahahaha you cant play 1944 dday!!! bwwuuuahahahah. anyyywaayyy i only got bf2 installed on my pc & steam.. soon cs; s, hl2, dod; s

I actually have the same game installed 10 times at the moment... (Hearts of Iron II) for modding purposes

[Schrem [506th PIR]]

In 1 week or 2 weeks:
New PC is en route !

Specs:

PC AMD System Athlon 64 4000+
4096MBDDR
400GB SATA HDD
16x DVD-Brenner
DVD Rom
2x 256MB nVidia7800GTX SLI
Win XP Prof SP2

Im soo nervous...want it right now!!!!

Originally Posted by Airforce

2x 256MB nVidia7800GTX SLI

Thats good, at least someone is buying it, you won't catch me or anyone I know paying $599.99 for a Graphics Cards, and I don't care if it made games in 3D, I will wait for Radeons next wave, then buy the x8550 when it goes down in price as it's doing so right now.

Good Luck with the PC.

[Schrem [506th PIR]]

2 grafic cards ......i think, i dont need a PC in the next 5 years with this power...maybe more DDRRAM ...but with 2 Geforce 7800GTX cards.....^^

Yep I hear you, when I get my X i'm going to get this.
http://www.ati.com/technology/crossfire/index.html

[emery]

Whoa that's a great setup you got there Airforce But watch out at night because I might come and pull out your motherboard when I go to Germany in December lollno but I'm thinking of getting either the 7800GTX or the new ATi, just not in SLI

I just got this 30min ago, well I ordered it anyway.

It's all I can afford at this moment, buying a house and all.

http://www.onsale.com/onsale/shop/de...pno~589342.asp

I was looking every were for this card because it was the cheapest Radeon X series with 256, it was selling at Best Buy for $199.99, finally found a deal.

[emery]

That's not a bad deal, the card is still pretty good and its good value for money.

Originally Posted by Airforce

PC AMD System Athlon 64 4000+
4096MBDDR
400GB SATA HDD
16x DVD-Brenner
DVD Rom
2x 256MB nVidia7800GTX SLI
Win XP Prof SP2

thats one hell of a PC

[SgtH3nry3]

Originally Posted by Airforce

PC AMD System Athlon 64 4000+
4096MBDDR
400GB SATA HDD
16x DVD-Brenner
DVD Rom
2x 256MB nVidia7800GTX SLI
Win XP Prof SP2

w00t great system specs.

But you use Windows right? Why 4GB RAM? when the Windows vspace can only handle 2GB max??

2x 256MN nVidia 7800GTX SLI <- gotta love this
But the R520 Fudo claims they will be at least 2x as fast as the G70 but it already had 1.4x 3DMark03 which means it will be faster than 7800GTX in SLI...

Am I glad I didn't buy the 7800GTX in SLI

Imagine that thing in Crossfire (note: Crossfire already proved itself to be a great SLI competitor...)

But why?? I want the RSX for PS3 based on the 7800GTX to be faster as the R500 based on the R520 for XBox360...
Why?

I'm beginning to get more and more ATI fan...

I hope 2GB+ will work on Windows Vista, so I would buy meself WinVista and 4GB maybe 8GB...

I guess when WinVista will be out, computer will standard have more and more memory so that DDR2 and XDR will be less pricey.
It would also stimulate the RAM business even further!

[Schrem [506th PIR]]

4 Gig ram is ok! The CPU can handle it
Wow.....where is the f*** PC....? Oh men....1 week...

Dont mind me asking Airforce but how much did it cost ?

[SgtH3nry3]

[OFFTOPIC]Here is a hint for people who use Windows XP and Windows 2003.

Never place files other than .lnk or .url on your desktop.
The reason why Microsoft only put links on the desktop is following:
Since Windows XP came WinXP uses thumbnail databases to improve performance.

If you place either .exe or .zip files on your Desktop folder you system will check it completly from top-to-toe.
Searching for valid information, and icons.

If you place full folders on your Desktop folder, de Explorer shell will completly search every file in the folder for Indexing-Service and for thumbnail database.

If you only have shortcuts files (links) or url's you can have a in Windows boot-up time from max. 20 secs.
However if you have some folders and some files on your desktop the boot-up can vary from 4 minutes to 9 hours...
And I'm not joking or be sarcastic.

That is why your computer gets slow even though you cleaned it from spyware, virusses and crap and if you defragmented it.

Trust me it works if you follow these tips...

And don't forget to completly and carefully dust you computer from the inside!
Most of the times, people are unaware that dust can cause performance-loss to complete computer-loss, the is the main reason why people buy new computers even though they just got one...[/OFFTOPIC]

[ONTOPIC]ATI's Crossfire has been proven that the prototype only is already faster and cheaper than SLI...
SLI doesn't feature multiple ways to render, SLI cannot let both graphics cards combine the Anti-Aliasing power into Super-Anti-Aliasing.
SLI needs more power, SLI cost more, SLI only works on 6600GT, 6800GT & Ultra & 7800GTX while all 9800PRO's and all X-serie cards can be unlocked by flashing the bios into Crossfire ready bios...

So I'll cancel my 7800GTX SLI pc and I'll wait for the R520 Fudo (X900XTPE) in Crossfire since it would be 2.12x faster than 7800GTX, and even quicker with Anti-Aliasing.[/ONTOPIC]