The video card is as loud as the rest of the computer.

It is not my own...I "imported" it though...

it's awesome... :lol:

JC is right though...straight back to serious computer talk. :?

I installed Richard Burns Rally last night. That game is HARD!

Turn 1 of my driver's test: rolled it. 3 times. :lol:

Change your user name to M. Gronholm. :lol:

Yeah, I yanked the loud fan on my Fire GL X1 and put my own on there...plus my NB didn't have a fan (??!), so I put a 24v fan running on the 12v rail ---- nice and slow. Both CPU fans, the chassis fans, the power supply fans, and the graphics fan are on a fan controller, so I can manually dial the RPMS. On my server at work I placed a 12v 120mm fan on the 5v rail for low-speed action sucking air from the side. It's almost like hearing each individual blade go sweeping by, but not quite. I'm running RAID 0 for video editing, and its a bit faster even though its software RAID. With duals I do have some calc time to spare. I really want a 3-Ware card or something for full hardware RAID, though....

memtest86+ that's the one!

Now to mix in some less-geeky stuff, even if it sounds like it:

I decided to kick up the gun reinvestment lately, so my computer is not being regularly updated with new hardware :oops:. With the expiration of the Clinton AWB, I did some F&F stuff to my Colt MT Lightweight AR15. Now it's all non-PC and stuff! Also, my wife is getting interested, so I'm building her a 9mm CAR-15. I'm redoing my 308 precision rifle too, just picked up the barreled-action this morning after getting an action swap. I'm dropping a heavy BR-style Rem 700 short-action into an Accuracy International Chassis. TOO HOT!!!

:shock: I need to go up to Reno again to shoot some real weapons, not the wussy crap they limit us to here.

My brother just bought a Dell :shock:

I am actually surprised that he was able to get such a good deal on a pretty damn good computer.

To echo the title of the thread... Holy Crap! I just started playing HL-2 last night and damn... that is a sweet game. The environment definitely has an eastern-bloc decrepit industrial area feel to it... really well done. I can't wait until I get the gravity gun so I can start throwing garbage at people. :lol:

You don't need the gravity gun. :twisted: Pick up a bottle (or whatever) with 'e' and then use the primary mouse button to throw it at people.

Throwing bottles at NPCs never got old :p

I know, but you can't throw anything very fast & hard... I wanna be able to really fire 'em at people. 8)

At the end of the game you get a souped up gravity gun, you can grab and throw anything with that <drool>

There's nothing like chucking cars at zombies. :lol:

And as far as the "feel" of the game... (except for RavenHohm which is scary as hell) I can't get the feeling that I'm walking around in an alien invasion version of 1984 out of my head. Big Brother on the TVs. The proles holed up in their apartments trying to stay out from under the foot of the Overwatch. The constant feeling that there are higher-ups controlling your actions. Fear of the unknown around every corner.

HL2 is easily as good as the original was in '98. And IMO it's *the best* FPS in the history of video games. I think I'll end up beating it tonight. Then I'm cranking up the difficulty and looking for codes for all weapons and unlimited ammo and seeing if I can't just blaze through the game a second time. :lol:

I have to admit I do miss the "secret government lab" environment/feel from the first HL a little, only because.. I've actually worked in one. :lol: I am glad that they didn't try to just do the same thing over though...

Later in the game, you do some sneaking around in a big lab. But you have to fight your way throught Dawn of the Dead and Road Warrior 1th. :lol:

Most Excellent. :twisted:

For shits and giggles I overclocked my system.

2.2GHz -> 2.4GHz (7% increase)

370/1.0 -> 420/1.1 on the vid card (that's fast than the top of the line GeForce 6800 Ultra!?!)

...and everything seems stable!! :shock:

I just got through "We don't go there anymore.." Ravenholm last night.. that was some creepy shit. I hate those fast moving zombies..

I smell smoke... :twisted:

oH nOs!!!11!1! oVercLockErZ!!!1!!1

Pretty soon we'll be talking about back in the day when you could get a P2 333mhz and clock it to 500+ (week 37).

You gonna mount your MB in the freezer and run the cables out for your drives?

Dude, I'm an OCer from way back.

Remember the days of the Celeron 300-A? 450's in disguise! :twisted:

Or searching for that PII-300 that was made in the Malaysia factory that was really a 450 in disguise? I had one of them running that's been running at 450MHz from 1998 till 2 weaks ago when it was finally replaced by my Athlon 1600. That was a trooper!

I knew it. Wow --- was it like a 24/7 fileserver or something? The Celerons were definitely all that... What about the SlotA K7's? I always wanted a dually with Coppermine 500's to run up around 700. When I built my current system I went with stable (Tyan) rather than the OC (IWill) board because of the frequent issues with the AMD 760mpx chipset. So, no OC for me now :(
I did use regular XP2100's and modded a bridge to make them MP's, though :twisted:

I can;t see shit

"Sir the radar appears to be........jammed"
"rasberry, I hate rasberry. There is only one man who would dare give me the rasberry!"