ozoneocean wrote:
@ Lonne- I was joking :)
I know. But I just had to run with it. >:D
ozoneocean wrote:
@ Lonne- I was joking :)
ozoneocean wrote:I guess what you'd call hot, us Brits would call the centre of the sun. I had to rake up leaves last month and it was about 3 degrees celsius and I still ended up too warm.
Nice warm day today… and of course I chose today to do some long overdue gardening- cleaning up all those horrible leaves out the front of my house so the place doesn't look abandoned. :(
Worked at that till I almost couldn't stand. Frick it was hot out there! And I seem to have this idiot tendency to keep working at things beyond my natural safe level, like some brain dead machine…
Genejoke wrote:I'll still wait. I've been burnt with a “refurbished” hard drive before (new ones will last 5 years, refurbs will last a year or 2). Hopefully prices go down in a few months. Not that I need that much space. I don't download that much anyways.
Yeah hard drive prices have gone up recently for that reason but i found getting stuff from chain stores negates the rise, well with some of them anyway. It's the independents taht jack it up quickly as they don't hold loads of stock at giant warehouse and get it to order. I added 1TB to mine recently and it cost me 50.
ozoneocean wrote:
Sounds like a good machine Lonne! But you really should make the move to Windows 7 soon…
Lonnehart wrote:do it!!!!!!
ozoneocean wrote:
Sounds like a good machine Lonne! But you really should make the move to Windows 7 soon…
Heh… thanks. Soon as I can (and when it's dark) I'm tempted to take a picture of the system with all its lights blazing. Heh… this thing has a lot of lights on it.
ayesinback wrote:I have a set of candles nearby. Just in case the power goes out and it lasts more than a few minutes…
@Lonne: keepin those matches right there by the PC because . . . . ?
ozoneocean wrote:The CPU and RAM would eat more power, but the video card doesn't use as much as the high end ones. It doesn't require itself to have its own power supply connection. I was told that the ATI 6570 Sapphire is an entry level card just as the GeForce GT 520 is. However, the ATI card performs much better than the GeForce entry level GT. Just don't expect great performance if you're going to try running at resolutions higher than 1280x1024.
Impressively pretty case!
I'd image the video card, CPU and ram gobble up far, far more power than a few LEDs?
Genejoke wrote:I play everything on a console because my tv is nice and big and it's in front of a super comfy chair by the radiator and I can bundle up in blankets. :] Who wants to hunch over and use mouses and whatever, ugh. There's been like, twice I wished I played a game on the PC. Once was because a friend I wanted to play with only had it on PC, and the other because of a super awesome sounding mod set was available. I'm pretty happy with most games out of the box and everything though.
I shouldn't worry too much about graphics, what the 360 and ps3 push out is pretty good. Sure powerful PCs can do better but I don't see much point, which is why I do most of my gaming on console even though my pc is pretty powerful.
skoolmunkee wrote:Nowadays with an HDMI cable and a USB controller for the PC (or one of those mod kits that lets you use an XB360 controller with your PC) you can do that as well. Especially now that video cards are coming out with connectors/adapters for HD TVs. The Radeon Sapphire HD 6570 that I got when I upgraded my system supports HDTVs. Now if only HDMI cables weren't so expensive…Genejoke wrote:I play everything on a console because my tv is nice and big and it's in front of a super comfy chair by the radiator and I can bundle up in blankets. :] Who wants to hunch over and use mouses and whatever, ugh. There's been like, twice I wished I played a game on the PC. Once was because a friend I wanted to play with only had it on PC, and the other because of a super awesome sounding mod set was available. I'm pretty happy with most games out of the box and everything though.
I shouldn't worry too much about graphics, what the 360 and ps3 push out is pretty good. Sure powerful PCs can do better but I don't see much point, which is why I do most of my gaming on console even though my pc is pretty powerful.
I am looking forward to skyrim because I played the hell out of Oblivion, it took me months to beat that game. I've set aside christmas break for it so hopefully I can get most of it out of my system before I have to sit at work wishing I was home playing it. :]
Then again I thought I'd spend ages playing saints row 3 to death. I played it through once and did almost everything and I'm not sure when I'll play it again. :I
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