My New PC!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
I went to my mothers house this weekend and found an emac, of all things, and much to my dismay was forced to use it to surf the net. Man that was painful. What fun, maneuvering multiple browser windows and cutting/pasting with a one button cliche.

I'm guessing you're a ****** then.

[Rasbelin]

No, he's just sensible. Once had to use an iMac and that was a real PIA. First of all couldn't find out how you can install programs and most of all couldn't find all system settings. Not to mention the mouse and keyboard were crap. Yeah, Macs rule... Go firgure...

I'm sure they can be perfectly nice and fine computers, but they're not comfortable for PC users, much like it's vice versa.

However getting off-topic.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Rasbelin


Good money wasted. I would have seriously recommended that you would have first looked at what AMD has to offer. Would have been more rewarding for any gamer. Also you'll end up with "a roaring PC with a hot heart", ie. a damn noisy and excessively heat producing system.

Unfortunately at this time I don't have time to build a pc, and I needed a new one asap. Got the dual core because my wife does pretty intense stats work at home (while working on her dissertation) and I think this will do nicely for it. And it was reasonably priced from, don't laugh, Dell, from whom I already had a line of credit available. All those factors add up to a purchase. If I were a hard core gamer, I would have gone elsewhere, but frankly the only thing I'll be playing probably over the next year is CIV and maybe something from paradox.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Agathon


I'm guessing you're a ****** then.

a very impatient ******.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Good money wasted. I would have seriously recommended that you would have first looked at what AMD has to offer. Would have been more rewarding for any gamer. Also you'll end up with "a roaring PC with a hot heart", ie. a damn noisy and excessively heat producing system.

You don't have the requirements that he has, and have made no effort to find them out, so how can you know what's good for him?

Primarily, I use the computer for video decoding and deinterlacing, not games. And this is an area where the Intel architecture is more than competitive with AMD.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by PLATO
Cool MarkG! Can't wait to see that puppy on The World Community Grid.

so far it takes 2.5 hours on average for each package

[Whaleboy]

Where's your AMD X2 4800 with 2x Geforce 7800's in SLI?

Me no like until I see Doom 3 running at 80 FPS at 1600x1200 with full AA and AF

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
Where's your AMD X2 4800 with 2x Geforce 7800's in SLI?

i'm sorry


urgent announcement!!!:

all plus users are required to pay an additional "urgent civ4 fund need" of 68.66$ in order to keep their plus status.

thank you for your attention

[Az]

Hell, they've paid once, they'll surely pay again.