[Rick]

Originally Posted by blakepilot

yes, and i can download gigomegs of pr0n at warp speed

i luv teh interwebz coupled wit teh fyberoptikz

[Blake]

Originally Posted by rickc

i luv teh interwebz coupled wit teh fyberoptikz

if i want fios, i have to move to 5 minutes from nowhere. i like living in civilization. time warner just bumped me up to 16m down and 1.5 up. i'll take it!

[Rick]

Originally Posted by blakepilot

if i want fios, i have to move to 5 minutes from nowhere. i like living in civilization. time warner just bumped me up to 16m down and 1.5 up. i'll take it!

3mb down/768 up here... no wonder i'm always re-editing my WAG posts, might as well have 1200 baud modem running a BBS

[Blake]

Originally Posted by rickc

3mb down/768 up here... no wonder i'm always re-editing my WAG posts, might as well have 1200 baud modem running a BBS

dsl? dump that shiat for cable

[Blake]

rock on

[darkphantom]

nice rig - but I don't think you can play dos games on vista you need to get DOSbox

p.s. I get about 7-800kb/s avg downloading at home and about 100ish uploading....comcast here...they said 6mbit down, 12 with overboost (which is like for 10seconds) and 768k up

[T Bone]

Originally Posted by blakepilot

final specs:

antec nine hundred case
intel q9400 quad core 2.66ghz (overclock to come)
asus p5q
2 sapphire 4850HD 512mb cards crossfired
24" samsung 1920x1200 native display
4gb ddr2 1200 ram
150gb veliciraptor 10k rpm HD for OS etc
1TB raid 0 7200rpm for mass storage
blu-ray burner
dvd burner
wireless N sitting on a 16mbit connection

i'm on it right now, it's running fast and stable on windows vista. boot time is about 20 seconds.

Congrats on your new system.... a couple of suggestions:

• Get Vista 64, you will not be able to address the full 4 Gigs of main memory with Vista 32
• Since you are doing video / photo editing, look for graphics acceleration in the application and always look for the new drivers

[Blake]

Originally Posted by T Bone

Congrats on your new system.... a couple of suggestions:

• Get Vista 64, you will not be able to address the full 4 Gigs of main memory with Vista 32
• Since you are doing video / photo editing, look for graphics acceleration in the application and always look for the new drivers

i'm running vista ultimate 64 bit

[san~man]

How's your OC doing? I got my little Q6600 to 3.6, stable 24/7

[Blake]

Originally Posted by san~man

How's your OC doing? I got my little Q6600 to 3.6, stable 24/7

you know, i haven't even really screwed with it too much yet. but thanks for reminding me, i will. i had my brother takeover my guest bedroom where the computer is all of last week for thanksgiving so i barely got to play with the new computer. i'll mess with it this week.