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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by ddp, Jul 16, 2008.

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  1. theonejrs

    theonejrs Senior member

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    Good to hear from you anyway.
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    Happy Holidays to You and Yours,
    Russ
     
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    MERRY CHRISMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE HERE AT AFTERDAWN.
     
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    I second navskin. Happy holidays to all. Nice Christmas tree, Russ! (Some of Russ' organ music playing in the background would be pretty perfect for a holiday get-together me thinks. lol)
    Rich
     
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  4. spamual

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    so what is everyones high and low of 2008?

    personally the high of 08 was the release of the R7X0 series of Radeon GPU by ATI.

    the low was the poor Phenom CPUs by AMD, and the power usage of graphics cards.
     
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    Shhhh, don't let Russ hear you! :D
     
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    Wow, interesting idea.
    Highs, 3008WFP, moving to the R700 series, finally getting a nice quiet Corsair PSU, finally getting a 24/7 working fileserver after ridding myself of all those cheap unreliable Asus boards, and finally becoming good at Rock Band.
    Lows achieving absolutely nothing in the academic year 07/08, not getting a proper summer holiday, spending too much money as usual and witnessing the decline in true PC games.
     
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  7. theonejrs

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    Rich,
    Funny you should mention that. It's playing in the background while I'm preparing/cooking Christmas Dinner! Great minds think alike! LOL!!
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    Happy Holidays to You and Yours,
    Russ
     
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    No! He's absolutely right! The Phenom II is much more encouraging.
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    Happy Holidays,
    Russ
     
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  9. rick5446

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    The all time High....SEX
     
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  10. theonejrs

    theonejrs Senior member

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    That's a given! From a low of Poor Phenom Performance to Sex. Now that's quite a gap! ROFLMSOAO!!
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    Happy Holidays Rick,
    Russ
     
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    Yup, that is a real nice tree Russ, I copied that bad boy and started pasting it to all my xmas e-mails to all my friends and family, they think I'm some kind of high techie doing stuff like that LOL, if they only knew.

    Either way everybody enjoyed it, hope I didnt break any copy right agreement on you Russ LOL.
     
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    It's how I got it 3 years ago! LOL!!

    Russ
     
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    Well then, there we have it:

    The new highs for 2008 - Russ' very popular Christmas tree (that he swiped 3 years ago lol) [​IMG]and his fabulous organ music - so PERFECT for ALL holiday seasons - nothing swiped about that at all.

    Now I'm hungry, Russ. What's on that Christmas dinner menu? LOL

    Rich

    (I've got it playing now - that organ music is SOOOO pefect!)
     
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    Wow, what a fabulous read - 24 pages loosely translated from the colorful greek - "staring in the face of the prince" - and ending up with:

    "At last we can say that AMD is back in the game. And as if this were not enough, now we are waiting for the AM3 parent, the new CPU with Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller! Will Intel be raped just to Core i5 ..."

    Hahahaha.

    All to the glorious strains of Russ' gifted melodies in the background - I'm so glad that I put that on.

    What really caught my mad gamer eye at the very end:

    At higher resolutions of Crysis and Far Cry 2 - AMD kicked ass! - Straight out winner without taking BETTER PRICE POINT into consideration!!!!

    Rich
     
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    krj,
    Interesting review! Not the most polished because of the translation, but very thorough and meticulous. I didn't expect the Phenom II 940 to perform this well. I expected it to be a lot better than Phenom, but not quite at this level. We'll have to see just what all the other test sites have to say about all of this once they get their hands on one and run comparisons of their own. I believe what I see, but I want to see more! LOL!!
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    Happy Holidays,
    Russ
     
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    Russ, maybe it's time to change your sig? :D

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    Here's to seeing more great results!
     
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    Merry christams all
    Woo hoo, made it in time, lol
     
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    A man after my own heart, lol. I LOVE amd! Intel can... well, ok. I wont say that.[​IMG]
     
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    Interesting review, confirms my suspicions really - in normal apps the II 940 is a bit behind the Q9450, in the multimedia benches AMD fared better in, they do better than the Core 2 Quads but get obliterated by the i7s as they pick up the same advantage.

     
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