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by ToMKaT
Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:07 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Quakecon 2006!!!!!
Replies: 96
Views: 73989

Yes Thor and his sidekick Archangel talked me into going this year. Flying down way too early in the morning. I'm looking forward to this as it's the First Qcon I've been able to make. I got my plane ticket, time off from work, and 2 new harddrives on the way :lol:
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:24 pm
Forum: New Members Please Introduce Yourself
Topic: Hello
Replies: 2
Views: 3226

Hello

ok so I've been posting off and on for a few months

My system:
Asus A8N5X
AMD Opteron 170 64-bit dual core
2Gb Corsair XMS memory
250 Gb Maxtor SATA Drive
Nvidia 7800 GT BFG OC

I'm a rabid Battlefield 2 player, but I'll play almost any FPS out there.
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:10 pm
Forum: Operating Systems
Topic: Question about 64bit processor and windows XP
Replies: 15
Views: 7591

Yea I have an Optron 170 that's 64 bit and dual core rnning on XP 64.

I'm finding some drivers are hard to find (nothing system related) umm some virtual drive software doesn't work. few other pains in the arse. so just do a bit of checking on your fav. software to see if it has 64 bit support .
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:00 pm
Forum: Operating Systems
Topic: Should I install Vista
Replies: 12
Views: 8614

The Feb bulid (5308) is supposed to have all the bells and whistles that should be in the final realease. so far I've bulit one on my Virtual server with no problems, granted it was the business version and the video was kinda crappy (VS only emulates a s-3 trio 8meg card) it looks kinda of cool and...
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:48 pm
Forum: AMD Processor Forum
Topic: Athlon4400 vs. Opteron175
Replies: 8
Views: 5643

I have one in a Asus Nforce4 A8N5x board and have had no problems. I'm windows 64 so I'm running into a bit of a problem finding some drivers for like my printer and my web cam but at default settings, i was running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with a Vista 5308 bulid on it (with 512 Mb of ram) ...
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:54 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil
Replies: 18
Views: 8787

pcrobot wrote:
DeusEx wrote:i dont have 8 gallons of cooking oil or a fish tank laying near by. i would be too scared to attempt something like this unless my computer was overheating all the time.
Yeah, same here. :|
Id at least drag over an old PC to test it out before going "all in" with the oil cooling.
by ToMKaT
Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:47 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: March 15th Forum Contest: Epox 8NPA SLI Motherboard
Replies: 165
Views: 107747

that looks like a killer motherboard. Would be too slick to get that baby up and running
by ToMKaT
Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:08 am
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: November Contest #1: AOpen 1558J Notebook Chassis
Replies: 107
Views: 81891

Yea i think it would be fun to experiment on a laptop (a good one at least) be nice to get my hands on this and check it out.
by ToMKaT
Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:34 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: September Contest #1: Thermaltake Big Typhoon HSF
Replies: 129
Views: 94890

could always use a good heatsink.......i never know when my pc will be reentering the atmosphere :lol: