time to dig this thread up. heres pics of the rig i got mainly through LR (thanks) that is being used as an HTPC (im too lazy to copy post only the images so this is a direct copy paste from my rig's thread)

damn thats a sexy looking card

(except for the frog of course

)

thats the asus tuner, one ntsc tuner and one ATSC/ClearQAM tuner. havent figured out how to get it to take digital from the wall, but havent tried to hard either

i love it cause its pcie, has a hardware based mpeg-2 decoder (more cpu availible for folding

) and came with a sweet remote

silica in a sealed moisture resistant bag. wow, all i have to say is

with my luck, i should have seen it coming
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and to ECS: leaving an expansion slot empty above the graphics card qualifies as a dick move. But thanks for supporting folding!

it was a free board so i can hardly complain

finished build (sans 1 stick of ram as i know from prior experiance that vista doesnt like 4gigs of ram without a hotfix first

)

thats my desk

around 4.5-5k worth of computers and related paraphanelia there

and dont get any ideas, its booby-traped

100 brownie points to anyone who can name the jet model on top of the 300

Gehto-mods FTW! as you can see in the pic, one of the fan blades got broke off by a stray finger getting in there

it still worked, but it started to make the whole case vibrate like crazy. my solution? an office-space style stapler (cause of the rubber base) and an ankle weight

it completely silenced the vibration
and now for some higher res copyies of the before and after of the mods:

thats it for now, but my birthday is coming up and im hoping for some water cooling parts

(cough cough petras toped DDC

mcw30 ) and if i get what i want then ill probably be voltmodding the 8800gt
