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Geek Culture / New tune: Elemental, and new PC: NINJA!

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Fallout
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 16:03
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Ok, now I'm cocked locked and ready to rock!

Firstly, here's my newest tune for those that are interested - it's silky smooth melodic dnb with squelchy bass and plenty of instrumentalismsizes.

Elemental

Secondly, with all my hard earned money I finally got round to upgrading my PC, so I built it all from scratch with the help of EBuyer (ninja prices). This spec should last me a while! Here's a piccy:



Sorry for gloating, but I slaved hard to earn the cash to buy this monster. Spec from the top!

- Samsung 730MP - 17inch, with built in FM radio, TV tuner, picture in picture, speakers, smart media card reader (plays back photos/mp3s off smart media with ports in the side).
- Logitech Z5500 Digital surround sound 5.1 (500watt monster sound)
- Sony digi freeview box to go with the monitor.
- Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse with docking station for mouse

And the mean machine itself:
- AMD San diego 64bit 4000+
- Gigabyte K8N-XP SLI MB
- Gigabyte dual processor 6600GT 256MB (15000 3d mark benchmark!)
- 2GB Corsair 3200 DDR
- DVD writer + separate DVD drive
- Twin 120GB segate SATA2 HDs (deciding on whether to RAID it or not)
- Audigy Platinum 2 ZS
- All wrapped up in a black Antek case.

So much cheaper to build PCs yourself. I think this spec would've been £2500 - £3000 from a PC store, but this came in under £1700 all in!

The best bit was watching the postman try and carry the speakers up the driveway (the 10inch sub weighs about 20KG) and the box is almost as big as the van. San Andreas runs maxed out on all settings. I should get fraps in to see what FPS I'm getting, but it never slows down!

Anyway, sorry for the big boasting rant! I'm just well chuffed! Let me know if you guys dig the tune. I'm off to tech test in db and see what I can do now.

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MiR
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 16:15
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Shiny. Two questions. Why do all the prices come up as "?0"? Plus what is a dual processor 6600GT? Is it one card with 2 gpus or 2 cards? Why not get the 7800GT? They say it`s almost as fast as the GTX but no where near as expensive. Though I have no idea how it would come against a dual processor card. Probably not too well.


Gimme teh votez!!!!
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Fallout
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 18:03
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Quote: " Why do all the prices come up as "?0"? "


Do you mean on the ebuyer website? Prices show up fine for me! I'm confused though mate!

The GFX card is two GPUs on the same card. Twin cooling fans etc. So it uses the SLI mode of having two cards, but it's instead using one PCI-E slot and gets much better peformance cos they're on the same card. The reason why I didnt go for a 7 series card is because mine came as a deal with the motherboard for about £100 cheaper than the 7800gtx card on its own. I'll be missing a few cool effects, but speed wise it's not actually much different. I didn't do too much digging, but I think my card is one of the fastest 6 series cards. I'm not sure if I can SLI it though to have 4 GPUs. That'd be nutts.

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 18:24
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w00t, teh return of Fallout! I'm *supposed* to be writing a paper for school now, , but I'll check out Elemental ASAP


Arrr! Blog spotted off ter starboard!
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Fallout
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 18:31
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Good man. It should help you chill while you write the paper! No harsh destracting vibes in Elemental.

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MiR
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 23:44
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Mmm. On all your posts non of the prices com up properly. It must be the pound sign.


Gimme teh votez!!!!
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Fallout
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 03:37
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Ahhh, bloody euros!

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 07:06
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Euros work for me.

Sexy rig ya got there, cool song too - the dynamic effects are striking, very cool stuff.


I'm going to eat you!
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DBAlex
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 12:50
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sexay pc...

I tell you what really would have been awesome: 2 x AMD San diego 64bit 4000+ and water cooling... Or maybe even liquid nitrogen cooling !

My latest project is a lower spec PC, Penitum III 733mhz, 128mb ram, 10GB HD, 52x CDRom... For testing games for lower spec machines... This might have to be sold on ebay though... Im slowly running out of room for PC's...


AMD 64 3000 + 512mb RAM + 80GB HD + Radeon 9600se 128mb
http://www.dbastudios.cjb.net
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Fallout
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 13:10
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I think I'm sorted for testing games on PCs now. Like you, I have a P700 - think it's 256mb, but not sure, with MX440 gpu in it. I've also got my old compy which I've just upgraded from, which is a 2.2ghz p4, 1gb, 5600 128mb, so I think I've got a good spectrum of machines to test on.

I think I'll be making the P4 the standard machine, so on medium to low settings, all games should work on it. The AMD should be all settings on max. The P700 I think I might just take out of the equation, although there's no harm in testing on it to see if it will work.

Cheers for the props for the machine and the music!

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