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#16 scaramonga

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Posted 23 December 2009 - 01:40 PM

View Postm.oreilly, on Dec 23 2009, 06:57 AM, said:

well, i ordered the 5850 diamond card tonight. patty will get my 260gtx, or the 8800gt (she needs another computer, as hers is a compaq from 2001...). any hard mods/oc tips for the 5850?

So what hi-tech game you gonna play on it first mo? :giggle:




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I'm waiting for the Nvidia 300 series which are just around the corner :storm:

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Posted 23 December 2009 - 03:42 PM

"out of stock"...lol. oh well...

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Posted 23 December 2009 - 11:57 PM

I have not bought computer hardware in a very long time. lol

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Posted 24 December 2009 - 02:12 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Radeon-HD585..._ecc_rvi_cart_1

it's on it's way, and i now feel guilty for spending the $$$ on myself :( (i hear ya cam, really the same here, it's almost as though i had to get it because i usually upgrade stuff around this time of year)...

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Posted 24 December 2009 - 02:44 AM

If you got the money nothing wrong with spending it on yourself. Where the problems come in is if your shorting everything and everyone else to feed that need. :(

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Posted 24 December 2009 - 12:16 PM

View Postm.oreilly, on Dec 24 2009, 02:12 AM, said:

it's on it's way, and i now feel guilty for spending the $$$ on myself :storm: (i hear ya cam, really the same here, it's almost as though i had to get it because i usually upgrade stuff around this time of year)...

You should be ashamed of yourself MO!! Xmas should be a time for GIVING!! :(

In saying that, I just spent £1,300 yesterday on camera gear :storm: :giggle:

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Posted 24 December 2009 - 05:00 PM

View Postscaramonga, on Dec 24 2009, 04:16 AM, said:

...I just spent £1,300 yesterday on camera gear :storm: :giggle:
so...your single again?




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(dang! i could have got that peleng 8mm instead... :storm: )

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Posted 24 December 2009 - 05:50 PM

View Postscaramonga, on Dec 23 2009, 05:40 AM, said:

So what hi-tech game you gonna play on it first mo? :giggle:
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Posted 24 December 2009 - 06:54 PM

My 88GTX died two weeks ago so I went and moved to the dark side (ATI) for no oher reason than it has DX11 support (I know I know, not many games use it blah blah blah). But I must say I'm well impressed with the 5770. It's sweeeeeeet. All I'm waitning for now is the new F@H client that can fully utilize the power of the 5xxx series.

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Posted 27 December 2009 - 03:27 AM

cool, dave. to save on tax, i purchased it form an outfit on the other side of the country, using the cheapest shipping method, so i wont see it til the 5th of jan... :(

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Posted 27 December 2009 - 07:41 AM

That really is too bad newegg and others are located in cali and you get charged a hell of a tax.
I am unsure what I would do if I wasn't buying from there, I know I would not afford upgrades, even the few I do now.

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Posted 27 December 2009 - 07:17 PM

View PostCamaro, on Dec 26 2009, 11:41 PM, said:

That really is too bad newegg and others are located in cali and you get charged a hell of a tax.
I am unsure what I would do if I wasn't buying from there, I know I would not afford upgrades, even the few I do now.

Yeh, it's really bad.
I have to pay 8-9% more just to buy from Newegg!
And if it's not free shipping I get screwed there too.
The only consolation is that I usually get the stuff I order the next day.

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Posted 27 December 2009 - 09:31 PM

View PostRoadrunner, on Dec 27 2009, 01:17 PM, said:

Yeh, it's really bad.
I have to pay 8-9% more just to buy from Newegg!
And if it's not free shipping I get screwed there too.
The only consolation is that I usually get the stuff I order the next day.
For me that would be a hell of a consolation, the biggest thing I hate about ordering parts, I want them NOW!!! :( :giggle:

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 03:14 AM

it came! :giggle: man, ati really makes the win7 eyecandy look good, the transparencies/opaqueness are "smoother", less pixelated/harsh. even my cursor is more steady. i had forgotten how neat ati gpus were. :( even has an hdmi out. :storm:

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 04:33 AM

:giggle: :(




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