[F@H Chat 4-27-09] Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely Spam! Lovely Spam! Part 2...

ShyguyXPC · April 28th, 2009, 12:33 AM

Well started this weeks again, still can't get the stats to link right, with out copying and pasting every hotlink, so will just post as best I can...

Rank, Name, Points (24Hr Avg), Points Total:
1. sharder8 28,668 3,733,147
2. engracio 23,531 7,586,684
3. no1_vern 16,762 4,670,759
4. 2monsters 14,998 3,309,284
5. chungenhung 9,543 850,838
6. Bizkitkid2001 9,230 802,087
7. Xam.Relseor 6,706 264,626
8. TheReaperWaits 4,830 89,408
9. Reveille 4,710 157,731
10. _Nemo 3,480 102,117
11. butch81385 3,115 258,185
12. Batmeat 1,949 774,563
13. MervTeck 1,860 835,254
14. ShyguyXPC 1,859 461,119
15. nunyadam 1,778 596,908
16. Karmakiller 1,628 2,919,992
17. Sarah_Lee 1,455 164,934
18. RicheemXX 1,227 192,456
19. Creatures 1,157 91,974
20. KCormier 970 55,623

best I can do for now

anyways, my new case came today, even though its a mid tower, smaller mid tower, the box was microscopic compared to what My full tower Thermaltake Armor came in 2 years ago. hell the box is smaller than the Antec Super Lanboy was in.

but its for all intents & purposes, new, room will be tight, but then again, I don't plan on filling it up with much, aside from maybe a 2nd smaller GPU, and a few more drives down the road. now just need to obtain a smaller PSU with enough amps on 12V for the 9800GTX & possibly a 2nd smaller 9600-ish range card. the SATA DVD burner for it came too, along with the Xigmatek cooler for the i7 (and the new replacement flash reader for the i7 as well).

on that cooler, sheesh, all they include for thermalpaste is a small baggie like thing for paste, one of those tear off the end things like adding sugar or creamer to your coffee or tea LOL...

but has plenty of parts for the various sockets, and its not BIG in mass, but it is rather tall, taller than the AC Freezer coolers, I'm starting to wonder what my height restriction will be in the Armor case with the 250mm mounted in there, may have to go back to the original fanless panel for this system again

the cooler isn't really heavy by any means, but does have some weight to it.

now I have everything to start on the i7. I backed up all my needed data except for Firefox bookmarks on the Q6600 last night, so thats done.

so later this week its getting started on.

was sick all day today, sinus cold or something, even despite taking my allergy meds, didn't do much for the runny nose issue (constantly blowing my nose this morning as well as hacking crap up), but much better now.

so hopefully tomorrow get started on finishing the Core 2 Duo system, then get started on my i7.

also found out from Virgin Mobile, NOW you can buy a new phone or accessories with your remaining cash balance in your account.

checked last year & as far as I could find out, you couldn't.

so now I can put to use my remaining $90 in the account. I was to put in another $20 last month but never did, so no phone service now. I bought the Verizon Blitz on sale at Target last week, so will be switching to that soon, at least out here I get a signal on the phone compared to VM.

I think what i'll do is buy their X-Tc phone for $99, and pay the difference, then see about selling the phone new in box if I can. see if I can get 80-ish for it.

otherwise I close out my VM account & lose that $90 in cash, at least this way i can get most of it back. maybe put towards my Verizon Pre Paid Blitz phone/account.

I like the VM X-Tc phone, but it doesn't support or use MSN/Hotmail for email (AIM & Yahoo, and only have a Yahoo account I rarely use), and the poor signal out here for VM's service. otherwise I'd get it & stay with them, and nice part is, its only $20 every 3 months at least/most.

versus $15 or more a month for the Verizon, but with the Blitz's more and better features (except video playback), its a better deal for me.

I don't know, maybe I'll keep it & have 2 phones... one to fall back on if I forget to pay the main one...

ShyguyXPC · April 28th, 2009, 05:42 AM

forgot to add, the Coolermaster case came with a freebie in it, one of their suede looking EeePC covers. was bundled in the box, and when I opened it I was like WTF, what is this? then turned the package over and was like WOW, a cover for a $250 EeePC (7" LCD model), but then was thinking, WHERE'S THE EeePC?

but seriously, that was kind of cool. joked with my Dad, now we have an excuse to go spend $300 on one of those netbooks to put this free cover to use LOL.

one of these: CM Store

apparently their free with CMStore orders of $20 or more. (Limited to the first 300 customers), considering i ordered my case almost 2+ weeks ago, they must not get too many customers on the CM store page then LOL.

KarmaKiller · April 28th, 2009, 01:03 PM

hey, at least they give you free stuff. I've ordered probably 4-5 cases from there, haven't got jack for free.

(btw, I have a use for that if you want to get rid of it)

And a side note, I found the links don't copy right depending on which browser your using. Chrome wouldn't copy correctly, but FF does. Maybe that's why your having problems?

ShyguyXPC · April 28th, 2009, 01:18 PM

nope, using FF, don't ever use Chrome. or Safari, or Opera, just FF & IE, also tried using IE & same thing happens.

as to the EeePC cover, can do that, PM me your shipping addy & can send out.

oh by the way did you see this in your email today?

Early Adopter Edition: $239.99 EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Graphics Card…

nemowolf · April 28th, 2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC

nope, using FF, don't ever use Chrome. or Safari, or Opera, just FF & IE, also tried using IE & same thing happens.

as to the EeePC cover, can do that, PM me your shipping addy & can send out.

oh by the way did you see this in your email today?

Early Adopter Edition: $239.99 EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Graphics Card…

ZOMG ... im on site at a job waiting for windows update to finish so i cant read details but when does that sale end?!?!?!?!?!

I will make sure i have enough in the bank after paying bills and get it tonight if i have to charge it to my CC.

ShyguyXPC · April 28th, 2009, 02:17 PM

May 5th it says at the bottom. hopefully it'll be in stock when you go to order. Just remember to use the promo code on the page for it (EMCLRNW49).

had I not spent on the radeon last week, I would be going for this thing. but too late for me.

ShyguyXPC · April 28th, 2009, 02:56 PM

Hey KK, or anyone else running Nvidia, are these the latest drivers for the 8 series that supports or can run under Windows 2000?

ForceWare Release 169

if so I'll download them.

i found my Win2K disc so now I can dual install W2K & Win7 on my brothers friends system. just wondering what the last set of Forceware drivers for Win2K was, and if its ok to use WinXP drivers or would there be issues?

2monsters · April 28th, 2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC

Hey KK, or anyone else running Nvidia, are these the latest drivers for the 8 series that supports or can run under Windows 2000?

ForceWare Release 169

if so I'll download them.

i found my Win2K disc so now I can dual install W2K & Win7 on my brothers friends system. just wondering what the last set of Forceware drivers for Win2K was, and if its ok to use WinXP drivers or would there be issues?

I dont think those will work. It will say right at the top of the page what os the drivers support. However this may help you:
Windows XP/2000 Driver Archive

sharder8 · April 28th, 2009, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

(btw, I have a use for that if you want to get rid of it)

So do I . . . daughter's EeePC.

Harder

Bizkitkid2001 · April 28th, 2009, 03:44 PM

AAAccckk, my PPD have dropped over 2K points.

I logged into via remote desktop and saw that the F@H GPU got an error saying "Unstable Machine" and then something about waiting 24 hours to restart. Hopefuly it will work once the 24 hour thing is up, if not, I'll have to stop by my house sometime this week and restart the program.