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FYI: UNREAL DEAL on SOYO 26″ LCD widescreen at Officemax.com

Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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Visit the product page [ HERE ]

ONLY $349!

I was going to buy a 17″ flatpanel to add to my 19″ for my Mac setup, but needed a splitterbox for $250 for dual monitor. Didn’t make sense to buy all that when I could just get this 26″.

Got mine in Friday, and although I had to RMA because of defect in the screen, it was an AWESOME picture and saturation/brightness. Can’t wait to game on it.


Teamspeak server will be down Sunday to maybe Monday…

Saturday, September 6th, 2008
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I have my new Fiber network install scheduled for NEXT Sunday, (Sept. 13th) so the Teamspeak server will be down, probably for the entire day or more.

There will be a new IP address, and I am also looking to do some upgrades to the little Linux server, such as better/quieter cooling fans, etc.

For those within the ATT service areas, Fiber is becoming more and more accessible, so you may want to check your region [ HERE ]. The cost for me was only 5?Ǭ¢ more than 6mbps DSL for the ‘elite’ Fiber @ 6mbps, but I bumped up $10 and will have a 10mbps down/1.5mbps up pipe now. The service is also bundled with TV, and the receiver can ‘slingbox’ TV stations to your computers in the house. (watch TV without being in the living room)

I will let you know more about the service once I have it, but for me, I can save $39/mo by dropping the landline I had for the DSL, making it actually cheaper than the setup I had before. (plus some crazy bandwidth?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ†:twisted:?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ†?Ǭ† )

Will post the IP once I have it.


Nvidia 9600 Cards are out now, for those needing an upgrade…

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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Big on performance. Easy on the wallet.

The new standard for price/performance has now been set. The EVGA GeForce 9600GT offers a powerfully immersive entertainment experience designed for extreme high-definition gaming and video playback. Play the hottest DirectX 10 games with awesome performance and watch the latest [EDITED] Blu-ray movies with brilliant image clarity. Featuring next generation GeForce and PureVideo HD technologies, the EVGA GeForce 9600GT puts amazing graphics performance within your reach.

  • 65nm GPU accelerated up to 740MHz*
  • 64 Stream Processors operating at over 1.83GHz*
  • 23.7 Billion pixels per second*
  • 512MB memory at 62.4GB/s of bandwidth*
  • 2nd Generation PureVideo HD equipped
  • PCI Express 2.0 ready


nvidia 9600


System specs for Quakewars, in case anyone hasn’t seen them…

Friday, May 18th, 2007
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From quakewars.filefront.com

Minimum System Requirements
Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Pentium PIII 800 MHz Processor or AMD Athlon
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 2?¢‚Äû¬¢ or ATI Radeon?¢‚Äû¬¢ 7000 or higher
CD-ROM: 4X or Faster
RAM: 256 MB RAM

Recommended System Requirements
Operating System: Windows XP
Processor: CPU Pentium 4 2.4GHz or Athlon64 3000
Video Card: Geforce FX 5700 or Radeon 9600 or higher
CD-ROM: CDRom 52x or DVD Rom 16x
RAM: 512 MB RAM

Which, if these are true, then most everyone that games with us is going to be able to play QuakeWars effectively, and see alot of the details.

Sarge’s new machine will probably crash because the game doesn’t take that much to run… :)


Thought you guys might get a kick out of this…

Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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I recently built a computer for my g/f’s father from some spare parts I had laying around here, (he was running windows 98 for pete’s sake) and airbrushed/painted/modded the case to look like a hot rod… I even installed LEDs into the skull on the front so the eyes light up.

Let me know what you guys think…

The case with the base black and airbrushed flames?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ (no clearcoat)Mounting the exhaust pipes I cut from an old chrome shower rod?¢‚Ǩ¬¶The finished rig?¢‚Ǩ¬¶Another angle showing the side with the exhaust pipes?¢‚Ǩ¬¶