Recent content by Calis

Hey all, I'm just in the process of building a new workstation and I've become unhealthily obsessed with watercooling, both for temperatures and noise, and epeen factor... Currently I'm running: i7 2600k Quadro Fermi 4000 16gb Corsair Dom Asus p8p67 Deluxe Now, I'm looking to cool all of...

Hey folks, I haven't posted here in a long time, but I thought some of you may be able to help me, I'm looking to buy a certain card (fermi fx4000), but they are both a) hard to find, and b) very very expensive in Australia even though our dollar is the same as yours (go figure). So I...

But then I get stung on download limits, 80 bucks a month for ADSL2 (I live in a city and get about 1mb/s downstream maximum), with only a 25gb download limit per month.

I'm agree ^ PC games get pirated because the multiplayer is often thrown on as a last minute thing. Look at COD4 for pc. Good multiplayer system, so people actually buy it. Poorly optimized and supported games like Crysis for example, just invite piracy, because people don't want to pay...

HAHAHA that was awesome!

Wow, you guys are lucky. I'm lucky if I pick up a launch title for under $100. They stretch as high as $120. Yet the AU dollar is the same as the US dollar. /wrists

i take it everyone else likes theirs :D ill post pics of mine up lata

Running very stable at 3.2ghz under full load, it renders so incredibly fast now!! hottest core is just touching 45 degrees every now and again, rest are around 43-44 time to go higher!

I basically built a very similar system a month ago, with the coolermaster cosmos S, and only 1xGTX, pretty neato, but its no blackbird doesnt have the awesome case, or cooling a blackbird is a blackbird because its a blackbird, essentially

Hey, few questions. Got myself a Q9450 a while ago + TRUE120 +AS5, maxing it out with Prime95, realtemp (the program I've been told to use by people on hardforum :D) is reporting temps of 38-41 degrees across the cores. Just wondering: a) are these temps ok? b) is realtemp the...

you might check ebay i was looking around for one a while ago, ended up going for the new one because i couldnt find anywhere that had the old one in stock. When i saw my mates and mine side by side i decided i liked the new one alot more anyway! but thats just me

It doesn't. In the CS3 suite there are new features that allow you to integrate and manipulate 3d elements placed on your canvas, but in reality, a gfx card makes very little difference. There is talk of full blown GPU support in CS4 though, really putting them to work, which couldn't hurt...

Uh, not really sure what you mean. There isn't software that can offer the power and control of something like Maya while still having a simple "drag and drop" type of system. The fact is if you want to get quality results you've got to put in the hard yards in a high end 3d/animation app.

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I'm not a big one for this kind of work, but you ought to give Terragen a shot as well, just google it, can make some amazing stuff in that program. Here's something I made in terragen probably 3-4 years ago, after about 2 days of messing around just for kicks. Personally, I don't like it...