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Alright, here goes. After years of saving and months of agonizing, I've finally re-upped and gotten back into the enthusiast scene. To show you what I mean, here's what I'm running now:
This thing is loud and obnoxious. It's really a holdover from when I was a broke-ass student and had to sell my DFI LP S939 board and 6800 GT SLI. Originally it existed just for folding but somehow it became my main box. Feeling the need to overcompensate, here's what I've bought (or buying in the next few days):
I would call this a massive e-penis extension, but that would be inaccurate. The previous e-penis had shriveled up and died a long time ago. No, my friends, I've just grafted on an entirely new & massively oversized e-penis.
Oh yes, I looked at the Q6600. I even looked at the Q9550. And surely 1 GTX 260 would be sufficient. Cheap but champion performer Gigabyte UD3R, 4GB GEIL/Corsair/special-of-the-day DDR2, tame but easy on the wallet. I could even keep the TN monitor. Sounds nice, right?
But oh no, my e-penis felt limp and soggy. It needed a major Viagra injection. And so, like buying too many rounds at the bar and going home with the ugly chick, I spent too much and will probably wake up tomorrow wondering what in the hell I just did.
Then again, seeing as how next year I will be a broke-ass student once again, I suppose indulging while my bank account can take the hit is not so bad.
Sorry if I offered TMI, but I just felt the overwhelming need to share. Scorn and ridicule welcome.
2x 1.6GHz (P4-based) Xeon O/C to 3GHz (can't do 3.2 anymore, doh!)
ASUS PC-DL
2GB (4 x 512MB) OCZ PC-3200
Geforce 6800 GT AGP
Creative Audigy 2
300GB & 250GB HD's, from WD I believe
PC P&C 510W Turbo-Cool (aka Old Faithful)
Optiquest POS TN-panel 20" LCD
A seriously gunked up & funky-smelling Intellimouse Explorer 3
One of those Antec mid-tower jobs (you know, the kind everyone used to make)
A really stale Windows XP install that should have died a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away perhaps)
This thing is loud and obnoxious. It's really a holdover from when I was a broke-ass student and had to sell my DFI LP S939 board and 6800 GT SLI. Originally it existed just for folding but somehow it became my main box. Feeling the need to overcompensate, here's what I've bought (or buying in the next few days):
I would call this a massive e-penis extension, but that would be inaccurate. The previous e-penis had shriveled up and died a long time ago. No, my friends, I've just grafted on an entirely new & massively oversized e-penis.
Oh yes, I looked at the Q6600. I even looked at the Q9550. And surely 1 GTX 260 would be sufficient. Cheap but champion performer Gigabyte UD3R, 4GB GEIL/Corsair/special-of-the-day DDR2, tame but easy on the wallet. I could even keep the TN monitor. Sounds nice, right?
But oh no, my e-penis felt limp and soggy. It needed a major Viagra injection. And so, like buying too many rounds at the bar and going home with the ugly chick, I spent too much and will probably wake up tomorrow wondering what in the hell I just did.
Then again, seeing as how next year I will be a broke-ass student once again, I suppose indulging while my bank account can take the hit is not so bad.
Sorry if I offered TMI, but I just felt the overwhelming need to share. Scorn and ridicule welcome.