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msabo said:
It’s fascinating to me that there's this urban legend that “Ricer” is derived from the Latin word Ricarius which is claimed to mean “suck at everything you attempt”. That doesn’t pass the smell test folks. There is no such Latin term. It is truly scary how gullible we have become… Ricer is a racist term plain and simple and there is no revisionist history of the term which can change that.

Here's an online Latin dictionary http://www.babylon.com/define/112/Latin-Dictionary.html
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oh good lord. :rolleyes:

the damn word comes from the type of car not type of person. it was imports that first started getting modded like that and people simply associate the word rice with Asian things so they called them riced out or ricers. I raced cars many years ago and the term was used all the time even by some Asians or Japanese racers and not one damn person considered it a racial slur.
 
msabo said:
It is truly scary how gullible we have become… Ricer is a racist term plain and simple and there is no revisionist history of the term which can change that.
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It's truly scary how many people are getting offended by every little thing....
If you're LOOKING for to get offended by something - you will always find a reason. :mad:
 
msabo said:
It’s fascinating to me that there's this urban legend that “Ricer” is derived from the Latin word Ricarius which is claimed to mean “suck at everything you attempt”. That doesn’t pass the smell test folks. There is no such Latin term. It is truly scary how gullible we have become… Ricer is a racist term plain and simple and there is no revisionist history of the term which can change that.

Here's an online Latin dictionary http://www.babylon.com/define/112/Latin-Dictionary.html
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Well they played Judas Priest songs backwards and claimed there were satanic messages. It just goes to show that if you try hard enough, you can believe anything. I think you're reading into this WAY too deep. Ricarius? LOL!!
 
From your own dictionary link -

ricer
Found in thesaurus: kitchen utensil

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia Download this dictionary

Ricer
Ricer may refer to:

Potato ricer, an implement used for food preparation
Rice burner, a pejorative used initially to describe Asian-made — specifically Japanese-made — motorcycles and automobiles. Many variations have also been used, such as rice rocket for Japanese sport bikes. More contemporary use of the term rice burner, along with the prefix rice, has taken on an alternate pejorative meaning for an automobile that has been modified to give impression of high performance, but does not necessarily have any high-performance capabilities.
 
Seriously guys? WTF?

You are actually debating this?

Isn't there something about hijacking threads or something?

Either
A: Stop looking at what offends you
or
B: Grow a back bone, people have been insulting people sense the dawn of time. If you aren't use to it by now you need to go back to high school.


I asked a question about SLI and power supplies. If you don't have something to add keep it to yourself.
Please.
 
Rusty4560 said:
Either
A: Stop looking at what offends you
or
B: Grow a back bone, people have been insulting people sense the dawn of time. If you aren't use to it by now you need to go back to high school.
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lol. I predict that within two generations, people will become so thin-skinned that they will actually start bleeding profusely from the eyes or ears and drop to the floor screaming in agony the moment they read or hear something that offends them. :D
 
cannondale06 said:
oh good lord. :rolleyes:

the damn word comes from the type of car not type of person. it was imports that first started getting modded like that and people simply associate the word rice with Asian things so they called them riced out or ricers. I raced cars many years ago and the term was used all the time even by some Asians or Japanese racers and not one damn person considered it a racial slur.
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hahaha...

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For your argument... some domestic rice... not all rice is asian/whatever

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back to the other posters, I'm considering adding a second 9800GTX, but reading it's not possible to use dual display in sli... what gives?
 
I just looked at the escort picture again.. The hood gauge is backwards. That's effin hilarious
 
Rusty4560 said:
I'm most likely leaving it stock although I do have ZALMAN CNPS9500 cooling the CPU. I just don't see the point in overclocking it. I doubt I'll notice a difference.

All I do on my computer is:
Internet
E-mail
WoW
DOD: Source
CS: Source
TF2
etc.

I played through crysis already and now I'm just waiting on any other good games to come out. If I notice problems with apps running slow then I'll consider it more. I look at overclocking like bragging rights for the most part. Plus my computer puts out enough heat as is.
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Thumbs up on the keeping stock. My 5200 is also stock at 2.6. My last rig was an overclocker - im getting tired of screwing around with things. I just want them to work. If I want a faster processor - I will buy a new one.
 
how does ur gtx 280 do compared to ur SLI 8800 gts u had before ?
big difference ?
im still thinking of replacing my 8800gts or get a second one for SLI , since they r dirt cheap now.
 
I'll let you know. I just got the parts in. I'll post when everything is installed. I'm gonna run CS:S and see what I get for frames before I do it though.
 
Okay so I just loaded CS:S to see my frames before I upgrade and it had horizontal purple lines(not missing textures)... I took a screen shot but the screen shot is normal... WTF?
 
Rusty4560 said:
Okay so I just loaded CS:S to see my frames before I upgrade and it had horizontal purple lines(not missing textures)... I took a screen shot but the screen shot is normal... WTF?
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maybe it's not card related, your monitor maybe...?
 
I dunno. I just took them out and put in the new card. I get 75-150 more frames in CS:S and I get like the same effin frames in WoW.
 
Rusty4560 said:
Okay so I just loaded CS:S to see my frames before I upgrade and it had horizontal purple lines(not missing textures)... I took a screen shot but the screen shot is normal... WTF?
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maybe u need a driver update ??
 
Rusty4560 said:
Yea, killed my dreams. Nvidia needs to step up their game
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I upgraded anyways, 9800 GTX SLI... but I read over at SLIZone that nVidia is trying to support multiple displays with SLI, in an upcoming driver update.
 
Well I'm not buying another 280 any time soon. That bastard cost me $500.00. Plus it's friggen huge and takes 2 power cables; a 6pin and an 8pin....
 
The power supply I just bought a month ago with this video card died yesterday morning. Now I think I'm having memory issues. My machine freezes during post.

Post Message:

Main Processor: Intel (r) Core(tm)2 Duo CPU 2.66ghz, 2 CPU(s)
Memory Testing: 3144704K OK(Installed Memory: 3145728K)
CPU Brand Name: blah blah blah

Memory Clock is: 800MHz
DDR2 Single Channel Mode


that is as far as it gets.

I had to take one stick out because it wouldn't give me video with it in. And if I try to enter the bios is freezes before it gets there as well.
 
Testing the RAM:
Download Memtest+ v2.01, unzip it, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP install CD. Let Memtest+ run for at least three hours on each stick of RAM separately. Go for a full 24 hours if you want to be completely sure that the RAM is not a problem. If you start seeing errors, than your RAM is bad.
 
If it freeze during POST, i doubt it will be able to run Memtest
 
Yea, it freezes before it even gets close to booting from any kind of media. I'm just trying to troubleshoot the basics at this point. See what freezes and what doesn't, however it seems that every thing freezes.

It's down to memory or motherboard at this point. I'll need to borrow someone's memory when I get a chance and test that.
 
Buy the PSU only if your current one can't handle the work. I just upgraded my 8800GT to GTX260 and my 500W PSU just doing fine.
 
I had already bought the power supply on August 8th. It's CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W . It died the other day so I'm waiting on the RMA. I had a 650watt OCZ before hand that I'm using now with less drives hooked up.
 
I got the machine to work by disconnecting the media drives and taking one of the sticks of RAM out. It seems to be running stable at the moment. I will try the media drives when I get my PSU back.
 
cannondale06 said:
wow what an ignorant post.

his cpu isnt that slow and he certainly doesnt need anything remotely close to 1000 watts. in fact his current psu should be plenty.
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600w for 2 GTX260 OC's? I wouldn't say "plenty", although it might be enough. Also, he'd definitely see a gaming performance increase, depending on how much he OC'd his CPU. I'd much rather get some decent CPU cooling and OC the CPU, seeing as that's the current bottleneck in his system, and it'll only be that much more apparent with 2 GTX260's.

EDIT: *sigh* - just realized this was a necro'd post. :eek:
 
Rusty4560 said:
I had already bought the power supply on August 8th. It's CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W . It died the other day so I'm waiting on the RMA. I had a 650watt OCZ before hand that I'm using now with less drives hooked up.
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If your PSU died, it could very well have taken your motherboard, and anything connected to it, with it. I'm really sorry to hear that.

Rusty4560 said:
I got the machine to work by disconnecting the media drives and taking one of the sticks of RAM out. It seems to be running stable at the moment. I will try the media drives when I get my PSU back
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The stick of RAM you removed is the cause of the problem, most likely.
 
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