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Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

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  • Watching: Family Guy

I bought a Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6, (Quad CrossfireX) and a Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition.

Been down for the count this evening, since I was out for about three hours working and on the phone for another two. Stupid phone.

Also stuck some more drives in, a pair of 500gb's. Thinking I might use the 250 for pratting about with Penguin.

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    ʊIrishancest

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    07.30.08 1:52 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Yes, yay :B
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      07.30.08 7:59 am
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    ʊchalkley3

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    Oh fuck me. Do tell me how the AMD chip goes, I've never strayed from the righteous path of Intel.

    You should buckle again and make use of that quad crossfire board. Or wait for the 4870X2 and go for OctoFire. Good god, I think I scared myself a little there.
    07.30.08 6:34 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Oh, I fully intend to go quad card. S'why I buckled and bought this stuff.

      Just waiting on some EK blocks (Hopefully this week) so I can work out the spaces. I'm looking at about 11mm between cards, and that's at absolute best. Gonna be fun :D

      I've not had a chance to leather the X4 yet, but I'm still burning in the AS at the moment. Hopefully (It's been on since about nine last night) I'll get a chance to beat the hell out of it tonight with some CoD4 or something. Doesn't seem to have an issue so far, though.
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      07.30.08 7:59 am
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        ʊchalkley3

        I go where I please, and I please where I go

        I admire your optimism. You go for AS? I'm using the Thermalright grease that came with my 120 Extreme. I know a lot of people *say* artic silver is good, but is it that good?
        07.30.08 2:30 pm
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          AS5 has gone downhill - The best was AS3, but hey.

          It still does the job.

          The only other option is some thermal grease, and some diamond dust, make my own :D
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          07.30.08 2:33 pm
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            ʊchalkley3

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            Being ӝnirach isn't normal. Huffing AS5 fumes will change that.

            Nirach: Not even once.
            07.30.08 2:52 pm
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              ӝNirach

              Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

              Huffing AS5 isn't a requirement - But it sure helps :p
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              07.31.08 7:34 am
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    Out of couriosity, why use 4 graphics cards to get 8x-8x-8x-8x instead of using two to get 16x-16x? Just for the (sort of) doubled GPU data-crunching power behind the same transfer speed?

    It seems that would be toward the "way to freaking powerful to make good use of it" end of the scale. :p
    07.30.08 7:30 pm
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      As weird as this may sound, and as hard as it may be to believe, even the AGP bus was never saturated properly.

      My first Xfire board ran 8x-8x on two slots, and there was NO performance change between that board and the 16x-16x board I replaced it with.

      With that in mind, I'm not entirely fussed about running 8 rather than 16 :p
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    this is fucking insanity! whats your rigg running cost wise?!
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    07.31.08 2:40 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Far too much for it to be sane :p
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      07.31.08 7:04 am
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        haha, that's what i figured
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        08.01.08 3:35 am
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Everything is 'just' X amount of money.

          I keep forgetting that adding lots of these 'Just X' amounts becomes one big amount. Kinda funny, though, when you look at it.

          People very often underestimate the amount of time and money that's spent on my PC :D
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          08.01.08 8:08 am
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            i definitely would not underestimate that
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    07.31.08 8:29 am
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      That was what I was thinking when I bought it.

      However, I've not had issues. Infact, quite a few things feel faster than on the C2D.

      Overall, I'm not disappointed, not shockingly impressed, but I don't feel that I made the wrong choice.
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Yeah, it was kinda depressing, but hey.

          At least it doesn't suck too much ass.
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    07.31.08 11:25 am
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      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Oh, you console gamers and your grease-slicked controllers :p
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        Hey, that's to stop it getting tacky, dawg!
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Ahahaha

          That's the best reason I've ever heard :D
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Get back to school :/
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Not even with a keg?
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    Of spirits, possibly. But then I'll be so drunk it will defeat the point of me going back.
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Touché.
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        You're very touchy too.

        Stop touching me.
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          It's okay, I have gloves on!
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      ӝNirach

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      =P

      It's that Nvidia card that's holding you back.

      Should switch to the Red side.
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        ӝspot

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        No, it the lack of a few grand in cash to spend on bullshit which is holding me back. haha :P
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          ӝNirach

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          ..Touché
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