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Flying Fox wrote:Why do you want to do tri-SLI anyway?Where do we suddenly get all these people so loaded with cash wanting to this nonsense known as triple SLI?
mortifiedPenguin wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Why do you want to do tri-SLI anyway?Where do we suddenly get all these people so loaded with cash wanting to this nonsense known as triple SLI?
scrubs23 wrote:Right now, I'm running a EVGA 8800 GT, but I'm thinking about upgrading to 3 8800 Ultras. So, my price range is anywhere from $100-2000.
What should I buy?
JustAnEngineer wrote:You probably want a 24" 1920x1200 monitor like the Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP.
scrubs23 wrote:I need something that will get me through college
scrubs23 wrote:edit: Yeah when I said I have a $100-2000 budget, I meant just for the monitor. I was going to invest 8,000 into a watercooled BEAST rig
Flying Fox wrote:Don't you have books to buy, tuition and rent to pay, alcoholic beverages to buy, pr0n to watch, poker tournaments to enter, so on and so on?
Save the cash and use it for something else. Heck buy a few more games, get a PS3 as well if not just for the Blu-Ray drive, may be a nice receiver for a grand or two. Some speakers would be nice too.
Man I can think of so many better ways to spend 8K.
scrubs23 wrote:Well, I don't want to say how much I make, but--it's substantial. It's not enough that I have a cushy job, but my parents like to spoil me too. So, $8,000 for a computer actually isn't all that much to me. Books and pr0n are relatively cheap in comparison. For poker, I always win...when I'm the dealer.
edit: Yeah I have a PS3 but I really and honestly don't like it. I've got all of what you mentioned Fox...so there really isn't anything more for me to buy...(I've got a good source for kegs of beer, brandy, vodka, you name it)
edit 2: I bought a lot of games for my PS3, hoping that at least one of them would turn me away from my Xbox 360, but, alas, none are any good or at least passing in my opinion (I LOVE HALO 3). I was planning on leaving the PS3 at home with my bro because I won't play it anyways.
scrubs23 wrote:A way of keeping the PC hardware vendors and the power company in business.What's a folding farm?
JustAnEngineer wrote:scrubs23 wrote:A way of keeping the PC hardware vendors and the power company in business.What's a folding farm?
viewforum.php?f=9
scrubs23 wrote:Wait is it that thing where you have a server rack and you have a **** of CPUs and mobos folding proteins and stuff like that?
scrubs23 wrote:I think my dad has some quad cores lying around and some spare 680i mobos
Flying Fox wrote:Yeah, is right. Are you located in a place where there are always trucks with stuff falling out of their backs?
You can get started right here (linked before). We have an entire forum dedicated to this Folding stuff.
Multicore CPUs are the king of folding right now. If you have "a few spare quads", then you can be a real folding force in no time. Just make sure whoever is paying the electricity knows about this though, we do have a code of conduct (mentioned in the Folding forum).
/me jealous
scrubs23 wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Yeah, is right. Are you located in a place where there are always trucks with stuff falling out of their backs?
You can get started right here (linked before). We have an entire forum dedicated to this Folding stuff.
Multicore CPUs are the king of folding right now. If you have "a few spare quads", then you can be a real folding force in no time. Just make sure whoever is paying the electricity knows about this though, we do have a code of conduct (mentioned in the Folding forum).
/me jealous
Haha. Well no,...I just live in the silicon valley, so me and my friends sometimes pounce on our parents' spare hardware. Don't get me wrong, not everybody in the silicon valley has "spare quad cores" and "680i mobos," it's just that I'm...more...."privileged." I'll definitely look into that folding thing and I'll see if I can get some pics onto this website. Do I need RAM too? I have like 64 GB of memory lying around--not even kidding. I need to give that away or throw it away.