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actually, tom's hardware has listed the core 216 as being one of the best price-to-performance ratio cards in recent memory, even after the big price drops on the 9600GT cards and the re-release of the G92 8800GT cards. also, since you're just making a blanket statement about graphics cards (which are made by various manufacturers that have nothing to do with nvidia's production lines, same as ATI cards), saying that you've had technical problems doesn't help much unless you give us a make and model number since they're all different. i have the evga stock-clock 216, and it's a monster for both overclocking and standard performance. not quite a 275, but way less in price. tbh, ati's cards have been kicking ass on the hardware side for most of the last year or two. too bad their drivers suck donkey dick or i'd use them a lot more. not to mention it's rare to find an intel board with CrossFireX technology. you can usually find 860s for around 250 or so. i'd almost suggest going less on the gfx card and better on the cpu, really. mATX is compatible by default with ATX - it shares six mounting points between them (which was most of the point). interestingly enough, BTX and most of the other strange mobo layouts share enough that they could be considered compatible, as well (if i remember correctly).

neblix, you don't know anything about computers. don't sound like you do. if phill already didn't know as much as he does about them (he's got me way beat in the software department), he might almost think you knew something and get worried or something. like, mounting points...do you even know when those standards came around? like 13 years ago, back when AT was being overworked and they needed a new design for a mobo. AT and ATX share four mounting points, regardless - that's enough for a computer that isn't being shuffled around a lot. phill and i go way back, i'll handle this cases are cases. who gives a shit about them? just make sure your fans spin. my old computer was in an AT desktop case with a 486 sticker on the front. same thing with optical drives - as long as it works, don't complain. hard drives are fine as long as you keep track of how old they are and test them a lot. in general, i'd say to go with the i7-860 before you go with an i5-anything. way better processor for only a few bucks more. i'm not a fan of mushkin that much. if you want performance ram, just get g.skill ripjaws, they're a good balance of price and performance. the GTS 250 is a very capable card. if you've got the money, spring for a core 216, as there's a huge increase in performance. also, how big's your screen (resolution)? if you're running something 1680x1050 or above, spend the extra five or ten bucks and get a 1gb card. big screen resolutions benefit from more vram more than they benefit from overclocking or anything else. no mention of a power supply in there. use this to figure out how much wattage minimum you'll need, and this to find what you're looking for there. remember, the number the psu calculator puts out is how much wattage you need, not what the psu should be rated. if the psuc says 300w, you'd have to get a 400wpsu with 75% efficiency to meet the minimum standard (which probably wouldn't hold up under load or on boot too well). i have a core 216, an i7-860, 4gb of ram, one optical drive, a high-end motherboard, and four hard drives, and i have a seasonic x750 750w psu (which is a little big for what i've got). you could probably go 650 or so if you don't have a ton of hard drives or go with the 250.

hey, did i ever submit a final wav of my track? i don't even know. it was like four years ago.

i just picked up a set of alessandro labs grado music series two headphones, and i had the same experience. i went from a set of logitech x230 speakers from five years ago to open-ear awesomeness.

that is NOT a bad connotation!

can't believe i missed this. i donated some cash - moar OCR for moar peoples!

=) that's what i'm around for!

i'm a fan of schalasaurus.

thought that thread got purged. figured i'd start another one.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/ - revo uninstaller is basically an advanced uninstaller that cleans up the mess left behind by poorly written uninstaller programs. it'll check your registry and file system for bits left over, and it has a bunch of other features for tracking down and eliminating spyware as well. http://aren.hulubulu.net/ - advanced renamer is the best free batch renaming program available. period. i used this extensively with a project a little while ago that involved over 1400 mp3 files, and it make my life SO much easier. the best part is the undo functionality, which will allow you to undo anything you've done since the program was opened last. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ mp3tag is the best free batch retagging program available. sensing a theme? i used it with the above project, and it is very powerful. supports tagging on everything, too, from common files like mp3 and wma to weird stuff like ape, optimfrog, and wavpack. http://www.cutepdf.com/ cutepdf saved my butt in college more than once. it allows you to print to a pdf file, which is great for when you go to submit papers or need to print somewhere where they might not have office 2007 or whatever program you use. i'm sure most people have discovered something like this, but it works really well for proofing your papers before printing them. what about you all? got any cool and useful programs that someone might want to try out?

my ears were, yeah.

i'm a big fan of this track. excellent production! i think i've heard it somewhere, but i can't think of where that happened.

my head feels funny

just sell the ps3 on ebay. you'll make a ton of money pretty easily with that - don't 60gb systems still go for like 200+, even like that? it's not like they're still under warranty.

so today, i taught one class at school (which i couldn't get out of), and then proceeded to veg out all day. got my wife to play rock band 2 drums with me, too =) we're going to 'dinner' with a bunch of friends in an hour or two. good day so far.

i saw this happen in my cp and started laughing VERY hard. you're awesome, man =)

thanks, everyone! you all rock.

you can't do that, unfortunately, because i did face shrine as my first project track ever. why is that a big deal? because i did it in an orchestral style, and added a melody line that i created. and it was almost the exact thing that this melody line is. and i hadn't listened to this first. so you won't be disappointed.

because there are? lots of repeats, man. that's why aeth had to pare down the listing so much originally.

does this mean new wips are incoming?!

lol! i recently started listening to this soundtrack again. i didn't like the game much, but i really like some of the creativity he displayed in executing this soundtrack. you listen to, say, VII, and then this, and you hear just how far sound design on the PSX had come. pretty awesome.

blue dragon was donkey turds. d o n k e y t u r d s. everything about it was poorly thought out, and execution was bad. and the battles reminded me of crisis core (in the words of zircon, "you just push x...x, x, x, WIN!").

fair enough. updated up to here.

i've got one - black label, all artwork and book and discs in great condition, jewel case has a crack in it - that i'd sell for a decent amount. with a new jewelcase, it'd easily be showroom quality.