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post #121 of 133
6/26/09 at 9:50am
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Well mostly because I can lol The ram will fit, I was just cruzin in the evga forums and it seem to be fine so I ordered it. I mean hell, I didn't even need the new i7 or anything so why stop there, might as well make it stupid hahaha

Well I just bought another 6gb of OCZ gold (1600) on sale since I just also pre'd Win7 Pro . Too bad they will not clear the 38mm fans I have installed on the TRUE. I will have to replace those with some 25mm thick 120's instead.
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post #122 of 133
6/27/09 at 2:36pm
I have some xms3 and all 12 gigs fit fine. The fans are the same size as the stock one that came with the true.
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post #123 of 133
6/27/09 at 3:17pm
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The Patriot Vipers (tall heat spreaders) would not fit with the 38mm 120's. The OCZ Golds do. Just put in all 6 modules and system is running fine. The TRUE stock fan is 25mm 120.
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post #124 of 133
6/27/09 at 10:08pm
tinker 12 gigs of ram is just plain silly feels good doesn't it !!!
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post #125 of 133
6/27/09 at 10:39pm
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tinker 12 gigs of ram is just plain silly feels good doesn't it !!!

I just have this "I'd shouldn't have done that" feeling since the system that its installed on is mainly a XP system. But, it is set up for dual boot with Win7 64 tho .
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post #126 of 133
6/28/09 at 4:04am
I remember in the late nineties when I was deemed insane for wanting 128MB of system RAM.
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post #127 of 133
6/28/09 at 11:33am
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My 1st IBM AT (circa 1985/6), had 512kb. Mobo had 256kb soldered in and it had another 256 piggy backed on top. The other 128 was from an addon card to get it to 640. That 1st AT and an Epson 286 dot matrix printer was over $8000.00 ($12000.00?). Thank G, work paid for it. I think it ran at 1.x mhz....LOL. But it did have a full maintenance contract with IBM, and every time they sent out a service person, it was one of their engineers which normal cost $400-$800. Had 6 service calls for the 1st year replacing the HDDs (10 and 20mb drives) ...
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post #128 of 133
6/28/09 at 12:41pm
That is great.

20MB hard drives? That's just getting greedy. Why would anyone need more than 5MB?
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post #129 of 133
7/24/09 at 8:42am
Anyone here played around with the MSI microatx x58 board? I'm thinking about picking it up, just waiting for it come down in price a little. Hopefully by that time the i920 will only be $170 at microcenter.


And hearing you guys talking about the 80's reminds me of all the time I spent in Lefty's Bar on my PC's Limited 286-8mhz, Serial #12...it even had an led on the front like Kitt from Knight Rider. At 9 years old, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Amazingly, they even have documentation on it on Dell's website. lol http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/dta/286_X/
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post #130 of 133
7/24/09 at 9:20am
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Anyone here played around with the MSI microatx x58 board? I'm thinking about picking it up, just waiting for it come down in price a little. Hopefully by that time the i920 will only be $170 at microcenter.


And hearing you guys talking about the 80's reminds me of all the time I spent in Lefty's Bar on my PC's Limited 286-8mhz, Serial #12...it even had an led on the front like Kitt from Knight Rider. At 9 years old, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Amazingly, they even have documentation on it on Dell's website. lol http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/dta/286_X/

I miss those days when it took thinking, planning, and a lot of luck to get a PC together and make it work with upgrades/etc.

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post #131 of 133
7/24/09 at 9:24am
I dont miss those days at all.......waiting weeks for a new sound driver to come out for one game, then waiting for a game to get patched to work with the new driver, and then never getting the same sound out of every game depending on how they coded it.....

Having to throw dip switches and configuring jumpers and crappy oldschool fibreglass cards that warped and chips popping and cases that weighed 90lbs because they were made out of razor-sharp steel and........



Screw that...modern computers and OS's for the win!
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post #132 of 133
7/24/09 at 10:17am
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I dont miss those days at all.......waiting weeks for a new sound driver to come out for one game, then waiting for a game to get patched to work with the new driver, and then never getting the same sound out of every game depending on how they coded it.....

Having to throw dip switches and configuring jumpers and crappy oldschool fibreglass cards that warped and chips popping and cases that weighed 90lbs because they were made out of razor-sharp steel and........



Screw that...modern computers and OS's for the win!

....and managaing your own IRQ's, DMA's, & addressing spaces. Granted, I'm in my low 30's....I laugh, on the inside of course, when I see these "IT administrators" & MCSE certified goons get stumped when they actally do run into hardware incompatibilities and they dont have a clue on how to fix it...."But it's set to plug & play and I rebooted. What's left for me to do?"
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post #133 of 133
7/24/09 at 10:23am
Yeah I once wrote a batch file in dos..you know..C:\\ COPY CON WHATEVER.BAT type stuff and these IT kids stared in awe.....I kept waiting for one to go "Is that Unix?"

"Yeah guys, good job on that A+ certification you've got....."
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