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Thanks Ferno. I’m glad at least someone acknowledges my existence.

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Hey everyone I haven’t posted here in like 10 years! I don’t know if anyone remembers me but I posted a lot in the Art forum and Tech forum. Thanks for helping me out in the Tech forum. I have been reminiscing about descent and thought I check back here. I’m glad the site is still online. Thank you!...

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Hi, The past couple of months I have been working on these two games. Looking for feedback. I looked on google for a place to post the games but couldn't find any so I'm posting it here on the dbb. Thanks. Snake Game http://inspiredvisuals.com/Snafu.zip Brick Game http://inspiredvisuals.com/WackyBri...

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Thanks Krom and everyone else for suggesting I don't get the Xeons. The heatsink was hard to install but I managed to get my comp set up and overclocked a decent amount. The comp is like 3 times faster at rendering a test 3ds max scene, and it was cheaper to.

Thanks again!

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Yea this is a multipurpose workstation for 3D rendering/animation and photography. Hopefully this can make some money. Total = *2990 CDN* Case --> Lian Li PC-A70F Black Aluminum E-ATX Full Tower Case = (202 CDN) (performance-pcs.com) CPU --> Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz = * Combo Deal(675) (...

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I really like the landscapes/cityscapes. Have you ever thought about doing a series of some sort? These also could look very interesting colored over in photoshop.

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oops. I should have read your first post lol. No wonder I was thinking comics when I saw these.

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lol I knew someone would say something. I mean 'somewhat' or a 'small' upgrade path.

The quadro is a workstation card and it is one of the only cards that support 10bit color.

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Ok. Here is what I have so far: Total = *3351 CDN* Case --> Lian Li PC-A70F Black Aluminum E-ATX Full Tower Case = (223.78 ) (ncix.com) CPU --> Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz = (629.99) (Newegg.ca) Motherboard --> ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 = (419.99) (Newegg.ca) Power Supply --> Antec Si...

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Nice perspective on the last one.

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I think this would be awsome as a print hanging on the wall. My father used to do wood carvings that look kinda like that.

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I like this one alot. How did you do it?

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Ok I think I narrowed it down to 4: HP DreamColor LP2480zx http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/382087-382087-64283-72270-3884471-3648397.html Nec MultiSync LCD3090W-BK-SV http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=ec17518a-366e-4f09-8173-ca42d439b357 Lenovo ThinkVision L220x http:...

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I'm getting closer to posting a build but I'm having trouble finding 4GB 1066 ram moduals. I wanted to max out the motherboard at 24GB. CAS latency also seems high for what I could find. Any suggestions? Thanks. --Edit-- What does a \"Tripple Channel Kit\" really mean? Is this... http://ww...

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Looks cool. I like the abstract nature of it.

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Cool. Thanks Sirius. I did miss last night's episode. Yea but i'm too lazy to dl a torrent lol.

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If I were to go with the higher end i7 or Xeons how are they for heat/noise and what options are there for quiter fans, heat sinks and overclocking capabilities?

Should I wait for Gulftown(Intel uses too many naming conventions...) or wait for the 6core Nehelams?

Thanks

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What? I can't watch them online becuase I'm canadian... that sucks.

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Well does SLI work with 3ds max? If so it's not a waste. There have been many times where my viewports would go 2fps making it very hard to judge what I was doing in scenes with a lot of furr/hair.

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So it's a give and take sort of thing. You lose raw speed to gain the ability to do more per clock cycle? How does that affect general computer use such as switching between programs, loading web browsers,single threaded programs, how responsive your system is etc. I'm trying to understand what I wo...

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Thanks for the informative post Krom. I'm a bit confused by a post a reviewer made for this cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117211 He says that this cpu has only 1 QPI link and so is only compatible with a single socket motherboard. Does that mean I have to spend more mo...

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I really don't know how much I want to spend yet. My current computer cost a little more then 4k. What would be the chepest setup that would give me the exact same speed and performance as two of my 3.4ghz xeons in all aspects from rendering to gaming. Reason being is I don't have any reference poin...

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Sorry another question about hardware. I'm just not having much luck with my computer setup lately... I want to upgrade my video card but they don't make agp cards anymore so it looks like I need to buy a new computer. It only seemed like 3-5 years ago that I bought my current setup... I need advice...

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Ok, I thought the last half of the premier was pretty decent although there was religous undertone which again reminds me of BSG

Last episode however was boring and cheesy humor... looks like this series may not keep my attention for long.

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Yea it was alright. Could have been better. Too much like Battlestar. 2/3 BSG, 1/3 Atlantis and SG1, and 1/3 other. It's a lot more mature then the other seires. More blood, sex, violence and more serious. You can't really judge a series by the first episode but I found it kinda boring. Too much goi...

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Any Stargate fans here? I Couldn't find this topic already posted. Looks pretty cool. Well at least the trailer kinda does. The premier airs tonight here in Canada 9ET/6PT. http://www.spacecast.com/shows/stargateuniverse.aspx http://www.syfy.com/universe/ Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HyD3...

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Thanks everyone for the links and sugestions. Grendal that link got me going in the direction I was hoping. Looks like I need to go to the high end professional monitors to be satisfied grrr. Must have specs... S-IPS/H-IPS (not sure the difference between the two but they are better then the other p...

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That is true but photography its really important to have accurate color(large color gamut) and good viewing angles. I can't stand lcds. They are not easy on the eyes and they look grainy becuase of the dot pitch. not to mention a bunch of other complaints.

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Edit * crap posted in wrong forum? wanted it in the tech forum. Thanks.

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*can this be moved to the tech forum? Posted here by mistake. Sorry * Good Day, I am not quite ready to buy a new monitor but I am in the near future. I am looking for a monitor that has awsome realistic color, very small dot pitch and very high rez. I know the high resolution part will be difficult...

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Yea it is kinda expensive, I just read the reviews on newegg and lots of the other drives I looked at had a lot of complaints about dead or failing drives. I have used nothing but WD drives in the past with no problems but i'm not sure if that's the same case these days. So I wanted something reliab...

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I think I decided on this hard drive here.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6822136313

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Great. Thanks Zantor. Awhile back I looked at newegg but they didn't ship out of the US. Nice to know that they now ship to Canada. I think I decided I'm going to save a bit more and buy the HDD from Newegg. They have a good selection.

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I agree. I just don't have a big enough budget for a good hard drive. I know they're cheap but I was looking for one of the better drives. All the cheap ones I have found are out of stock... so for now I will continue to use the old drive for the OS and nothing else. If it fails nothing important is...

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The manual says that the SATA ports on my motherboard support speeds of 150mb/sec. I think that translates to 1.5Gb/s. Unfortunately that HD I mentioned in my previous post is sold out as it won't let me add it to the 'shopping' cart... :'( AlphaDoG you're correct about the bad sectors. Western Digi...

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That makes sense. Thanks. I returned the drive but couldn't exchange it as they didn't have any in stock. There is a Western Digital 500GB Caviar GreenPower SATA from Staples that I am concidering. It's the same price too! http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=73%2C80%2C4412,4413&...

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I Finally found a different computer to try the drive on. I inserted the XP boot disk and tried to format the drive. Same thing as before. It would hand at 2% and give me a drive read error. Is it possible that the XP format software damaged my drive? The first time it formated fine but would give m...

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Thanks for the suggestions. I checked the cables and they seem fine. I tried each of the cables with the new hard drive and none of them worked. My dvd drive works fine so I doubt its the cables. Has anyone heard of windows format wrecking hard drives and is there anyway of testing the controler usi...

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I got it to formatted in windows using the western digital software cd and tried tried copying a few files to the drive but I get this error message \"Cannot Copy: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error\"

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Hi, My old western digital 20GB hardrive made this weird constant clunking sound when i tried to boot up my computer the other day. I took the drive bay out(did not unplug the drive) and tried it again and this time the hard drive boot up but would hang on the windows loading screen. The repair opti...

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Hmm still haven't decided yet but I'm leaning toward the MX1100. Thoughts: MX1100 - Cheaper - Newer - Longer battery life (I think) - 1600 DPI - Mouse is a bit bulky. - Can run on a single AA battery - I can use standard AA Batteries. I have a charger so this isn't a problem. - Doesn't have the Auto...

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Some games I made

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Stargate Universe (SGU)

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