Ye Olde Skoole

"Throw the switch, Igor!"

Yes, Turbo. Like, you have no idea just how fast this friggin thing is when you push the Turbo button. 2 Digits baby!
Turbo on this comp added 10MHz of raw unorthodox word processing power!...(which gave it a top speed of like 20Mhz!!)

ps. what reason would you have to turn off the turbo feature? did it use like 1mWh more?

Possessed.

I went and put it to sleep last nite...around 1:30am. Half and hour later, I'm layin in bed, the only light blinking is the one on the screen button...close my eyes, just about to fall asleep....

Then, I hear this loud beep and the lights all come on and nearly scared the crap outta me.

Ugh.

Quad-Core.

Is it really all that great? 4 graphs up there....one for each processor. wooptie-friggin-doo.
Btw, my video card has been tweakin and occasionally crashing my system giving me the blue screen. GRAW 2 was workin' great last nite. Until this morning when I updated the video drivers and now it gets jumpy...and eventually crashes. I think this comp was cursed from "birth". The company still hasn't replied to my hatemail. hmm...another day, another problem.

Internal Combustion.

SATURDAY

My laptop is still freakin' tweakin'. I'm scanning the monkey poo out of it. Doubt I'll find anything though. Not really sure how to get to System Restore without Explorer...dang.

I'm like my gaming computer. I got a Quad-Core processor (in the way that i can do a lot of things at once). I have ann X-Fi card installed (i love surround sound, and won't go w/o it!). But, I'm obviously running Windows because of all of the friggin mistakes I make.

I just bought GRAW 2 from my trusty GameStop, thanks Josh. It's probably the first game that works at high-res with max everything perfectly right outta the box. I am really surprised with this game. High FPS with these specs.

But, one question....Where in the world are the health pickups?! Why does this have to be such a "2 shots-and-you're-dead" Tom Clancy game?! Dang.

Running it at:
VIDEO
-1680 x 1050
-anti-aliasing
-16x Anisotropic filtering
-High texture quality
-high post effects
-high dynamic shadows
-high effects quality

AUDIO
-Extreme Quality
-SB X-Fi
-EAX 5.1 Surround

Tweakin'

My laptop just got sick. Windows Explorer won't run for more than about 5 seconds, something is shutting it down.

OhNoYouDon't

Each day has its own problems with this thing. Now, it just won't stop rebooting. It's obvious that iBuyPower did not do it's job. I guess this is the kind of quality to expect when rushing the order. sucks.

Success.

Finally, after much time working with this comp, I have finally resolved the following issues:

• USB Hub failure
• Crysis SLI incapable
• Sound card crackling/jittering
• HL2 installation failure
• COD2 installation failure

And have not resolved the long beep at power-on....which I now believe to be a test that it has failed in hardware. But, recently I have experienced a spontaneous dimming of my screen at certain moments when I bring up IE7.

But, I can now come to the conclusion that SLI technology is great when the programs are optimized for it. booyah.

The Hit List

• I realized that a brand new computer with Vista 64-bit can't beat a laptop with 8gigs of space left to waking up from standby.
• Can't find disc one for F.E.A.R.
• Half-Life 2 doesn't work on Vista x64
• USB doesn't work.
• Bluetooth doesn't work.
• Internet doesn't work.
• I am sitting here trying to download a USB patch that's 385Kbs and it's at 46%....but it's been there for over 2 minutes…yeah, it's downloading at 753 BYTES/second!
• Why me?

It's time to put her down.

I hope you find all of this exquisitely humorous.

The last thing it did was let out a long loud beep, and that's when I decided to silence this menace before it let out any more vulgarities.

Day 3 with the X Faktor Machine

Mein Kampf mit der Maschine!

This computer.....wow...I don't even know where to start. I think the following image explains my situation. These are desparate times, that call for desparate measures. Mouse, keyboard, external hard drives, smith & wesson.....they're all just tools for dealing with the computer...some, more friendly than others, but this is how we deal with problems in Jersey. snafu

~Solving the problem has never been this easy! Just point at the machine giving you trouble and pull the trigger!~

The Machine

Okay, so the Machine came in and had like a google of problems right out of the box. So much technology in this thing that Windows Vista just doesn't know what the heck to do with it, so it's unstable. It makes a loud chime when pushing the power button...loud and annoying enough that I want to find the internal speaker and disconnect it. Random drivers will fail at any given restart. For example, just 30min ago, all usb devices failed which a double restart could only fix. Fast computer, but I think I should've gone with Windows XP. Vista's pretty, but not very stable, as I am learning.

-Vista 64-Bit

-Quad-Core 2.4GHZ (9.6GHz total)

-4GB Mushkin DDR3 RAM (2gb x 2)

-SLI 512Mb 8600GTS

-ASUS 680i eVGA Motherboard

-250GB internal HDD

-2Terabyte WD "X Faktor Vault" external

-500GB WD "iNox" external

-1000Watt Power Supply

-Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card

-Samsung 226bw 22" Display (1680 X 1050)

-42" Vizio 1080p LCD TV (1920 x 1080)

-Logitech G15 Keyboard

-Razer Death Adder Mouse

-XBOX 360 Wireless Controller PC-compat.

-Zalman 5.1 Headphones (excellent silent alternative to the Sony 7.1)

New Components as of January 15th, 2009

-Sony STR-DG720 7.1 Surround w/optical

-Infinity PSW212 12" 400Watt RMS Subwoofer (700W peak)

-Also, I updated my 360 and it's now running a native 1680x1050 on the Samsung. :)

Update as of February 28th, 2009

-Got that 42" Vizio TV

-Got a Logitech diNovo wireless keyboard

-Got a Logitech MX Revolution wireless mouse.

-Got F.E.A.R. 2