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Old May 17, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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are there any mankato people here?
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Old May 18, 2008 | 05:45 PM
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1. i dont even have my car to not make it up hills atm
2. I am fairly decent at hills now...kinda sorta
3. hoffa - i @#$@#$ love taurus sho's, theres some for sale up here in duluth actually.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 10:40 AM
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omg i hope my car gets done today!!!!!!
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Old May 19, 2008 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by lijewski
parnell is still talking smack and i bet he still cant get the car going up a hill.
priceless


nice crib hoffa, we def have to have a meet down there sometime, i'd be up for the drive. i never got the burn on my face evened out on the other side lol. guess i'm stuck with sunburn on one side from leavin my sunroof open the whole 4 hour trip down, i had it closed most of the way back so i didn't make that side any worse

oh and i agree that the gxp solstice would be sweet. if you get one though i dibbs a ride in shotty sometime
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Old May 19, 2008 | 12:03 PM
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IM LOOKING FOR A MR. HOFFA....

the moofalta is calling
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Old May 19, 2008 | 01:28 PM
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Starcraft sucks.

On that gaming note, I just ordered up my new computer the other day. The thing is a gaming beast. Ibuypower.com is the best gaming computer site anywhere. I got a completely custom setup and they assemble and ship it to me.

I'm sure nobody has any interest, but I thought I'd offer up purchasing my old one to you guys first. Specs:

Sony Viao Desktop
Intel P4 3.0GHz HT
2.5MB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS 256MB
Microsoft office 2007 student edition (legally registered, too!)

I run COD4 on it with zero chop. An upgraded power supply would really make the vid card scream. I'm looking for $500 but would be willing to negotiate. I'm posting on craigslist at the end of the week, so let me know soon if you're interested. Peace
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Old May 19, 2008 | 01:36 PM
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I hope you got a good video card :P

whats the specs on your new pc? I got a old amd 64bit athlon im using but got a new car instead of a computers :P I'll prolly wait till the quad core pc's are out with dual core video cards.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by vtecduster
Starcraft sucks.

On that gaming note, I just ordered up my new computer the other day. The thing is a gaming beast. Ibuypower.com is the best gaming computer site anywhere. I got a completely custom setup and they assemble and ship it to me.

I'm sure nobody has any interest, but I thought I'd offer up purchasing my old one to you guys first. Specs:

Sony Viao Desktop
Intel P4 3.0GHz HT
2.5MB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS 256MB
Microsoft office 2007 student edition (legally registered, too!)

I run COD4 on it with zero chop. An upgraded power supply would really make the vid card scream. I'm looking for $500 but would be willing to negotiate. I'm posting on craigslist at the end of the week, so let me know soon if you're interested. Peace
are you a warcraft fanboi???

Originally Posted by 1fastls
IM LOOKING FOR A MR. HOFFA....

the moofalta is calling


i want one of those SO bad...

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Old May 19, 2008 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by northvibe
I hope you got a good video card :P

whats the specs on your new pc? I got a old amd 64bit athlon im using but got a new car instead of a computers :P I'll prolly wait till the quad core pc's are out with dual core video cards.
Quads are overrated. Unless you're the world's busiest multitasker, a duo will do any anyone just fine.


750 Sli
core 2 duo 3.0ghz, 1333fsb
9800 gtx 512MB
4gb RAM
800 watt power supply
enough said.

That setup will run Crysis at over 100 fps w/ full blast graphic settings, it'll blow the damn doors off of COD4 or any of the Tom Clancy shooters. In a couple years drop in a second GTX and shazzam! Twice the graphics processing for pennies.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 10:50 PM
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niiice

I agree about the quad cores.. unless you're doing some kind of virtualization, there's no point. There are next to no apps even written yet that will take advantage of 4 processors.

I need to build a new one some time. I'm still on an AMD 3200+ with a GeForce 6800 GT.
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Old May 20, 2008 | 09:04 AM
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Dude, I run 4 games at once. The thing i need quads or 8 cores for is encoding video, makes it so much faster.... Oh yeah and I run linux so it can actually use the cores :P
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Old May 20, 2008 | 10:25 AM
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You may get use out of 4 cores if that's what you use them for. I'll never go that ***** deep into computers. Just run my games flawlessly at 200+ FPS and I'll be a happy camper.
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Old May 20, 2008 | 10:41 AM
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what up
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Old May 20, 2008 | 01:25 PM
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what i should do is just get another ps3, so i can 7 core that *****. hahha. I just encode divx to mpeg4 dvd video format for the mac/linux to burn to playable dvd's.

My server is just dual p3's with 2tb of data storage, but my "gaming" capable rig is
AMD 3200+ 64 bit althon
1.5gb ddr 400mhz ram
1TB hdd
ATi 9600XT 128mb video card

That sucker ran doom 3 in the "ultra" mode almost perfectly..so i see no reason to upgrade the pc yet.

Oh i got my car back yesterdya!!!! omg i missed boost so much. Today im going to try to install my Cobb SRI, see how that goes, cant wait to hear the difference....
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Old May 20, 2008 | 02:34 PM
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Im gonna need a top end PC to edit HD videos and run CS3 editing software sometime in the near future.
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Old May 20, 2008 | 03:44 PM
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I dig my Mac Pro... pushing 2 TB's of HD space and 6 GB's of RAM - I fly through post-processing now...

...still need one more 750gb HD and 4gb's of RAM though... and another cinema display...
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Old May 20, 2008 | 03:57 PM
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comp talk making head hurt



Originally Posted by northvibe

Oh i got my car back yesterdya!!!! omg i missed boost so much. Today im going to try to install my Cobb SRI, see how that goes, cant wait to hear the difference....
i'm sure your clutch didn't miss ya

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Old May 20, 2008 | 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by portergraph
I dig my Mac Pro... pushing 2 TB's of HD space and 6 GB's of RAM - I fly through post-processing now...

...still need one more 750gb HD and 4gb's of RAM though... and another cinema display...
wow, very impressive. mine is pretty sweet but not like that. crysis ran on all the high end settings, downside was it was a lil jumpy.

i only have:

2.8 pentium 4
750 gig hd
2 gb ram (going to 4 gb soon)
audigy soundblaster xfi platinum audio card
ati radion x1600 pro 512 mb vid card
a decent tv tuner for the audio editing, can't think of the name now
7.1 surround sound pushin 700 watts, 210 from the sub (to come within the month hopefully) got a 4.1 now by klipsh

and this is my laptop

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Old May 20, 2008 | 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by northvibe
Dude, I run 4 games at once. The thing i need quads or 8 cores for is encoding video, makes it so much faster.... Oh yeah and I run linux so it can actually use the cores :P
Me too.. actually.. Only have a single proc but I do virtualization on it.

I also play doom3 on occasion. Love id for the linux binaries for their games. Carmack is a cool dude.

Most of my web browsing occurs on my macbook though
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Old May 20, 2008 | 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 07SCCobaltSS
wow, very impressive. mine is pretty sweet but not like that. crysis ran on all the high end settings, downside was it was a lil jumpy.

i only have:

2.8 pentium 4
750 gig hd
2 gb ram (going to 4 gb soon)
audigy soundblaster xfi platinum audio card
ati radion x1600 pro 512 mb vid card
a decent tv tuner for the audio editing, can't think of the name now
7.1 surround sound pushin 650 watts, about 200 from the sub (to come within the month hopefully) got a 4.1 now by klipsh

and this is my laptop
:drools: @ laptop
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Old May 20, 2008 | 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by hoffa
:drools: @ laptop
expensive but i'm enjoying it right now since i don't wanna sit at my pc right now
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Old May 21, 2008 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by portergraph
I dig my Mac Pro... pushing 2 TB's of HD space and 6 GB's of RAM - I fly through post-processing now...

...still need one more 750gb HD and 4gb's of RAM though... and another cinema display...
mac ftw!!! idk if you've ever used the PPC mac's..but those intel mac's just freaking scream compared to the ppc for daily use. I got my parents a minimac ppc, then like 2 months later the intel minimac came out..kinda mad but the ppc was still cheaper.

i installed my intake last night!! HOLY ***** its bad ass, the turbo spool and recirc "BOV" are loud now. I cant tell if its faster, i mean how do you tell if your fast car is faster...once boost kicks in its just like screaming and *** going every where, i dont pay attention to my butt dyno. When I make it to the cities ill post up some vids. This is pretty much what the TC balt will sound like with a intake.
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Old May 21, 2008 | 11:32 AM
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^ nice

How many of you guys are car savy enough to help me do a build??? I'm tooling around this idea in my head that's about to start coming into fruitition considering I just made an offer in the classifieds.
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Old May 21, 2008 | 12:01 PM
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ive done rebuilds on small engines, car engines really arent that bad, they are just intimidating i think. you want to build that 2.4? or what you thinking
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Old May 21, 2008 | 12:03 PM
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ive done rebuilds on small engines, car engines really arent that bad, they are just intimidating i think. you want to build that 2.4? or what you thinking
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...highlight=beck

already started gathering parts
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