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04-06-2011, 08:45 PM
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#26 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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| Im a guy who would rather use vista instead of windows 7. So my IT opinions are a lil eccentric at times. | 
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04-06-2011, 09:06 PM
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#27 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by joegti420  Im a guy who would rather use vista instead of windows 7. So my IT opinions are a lil eccentric at times. | I've only had one issue with Vista, and it was remedied easily. I tried running 3DSM9 without installing service pack 2... which is essential to run it on Vista. Not really Vista's fault. I was laughing when I saw the Mohave commercials, too. I thought it was funny, all of these folks that "hated" Vista thought Mohave was so awesome. lol
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04-06-2011, 09:12 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by Dhileas I've only had one issue with Vista, and it was remedied easily. I tried running 3DSM9 without installing service pack 2... which is essential to run it on Vista. Not really Vista's fault. I was laughing when I saw the Mohave commercials, too. I thought it was funny, all of these folks that "hated" Vista thought Mohave was so awesome. lol | Everything ive thrown at Vista its worked perfectly. Heres a lil something i 'play'... YouTube - iRacing Trucks @ Lowes | |
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04-06-2011, 09:50 PM
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#29 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by joegti420 | I don't think my desk can hold three monitors. lol I have a single LG Flatron W2452T, but I love it. Gorgeous display with two EVGA Nvidia 9800GTs in SLi. I'd assume you're running at least three GPUs, though. What kind of chassis do you use? I've got a mid-size Cooler Master HAF 922. I'd run liquid cooling, but I'm too lazy (and broke) to maintain that kind of system.
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04-06-2011, 09:59 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by Dhileas I don't think my desk can hold three monitors. lol I have a single LG Flatron W2452T, but I love it. Gorgeous display with two EVGA Nvidia 9800GTs in SLi. I'd assume you're running at least three GPUs, though. What kind of chassis do you use? I've got a mid-size Cooler Master HAF 922. I'd run liquid cooling, but I'm too lazy (and broke) to maintain that kind of system. | I built a custom stand out of gas pipe and plywood from home depot and bolted it to my desk. Made it easy to have the outside screens at a true 45 degree angle. It does take up some desk space as the screens from edge to edge is about 50".
Dual Core e5200 wolfdale OC @ 3.3ish, air cooled, ati 4850 card, 4gb ram
Im pretty much getting the most out of it.
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04-06-2011, 10:09 PM
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#31 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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| Woah! Three monitors on one GPU!? You're insane! lol That poor card is going AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
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04-06-2011, 10:15 PM
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#32 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by joegti420 | Smooth!
Bit, I got on the Vista beta. My last email to Microsoft was, "I never thought I'd be running a 286 again. Now reloading Linux"
W7 is ALMOST enough to make me go back to Windows.
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04-06-2011, 10:15 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by Dhileas Woah! Three monitors on one GPU!? You're insane! lol That poor card is going AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! | The 4850 is a beast, it could handle 6 monitors with the right hardware supporting it. | |
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04-06-2011, 10:21 PM
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#34 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by joegti420 I built a custom stand out of gas pipe and plywood from home depot and bolted it to my desk. Made it easy to have the outside screens at a true 45 degree angle. It does take up some desk space as the screens from edge to edge is about 50".
Dual Core e5200 wolfdale OC @ 3.3ish, air cooled,
ati 4850 card, | You have my sympathy.
I used to be a diehard ATi fan, until I loaded a Linux version. FIVE DAYS to get acceleration going! Then, any little bump in the system, and your xorg.conf file got reconfigured. I got loading the drivers down to under 2 hours...
Even on Windows the ATi drivers gave me heartburn! Have gone to nVidia, until ATi smartens up again...
4gb ram Quote: |
Im pretty much getting the most out of it.
| Gigiabyte MoBo, 3.4G Prescott running a 3.97, 6G RAM. PCLinuxOS running a server kernel to get all 6 gigs on a 32 bit OS. Also, XP, W7, and right now massaging a Sabayon Linux installation.
Took me 35 minutes to get the nVidia drivers installed and the sreen to the right resolution (1792x1344...I like screen real estate) on a 22" NEC CRT.
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04-06-2011, 10:25 PM
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#35 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by Steampunk Smooth!
Bit, I got on the Vista beta. My last email to Microsoft was, "I never thought I'd be running a 286 again. Now reloading Linux"
W7 is ALMOST enough to make me go back to Windows. | Vista Premium makes my desktop clean. All of my game-related icons are in a hide-away folder bar on the left and all of my non-game-related icons are in a hide-away folder bar on the right. Start bar is on auto-hide and Rainlendar keeps my calendar, date, time, et cetera watermarked into my desktop. It runs great, looks great, and it allows lazy PC geeks like me get by just fine. 
Hell, one of the best things I got for Vista was the full 2011 (or maybe it's 2010) Office Suite. I got it for like $10 through my previous employer. Ah, the perks were nice.
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04-06-2011, 10:29 PM
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#36 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by Steampunk ... (1792x1344...I like screen real estate) on a 22" NEC CRT. | Wow, my 26" LG Flatron W2452T maxes at 1920x1200. lol That's one wicked res you got there! lol
I remember I saw a gorgeous monitor at Fry's Electronics on clearance one day. It was some really bizarre resolution. I think it was 16:7.5 or something strange like that.
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04-06-2011, 10:30 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Virginia
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| Sorry to interrupt. Ya'll are speaking English....right?
Can a pitifully inept website owner ask you guys a question? Any opinions on Homestead Storefront or Yahoo Sitebuilder? I have websites on both, and Intuit would really like me to pay them a grand to make mine really pretty. Can't afford it! Yahoo is very basic (or I don't know how to use all the options possibly) but straight-forward. Any suggestions for a user-friendly website builder and host?
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04-06-2011, 10:31 PM
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#38 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by vvcjg Sorry to interrupt. Ya'll are speaking English....right?
Can a pitifully inept website owner ask you guys a question? Any opinions on Homestead Storefront or Yahoo Sitebuilder? I have websites on both, and Intuit would really like me to pay them a grand to make mine really pretty. Can't afford it! Yahoo is very basic (or I don't know how to use all the options possibly) but straight-forward. Any suggestions for a user-friendly website builder and host?
Humble Thanks | I remember a program I used several years ago called Trellix that was super-easy. I don't know about the cost, as I had never purchased anything, but it was cool for learning a bit about website structure.
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04-06-2011, 10:34 PM
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#39 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by Steampunk You have my sympathy.
I used to be a diehard ATi fan, until I loaded a Linux version. FIVE DAYS to get acceleration going! Then, any little bump in the system, and your xorg.conf file got reconfigured. I got loading the drivers down to under 2 hours...
Even on Windows the ATi drivers gave me heartburn! Have gone to nVidia, until ATi smartens up again... | haha, yea...i tried getting the 4850 to work in ubuntu...what a headache, i ditched it. i like the idea of linux but i dont think it will ever be 'mainstream' on a desktop computer. netbooks, mobile devices sure...but windows isnt going anywhere. everything just 'works' and thats what people want. people clueless in computers will never be able to deal with broken dependencies, broken xorg configs...running things from a command line.
my card has been really easy to work with in windows. ati has eyefinity that sets the monitors up pretty painlessly. this setup is a little rigged though. center and right monitors are hooked into the dvi ports and the left monitor is plugged into the displayport using a 20 dollar passive VGA to displayport adapter. I know i was one of the firsts to do this on this card in eyefinity without having a native displayport monitor. Doing this cuts your costs quite a bit, DP monitors are expensive. YouTube - Eyefinity with passive 20 dollar DP/VGA adapter
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#40 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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04-06-2011, 10:35 PM
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#41 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by vvcjg Sorry to interrupt. Ya'll are speaking English....right?
Can a pitifully inept website owner ask you guys a question? Any opinions on Homestead Storefront or Yahoo Sitebuilder? I have websites on both, and Intuit would really like me to pay them a grand to make mine really pretty. Can't afford it! Yahoo is very basic (or I don't know how to use all the options possibly) but straight-forward. Any suggestions for a user-friendly website builder and host?
Humble Thanks | Ill build your website for less than a grand and it will be 10x better than what they are offering you. PM or email me joe@joemazziliano.com. | |
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04-06-2011, 10:39 PM
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#42 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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Originally Posted by joegti420 Ill build your website for less than a grand and it will be 10x better than what they are offering you. PM or email me joe@joemazziliano.com. |  You'll learn quickly that this is my calling. Demotivational posters and alcohol.
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04-06-2011, 10:58 PM
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04-06-2011, 11:00 PM
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| I will, thanks. Check your mail in a bit. | |
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#45 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by vvcjg I will, thanks. Check your mail in a bit. | Will do. I sent you a PM with a few links to look at.
This guy is tired and off to bed. ttyl folks. | |
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04-07-2011, 09:32 AM
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#46 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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Originally Posted by joegti420 Im a guy who would rather use vista instead of windows 7. So my IT opinions are a lil eccentric at times. | If you must use Windows, please, use XP. If you don't have to use Windows, Linux will serve your needs better without forwarding the cause of profiting off buggy software or copyrighting bits.
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#47 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by HiRezL If you must use Windows, please, use XP. If you don't have to use Windows, Linux will serve your needs better without forwarding the cause of profiting off buggy software or copyrighting bits. | I run TWO pieces of licensed software, one being Windows Vista an the other being PS. Everything else i use is open source...all of the same software found in linux repositories.
Nothing is 'buggy' for me over here.
Like i said, i am a fan of linux...ive played with a bunch of different distros. Its just not efficient to run a business with, ive tried. I have to focus on making money...not dealing with longwinded problems i have to try to fix via command lines. Linux on the desktop is more of a 'hobby' OS in my opinion. | |
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#48 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Welcome Joe..really interesting to hear your perspectives on web design and OS's
Oh and one more thing...Go O's...
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#49 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Island, NY
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Originally Posted by berger Welcome Joe..really interesting to hear your perspectives on web design and OS's
Oh and one more thing...Go O's... | Tell ya what, Buck Showalter was one of the guys who put that mid 90s yankees team together. Torre just 'inherited' it. Ya got a good baseball man there. | |
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#50 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Yea..Baltimore is finally getting jazzed about baseball again...seems like since the early 70's to me..Thats OK...we both can hate the Red Sox
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