They stole my computer...

[resistanze]

I haven't bought a desktop since 2003.

Hopefully I'm done my masters by fall 2010 so I can spend some money on a new rig.

[Slydragon]

And here I thought I was pimpin with my WEBtv Plus
Stats are,

Wireless Keyboard
S-video hook up
46 inch huh "monitor"
Email notice light, even when it's off
Did I mention wireless kb?

[Heath Ledger]

dude i love webtv i got one (not the plus) when they first came out and cost a few hundred bucks, had one before I ever had a PC but it was enough to get me hooked on the internet. I used to chat on webtv and had a code that could boot people offline and reboot their webtvs it was awesome.

[Slydragon]

dude i love webtv i got one (not the plus) when they first came out and cost a few hundred bucks, had one before I ever had a PC but it was enough to get me hooked on the internet. I used to chat on webtv and had a code that could boot people offline and reboot their webtvs it was awesome.

I remember the codes to do that, I also love the midi karaoke sites and my webtv was hook up to my surround system with 2 mics. My friends would come over we be drinking and I would hit record on the tape player(yea tape player) and when we was sober we would laugh are asses off listing to them.

Memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmln4...layer_embedded

[popshark86]

That's cute.

For the following:

NZXT Aluminum Computer Case
Intel Q6600 Processor @ 2.4 Ghz
4 GB of DDR2 RAM @ 667 mhz
Western Digital 250 GB HDD @ 7200 rpm
512 mb Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS (G92 core)
Acer 22" display with 1680 x 1050 resolution, 4 ms latency (I think)
Windows Vista Premium Edition
Thustmaster Force Feedback Joystick

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 2
World in Conflict
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (with expansion pack)
The Godfather
and several other games I don't feel like listing now.

I paid $950 total, cash, for the entire setup. This was actually one year ago this month. All I had to do was supply my own keyboard and mouse (not a problem considering I already had them for my laptop). Everything on the computer had a warranty still in effect except the case and the video card.

And if I get bored gaming on my small display, I can move my DVI to HDMI cable converter over to my 1080p 42" Panasonic Plasma Viera TV. Sometimes I do that, but I like being able to watch TV while I'm gaming, especially if I'm watching a game. And it sounds amazing, with a BIC DV62 6 inch 2 way center channel speaker, two 8 ohm Mirage OM-12 Omnipolar Tower Speakers with a frequency response of 32hz to 22 khz (producing enough bass that I don't want or need a subwoofer), and two Insignia 6 1/2" Bass Reflex Bookshelf Surround Speakers. This is all being driven by a Pioneer Elite VSX 21 receiver.

Your computer might be a little faster than mine, but at least I know what I own and what's under the hood of my system.

damn, u got the elite receiver, nice

i have a better tv, samsung 52 inch lcd, the jvc is my computer monitor

damn, cant believe you got all that good stuff for less than $1,000

next time i buy a computer ill just steal your ingredients and pay some random geek to build it for me

[Cry Havoc]

damn, u got the elite receiver, nice

i have a better tv, samsung 52 inch lcd, the jvc is my computer monitor

damn, cant believe you got all that good stuff for less than $1,000

next time i buy a computer ill just steal your ingredients and pay some random geek to build it for me

The deal was so good that I was highly skeptical of the guy purporting to give me that setup. It was actually a craigslist special. I was looking around online for computer stuff to build a rig with (thinking that I might buy one 6 months down the road, which would have been around oct of last year), and I thought, maybe I can get a vid card or a good display on craigslist. Most of the "deals" were incredibly overpriced, I saw several computers that were actually slower than the machine I bought being advertised for $2000+, and that's with no monitor at all.

However, the dude invited me over to inspect it personally. When I walked in he had the first level of CoD4 running, and I was hooked. I peeked inside of the machine, and it was everything he said it was. I said, "Dude, why are you selling this?" and he said that he just got a new 52" (I think, it was huge) Plasma TV and his wife said that either the PC or the TV had to go. He looked pretty upset but he wanted to get rid of it, sooooo, he just gave me all the games he had, which was really nice of him considering I would have bought the thing for that price with no games included.

The 8800 GTS did burn out due to a fault that nVidia hasn't admitted to yet, there have been tons of reports of that card being faulty. So I upgraded that to a 4870 ($170 on newegg), dropped a 1 TB hard drive in the chassis, and added the Swan M10 2.1 speaker setups. I also added a Xigmatek quad core CPU thermal cooler with arctic silver compound that dropped my core temp from ~40 on idle to ~33 under light load and ~40ish when gaming. I have spent maybe $1400 on the entire setup and I basically have a future-proofed PC for the next 18 to 24 months, more if I upgrade the GPU in say... august of 2010 and add a little more ram to the system.

If anyone wants to rumble, I'm Cry Havoc on Global Hawk's CoD4 server. They run an amazing mod of CoD4 called Open Warfare that expands some of the old maps and adds about 15 new maps to the mix. It also gives you the ability to rank all the way up to 99, I think, via a new prestige system. It's tons of fun and the =GH= is a great server with really decent admins. The server is now up into the top 650 CoD4 servers and the rank is going up basically every day.

Server address is 216.86.144.205
Port: 28930

[Heath Ledger]

By the way i met my current fiance on webtv back in 98

[popshark86]

By the way i met my current fiance on webtv back in 98

lol

i was in middle school when web tv came out, i used to watched porn with my neighbors after school (no , there where chicks too)

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol

i was in middle school when web tv came out, i used to watched porn with my neighbors after school (no , there where chicks too)

chicks with s......

[spursfan1000]

Eh they stold my computer a couple months ago...

[Manu on Fire]

Pics?

You guys have millions for bad ass PCs and no money for a camera?

[DarkReign]

I call bull w/o pics!

Pics?

You guys have millions for bad ass PCs and no money for a camera?

Ok, that's the third time. I just ordered it, should arrive in roughly 3 weeks. End of April-ish.

I'll be sure to post pics when it does, I promise.

[Cry Havoc]

Pics?

You guys have millions for bad ass PCs and no money for a camera?

I'm staying the night at my brother's house but if you really want pics they will be up in a day or two.

I did snag a pic of my center channel but haven't uploaded the others to my photobucket yet.

[Cry Havoc]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Q6600NZXT.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...onicPlasma.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...irageOM-12.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...BICCCVSX21.jpg

Pics, in case anyone still wanted to see.


Muah hah hah hah.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Agoodstart.jpg

[koriwhat]

that case is insane CH. wow.

i love not having to deal with a bulky case, cords, and monitor but if i went back to a windows base pc i would like a case like that. i've always liked chrome/metal and black. nice!

[SpursGirl21]

Your not in the photos how do we know they are real?

[Cry Havoc]

that case is isane CH. wow.

i love not having to deal with a bulky case, cords, and monitor but if i went back to a windows base pc i would like a case like that. i've always liked chrome/metal and black. nice!

Well, the only reason there are a lot of wires is because I have tons of gadgets running from my PC. There's a case power cord, a power cord for the monitor, and the DVI cord running from the display to the tower. That's it. Other than that, I have my mouse (my keyboard is bluetooth), the charger for my GPS device, my iPhone charger, USB cable for my camera, etc.

I actually would like to have a new case. As nice as my current one looks, it does not have any frontside USB ports, which can be an annoyance. But it's not enough of a reason to completely change cases yet.

[Cry Havoc]

Your not in the photos how do we know they are real?

Well, if I WAS in the photo someone can always say I 'shopped myself in. I didn't necessarily want to go through the trouble of setting up a tripod and remotely taking the photos.

[IronMexican]

Awesome PC, CH.

[koriwhat]

god damn! that girl in your sig IM is the exception to the rule.

[DarkReign]

Getting closer...

Wish I had my old PC to post some pics. Airbrushed blue flames and all....*sniff*

Oh well.

[DarkReign]

All is well and I shall post pics of my rig this weekend. Didnt think I'd forget, did you, mouse?

[dimsah]

You've already said that your insurance is paying for most of the rig. Why would anyone think you're lying about it? What ing purpose would it serve you to come on here and lie about getting a new pc?


Some jealous mother ers out there.

[DarkReign]

You've already said that your insurance is paying for most of the rig. Why would anyone think you're lying about it? What ing purpose would it serve you to come on here and lie about getting a new pc?

Some jealous mother ers out there.

Meh, I didnt take any offense to peeps wanting to see evidence. Its the nature of computers and computer nerds, lol.

But lets be serious, I started a thread to brag about my computer. I should get some for that fact alone. I knew it when I hit "Post New Thread".

[dimsah]

Meh, I didnt take any offense to peeps wanting to see evidence. Its the nature of computers and computer nerds, lol.

But lets be serious, I started a thread to brag about my computer. I should get some for that fact alone. I knew it when I hit "Post New Thread".

meh.
If you had come on here with a story about how you were banging your hot Italian model wife and her sister and thought to yourself how you can spend some of the disposable income from your job as an "astronaut/professional kickboxer" and then decided to build a state of the art consumer PC complete with flux capacitor then I would have called bull as well.... but you've already stated that most of it's not really coming out of your pocket so why question it?


I am looking forward to seeing the pics though.