Chris' Thread

[Frederic Brillouet]

according to the pisegment stats he/she has 50 devices

i'm gonna go hide and cry

[Nflight]

I am trying to contact him, but the question remains who is he and how do I find him in this vast world of DC-ing/anonymous playing field? If you find an email or real name give me a shout via PM, thanks. Oh if he is German - I don't speak German? English Only sorry !

You might also want to look at someone named marc, lain, I like monkeys, mippe, Frankenstein, Powell, Boiler, timhudson, pinback, doolittle, cheapy_mccheapskate, Polyscience, and Bomb20 - no Team so far, all crunching in the top 125 ! If your good at searching for people on the net here you go this is one place to start making any Team top dog ! Recruit the non team Pi Segment players into your Team!

[leavitron]

Hey! This is supposed to be my thread, not about a bunch of noobs who aren't on teams (yet)!

Gay? I had to go back and re-read everything and I still don't see a gay reference. If you mean:"Hmmm, maybe 2 went for a walk and 1 came back...." Then I'm sure he was talking about the take over of leader of the group and that you had taken Peter for a walk and done away with him.

I see your point. This is probably what Bender10 was trying to say as well. I thought you said, though, that you were prior military. This expression is rather well-known (in the Navy at least) as a reference to submariners becoming gay on their long, lonely deployments with no communications outside the boat. Anyway....

Bender10 - thank you for keeping me humble. I need reminders from time to time.


Oh, and for a video card, I am doing fine with my Radeon 9700 Pro with VGA Silencer 2 fan set on low.

I thought about getting an X800 to max out my AGP, but other priorities have taken precedence. Now that I have an AMD rig and I like working with them again (how many cores did you crack back in the days?), I am targeting an X2 for my next upgrade when the X4 comes out and pries plummet.

Speaking of video cards, though... I have an X300 in my server. It's a hair too long in that it covers part of the NB HSF. I want to replace that HSF with a Zalman. Outside of a hacksaw, any ideas? What about an el cheapo, really short PCIe video card?

[gatekeeper53]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that explains it!!! Your NAVY. And here I had my opinion of you well above a swabby. No wonder your sensitive about gay comments they explained to us in boot camp they we had to be nice to you guys because you spent so much time out on a boat that you got in the habit of taking turns dropping the soap in the shower. LOL As for the military part yup Marine can ya tell? lol

[Opteron]

Oh'hell here we go...

[gatekeeper53]

No Opteron, LOL In the Navy and Marine Corps one of the first things you learn is to give the other service crap. But, if you get a bar full of Navy, Marine Corps and Army, the Army will have a bad day EVERY time. Been there and done that.

[Opteron]

Oh I know...
I have a uncle that was a lifer in the Navy and my cousin (his son)
became a Jar-Head as he calls him...
I'll tell you this, get those 2 together a few beers and OMG you'll have tears of laughter before long...
The really cool thing about them is no matter how far they go they never really get mad @ each other... They are fun to be around...

[Bender10]

Depends on what you need. Crunch? I'm moving away from video cards to on-board video for crunching, then I run headless. If this is for an existing cruncher, go find a 32-64 Mb pcie card for $20-$40. These won't have a fan and should be a bit shorter.

I don't have a spare in the shop now, or i'd give you a measurement. No guarantee. Measure the space you have and the check locally. If you find something, see if they will let you measure it.


Oh yeah, I'm still running a X850XT in my older gamer, smokin card...

[leavitron]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that explains it!!! Your NAVY. And here I had my opinion of you well above a swabby. No wonder your sensitive about gay comments they explained to us in boot camp they we had to be nice to you guys because you spent so much time out on a boat that you got in the habit of taking turns dropping the soap in the shower. LOL As for the military part yup Marine can ya tell? lol

Actually, I was an airdale on active duty. I had it made, I just wasn't smart enough to realize it when I had a lousy supervisor. So I got out angry. You have no idea the hell we went through because of Tailhook! 8 years later I came back in the reserves as an IT. Messed up my knees, now I am on IRR waiting to get out. It's a shame, too. I have 10 years in.

I'm thinking about applying for disability to see what that would do.

Bender10 - I was on a budget so I took what I could get. If this had onboard video I'd be running it. This is my server, not a farm machine. Sure I can RDP in, but I dunno if this will boot without video. I'd switch the board to mine and get another for the server, but that would still leave my PC with the same issue. I only paid $15 for the X300, so I'll probably just run it until the NB HSF dies. I just wanted to quiet it down and not have to worry about it later.

[Bender10]

Can you disable in bios "halt on errors"???