couldn't figure where to say congrats to Liz!

[Sinkuu]

NICE PC, Liz!

Congrats!

[draconas]

most definately. Enjoy your shiny new PC.....

Greg, are there any other pics from that event? sounds like it was a blast.

Your next president should pass a law, RL fans worldwide should be provided with free plane and hotel tickets so we can come to cool events.

[OniNeko]

YAY for LIZ!!

and even more yay for Greg's new GeForce 5700 FX Ultra. :drool:

[Felan]

Congrats liz, and yes that is an awsome looking computer
(edit darn ninja posted lol, anyways merged my thread and moved the new thread here )

[edge]

Congrats! It sounds like an awoms machine

[catmaneatscoffee]

and, to greg, who doesn't read real life? ^^

one more thing: i'll give you an ego boost one day. right after my first huge film, THEN i'll talk about how awesome real life is...

[Gouf_Custom]

Man, if my car hadn't have gotten smooshed, I would've sooo been there to see Liz win that. Congrats! And now your computer works better than Greg's! At least at what counts.

[Deacon]

Heh, I just hope the happy couple's prepared for the "RUN! FURRIES!" reactions

Where's the detailed list of hand-picked specs, anyway?

[Mae Dean]

That'll come once I have the time to sit down and detail them.

[barachiel]

Wow, thats great! i'm sure Liz is happy!

And congrats on your 5700 Ultra. I got one of those this summer, and I have to say its a nice card. Bleeding-Edgers might look down on it now that the 6000 series is out, but this is a solid card and should last you a bit.

[Mae Dean]

I was actually a little surprised, really... upgrading from the GeForce 4 Ti4200 to the 5700 FX Ultra didn't make a huge difference. I ran the benchmark and actually scored about the same, if not slightly lower (fluctuations in the score are no big deal, though). Granted, I was able to turn FSAA on without any hit to the score, but I'm thinking at this point, my processor is probably the limiter. An Athlon XP 1800+ doesn't really cut it these days, I'm guessing.

[OniNeko]

[quote="Greg Dean";p="417298"] An Athlon XP 1800+ doesn't really cut it these days, I'm guessing. [/quote]Amen to that.

[Mae Dean]

So, as far as I can tell, here's what I'm guessing (and a few things I know as a fact) about Liz' new compy:

Case is a custom coolermaster. Quite nice. Has USB, Firewire, and Sound access ports on top, with a little flip-top access door. Kinda neat.

MoBo i'm unsure of, but check this out: It's got four USB ports, two firewire ports, digital audio out, and RCA Video out... ON THE BOARD. That's insane.

The CPU is a Pentium 4 Extreme, I'm guessing... that was the chip they were giving out to some of the other winners. Not sure of the clock speeds, but I'm willing to bet that it's the fastest currently available.

1 Gig RAM. We know that for sure.

140-Gig HD

Audigy-2 series soundcard (Don't know the exact model number)

GeForce 6800-series video card (Again, don't know the exact model number... forgot to check that. Betting it's a 256-meg card.)

And it came with a DVD-Writer, to boot. So yeah.... it's one hell of a machine.

Posted Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:49 am:

Looks like my board can support up to a 3200+. $180.... not too bad. I'll have to save.

[tq]

So the moral of the story is:


Even though you may feel stupid, cosplay pays off in the long run :p

An Athlon XP 1800+ doesn't really cut it these days, I'm guessing.

I'm guessing that too...That's the processor I have in my desktop box, and it ain't no spring chicken.

[Mae Dean]

Fuck yes cosplay pays off. And the OTHER moral of the story, in my opinion, is that if you're gonna do a costume, pay a lot of attention to detail. It's all those little details that make a difference to the people who judge these sorts of things.