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RMSistight

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Originally posted by: jlbenedict
wow.. sounds like you have absolutely NO life
have fun..

You could say that, but I do short track speedskating in my spare time. And yes I'm single so I spoil myself from time to time. Haven't dated in about 3 years now after my old gf. So after I broke up I decided to concentrate and advance my career. I now work three jobs and last fall I was taking 24 units (I attend a university for academic BS classes and a community college for technical training) with 2 jobs and in the spring 20 units with 3 jobs.
 

neutralizer

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Originally posted by: RMSistight
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
wow.. sounds like you have absolutely NO life
have fun..

You could say that, but I do short track speedskating in my spare time. And yes I'm single so I spoil myself from time to time. Haven't dated in about 3 years now after my old gf. So after I broke up I decided to concentrate and advance my career. I now work three jobs and last fall I was taking 24 units (I attend a university for academic BS classes and a community college for technical training) with 2 jobs and in the spring 20 units with 3 jobs.

Damn. You're crazy.
 
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SlitheryDee

Sweet Card. I'm just now upgrading to a 7600GT.

Your rig >>> My rig. :(
 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: evilsaint
Let us know what kind of *noticeable* difference you see in performance b/w the GTX and this one. BTW, what native res does that Westinghouse run at?

I run all my games and desktop at 1920 x 1080, which is why I got the GX2.
 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: RMSistight
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
wow.. sounds like you have absolutely NO life
have fun..

You could say that, but I do short track speedskating in my spare time. And yes I'm single so I spoil myself from time to time. Haven't dated in about 3 years now after my old gf. So after I broke up I decided to concentrate and advance my career. I now work three jobs and last fall I was taking 24 units (I attend a university for academic BS classes and a community college for technical training) with 2 jobs and in the spring 20 units with 3 jobs.

Damn. You're crazy.

Oh and the BS stands for bullsh!t...haha

 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: RMSistight
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
wow.. sounds like you have absolutely NO life
have fun..

You could say that, but I do short track speedskating in my spare time. And yes I'm single so I spoil myself from time to time. Haven't dated in about 3 years now after my old gf. So after I broke up I decided to concentrate and advance my career. I now work three jobs and last fall I was taking 24 units (I attend a university for academic BS classes and a community college for technical training) with 2 jobs and in the spring 20 units with 3 jobs.

Damn. You're crazy.

haha. I have a speedskating camp with Susan Ellis (US Salt Lake City Olympics Head coach) next week for 5 days and in August I'm training for 7 days in Richmond, VA with the South Korean National Head Coach.

 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Sweet Card. I'm just now upgrading to a 7600GT.

Your rig >>> My rig. :(

Don't worry man. In time, you can work hard to get whatever you want. Just like me. I dont' know if you want to take 20 units and three jobs though....hahaha
 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: Citrix
how much did that card cost?

$605 shipped three day select from Newegg. I live in CA and I didn't want to pay like $60 in taxes, so my good buddy in Wisconsin accepted my package and sent it back priority mail. I saved over $50 by doing that. In fact, if I make big purchased fron Newegg, I'm going to be doing the same thing.
 

Connoisseur

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Nice setup! Personally my 7600GT runs all the games I have perfectly (F.E.A.R., Rise of Nations, COD 2 ) at 1280x1024 res with high details. I stopped spending money on my PC. I bought a $100 PS2 slim and now I can get good cheap games without having to upgrade. I think I just grew out of it after college.
 

razor2025

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wow... never would think of blowing $600 on a video card.... ~$200 is the top I'm willing to go, especially when I'm saving up for a new car.
 

ForumMaster

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Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
Your video card has as much memory as my computer :(
that card has more memory then my computer! my computer has 3 sticks of 256 that i need to replace with 3 sticks of 512...
 

oogabooga

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I was hoping it would be some cool electronics display.. i guess the video card is neat... ;)

grats.
 

Crescent13

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Awesome man!!! Congratulations!!!



say, do you think you could buy one of those for me? :D (only has a 7800GT :( :()
 

RMSistight

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Originally posted by: razor2025
wow... never would think of blowing $600 on a video card.... ~$200 is the top I'm willing to go, especially when I'm saving up for a new car.

Well, actually, I've never spent an entire $600 on a video card.

It all started with a 5900. At the time, it was $450. I bought it for $200 and it was a BFG model. That thing crapped out on me and I got warranty for it. Since they didn't have 5900s anymore, they send me a 6800GT instead to replace it. Then the 7800 GTXes came out and I sold my 6800GT for $300 and bought that card for $580 using the $300 to recycle that cost. Then the 7900 GTXes came out and I sold my old 7800 GTX for $300 and bought the new 7900 GTX for only $418! So that was only about $118 to upgrade. Now I got the 7950GX2 for $605 and the 7900 GTX is being sold for $380.

So all in all, I would never pay the full price...unless I want to go Quad SLI which I might do.
 

Leros

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You work three jobs and go to school. How do you find to time to use your machine?