MikeB

Looks good. Case wise its personal taste. Most cases now a days are comparable. I do like Antec cases and used them a lot, but case quality has come a long way. I remember in the 90's most had razor sharp edges and one had to be careful during assembly. I currently have a large Antec with a Corsair PS and "knock on wood" the PS has been bullet-proof. So I may lean towards Corsair. I have a Micro Center close by and usually get my stuff there. They match any online price and I walk out with everything. Definitely will go "liquid cooled", just for shits and giggles. And two "blue-ray" burners. Analog drives I have good luck with WD. But back to cases, I will look all over for one. Definitely want something weird and cool looking.

In the same boat. Im running an AMD-8350 now, so its getting old. Going to build a rig in late April. I have always used AMD except on my last build (for my wife) which was an i7 2600k (few years back). Ive been comparing Ryzen and Intel offerings, especially these two. http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/3937vs3916 The link is a great site for comparing different cpu's. Well comparing everything. Im leaning towards the Intel chip. As far as GPU, Im leaning towards the Nvidia 1070. I always use Gigabyte boards. I've built probably 50 pc's and through trial and error settled on Gigabyte as my only choice. Well, DFI was my main source in the day, but they abandoned the "consumer" market and make only commercial specific motherboards. DFI was the LanParty company, which some may know. Miss those boards !! Anyway, I definitely will go solid state for the OS (Windows 7), and I always use a separate sound card (Sound Blaster of course).

Alice Cooper is one to see live. What a show !! And he has his own sound crew, so the sound is always on point. The sound crew and board used is a deal breaker with me too. Been to tons of shows where the sound guy (or girl) is, well shit and many where its sounds great. A good sound guy can make any venue sound good. Some just compress the hell out of everything then slap a limiter on it at say , negative 1db (digital now-a-days) and it sounds like shit !! No dynamics at all !! Sounds like Metallica's Death Magnetic !! Squished and limited to hell !!! Now dont slam me, I do have "Death Magnetic" on vinyl and its tolerable.

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I understand,..... you've been running from the man,...that goes by the name of the Sandman. He flies high, like an eagle in the sky, .................. ????? Nice to see you finally in. Oh by the way can you finish the lyrics above. If so then you pass my initiation. NO GOOGLING !!

TWO OF THEM !!!!!!!

Its shape was on the lines of an Imperial Battle Cruiser. But the angles were not as sharp. The angle was around 10 degrees, but it didn't come to a sharp point. The front was around 1/4 of the width of the back. Or what I presume to be the back. It was not smooth or didn't appear to be smooth. You could see panels or sections of different sizes and different depths. I would estimate the size to be that of a modern day Navy Destroyer. It was not small by any means. Where I grew up there is a small place we called Catawba Station. It was a train station and shipping yard for the big 4 railroads. So there when many tracks in all directions that lead to it. But it was abandoned way before my time. The sighting happened there. Like I said we watched it for probably 5 minutes. It was right above the intersecting points of the train lines. And then it just disappeared. It didn't slowly move away, it was just gone. Im wont lie, we had just left the drive-in and were pretty stoned. But... Four people seeing the same thing !! It was there.

Three friends and I saw one pretty damn close (about 1/4 mile above us) back in late 78 or early 79. Clear ass night and we stopped the car and watched it for probably 5 minutes, before it just disappeared. I was pretty damn big and you could see all its detail. Strange thing is, I thought about it last year and called one of the guys I sort of kept in touch with and said "Hey, was just thinking about that UFO we saw. You remember it ?" And he started screaming "OMG !! I was just talking about it to a few of my co-workers". He said he told his wife about it and she didn't believe him, and I mentioned the same. I had told my wife and kids and they didn't believe me. So he put his wife on the phone and I told her. Now we never discussed the shape and details with each other when we got back in touch, and I had told my kids what it looked like. So to prove it to them I had him text me the description and sure a shit it matched what I told them years ago. Now my kids believe me, but not my wife. But I know what we saw.

I actually have a shirt that has a cartoon guy spanking a monkey across his knee !! Will have to post a pic of it when I get a chance. Never wore it out in public. But now that Im old and dont give a shit, ... I may have to.

I fart on your birthday !!!!!

Im just misunderstood !!!!

I would be banned forever

I was going to reply, but, Im biting my tongue.

Happy Birthday Joe. Is Joe even around ?

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Yeah !!!! The new phone book is here, The new phone book is here !!!

How about the "Im Sofa King We Todd It" map ?

Been on it for years. Cervical issues. Only problem I have is some blurry sight from time to time. And it makes you dream some very vivid dreams. Also used to treat epilepsy.

I have it happen from time to time. Depends on map. So your not crazy !!!

I play all. COD WAW (5) is a my favorite. The graphics are the best of the 3 and the game mechanics is the best of all 3. COD 4 while fun, it is very fast paced, to the point of being unrealistic. Also the graphics are kind of cartoony, if that makes since. I know I will get shit from the COD4 peeps, but dont knock 5 if you dont have it. My favorite order is COD5, COD2 then COD4.

Shaped like a Mk III Supra.

Prices will come back down in a few months. Mining for cryptocurrency with "PC" rigs will slow down, now that the price of bitcoin and others are dropping. Plus the latest ASIC Miners are getting more efficient than PC rigs and ASIC miners are easier to setup. But they are pretty damn loud. More people are doing "Cloud Mining" ( I being one). With cloud mining your renting ASIC miners, that these sites maintain for a percentage of your profit. Now when ASIC Miners and/or video card rig prices settle down, I may build my own miner or buy an ASIC Miner. At current values (hash rates, difficulty rate and bitcoin price) a single Radeon 570 pc rig would earn around $3.00 - $3.50 per day (after operating costs). Thats $1,095 profit a year. Now build a PC rig with 6 Radeons would earn you $6,570 profit a year (at current values). A 6 card pc rig would cost roughly $1750 to $2,000 to build. After 4 months the rig is paid for. Now the latest ASIC Miners can earn you up to $250 a week or $13,000 per year. At current levels. But they cost around $6,000 to buy. An ASIC would pay for itself in 6 months. So in the long run ASIC's are the way to go. I predict bitcoin will be around $5,000 per coin in about a month (if not sooner). And with the governments around the world on the fence about cryptocurrencies, that alone is making shit volatile. Now if the governments come to a consensus and acknowledge cryptocurrencies, well one could see bitcoin shoot up to $100,000 in a few years. But then again, they could all go belly up !! Very interesting and unpredictable investment. Remember who got rich during the "Gold Rush" ? The guys selling shovels !!! Video card manufacturers and ASIC builders are laughing to the bank.

Wasssuup !!

I never have auto updates turned on. And I have 8 pc's in various rooms (6 AMD and 2 Intel). Windows 7 SP2 on all, but 1 (windows 10). And the laptop with Windows 10 is set up like 7. I put 10 on it for shits and giggles and turned all the damn auto updates and privacy shit off. Should have left it alone. Hell I ran XP forever. If it aint broke !!!!!!

Play the DM server !!! Thats where the cool kids hang out !!!