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I've always liked AMD, cheap and cheerful with plenty of oomph
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You planing on using on-board video? Please dear God say no.
Jeremy Falcon
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What's wrong with that?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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Nothing unless you want to play games. 
A few years ago I'd add "or tinker with OpenCL"; but that's available without a discrete GPU now. If you end up doing *big* data sets with it, you'll want a dGPU then; but since the GPU architecture is trivially parallelizable and still scales performance ~linearly with transistor count, a several year old just-in-case card is little more than a highly depreciated space heater. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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ahmed zahmed wrote: What's wrong with that?
Performance. And not just for games, for apps like Photoshop and even IE/Chrome that now use hardware acceleration for rendering. The web is going 3D whether people realize it or not.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: You planing on using on-board video? Please dear God say no.
No, I'm doing in stages. I currently have a NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT, it's an older unit but still serves me well with 2 monitors.
Next phase is video card, case and a new monitor. One of mine is getting real hard to pull out of deep sleep...ie. if left for a hours or so it comes out as it should but in the morning when it's been sleeping all night it takes about 5-10 min to wake up. It's like me it's old and contankerous.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Mike Hankey wrote: No, I'm doing in stages
Gotcha.
Mike Hankey wrote: Next phase is video card, case and a new monitor.
Just make sure it's one of them cheesy cases with neon lights and crap that makes it look like a worn down broken sign at night for a cheap motel or brothel. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Just make sure it's one of them cheesy cases with neon lights and crap that makes it look like a worn down broken sign at night for a cheap motel or brothel.
Yeah I'm going for the brothel look! 
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Don't have the room have to use a mid tower because of the slot that it goes in.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Yeah, I have a perfect little slot in my wall unit to put a horizontal HTPC into but it's just a little too small...still looking for a case that will fit it.
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Mike Hankey wrote: started to line up all the software that needs to be installed and it's like a garage it's so full of old stuff that I don't use very often or at all, a ton of vital stuff that I use a lot
Just install what you use. You can always install other odd applications as you need them.
It keeps your machine a lot cleaner.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Yeah that's what I'm going to do. Last time I did a fresh install I tried to put everything on that I thought I would need and it took forever, well about 3 days.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Very nice, esp. the rainbow time lapse early on in the video. Reminds me a lot of Koyaanisqatsi[^].
/ravi
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Awesome video!
I've been to LA a few times and all were memorable, but not in the good way. Well except one in 67 I climbed up on the Hollywood letters.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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I've found that living here is far better than visiting.
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For some reason now I have the urge to play SimCity.
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very nice, but my breath was not taken
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The video was nice. It does convey the hyperkinetic, stroboscopic anthill nature of Los Angeles pretty well.
LA is an okay place to visit, but I couldn't live there. Drive two hours to find a decent place to ride my bike? You've got to be kidding.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Drive two hours to find a decent place to ride my bike?
Why? There are a multitude of really good trails within 20 minutes of where I am and hundreds more within an hour.
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I ride a road bike, which means I want lightly-traveled roads or bike paths nearby.
I'm a small town kind of person. I've visited LA a couple of times, and I can't imagine myself being happy in that area.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's a huge city with some really nice areas. Still, each to their own.
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They just fixed me up with an opponent. I'll be fighting at Shady Jacks Saloon downtown St. Louis on August 23rd.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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