Already contacted him as to where to send the money.....

Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

In a perfect world, he could do both.....

In the final analyze I think Jafo is the computer nemesis..... who else could get the OS to install on C drive and  the MBR loads up at Grandma's house.....

Looks like the 'pain' was due to an earlier install...of Win 7 RC 64bit on another [removable] drive...which popped its bootloader onto the 1TB 'H' drive....then, when installing the new Win 7 RTM 64bit it added itself to the same bootloader thus showing two Win 7s on boot.

'simplest' way was to partition 'away' from the bootloader area and create my own 'hidden' part to leave the crap on.

Now I don't end up with a silly 200gig Image file on each backup....just a 'normal' one...

I think it's now 'safe' to say I have it all the way I want it....even WinAMP's vol control goes both ways with the scrollwheel of the mouse....

It's the little things....

So when does it arrive... um, that was to my place, wasn't it?

but find a woman (women) who pays for the wine... and the wild night out.

Like NOT having 200 gig backup files... x2.

Yep....installed the other six once I'd got back from my trip OS.

Now I can have 'several' big Virtual Machines running and still not notice a resource hit.

I thought it was all pretty good getting 106fps ave. with the Benchmark demo of Resident Evil 5 in DX10....

...but then I got back into one of my fave games... SimBin's GTR2....downloading the 2009 mod of the F1 season....and one of the 'old' fun tracks from GP Legends...[Spa 67] and managed between 220 and 280fps at full definition....and even over 100fps on the grid with 22 others [typically a resource-hungry time].

It's a safe bet to say that Win 7, 64bit or otherwise doesn't hurt your game-playing one little bit...

Bloody ridiculous, ain't it!!  The average user/gamer doesn't have/can't get/will never afford a rig capable of running these ultra high-speed games... yet the gaming co's still keep pumping them out.  Makes no sense, does it!!

It would be alright if the majority could actually access these extreme speeds, but it can't, so these ultra, rapid rate games pale into insignificance when only a small minority can.  I mean, your rig is no slouch (beats mine hands down... and mine ain't exactly slow, either) yet there you are complaing it isn't up to par for Res Evil 5 at default settings.  Sorta makes the game redundant if you can't play it (hardware restrictions) to its full potential.

I recently priced parts for an i7 based rig with a GTX295 and 12 gigs of RAM... came up with $3879.95 (AUD) as the best possible price.  Not exactly affordable for the average person, is it!!!  And how many gamers are gonna be able to come up with that kind of cash after paying out for the latest and greatest games??  Not too many, me thinks.

Like I said, given the high prices on the top-end hardware they were designed for, it makes little sense to keep producing faster and faster games.

OK, I misunderstood!  I understood RE5 at default (res/hardware) settings was sluggish.

I guess this supports what I was saying about high-end games... sort of.  Cryisis was/is touted as one of these 'ultra' games, and yours is not the first case I've read of where a player has had issues with frame rates at native resolutions... and that dropping the res defeats the purpose/enjoyment of the game.

A friend of my sister rushed out to get Crysis when it was first released... not thinking for one moment that he might have issues running it on his machine.  It's not that his rig is a slouch (AMD Phenom 9650 @ 2.3/ATI 4870 1gb/6gb DDR2 1066 RAM), but rather that Crysis is far too advanced/fast/graphically intensive for his (slightly better than) average machine. 

Advances in the gaming industry are great.. probably welcomed by some (with high-end machines), but if I were a game dev/distributor, I'd want my products to be usable/playable at optimum performance by the widest audience possible.

Hmmm, could it be a conspiracy between the game devs and the hardware devs... to produce games that encourage... er, force gamers to continually upgrade their rigs?  The trouble with that, in most cases, is that the latest and greatest hardware is out of the affordable reach of average users/gamers. 

When a GTX295 comes in anywhere between $570 and $1070 AUD (depending on rating/retailer/manufacturer), and an i7 975 anywhere between $1300 and $1813 AUD (depending on rating/retailer/manufacturer), just to enable optimum play in the latest and greatest games, you're talking bigger biccies than the average home PC owner/user/gamer could even dream about, much less afford.

And at the end of the day, though, is any of this hardware really worth the price being levied?  Or is a handful of individuals getting filthy rich from the past-times/addictions/perceived needs of game/PC enthusiasts?  

Oh, and while I'm at it, question-wise, what is the meaning of life??

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The crazy toy for a crazy gold boy.