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Postby Houdini » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:37 pm

Blade extended awaiting the spastic movement that led to Houdini's bloody issue.


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Postby Houdini » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:20 pm

Well the 500GB Caviar drive is nowhere in sight but the Raptor has already made a friend.

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Postby Houdini » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:48 am

like a swift kick in the nuts I saw a Raptor X 150GB drive at Best Buy for 199. Now I paid 302 for the retail and 229 for the OEM and they have the retail for 199??? Did I get a newer revision from new egg or just ripped?
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Postby nonstop » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:00 pm

Sounds like a swift kick. Can you breathe? Honestly newegg is very hard to beat so not sure what bb has going on, those are some sweet drives though.
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Postby Houdini » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:04 pm

nonstop wrote:Sounds like a swift kick. Can you breathe? Honestly newegg is very hard to beat so not sure what bb has going on, those are some sweet drives though.


Non it was crazy they only had one on the shelf but it was 199 and the same freaken thing I paid 302 for? They might have priced it wrong I suppose but that sux. I could have gotten two massages with happy endings for the difference. :evil:
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Postby Houdini » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:02 pm

Its begining to look a lot like christmas!

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Postby nonstop » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:51 pm

Color me jealous. Very nice looking stuff Houdini.
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Postby Houdini » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:07 pm

yeah i was impressed with the box. :oops:
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Postby Houdini » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:24 pm

The case came a day early and it is freaking huge. It’s the Lian Li Goliath G70 so I figured it would be big but it is really big!

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Postby myxxplyxx » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:56 pm

does this box have freudian implications? :roll:

wow...you could hide a third world village inside of that beast!!!!




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Postby Porkinator » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:36 pm

How is the build going Houdini ?
It only took you 30 minutes to ge the side panel off last night
so I was wondering where you are at now.
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Postby Houdini » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:49 pm

So I called in sick to both jobs today, well the restaurant called my bluff and made me do a lunch delivery. Anyway I had some time with it and here is where I am at:

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Also I love the HD rack that came with the case. It has a cool Raptor X display front but it is swappable by removing two thumb screws so I could grab the drives and go if I like.


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Postby Houdini » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:33 pm

I got the computer up and running with no issues at 2am last night. The BIOS flash was easy and the raid setup also. Rom thanks for the RAID stripe info I did choose 64k. Windows install took about an hour which seemed like forever. Probably the coolest thing I was able to notice last night was when windows loaded on the first swipe of the windows Knight Rider looking startup and it was at desktop. see you guys tonight and thanks for all the advice and listening to me talk about geek crap while others just want to blow me up. :twisted:
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Postby Soulja » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:57 pm

Sweet comp...now just send it to me and I'll do whatever you want for the rest of your life.
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Postby Houdini » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:15 pm

Ok so I have things going along quite well and installed ut last night and am configuring it now. I have grown to xoxoxoxo my 2GB flash drive it has been great in the BIOS and general transistion. The video card is unbelievable considering I paid more for my 9800XT by almost 200 bucks. I am going to keep the system stock until next week and if there are no issues I will jump into the water cooling. If there is anyone that is not sick of me posting pics I am going to put a few more up tonight. I just bought an Antec Spot cool fan at Best Buy and for the 16 bucks it pretty sweet. You can screw the thing in almost anywhere on or around the mobo (i got mine in the mobo tray) and then the long stem it is on bends to where you need it. Cool blue LED in it also. :P Well I hope to see some people on tonight it has been a bit since I have made any TS pudding pop refferences. :twisted:
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