Welp, after years of thinking about it, I'll finally be joining the PC master race this year. Thanks to a bunch of Black Friday deals and a friend who works at Newegg I was able to piece together a fairly solid gaming rig for sub-$350.
Now I just need to wait until Christmas to put it together and use it.
Now I just need to wait until Christmas to put it together and use it.
Got my christmas present from my mom. a new 22 CU foot deep freezer (our old one was like 6.9 cu) and a whole pig cut up and cured by Amish people
They cured it with apple wood... fuckers.
fade
Staff member
Acute lead poisoning.
Dammit, @CrimsonSoul, that's my only negative rating. And now I've gotta live with it just because you're in a snit....about a freezer! 
fine fine, undo rating.[DOUBLEPOST=1417585247,1417585162][/DOUBLEPOST]tbh I almost gave you another neg rating LOLDammit, @CrimsonSoul, that's my only negative rating. And now I've gotta live with it just because you're in a snit....about a freezer!
so sensitive
Wouldn't want to disappoint.
If you don't have a few negative ratings, you just haven't been trying enough. That's my motto.
My new camera makes it's own wifi network and I can link my iPad to it and control my focus, settings and shutter from it!!
Oh camera nerd joy!
Oh camera nerd joy!
GasBandit
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A camera that IS its own wifi host (router and hotspot didn't sound right as I doubt it's a gateway to the internet). What a time to be alive.
Why do you need a camera?
Been able to do the ad-hoc thing with 3rd-party SDHC cards for a long time now. About time the camera manufacturers finally woke up and stopped their "make a controller that only works with this one camera" crap.
--Patrick
It asked me to name my camera and now "my baby" is a wifi option for both my phone and iPad. I have no idea if it's a proper surfing the web connection though.
BananaHands
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Hey look for my name in the Bachelor credits January 5th and on.
Because I know you're ALL huge Bachelor fans.
Because I know you're ALL huge Bachelor fans.
Bachelorette 41.
Awesome! Good luck with Chris!!!
Sadness: my wife is going to be gone and stressed out most of next week due to final exams.
Consolation prize (and epic win): she decided to let me make and play with my Christmas present early. Behold: The Budget Beast!
PC has been assembled; now I'm just waiting for Alien: Isolation, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Outlast to install!
Consolation prize (and epic win): she decided to let me make and play with my Christmas present early. Behold: The Budget Beast!
PC has been assembled; now I'm just waiting for Alien: Isolation, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Outlast to install!
Remember what memory that is, you'll want to get another one exactly like it later to speed things up. That processor still supports two memory channels, so you can gang 'em together for increased performance (above and beyond what you get from just doubling your RAM) once you scrape together another $45.
Incidentally, for anyone else looking to build a system, if you don't actually need three or more cores for whatever you're planning on doing, the G3258 is THE processor to have right now.
--Patrick
BananaHands
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Assistant Production Coordinator. Next season I might move up to a production coordinator!
It really is an awesome little processor. I've overclocked it to 4.1 GHz on the stock cooler and it's hovering right around 60C.