What is this Dtoid contest bullshit?

[Greatbacon]

I still enjoy Dtoid for some interesting reads and a couple of chuckles.

Plus, if it weren't for that site there wouldn't be this site, so it still holds a small place in my browser window.

[Surf314]

For some reason I like Jim's articles.  I seem to be the only one.

[Wedge]

Specifically:

# Intel® Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition 965 (3.20 GHz)
# 3GB (3x1GB) DDR3 Tri Channel Memory
# Twin Crossfired ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Cards
# CoolerMaster Cosmos Silent Gaming Tower Case
# Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
# Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (320GB (160GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
# 320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
# DVD1:LG 20X DVDR/RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
# DVD2: 16X DVD ROM (BLACK COLOR)
# Integrated 12-in-1 Flash reader/writer
# PS2 Multimedia keyboard
# Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse (BLACK COLOR)
# Intel X58 Mainboard w/GbLAN,USB2.0,& HD 7.1 Audio
# 10/100 NETWORK CARD
# Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium SP1 (32-bit)
# 800 Watt Power supply
# Logitech X-540 70 Watts 5.1 Speaker System
# Built-in USB 2.0 Ports


Also suggestions on how to rearrange the HDD setup?  I'm sure as hell not running a damn Raid0 setup.  Also Vista gets a dual boot at best (so I can try out DX10 or something).

[ZargonX]

For some reason I like Jim's articles.  I seem to be the only one.

I actually find his stuff, when he's being serious, quite good.  Unfortunately, he seems to too often fall into trolling or his "Jim Sterling Angry British Man" persona.  

[CaffeinePowered]

# Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium SP1 (32-bit)

Also suggestions on how to rearrange the HDD setup?  I'm sure as hell not running a damn Raid0 setup.  Also Vista gets a dual boot at best (so I can try out DX10 or something).

32 bit fail

Though it doesnt matter much since you'll just run xp anyway 

[copulatingduck]

It's only 3jiggabits of RAMZ0RRZ anyways, don't think he really needs 64bit.

Also, dayum, nice system. :o :o :o

[Vandamguy]

suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

[Ianki]

Also, d-toid is not our mortal enemy, some of the community it brought was detemential to team moral.  Most of the founding members of this community came straight from d-toid.

And frankly, our server could use a little exposure again, as players have dropped off.  If we can use this as a way to get our FNF's advertised in the main post again then we all could benefit with new members.

[Wedge]

suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

Yeah how does that water cooling shit work anyways?  Do I have to replace something or clean it or what?  Does that mean the case has minimal fans and stuff too then?

Also any good guides software for setting up multi-boot, configuring partitions, etc.?  I guess I might leave the Raid0 and use it for software installs, then have partitions for the OSes, and then a general media/data partition on the main drive.

[cbre88x]

Specifically:
# Intel® Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition 965 (3.20 GHz)
# 3GB (3x1GB) DDR3 Tri Channel Memory
# Twin Crossfired ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Cards
# CoolerMaster Cosmos Silent Gaming Tower Case
# Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
# Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (320GB (160GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
# 320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
# DVD1:LG 20X DVDR/RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
# DVD2: 16X DVD ROM (BLACK COLOR)
# Integrated 12-in-1 Flash reader/writer
# PS2 Multimedia keyboard
# Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse (BLACK COLOR)
# Intel X58 Mainboard w/GbLAN,USB2.0,& HD 7.1 Audio
# 10/100 NETWORK CARD
# Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium SP1 (32-bit)
# 800 Watt Power supply
# Logitech X-540 70 Watts 5.1 Speaker System
# Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
Also suggestions on how to rearrange the HDD setup?  I'm sure as hell not running a damn Raid0 setup.  Also Vista gets a dual boot at best (so I can try out DX10 or something).

*Jealous*

[copulatingduck]

heh. I chuckled at how they went all out to build such a fancy system, but only threw 3GB of ram in it along with a generic black optical mouse. and then I remembered:

it's still *way* better than my shit.

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

As for maintenance, I hear that the water in a water-cooling system needs to be replaced every once in a while, and regular tap water will not do, but I have no experience with it whatsoever (I don't make enough money to even dream about building a watercooled system). I'd imagine IdiotWithGuns or Blues would actually know something about that though, so you should bug one of them on steam or something if they don't rear their heads here in the next few days.

[Wedge]

I can't imagine that I'd need more than 3G of RAM for anyways, especially when I'll still be running a 32-bit OS ;P.  Moreover, the RAM is fast as shit, and I'm HOPING they'll have the timings configured right with the build.  I could never get my RAM to run at it's listed timings without my mobo bitching me out.  And tweaking that shit is a nightmare because it would just fail to even post if I screwed with it enough, at which point I had to remove the battery on the mobo to get the bios settings back to defaults ;_;.

[ainmosni]

suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

Raid0 == broken unless you have _no_ important data on that array. And as your config files will be on the array you better back up unless your config files mean nothing to you. I would go for raid 1, 10 or 5/6  but for the latter two options you'd need more disks.

Edit: Dtoid itself was never our enemy, regardless of what you think of the site. (It fails to amuse me these days but that's mostly because I'm burnt out on consoles and the news that goes with it.) I would prefer having a friendly bond with it than a 'we hates them' bond. There hasn't been dtoid related drama for ages and let's not dredge that up again.

[Wedge]

[quote author=Vandamguy link=topic=1980.msg55424#msg55424 date=1229319414]
suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

Raid0 == broken unless you have _no_ important data on that array. And as your config files will be on the array you better back up unless your config files mean nothing to you. I would go for raid 1, 10 or 5/6  but for the latter two options you'd need more disks.

Edit: Dtoid itself was never our enemy, regardless of what you think of the site. (It fails to amuse me these days but that's mostly because I'm burnt out on consoles and the news that goes with it.) I would prefer having a friendly bond with it than a 'we hates them' bond. There hasn't been dtoid related drama for ages and let's not dredge that up again.
[/quote]

Well, Steam games should start storing their configs on the server side now XD.  But yeah, the rest of the computer is fast enough that the speed benefit would be negligible anyways.  Maybe I'll Raid1 those and use them as the install/os/work files drive then.  Though with the size of game installs these days, I dunno if that's enough for long @_@.

[ainmosni]

[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=1980.msg55455#msg55455 date=1229338623]
[quote author=Vandamguy link=topic=1980.msg55424#msg55424 date=1229319414]
suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

Raid0 == broken unless you have _no_ important data on that array. And as your config files will be on the array you better back up unless your config files mean nothing to you. I would go for raid 1, 10 or 5/6  but for the latter two options you'd need more disks.

Edit: Dtoid itself was never our enemy, regardless of what you think of the site. (It fails to amuse me these days but that's mostly because I'm burnt out on consoles and the news that goes with it.) I would prefer having a friendly bond with it than a 'we hates them' bond. There hasn't been dtoid related drama for ages and let's not dredge that up again.
[/quote]

Well, Steam games should start storing their configs on the server side now XD.  But yeah, the rest of the computer is fast enough that the speed benefit would be negligible anyways.  Maybe I'll Raid0 those and use them as the install/os/work files drive then.  Though with the size of game installs these days, I dunno if that's enough for long @_@.
[/quote]

Actually a PC's performance isn't a cumulative sum, things go as fast as the slowest part... (the bottleneck) If your I/O performance sucks it will drag the entire performance down no matter how bad ass your other specs are...

[fyre]

It fails to amuse me these days but that's mostly because I'm burnt out on consoles and the news that goes with it.

Yeah, I don't read it much because I've mostly been playing PC games for the past year.


But dammit, hate is so much cooler than ambivalence.

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Wedge link=topic=1980.msg55456#msg55456 date=1229339152]
[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=1980.msg55455#msg55455 date=1229338623]
[quote author=Vandamguy link=topic=1980.msg55424#msg55424 date=1229319414]
suggest for HDDD : leave it as is.
if it aint broke dont fix it

and please be very careful/distrustful of the water coolin'

Raid0 == broken unless you have _no_ important data on that array. And as your config files will be on the array you better back up unless your config files mean nothing to you. I would go for raid 1, 10 or 5/6  but for the latter two options you'd need more disks.

Edit: Dtoid itself was never our enemy, regardless of what you think of the site. (It fails to amuse me these days but that's mostly because I'm burnt out on consoles and the news that goes with it.) I would prefer having a friendly bond with it than a 'we hates them' bond. There hasn't been dtoid related drama for ages and let's not dredge that up again.
[/quote]

Well, Steam games should start storing their configs on the server side now XD.  But yeah, the rest of the computer is fast enough that the speed benefit would be negligible anyways.  Maybe I'll Raid0 those and use them as the install/os/work files drive then.  Though with the size of game installs these days, I dunno if that's enough for long @_@.
[/quote]

Actually a PC's performance isn't a cumulative sum, things go as fast as the slowest part... (the bottleneck) If your I/O performance sucks it will drag the entire performance down no matter how bad ass your other specs are...
[/quote]

The man speaks the truth, also steam doesnt load your configs over the internet per say, it stores a back-up copy, in case you reformat

[Eschatos]

I just think it was fail that the winners of the second and third part of the contest got chosen randomly instead of based on place.  Good job with the win, anyway. 

[Geoff]

Some of you guys fail to realize that this IS the dtoid pc gaming community.

[cbre88x]

Some of you guys fail to realize that this IS the dtoid pc gaming community.

I'm pretty sure we ripped away from that one a long time ago. At least I don't associate myself with that neck of the woods anymore.