Caltrops - American McGee's Honda Civic





	[quote name="Fussbett"]Putting it together was a easy! My easiest build ever, and I wonder why I put it off for so long. Building computers used to be really gay, that's why, and I've even <a href="http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=33358">wrecked a motherboard with a screwdriver</a> trying to apply the jaws-of-life-like heatsink band. No more, as the AMD engineers decided to affix a tiny plastic lever to the band, making it screwdriverless. SATA took care of the rest of my technical problems, and I bought a nice (for me at least) Anatech case, which made mounting the drives a breeze. And <i>what</i> a breeze, from the giant fan out the back of this case. I might crawl past the big rotating blades from time to time and pretend I'm in the air duct of a video game. In fact, the case is so perforated with fan holes, I forsee future cases showcaseing amazing "open concept designs" for maximum cooling, which of course means no sides at all. These future cases will especially help Horrible Blob, who lives on the Tropic of Crapricorn. PROS: <ul><li>Alt-tabbing from a debilitation game instantly into some other crushing program with out effort or time elapsing fills me with a happiness I didn't expect. I'm going to start running some sort of cancer-curing number cruncher in the background of my games at all times to maximum the usefullness.</li> <li>Quiet! There was a high pitched tone when the video card is working on some 3D, which I noticed when the computer was on top of the desk. Solution: put the computer under the desk! I can't tell if it's on or not when I walk into the room.</li> <li>Performance! Despite a lower end video card, I'm setting games to very high settings and as a result I've got nice things to say about all games. "Looks great" is my common video game review right now. Tainted.</li></ul> CONS: <ul><li>Pariah doesn't support dualcore chips at all. It just crashes. Solution: Fuck Pariah! I ran it with a commandline one-cpu-affinity program so it would boot, and discovered that the game based on the UT2003 engine looks just like UT2003, combined with some boring Halo gameplay. <i>Negative!</i></li> <li>I'm playing games constantly. I'm in a Cable-brother-like gaming coma. I was supposed to go to a horrible web job I have on Tuesday and I just forgot to go. That's a a turning point in my life, probably. Solution: finish this exciting gaming backlog, get back to casual, cynical play.</li> <li>Blue LED. Thanks to the PS2 we've all got to have blue LEDs now, also trying to get them as bright as possible like so much underbelly of a ride that has just been pimped. It lights up my dark room. SOLUTION: Post-It note covering the LED. More elegant solution possible, but I'm pretty lazy. Plus, I can write notes on the Post-It. "Don't forget to bring a sword to dungeon 3", etc</ul> So anyway, a rousing success. I dropped my rig down from the nomenclature of Motherhead 9000 since I figure it's slightly below his desired system which would feature a better video card. I already have the new video card bug, but I'm trying to fight it.[/quote]