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Post by Pete on Jan 11, 2009 21:02:28 GMT
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Post by roo on Jan 11, 2009 22:27:02 GMT
Fozzie, The Beast is not upside down . Maybe you are . ken, What is the blue card in The Beast ? Also, is your video card passsively cooled?
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Post by Fozzie on Jan 12, 2009 13:21:35 GMT
Must be me then. [/color][/size][/font]
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Post by Lynnrose on Jan 12, 2009 13:32:40 GMT
Looks upside down to me too x[/size][/font]
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Post by cede on Jan 13, 2009 9:40:06 GMT
Hi Pete Wonderful photos ;D You must have great patience, A great set up (With a Macro lens)? I love em -- This is a photo of the yorkshire band, The man with the mace was HUGE
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Post by Pete on Jan 13, 2009 22:56:23 GMT
Great photo of this band, yes he is very tall.
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Post by nocky2 on Jan 14, 2009 22:21:57 GMT
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Post by ken on Jan 20, 2009 19:10:14 GMT
The Beast is the right way up Lynnrose, its only the PSU is mounted upside down. I'v been modding today and the The beast got a new look. I think its a bit smarter now KC
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Post by ken on Jan 21, 2009 5:36:00 GMT
Sorry Fozzy, I somehow missed your questions. The blue card you asked about, was a pair of tube fans. I put them in to help circulate the air around the hard drives. I have now taken them out and as you can see in my latest pictures, I have moved the graphics card down to the bottom primary PCI-E slot. The Asus M3A79-T Deluxe, is a gaming mobo with 4 PCI-E slots. it has 2 primaries and 2 secondary slots. The Palit Radeon HD4870 Sonic Dual Edition is a huge card. It has heat-pipe cooling and twin fans on the bottom. If you look on the top picture of the new setup, I have even installed a slot fan on the top of it, It does like to run hot. I need that 850 watt PSU to run all the fans on this machine. The big fan on the CPU is only running at half speed with 10% overclock on and the core temperatures never gets above 35º. I have turned the HDD bays 90º and put the connections on the back. Now I haven't got all the connections balled up in a heap.
KC
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Post by roo on Jan 21, 2009 7:34:03 GMT
Thats a flash machine Ken, you have got some very nice gear in there. I'm a bluetac man, too. Also have fillers missing, new bits in an older case, etc . I like the look, too . ;D
I might have to get some of those ram coolers now that i have joined the 64 bit set, and feel the need to double my ram to 4 gigs .
My machine plays games quite well, my 9600GT is easily good enough for the mostly motor racing games i play. GRID looks pretty outstanding, to me . Yours must really kick bum .
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Post by ken on Jan 21, 2009 16:37:57 GMT
This is the first one I've built with planned parts Roo. Although I had planned to use the ATI HD3870 not the 4870, but technology overtook me. I had to turn the bays for neatness and change the heat-sink to get maximum cooling on the Phenom. I'm still experimenting to try and reduce the motherboard temperature a bit more. At the moment it running with the back side off, it needs another fan, but I need to work out exactly where to place it. The nVidia 9600 GT is a good card; the 9800 is better, but if yours does the job its good enough. Some people put good gear in and wonder why its not up to their expectations. Their parts are mismatched and not planned around the chip-set. If I had built an Intel, I would have gone for the 9800 GT myself and saved money. This picture was taken before it was altered. KC
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Post by roo on Jan 21, 2009 21:44:10 GMT
Ken, I am aware that a 9800 is better than a 9600 . The 9600 was the best i could afford. We can't all be rich Poms . ;D I am a member of some very big Oz gamer/overclocker forums and the most popular setup for budget gaming machines here in Oz is P45 Asus or Gigabyte board with a 4850. The 4850's are very popular indeedy. They work very nicely with the Intel P35 and now P45 chipsets and Core 2 Duo's and Quads. I see you also buy bulk ink, mad if you don't i reckon .
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Post by ken on Jan 22, 2009 6:53:08 GMT
Roo,
The CISS system with its 6 x 100ml tanks of ink, was less than £5.00 more than a set of 6 x 30ml ink cartridges. Even if you didnt bother refilling the tanks and just bought another system you would still be a lot better off.
KC
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Post by nocky2 on Feb 25, 2009 23:35:41 GMT
This shark looks like it just spotted lunch. Glad I wasn't the photographer. ;D
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Post by Dunnit on Feb 26, 2009 7:21:24 GMT
Took this of Comet McNaught last year, Comet Lulin isnt showing very good yet
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Post by photocool on Feb 28, 2009 9:15:08 GMT
Well done KiwiD ;D very good pic! Im not very good at night shots but took this sunset few years ago just outside house, looked as if the sky was on fire!
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Post by spinney on Mar 1, 2009 10:42:50 GMT
Just trying out putting pictures on here.. this is my grandson, making his first snowman.. he's three. Spinney.. I hope this shows up!
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Post by spinney on Mar 1, 2009 10:43:30 GMT
Yipeee I did it!!!!!
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Post by Lynnrose on Mar 1, 2009 10:52:06 GMT
Well done![/size][/font]
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Post by Dunnit on Mar 2, 2009 3:18:54 GMT
Nice one Spinney ;D
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Post by photocool on Mar 2, 2009 10:07:12 GMT
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Post by Pete on Apr 6, 2009 15:57:02 GMT
Ornamental Cherry blossom.
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Post by ken on Apr 6, 2009 16:35:42 GMT
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 7, 2009 19:47:54 GMT
You missed some wings KC ;D
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Post by ken on Apr 7, 2009 22:19:40 GMT
See the size of that rotor Elvis, shes vertical takeoff and doesn't need wings. They add drag and slow it down. Once airborn, you wind up that front turbine and it's, "Thunderbirds are Go."
KC
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 8, 2009 10:23:28 GMT
On Plymouth Hoe yesterday in the sunshine. Smeatons Tower (the old Eddystone Lighthouse)
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Post by ken on Apr 8, 2009 10:52:17 GMT
If lighthouses could talk, that one would have some good tales to tell Nocky. Nice photo mate, love the sky and the lighthouse really sets it off.
KC
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Post by phoney on Apr 8, 2009 13:52:14 GMT
Nocky your photos look like paintings. Really excellent work. Same style and colour as my favourite artist Edward Hopper in such works as the Long Leg, his lighthouse paintings and say Chop Suey, People in the Sun, Cape Cod etc; Compare the colours of 'GAS' below with your lighthouse photo.
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 8, 2009 14:55:09 GMT
Thanks guys, and well spotted phoney, I have a few of Hopper's paintings in a folder where I save pictures I find on the 'net. They are mostly bright colours and compositions I especially like.
What I do is, er um, "borrow" the colours ,and use the match colour option in Photoshop. Then, it's just a matter of fiddling around with levels, brightness and contrast etc. till I think it looks OK.
The fact that I only have sight in one eye,and that not 100%, probably explains my preference for brighter, some might even say garish colours. ;D
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 8, 2009 15:08:42 GMT
I had never heard of Hopper before, but just googled some of his images and can see why you both like him. Think I am now a fan
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