The Dual

[DrPop]

Hahaha! That was just to get a laugh out of him. I will delete my stinging reply when he goes back and edits it. I actually like Joker's sense of humor and I just couldn't resist - especially considering the jabbing / smack talking tone this thread has to have to keep it fun.

To be honest, I miss-spell stuff constantly, especially when I use the iPhone! There was one other time - when Mike said Calvary instead of Cavalry, and I said something - people thought I was being harsh, but it was too funny to me...I saw it as a pun. Team Norway was "crucifying" us in that Primegrid challenge, and Mike was calling for the "cavalry" to come in to save us - only he called for the "Calvary". Which, unfortunately for us, came all too soon! hehehe.
All in good fun...

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Did I just get grammatically schooled??

Don't you mean "skooled"?

To be honest, I miss-spell stuff constantly, especially when I use the iPhone!

Yet another reason why I will *NEVER* own an iPhone. Or an iPod, or an iPad or.. Pretty much just i* (if it's made by Apple, anyway.. I've got a set of speakers for my walkman called iHome, so...)

[DrPop]

Alright ladies and gentlemen: the BOX from Denmark!
Beer, I think you outdid yourself! Check out the size of this thing. Is this all just bubble wrap around a quad cpu or is there really a ... could there be ... oh PLEASE let there be a Secret Weapon in here!
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[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Good grief! Either you're really short, or that box is freakin' HUGE!

[joker]

Is it too late for me to pull out of this dual???

[DrPop]

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh. Feels like a whole day wasted. I was going round in circles chasing my tail trying to figure out why it wouldn't post. Not a beep not a blip not a fan movement not an LED, NOTHING. I tried every single combination of chips, mobos, 3 graphics cards, 2 different sets of RAM, 5 different HDDs just in case...nothing. Tore apart my other front desk computer, thinking it was maybe the case power switch or SOMETHING...for several hours. My office looks like a tornado hit the front room and I've got to see patients tomorrow. There are parts and screws and stuff I threw everywhere. I was literally about to give up and was - I mean this - reaching for the phone to start the RMA process on some stuff, when I thought, you know...I did everything but pray about this. And then, after that, out of nowhere, I had a glimmer of an idea I hadn't thought of. I went to the back room and got out the 420W PSU that came with Kat's pink & white case (that is going to be on its way to F$ soon.)
I plugged that in ... and ladies and gentlemen, we have POST. Now my big PSU was working just perfect before I shut it off and took the old mobo out and put this one in. Somehow it must have died during the couple minutes that I was switching mobos, and I didn't have a clue that it had gone belly up. How could I? It was working seconds before I yanked the side panel off the case.
I don't know what the odds of this are, but has to be very very very slim (that it would completely die right at that instant).

So I am off to Frys. To spend even more money...arrrrrrgggghhhh.
Oh yes, there was TONS of bubble wrap in the box. But a little something nice as well. I don't even really know what it is - looks like some kind of specialty line stabilizer thing. I am assuming it has to do with O/Cing performance. I'll look into it more later. Obviously I've spent all day just trying to get this pile to just turn on - I can't even THINK about O/Cing right now!

[DrPop]

Wait! I know what happened. That PSU took one look at Joker's RAC and saw how much juice it would have to put out to O/C Beer's quad high enough to win...and it just gave up without even trying!

There...I feel better. Always do after coming up with a good conspiracy theory! NOW, I 'm off to Frys.

[joker]

So DrPop, you get a video card in that package from Beerdrinker?

[DrPop]

I can honestly say I did not. I wish! The ones I have work just fine, though, so I can't complain. He DID send me the secret weapon all the way from Denmark, though, and did not even charge me shipping, I might add! Now there is a man DEDICATED to the team! Let's hear it for BEER DRINKER! So even if he didn't send me a GPU, I still named the rig after him, The "Beerinator"
Besides the MOUNTAIN of bubble wrap (hmmm...you'd think he'd shipped something by USPS before!, there was A.I.R. in the box, though.

Alright, at this point I am pretty happy with the temps at stock clocks, and I think the CPU and RAM and everything has had a good burn in with the new PSU today. Fairly pleased with the points for roughly 20 hrs. of crunching so far...but not nearly enough to keep up with Joker.
I am going to attempt my first mild O/C tonight. Hold onto your hats folks, and wish me good luck with the PSU!
Enter PHASE II and we'll see what happens to the BEERINATOR's RAC over the next couple days. Can we catch him???

[joker]

Was there a little white flag on a toothpick sticking out of the PSU? Hehehe