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I bet max power is in mourning, I know he got some mileage out of that meme... More info here: http://en.ria.ru/world/20120604/173831212.html Apparently he died from complications of a stroke at the end of May.

Well done. It was a tossup for me too between the 560Ti and the Radeon 6870, I ended up with the Radeon.

I've got no frame of reference for this kinda thing, I was just going off what he said the county appraisal was: $900/lot. You're probably right though, something that's already been cut down and has utilities already ran to it will probably fetch more money.

It sounds to me like you've already made your mind up, you want to move. At the price he bought it for, I don't imagine he's going to sell the land for less than 900 a lot, so that means you're going to have to come up with $15,300 in order to ensure that duplexes will never be built onsite, and then you'll have to pay the taxes on all that land as long as you hold it. Not to mention at some point you're going to want to sell the house and the land, and who's going to want to buy a single family house with 17 lots? As far as closing costs go, tack on 6% of the home price, and another 3K on top just for bank fees. I'm probably overestimating, but better to have it budgeted than get caught with your pants down.

No, but I'm always down for some MW3. PC only, I leave console controllers for the children.

don't do the i7 brah, you're going down that slippery slope again... If you can't pick up that ASRock, anything Asus/MSI/Gigabyte should be fine. Stay away from the ZOMG MILITARY SPEK! stuff that they've got out there, I know Asus has a board that's supposedly military grade or some shit, it's just black with black heatsinks and looks good in a gaudy case with a big-ass window. Like I said, I can't speak intelligently on the Z77 Ivy Bridges, however if you think you're going to eke out another year on that setup just because you went Z77 instead of Z68, I think you're fooling yourself.

LA's too good, and you guys got way too lucky during our series. As much as it pains me, the Cup's coming to LA.

you haz me confuzed wif blosser, I was mainly asking about the home NAS drives. I learned my lesson about logfiles long ago in dealing with Exchange 2003, those things need to be kept the hell away from the information store...

flounder knows his shit. If you're teetering on receiving a 4G signal as it is with that piddly little internal MiFi antenna, this will lock that shit in solid as long as you properly mount and point the yagi antennas. Also it will serve as a repeater for the rest of your cell devices as well, as long as they play with 4G LTE.

I thought it was a Apple Studio Display, but those are 27' with the same resolution. I'm curious too.

I quarrel with you slightly over the FPS argument. First off, I thought the threshold was 60fps, not 40fps (monitors having a 60hz refresh rate, even though the FPS is higher than 60 the monitor is only capable of putting 60 frames per second on the screen at a time) I could be wrong, and my info could still be coming from the CRT world. Anyway, I do believe that running at 40FPS vs 75FPS is a pretty big deal, especially given the types of games that jbot (or me, for that matter) get into, simply because the current FPS of gameplay is dependent on what's going on in the game at that time. If all you're doing is derping around the beginning stages of StarCraft2, lazily spawning overlords and generating that sweet, sweet vespene gas, then the game's going to run nice and smooth. When the Koreans come with the OMGZERGRUSH (kekekekekeke), on lesser hardware things start to bog down and choppiness ensues, not the best position to be in to repel the masses of unwashed kimchee.

I believe you need a single antenna per device. I've never tried splitting the antenna feed so I can't speak intelligently on if it's a good idea or not, but with the limited RF/cell knowledge I have I don't think it is. It looks like the zBoost is a cell signal repeater, which means it takes whatever signal it finds and boosts it through the receiver and out its internal antenna. That would be nice if you've got a signal problem with, say, your MiFi's AND your cell phones that are all on the same carrier. Since your problem is localized to the MiFi's, and those devices are already set up to accept a external antenna anyway, buying a repeater doesn't make sense.

installing AV on Exchange server stores? When did I do that? If you show me where I said that a serious piece of advice, I'll curb-stomp my own head.

I'm more thorough, noobsauce.

None. That's the fanboi talk. Intel fanboys are white-knighting for nVidia by saying that ATI cards are inferior for Intel processors because ATI is owned by AMD.

Your best option is a external antenna, and I'm not talking about those stupid stickers either. On the MiFi there should be a plug to accept an external antenna, it should be round and kinda resemble a mini coax connection. Here's a few options I found on amazon. I've done NO research into if these are better external ant's then others, I just wanted to point out options. Here's one that looks like it's suited for a car: http://www.amazon.com/Novatel-Verizon-Hotspot-external-antenna/dp/B006SKO09S Since you're using this in a house, it might behoove you to mount a more permanent solution. These antennas are called Yagi's, which mean that they are very high power and also VERY directional. Once you figure out where the tower is, you just point these babies at it and it should take care of the rest. http://www.amazon.com/Novatel-Verizon-Hotspot-External-Periodic/dp/B007TQ3I1G/ref=pd_cp_cps_3 Any antenna solution, however, will only boost the reception of signal at the house, it won't be a solution for handoffs between 4G and 3G. For that you would have to go back to Verizon and see what they can do.

ass-ed chaps are called pants, so yes, all chaps are assless. It just rolls better off the tongue and is a constant reinforcement that yes, nothing completes the counterculture, rebel against society (for the weekend) uniform like assless chaps.

I know that feel, bro. I think you're going to be happy with it.

You know guys, if you put Exarch on ignore and STOP QUOTING HIM, he goes away.

the more it sparkles, the more your street cred improves. also, tassles aren't just for 5-year-old girls anymore. Consider that as your next addition.

And Scuba, thanks for letting me know that my SSD firmware was out of date. That was fucking harrowing, I ran the dinky Linux tool which failed on the first try, then automagically found a Internet connection on the second reboot and updated my firmware. I went from 2.15 to 2.22, I hope this was worth it...

Dude, this ASRock board is the easiest thing I built on, ever. You don't even have to fuck with all the little case headers for power/reset just to test things out, there's a power button on the board itself. I think you'll be very happy with it, and with the added D3 performance you'll be making your people proud in no time. So is Microcenter going to build-in the proc/mobo/ram in the case, or are they just bench-testing it to make sure you don't have any DOA bullshits?

Z77 is the IvyBridge chipset. Brand new offering from Intel. I haven't done a ton of research on benchmark differences, but just shooting from the hip I'd say you can do about the same for less with the Z68, which is the SandyBridge chipset.

I'll add ASRock to the list of a-ok brands. I was a HUGE Asus fanboi for a long time, I took a chance on ASRock and I've been very happy with it.

That doesn't make any sense. If you want a cutting edge computer in 3 years, you're building a new PC in 3 years. Even with the most expensive of everything currently available, it won't be "cutting edge" in 3 years. Passable? Sure.