Jump to content

elfenix

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    29595
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    4

Posts posted by elfenix

  1. 2 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    This may just affect Houston residents, but is there anything AND I MEAN ANYTHING about the late President Bush that we haven’t heard at least 20 times over by now? I guess the local networks are trying to outdo each other with their insane wall to wall coverage. The train, interviewing aggy that can’t say anything about President Bush without tying him into aggy, yada yada yada.....

    you're born to an elite family in new england.  you go to the best schools, serve in the military, and then continue your service throughout your life, eventually reaching the highest office in the land.  throughout, you serve with honor, integrity, and dignity.  and, when you die, you get carted off and buried in college station. 

     

    wut

    • Like 1
    • Haha 1
  2. 1) "drivers" who don't turn on their lights when its raining
    1a) vehicles with tiny and dim tail lights that can barely be seen through the rain and spray (pickups are terrible about this - tail lights never extend onto the tailgate like many hatchbacks SUVs so just exist in a tiny little area.  but of course these same vehicles that can barely be seen from behind have 6 fucking headlights because they've all turned into brodozers from the factory)

    • Like 1
  3. On 12/1/2018 at 8:29 AM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    December TOTM - The Preacher (NEW) - Marinated & grilled Berkshire pork with freshly grilled pineapple, onions, Avocado Sauce & cilantro on a corn tortilla. 

    this sounds way too pedestrian to be torchy's totm

  4. well, yeah, it is generic for solid state hard drive.  but that's a different thing from either a solid state drive or a hard drive. 

    as for the build itself - the ones in the reddit wiki aren't bad, and i'd probably lean toward the 144hz build.  my only potential change would be to an amd 2700.  the 8600k will be faster in raw framerate than the 2700, but the 2700 may be smoother in certain high thread count games (far cry 5 comes to mind).  keep in mind the biggest performance difference between the reddit $800 and $1200 builds is from the graphics card.  the 2700 also comes with a usable CPU cooler so you can avoid that expense. 

    if you need wifi it can be more convenient to get it built into the board.  and it'll have antennas which pick up signal way better than the little usb sticks do. 

     

     

    https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MVJgHh

    or

    https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2Y3gHh

    they're ~$1000 but still need a case.  cases are almost completely an aesthetic decision at this point - some are understated, a lot are gaudy.  pretty much anything is pretty quiet these days due to the 120 mm fans on everything.

    power supply prices change all the time - newegg runs 2 day sales involving rebates and whatnot pretty much constantly.  you may need to sign up for their email spam to get the coupon code.  my advice is get whatever gold rated unit from seasonic, corsair or evga is on sale that day. 

  5. ok, but you're mixing your terms.  "SSHD" is a hard drive with a big (~32GB) flash ram cache built in.  at a big price premium.  they're useful for notebook computers where there aren't enough bays or slots for separate SSDs and HDDs. 

     

    another question: are you in either houston or dallas?  if so, microcenter may be your best option for getting some of your components. 

  6. 14 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Okay I want to build this computer with my kiddo, but I want the build to be around 1k with a SSHD and windows 10.

    Little help with the components?

    you don't want an SSHD.  you want a separate SSD and a regular hard drive for general storage.

    do you need a monitor with that $1k?

  7. 10 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

    This has been brewing for me recently...

    Pluckers kind of sucks now.  I still eat there a lot because TVs and beer, but the quality of the wings have really fallen off.  It's getting close to the point where you can roll the dice to catch a good day at BWW and have better wings.

     

    pluckers' quality control is really bad.  when you go in and they get it right everything is really damn good, even still.  but there's a lot of misses.  either food takes forever, it's not hot, the side portion isn't the right size or the chips are soggy, etc.  used to be you almost never got a wing that was badly butchered.  now i get them rather often.  and their bifurcated waiter/food bringer system sucks complete donkey balls when there's a problem.  need an extra dressing?  sometimes it can take ages to flag down your waiter, tell them what you want, wait for them to put it in the computer, wait for someone else to pull a ticket and actually fill it in the kitchen.  all so they don't miss out on that extra $0.50 they charge for another dressing. 

    wingstop wings are more consistent these days but i keep forgetting to say no fucking sugar on my fries. 

    bw3 can go fuck themselves.

    and disagree with @OatmealRaisinCookie, pluckers' "boneless wings" are clearly chicken breast strips, as opposed to the shitastic frozen prefab nuggets you get at bw3.  

  8. 17 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Does Oklahoma have taxing authority over reservation lands?  If not, it seems that this case could be catastrophic for the state's finances.

    doesn't oklahoma have 4-day school weeks because of the catastrophe that the state's "finances" are already in?

  9. That just means your appointment time was after theirs. One of the advantages of booking an appt is that you don't have to show up early. That person understood that, you didn't. 
    You miss your appointment time you should be put behind those who didn't
    • Like 2
×
×
  • Create New...