PROJECT : Xtreme Elemental Dragon ! ! !

[Liderc]

lol, love how you so nonchalantly say you've been hit by a car.

[RCG_Bex]

Yeah my left side and back still hurts - mainly my hips / thigh though - dumb cow drove through a red light - she wasn't paying attention and I was crossing at the lights, was green for pedestrians and a few of us were crossing and I was the furthest out. Looked to my left, realized she wasn't stopping but it was too late - WHACK! She didn't even realize she'd hit me and kept driving on. I just sorta lay in the road stunned whilst people ran over to help and such.

Yeah UK VAT sucks! 17.5% plus markups which average ~30%

Hoping to be back into work soon, and attending the GOOC 2010 in the UK so maybe a new board from there. Though I might not last that long... I know someone has a Classy going for the equiv of £200 but I'm still in love with my Gigabyte stuff... Could get a new Gigabyte X58A-UD3R for £150 - just not sure if it'll clock as high as UD7 or Classy... Plus there isn't any full board blocks for the UD3R which sort of puts me off... No idea of the UD5 is the same as the UD7

*sigh* I don't know what to do tbh.. A cheap clocker would be nice but I'd like to get as near to 240BCLK as I can...

~Bex

[CptDreadFlint]

Ouch.

I was in agreement with Liderc when I first read your post.
I was all, "Man. She's hardcore!"
"I got hit by a mad cow driving a car but wheres that mobo I'm overclocking, people?"

Not to make light of the situation (ok I am), but I couldn't help burst out in laughter because I literally pictured a real cow behind the wheel of an old VW bug, driving recklessly through the streets of Scotland mooing as it's hitting pedestrians left, right and center while wearing a kilt. Sorry.

Speedy recovery to you, Bex. It does sound like you're doing well. Good luck in getting a replacement board at the right price.

Keep us posted.

[bianco]

get well! have a speedy and full recovery Bex.

[shazza]

Same reaction to Bex casually mentioned being mowed down by a car - tough gal! So glad you weren't badly hurt, Bex - but I'm sure it's not been pleasant. Seems the outside world has not been kind to our members - Whuzabi also got whacked, but in his car I believe.

Good Luck with the new board.

[aeidau]

Nice build you have here . Sorry to hear about your misfortunes, I hope you recover quickly

[Awers]

Glad to read you're ok... All the best wishes, and recover quickly.

[RCG_Bex]

ROFL - I didn't think of it like that... Well it was mum and her mother in the car... 1 of those naff small "family" cars... I wasn't in my kilt sadly as it was a brisk, drich day so scruffy jeans!

I see to have avoided broken bones - they reckon I cracked some ribs but I was damn right bruised to hell. Perhaps I should post some of those pics instead? Maybe not - underwear shots might cause havok on the forums :P

But yeah - need a board choice! And I need some new RAM! Heck, I need a new monitor - 17" 1024x768 just isn't cool

~Bex

[edit] Damn... missed the classy deal @ £200

[Church]

17" 1024x768?! o_O
And you have such powerful overclocked rigs with that?
imho used 21" crt with 1600x1200@75Hz or used 22+" LCD with full hd or 1920x1200 support (i don't see much sense with buying less or more currently) shouldn't cost too much these days. Prices fallen greatily compared to 2 years ago. Only pitty with big res displays - humans adapt to good things very fast, and even after one week with better monitor it's painful when you ocasionally have to use something worse
As for why i see 1920x1200 current optimum - with it you can watch full hd movies without any up/down scaling - lcd-s display best at native res or at resolutions divided by even numbers, also using displays with big resolutions bring some extra difficulties with some less common hardware, eg. some kvm switches, or output capabilities of older videocards (eg. my laptop). + you need very _expensive_ gpu-s to be able to game at something like 2048x1535/2560x1600/2560x2048 (remember point of best pic on lcd-s @ native res)
I myself try to use whatever highest res i can at acceptable refresh rate. Eg. years ago it was 1600x1200@75Hz on 17" crt

[RCG_Bex]

Well I used to have a Dell 2407... I had to let my aunt have it as payment cause I couldn't afford to pay her rent when I was homeless and made redundant :cry:

~Bex

[Church]

Hmm. Shouldn't used 21" crt cost less then 1/5 of what good X58 motherboard costs?

[RCG_Bex]

But if I have no motherboard then I have no need for a monitor as I'll have no computer good enough to use on it?

~Bex