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I Don't Know What To Do ... I'm About To Spend $3000 ... |
type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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Spare $100 on an SSD.
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Here's what I've thrown together. I'd really appreciate for the more experienced to look it over for oversights on my part.
(I don't think I made any mistakes, but I had to manually copy the descriptions and links so if you notice mistakes point them out...) The "Grand Total" (presumably before tax, shipping, and perhaps after rebates) is $1,149.92. Append: The shipping estimate for my postal code brings the total to $1,333.07. Append: Per TF's (and most other people's) advice: With the new addition, shipping, and tax, it comes to $1,340.97. Append: Cooling was neglected so here is a heatsink/fan combo. This pushes the total (including tax and shipping) to $1,411.57. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
CursedTyrant
Member #7,080
April 2006
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IIRC GTX 580 got about 2x better performance in all games tested than HD 6850 (and the price is relatively comparable). I might be wrong though. --------- |
Derezo
Member #1,666
April 2001
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Much more reasonable, and a very awesome rig. Good job. Make sure your motherboard's Hybrid Graphics and the HD 6850 are compatible, otherwise I'd opt to go without onboard video. "He who controls the stuffing controls the Universe" |
BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Just to rehash what we were/I was saying on IRC:
I don't know anything about ATi/AMD video cards anymore, I'm more partial to nVidia, so I can't help there. And you already know my opinion as far as getting the 120GB vertex 2 for $70 more. |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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I have submitted the order. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Wow, so many emotions over a new computer. |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Yea bam, that's a lot better. You probably don't even need that much, but it's a lot better than $3100 so I won't complain. BAF said: Wow, so many emotions over a new computer. Ah, camaaahn.... you know the feeling. -- |
gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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bamccaig said: Append: The shipping estimate for my postal code brings the total to $1,333.07. Clearly, you need to add $3.93 worth of items. -- |
23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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gnolam said: Clearly, you need to add $3.93 worth of items. Find a way to make this happen. -- |
Hard Rock
Member #1,547
September 2001
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CursedTyrant said: IIRC GTX 580 got about 2x better performance in all games tested than HD 6850 (and the price is relatively comparable). I might be wrong though. If you call $500 to $175 comparable then sure. . It is way more powerful though. _________________________________________________ |
Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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I just spent $900 on a washer and dryer. Don't tell bambam. |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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gnolam said: Clearly, you need to add $3.93 worth of items. This didn't even occur to me. Sadly, I think it is too late. I could probably call them up to add to the order (though it wouldn't be easy), but I doubt that I'd be able to find exactly $3.93 worth of things... Maybe if I had the time (and patience) to hack together some Perl to automate it... Matthew Leverton said: I just spent $900 on a washer and dryer. Oh, shit... -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Matthew Leverton said: I just spent $900 on a washer and dryer.
I'd spend a decent amount of money on a washing machine, since it pays off to get a good one especially if it's water and/or energy efficient. |
Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Evert said: After all, you can dry your cloths for free easily enough... Try that in canada, in the winter. -- |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: Try that in canada, in the winter.
Where'd you think I've been living for the past few years? |
type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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bamccaig said: This pushes the total (including tax and shipping) to $1,411.57. CAD or USD?
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Does it matter? |
Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Evert said: You don't put it outside, obviously, but back home I wouldn't do that so much either because of rain (although you can work around that with a sheet of plastic, but in winter I usually hung it all in doors anyway). Any clothes I ever dried in the air here have gotten stiff and "crusty". Definitely wouldn't want to wear them. -- |
type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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If it's CAD it's almost 1.5k USD.. (1.47X I'd estimate)
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: Any clothes I ever dried in the air here have gotten stiff and "crusty". Definitely wouldn't want to wear them. Don't know about that, mine have always come out fine. It's true that towels come out of a dryer nice and fluffy though. type568 said: If it's CAD it's almost 1.5k USD.. (1.47X I'd estimate)
I had no idea the US dollar had gone down so much! Last time I checked they were about on par. |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Evert said: I still can't think of a dryer as anything other than a great big waste of money though, both up front and in terms of use. After all, you can dry your cloths for free easily enough... That's debatable. I'm somebody that doesn't enjoy taking the time to do housework. I do it the bare minimum basically. I hated hanging clothes up to dry when I was living at home. Seriously, who has the time or energy to do it? I wash an average of 3 loads of laundry every week and even in the country with a rather large clothes line it could only fit about 2. It would also take between 2 hours and all day for the load to dry, depending on the weather. It's just far too much hassle, IMHO. I prefer to just dry them. I only wish they wouldn't shrink. Seriously, it's 2011, when is somebody going to discover affordable and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes for comfortable/attractive clothes that don't shrink when machine washed and dried? type568 said: CAD or USD? PayPal says I was charged $1,412.02 CAD. I can't account for the minor difference, but maybe the actual shipping costs didn't exactly match the estimates or something... Or maybe the original was USD and I paid CAD. I'm not sure, but it's negligible either way... The Web site did mention a possibility for additional charges from local retailers if newegg.ca decides to go through them. It's possible (probable?) I'll be met with a few more charges upon delivery. I'll be sure to update this thread (or start a new one when the system arrives). Evert said: Does it matter? Indeed. I rather like CAD being nearly equivalent to USD, albeit I would have preferred we caught up to them instead of the opposite. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: Any clothes I ever dried in the air here have gotten stiff and "crusty". Definitely wouldn't want to wear them. You have to shake them out a bit. I have to do that with items out of the drier anyway to get them to fold right. We used to let clothes freeze on the clothesline in N.D. all the time, it took half a day to dry that way, in the summertime they'd dry in half an hour. I wonder if the expansion of the ice wasn't hard on the fibers though. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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bamccaig said: PayPal says I was charged $1,412.02 CAD. Look at the details, see if paypal was the one that did the currency conversion, if so, you just got screwed. -- |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: Look at the details, see if paypal was the one that did the currency conversion, if so, you just got screwed. 45 cents worth? In any case, there's no mention of any currency conversion from PayPal. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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