I just did the unthinkable...

CrazyRabbit

I just spent €1250 and not a 1c went on anything airsoft related. :eek: :eek:

<----goes hangs his head in shame.


On the plus side, I do get a nice shiney new PC.

Dave!

I hope you only bought a new PC so that you could order airsoft equipment more efficiently! Cos if you didn't........!!!!! :mad:

kdouglas

CrazyRabbit banned for one week for not spending money on Airsoft

1250? on a new pc!? you could have got one for 500 and spent the rest on airsoft!

Genghiz Cohen

spent €1500 on my comp a few months ago, wasnt into airsoft at the time though.

gandalf

Crazy wait till Shiva sees this. I hope you hang your head in shame when he posts up pictures of his starving kids later this month......

Fallschirmjager

gwan, what is it...

all i am saying crazy is it better be friggen amazing...


impress us ...we are waiting

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Arcto

€2600 on a comp middle of august. Still paying it off €200 a week. Soon my pretty soon.....

CrazyRabbit

Fallschirmjager wrote:

gwan, what is it...

all i am saying crazy is it better be friggen amazing...


impress us ...we are waiting

:mad: :mad: :mad:

No need to upgrade my monitor and soundcard thanfully, so I still have some money left over for airsoft toys! Though I am tempted to but extra RAM and install Vista rather than XP.

XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI "XT" ED €289.44 shipped

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 S775 3.0ghz 4mb Cache 1333FSB €250.97 shipped

Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 Express ATX DDR2 Auio Lan €151.85 shipped

Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL4 €102.70 shipped

Western Digital Caviar 500GB S300 16mb 7200rpm €96.83 €96.83 shipped

Corsair 620 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, €135.16 shipped

Antec P182 Advanced Super Mid Tower - No PSU Black €126.32 shipped

Akasa 120mm Amber Series Case Fan €14.27 shipped

QuietPC Arctic Silver 5 premium 3.5g €8.34 shipped

Zalman heatpipe CPU cooler with quiet 92mm PWM fan €42.20 shipped


To quote my sister..."Why didn't you just buy a Dell? They only cost €500"

CrazyRabbit

Arcto wrote:

€2600 on a comp middle of august. Still paying it off €200 a week. Soon my pretty soon.....

That's at least a dozen airsoft guns!

Either that pc leaves mine in the dust, or you got ripped off.

kdouglas

CrazyRabbit wrote:

Though I am tempted to but extra RAM and install Vista rather than XP.

the very fact that you need more ram just to run vista should be enough of a warning sign!

although, seriously, got new desktops in work a few weeks back with vista pre-installed, played with it for 5 mins and then formatted the hard drive, granted im a ubuntu user, but i'd rather xp over vista

Fallschirmjager

CrazyRabbit wrote:

No need to upgrade my monitor and soundcard thanfully, so I still have some money left over for airsoft toys! Though I am tempted to but extra RAM and install Vista rather than XP.

XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI "XT" ED €289.44 shipped

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 S775 3.0ghz 4mb Cache 1333FSB €250.97 shipped

Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 Express ATX DDR2 Auio Lan €151.85 shipped

Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL4 €102.70 shipped

Western Digital Caviar 500GB S300 16mb 7200rpm €96.83 €96.83 shipped

Corsair 620 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, €135.16 shipped

Antec P182 Advanced Super Mid Tower - No PSU Black €126.32 shipped

Akasa 120mm Amber Series Case Fan €14.27 shipped

QuietPC Arctic Silver 5 premium 3.5g €8.34 shipped

Zalman heatpipe CPU cooler with quiet 92mm PWM fan €42.20 shipped


To quote my sister..."Why didn't you just buy a Dell? They only cost €500"

aha,, a fellow builder....nice dude...are you a gamer?

MaxForce

CrazyRabbit wrote:

I just spent €1250 and not a 1c went on anything airsoft related. :eek: :eek:

<----goes hangs his head in shame.


On the plus side, I do get a nice shiney new PC.

Yeah but its camoflaged. Isnt it?:D

whupass

you shoulda gone Mac.

just got two brand new Macs delivered today!

Boston

2370 euro on a new computer a week ago and spending 1500 euro on a laptop tomorrow. It all made sense to me at the time.

RC car fanatic

i have my own..wait for it..€3000

defenderdude

MaxForce wrote:

Yeah but its camoflaged. Isnt it?:D

Speaking of camo and custom finishes...:p

I was working with a company last week who offer custom paint/artwork jobs on Commodore pc's (now that's my vintage).

As a gamer and retro collector/builder: i was drooling! :eek: :eek:

Some of the cases looked simply astounding! Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon etc. artwork over the entire metal case... wow.

They're not cheap tho!

http://www.commodoregaming.com/pcshop/Game+PC/Commodore+xx.aspx

I hope I can get me a case for my next build! (still have my free copy of vista from MS launch, but dont think I wanna use it in the next monster!!!:D )

Hivemind187

Well this is all very shiney and dont get me wrong, I like to wave my eWilly as much as the next guy but what, exactly, has any of this got to do with Airsoft?

Boston

Nothing, thread in a similar vain have been closed before.

Beast ASI

I spent about €6000 on a PC in February, although it did pretty much and still does kick any other system out of the water .

Shiva

Hivemind187 wrote:

Well this is all very shiney and dont get me wrong, I like to wave my eWilly as much as the next guy but what, exactly, has any of this got to do with Airsoft?

We need PC's to read the Airsoft forum on Boards.ie ?

NakedDex

defenderdude wrote:

Speaking of camo and custom finishes...:p

I was working with a company last week who offer custom paint/artwork jobs on Commodore pc's (now that's my vintage).

As a gamer and retro collector/builder: i was drooling! :eek: :eek:

Some of the cases looked simply astounding! Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon etc. artwork over the entire metal case... wow.

They're not cheap tho!

http://www.commodoregaming.com/pcshop/Game+PC/Commodore+xx.aspx

I hope I can get me a case for my next build! (still have my free copy of vista from MS launch, but dont think I wanna use it in the next monster!!!:D )

I used to do a lot of that myself. I'm considering starting a new project for my own computer based on a the Swedish CB-90. I had planned to mod out an older case I had earmarked for an AH-64 Apache project but that's fallen by the way side.
The last one I did was a Massey Ferguson tractor one. I had original MF dash components mounted on the front of the case to give temps and fan speeds and I fabed a scaled down exhaust that ported directly into a case fan so when you turned the comp on the air displacement opened the cap on the top of the exhaust.
Paint is just one part of it, but man is it important and often camo doesn't look as good on a comp as you might think

CrazyRabbit

kdouglas wrote:

the very fact that you need more ram just to run vista should be enough of a warning sign!

although, seriously, got new desktops in work a few weeks back with vista pre-installed, played with it for 5 mins and then formatted the hard drive, granted im a ubuntu user, but i'd rather xp over vista

True...so true,. Not only that, but you need Vista 64 so it can fully use the 4gb or RAM.

MaxForce, that's a great idea....camo paint job on the case. The one I ordered is all black, solid sides etc, so it's quite suitable for painting.

It's nice to see that we spend our money on something other than airsoft....at least every once and a while. Makes us seem more human.

Defender dude...I actually still have my C64, I even got the 1541 disk drive and a dot matrix printer..hehe. I learned to program on this lovely machine....both assembly and basic.

Falls, yup, I'm a gamer..that pc build would be a bit overkill for just reading these forums. My current pc is getting a linux makeover...eventually

Hivemind...you are probably right, but I couldnt resist.

Voodoomelon

I reckon i've spent well over €15,000 over the last 8 years building PCs, customizing them including complete cosmetic transformations and custom cooling solutions.

Current setup has a custom watercooled system that extends through the wall of my house to the outdoors where a dual radiator cools my PC to ridiculously low temperatures during the winter.

Pic was taken before I sold my 1911 to Shiva, had it on the wall for a few days to impress the visitors!

Fallschirmjager

jeeze voodoo...nice setup..nice samsung..looks like a big sound setup as well..

H.O.T.A.S.

CrazyRabbit wrote:

No need to upgrade my monitor and soundcard thanfully, so I still have some money left over for airsoft toys! Though I am tempted to but extra RAM and install Vista rather than XP.

XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB DDR3 PCIE Dual DVI "XT" ED €289.44 shipped

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 S775 3.0ghz 4mb Cache 1333FSB €250.97 shipped

Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 Express ATX DDR2 Auio Lan €151.85 shipped

Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL4 €102.70 shipped

Western Digital Caviar 500GB S300 16mb 7200rpm €96.83 €96.83 shipped

Corsair 620 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, €135.16 shipped

Antec P182 Advanced Super Mid Tower - No PSU Black €126.32 shipped

Akasa 120mm Amber Series Case Fan €14.27 shipped

QuietPC Arctic Silver 5 premium 3.5g €8.34 shipped

Zalman heatpipe CPU cooler with quiet 92mm PWM fan €42.20 shipped


To quote my sister..."Why didn't you just buy a Dell? They only cost €500"

Did you not get a tight bore or one joule spring installed?

Fallschirmjager

H.O.T.A.S. wrote:

Did you not get a tight bore or one joule spring installed?

BAWHAHAHAH...hope so customs might be a bit annoyed otherwise...

Voodoomelon

Fallschirmjager wrote:

jeeze voodoo...nice setup..nice samsung..looks like a big sound setup as well..

Thanks! You should see the 1000w sub I built!

ScumLord

kdouglas wrote:

the very fact that you need more ram just to run vista should be enough of a warning sign!

although, seriously, got new desktops in work a few weeks back with vista pre-installed, played with it for 5 mins and then formatted the hard drive, granted im a ubuntu user, but i'd rather xp over vista

I bet you said the same thing about upgrading to XP.

That's some setup Voodoomelon. I've built a few PCs in my time but I've never gone that far. I think I might leave it to the pros from now on though. The PC I built for my sister went on fire (still works though amazingly) My PC which I spent £2000 (sterling!) on will now turn on when you press the button but if you turn it off it won't restart for 15 minutes or so. At least it's working (sort of) now so I don't want to go messing with it again. Strangely it worked absolutely perfectly on Vista64 beta (except for not being able to run any programs).

Fallschirmjager

Voodoomelon wrote:

Thanks! You should see the 1000w sub I built!

built :eek: jeasus, i darent ask how the hell you did that...mucho respect..

Fallschirmjager

ScumLord wrote:

I bet you said the same thing about upgrading to XP.

Strangely it worked absolutely perfectly on Vista64 beta (except for not being able to run any programs).

scumlord, the best 2 comments ever that sum up their product strategy...HAHAHAHAH priceless...

CrazyRabbit

ScumLord wrote:

I bet you said the same thing about upgrading to XP.

That's some setup Voodoomelon. I've built a few PCs in my time but I've never gone that far. I think I might leave it to the pros from now on though. The PC I built for my sister went on fire (still works though amazingly) My PC which I spent £2000 (sterling!) on will now turn on when you press the button but if you turn it off it won't restart for 15 minutes or so. At least it's working (sort of) now so I don't want to go messing with it again. Strangely it worked absolutely perfectly on Vista64 beta (except for not being able to run any programs).

Wow...that's the exact same issue I have with my pc. It's a bug with the safety cutoff feature of the motherboard. So I just leave it on 24/7. 4.5 months since last (intentional) reboot.

CrazyRabbit

I've decided to paint the new pc in camo colours. Then I'm gonna drill some holes in the side and glue bb's in into the holes...to make it look like the bb's partially penetrated the case.

Any other (airsoft related) suggestions on mods to the casing?

ScumLord

CrazyRabbit wrote:

Wow...that's the exact same issue I have with my pc. It's a bug with the safety cutoff feature of the motherboard. So I just leave it on 24/7. 4.5 months since last (intentional) reboot.

It's a pain when you need to install something or get updates that require a restart. I tend to turn mine on when I get home from work and leave it on until I go to bed.

Voodoomelon

CrazyRabbit wrote:

I've decided to paint the new pc in camo colours. Then I'm gonna drill some holes in the side and glue bb's in into the holes...to make it look like the bb's partially penetrated the case.

Any other (airsoft related) suggestions on mods to the casing?

You could install a perspex window and drill holes in that instead. Stick the bbs in the holes and make intentional cracks in the perspex. You could also get some counterstrike fan grills and litter the floor of the case with empty shell casings, if you can get your hands on em...

I did a Dell case mod a few years back when Half Life 2 came out, tried to give it a rustic look, you could do the same except in a battle-worn kinda way...

Fallschirmjager

jeeze voodoo ...that looks cool..

crazy...the bb's dug in is excellent...hahahahah...great idea...


http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-case-mods


check out the doom one, i saw a pciture of that in the dark on a website...looked friggen amazing...

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1&page=3

some more pics

Voodoomelon

Yeh, love that Doom mod, amazing skill and ingenuity.