Gazdude

Yeah i know but its hard to get a pic with all the mane 6 in that stays on the right. lol

Ponies everywhere nowdays heres my desktop:

nVidia are running around like headless chickens trying to get that new architecture out before AMD release their new 6k series chips. I got my first AMD graphics card not long ago now and i've had no problems what so eer, and the temps are incredible. I genuinely can't complain lol. Whereas my GTX285 was slow, hot and noisy. I can actually play games with my case fans on low. Can't wait to see what both manufacturers have in line. BTW aren't ASUS planning a ASUS RoG Mars 2 with Fermi chips?

Wow, that looks incredible, nice job! (Note to self: Gotta get better at photoshop.)

Feeling sentimental I decided to model my favourite Tiberian Sun vech.

Yeah it would look nice textured. iIt's an unbelievable ball ache to texture something well. Modelling's the fun part, it's the texturing thats the pain in the ass. Though I guess I should texture it, would be a shame to leave it naked.

Yeah, but it's a very purty design though. I use 3DS Max because its so easy to use compared to the other 3D programs like Maya & Soft Image XSI. I don't end up putting my fist through my monitor while using it. If you ever plan on being a games artist though you need to know how to use them all or you'll never get a job.

So I got home from work on wednesday and decided to catch up on some TV through the tinterweb. After about 30 minutes of watching I went to grab my super sized Red Bull and kind of knocked it over. It ran down my desk, so I grabbed a towel to soak it up with and thought oh well thats that. About 2 or 3 minutes later my screen went black. Thats when I thought, oh ****, I noticed its leaked down the back of my desk. On further inspection it seems the carbonated tourine concoction has dripped into the 200mm fan which dispursed it (rather like a garden sprinkler) all over the inside of my PC case. So I stripped down my PC and got out the PCB cleaner. I spent about 3 hours dismantling the whole thing and cleaning each peice; the motherboard, sound card, gfx card etc and put it all back together. It looked like everything was ok. So at this point I needed a real drink. Got in from the pub around 12am decided I'll check my emails and I pressed the power button on my PC and a ball of flames shot out of the side panel. As you can imagine, I was standing there a little confused. So i thought, screw this right now I'll go to sleep. It wasnt until the morning I realised that my £4k+ PC has just errupted in flames, I better check what's salvagable. Luckily it was just 1 component, one of the cheaper parts, my BFG GTX 285 gfx card. So after work today I picked up a cheap GTS 250 off the stock shelf to tide me over until I get a new one. Any suggestions would be nice, but i'm personally thinking about the Sapphire MATRIX HD5870 2GB.

Think I'll pick up one of these on monday. Vapor X Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB

Sweet. Can't wait to see that. Hope it's not one of those mods that'll never be released.

Nice, though I've always wanted to do this-> Deep Fat Fryer PC! Still haven't been able to talk my boss into letting me build one though..

Hehe, I'm sure someone somewhere did, and respect to him and his broken English. It must be tough speaking 4 languages.

Yes i'm back, to the two here that know who i am (Sonic & Luk3us) Don't you worry, I'll be gone just as mysteriously as I arrived, due to the fact I have the attitude and attention span of a psychotically derranged hamster thats just burrowed its way through a bag of coffee beans and fell into Amy Winehouse's emergency supply of Cuban white powder. I just wanted to see how the arrival of EA's abismal new C&C games affected the community, and I tend to not get in as many "differences of oppinion" on this forum compared to the others.

The power consumption and price tag are still going to be issues. It must be difficult for some people to accept that nvidia have lost this round. ATI have got it right this time. Cypress > Fermi

How are you gonna cool those monsters? At the moment I don't want to water cool because I hate the thought of maintaining the system and I dont want to constantly keep altering fan speeds because I'm lazy. I just want to sit back turn it on and play a few hours without worrying about the thing slowing baking itself. SLI or CFire is tempting though.

He's still on msn everyday. I think he's got a degree now or something. I fear talking to him because he's pretty crazy, he doesn't have a sense of humour that I'm familiar with and I can't understand what he's talking about most of the time.

Those new Cypress GPU's are starting to take over.

I'd like to see that

Oh come on, there's nothing like the powerful insight of an online drunk. Beer + Keyboard + Forum full of strangers who can't come round and kick your ass = Thought provoking, if not a little controversial, discussion. To be honest most people online talk like they're drunk anyway. "ned hlp wt gens 2v2 pll0x, any1??? gt cw tnite ned sum1 gd 2hlp. nO nUBZ!!1 ty gg" I mean wtf?

No budget restrictions (i'm massively overpaid for my age). I dont want a dual GPU card because of the heat and driver instability. I'm looking for a rock solid all round performer. I dont care about physx and cuda, you cant really run them off a 1 gpu card at full detail anyway, without cutting your frames in half that is. I have a Seasonic M12D Power Supply 850w, you can't really get a better quality 850w gaming PSU.

Meh, it only took me about 10 minutes. It was a feeble attempt at breathing some life back into the art forum. I cant believe no ones posted in it for so long lol.

Its just the same as TV and radio. If i hear Lady GaGa on the radio i get the urge to harm myself and the doctor said that if i watch anymore Miley Cyrus music videos i may go blind. You watch next week there will probably be another exclusive from another isolated suburb tabloid/toilet paper journalist about the effects of popular music on children. They're bored.

It'll probably be a new generals game. C&C Generals, but with only half naked women generals in it.

Lol i totally forgot about Tree. I was a mod on Tree's forum for a while back in the day. No i mean Thierry, he liked cats.. Alot... Whats this about Thierry? I always got the impression he was a few cards short of a full deck.

They are getting smaller you just can't see it. Only a few years ago we've been using cards with 120nm transistors, now ATI have cards with 40nm transistors, its just in order to increase the amount of GPU power you have to add more transistors and more memory so its a two way street. The components are getting smaller but the cards are getting bigger to compensate for new games, hence nVIDIA's reasoning for a 530mm2 die (LoL). Dont forget the quality of the games released nowadays, they are very bloated and need more graphics power to run. On what Mal said, ASUS and MSI are realeasing gaming Mirco-ATX boards now what with the LGA1156 socket Intel CPU's having an integrated north bridge. Meaning that the common gaming board won't need to be XXL-ATX unless you plan on having 10 PCI-E lanes for whatever sick purpose.