Friday I went to go see “The Bank Job” with a couple of buddies and first off; it was a amazing movie. We get to the movies and there was one open register with no one in line (I wonder why…), I head over to that line and some of my friends go to the register next to me. I tell her that I want to see the movie, she tells me how much, and I give her my Credit Card. She kinda looks at my Credit Card and looks at me like “Your 17 and have one?” then asks me for my ID and says that she wouldn’t let her 18 year old see it (wow?) I’m just amazed. So I hand her my ID after kinda bs’ing around and she asks the register where my friends are to to make sure they show ID. They kinda joke around with the whole ID process because they are students =P.
We finally get to the movies and the 2nd group arrives. I mention “Hey did you guys get carded too?” and he tells me that he did and she couldn’t even figure out his age. This is the killer, she pulls out a calculator, tries to figure out how old he is and guess what…
EPIC FAIL!
She got the wrong age for him…again. Needless to say after all this, she just lets him go =P
Two words can describe the rig that was posted before this. Epic and Fast… There were many issues getting this together but that’s what you get with hardware that came out less than 15 days ago. My 3D Mark 06 score is in the low 20,000’s and ingame the framerate is just amazing with over 250+ FPS in most games. But we can’t forget the game crysis with it’s absurd system requirements. It averages around 60-65 on Very High 4xAA Settings.
I had many problems with drivers, bluescreens, and heating issues. Drivers ended up turning off the fans on the Dual 9800GX2’s causing them to overheat and the bluescreens were caused by a Vista x64 kernel issue not properly reading over 4GB of available memory. So far it’s been at a stable 100-110~F on all 4 Cores of the GPU and the max I’ve gotten is about a 130F. The GPU’s start to throttle down when it reaches a temp of 220~F so we can see that NVIDIA left quite a bit of room for overclocking.
I did have this at Sparty Lan Party, where it was down most of the time towards the end… just my luck. If you’d like to see this rig in action; I’d recommend driving to Big Shot Gaming at Central Michigan University. They did a great job planning this and with over $3,500 dollars in prizes it’s something you cannot miss!
Anyways there are some pictures of the rig from start to finish, you can view them here.
