that i never posted in here about my new toy.
a few months ago, i got a virus in my old puter. being the stubborn bastage i am, i got it beat...with the help of some of you guys here. once i got it beat, i decided i wanted a new machine.
i listened to the recommendations of some of you again, and got in touch with tildeath. i'll tell ya what.......he has to be one of the nicest people to deal with on the phone. he pm'd me his phone number, and although i called kinda late(around 10:30 eastern) and he was getting over a cold, he answered his phone. he spent a few minutes with me finding out what my old system was, and if the system he'd build me for what i could afford would improve over what i had. it could, in all pbviousness.
he put together an estimate, and emailed it to me....i liked the way it sounded, so i called him, gave him the go ahead, and was told i'd have my machine on monday. i think that was thursday i talked with him.
he called me monday, to inform me that somethign happened with the shipping, so it would be to me on wed. it got to me when he said it would. it was packed excellently. it was in a very large box. padded, and then was in the box that the tower came in. it arrived in perfect shape.
i hooked it up that night, and it already had AH installed, with the hi res pack and all. he spent about a half hour on the phone with me, making sure that everything worked properly in the system, then we went into AH.....to verify all settings were good.
i was amazed at the difference between this computer and my older one. this thing stays pegged at 60FPS no matter what i do in ah. in furballs, where before i'd drop into the 20's....and god forbid there was a tank battle going on below......every time a tank would fire, i'd lock for about 1 to 1.5 seconds. not so oon this system. it's rock steady at 60. rich had warned me that i may experience some "stutter" as skins were downloaded, but i never got that.
to top this all off, i can run the cd player for some decent music while i'm flying. nothing seems to slow this machine down.
it is a beautiful machine, and even the wiring inside is routed perfectly...i've never seen that inside a pc before.
now, to hope this system stands up to the new update....i think it will........going to go d/l it now.
what i CAN say though, is that if you guys with the older slower machines are looking for something new, talk to tildeath. his prices are VERY reasonable, and his customer service is well beyond excellent.
ok..time to go d/l.
<<S>> all......and thanks rich..sorry to take so long to post somethign about your work here.......
