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HiTech said:Yesterday, I cooked a turkey by stuffing it with a couple of wire-wound hi-watt resistors connected to 120vAC. I basted it using a solder sucker tool. I mashed some potatoes using a screwdriver handle. I cut cranberries with a length of heated nichrome wire and cooked a pumpkin pie atop an overclocked microprocessor chip, less its heatsink while playing Half Life 2.
HiTech said:cooked a pumpkin pie atop an over clocked microprocessor chip, less its heat sink while playing Half Life 2.
At first I thought this wouldn't work because the wall voltage is 120V and a AAA battery is only 1.5V. However if you think a little more about it (in terms of capacitance and amperage) it makes sense.
This is awesome.
I use this for my AAA-battery recharger and it works great!
This is amazing you are exposing the huge scam that the power companies have been running of years!
Krumlink said:Yeah that would definitely do it! HL2 Takes a serious computer to be able to play it enjoyably.
The minimum requirements is 1G Ram, and a 2.4ghz processor. I have 512 RAM and a 2ghz processor, so I was suffering on this computer. The other one had 2G of ram and a 3ghz processor. Both video cards were crap though.
Overclocked said:, What the hell are you running? Im still using a Athlon XP @ 2.3Ghz with 512Mb of Ram. GPU Is a Geforce 6800 GS (not overclocked). I got pretty dam good FPS with Everything on Medium- High Settings. AA=2X AAF = 4X (or maybe it was the other way around). I only had to adjust my settings once (because in One scene it was laggy) and still got pretty good graphics.
Unless your using a Geforce 5200, You shouldnt have a problem with HL2. Maybe you have spyware, which is the Culprit in negative performance.
Krumlink said:I am running about the same, except my graphics card is really bad, a Radeon 9200. It can get pretty low fps sometimes.
Sounds like your pumpkin pie didn't get done, try cooking it again running crysis.HiTech said:Yesterday, I cooked a turkey by stuffing it with a couple of wire-wound hi-watt resistors connected to 120vAC. I basted it using a solder sucker tool. I mashed some potatoes using a screwdriver handle. I cut cranberries with a length of heated nichrome wire and cooked a pumpkin pie atop an overclocked microprocessor chip, less its heatsink while playing Half Life 2.
AGP is stuck at 66MHz/s (yeh go ahead and try to crank the bus higher, and see what happens it won't boot up) PCI-express however, supposively is 110-140MHz bus. Though it's almost double in data throughput. AGP usually has a throughput of around 2,100MBps, while PCI-E 16x(usually used for vid cards)Overclocked said:Upgrade, But AGP is going dead.
crusty said:Sounds like your pumpkin pie didn't get done, try cooking it again running crysis.
Marks256 said:I like half life 2. I am stuck in episode 2, though. Damn striders.
My rig is a custom made shuttle xpc
AMD ATHLON 64 x2 5800+ (2.8GHz, 2x 1mb l2)
2GB of Corsair Balistix RAM
500GB SATA HD
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600GT
dual booting ubuntu 7.10 and xp pro
soon i will be going dual 17" LCD as well.
anyways, episode 1 was really easy. :/ actually, it was fairly boaring. episode 2 is quite a charge, though...
edit:
forgot to mention that my video card is PCI-Express...
Marks256 said:I like half life 2. I am stuck in episode 2, though. Damn striders.
My rig is a custom made shuttle xpc
AMD ATHLON 64 x2 5800+ (2.8GHz, 2x 1mb l2)
2GB of Corsair Balistix RAM
500GB SATA HD
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600GT
dual booting ubuntu 7.10 and xp pro
soon i will be going dual 17" LCD as well.
anyways, episode 1 was really easy. :/ actually, it was fairly boaring. episode 2 is quite a charge, though...
edit:
forgot to mention that my video card is PCI-Express...
Overclocked said:Do you get that Ball thing back that allows you to control the aliens in Episode 2? I loved that thing in HL2, but I didnt feel like I got full use out of it sometimes..