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  1. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Yeah, 1080p is basically half the resolution of the 2560x1600 listed in the benchmarks above. So take those numbers and basically double the FPS score for an accurate 1080p benchmark. That would put the 780 at about 70 FPS average, and even a 770 averaging 60 FPS
  2. Joeboo

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Fuck rolls, make these
  3. Joeboo

    CFB 2013-2014

    Possibly. He's got decent size and seemingly decent arm strength and accuracy. Just nothing that really wows anyone. Everyone seems to dismiss him because he doesn't really have elite arm strength or athleticism, and he also is surrounded by more talent than anyone else in college football so...
  4. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Interesting article. Gaming performance in Windows 7 vs Windows 8.1 HARDOCP - R9 290X vs. GTX 780 vs. Windows 7 vs. 8.1 - Battlefield 4 Windows 7 vs. 8.1 Performance Review Basically, windows 8.1 performs 6% better on the Nvidia card, and 9% better on the AMD card. So, going from...
  5. Joeboo

    The Beer Thread

    So my wife brought home a bottle of this last night from the store. She just bought it because she liked the pink bottle...I don't even know what to think. I'm a little scared to try it. Peanut butter, banana, chocolate ale? WTF?
  6. Joeboo

    2013 NFL Season

    Also, for the record, Gods Gift to QBs Alex Smith has run the read option with Jamaal Charles multiple times this year. It's not something the Chiefs regularly do, but they might bust it out once a game. I see the read option as being just like the Wildcat was about 5 years ago. Something a...
  7. Joeboo

    2013 NFL Season

    The crazy thing is, the Fridge was only 300lbs. He just seemed HUGE back in the 80s because most lineman were like 270, 280, up in that range. I think he was maybe the first starting D-lineman in the league that was over 300lbs. Nowadays, that's undersized for an interior D-lineman or any...
  8. Joeboo

    Tablets

    Surface RT would probably be fine for anyone that just wants tablet functionality with a keyboard. All of us tech nerds here love the Pro because we could actually game on it as well, but I'd bet thats pretty much a non-factor to your wife. Doubt she'll be wanting to play Starcraft 2 on her...
  9. Joeboo

    HDTVs

    Looks like Walmart...the little Walmart symbol is right on the "Save $700" tag
  10. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sony purely got into the business to get revenge on Nintendo for fucking them, plain and simple. They had no altruistic ideals that they needed to make a video game system so that they could bring the masses the enjoyment that had always been missing from their lives. Fortunately, Sony was a...
  11. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Neither Microsoft nor Sony are in the video game business because they "love videogames" Both got into the business decades after the companies that pioneered the business, because they saw that there was huge money to be made. Don't white knight Sony as some altruistic company that is in it...
  12. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Face it, both systems are going to sell every single unit they produce between now and January. The real test is going to be who has the most sales a year or two from now, once anyone can walk into any store and see both systems sitting on a shelf for sale, and actually have to make a decision...
  13. Joeboo

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    IF anyone needs a really good gigabit wireless router ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router $120 + Free Shipping w/ V.me by Visa Checkout - TigerDirect Deals, Coupons and Promos Asus N66U for $120, normally $160. Nice sale
  14. Joeboo

    CFB 2013-2014

    I've got an easy answer for the question that article raises. Jimbo seems like a genuinely nice, likable guy and Urban Meyer seems like a pretentious asshole, so people will tend to want to give someone like Jimbo the benefit of the doubt while they would want to see Meyer crucified for any...
  15. Joeboo

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Luckily my wife never complains about my cooking, she's always super grateful, but yeah, if I waited on her to get home to attempt to make a mutual decision on dinner we would be delaying things another half hour. She's the most indecisive person on Earth.
  16. Joeboo

    Parent Thread

    Just curious(and I may have missed this earlier at some point) but are you adopting as a single parent? How much more difficult does that make the process if so?
  17. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    Weren't you already on 4.3? I think that was on all S4s when they launched. But yeah, most cell carriers roll out the big version updates MONTHS after Google releases them. I don't expect to see 4.4 on my Note 3 on Sprint until after the first of the year, even though my year old Nexus 7...
  18. Joeboo

    Laptop Computers

    I've had a 17" laptop for a few years now, and while I'm ok when using other 15.6" laptops, I definitely start to feel that the screens are WAY too small when I go down to 14 or 13.3" screens. That being said, I also have 2 27" desktop monitors, so I tend to favor bigass displays, lol.
  19. Joeboo

    2013 NFL Season

    the real question is, WTF is a swimming pool needle?
  20. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    And LPCM 7.1 is purely a blu-ray related technology, so obviously the 360 wouldn't have it. Also, there's about 20 total movies ever that supports 7.1(half of those being disney cartoons). It's basically a non-factor, and there's zero commercial music that is going to support it. Hooray for...
  21. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Only if you are counting the Blu-Ray drive as the deciding factor(as opposed to having to get a separate Blu-Ray drive if you have a 360) For streaming video, music, & apps, the 360 was superior in almost every way imaginable to the PS4 throughout the vast majority of the last console generation.
  22. Joeboo

    CFB 2013-2014

    Rumors abound that Manziel has a fracture in his throwing hand, happened in the game before LSU, thus his horrible performance in the LSU game(missed several wide open receivers) Hope its true, and hop it's still bothering him this week.
  23. Joeboo

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    So what is the deal with all of the PS4 twitch streams? Every one I've randomly clicked on in this thread has looked like total dogshit...streaming resolutions that aren't even close to 480p, much less anything approaching HD. PC Streams I've watched in the past look great, I've seen a lot...
  24. Joeboo

    Path of Exile

    I'll jump online and get joined up over the upcoming holiday weekend. Haven't been on much the last week or two due to AC4, but I'll be back to playing PoE soon enough. I pretty much exclusively play Nemesis
  25. Joeboo

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Unfortunately, my wife gets home from work 1-2 hours after I do. So I do probably 75% of our cooking, but she does do most of the grocery shopping. If I waited for her to get home and cook, we'd be eating dinner at like 8-9PM every night, and that just doesn't work out real well.
  26. Joeboo

    Upgrading Video, need advice

    If someone is looking for some bang for their video card buck, Tigerdirect.com has 660Ti cards right now for $159 after rebate. You could SLI 2 of them together for $320 and get a net results that probably puts on par with a lone 780 (that's a $500+ card) Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti GC...
  27. Joeboo

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My wife usually makes Pecan Pie cheesecakes during the holidays. They are fucking awesome. Pecan Pie Cheesecake | Bake or Break And honestly, making cheesecake at home isn't nearly as hard as some people make it out to be.
  28. Joeboo

    Upgrading Video, need advice

    Yeah, you can't look at the general number of an Nvidia card and just assume that higher is better. The first number on a video card is the generation 4xx 5xx 6xx 7xx Then, the numbers following that actually relate to relative power Thus a 660 is going the be the 2 generations...
  29. Joeboo

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Probably a dumb question, as I know nothing about high-end headphones and tube amps and crap...but does the tube amp really do much when the source of the sound is digital(PC) to begin with? I would assume the sound quality is only as good as the weakest link in the chain...
  30. Joeboo

    Upgrading Video, need advice

    Holy god don't buy a GT 640. They are SIGNIFICANTLY worse than your current 460s. You'd probably need two 640s just to equal the performance of one of your 460s. If you are looking to spend ~$150, buy an AMD 7870 or an Nvidia 660, either of those will roughly double the performance of a...
  31. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    There isn't a lot of difference for gaming at all, about the only significant difference is the built-in video is much better on the 4670, if that is something you would ever use(probably not if you have a dedicated graphics card) That extra $50 might get you 1-2% better performance in games...
  32. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Damn, gone, must have been a mistake. Their website doesn't even list any 2TB internal drives for sale at any price now.
  33. Joeboo

    Parent Thread

    Our kid grabs EVERYTHING that is within arms reach, including pacifiers. As soon as we stick one in his mouth, he grabs it and tosses it.
  34. Joeboo

    Parent Thread

    Yeah, in general a baby of that age should be napping 2-3 times per day, with at least one of those naps being for an hour+. A 6 month old shouldn't ever be staying up for like 8 straight hours or anything.
  35. Joeboo

    Parent Thread

    Our 6-month old is doing that, but pretty much just with naps. He absolutely throws a fit at naptime, and won't hardly nap at all. It's a 90-minute ordeal of putting him down, letting him cry, picking him back up after 10 minutes of crying, soothing him to sleep as we hold him, then crying...
  36. Joeboo

    Home buying thread

    Normal house insurance(at least in the vast majority of states) doesn't cover anything pertaining to groundwater/flooding or earth erosion/collapse. You'd need FEMA Flood insurance to have any sort of groundwater coverage, and I don't even know that you can get erosion coverage in any way at...
  37. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Throw all $300 into a nice video card, and set a plan in place for doing a whole system build in the future that you can move that video card to. I wouldn't spend any money putting more RAM into that system, or trying to slap a different processor into the socket or getting a new motherboard...
  38. Joeboo

    2013 NFL Season

    I don't even know what to think about the fact that the AFC only has 5 teams with winning records. The other 11 teams are all 5-6 or worse
  39. Joeboo

    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

    Yeah, I've put a good 20-30 hours into the PC version(downloaded a cracked version a week before release) and have had zero crashes. Graphics cranked to max at 1920x1200 the entire time.
  40. Joeboo

    Boardwalk Empire

    Hate to say it, but Harrow was a soldier, a pawn in a game he had no control over. He was never going to get his happy ending. The big dogs keep on moving forward, using and discarding whoever they need to reach their goals.