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Re: PING - Inglo...muktheknife...cheetah...pop...(and others)

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From: p.F. marXbig
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:49
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:10:12 +0000, EvilBill <quake2lives@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Inglo wrote:
>> On 2/7/2008 3:21 PM p.F. marXbig brightened our day with:
>>> Hey! I stumbled across your President's Cup post. Thanks! I was a
>>> little amazed anyone would remember those ramblings...what's it been
>>> five or six years?
>>> and yes, that is my son, livin' his dream. He's been a fortunate man
>>> and is doing great on the PGA tour.
>>>
>>> Good to hear from you guys again. I'm playin Crysis, Bioshock, Portal
>>> and The Orange Box was nice, Quake 4, not so much.
>>>
>>>
>>> p.F. marXbig...who knows just enough to be dangerous.
>>>   
>> Hey old timer, good to hear from you.  I almost never watch golf for 
>> more than two seconds at a time so it was rather fortuitous that I 
>> caught your son's name when I channel surfed my way to the President's Cup.
>> Again congratulations on his success.
>> 
>> I just put together a new system to deal with Crysis.  Unfortunately, I 
>> guess I'm still an AMD fanboy and went with an X2 CPU rather than opting 
>> for the new fast Intel chips.  I like my 8800 GTS 512 and my 4 Gigs of 
>> RAM though.  I think the kind of sheer processing power that's available 
>> these days makes groups like agqx obsolete.  I'm not looking for tweaks 
>> and fixes and add-ons to squeeze out precious extra fps (OK, Crysis 
>> completely disproves my point, but every other game I have is running at 
>> maxed out settings and maxed out resolution).
>> 
>> I imagine even EvillBill must have a kick-ass machine these days:-)
>> 
>
>*snort* Mine's a few years old now. It needs replacing <g> Sempron, 1Gig 
>DDR, Geforce 6200 256meg. It gives me the obligatory 85+ FPS in Q3 though ;)

"...obligatory 85+ FPS in Q3..."     hehe

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From: p.F. marXbig <boo@boohoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:49:02 -0500
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