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Platoon was a good VN era movie, I also liked Hamburger Hill and We Were Soldiers.

Burnt Casino Royale with Vista, thats the last DVD released Bond film, the Bond character sure has been through the actors, my favorite was Sean Connery, but Pierce Brosnan did a good job too. IMO of course!



 
I think a James Bond favorite is directly related to your age and what was released during your growing up years, to me Sean Connery was being released during my time, so even though Roger Moore did do some good Bond movies, to me he never did measure up to Sean Connery.

Now don't take offence to that its just my opinion OK, and I'm sure you can relate to it, because probably in your opinion those that came after Roger Moore never measured up to him, at least that seems to hold true in most Bond cases of different favorite actors.

Timothy Dalton did a pretty good Bond also, to give him his due, even though he just didn't seem to completely fit the role for a lot of people.
 
I use Windows Media Player to watch DVDs with Vista 64. I've had other free players installed from titme to time. Just checked and apparently I have no other players 'installed'. but I have the installation files stored on the data disk in this machine. Oh, I have nero 7 Essentials OEM installed . That has a player. I believe one of the other free ones that works is AVS?

So what players do you guys use with Vista 64? While were are on the subject, I have only a very few software installs that will not work onhere. Pinnacle Studio 9 (which has a PCI input card too), My Canon 30 scanner works on Vista 32, but not here, a couple of my wireless network cards work on Vista 32 and not here. I couldn't get Power DVD to work on here. My old Xerox P12 will not work on here, but it doesn't have an XP driver!

I'm not in to Bond films at all. In 1964, my buddy had a model Austin healy of the Bond car in Goldfinger when that movie was out. Tom died recently. That set me back for a few days thinking about an old friend I did a lot of things with. Anyway.

Pierce brosnan. haha, he's in Mamma Mia! LOl. My daughter gave the movie to my wife for Christmas. That's all I hear is those happy songs this holiday. My wife likes the movie. Pierce Brosnan sings! His debut...

Enjoy! 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6SXClYrZc

 
I use Cyberlink DVD8 Player, if you have the right hardware it basically software upconverts to a HD status, great standard DVD playback on my HD LCD monitor.

It also will playback Blueray if you have a Blueray drive in your computer, of which I do Not presently have, maybe one day.

The downside is its all tied into this HDCP copy protection crap hardware and software wise, which somehow probably caused my past problem now that I think of it.

How was your holidays badge?
 
We took two weeks off, so time well spent. Back to work on monday. I could not get Cyberlink OEM to work with Vista 64. How about DVD Shrink, did you install it and try making a copy?

I can't say my next door neighbor of the past 6-7 years had a decent holiday. A guy was at my door last week and I was on the phone about seven 'Press' steps into their automated 'can I assist' you program. I couldn't answer the door and the guy left and got in his car across the street and drove away. Never seen him before. I figured he was trying to deliver a package, we have a lot of stuff shipped to our home instead of the offices. So, yesterday the guy shows up ringing the doorbell. He says, "I'm Clark and I just bought the house next door!" I said, 'Michelle told me she and Darren were seperating, but I didn't know!" Anyway, Clark bought the house in a forclosure deal! So, long story short. Six years ago My neighbor pays probably 65-70K down. Then pays a 4K mortuage for 6-7 years (maybe another 300K). So He looses $365K plus what he would have made on the sale of the house after fees (maybe $150k). So, having his house repossed he looses probably 450K! Constipation!!!!! On top of that his wife leaves him, probably divorces him if the church don't find out. They have three kids like ages 14, 12 and 10. I don't know how He feels, but I want to cry 8(. So my new neighbor has a wife and two year old daughter and is from Boston. I would rather he be from hell! I would drive not through Massacheuttes for money. Sorry, not meant to offend, but I hope his spouse is not a gay lover. I don't know, Ef it. Not my business, but I hate to have to watch this kind of thing happen. LOL. I feel terrible for darren and his family. The last thing I said to him on Xmas day from the driveway was, "merry Xmas" and waved.
 
I have my mciro build about ready to assemble. I was going to go ahead and assemble it tonight in an Antec 300 I have here, but I decided to wait and try and buy a nice micro case. Takes less space.

ASUS 780G mATX w/onboard Radeon 3450
A second Radeon 3450 (native Crossfire with this card. Inexpensive)
AMD X2 5000 stock cooler or I have a new Tuniq Tower 120 about the size of Boston
4 or 8 GBs G. Skill PC6400 which I have
various DVD RW
kaze master fan controller I would like to try
Antec 650w PSU
vista 64

Anyway. I was looking at mATX cases:

Silverstone TJ08

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163058

Silverstone SG03

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163085

















 
I like the TJ08 much better than the other case, a good size 120mm exhaust and an unobstructed 120mm intake, would provide excellent cooling air flow.

badge are you sure you want to limit yourself to a micro atx case, future wise you're stuck keeping it a micro, I just ordered this case to upgrade my secondary machine.

For my intentions its a perfect setup, 2 top 120mm blowholes, rear 120mm exhaust, 2 side 120mm and could possibly replace my present gaming case if it cools as good as I think it will.

This is a mid tower case but not an extremely tall mid tower, anyway its your money, this is just a suggestion.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119152
 
haha. I just drove over to Fry's and had the CM 590 in my hand. Yeah, I like it a lot. It's so similar to my Antec 300 though. You are going to like that case. Directron has it for $49 right now. I been looking at it!

http://www.directron.com/rc590.html

Well, I like the idea of a micro because it's small and if I want to set it up in the office it takes less space. I'll probably use it here behind me for a backup. I have three systems running in this room currently, but one is a AMD 4000 socket 939 and the other is an AMD 3200 socket 754. They are old. But, I have my old Pinnacle Studio 9 and a Canon scanner on the one system. It's kind of an official windows xp system I keep around the house. Neither Pinnacle or the old Canon Lido Scan work on Vista 64, which me, my wife and my son all use..

Yeah, I would eventually like to try a new AMD quad core when the price drops in a few months. Not even released yet. LOL. I like the idea of having another modern quad core around eventually. That's the only reason beside the cheap price that I am building this one. It's all just an expensive hobby and time to play anyway.

I would have bought the CM 590 tonight if I did not have two brand new Antec 300's sitting here in the box. I asked a clerk at the desk at Fry's to look up the Silverstone TJ08 and check stock. They were out. I showed my son and his GF the CM590 and said I should buy it.
 
Actually I bought my case from Directron, since you've always listed Newegg if you showed interest I was going to tell you it was cheaper at Directron.

I basically shop online between Newegg, Directron, Tiger Direct, and CrazyPC, I've always had good results from all of them.

I was looking at the Antec 900 case, and ran across the Coolermaster Centurion 590, it just looked like what I was looking for, since I really didn't want a clear side window, or the size fan in the top of the 900, that was the final decision not to go with the Antec 900.
 
I like the fan in the top of the 900... that was exactly why I went with it. It moves a fair amount of air without a lot of noise... all the other fans running in my system make enough. My Lian Li though is probably still my favorite... getting inside and working on anything with it was a breeze... all thumbscrews. The only things not secured by thumbscrews were the drives themselves.
 
The CM 590 has two 120mm roof fans. Ryan should have a cool running system with the case. Which Lian Li do you have (link)? I have a Lian li case. It had really poor airflow until I installed a bunch of fans to cool the A8N32-SLI in there. It does ok now, but you would not believe what I had to do to get it there. For one I velcrowed a basement fan under the second video card. That's oly the beginning 8).

Teah, after talking about the Silverstone TJ08 I went back and looked at the pics some more. I think I'm going to pass. Really as far as how the space is layed out it's not much different than this Coolermaster mATX I built my wife's micro system with. This is much cheaper and if you think about, about the same size with similiar layout. I paid like $39.99 at Fry's. Npow I'm stuck on which mATX to buy. I may just use one of the new Antec 300's I have sitting here in the box.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119149
 
The A8N32-SLI runs hotter than most other skt939 M/Bs I've used, I 've had an EpoX, DFI Lanparty, and Gigabyte, besides the ASUS which I still have on the shelf, but she just ran hotter than any other M/B did, and was a challenge to keep cool.

I went through drastic case modifications to keep it cool enough to get descent OCing out of her, its tough to get the OC you're after when the M/B runs hot to start with.

Heres a pic of my modified Cheiftec Dragon Mid Tower case.

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I'm not bashing the 900 I almost bought it, as a matter of fact I've had my eye on it for at least a year now, the top fan only turned me off because of my present case modifications to my Cheiftec gaming case.

I modded the case to accept 2 120mm blowholes, then later remodded it to accept 2 140mm fans of which the first set of 140mm I purchased didn't pull enough air, actually the 140mm fan at the time of this mod had just come on the market and I had to go with the Sharkoons at the time as they were the highest CFM 140mm fans I could find.

The Sharkoon 140mms worked great, but that made me leary of the higher diameter fans silent claims not pulling the air I want moved, thats just my explanation for my choice, the 900 may be all its claimed to be, its just the Coolermaster Centurion 590, is what I decided on.

Also my favorite case is my old Cheiftec Dragon, its gone through about 5 different modding sessions, and is still a seriously strong case, and could be modded again if need be but I've finally got her where I want her, and compared to its initial public release its way more efficient at cooling than it traditionally was in the beginning.

I modded it because I had ideas to improve the initial case airflow path, I could have easily bought some case possibly close to my ideas, if there had been one.

But wheres the fun in that, I love performance modding cases!

My dad always said, "Why can't you just leave things alone, you think you know more than the manufacturer designers that designed the the things in the first place."

Uh Yeah!

Most traditional case designs are cookie cutter do whats been done with little variations, but its good to see new designs finally appearing on the market.

Heres a good example of possible design changes coming, with chambered sections to isolate the heat production of each section.

Its not completely there yet but Thermaltake is definitely taking a step in the right direction, its a little on the expensive side, but as always you get what you pay for.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133072

Better pictures of the Thermaltake Spedo design.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cases_cooling/thermaltake_spedo_advance_chassis/1
 
I still use my A8N32-SLI in a back office. It has an AMD 4800 X2 2.4GHz with slight OC, 2 x 1 GB OCZ Platinum PC3200 and 2 x 8600GT with Vista 32. It's a pretty nice system, being dual core running Vista. I use a Corsair RAM cooler with 3 x 40mm fans blowing directly down onto the RAM/MB. Then a 90mm Zalman with arm extending out like a side window fan where ther is no side panel window. Then the basement 80mm fan under the lower video card. Then a Antec blower out the lower back end and a three x 40mm HD coooler in the top most 5.25 front bay drawing air into the top of the case. Thats in addition to three stock 80mm front, back and top fans. Then a Zalman 9500 HSF. I really move the heat around that way. It works!

I also have the A8N-SLI with an AMD FX55 in this case. Sounds like a Ferrari when I fire it up! I like it. The case is nice and the paint has a car-like finish.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108051



 
I use the complete Iobit Systemcare Free version on a lot of machines including my three Vista 64 and two Vista 32 systems. The defragmenter is included under utilities. I have no troble with this software suite so far.

http://www.iobit.com/
 
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