Video cards and knives

Posted by Elliswordpress on September 8, 2013September 8, 2013

Couldn’t help but take another picture of how AWESOME this setup is. Took it for a ride for my seven hour qualitative research course (on a Saturday!) and with three batteries I easily lasted the entire class. I actually only exhausted the external APC battery.

Soo…..yesterday I casually found out an amazing PM deal with NCIX and memoryexpress- got the AMD 7970 1 GHz overclocked edition for $255- that’s down from the original 600ish original MSRP. With power that rivals …if not sometimes surpasses the 680/770 GTX and with performance not terribly far off from the 780 GTX at a price point much much lower (the cheapest 770 is almost 360 right now…I AM STOKED.

Opening the box to the biggest GPU I have ever owned…

Look at those cooling fans!

Compared to my old Nvidia 8600 GTS from 2007 with 256mb video RAM. Wow.

Also picked up USB 3.0 adapters and another 120mm fan.

My Inwin D-Frame looking decked out. It actually can’t handle the CPU end of gaming and it looks like its going to need an overclock or an entirely new CPU. Next year. I might get the Zalman CNPS12X CPU cooler for it. Cause its so sweet.

W made a really really good chicken dinner.

The Kershaw tactical blade I picked up at Cabela with W and G. It feels very substantial in my hand and it fits perfectly. I love the deep grip, assisted swing and the heft of it. Very very happy with this purchase. Cabela store sales people are super super helpful BTW.

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