Dante74

Old thread got moved to the Hall of Super Topics. As promised here's some pics of my new rig. Good thing I got 8 Gigs of RAM in there. I already got it up to 4.4 Gigs of memory usage last week just using Photoshop. It's surprisingly quiet too, thank goodness!

Seconded! Sorry Yamato, butI'm hoping these won't sell very well so I can maybe get one on clearance for 30-50% off.

Thrue, but a lot of them heve apparently never been to a dentist.

29,400 Yen?! Absurd! Absurd I tell you!

I hate stickers even more and I'm pretty sure that's what they are.

Sorry for your loss Jason. Rest in piece Ootis.

I will.

Run Forest! Run!

Not 1/60 DX. 1/72 model kits. wrong thread.

Thanks! So the weathered version will be available through normal channels?... please Yamato?

Can someone translate please?

Looks like a model kit that's been put together by a drunk retard in a hurry me.

...and on the 1/60 DX everything was compromised.

sniff...I love this place.

I'm hoping it'll be half price in a year or so. I'd love to get my hands on this toy, but 28.000 yen is just too much. I paid something close to that for the Hot Toys ED-209 but that thing is so massive it can guard the house.

28.000?! Pass.

After looking at all the pics some more I canceled my pre-order for Alto's VF-25F in favor of Yamato's upcoming Patlabor toy. Too much toy for me. I want a transforming model that I don't need to put together myself. I guess I'll have to wait a decade for Yamato to make one but that's ok...sort of.

$1000 cheaper?! Did you include 2 samsung HD's and an extra set of RAM like I did?

True. If I opted for an SLC HD, I'd have to make compromises on other parts of the system because I (only ) have €3500 to spend, so the Raptors are the best choice for the moment IMO. I'm hoping this system will keep me going for at least three years at which point I expect I'll have to consider replacing the MotherBoard and processor/RAM.

I've looked into the whole SSD thing and as it turns out, they're VERY fast with reading data but VERY slow with writing data, which would not be a very smart choice for a swapfile HD. So I decided to go with a 74 GB Raptor instead of the SSD. Here's the new setup and it has been ordered. Finally! Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3330,speakers Samsung Spinpoint F1,7200RPM, SATA II, 32MB, 1000GB 2x in RAID1 Scythe Floppy - Card Reader Combo Cooler Master Real Power M850,Retail, 850Watt Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550,Boxed, Q9550, Socket 775 Cooler Master Cosmos S case Samsung SH-S202J, Zwart/Ivory, Retail CD/DVD writer PNY Quadro FX3700 512MB Corsair TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF,4096MB, 1066MHz, DDR2, PC8500, 2x GigaByte GA-EP45-DS3R,Retail OCZ Vanquisher processor cooler HP LP2475w 24-inch LCD-monitor Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit,SP1 Western Digital VelociRaptor ,10000RPM, 16MB, 150GB for OS Western Digital Raptor, 74 GB, 10000 RPM, 16 MB, SATA for Swapfiles

So is there any news whether the weathered (sorry, couldn't resist ) versions will be limited or not?

I just saw pics of the 1/72 model from the hobby mags. Now I'm all sad. Why do Bandai stick to the "a model is a model and a toy is a toy and there's no such thing as a detailed collector grade item" theory every time they produce something from the Macross franchise? Looks like my money is going to a weathered destroid.

Is that your sig?! LOL!

Thanks! I was actually thinking of getting one of those.