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At the time i was working and earning over 2k a week...

$1500 Processor > Intel i7 980x Extreme Edition 6 Cores
$1200 gfx cards > Nvidia Geforce GTX 580 x 2 ( In SLI )

I didnt want to buy el cheapo either... all parts to this day are still running

Just bought a CRKT Firespark as my new EDC knife. Way better than the (free) POS Gerber I was rocking.

I too like to stick with companies I trust. Ha, but I bet your computer still costs more than my car with it's rebuild lol. Do you plan to upgrade to 6xx series any time soon? Or will you go straight to 7xx(or whatever it'll be called)?

Bought 8 renames off rukus

Big picture warning:

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Just picked up the ACOG today. Had the upper for awhile, bought the lower a few weeks ago. Range time on tuesday for sight in and function test hopefully.

is that Troy buis?

also nice ACOG man...post vids will ya?

Yeah. Those are troys. Build is as follows:

16" Recon weight BHW barrel (1:8 three grove polygonal twist)
Parallax Tactical slim rail
Daniel Defense Muzzle brake (swapping on a Battlecomp probably)
Rguns upper and nickle boron bolt
Troy front/rear sights
Trijicon TA11H acog
LMT complete LEO marked 2-stage trigger lower

Still need to figure out my sling setup. The LMT doesn't have provisions for the way I prefer it (as close as possible to the ends of the receivers), so I'm going to have to get an Ikickhippies SLAP or a magpul ASAP. Going to pick up a magpul RSA today at work for the rear rail slot.

Pre-ordered an Oculus Rift Dev Kit($300):

ONLY $300!? Full price?

Yup Dev kits are $300. But do you plan to develop for it? If not wait for the consumer one. They plan to have it out by the end of the year, hopefully around the same price. I don't mind getting both, but my main reason for getting a dev kit is because I actually wanted to modify some of my games to use it. (Making a game in UDK atm)

Future purchase, in about a week.


Probably going to get an auxiliary cable for my car too. As of now, I can only use my iPhone 4, but afterwards I'll be able to either use my 5 or my iPad Mini.

This post has been edited by GT3 RS on Feb 24 2013, 09:32 PM

Iphone 5 really? Not that that's a bad thing, but the hardware is really lacking against it's competitors.

Personally I'd like to upgrade to a Sony Xperia Z, but it probably won't come to Sprint T_T. Next best option is a Galaxy S IV, but...it's gpu could have been better T_T. It does however have the new Exynos 5450 Octo-core O_o.

If you're in the US, I highly highly suggest/recommend that you buy your aux cable from monoprice.com, you can get some seriously high quality cable, and it's cheap. Premium 10 ft cable? $2...Want a highspeed HDMI cable 25ft of it? $20 ...lol

This post has been edited by Blue-Sensei on Feb 26 2013, 11:25 AM

I've just gotten so familiar with the iOS interface over the years, and I just need something new. My 4's processor can't run iOS 6.X without it being slow, and the apps are slow as well. Facebook constantly jams up, and will crash from time to time.

Also, I REALLY want the panoramic camera feature.

I have panorama mode on my S II. As does my brother on his Note II.

Samsung > Apple

Have you ever had any experience with the Android platform? I used to be on a 1G and 3GS iPhone (at the time I thought it was bloody amazing) but then I took an arrow to the knee...In all seriousness, when I went to my SII, everything was just better lol. But then again I like to extra stuff with my phone. Like emulation for example, being able to play N64 games or hooking up a ps3 controller wirelessly, etc.

No. At this point, I don't plan to. I'm just too familiar with the iOS interface. I've had two iPod touches, the iPhone I have now, a 2G iPad (shared in my family), and an iPad mini. I've also gotten familiar with iTunes, and having a phone and tablet that can sync with the same program makes my life easier. I don't need all of the extra stuff like what you mentioned. The iPhone does the job for me.

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Iphone 5 really? Not that that's a bad thing, but the hardware is really lacking against it's competitors. Personally I'd like to upgrade to a Sony Xperia Z, but it probably won't come to Sprint T_T. Next best option is a Galaxy S IV, but...it's gpu could have been better T_T. It does however have the new Exynos 5450 Octo-core O_o. If you're in the US, I highly highly suggest/recommend that you buy your aux cable from monoprice.com, you can get some seriously high quality cable, and it's cheap. Premium 10 ft cable? $2...Want a highspeed HDMI cable 25ft of it? $20 ...lol

I'd get either an Xperia Z or a Lumia 920.

I don't like Samsung that much tbh, their phones may be beast on the inside but they're rather cheap and flimsy on the outside. And most of their phones have a bland and boring design - the Galaxy S3's camera is actually protruding a bit making the camera more vulnerable to damage /:

I think I'd get an iPhone 5 instead of a Galaxy S3, but eh, that's only if I were to choose between those two phones. If I were to choose from all the flagship phones of now though, I'd stick to what I said above: either Xperia Z or Lumia 920.

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This post has been edited by +-!mma_N00B-+ on Feb 28 2013, 05:58 AM

I'd get either an Xperia Z or a Lumia 920.

I don't like Samsung that much tbh, their phones may be beast on the inside but they're rather cheap and flimsy on the outside. And most of their phones have a bland and boring design - the Galaxy S3's camera is actually protruding a bit making the camera more vulnerable to damage /:

I think I'd get an iPhone 5 instead of a Galaxy S3, but eh, that's only if I were to choose between those two phones. If I were to choose from all the flagship phones of now though, I'd stick to what I said above: either Xperia Z or Lumia 920.

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This post has been edited by +-!mma_N00B-+ on Feb 28 2013, 05:58 AM

Hardware lacking, ahahah. b*tch please, if anything it's the software that's lacking, and right now Jailbroken iPhone>Android. Stock iOS is shit though.

Oh and I own an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 4. I've owned both SGS II and III with the Exynos chipset. Hated it so much I never even used it as my main phone.

Honestly Windows Phone is not that great. The interface is fantastic but it really lacks in the application department and it doesn't feel like a polished/finished operating system. Feels more like one in beta.

And yes. I've owned a Windows Phone too. Sold it because it ended up collecting dust.

The Xperia Z is one of the nicest looking phones. The HTC One is not bad either. The thing with Android devices, or non Apple devices is that after about 6 months to around a year, they're not worth shit anymore. They cost $700-800+ brand new and within that time frame the price will drop to $300-400 brand new. It's pretty retarded.

Oh what's up with phones getting 5+ inches now. I hate it. I want to use my phone with one hand dammit. I don't want to have to stretch just to pull down the notification centre or use it in awkward positions. If I wanted a bigger screen I'd use my Nexus 7 or my iPad god dammit.

Exqlusive, I think WP8 has a lot of potential. Sure, the apps are scarce but it isn't really that surprising, being a new OS and all. It'll be a matter of time until WP8's Marketplace gets booming. Also don't get me started on the sales figures of the Nokia Lumias and how Nokia is not the only WP8 phone manufacturer lol. You could pretty much say that WP8 can have all the support it needs in the near future if you think of it.

I also agree to the ridiculously fast depreciation of phones nowadays. I got me a Nokia 700 only to find out that Symbian's officially extinct 2 months later, and that midrange Lumias like the 620 are very tempting >.>

Back to Android and iOS though, a friend of mine said this on facebook and I'm gonna quote it here since I kinda agree with what he said:

This post has been edited by +-!mma_N00B-+ on Feb 28 2013, 08:10 AM

I forgot to mention this here, but last week I got myself a copy of Dragon's Dogma (PS3) for 800 pesos (20US$ converted). Quite a win for me, since the game only came out a few months ago... and I'm totally rocking the gameplay!

Exquisite is actually right, Windows lack a lot

I have android right now & its stock, its not the best running phone as I have the crappy Chinese android but Its has a lot of the basics that other ps don't have (like bluetooth transfer)

I have ios6 on the iPhone 3gs which is fine if your not tech savvy, but other then that software not that great

I have own all of the os out there in the market, my most reliable phone is still my black & white Nokia from way back & I'm still using till this day ( I have 4 phones as I don't like to roam)

On a lighter note just bought.... I mean rented a new place with my dad (ya u could say I bought or rented a new place)

The thing with WP8/Windows Phone in general is that your stuck with whatever Microsoft gives you, which isn't a whole lot.

Android has rooting and ROM's, iOS has jailbreaking and WP8, well, it has nothing. Another point is that both Android and iOS have huge developer/community interests so you always have something new cropping up (a new rom/kernel, a new jailbreak tweak etc.)

With Windows Phone, if you don't like what you get, well tough luck. You can't do shit with it. You can try Googling your problems, but the only answers you'll find "You can't do that yet on Windows Phone".

Windows Phone fails to do all the little things too. It seems so frustrating to use it as a daily device. Like for example, what idiot decided not to have an option to turn off auto-rotate. It's so stupid. To turn it off, I have to search on XDA for one app, which I have to download to my computer, then I have to get a developers account from Microsoft and register my phone with them, then I have to download a shitload of SDK's and software, and then finally I can have the ability to turn off auto-rotation.

Another annoying "feature" is the people's hub. When you first start the phone, it asks for a Hotmail account/a Microsoft account, alright that seems fine, but what it doesn't tell you is that it adds all your freaking contacts from Hotmail, Facebook etc., so now I have 1000 contacts on my phone, none of which I want and none of which are actually my goddamn contact list. There is no way to fix this either, the only option is to completely reset the phone to factory and re-do the whole process with an email address that has no contacts, and then add in your actual email later on.

Oh, did I tell you it automatically syncs your Facebook calendar to your Hotmail? So I had to go delete that one by one, or else my other phones will give me a notification every single f**king day because it's someones birthday.

Windows Phone is just filled with shit like this. You want a different tile colour than the ones we have? Too bad. You want notifications from Whatsapp/Kakao/Viber? Well too bad. You want Instagram? Here how about hundreds of half-assed copied apps instead.

Honestly, it's not going to boom. They will always stay behind iOS and Android. Especially since Microsoft is so keen on forcing manufacturers to follow it's design rules (Stuck with the dual core Krait's + Adreno 220-320's).

In the minds of consumers, Microsoft/Windows stands for shitty operating system that crashes all the time, people don't think good things when they hear Micoroft or Windows. They;re trying to pull an Apple when they clearly do not have the power to do so.

Microsoft is in cahoots with FB. That explains the calendar syncing, which my SII does as well btw. As for the contacts, Android did the same thing to me. Any contact I had on my GMail, which wasn't much, was automatically synced with my contacts. Now I don't mind as much, because when I got my SII, it wasn't to mod. I didn't buy Android over iOS or WP7 because of rooting. My only reasons for the SII; I love the way it looks physically, it's processing power is good, wasn't too expensive, and it wasn't Apple.

Honestly, had I found a WP7 that looked as sexy as my phone, I'd have gotten that. Because in the end, all I use my phone is for phone calls, text, camera, web, and the occasional app. If I want to hack, I'd rather spend my time learning how to write code.

My SGSII, SGS III, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 never did any of this and neither did my iPhone 4S, 5. In fact, none of my previous devices has done this.

Calender would never sync'd unless I'd specifically told it to and neither would my contacts.

Where you on ICS?