Good afternoon, all.  My name is Mark.  I'm a computer engineer from the Willow Grove area of PA, where I build, repair, maintain, and program all sorts of PCs from crappy little Dell Dimensions that are five years old to a PC that I built with my own two hands that ranks inside the top 1% of all computers ranked in the world with 3DMark06.

I've been looking for something like this group for quite some time now, with my roommate and best friend Jeremy, who is also signed up on this site.  We both work at the same small company.  I'm looking forward to doing something to help out here, as well as assist with future events.

We would like to attend soon.  We've been lurking around the forums and checking out the website lately, but work has had us too wrapped up to really spend any time interacting.  Now that we have a three day weekend, we decided to have a look and see what you folks have to offer, and what we might be able to contribute! :-)

Thanks for the warm welcome and the great advice.  I'll see you around!

We wanted to get the customer water cooling, however, to properly implement it, it would have run him another $500 or so.  He wanted to stick to air cooling, even if it meant he had to shut down every three hours.

Sadness, I know.  My next box will be water cooled.  Period.

Whatcha lookin for?

PCIe 2.0 is coming in November with the nForce 700/Intel p38 MoBo's.  DDR3 and PCIe2 will be the new standard, intel almost got me with their 2.6GHz quad cores for $266-290.  Wait a bit if you want something that can be upgraded.