The surgery was a success, then.... and people sitting behind you at the MCG don't have a 2nd helmet to peer around/over.

Just as well... I hear those ping-pong crowds aren't as understanding about helmets blocking their view as the cricket mob.

Same here!  I have crushed nerves in my cervical spine that make me perspire profusely, particularly in hot AND humid weather, and that can make me feel quite ill at times.  Even in Winter I can saturate a T-shirt just mowing the lawn... but in Summer it's worse and I can become quite ill afterwards... probably will have to pay somebody to do it for me next Summer,

I found a benchmarking Demo...of Resident Evil 5 .....seems like my machine handles it OK....

Forgot to close other stuff in the background, though....[was running 'MyDefrag 4.0' at the same time....

Showoff.

off topic

jafo, i think you love winky smiley faces

and is that signature of sorts? i just noticed all your posts seem to have one if not more( i never saw a large amount of them til about now)

Yes, probably.

They 'help' convey a friendly atmosphere.

Often comments without them are seen by others as authoritarian and argumentative, if not down-right hostile...

Affectation, maybe...but if you see a particular comment from me without one.....chances are I'm somewhere between frustrated and annoyed with someone...

...maybe someday I'll be able to give you a Winki......

.....I'm not overly optimistic.

I reran the RE 5 Benchmark demo....whilst monitoring GPU temps as it played.

Managed a max of 83c [on 40% fan] which wasn't too bad at all...

It's a pretty darn graphic-intensive game....

My old machine...2 generations ago [in between was the P4 / 3gig with 2gig ram and an ATI 3850 AGP in the Lian Li PC60 case].

This is a Slot one, P3/500 with 192 meg ...using an old PSU from an Ipex desktop case.

I'm thinking of doing something 'artistic' with it...leaving it naked but functioning.

The only bit really not 'original' is the HD....it's not the original 1.2 Gig.

To the right is my wife's old machine...[was the Ipex]...a 1.6gig P4 ... now a test-bed for all the Screensavers I mod.  [saves screwing up my i7]...

Someone has WAY too much time on his hands...

I'd think twice before trying to type on that KeyBoard unless you'd want shock therapy to your left elbow -- loose wires can fry pine slabs even if varnished, not that putting a vinyl album on that turntable wouldn't mean a few acrobatic moves either.

Towers are better left sealed, once 120'ed.

Thunder even blew up a Beta VCR through 60ohms cabling.

Spike suppressors can save a gear -- if you're lucky.

Grey foam pads underneath a mobo don't prevent body static though.

Jafo...  have you setup the new system to dual boot or triple boot between different operating systems??   I always recommend at least a dual booting environment for several reasons.

If YES to the above question...  what have been the differences when running benchmark tests??

I just recently installed the 64 bit ver of Win 7 ....but on a separate phys HD....each OS is in a separate hot-swap caddy...so only one is negaged at any one time....and only the 32 bit win7 has all the kit loaded for benchmarking, etc...

"negaged"? i'll have to look that up.

he's going to hurt me in september, i'm sure.