Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.

I care, Paul.

I'd post my rig's specs but Kona would say they aren't good.

Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.

Nothing new there.

And he wonders why I comment when he speaks.  Nothing new, been like that for years.

Tim, my box has 16 GB ram, 2 EVGA GTX 650 gfx cards pushing 4 monitors@ 7400x1080 and a 32 inch HDTV, 2 X 1TB platter drives, one 256 GB SSD and a triple core CPU.

I'd put it up against your lappy anytime...hehe.

Terry, if it weren't for those of us who do upgrade our systems, you wouldn't have the rig you're posting from.

You should be glad we upgrade our systems and have extra parts to send you. You really take the cake sometimes......

You guys misunderstand me and my intentions. First of all I will always be grateful for this machine and the help I received. That will never change, and as always I say thank you very much. It just seems that every time there is talk about hardware Jafo comes in and says what he has in a manner that reflects an attitude of "look what I have. It's better than yours." He did it back in the Pentium 4 days as well. Now I am sure he is proud of what he build and that great. I just don't think we need to hear comments like "I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600" or "I didn't mention the 6TB of HDD or the 256G SSD". It just comes off a bit antagonistic. Sure, many people here have rigs with better hardware than a notebook. I don't see them posting such comments unless asked to do so.

Perhaps I read those comments wrong. For that I am sorry.

Oh and WOM - People do change. You just fail to see it. 

I think Paul covered that in reply #30.

actually, hank and wom have it right.

I wasn't posting for your benefit.  I rarely do.

It was in reply to 2of3 who suggested the laptop specs he posted were that good they'd hold their own with any Desktop.

They do not.

It is a statement of fact, not an ego-trip.

Laptops have always been higher-priced for the same/equivalent specs for a Desktop.  Sure, they get better than they once were...but so do Desktops.

...and yes, you read those comments wrong, so no, nothing has changed.

They usually do.

Wow, that is a somewhat pricey fan. $26.99 at Newegg plus shipping. I paid  $9.99 for mine with a fan speed controller, of course, it is a Rosewill, I'm on a very tight budget.  

Now, I am off to shutdown this system, which still has the new fan sitting on the outside of the V8 and shall install it correctly...which requires the removal of the cooler from the MoBo...aka a system rebuild.

The laptop with that horrible Windows 8 will still be on...so if all goes pear-shaped I won't be totally lost....

Finally.