What did you get for Christmas?

[PP Mguire]

Just figured id ask so we dont spam the what you got lately thread for this special holiday. I got:
new flanel bath robe,
Spongebob beadspread,
new angle grinder with extra stuff (extra package includes more sanders and such),
A pink DS Lite,
Lots of smelly stuff like Axe and Curve,
A Longhorns Santa hat,
Homer PJs,
Stanley toolbox (midsized) with 2 Craftsman tool sets (one socket set and one screwdriver set),
Dremel and Dremel accesories,
Ibanez S series (specs a mile long, freakin sweet guitar),
AND a cheap $30 case for the server that i can hack up to make look cool.
:keepfolding: :icon_tiphat:

Happy holidays folks.

[mousiness]

I Got...

A Whole Heapload of Jeans And T=SHirts
2 Sweaters
3 Pairs of hockey pyjamas LOL
boxers
10 kinder surprise eggs
a bunch of chips
saitek joystick (not sure of the model but its the 2 piece one)
an HP c4180 printer
my new pc is currently on delivery

and thats pretty much it except for boxing day blowout buying tomorrow!!!:wink:

[werty316]

Didn't ask for much this year but I did order a 500GB HD for myself.

A pink DS Lite,
Was this a joke gift?

[darkorb]

from relatives,
$160 cash
Sweater
T-Shirt

From Parents:
Ram - 2x512mb Kingston (Valued at $150 WOWz()RS)
3 Kinder Surprise Eggs, M&M's
Model Car, 1968 Chevy Camaro Z/28 Coupe
and Gillete Fuzion shaving kit!

tonight going to other g-mas

check this out! http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowPromote3#giveaway

go to the bottom of the page

u think its gonna be busy tomorow? my bro needs a moniter there, and i need to get him css at BB

[vfrex]

Ibanez S series (specs a mile long, freakin sweet guitar),

Excellent!

[Scott]

Midieval Total War II
Underware
Socks
Watch
U2 CD
Jimmy Buffett CD
Lots of cash

[werty316]

tonight going to other g-mas

check this out! http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowPromote3#giveaway

go to the bottom of the page
You better pitch up a tent if you want to get one of those giveaways.

[Raptorfury]

i got a digital camera
an eagle porceline
balancing balls , its the ones when you swing one it continues
a collectors edition Buck knife and a travle case for camera

[PP Mguire]

Was this a joke gift? Nope, i wanted the pink one. I like the color pink really. I didnt expect to get it though, it was really a suprise along with the guitar.
Excellent! Yes sir it is, very. Alder body, quilted maple top, blonde/natural finish, Ibanez "floyd", Dimarzio Evo2s (double single double), Wizard2 neck, Earvana compinsating nut (dad put that on), and a new skull strap! Its freakin sweet.

[darkorb]

anyways, bro is getting the lg moniter tomorow, for 240$ 19"

and im getting css for him at BB, and maybe aprinter for the family. gonna see if they have cheap memory sticks for quick backup

[Enigmachine]

I got a bottle of green ketchup.

No kidding.

It's pretty good actually. :)

[Kougar]

A little cash for a watercooling part of my choice.
One of these beauties from my mum http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=352
2007 Ships of the Line Calendar
Another one of thoes space pens, apparently they are now sold at military exchanges for 1/3rd the usual "Nasa Space Pen" prices... these things are so darn handy.
And technically my Dell 2407 was a partial gift, but I got it awhile back now. :)

Am I the only one that didn't get even a single sock for clothing? :ahhhhh:

[Bio-Hazard]

Boy is that radiator really over priced, I sure hope it cools twice as good as the others out there, but you can't fault Koolance products on their looks.......;)

[Schwarz]

Well I got 9 bottles of wine.
Over 500 bucks in cash.
A philips Philishave shaver.
And coins from Royal Canadian Mint.

[Null]

I got a rock.

[Victor]

got a couple of gift cards that's it.

[GIBSON]

I got an iPod video (sweeeeeeeet)
a wallet
2 rodenbachs (excellent beer)
some hairgel
some money

[Enigmachine]

I got a rock.

Wanna trade for my ketchup? :) It's really rare. :)

And maybe your rock has gold in it. At least it's a durable gift.

[GIBSON]

Wanna trade for my ketchup? :) It's really rare. :)

And maybe your rock has gold in it. At least it's a durable gift.
LOL

well, a while ago I read in the paper that a woman in the US received this really big weird stone from her sister. She kept it for years and it turned out to be a big piece of whale puke. The stuff seems to be worth its weight in gold as it is used to make parfume etc. So she ended up selling it for a lot of cash :)

[Coolest-Tech]

I got:
From my parents: Nothing
From my grandfather: $25 check. :p

[slugbug]

Some shirts, socks, slippers, 2 boxes of chocolates, a bottle of wine, and some cash.
Werty, did you order your 500gb HD from Anitec.ca last night?
They had 5 500gb Hitachi sata2 for $99.95 ea. Sold out too fast for me.

[Enigmachine]

LOL

well, a while ago I read in the paper that a woman in the US received this really big weird stone from her sister. She kept it for years and it turned out to be a big piece of whale puke. The stuff seems to be worth its weight in gold as it is used to make parfume etc. So she ended up selling it for a lot of cash :)

Whale puke? Well... I guess they can get seasick like anyone else. :)

I know what you mean though. In the summer I often spend hours searching garage sales and flea markets for collectibles. One of the best deals I made so far is one of those old all-wood hockey games (name slips my head for now, but it was made in 1945) that I resold 3 times the price :)

Nowhere near making millions, but you never know. :)

[Scott]

Yup just call me NVNEWS, I ban everyone.

[GIBSON]

Whale puke? Well... I guess they can get seasick like anyone else. :)

I know what you mean though. In the summer I often spend hours searching garage sales and flea markets for collectibles. One of the best deals I made so far is one of those old all-wood hockey games (name slips my head for now, but it was made in 1945) that I resold 3 times the price :)

Nowhere near making millions, but you never know. :)
Well, if you really want to know, whales can't digest the bones etc. from the other fish they ate, so they puke them out after a while. It's supposed to be a really strong binding substance.

[XJnine]

My main gift I got early but it was still x-mas. The wife let me get a new PC. I ended up with an EVGA 680i mobo, a Core2Duo E6600 with a Zalman 9700 cooler, an XFX 8800GTX, 2GB Corsair 8500 DDR2 memory, (4) 500GB Western Digital RAID edition HD's, a Plextor 755SA SATA DVD burner, and an Antec P180B case.

I stillended up getting a few things on Christmas day. A wok, a couple books, some pajama pants, socks, a dresser-top organizer for all my junk, and some cd's.

I got a Wii for the kids but that's kinda for me too... ;-) I guess all the bottle of wine I got for the wife are kinda for me also... Giggity giggity

[mousiness]

lucky.... and about the whale puke, i wanna buy some of that binding subtance, itd be hilarious to hold a rock and then find out its whalepuke HAHAHA

[PP Mguire]

Hey Kougar, your mom got you that radiator?? Or did i read that wrong? Cause thats pretty sweet.

XJ insanely nice PC man. Must be nice for teh woman to let you go out and buy PC parts.

And im guessing this Whale puke didnt come from one of the giant ones. They eat plankton, which of course has no bones ;)

[Kougar]

Boy is that radiator really over priced, I sure hope it cools twice as good as the others out there, but you can't fault Koolance products on their looks.......;)

If that Thermochil model was mountable in the same fashion and as secure a mount as this one, then I'd have jumped on it myself! Thankfully I know where she ordered that one from, got it over $50 below that price which is somewhat better... And did you see how much Thermochill wants for their radiator/fan guards, shroud, fans, before tubing/PCI slot and such? It quickly added up anyway... ;-)

That's a sweet rig XJNine! Let us know if you run into any problems with that motherboard... :thumleft:

Edit: Yea, she did. It was a heck of a surprise too, I guess I need to keep her in the loop on my pet computer projects more often :lol: Is very nice to receive something you wanted/can actually use, for a change.

[XJnine]

XJ insanely nice PC man. Must be nice for teh woman to let you go out and buy PC parts.


That's a sweet rig XJNine! Let us know if you run into any problems with that motherboard...

I had gone about 3 years without an upgrade so my wife knew I was due for a major overhaul.

I've had the system for about a month now. I had some initial issues with the SATA bug on the 680i mobo but I was able to get around the problem with my BIOS settings until they releasxed the fix a while back.

I'm currently running my CPU at 3.6ghz and my memory at 1100mhz. I've had the system post at over 3.7ghz but it would generate some errors in Orthos (program that runs 2 instances of prime95 to better test dual core cpu's). With some tweaking I hope to get it stable up there. I also want to see what the max speed I can get this thing to boot into windows will be.

I'm really looking forward to when nvidia releases their drivers for using one of their cards for physics processing. This motherboard has a 3rd PCIe x16 slot and I really want to throw a 7600 or so card in there for some physics action.

[Bio-Hazard]

If that Thermochil model was mountable in the same fashion and as secure a mount as this one, then I'd have jumped on it myself! Thankfully I know where she ordered that one from, got it over $50 below that price which is somewhat better... And did you see how much Thermochill wants for their radiator/fan guards, shroud, fans, before tubing/PCI slot and such? It quickly added up anyway... ;-)

That's a sweet rig XJNine! Let us know if you run into any problems with that motherboard... :thumleft:

Edit: Yea, she did. It was a heck of a surprise too, I guess I need to keep her in the loop on my pet computer projects more often :lol: Is very nice to receive something you wanted/can actually use, for a change.

Yah, thermalchill isn't cheap either, that's why I don't have have one myself. The performance delta between any of the name brand radiators is not going to be all that much when it comes down to real world performance, with all the other components being equal anyway, maybe a degree or 2 at the most.

[DragonMaster]

I got a rock.
Me too, a 400 M years one, a small fossil in fact ;)

other stuff :
$600,
3 pair of socks,
3 books,
chocolates,
a pillowcase :lol: .

[PP Mguire]

Heck yes for pillow cases. 2 Spongebob ones came with my set :)

Thats some pretty spiffy WC stuff there. And Nvidia is now doing the whole Physics thing too? I thought that was gonna die off like the PhysX card did.

[XJnine]

ATI and Nvidia are pretty much the ones killing off the PhysX card by coming out with the ability to do physics on their GPU's. Being able to use an older, cheaper GPU, instead of the rather expensive PhysX card will mean that the video card companies will have a big advantage when the games supporting Havok physics start hitting the street.

[werty316]

And Nvidia is now doing the whole Physics thing too? I thought that was gonna die off like the PhysX card did.

Considering there really isn't anything that took advantage of any physics card, it didn't really die off since there was nothing to start the physics age in PC gaming.

Ageia was just premature and wanted to be the first in the physic department in the world of PC games even though there were not killer apps for it.

[Kougar]

Ageia tried to create a niche in the market for themselves, and by the time they suceeded in making physics processing a key word, they drew the attention of the GPU giants.

Considering GPUs are much better suited now for processing anything ya want, it shouldn't have been much of a surprise that it panned out like this. Even so, Ageia is still making good off of it since they distribute their PPUs through Dell and most enthusiast sites now, and people are buying them bundled with PCs.

[PP Mguire]

Which is dumb because they dont even take full advantage of them. W/e