Hey Dudes, Ive been searchin for a place that sells high end pc parts and water cooling stuff, besides gettin it from new egg, Ive been building PC for about 8 years now and every time I look for somethin like that it's no where around broken arrow or tulsa and I cant even find a website that sells that stuff in the big "OK City" either
Im gonna open up My own shop and build some inventory up and put an add in the Yellow pages that reads Johnny's Extreme PC
Ive already been running My buisness under that name so I think I'll stick with er'
I run My own FPS servers, to name 1 is COD 4 and waitin for the linux binaries to come out for COD World at War and will be openin 1 of those servers up as well
I started running game servers directly after RTCW Enemy Territory came out
Are there any other Extreme PC builders here?
If you can't wait you might try AllPro in Tulsa, I know they used to do gaming builds, not extreme usually but I don't think there's much money in it right now. Honestly, I've tried a bit of that local but I always end up going back to the internet.
I'm an extreme builder as too but I generally do absolutely nutty stuff like submerging a cheap air conditioner in transformer oil and circulating that over my northbridge, cpu, and videocard. Then overclock them all until they smell funny. I've toned it down quite a bit because I'm married now and sending her through medical school, so I don't have much money to blow on blowing up expensive computer stuff. I've always wanted to run an overclocked cluster in a deep freezer converted to circulate mineral oil or diesel through an refrigeration coil and onto the mobos & chips. If you're interested in building something like that, let me know. I'd be happy to help for free and I'm decent with micro controllers and electronics in general so I could do stuff like build a pressure regulation deal or a temp monitor on the outside with an automatic emergency shutdown, leak detection, etc.
And since you spoke of gaming servers, I'm planning to start setting up a few virtual machines that act as gaming servers. If you set em up right I bet you can minimize performance impact. Namely using a stripped down version of Linux as a base and running the VMs on top of that. I'm thinking I'll go with gentoo or try to find a distro suited entirely to running VMs.
Anyway, ultimately it'd be best to just have the game running on a computer, but I'm setting these things up to run for lan parties, so I'll only need them up every now and again, and this is the cheapest most portable way of running them without having to have one computer set up with every game I ever plan to run stuck on a windows install. Yuck. (That would suck)