add a forum style

[bilo86]

I'm not flamming or anything...I am just going to give some suggestions/comments. I stopped posting here for a few months and I cam back recently to the same old forum layout. It wasn't attractive at all. As soon as I got here I just wanted to leave. I think the admin should add another style in the profile options. The white and blue is getting boring and I think if you change it around a bit we might get more members. Again, im only posting my comments for the better of the site.

[MIK3]

We have 3 admins here and not one of them decide to respond to this...and ITS BEEN ONE MONTH. Bah. What is this forum coming to...?

[Keefe]

Its hard to add more styles because our install of phpbb is so heavily modded. I will talk with Uranium and see what he thinks about that.

Thanks for your comments!

[Jason425]

4 month old post gets a reply, woohoo! :)

[MIK3]

lol. I don't know if that was a smartass remark or not, but I'm cracking up. Haha. Man. Uranium-235...where the hell has be been anyway that crazy kid...haha.

[Cannon]

i think that the forum looks fine. well.. to my eyes it does


its not about the looks its about what is inside(information)...

[Jason425]

after 3750 posts it's getting old...but it works.. :/

[Cannon]

lol not even close to being there, but i bet you have a point

[Dragon]

i think that the looks fine. well.. to my eyes it does


its not about the looks its about what is inside.

have you ever said that to a girl?

[Jason425]

:lol: wouldn't we all like to live by that saying... but in practice, we know better.. ;)

[Cannon]

does your mom count? lol jk

well if i culd get a girl then i might try it but me being anerd and all doesnt really work out with the ladies 8)

[Jason425]

pretty much... we'd rather spend time and money on our 2.4c's and 9800 pro's than with them;)

[vee_ess]

ha ha I'm glad I don't have a 2.4c or 9800 then!

[MIK3]

Ah haha. I 2nd that.

[Jason425]

fair enough.. I get my ghz oc, you get aids.. ;)

[Dragon]

good points all. girls are more expensive than computers by alot. i spent 200 on a video card, then 600 on a ring for my girlfriends 18th birthday (not sure how i justified not doing the opposite). plus $50-60 dinners like.. weekly.

[Jason425]

:shake: :o you learned your lesson .. $600 video card, $200 ring.. ;)

[StinkyMojo]

$400 ring $400 vid card 8)

[Jason425]

nope, $799.50 card, .50 ring from the thing @ the grocery store 8)

[StinkyMojo]

What, are you getting some FireGL vid card? :P

[Dragon]

huh, why spend 200 extra for a card engineered for cad not farcry? and btw which fire gl did you mean? (http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php?page_id=5&sortby=popular-&vendors%5B%5D=0&popup1%5B%5D=0&popup1_attr_id%5B%5D=387&popup2%5B%5D=0&popup2_attr_id%5B%5D=596&popup3%5B%5D=0&popup3_attr_id%5B%5D=371&popup4%5B%5D=0&popup4_attr_id%5B%5D=344&popup5%5B%5D=0&popup5_attr_id%5B%5D=54&popup6%5B%5D=0&lo_p=0&hi_p=0&form_keyword=&sortby=priceD)

[Dragon]

Back to the point...... we may as well throw scheme ideas at them for a new forum style. see if they like one. i think a midnight blue or similar scheme would be cool as far as colors go.

or like a sort of milled stainless steel look.

even something simple and geeky, like the old TI comp green screen type looks.

[StinkyMojo]

hmm 04 Civic or http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=699847


which one? :lol:

[Jason425]

$5 rebate YES! the gl

[Cannon]

HELL YES 8)

[vee_ess]

I wouldn't want either. For 15 grand you can get a late sixties Firebird or something in great condition. And while we're OT, $700 ring and $100 video card. I got a BFG 56 U which beat a friends ATi 96 XT ;) (btw he even had it on his 2.4c while i had mine on my 1.0 athlon) for a hundred bucks, so why spend any more. Plus a video card doesn't help you out with the lady.

[Jason425]

that's a pile of lucky crap then.. he must have been running SETI and defragging during 3dmark or something...

[vee_ess]

Ha ha, no he kept making up excuses, and he even reformatted. If we both had FX-53's then maybe his would have beat mine. But ATi's are useless on low-end and mid-end systems, he doesn't have one of the best procs out. Real graphic cards do the graphics processing themselves, they don't need to get the processor to do it for them. Also, mine's a BFG, makes a difference, and the 96 XT's weren't ahead in the first place. If you look at the entire picture, it's not that surpising. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, he insisted on trying multiple benchmarks (however I didn't want to keep going on forever til he found a BM that he could beat me with so I stopped at two, Dacris and 3DMark).

[Jason425]

i almost guarantee he'd kill you in shadermark... and maybe aquamark too..

[vee_ess]

His card suites his purposes and mine suits mine. I have a 1GHz proc, so really, does any one believe that an ATi would work better on my system than an nVidia? Especially when there is nothing for the ATi to pass the work off to? I'm not saying my system is slow or anything, it just doesn't have the raw power to give out a high number of megaflops. (BTW, his 2.4c un-overclocked benched only 48% faster than mine ;))

[Jason425]

well if amd had that lame marketing thing going yours would prob be a 1500+ or something.. so it's about even...

[vee_ess]

Mine is a Thunderbird core, far better than the Palaminos that replaced them (except for the actual clock speed), and by looking at the benchmarks, it's more like 1750+ or so.

Either way my point was you can get a nice video card for 100 bucks, any amount over that will give you only enough gain for you to marginally notice. The extra money you put into a ring, you'll definately notice.

[Jason425]

I was ready to almost compromise with you on the first one.. but the 2nd... I'm just going to have to pretend you didn't say that....

so in regards to the first, don't even try to tell me that a 6800 or x800 is only a marginally noticable gain from a 5600 or 9600.. they're worlds apart..

[vee_ess]

Well, yeah the 6800's and the x800's are in another class altogether, I was thinking more of the same generation when I said that. :blush:

[Jason425]

compromise accepted... :nod:

[vee_ess]

:cheers:

Awesome, and thanks!

[Jason425]

way to get us back on track.. what'd be sweet is OPTIONS in the prefs.. like diff schemes.. that'd be fun...

[Dragon]

so whats happening with this idea anyway?

[Uranium-235]

we're switching to VBulletin. Since it's highly unlikely I'll have to do any modding on it (the templates will stay the same), we can probably install different styles

[Dragon]

awesome!