Maximum PC

Remember HST ?

www.ssegal.com/files/SausageCreature.pdf

That's actually before my time.

I actually done two photo gigs with CycleWorld back in 07; as well as a short story about my first time through Deals Gap, which resulted in me wrecking my nice 04 600r, riding 600 miles home at night with no head lights... Actually got pulled twice by cops. One a state trooper and the 2nd was a local cop near my home when I rolled in around 3am. He was like "almost made it home..." He left me off since I had the first ticket and really was having a bad day.

The funny thing was that I bought a new back protector 2 days before and it probably saved me from injury since I low sided (due to gravel), went into a ditch then the bike threw me 15 feet between a tree stump and a very large rock (5ft apart) on the cliff side... If I had gotten any more air born, I would have dropped something like 400+ ft.

15 mins after the wreck? I stripped off all the plastics and went back out for more knee dragging action! lol

As the old saying goes: There are two types of riders:
Those who have crashed
and those who are going to crash.

(And...there are two types of people:
those who put people into one of two categories,
and those who don't. )

I have been lucky so far. Crashed a couple times, only got slight cuts
and bruises. Good gear (leather, helmets) save my butt.

Yeah, its funny cause when I started riding I heard the phrase "It's not a matter of if you'll crash, it's a matter of when you'll crash." Then right after that "everyone crashes within their first six months of riding".

I didn't make it past 1 month, but it wasn't my fault, its those damn forest rats. (aka Deer) Grrr


When I tell people this or teach people on how to ride (I'm actually a good teacher, taught three girls friends how to ride) they never believe me till they do a mishap. usually its on my bike with a crash cage so its all good. I just laugh at the naive fools who bought the newest bikes on the market to only scrape it a few weeks later with a stupid mistake/drop.

Hey, that's how I get new bikes, time to time; buy their wrecked crap, fix it up for a grand, resell and turn about a 1500 profit. Then again I have like ever piece of tool in my bay, but I want some new stuff like the new gearwrench stuff or snapon tools..... mmmm I'm a motorbike geek.

I recall a couple of years ago the guy who was supposedly a great authority on MC safety
(I forget his name, but he wrote regular magazine columns on "MC safety" -- an oxymoron if there every was one )
was killed when he collided with a deer -- riding at night. It seems to me your risk of accident goes up
dramatically after dark , and it does not take rocket science to reach this conclusion.

Long ago I swore off riding at night -- you can't see the road surface (duh ), which is IMHO
essential to keeping the rubber side down.

Back to new PC builds: What is the current thinking on the expected service life for a high-end gaming rig?
I have thought that when the rig can no longer play at least half of the newest
games on all-max settings, it is then obsolete for gaming and can be retired to ordinary desktop
applications. Call this the rig's "half-life" ?

Up until my recent build, my rigs were "mid-range", and they never were quite able to play
newest games on all-max settings, but they did OK. At 3-4 years, it got harder to find new games that
could be run on high settings, so the rig got an Ubuntu install & went over to the office.

Now, getting to the point: I would like to think my new rig, which I believe is fairly "high-end", should have a
"half-life" of 5 years or so . Hence, I would like to keep it alive at least that long (not drive it so hard that
processors, etc. start to burn out). This is why I have been fishing for good operating temperature ranges for my
Core i7-3960X, a safe range that I know will not fry anything for at least 5 years.