I live in vb during summer most likely surf is minimal about knee high waves unless some kinda storm or anything forms which we all wish and hope for, but i suggest staying away from 1st street or croatan during summer because its so crowded its hard to learn when everyone and their mom is catching the same wave. so I suggest going to the north end which is basically where the hotels end and the houses begin less tourist are here. Vb vibe is insane there are some form of localism specially at 1st street from obnoxious kids to old long boarders who wont let up and share waves its a joke trying to catch a wave thats all yours at 1st.
Even though you probably heard by now “Virginia Has No Waves” well thats not fully accurate just a couple days ago we had some pretty fun head high waves even though we had a crappy winter season its been pretty fun lately dont know how long it will last, but theres plenty more days of small beginner waves. theres plenty of surf school here if you need it from hotline, wrv to titus and if you need some gear there is 17th street, WRV, corner 24, hotline, and coastal edge at the strip
I recently built my own computer and it seems to be running slower than my old 7 year old dell computer.
During everyday, low power tasks like web surfing or word documents, I really can’t tell the difference between my new and old computers. When I tested how well it runs with some high def 1080 x264 mkv movies I have around, it worked really well. I noticed during file copying and extracting compressed files the new computer didn’t do the tasks faster than the old computer did, I expected with the new i7 920 64 bit CPU it should be done in 1/10th the time. All the hardware I installed on the new computer are all faster than on the old computer, so at least the access/read speed would be faster, but it wasn’t.
Then came my test of running Half Life 2 to see any improvements and finally experience the game with graphics maxed out. The graphics card handled the graphics part really well, as expected, but the loading (starting HL2) was slower than the old computer, by about 10 minutes!
There is also a problem with the keyboard I have, Its a Logitech illuminated keyboard an even though it HID and Plug-n-play compatible, the keyboard doesn’t work until windows is loaded, and when the computer is turned on with the keyboard plugged to the USB port the computer takes about 3 minutes before the Bios/post screen shows up. When I tried plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 port (with adapter) the bios/post screen shows up immediately but the keyboard doesn’t work at all. I can’t figure that problem out either.
computer specs:
Custom project:
MSI Platinum X58 motherboard
Intel i7 920 quad core processor with HT (some programs think the computer has 8 CPUs and windows sees it as one cpu with 4 cores)
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit (I’m not all that familiar with vista- that could be a problem)
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA II hard drive
nVidia GeForce 250 GTS 512MB graphics
G-Skill 6GB DDR3 1333 ram
onboard 2x Gigabit NIC
onboard Realtec audio with HD capability
22x DVD-ram drive (reads every format of CD and single-layer DVD)
other things I noticed:
the CPU usage never gets above 5% at any time, even when gaming or watch HD movies, normally this would be at 100% on the old computer
the computer uses around 1.5GB ram at all times, it seems pretty high when compared to other computers I use at work also with the Vista OS.
please help me, thank you
What is the character/and real name of the young girl. I haven’t seen her in anything else since…Have I? Anyone know….what/where she is now?
Just curious…saw a few seconds of the movie channel surfing yesterday.
I have very little knowledge on computers, but I am looking for a good, reliable computer to go to college with. I will mainly use it for schoolwork, and surfing the net/ e-mail. I went to dell.com to customize it but I really didn’t know what anything meant so I’d really appreciate to get some feedback on what I choose.
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 (2MB cache/2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows® Vista Home Premium Edition SP1
DISPLAY:High Resolution, glossy widescreen 14.1 inch display (1440×900)
VIDEO CARD:128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS
MEMORY:3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
HARD DRIVE Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE:CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
WIRELESS NETWORK CARDS:Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
BATTERY OPTIONS:85Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell)
SOUND OPTIONS:High Definition Audio 2.0
OFFICE SOFTWARE;Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 – Word, Excel + PowerPoint
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