Christmas Presents/"Toys"?

uhhh.....why is this in "cpus"??

I didn't get anything for Christmas as I'm currently awaiting the release of the R600.

I hope to get a very modest 4200+ to replace my 3000+

Ah, my sig is currently down! Here goes:

Silverstone SST-TJ07-BW Case
Thermaltake Toughpower 750 watt
eVGA nForce 680i motherboard
E6700 @ 2.66 GHz (will oc once I get this)
2GB Cosair XMS2 DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-12
GeForce 8800 GTX
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
2x 320 GB Seagate Barracudas

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (came with the 8800 GTX)
Company of Heroes
The Battle for Middle-Earth 2: Rise of the Witch-King

Some gift cards, cash, movies, only two things of clothes!, and the new Dune book by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

I have $55 to Circuit City, $40 to Wal-Mart, and $20 cash. I'm thinking of buying a large CD/DVD case (starting to accumulate a good number), but what should I buy in the way of new games?

I got a beastly..19"(Viewsonic) CRT...electricity sucker(my choice). I like CRT better. Been using my NEC 17" since 2001... still great, but wanted a bit bigger. I ordered a 17" LCD....then returned it. Maybe in a few more years, or if/when they bring OLED to monitors.

Same here. Apparantly Santa thought i was a very good boy. Fooled him.

i got the 30gb

its enough for me, i am a Music Freak though

-im saving for a second 7900gs SLI this mother

for a 180$ card its a great performer

Yeah well I know I wasn't a good boy, but I got presents anyway. Sin Episodes for one, and good on my wife for getting it for me. She didn't ask, and I'm pretty picky. I only play FPS's and I only play the cream of the crop. I usually get the games I want shortly after they come out, but with SiN, I always had another game on the go. Funny though, I never mentioned it to her, and even if I had, she wouldn't have remembered, she's just not into that sort of thing. I also got an electric razor, and some books in a new (new to me anyways) fantasy series. Sort of a fantasy buff, love Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, R.R. Martin, Tolkien of course. No hardware, but then as you can see from my sig, I don't need much. Maybe a Crossfire master card, or a 8800GTX. That said, I think I'll wait to see what R600 has in store.

"If I had just one wish this holiday season..." -Steve Martin

I always wanted a drawing tablet ever since I saw one being used on a Mac. But alas, I keep forgetting to buy one.

Already had the X6800 and ATI X1900XTX, so no computer toys until summer and Vista and DX10 are well established. I'll let Da Sick Ninja et al work out the bugs before I jump. Wife gave me $250 gift credit to Tiger Direct to help pay for it all this summer.

I did get top watch my three girls (all 7 or below) have a great time on Christmas morning opening their gifts. There is NO GIFT better than watching kids smile!

I hear you. I spent two 100 hour weeks completing a project doing all the drawing with the mouse and that sealed the deal...

I got a DVD drive and Dark Messiah. I also have loads of leftover cash and will wait a few months to spend it, probably on a new system to replace my current Athlon 64 3200+ and Radeon 9800 Pro. I could splurge now, but I really need to spend extra time on studying for the last two sections of the CPA exam. Once that's finished, I will see what's out and spoil the sh*t out of myself, especially when I pass!

what the hell are you going to do with 3 of 'em?

i was jk. but i did get a 22 inch monitor. im guessing the third would be for physics processing or something.

if you have enough cash you could get the hooker to dress up in a wii suit.

haha! good idea! and then shoot her with my red rider bbgun while riding my bicycle and reading a book with my buddah on my shoulder!

...i'm so posting a vid of this on youtube....

@dante:
wtf do you do with 10 strings? 12 i get, but 10....?

if you have enough cash you could get the hooker to dress up in a wii suit.
He's underage dammit. No hookers for him.

Wow, that's a fine instrument. Instruments like that and the Chapman Stick etc... are really interesting. I'd love to spend a bit of money someday on some 'beyond' guitars like those. The closest I've got is a Ukulele!

I've always wondered though, what sort of amplifier do you use for an instrument with that wide a range?

I got an STD. The last one I needed to complete my set.

Nothing directly computer related, though. Got a toaster oven with a popup toaster built into the back of it. That was nice. But I didn't get any of the things I really wanted, like a 2xClovertown system or a 2007 H-D FXSTC... You will earn my infinite respect and eternal distinction from the depths of nerddom if you can tell me what the latter is! 8)

But mostly I got laid.

Well I was pretty sure I knew what it was, then I Googled it (which was cheating) and confirmed that indeed I was correct.

Though I know nothing about bikes, people only really refer to things like Guitars and Cars and things like that by specific year. That in combination with the fact that you hyphenated H-D gave me my clue.

Can I have the prize now please? (I'll take a dual-Clovertown Mac Pro thanks!)

Googling is cheatin' dude. Do you know that on some foreign versions of "Who wants to be a millionaire" they place a staffer at the home of the contestant so that when they call in for the lifeline your PC is OFF? But you do get brownie points for spotting the hyphenation. So just gimme your address and your Mac will be in the mail. It's a dual, just like you wanted. An SE with dual floppy drives!

The Mac SE was a revelation! It had two entire floppies! You could put the OS on one and run your apps on the other. Before that, you'd have to swap out through a single floppy drive that had OS, apps and files on it. Now that was fun. And productive too! This, of course, was at a time when only servers had hard drives!!!

Hope you enjoy the Mac dual you've won!

I don't really celebrate Christmas since I'm an atheist. I dumped a decent amount of money over the summer to upgrade to E6600 so I didn't really buy any new hardware except for a WD 320GB hard drive. But that was over a month ago.

I did buy the Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex (season 1) Box Set a couple of weeks ago for $60 so I suppose that my "Christmas Gift" to myself.

I'm actually keeping a very leash on my spending lately since I'm thinking about going back to school and get a masters degree in IT and paying for it out of my own pocket.