Jim Kallinen

Have most already from that collection, and have no plans to add any more since I enjoy what have now. Something about Rise of Flight to me is the most awesome flight sim made. It is always updating and evolving into a better WW1 sim. Just love it. Still have Il-2 1946 installed and updated to the very last patch and was able to make it 1080P on top. That makes it my ultimate WW2 flight sim. Never did get the hand DCS world and the mix, I keep them all seperate having A-10 and all the rest. Just never really get the time to learn much from it. So I go back to ROF and sit back and put together a pile of planes and unleash them on each and sit back watch the battle in AI.

Yeah, the Saab was last weeks vaporware release talk, and still waiting. Won`t loose no sleep over and take your time Eric.

As another month goes by, and no reports ?

So far mine has performed great over photoscenery level 18 and cities can drop it down to upper 20`s to lower 30`s. Otherwise its over 100 in mountains with trees and photo scenery. Just wishing I had more time to play with it. Next month when the rest of guys come for annual gathering we get a chance to see what it can do. I am sure Tom Kyler and Cameron will give it a workout.

WOW, those are great photos Andras. I checked them out on your flickr page in a full screen slideshow. Beautiful region around Lake Como.

Thanks Steve, just purchased the Waco and Staggerwing.

Great review, but a link to the site would most helpful.

I have one made Heinz for 8x. Great plane back in the day.

Beautiful pictures Andras. Sorry the weather was not as nice. Loving that Sony you have.

Cold war will never end for those North Koreans educated by the propaganda they had to endure from birth, The US is the DEVIL to them. Nothing else. No desire to see the puppet kingdom of the current leaders. It will never end. Till they are erased.

Thanks Cameron

How come I can`t like a post ? It says I have reached my quota for the day. and have not done anything.

Awesome, that is the same bios my board uses. Have the Asus Sabertooth X79.

It comes with the latest driver set for Geforce. My biggest bottleneck and loss of FPS is around any high density urban scenery. Go off in the wilds towards the mountain airports of Wyoming and my fps jumps up to around 120.Wish I had more time tp play with it. Could figure out what it is that hogs the resources.

I hope you get the time to go, I am taking my son along on a trip to Northern Minnesta along Lake Superior for a week in Grand Marais. We will be going mountain biking and taking a sailing day trip and maybe a charter fishing trip. And if time allows a Float plane ride along the shore. We are scheduled August 17th to the 24th. He turns 17 on the 20th .

Andras, I really love following your Alpine mountain adventures on Flickr and facebook. That is what prompted me to plan this trip. Been a long time since I was last out there in 1982 Working for a Cable TV firm. Never had a lot time to get up into the mountains, but when did, it was awesome.

We left on June June 13th our 19th wedding Anniversary expecting to drive 500 miles to Gorden,NE for our first night. Turned out the motel I had booked had overbooked and we were left without a a room for the night. So we pushed on and Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express in Alliance,NE. Much nicer and adding the days drive up 579 miles. June 14th we were booked at the Mountain View Hotel in Centennial,WY. Historic old Hotel, was really nice till 2:30am when the Church next door started playing piped music for an hour. We were up early and headed over the Snowy Range Road HWY130 WY. Climbing up over 10,675ft. Plenty of Snow left up here. Snowy range Wyoming Next morning after heading over the Snowy Range we were heading for weeks destination in Colorado out at Granby Ranch on the 16th green of the head waters Golf Course. This place was incredibly beautiful. Could wake up to this place the rest of my life easily. We took a side trip up to Grand Lake to kill some time since we could not check in till 4pm. Trip to Granby,CO from Centennial,WY Spent the next day getting unpacked and relaxing at the house since weekends in the mountains of Colorado the weekend warriors from Denver take over and the place is a Zoo, Granby Ranch is really cool since they open up the Ski hill to Mountain Bikers in Summer and have some awesome courses set-up. Downhill and Cross-Country Mountain Biking Here is the home we rented for the week. 150 Fairview Drive, Ski & Golf Paradise Monday took us our first trip up into the really high country of Rocky Mountain National Park. $20 and you get a 7 day Pass to enter the park. Great deal. We drove up Trail Ridge road and drove over 2/3rds of the way over to Eastes Park before the Crowds drove back west. But it was an incredible drive, Most scenic mountain drive we had ever seen. Rocky Mountain National Park 6-17-2013 Tuesday the 18th we decided to take a road trip down to Silverthorne, Dillon and Frisco in the heart of Summit County Colorado Ski Country. Was a beautiful drive and we took a new route home over Ute pass that was cool when at the top of the pass we stopped to pictures and discovered a UH-1 helicopter delivering telephone poles to a crew on the ground high up mountain slope getting ready to set it. Have video of it and will add it when ready. Road trip to Silverthorne,Dillon & Frisco On Thursday we decided to make the trip over the top on Trail Ridge road down into Estes park for the day. Talk about a night and day traffic situation from western to eastern sides of the park. Was real Zoo in Estes Park and hung out for a couple hours walking the River Walk and exploring the shops. My wife loved it, my son and me could not wait to get out of town and back up the Mountain. Another beautiful mountain drive day. Trip over the top and back to Estes Park,CO Saturday was our last day at Granby Ranch and we headed north to Laramie,WY for a stay at the AmericInn. Nice Hotel but very busy this time of year just off I80. Trip from Granby Ranch to Laramie 6-22-2013 We took our time coming home planning 5 nights to drive back to MN. Really did want to return home.From Laramie, WY we went on down to Scottsbluff,NE and my 2006 Honda Odyssey Surprised us with the best mileage it ever recorded. 31mpg. Then again it was all downhill and we were fully loaded with the AC running the trip. Laramie to Scottsbluff journey From Scottsbluff,NE we decided to head north into the southern Black Hills, never seen the southern Black Hills so we booked a night at the Hot Springs,SD USA Stay Hotel. Another really nice Hotel. We explored the area had a good time. Scottsbluff to Hot Springs,SD Early the next morning we took off for the drive to Murdo,SD and stopping along way at Ellsworth AFB South Dakota Air & Space Museum. Morning light was awesome and we there in time to watch a B1 bomber taxi out and takeoff on a mission. Talk about LOUD. Had never heard to full Military power takeoff of a B1 before. Was AWESOME. Hot Springs to Murdo,SD While Staying the night at the Best Western In Murdo,SD we decided to wait till early morning the next day to tour the Pioneer Auto Show Museum, even meeting the owner who my son happens to his brother who works our High School he goes to after finding out where we were from. Even gave him a couple free frisbees and Hat. Pioneer Auto Museum,Murdo,SD Our Final night was spent in Mitchell, SD at the Holiday Inn Express with waterpark. My son loved it. Cabelas was next door and Walmart,Menards and we ate supper at Whiskey Creek Steakhouse, awesome food. Next morning we drove the final 236 miles back home. Stopping in Sioux Falls at Falls park and again in MN at Redrock Dells park to take photos of the falls. Falls park, Soiux Falls,SD and Redrock Dells.MN Many of the shots taken during this trip were taken in HDR format. High Dynamic range photos that use 3 images to make one shot using Photomatix software to make the shot merge into one. Used my GoPro HD Hero2 on one drive over the top of Trail Ridge Road. Here is the video sped up by 300% down to 7 minutes versus 23 minutes. https://vimeo.com/69338538

Here are some shots of it getting unboxed and setup on Friday. This thing is a monster weighing in at 105 lbs without packing. Had a hell of job by myself getting it unpacked and setup to install 4 spare hard drives and and replace the cheap Blu-ray player that only burned DVDs. Put my BD burner inside instead. Had to salvage 4 SATA conector cables off my old dell XPS 730x to get the hard drives connected to the MOBO. Then re-wrap the cabling.

its here and up and running, having had little time to play with it much though. Work has been taking over and must get done before.

This sucks, gets as far as the transit hub in Chicago and has sat for the past 24hrs, sent an email asking Why and no reply.

About time, had not heard a word from them till this afternoon when they finally send me tracking #. It will be here tomorrow.

Have no idea how it will all work out when it gets here this week, But exited to say the least. Expensive YES. 1 x Case Erebus Full Tower Custom Liquid Cooling Gaming Case - Black 0 x Case Lighting None 1 x iBUYPOWER Labs - Internal Expansion [6-Port] NZXT Internal USB Expansion System 1 x Processor Intel® Core™ i7 3930K Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core i7 3930K w/ Intel Performance Tuning Protection 1 x iBUYPOWER PowerDrive PowerDrive Level 2 - Up to 20% Overclocking 1 x Custom Liquid Cooling Custom Liquid Cooling w/ Quad + Dual Radiator 1 x Liquid Coolant High-Performance Coolant powered by Koolance - Colorless 1 x Tubing Wraps Tubing Wraps (Anti-Kink Coil) powered by Koolance - Black 1 x Memory 32 GB [4 GB X8] DDR3-1866 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand 1 x Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan - 6GB - Single Card 1 x Free Stuff [FREE In-Game Voucher] - $75 Value In-Game Currencies: Hawken, Planetside 2, and World of Tanks ($25 for each title) - Free with purchase of NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 or above 1 x Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth X79 -- 4x SATA 6GB/s, 4x USB 3.0 1 x Power Supply 1350 Watt - Thermaltake Toughpower-1350M - Free Upgrade to 1500 Watt Toughpower-1500M ($40 Savings) 1 x Primary Hard Drive 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive 0 x Data Hard Drive None 1 x Optical Drive 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black *Independence Day Sale* FREE Upgrade to BLU-RAY Reader Combo Drive for Primary Optical Drive 0 x 2nd Optical Drive None 1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer 12-In-1 External USB Flash Media Card Reader/Writer 1 x Meter Display NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum Fan Control, Clock, and Temperature Display 1 x Sound Card 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard 1 x Network Card Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) 1 x Operating System Windows 8 + Office 2010 Trial [Free 60-Day !!!] - 64-bit 1 x Keyboard iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Keyboard - FREE Upgrade to A4Tech LED Backlit Gaming Keyboard ($19 value) 1 x Mouse iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Mouse - Blood Red 0 x Monitor None 0 x 2nd Monitor None 0 x Speaker System None 0 x Video Camera None 1 x Advanced Build Options iBUYPOWER Specialized Advanced Packaging System - Protect your investment during transportation! 0 x Case Engraving Service None 1 x Warranty Erebus XL Warranty Service - Erebus XL 3-Year limited warranty + Lifetime Technical support (NOTE: This system is non-refundable. Please click '?' for additional limitations.) 1 x Rush Service Rush Service Fee (not shipping fee) - No Rush Service, Estimate Ship Out in 5~10 Business Days

Sweet, just received an email from I Buy Power and my system has been built and tested through Quality Control and custom packed per my instructions and ready to ship. To bad the 4th of July is a no ship day. Will have to wait till Friday for shipping info to come in since its not going your average shipping route. $279 shipping charge.

Here is the complete list of the build, that link did not have it all. 1 x Case Erebus Full Tower Custom Liquid Cooling Gaming Case - Black 0 x Case Lighting None 1 x iBUYPOWER Labs - Internal Expansion [6-Port] NZXT Internal USB Expansion System 1 x Processor Intel® Core™ i7 3930K Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core i7 3930K w/ Intel Performance Tuning Protection 1 x iBUYPOWER PowerDrive PowerDrive Level 2 - Up to 20% Overclocking 1 x Custom Liquid Cooling Custom Liquid Cooling w/ Quad + Dual Radiator 1 x Liquid Coolant High-Performance Coolant powered by Koolance - Colorless 1 x Tubing Wraps Tubing Wraps (Anti-Kink Coil) powered by Koolance - Black 1 x Memory 32 GB [4 GB X8] DDR3-1866 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand 1 x Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan - 6GB - Single Card 1 x Free Stuff [FREE In-Game Voucher] - $75 Value In-Game Currencies: Hawken, Planetside 2, and World of Tanks ($25 for each title) - Free with purchase of NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 or above 1 x Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth X79 -- 4x SATA 6GB/s, 4x USB 3.0 1 x Power Supply 1350 Watt - Thermaltake Toughpower-1350M - Free Upgrade to 1500 Watt Toughpower-1500M ($40 Savings) 1 x Primary Hard Drive 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive 0 x Data Hard Drive None 1 x Optical Drive 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black *Independence Day Sale* FREE Upgrade to BLU-RAY Reader Combo Drive for Primary Optical Drive 0 x 2nd Optical Drive None 1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer 12-In-1 External USB Flash Media Card Reader/Writer 1 x Meter Display NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum Fan Control, Clock, and Temperature Display 1 x Sound Card 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard 1 x Network Card Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) 1 x Operating System Windows 8 + Office 2010 Trial [Free 60-Day !!!] - 64-bit 1 x Keyboard iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Keyboard - FREE Upgrade to A4Tech LED Backlit Gaming Keyboard ($19 value) 1 x Mouse iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Mouse - Blood Red 0 x Monitor None 0 x 2nd Monitor None 0 x Speaker System None 0 x Video Camera None 1 x Advanced Build Options iBUYPOWER Specialized Advanced Packaging System - Protect your investment during transportation! 0 x Case Engraving Service None 1 x Warranty Erebus XL Warranty Service - Erebus XL 3-Year limited warranty + Lifetime Technical support (NOTE: This system is non-refundable. Please click '?' for additional limitations.) 1 x Rush Service Rush Service Fee (not shipping fee) - No Rush Service, Estimate Ship Out in 5~10 Business Days

Regardless of the current debate the order is solid and credit references and bank draft went through without an issue. Paid in full Just under 5k investment. $279 shipping special order. Full Tower case. Anyone looking to buy a couple full tower Dell XPS cases, Aluminum alone might recycle for more then anyone would be will willing to mod the case out for.