Water at the coast is apparently a little deep (inshore). Guide just called to let us know that sight fishing for redfish has been particularly difficult lately. I think we are going to have to postpone our trip until next month. Hopefully that will make for a better experience :tup:

Living my dream. Bucket list has "catch Tarpon on fly rod" on it.

:tup: Really should go to Florida for tarpon, but we can find them a lot closer in Louisiana - I should look into that. Redfish is more or less my first step into fly fishing for anything other than bass. I'm going fly fishing for bonefish in Oahu in January, too :D

Locally, my buddy and I are going to start trying for carp (much more challenging). And there are some trout in the streams during the 1-2 months of winter we have here in central Texas, so might have to try them as well.

Much like Santa, I have distributed your gift of reps! To the very good have been given more. To those who cannot tie a tie have been given less!

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Guys need opinions. Found someone selling a gaming desktop San graphics card for $200. These specs decent?

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.80 GHz CPU, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 Memory, 240 GB SSD drive, ASRock 880GM motherboard, Antec 600W PSU, Brand new Corsair Spec M2 case with windowed side panel.

The CPU/MoBo combo is the killer. Rather old and dated. If you plan to game, it'll be the main bottleneck of the system. $200 still isn't bad for a Matx case, 600w psu, probably slow ssd, and 8GB of ram. I'd pull the trigger and just upfrade the Mobo/CPU to something new.

I'm gonna think about it for a couple days since being unemployed I have to be careful with my money

I'd probably be using it for Forza mainly

Save your money then. Not worth it. Especially if you have no work currently. Let me dig around at home. I may have a brand new 600w EVGA bronze PSU at home I can ship to you. It's sitting under my bed collecting dust I believe. I may have other random supplies as well to get you started. Just remind me later tonight when I get home.

Less posting, more repping...

As far as I know, Forza Horizon 3 and onward all require current-gen GPUs, FYI. I couldn't get it to work on my old rig, but my current 1080ti build runs everything great. I'm not sure what the hangup is, but it just would open on neither my old rig nor my laptop.

I actually messaged him before committing to my setup for some advice... We've got very similar setups now!! I'll admit, his is a little louder, maybe it's from the catback? I'm not really sure. Mine is just straight piped like his, so I'm not sure why he's louder, he just kind of... is? Maybe it's the tune :rofl2: If I ever find myself in the northwest with my Z, I'll have to meet up with him and maybe take a comparison video :rofl2: But as it stands now, you can hear my Z (on the throttle) from almost a mile away now hehe :hello:

I can't wait for colder weather to come lmao

Clam, send me a PM with your address. I have some spare desktop parts you can have if you're looking to eventually build something. 600w power supply, some static pressure 120mm fans, a stock cpu cooler, sata cables, and a few other random things.

I love it! It's definitely got some bark to it but I dont think it's obnoxiously loud. A good deep tone at idle and a wicked scream running through the gears. It really quiets down while cruising. The guy who did my window tint yesterday seemed to love it. He couldnt resist revving it to at least 6500 3 times as he pulled it out of the bay. I was inside when he came in and he had a smile from ear to ear. I couldn't get mad because I thought it sounded pretty sick myself haha. A couple of techs commented as I walked out also. I'll get some video for you in next few days.

Biggest part though I have to admit is the HP gain. I think love thst a bit more than the sound.