JB's Blog

Thanks to all for your support for the ShadyJames appeal!

With over $820 of smasher support we managed to build him a much needed new gaming rig.  Last night Mastercyl, SlapperJoe and myself went over to the de Vries household to deliver the new rig.

Shady was in good spirits!  He now has a long road of recovery ahead to rebuild his Six-pack-of doom.

In other news the scares left from the surgery are big enough to make any girl appreciate them!

All that’s missing from the machine is an official LanSmash case badge!  We’ll be placing one on the machine come SantaSmash in December.  For those that donated to the machine we’ll be offering people to sign his case as well.

Shady was very appreciative and wanted to send out a message of thanks to everyone who’s been wishing him well.  Although now he won’t be able to blame his gaming rig on his TF2 performance.

(JB and ShadyJames – just before JB pulled a knife out to stab him spy style)

And for those that care about the tech, here’s what we managed to cobble together.

- XFX Radeon HD5770 graphics card 1gig 
- Corsair 4GB DDR3 RAM 
- AMD Phenom II X4 965
- Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 motherboard 
- 500GB hdd
- Antec 300 Case
- Thermaltake 600W PSU
- Samsung DVDRW drive

and… 1 x official Windows 7 64bit Home Premium that LanSmash kicked in another $120 for bringing the total cost to $971.

Thanks to our generous donators to make this happen.

Contributed smashers:
- Blade
- Misscara 
- pcmattman
-Sensator
- Slapper Joe
- Wilko
- MasterCy
- Stackboy
- RatboyXL
- Lexi
- Plastic
- BunBun
- Scythe
- stoOds
- Pandan
- Yang
- dohzer
- chris actworth
- Graham Reynolds