Yes, what you see above is yesterday's team stats. From what I can determine, tonight's update shows today's user data and yesterday's team data. Nothing yet from any of the admins to confirm what is going on or when we'll see today's team data. They did acknowledge this morning that they had a problem with the team data from the stats updates for the 18th and 19th. Nothing more since. The numbers above for me do match what I see in the user stats for myself as of yesterday so I believe I'm correct in my interpretation of whatever they are doing to correct the issue.

Dave, keep on keeping that leg up as much as you can. Lawrence, sounds like a lot of hassle for five minutes of work but I'm sure it's worth it to have the thing out. Take care of yourself too. It's good to hear from you here. I'm supposed to get the permanent stuff put in my first root canal on Monday but a little of the tempoary stuff came loose today. No problem yet and they've got a full schedule tomorrow. Just hoping the weekend goes okay. Once that's behind me, I can get it crowned. Life is fun, isn't it.

Going pretty good so far. I've had dentists want to do root canals on me before but didnt let them. The guy that did/is doing this one specializes in that sort of thing. Took him all of thirty minutes to do it. Bonus was that he recommended holding off on doing the other tooth my dentist thought might need one. I always tend to like docs that aren't "trigger happy".

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/20 - All Members:

Team rank movement report
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                              Prior                New         Current
Member name                   Rank      Change     Rank        Points
=========================     =====     ======     =====     ===========
Aleph0                           98         -1        99         481,633
darth_vader                      99         +1        98         482,141
Andrew R                        103         -1       104         428,283
SAKU1303                        104         -1       105         428,249
imin                            105         +2       103         431,394
lenmccart                       152         -1       153         158,309
WindmillMan76043                153         +1       152         159,264
Orca                            172         -1       173         108,634
jamesjr934                      173         +1       172         109,912
steve sawicki                   240         -1       241          21,037
stonechild                      241         -1       242          20,625
m4dbra1n                        242         -1       243          20,299
TheRoket                        243         +3       240          21,140

Points milestones report
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No points milestones found.

Runtime milestones report
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No runtime milestones found.

Results returned milestones report
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No results returned milestones found.

New members report
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No new members found.

Retired members report
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No new retired members found.

For the week as a team:

Statistics  Total Run Time  Points   Results

Date         (y:d:h:m:s)    Earned   Returned
08/20/2009  0:138:16:16:32  314,619  579 
08/19/2009  0:149:01:23:19  324,643  585 
08/18/2009  0:143:16:33:25  336,575  600 
08/17/2009  0:141:07:43:18  327,161  624 
08/16/2009  0:152:05:07:01  354,939  691 
08/15/2009  0:131:07:28:33  290,095  578 
08/14/2009  0:130:21:11:24  307,109  647

Team Records:
Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522
Points: 05/06/2009 518,871
Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34

Good crunching folks!!!!

Well, since I know very little myself about configuring a custom machine on my own, putting myself in your shoes, I would:

1) Call the phone number for the computer maker's sales group and ask them which graphics card I could upgrade to (theirs and third party)

2) If there's a separate tech support number, repeat the above with them.

3) If the sales folks give you good info, some of the below will confirm that. If not, you've learned some valuable info about that brand (don't trust their sales group). Tech support, if separate, is more likely to give you good info, especially about any third party cards (to the extent they have that info) since they have less of a direct interest in pushing their specific cards than sales.

4) If you're looking at a particular third party brand of graphics cards (someone that doesn't supply the original graphics card to the computer maker), call them and ask about which of their cards are compatible with your machine.

5) Take all the info you get from the above and see if you're getting consistent information and if not, look at who's different. In 1 and 4, be sure to also ask about what kind of support they provide if you have trouble installing the card when you receive it/have trouble understanding the instructions that come with it/what their return policy is.

6) If you're still not confortable enough to commit to a particular card for your upgrade, get unrelated third party opinions. Ask here, ask in other forums/b-boards/computer help sites.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/21 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
marysduby                         1          0      34,880,642          43,606
RT                                2          0      18,399,081          67,030
parmesian                         3          0      15,520,978          23,674
Dataman                           4          0      15,031,013               0
nl59056                           5          0      14,997,790               0
Coingames                         6          0      13,012,209          26,060
Esteban69                         7          0      10,349,271           4,358
Dave Bell                         8          0       9,198,075          17,073
keithhenry                        9          0       7,998,474          10,545
esoteric17                       10          0       7,451,510               0
Fanie                            11          0       6,709,906             217
Jonathan Figdor                  12          0       5,612,501          10,814
frans6nl                         13          0       5,374,044           3,248
PohSoon                          14          0       5,091,662           1,205
sulcata                          15          0       4,504,003           8,358
brown chris                      16          0       3,704,639          21,888
Vuj                              17          0       3,503,791           7,432
stares                           18          0       3,304,013           2,543
Blueprint                        19          0       3,190,573          13,574
NiceMedTexMD                     20          0       2,486,831          25,944
Tomwp                            21          0       2,430,504               0
lawrencehardin                   22          0       2,205,692           1,269
siseberg                         23          0       1,748,422             812
wrr                              24          0       1,726,888             469
Wunderwuzzi                      25          0       1,631,383             487
spikey_richie                    26          0       1,556,273               0
smcclarigan                      27          0       1,489,826               0
Sunny L. Kae                     28          0       1,441,988           1,334
Dresser                          29          0       1,199,808          11,416
johng                            30          0       1,105,410               0
AStafford                        31          0       1,044,012           1,740
laughing66607                    32          0         798,227             637
harry_i_c                        33          0         782,464           1,461
Airwolf_Liu                      34          0         725,740           2,885
Jockin                           35          0         693,903             536
elpe                             36          0         621,806               0
Bon Kuhlman                      37          0         521,434             867
darth_vader                      38          0         486,479           4,338
imin                             39          0         432,850           1,456
Momentary Lapse of Reason        40          0         311,703             475
mapplebeck                       41          0         267,047               0
madambaster                      42          0         217,378             123
Natalino                         43          0         181,885             342
cknotty                          44          0         172,518               0
WindmillMan76043                 45          0         161,708           2,444
gr8buddha                        46          0         143,625               0
jamesjr934                       47          0         110,521             609
rwgreen89                        48          0          56,585               0
TheRoket                         49          0          22,759           1,619

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 67,030 points
02: marysduby - 43,606 points
03: Coingames - 26,060 points
04: NiceMedTexMD - 25,944 points
05: parmesian - 23,674 points
06: brown chris - 21,888 points
07: Dave Bell - 17,073 points
08: Blueprint - 13,574 points
09: Dresser - 11,416 points
10: Jonathan Figdor - 10,814 points
11: keithhenry - 10,545 points
12: sulcata - 8,358 points
13: Vuj - 7,432 points
14: Esteban69 - 4,358 points
15: darth_vader - 4,338 points
16: frans6nl - 3,248 points
17: Airwolf_Liu - 2,885 points
18: stares - 2,543 points
19: WindmillMan76043 - 2,444 points
20: AStafford - 1,740 points

Total points returned today: 322,888
Active members returning points today: 37
Average points per member active today: 8,726.7027