Computers, who builds/mods etc?

[BustedS13]

whatever you say, Lando Calrissian circa Empire Strikes Back.

[chibo]

[GSXRJJordan]

Originally Posted by svensko

This isn't true if you use a journaled file system (ie ext3) in Linux. I know that at least for USB drives and such there are limited numbers of guaranteed read/writes before they start having issues.

There's actually a fairly large debate going on right now with a related problem ~ because of differences in how LBA file systems like FAT32 and NTFS (to an extent) delete stuff, and how NAND flash memory deletes (basically have to delete all the pages in a block, or blocks on a page, I forget), the SSD fills up way too fast, and starts to get 'slower'!

Windows 7 is rumored to have a SSD-cleaning tool that will eliminate this problem, which was actually a big part of my deciding to switch to it.

I'm having trouble finding the most informative article that I read, it was before I started reading everything on my Kindle lol... damn my brain for not being searchable!

Originally Posted by S14DB

Heatsoak's a bitch.

It takes an enormously large amount of heat to appreciably warm that much mineral oil to anywhere near normal operating temps for IC's (50*C) - with any circulation/radiator setup, no matter how crude, I can't imagine any heat problems.

[chibo]

Originally Posted by GSXRJJordan

It takes an enormously large amount of heat to appreciably warm that much mineral oil to anywhere near normal operating temps for IC's (50*C) - with any circulation/radiator setup, no matter how crude, I can't imagine any heat problems.

You run the mineral oil through a large radiator anyway. A decent sized radiator with two 120mm fans running low RPMs is enough.

[chibo]

Well, I've got 20 minutes on this thing. It's not bad at all - I like the touchpad a lot more than anything else and the battery seems to last right around 6 hours - for reference my Hp Mini1000 was only getting 2:30 out of a battery.

My one gripe is that it gets hot as fuck and the whole chassis heats up because it's aluminum.

[Future240]

Originally Posted by chibo

What have I done?

Traitor.

My next plan for the PC is actually to have a W7 Mac Os dual boot.

[GSXRJJordan]

Originally Posted by chibo

Well, I've got 20 minutes on this thing. It's not bad at all - I like the touchpad a lot more than anything else and the battery seems to last right around 6 hours - for reference my Hp Mini1000 was only getting 2:30 out of a battery.

My one gripe is that it gets hot as fuck and the whole chassis heats up because it's aluminum.

Keep us posted with the battery life stuff. My Macbook 13" (from right when the Macbooks came out in 2006) got about 5hrs if I turned everything off (Wifi, bluetooth) and ran the screen pretty low. I'd be very surprised if your Pro lasted longer than that... 6hrs is netbook territory.

Originally Posted by future240

My next plan for the PC is actually to have a W7 Mac Os dual boot.

I'd assume you'd BIOS-mod for the Mac OS install, which causes problems because there's limited space to BIOS-mod for SLIC 2.2 (win7 activation hack). That would be a serious problem for me, at least.

[chibo]

Originally Posted by GSXRJJordan

Keep us posted with the battery life stuff. My Macbook 13" (from right when the Macbooks came out in 2006) got about 5hrs if I turned everything off (Wifi, bluetooth) and ran the screen pretty low. I'd be very surprised if your Pro lasted longer than that... 6hrs is netbook territory.

Yeah, it's looking to be more like 5hr 10min with wifi on and the screen set at midlevel. Either way, it's better than my netbook so I'm happy - I think the netbook is being passed to my girlfriend and she's selling her 15" 2ghz macbook pro because she already has a 24" iMac.

[irax]

Originally Posted by future240

My next plan for the PC is actually to have a W7 Mac Os dual boot.

let me know how this works out for you I'm looking to do the same with my next pc build.

[S14DB]

Originally Posted by GSXRJJordan

I'd assume you'd BIOS-mod for the Mac OS install, which causes problems because there's limited space to BIOS-mod for SLIC 2.2 (win7 activation hack). That would be a serious problem for me, at least.

Nope: http://www.efi-x.com/

[svensko]

Enjoy running Linux on your MBP if you so choose to. It makes it so hot that you could probably cook an egg on it.

I regret buying my MBP, should've just purchased a netbook.

[Geno750]

I've been building PC's since the Cyrix PR166+ days, and was doing pretty good building and selling systems for people all through highschool. Actually, that kinda picked up again recently, and I've been dealing more and more with people who want to play pc games but don't know wtf to buy/build. Its what let me pay for the system I'm posting this on.

Dell 24in and 2x Dell 20in monitors
Core i7 920 @ 3.8ghz
6gb G.Skill DDR3
EVGA 285GTX & 8800GT (runs the two 20in monitors and does physx or w/e)
Coolermaster HAF940 case
Thermaltake 1200w PSU

[GSXRJJordan]

Originally Posted by S14DB

Nope: http://www.efi-x.com/

Super interesting! Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by Geno750

I've been building PC's since the Cyrix PR166+ days, and was doing pretty good building and selling systems for people all through highschool. Actually, that kinda picked up again recently, and I've been dealing more and more with people who want to play pc games but don't know wtf to buy/build. Its what let me pay for the system I'm posting this on.

Dell 24in and 2x Dell 20in monitors
Core i7 920 @ 3.8ghz
6gb G.Skill DDR3
EVGA 285GTX & 8800GT (runs the two 20in monitors and does physx or w/e)
Coolermaster HAF940 case
Thermaltake 1200w PSU

Looks beast. Is that the Thermaltake Ultra 120? That came out right after I bought my last cooler, I'm all about big and quiet... thought about buying one.

[irax]

Originally Posted by Geno750

i take it that powersupply does not generate a lot of heat.

[Future240]

Ah the benefits of a bigger case, my lil mini tower is cram full, still lookin to put one more fan right under the HDDs, and perhaps a fan controller where my now defunt card reader is now

[ixfxi]

Originally Posted by chibo

What have I done?

what a GREAT cost cutting initiative on apples behalf

they're using the shitty plain-white motherboard boxes to fit their product into, and just stamp some basic apple info on the front.. great!


thats like mr pizza on fairfax blvd, theyve managed to stay in business forever by saving pennies by doing things like buying pizza boxes from close-out sales when a pizza company is going under. every time i order a pizza for take-out, it has some OTHER company's info on the box.

[chibo]

Yeah.

I can see why people like Macs, it's the little touches and the plain quality. One thing that did manage to piss me off a little is that the icon for a Windows computer on the network is a monitor with a blue screen and some white writing that would obviously be intended to look like a blue screen of death.

[Geno750]

Originally Posted by irax

i take it that powersupply does not generate a lot of heat.

The fan is on the bottom of the powersupply, and the case has openings on the bottom for it to draw air from.

[SochBAT]

Originally Posted by Geno750

The fan is on the bottom of the powersupply, and the case has openings on the bottom for it to draw air from.

Cool.

From the looks of it, there seems to be a gratuitous amount of airflow going thru the bottom.

[Mr. H]

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

[BustedS13]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

i'm sure most of them are purpose-built for gaming, but power is power. build your computer bigger now and it'll be much longer before you inevitably have to do it again.

[Matej]

My computer is really fast. Who wants to race?

[BustedS13]

i knew i'd be able to justify putting hazards on my tower at some point. meet me in the aqueduct at midnight.

[Future240]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

Mine is gaming and daily computing/ word interwebs etc.

[svensko]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

I'm a genetics grad student interested in a lot of bioinformatics/evolution topics so my hardware is mostly used for that. The little bit of gaming I do can run on probably 6 or 7 year hardware without too many issues.

[SochBAT]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

Porn.

Thats it.

[GSXRJJordan]

Originally Posted by Soooshi

Porn.

Thats it.

LOTS of it though, streaming multiple genres at the same time, etc.

Takes mad cpu power bro.

[Helghast]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Just wondering but what do you all do with your computers. there are some sweat set ups here, are they just gaming computers or do you need the power for work or something.

.torrents + Porn + Usenet.

[Future240]

Post some more pics of y'all setups!

[Future240]

I want this



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