++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[busydude]

Ugh, are you fucking kidding me?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...17%3A44913

Yeah, they don't usually drop in price. Heck.. even C2Q are expensive.

 

[MotF Bane]

Hey, MalwareBytes found that stupid little Trojan buried inside my CS4 install, courtesy of the Keygen.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Why do you say that?

High voltage and high clocks for 2.5 years. It's how I killed my first Core 2 Duo, monster voltage for about a year.

 

[MotF Bane]

Yeah, they don't usually drop in price. Heck.. even C2Q are expensive.

Well, that, and they got rid of the 920/930, so there's no low level option anymore.

 

[MotF Bane]

The good news... my next build can be a mid-budget build, instead of a higher budget build. Technology has progressed to the point that we're way on the bad side of diminishing returns.

 

[MotF Bane]

My PSU is still squealing like a bitch. I hate this thing, but removing it would take a few hours of aggravation, then a week or more turnaround, before the POS gets back and needs another few hours to install.

 

[eldorado99]

ned.

 

[satyajitmenon]

Nerf

 

[alfa147x]

1211

 

[alfa147x]

In meeting

 

[MotF Bane]

This case and cooling equipment should last a long time. The PSU was supposed to last a long time too, but that seems unlikely.

 

[MotF Bane]

The case is certainly not a very portable thing, at 40 lbs. empty, with a glass panel.

 

[alfa147x]

What case and PSU?

 

[MotF Bane]

What case and PSU?

Case is a Corsair 800D, PSU is a Corsair TX950.

 

[MotF Bane]

So the case is powdercoated black steel, which means heavy, sturdy, but prone to scratching, and difficult to move. It's also large.

The cooling is good stuff, although the pump is a little noisy, it'll need a new waterblock every so often.

The PSU squeals under pretty much any load.

 

[MotF Bane]

It's a beautiful build, an artwork, my masterpiece.

And now it's a plagued relic; plagued by vague hardware issues and software bugginess, a relic of a hobby that is now dead to me.

 

[MotF Bane]

I don't really want to ever go back to air cooling, because I view overclocking as a necessity, and air cooling is forever a limitation.

That alone sets a pile of limits on the case.

 

[MotF Bane]

Right now, I have Opera and Firefox active; one of them running YouTube. Also, a pile of standby programs, foobar, Steam, Dropbox, Pidgin, etc.

This is enough load to drive the PSU to ramp the fan up from idle.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[satyajitmenon]

Nuf

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[Rubycon]

It's a beautiful build, an artwork, my masterpiece.

And now it's a plagued relic; plagued by vague hardware issues and software bugginess, a relic of a hobby that is now dead to me.

Get a Dell or Mac then. :biggrin: