Your PC ATM

[FireFox]

Those are just my regular players; got more in storage, and my kids have some too.

In the pic are all Gibson guitars:

1) Buckethead Signature (1 of the first 60 made, locking tuners, 5-ply binding, is only that "rare" because the plant flooded ) Tuned to C Standard, plays fast and light. Only guitar I play daily that is worth far more than what I paid for it due to its rarity.

2) 120th Anniversary Studio in black sparkle; E-flat tuning, pickups are as hot as can be and this one screams when on high gain.

3) Gary Moore BFG. Standard tuning. non acoustic guitar nearly as loud as an acoustic. Killer sound, but neck angle is a bit off, so the action is a bit too high for my liking, so I beat the crap out of it

I basically buy one guitar every year, but this ain't a guitar forum, so I'll leave it at that. I will say that I collect guitars without fret markers and I favor ebony fret boards. The 120th is the only one I own with fret markers.

Do you mind to sell me that SLI adapter that is laying on the table

Joke.

 

[cadaveca]

Do you mind to sell me that SLI adapter that is laying on the table

Joke.

I am using the MSI lit bridge (LINK) on my 980's that are in my rig currently. I don't have two 1070's, so couldn't replicate the reviewed Aegis Ti like I wanted to, but its not like dual 980s are slow anyway. I also used Intel 600P drives instead of the 950PRO in the review rig, since the 600P drives are less than 1/2 the price of the 950 PROs. I really didn't want to send that Aegis Ti I reviewed back, but MSI was nice enough to send me a barebones Aegis Ti late last month after the review was posted. The fact I'm using it now should speak volumes about how much I like the Aegis Ti. I also got a MSI keyboard and mouse with yet another MSI PC (Trident3) that I have here for review (will make the front page some time next month likely), and have been putting them to use with the Aegis Ti so I can provide some truly decent feedback about those two items in the review.

 

[Ruru]

Looks great, but where's your mousepad?

 

[cadaveca]

Looks great, but where's your mousepad?

ROFL. I wore it out ages ago. Need to get a new one bundled in a box... Maybe I'll suggest that to MSI. Thanks for the idea!





Actually funny thing is, all my kids and my wife have pads, but I don't... so your comment makes me look at mouse feet, and I can see wear already. Dammit.

 

[Ruru]

ROFL. I wore it out ages ago. Need to get a new one bundled in a box... Maybe I'll suggest that to MSI. Thanks for the idea!





Actually funny thing is, all my kids and my wife have pads, but I don't... so your comment makes me look at mouse feet, and I can see wear already. Dammit.

Personally I've had three different fabric mousepads, but now I've had Steelseries 4HD for two months, and I've liked this the most. The only con is that this is kinda small, but works flawlessly with my good old friend G400s

 

[Vario]

Current rig at the moment. Did not want a full size setup, but one of my clients more or less pushed me back to a full size system. He is very very well off , and often jokes about having more money than brains.

Aside from the pump assembly, I got all of these almost new watercooling parts as partial payment and my 295x2 for stupid cheap later on.

Story behind this - friend of a friend got us together to look over a custom built machine from a retailer here. For the almost 10k he sunk into it , it was the most god awful mess I had ever seen. Kinks everwhere, used crappy coolant which turned into a sludge pretty much and gunked up the blocks to hell. He paid me to rip it all out and start the overhaul. I gave him a list of what I recommended for the overhaul and he of course went overboard on everything. I get the system cleaned up and leak tested most of it , but it turned out that one of the O-rings in the 295x2 was shot (initial leak testing didnt indicate this at first). Rather than wait 2 days for new O rings, he says " this is a pain in my ass" (despite me offering to work for very little, I wanted to create a masterpiece). Pays me to tear it out again , waited two days and he went to air cooling and a pair of msi gaming 390xs. (I also tried to talk him out of that, as this 295x2 has taken everything ive thrown at it without issue) but he did not listen.

Got everything back together, he is happy as can be. He pays me more than what I requested for service, and says " what do I do with all this crap" We are talking about 500 bucks in brand new compression fitting, new pump, tubing , ect. Told him he could prob return most of it with a hit on restocking. Takes 50 out of what he paid me and dumped all this gear on me. Initially tried to sell it all for cheap, but no one was interested so I said screw it - ill use it. Front glass from this case is missing because purolator beat the hell out of it and I just havent been bothered to replace it. System is dead silent and I dont think the cpu or the gpus have ever gone over 55c under any form of testing - even tried out some cryptocurrency mining on it and temps never budged.


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Idiot friends are great, I had a few that dumped parts on me as payment even though I told them the fair value of the parts and even though I said "you should sell this stuff on ebay and get your ~$300 back". "Nah bro thats too much work, here have all this stuff".

 

[Arrakis9]

well its winter here in Texas now... time for some raw heatsink performance tests with no attached fans.


vertical mount vs horizontal mount
vertical:

horizontal:

horizontal with liquid metal TIM:





unfortunately when i mounted the heatsink with the liquid metal i managed to get a drop on some of the IC's of the first ram stick and killed the entire stick, down to 12GB now

 

[Ruru]

Bad luck m8 I also almost fried my old R9 290 after putting liquid metal on the GPU, luckily I checked the surface mounted components next to the GPU die very carefully before reassembling it. Frustrating since it needs to be careful not to fry anything.

I have to get some cable-combs to my rig also.

 

[PLAfiller]

Got myself a second hand PowerColor R7 260x . I can only test in the weekend, in the meantime, she went under maintenance - re-paste and that thermal pads, whatever they were guarding were goners right off the bat. They just disintegrated the moment I touched them. Also replaced.

 

[GreiverBlade]

i guess i am just a serial upgrader with a heavy tinkering syndrome ...

Z170X Gaming 5 EU to Z170X Gaming 7

moar WHITE! yes! (too bad the ambient light on the Audio section looks yellow even in white ... ) lucky me Corsair do bundle their Vengeance Airflow with 3 plates (blue red and aluminum grey )



weird I/O ... there was a small plug to .... plug ... for it


O-kay ... i didn't expect that ... pulse mode .... and also the white is white this time (good point, i don't have to turn on the light to plug something on the back )




edit, on win 10 ... i only had to reactivate, using my 8.1 key ... nothing too annoying (i guess taking the same board brand did help, albeit some heavy difference between the 2 model)

 

[khemist]

Put my old Enermax fans in the front, the Corsair fans are wasted there and better on my rad.

 

[Ruru]

Got new front fans, moved that Phobya 140mm to bottom.

 

[biffzinker]

Got new front fans, moved that Phobya 140mm to bottom.

Needs some color coordination.

 

[Ruru]

Needs some color coordination.

Blue because Intel inside.

 

[biffzinker]

Blue because Intel inside.

Ah ok, the red lighting on the mobo, the fan you moved to the bottom and red color on the PSU throws it off slight. I take it no one would know unless the side panel is removed?

 

[fredz77]

Hi, from Brazil...enjoy.

 

[FireFox]

Hi, from Brazil...enjoy.

É muito bonito

 

[infrared]

Hi, from Brazil...enjoy.

That's a work of art, nice job

 

[Jetster]

So when a friend that make pretty good money says stop by I have some old parts Ill give you cuz we are moving. You drop everything and stop by.

He says it all worked 5 years ago

 

[Ruru]

Nice! Too bad that Antec 900 is crappy when thinking about cable management, I had that case also several years ago..

 

[Jetster]

Cleaned up rather nice

 

[Random Murderer]

Cleaned up rather nice

Toss a Xeon in it and clock the crap out of it!

 

[Jetster]

This board has some serious lights

 

[stinger608]

Funny, I have that exact set of speakers still. Have had them for about 10 years and they are still some rocking speakers.
Did they come with the woofer/power ports?

 

[Jetster]

Funny, I have that exact set of speakers still. Have had them for about 10 years and they are still some rocking speakers.
Did they come with the woofer/power ports?

Yes everything is there. I was going to just give them away