Your PC ATM

[Apocalypsee]

Back to using crippled Maximus VI Hero motherboard from AsRock Z87 Extreme4 plus stock cooler. Story in spoilers if you're interested.

Spoiler

Cleaned out the thermal paste on AIO because temps were getting quite toasty (over 80C even at modest 1.125V) even after radiator and fan cleaning. The board gives error 00 when I put everything back together which means no CPU is detected. I thought that's it for my CPU because I've delidded and I detected a small nick on the die during cleaning. Then I remember I have this board...

The story of crippled Maximus is because of those boffin at ASUS thinks its awesome to make memory trace very close to cooler mounting holes. You can Google 'error 55 Maximus' to see what I mean. I overtighten the AIO bracket to the motherboard making only one of the DIMM bootable. I done some minor soldering to fix the trace but I never test whether it works or not. Since my AsRock mobo went south I just plopped the CPU in and bam! It boots right up. I managed to get the third (bootable before) and the last DIMM slots working but the first two slots still dead and no dual channel for me. Not a huge deal and can't really notice any performance difference when gaming. I didn't dare to put back the AIO on this board because the memory trace could be damaged again hence the stock cooler. It sucks but at least it won't reach over 80C while gaming at overclocked 4GHz 1.125V.

 

[khemist]

 

[phanbuey]

I was going to post my rig then I saw Khemist's and deleted the photos.

 

[khemist]

Cheers!.

 

[Komshija]

About 22 months old and still going, except new and better PSU which I installed yesterday.

 

[Vayra86]

I was going to post my rig then I saw Khemist's and deleted the photos.

IKR

 

[denixius]

I saw the PCs from 2008 when I click on the title of this thread, and now I'm looking PCs from 2018... A lot of changes.

 

[Ruru]

EATX motherboard in an ATX chassis? No problem here.

 

[trparky]

A picture of my new system taken in the dark so that the LEDs can be shown off. See the specs in my profile to see what I have in it.

 

[er557]

There she is, the dual xeon rig that tops these charts, I know, I know, cable management, but it is dual liquid cooling so no worries, simply too many devices inside , as well as two internal nzxt usb2 splitters for the corsair psu and 2x aio for monitoring.

BTW, I fitted two 240mm aio's in there, one on the roof and one near the psu, 2x corsair H100iV2

 

[Ruru]

There she is, the dual xeon rig that tops these charts, I know, I know, cable management, but it is dual liquid cooling so no worries, simply too many devices inside , as well as two internal nzxt usb2 splitters for the corsair psu and 2x aio for monitoring.

BTW, I fitted two 240mm aio's in there, one on the roof and one near the psu, 2x corsair H100iV2

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I have still to complain about those damn cables. It looks horrible, dude.

 

[Fangio1951]

My current build.....

Which I'll be doing open heart surgery on in the next few days = transplanting into a Thermaltake Core P7 tempered glass open case unit.

 

[er557]

I have still to complain about those damn cables. It looks horrible, dude.

Ok, point taken, but it is merely aesthetics inside a closed case, It DOES NOT impair functionality, no airflow is needed around the pumps, and the gpus are still cramped together so that does not help. On the contrary, if I need to remove a cable or device it is more convenient to just disconnect, instead of looking where I tucked away the cable. Been using pc's this way for ages and never had an issue

 

[btarunr]

New graphics card, new case. I'm amazed at just how much hardware you can throw into a Corsair 100R.

 

[Ruru]

Ok, point taken, but it is merely aesthetics inside a closed case, It DOES NOT impair functionality, no airflow is needed around the pumps, and the gpus are still cramped together so that does not help. On the contrary, if I need to remove a cable or device it is more convenient to just disconnect, instead of looking where I tucked away the cable. Been using pc's this way for ages and never had an issue

True, but.. I use more time for cables than building a PC without a proper cable management.

 

[dgianstefani]

My current laptop

Alienware 13 R3 OLED.

7700hq undervolted 75mv
16GB HyperX 2400mhz 14cas
512GB NVMe Liteon - replacing with 970 pro
1060 6gb
1440p OLED display

 

[er557]

That's one smoking laptop you got there...

This is my laptop/phone/netbook/pocket pc: galaxy tab s2 9.7" ,2560x1920 ,octa-core ,3gb ram, LTE with phone features

 

[therealmeep]

That's one smoking laptop...

The OLED in them commands a decent price premium plus the alienware name costing a decent bit as well. Killer laptop with some damn good build quality, however its not for me. I'm probably going to change from my 4720hq laptop over to one of the new 15 inch thin gaming laptops with an 8750H and 1060/Max Q 1070.

 

[er557]

You do know android has all the functionality of windows on the go? laptops are so 2012, I won't be carrying a phone , a laptop, and a tablet, when I have all of them in one device in my bag; a Bluetooth earpiece and off you go.

 

[therealmeep]

You do know android has all the functionality of windows on the go? laptops are so 2012, I won't be carrying a phone , a laptop, and a tablet, when I have all of them in one device in my bag; a Bluetooth earpiece and off you go.

The issue i have with that is it's much more difficult to use a phone as an equivalent as a laptop for the type of work I do. Virtualization on arm is not something I am aware of, so VMs are out, it's much harder to interface with other devices through ssh, and I use many different flavors of Linux day to day, which then requires enough storage, and all in all it becomes very impractical to use a phone when a laptop is much better suited to the job.

 

[er557]

Ah, ok, well I don't do virtualization and Linux on the go, I can rdp to my pc if need be, but for games, productivity, internet browsing, mobile office, and more day to day tasks , the tablet is fine, not to mention navigation and information retrieval, that location aware apps give you in real time.

 

[Arrakis9]

Motherboard blew up. this is my pc atm

 

[biffzinker]

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Motherboard blew up. this is my pc atm

Quick, raid the stash of spare parts.

 

[Arrakis9]

Quick, raid the stash of spare parts.

unfortunately i dont have a spare motherboard anymore

 

[Fangio1951]

unfortunately i dont have a spare motherboard anymore

hi m8 - bugger. So I guess it's time to do that big u/g - cheers and good luck with it.