Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

cadaveca · Oct 7, 2016

AsRock said:
Personally i don't care as long as the systems running right, i am no fan ( HA ) of them either but it's rare to see them some what blend in.

EDIT:
I am not one to pick parts due to looks function \ cost come first, looks are the last thing i buy some thing for.

As my mother always says never judge a book by it's cover, always felt like some thing was missing from that when your talking about fans like those.

jboydgolfer said:
agreed 100%

ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure

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peche · Oct 7, 2016

fukll msi hardware! great, also the pillow mascot seems great!
Regards,

AsRock · Oct 7, 2016

cadaveca said:
ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :

I was just trying to say a good thing is all

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And yeah they should last their frigging expensive, i have a bunch of Rosewill 120mm fans that i have been using for over 7 years ( X38 ) working perfectly fine and those were $7.99

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As for MSI getting it right, not to me, my love for dragons and all i think MSI got it wrong. Still would not stop me buying some thing of there's and have in the passed but i seem to have bad luck with their products but i try them every so often.

cadaveca · Oct 7, 2016

AsRock said:
As for MSI getting it right, not to me, my love for dragons and all i think MSI got it wrong. Still would not stop me buying some thing of there's and have in the passed but i seem to have bad luck with their products but i try them every so often.

I try them more often than anyone else; I get my gear for free as samples! For the products I have tried (which are all on the front page here), MSI truly is one of the best when it comes to quality and a focused design. They aren't ASRock; ASRock's engineering feats are ungodly; yet MSI has a true focus on their gaming products that no one else seems to.

Aesthetics are something else; I don't include that in my opinion much. I know looks only get you so far. I am thinking in terms of meeting the needs of the product's target audience, and then drilling down to the fine details of how they do that, including pricing. MSI today is not the MSI of 5 years ago.

Now, of course, they do hand-pick the hardware they send me, so my view is limited. I also outright do not like ASUS and their greater focus on OC before usability. Gigabyte products are for those that want a PC that's like an Apple device. When I do reviews, I have to strip those opinions out, but every product that passes through my hands only seems to bolster those thoughts.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Oct 7, 2016

cadaveca said:
ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :

its good to see a Welsh dragon guarding it all for you. Iechyd Da ... :toast:

HUSKIE · Oct 8, 2016

Just added ek cpu and gpu blocks on my flagship 9590 cpu and 980 ti hope you like it!
also added drain port as well

alucasa · Oct 14, 2016

I am not sure whether you consider rackmount gears sexy... But I generally like rackmounts.

I have a 14U rack which was once full of WCG rigs more than a decade ago. Nowadays, I have just one 2U unit that is used as a data storage. It runs on Fedora 24. Nevermind the Core 2 quad sticker. I never took it off.

t_ski · Oct 14, 2016

Not bad, but this is my kind of storage:

INSTG8R · Oct 14, 2016

Recently decided to redo my thermal paste. Always wanted to see it naked :eek:

stinger608 · Oct 14, 2016

t_ski said:
Not bad, but this is my kind of storage:

Now when did you come by and get a picture of my pron storage???????? :laugh:

t_ski · Oct 14, 2016

If you need 38.4TB of 12Gb/s Flash for your porn, then we need to talk...

BTW, that is my pic, not something I found online. :pimp:

R-T-B · Oct 14, 2016

cadaveca said:
ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :

Oh damn, they sent you a dragon. Nobody tell @Toothless!

cadaveca · Oct 14, 2016

R-T-B said:
Oh damn, they sent you a dragon. Nobody tell @Toothless!

Actually, they sent 4... two sizes of plush, one plush on a keychain and the fourth is mini-brick!

My wife and kids were fighting over them the moment they saw them.

R-T-B · Oct 14, 2016

t_ski said:
If you need 38.4TB of 12Gb/s Flash for your porn, then we need to talk...

No, I'm pretty sure some things are best left not talked about.

Toothless · Oct 14, 2016

R-T-B said:
Oh damn, they sent you a dragon. Nobody tell @Toothless!

cadaveca said:
Actually, they sent 4... two sizes of plush, one plush on a keychain and the fourth is mini-brick!

My wife and kids were fighting over them the moment they saw them.

I'm upset at you for not sharing me.

R-T-B · Oct 14, 2016

Toothless said:
I'm upset at you for not sharing me.

I know this is going to sting toothless, but...

We actually hate you, we just can't think of a diplomatic way to tell you so we hide all the dragons from you and hoard them in a cleverly disguised tech site that is actually a dragon dungeon.

cadaveca · Oct 14, 2016

R-T-B said:
in a cleverly disguised tech site that is actually a dragon dungeon.

Woah, buddy. A zoo is NOT a dungeon. This ain't Sea World.

peche · Oct 14, 2016

Thermal paste applied on your GPU / CPU, survey!

INSTG8R said:
Recently decided to redo my thermal paste. Always wanted to see it naked

@INSTG8R will like to have your imput here: Thermal paste applied on your GPU / CPU, survey! :rockout:

Great pic sir indeed!

Regards,

R-T-B · Oct 16, 2016

cadaveca said:
Woah, buddy. A zoo is NOT a dungeon. This ain't Sea World.

Set the Dragons free, man.

khemist · Oct 19, 2016

New cooler, hope to get it installed and tested today.

khemist · Oct 19, 2016

Installed.

Shou Miko · Oct 19, 2016

@khemist how come u got a new cooler?

U ordered one to replace a ref. cooler on a founders edition card or u had a faulty cooler that needed a replacement?

Still a nice, awesome cooler I only hard good about and congratz :toast:

khemist · Oct 19, 2016

I didn't know you could buy this EVGA cooler on it's own.

With the Gelid one i have to connect the fans to the motherboard and change fan speeds manually when gaming as when connected to the actual GPU they run at full speed all the time.

At least i can set up a fan profile now in afterburner although since i don't have a direct case exhaust i'm sure my CPU temps will increase over the founders edition.

Shou Miko · Oct 20, 2016

khemist said:
I didn't know you could buy this EVGA cooler on it's own.

With the Gelid one i have to connect the fans to the motherboard and change fan speeds manually when gaming as when connected to the actual GPU they run at full speed all the time.

At least i can set up a fan profile now in afterburner although since i don't have a direct case exhaust i'm sure my CPU temps will increase over the founders edition.

EVGA's europe site use to sell their ACX coolers on their shop but the last generation or so only backplates has been available sadly

alucasa · Oct 21, 2016

My current media PC which I plan to move up to mATX setup.

One of its drives is 15mm height 2.5 inch HDD 4TB.

System Name	Athenna
Processor	intel i7 3770 Dellided
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev. 1.1
Cooling	Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro + Tt Riing12 x2 / Tt ThunderBlade / Gelid Slim 120UV fans
Memory	16GB DRR3 Kingoston with Custom Tt spreaders + HyperX Fan
Video Card(s)	GeForce GTX 980 4GB Nvidia Sample
Storage	Crucial M4 SSD 64GB's / Seagate Barracuda 2TB / Seagate Barracuda 320GB's
Display(s)	22" LG FLATRON 1920 x 1280p
Case	Thermaltake Commander G42 Window
Audio Device(s)	On-board Dolby 5.1+ Kingston HyperX Cloud 1
Power Supply	Themaltake TR2 700W 80plus bronce & APC Pro backup 1000Va
Mouse	Tt eSports Level 10M Rev 1.0 Diamond Black & Tt Conkor "L" mouse pad
Keyboard	Tt eSports KNUCKER
Software	windows 10x64Pro
Benchmark Scores	well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?

System Name	Party On
Processor	Xeon w 3520
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty
Cooling	Big tower thing
Memory	6 gb Ballistix Tracer
Video Card(s)	HD 7970
Case	a plank of wood
Audio Device(s)	seperate amp and 6 big speakers
Power Supply	Corsair
Mouse	cheap
Keyboard	under going restoration

System Name	My i7 Beast
Processor	Intel Core i7 6800K
Motherboard	Asus X99-A II
Cooling	Nickel-plated EK Supremacy EVO, D5 with XSPC Bayres & BIX Quad Radiator
Memory	4 x 8GB EVGA SuperSC DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 SuperClocked
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro 256GB m.2 SSD + 480GB Sandisk storage SSD
Display(s)	Three Asus 24" VW246H LCD's
Case	Silverstone TJ07
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Keyboard	Corsair K95
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

System Name	Hellbox 5.1(same case new guts)
Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	MSI X570S MAG Torpedo Max
Cooling	TT Kandalf L.C.S.(Water/Air)EK Velocity CPU Block/Noctua EK Quantum DDC Pump/Res
Memory	2x16GB Gskill Trident Neo Z 3600 CL16
Video Card(s)	Powercolor Hellhound 7900XTX
Storage	970 Evo Plus 500GB 2xSamsung 850 Evo 500GB RAID 0 1TB WD Blue Corsair MP600 Core 2TB
Display(s)	Alienware QD-OLED 34” 3440x1440 144hz 10Bit VESA HDR 400
Case	TT Kandalf L.C.S.
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster ZX/Logitech Z906 5.1
Power Supply	Seasonic TX~’850 Platinum
Mouse	G502 Hero
Keyboard	G19s
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 3
Software	Win 11 Pro x64

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

cadaveca

My name is Dave

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

AsRock

TPU addict

cadaveca

My name is Dave

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

HUSKIE

alucasa

t_ski

Former Staff

INSTG8R

Vanguard Beta Tester

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

t_ski

Former Staff

R-T-B

cadaveca

My name is Dave

R-T-B

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

R-T-B

cadaveca

My name is Dave

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

R-T-B

khemist

khemist

Shou Miko

khemist

Shou Miko

alucasa

System Name	Pioneer
Processor	Ryzen R9 9950X
Motherboard	GIGABYTE Aorus Elite X670 AX
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15 + A whole lotta Sunon and Corsair Maglev blower fans...
Memory	64GB (4x 16GB) G.Skill Flare X5 @ DDR5-6000 CL30
Video Card(s)	XFX RX 7900 XTX Speedster Merc 310
Storage	Intel 5800X Optane 800GB boot, +2x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs
Display(s)	55" LG 55" B9 OLED 4K Display
Case	Thermaltake Core X31
Audio Device(s)	TOSLINK->Schiit Modi MB->Asgard 2 DAC Amp->AKG Pro K712 Headphones or HDMI->B9 OLED
Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti Pro 850W
Mouse	Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless
Keyboard	WASD Code v3 with Cherry Green keyswitches + PBT DS keycaps
Software	Gentoo Linux x64 / Windows 11 Enterprise IoT 2024

System Name	Veral
Processor	7800x3D
Motherboard	x670e Asus Crosshair Hero
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB Elite
Memory	2x24 Klevv Cras V RGB
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
Display(s)	Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx, 2x AOC 2425W, AOC I1601FWUX
Case	Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2
Audio Device(s)	Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Mouse	Corsair Nightsword
Keyboard	Corsair K55
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2
Software	Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores	PEBCAK

Processor	9700k
Motherboard	Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AC
Cooling	NZXT kraken X53
Memory	16GB Klevv Bolt X 3600mhz
Video Card(s)	Asus TUF RTX 3080
Storage	SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB NVME
Display(s)	LG OLED42C24LA
Case	Meshlicious
Audio Device(s)	Dragonfly Black DAC/Amp + AKG Q701 + Rode NT-USB
Power Supply	Corsair SF750
Mouse	Steelseries Prime wireless
Keyboard	Coolermaster Masterkeys S
Software	Win 10 64

System Name	Lynni PS \ Lenowo TwinkPad L14 G2
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Raphael (Waiting on 9800X3D) \ i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake-U
Motherboard	ASRock B650M PG Riptide Bios v. 3.10 AMD AGESA 1.2.0.2a \ Lenowo BDPLANAR Bios 1.68
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15 Chromax.Black (Only middle fan) \ Lenowo C-267C-2
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHZ CL36-36-36-96 AMD EXPO \ Willk Elektronik 2x16GB 2666MHZ CL17
Video Card(s)	Asus GeForce RTX™ 4070 Dual OC (Waiting on RX 8800 XT) \| Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Storage	Gigabyte M30 1TB\|Sabrent Rocket 2TB\| HDD: 10TB\|1TB \ WD RED SN700 1TB
Display(s)	KTC M27T20S 1440p@165Hz \| LG 48CX OLED 4K HDR \| Innolux 14" 1080p
Case	Asus Prime AP201 White Mesh \| Lenowo L14 G2 chassis
Audio Device(s)	Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless
Power Supply	Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W Goldie \| 65W
Mouse	Logitech G305 Lightspeedy Wireless \| Lenowo TouchPad & Logitech G305
Keyboard	Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize \| L14 G2 UK Lumi
Software	Win11 IoT Enterprise 24H2 UK \| Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 24H2 UK / Arch (Fan)
Benchmark Scores	3DMARK: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/89434432? GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/v3zbr