Jambls

So I was in "My Time" (registration) and my teacher was showing is a powerpoint. The thing is she was showing it to us in powerpoint editor thing and not a presentation. To change slides she would scroll down until the slide changes. If there was a like to a youtube video, she would not use Ctrl-click or Ctrl-c Ctrl-v. Or go into presentation mode. Oh no. She would highlight the link, right click, copy, open internet explorer 8, highlight the url bar, delete whatever was in there, right click, past, enter. And the best part was, We have roll down white projector screens and the one she is using has "STOP HERE" and some arrows and she pulled the screen past that so the "STOP HERE" was in the middle of the screen.
 
/rant

Console gamers forcing their consoles to run in a enclosed or dusty atmospere and never clean them and wonder why they overheat/get the red ring of death. I have heard stories about the dust.

Thats a stupendous guide you've got there. 
*gives MG2R an internet cookie

Thats a stupendous guide you've got there. 
*gives MG2R an internet cookie

Not really. The most you would get is a few more FPS. You should save your money and go for a 480 or spend it on something else.

Not really. The most you would get is a few more FPS. You should save your money and go for a 480 or spend it on something else.

Not really. The most you would get is a few more FPS. You should save your money and go for a 480 or spend it on something else.

IDK. If someone is trading a slightly better gpu for a slightly worse one, why are the doing it. If you have buyer protection, then go for it, but if you don't, be wary.

Look at the label (hint: not the one that says "ASSEMBLY HALL"). 

Need I say more? 

Look at the label (hint: not the one that says "ASSEMBLY HALL"). 

Need I say more? 

Testbench update:
Using scraps of ply and spruce, I built a testbench as a mock up for the I/O area of the main case, so I could see if my plan would work, which it mostly does. I started this testbench before Luke did his video, in which he called my twin brothers cardboard box "lame."
I started by getting many pieces of paper and, using a really helpful image that I found on the internet that showed all the distances between everything relating to the I/O panel and pci slots to plan the size everything. A good build started with a good plan. Or something. I decided to make the motherboard tray slightly larger than an ATX motherboard, to leave room for mistakes.
It was my birthday on the 7th so I got my new motherboard a few days in advance, so that I could try and finish the testbench as soon as possible, but i ended finishing it a week later then being lazy about this update so it's ever later.

This is the first of many rear I/O panels that I will try and cut. to the right is one of the trays that will make up be base and mottherboard tray. The holes are there to allow me to go round corners.

And I broke it. And the other one that I tried to do(it's broken on the bottom of the hole for the psu). On the right is more squares for the big case.
 
At this point it was my birthday.

I had some friends 'round and we had pizza and cake.
I got an Asus Sabertooth X58, an i7-920 and crap cooler for the price of just the motherboard, which was good, and I got 3x4GB of ram to run in triple channel. I also bought a HX650 to run all this.

The initial test for fit. It's hanging on the audio ports. You can see the break at the bottom.

Lets make another one...

Coping saws are for coping with curves. This is the one that I didn't break.

I had to notch this piece to make room for the bolt

This is the bracket attached.

I cut this groove for the bottom of the expansion cars brackets to go into. Using a sharp knife. Wood is really easy to work with.

And assembled in it's current form. I think it looks cool.

The bracket with the bolts trimmed. I am actually really pleased with this shot. I took it with my Onepus 2.
And a small screw that I found in my Dad's box of many small screws.

I think it's quite a Dad thing to have this.
The finished back with my things in it.
The front(?).

And the side. I also have 2 500gb WD caviar blues in RAID0 with the closest expansion card, a HD 5670, and a pci Wifi card on top, with a laptop drive for backups and an SSD that is finally off of SATA I and onto SATA III with the Marvell controller built into the motherboard.
I even managed a small overclock, going from 2.66 to 2.8GHz with a large undervolt to improve thermals at 0.9625v
That's all for today, folks, and have a good [insert time of day where you are here].
 

Update:
I have some good news, some bad news and a change in the plan.
The good news is that we are all the way through the first half of the first panel.

The bad news is that the bottom side of the panel is partly destroyed and you can see it from the other side.

This is due to a mistake on my part. I made the holes have a diameter of 6mm and spaced them 1 hole every 10mm. This spacing would be fine if the holes were 5mm and 6mm would be fine if I had spaced it one hole every 11 or 12mm but there wasn't enough material left to hold together.
The change in the plan: I am going to buy some 3mm ply for these panels as the 9mm it taking far too long to cut through. This will require me to brace the motherboard tray more but if I make a piece to hold the fans and make that strong enough, I can brace the motherboard tray with it. It should also decrease turbulence, making the fans quieter.
I am also going to build a testbench style thing to trial what I am going to do to hold up the expansion cards and other I/O things. And so I have somewhere to put my final motherboard while I am finishing the case since I really need the upgrade. There won't be a separate build log and I don't plan on posting much about it. It's going to be a good use for the materials that I have lying around from the case and it will sorta match.
 
That's it from me today, folks, hit that like button and subscribe and buy my merch and comment and subscribe. Or something.

Update:
I have some good news, some bad news and a change in the plan.
The good news is that we are all the way through the first half of the first panel.

The bad news is that the bottom side of the panel is partly destroyed and you can see it from the other side.

This is due to a mistake on my part. I made the holes have a diameter of 6mm and spaced them 1 hole every 10mm. This spacing would be fine if the holes were 5mm and 6mm would be fine if I had spaced it one hole every 11 or 12mm but there wasn't enough material left to hold together.
The change in the plan: I am going to buy some 3mm ply for these panels as the 9mm it taking far too long to cut through. This will require me to brace the motherboard tray more but if I make a piece to hold the fans and make that strong enough, I can brace the motherboard tray with it. It should also decrease turbulence, making the fans quieter.
I am also going to build a testbench style thing to trial what I am going to do to hold up the expansion cards and other I/O things. And so I have somewhere to put my final motherboard while I am finishing the case since I really need the upgrade. There won't be a separate build log and I don't plan on posting much about it. It's going to be a good use for the materials that I have lying around from the case and it will sorta match.
 
That's it from me today, folks, hit that like button and subscribe and buy my merch and comment and subscribe. Or something.

Update:
I have some good news, some bad news and a change in the plan.
The good news is that we are all the way through the first half of the first panel.

The bad news is that the bottom side of the panel is partly destroyed and you can see it from the other side.

This is due to a mistake on my part. I made the holes have a diameter of 6mm and spaced them 1 hole every 10mm. This spacing would be fine if the holes were 5mm and 6mm would be fine if I had spaced it one hole every 11 or 12mm but there wasn't enough material left to hold together.
The change in the plan: I am going to buy some 3mm ply for these panels as the 9mm it taking far too long to cut through. This will require me to brace the motherboard tray more but if I make a piece to hold the fans and make that strong enough, I can brace the motherboard tray with it. It should also decrease turbulence, making the fans quieter.
I am also going to build a testbench style thing to trial what I am going to do to hold up the expansion cards and other I/O things. And so I have somewhere to put my final motherboard while I am finishing the case since I really need the upgrade. There won't be a separate build log and I don't plan on posting much about it. It's going to be a good use for the materials that I have lying around from the case and it will sorta match.
 
That's it from me today, folks, hit that like button and subscribe and buy my merch and comment and subscribe. Or something.

Update:
I was productive today. I stared cutting the real panels. I have a few pics from when I was marking out where to put the panels to get the ply in the right position from a few weeks ago but I didn't think that there was enough there for a full update to I left then until now. Today I got 25 passes done on half of one of the panels. The laser cutter is ~2cm to small to do the whole piece at once so I cut the design in half and I will cut it in halfs. Enough text! Onto the pretty pictures!

Cutting the teat piece.

The result of testing. Most of them were getting the circle to be circles because the cutter was set up to do jars on rollers, not the flatbed.

Peek a boo! The cutter was creating a lot of smoke at the beginning so I had to keep the lid closed as much as possible.

The first pass done.

This was around pass 20. It hasn't changed much from that in the 5 passes I did before I had to go home.

The panel just fits under the lip and I can still cut the other side.

This is the back of it after 25 passes at the slowest I feel safe going without setting it on fire.

The warning label is badly translated since it is a Chinese cutter that was imported.
 
That's all for now but I plan to go back tomorrow but thing rarely go to plan in this case.

Did you know that with a big enough hammer, you can fit a USB into a HDMI port.

0/10, no pic of your grass

RAID card. You best option is a SAS card with at least 2 ports and adapters to what I am assuming are SATA drives. Software raid can be a little unreliable and getting 8 drives attached to one motherboard with room for a boot drive is not possible on most motherboards. There is also lots of horror stories about software RAID although newer software is better.

Use this affordable, 1TB flash drive at only about £1000
"SSD hard drive"
"If you need more grunt then use one of the most expensive tablets you can buy" (at time of filming)
"techies"

Console gamers forcing their consoles to run in a enclosed or dusty atmospere and never clean them and wonder why they overheat/get the red ring of death. I have heard stories about the dust.

I have 30 amps for upstairs. At 230V, not 110V. That means you can pull 2200w from the wall. I can pull 6900w from the wall.

Did you know that with a big enough hammer, you can fit a USB into a HDMI port.

I have a sensor at -128c. Proof: http://prntscr.com/9odv29

I feel like you could have done better with the cable management if you tried.

Update:
Finished making the panels fit. Some of them were a little too big and required trimming. The next step is to glue the frame then varnish it. After that, the hardest thing is doing the holes for airflow then is is plain sailing from then on. Hopefully. I am having trouble keeping myself motivated because it feels like nothings happening. Soon things will start to appear to happen. Soon.

What it is going to look like on the outside for all the panels.

The inside.

The nuisance helpful hound.