Carde

Thin ones, black ice something from the top of my head from hardware labs. had to be thin to fit them into my current case.

So just 24Hrs further notice to AMD? Bad action from whoever found these bugs.

I still get confused by taxes in the US lol, why don't you just pay them automatically(included in the price) on goods?
Like here in the UK, anything you buy the price already has the 20% tax accounted for.
 
Or am i missing the point and that's what Newegg should have been doing anyway, but they failed to do so?

So NoScript ftw?

I have a remarkable solution on my phone, its a seperate 3.5mm jack and USB C port
 
But companies want to abandon the 3.5mm jack... Why not make a phone with two type C ports, or in the case of the iphone, 2 lightning ports?
 
You'd at least be able to charge and listen without this article's absurd product!

People don't like the fact that they've been shown to be gullible. It's understandable and Jim has well and truly busted some of those who are consistently bs'ing their audience. Of course the same people who whine about that usually have no real factual, substantive points to raise to counter what he says.

Why? PC Per acted unprofessionally and were unethical.

While being annoyed at my fans spinning up I thought I might aswell put down a little benchmark just with the CPU OC, still need to get that ram to run at 3000Mhz, but it is past 4am so next time
 

 
Alas that is how high this chip wants to clock, guess no win in the silicon lottery for me this time (Goodbye old 3770K which managed 5.0Ghz)

Meh still a shortage in some places, but second hand market might be nice again. I really don't get the hate ex mining cards get have had several without issue and hear much the same from others. Most miners undervolt cards to reduce power consumption and they are in open air cases so kept quite cool. The only possible issue found is fans getting worn out, but even that is minor.

And even that has a solution

Well it has been a while and mainly because some parts ended up on a backorder and then the transport company decided to say fuck it all and delay the shipment by 5 days
 
Sorry to say I did not make a bunch more pictures as I went because really the final assembly was rather easy, so take a look here and below I will talk through what I had to do and the silly mistakes I made
 

 
Well there she is in all her glory doing something people said was not possible: Putting 2 360 rads in this case without any modifications! Now don't get me wrong it is not an easy fit and I had to loosen some screws to get the top one to slide in and force it all back to screw them back into place, now I think I could have avoided that by removing 2 more screws from the top rad which would allow it to slide just that tiny bit more towards the back. Either way it fits and I am a happy camper about that
 
The pump was the next brain cracker as the backside of the case is not really suitable for mounting it due to all the holes and cut outs for the drive cadies that can be placed there. So I went with the idea to just mount it to the rad using a 120mm bracket, of course I had to pick the pump with a res that was to large so that would not fit either. But fitting it with just 2 screws instead of 4 to the bracket gave me just enough clearance to make it fit and really it is more than solid enough for moving it abouts in the house, but I would not advise it at all for transportation!
 
I routed the tubing best I could wanting to keep the lengths as short as possible and I think I could have cut a 5mm of the tubes here and there, but I think that is a project for when I need to change the coolant out. I am really glad I went with soft tubing though as it was hard enough to get everything inside this case without having to worry about sollid tubing, that would have turned this from a day build to a week build no doubt.
 
Overall I am really happy with how it turned out, keep in mind the picture is a tad bright, with the glass on things look really clean and you just get this lovely ice blue lighting shining through. Will have to see if I can turn off the lights at night and make a picture like that with the glass on.
 
Of course I am still dealing with an SSD that is acting up and only thanks to the folks here I managed to find a bios that allows the system to remain quiet Cause these noctua fans are really quiet when running slowly, but they transform into a jet at full blast
 
Also here is the full desk:
 

 
Desk is an IKEA BEKANT 160cm with a standard frame which is just a great desk for not to much money (I work at an IKEA store doing product quality so me knows good and the bad from IKEA )
 
Going from left to right:
 
Headset: Sennheiser G4ME one black
Screen 1: BenQ Zowie XL2735 (Really got to adjust to the TN colours, they are so bad compared to IPS).
Keyboard: Logitech G 710+ (Just a reliable piece of kit)
Screen 2: Some ASUS 1080P60 IPS from my old rig. (Also thank you noctua for shipping your fans in strong boxes they make for an excellent monitor stand )
Mouse: EVGA Torq X5 (Quite a nice mouse, doesn't get nearly enough attention)
Microphone: Some basic broadcaster type mic, just a ton better than the heatset one.
Chair (Not seen): IKEA MARKUS (Still looking for an other chair, but finding one I like and that is high enough is tricky)
 
 
Anyhow not a bad build considering this is the third PC I ever build. First was rig 1.0, second was a really basic cheap AMD system for my dad and now this one which really still needs a cool name . Also keeps really cool, it is idling 4-5C above ambient and when pushed hard hits about 25-30C above ambient.
 
So that makes my little build complete and gives me a new rig to last me some years with only an GPU upgrade in future and perhaps an M.2 SSD when the budget allows. For now my money is gone this whole project ended up costing me around 3000 EUR with the PC, second screen and desk included and would have gone well north of that if I could not salvage some bits from the old setup. No regrets through it is my hobby and it may cost me some money
 
 

While being annoyed at my fans spinning up I thought I might aswell put down a little benchmark just with the CPU OC, still need to get that ram to run at 3000Mhz, but it is past 4am so next time
 

 
Alas that is how high this chip wants to clock, guess no win in the silicon lottery for me this time (Goodbye old 3770K which managed 5.0Ghz)

Rig 2.0
Ryzing to the top, (leg)lit RGB style and keeping cool under water.
 
Rig 1.4 is well 5 years old on it's core components and I am sorry to say she is annoying the living hell out of me because she is based on rig 1.0 and well with that a certain lack of experience. So naturally we are going to build a new rig and do some serious water cooling which I don't have much experience which (really a pre assembled kit is where it ends). With Ryzen out there and me not willing to wait for VEGA to start this build, we are well starting it and leaving the GPU for later unless we can find a good deal on one somewhere throughout this build. 
 
So before we go into detail let's just look at the specs of rig 1.4 and rig 2.0:
 
Rig 1.4:
Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D (Currently in poor state) MB: ASUS Z77 Sabertooth CPU: Intel I7 3770K OC to 4.5Ghz CPU cooling: Alphacool kit with a 360 rad RAM: G.Skill ARES 1866Mhz CL10 GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Reference PSU: Corsair AX860W SSD 1: Samsung 830 256GB SSD 2: Samsung 840 pro 512GB HD: WD Green 1TB OS: Windows 10 PRO 64Bit  
Rig 2.0:
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX TG Black MB: Asus Crosshair VI Hero CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU cooling: Phanteks Glacier C350a CPU block (if they become available in time) RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3000Mhz CL15 32GB (4x8) (Brought 32 GB because 4 dims look better than 2:P) GPU: GTX 1070 MSI SEA hawk (pre installed EK waterblock, dending on VEGA it will stay or be switched out, sadly no RGB, but it was that or speed over a 100EUR more for RGB) PSU: Corsair AX860W (Good PSU, changed out once so this one is still under warranty) SSD 1: Samsung 830 256GB SSD 2: Samsung 840 pro 512GB Pump+Res: EK-XRES 140 Revo D5 PWM RADs: 2x The Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS (If I can make it fit :P) Coolant: Mayhems X1 Clear Tubing: EK-DuraClear 3/8 ID - 1/2 OD - 9,5/12,7mm 3M RETAIL Fittings: Alphacool HF Screw connector, lots of 90s needed and some 45 and really I gotta keep the price in check somewhat as a result hence going for Alphacool here (The other options where either not black or black and more than two times as expensive) Fans: Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPC-2000 PWM - 2000RPM (Can't go wrong with noctua fans) OS: Windows 10 pro 64bit  
The purpose of rig 2.0 (I am open to suggestions for better names) will be gaming, streaming, recording and some editing work. Now building new rigs is not a cheap thing and specially if you go full on custom water cooling and hence you will notice a bit of salvaging from RIG 1.4, what is not salvaged I will simply sell off with the exception of the HD. The real challenge is going to be the whole water cooling setup, as said I do not have much experience with it hence I am ordering things in bits to see what I can make work and what I can't I will simply return. Now I am not sure if I am going soft or hard tubing, the former seems a lot easier, but the later is likely going to end up looking better. GPU block wise ideally I hope that Phanteks also releases a block for the VEGA cards that way I have RGB ram, RGB CPU block and RGB GPU block. I specially do not want to add to much if any other lighting to the case, cause this way in the black interior these few components will become a real stand out.
 
So that is the plan, now let's see how the execution will go. Now I do apologize the first pictures are a bit dark (phone in the wrong setting) last one I fixed that issue with, but only figured it out when I arrived at that stage.
 
Picture time!
 

 
There we have our first delivery arrived at the timely hour of 2130 today (for reference it is now 0040 the next day). Removed the ugly brown box from the Phanteks case (nice to have though additional protection is always good. That said stop using Styrofoam already it sucks). So yeah the hearth and casing of my new system has arrived, now for some more box shots:

 
I been eying this case for quite some time, it is just a stunning looking case, much better than my 800D that is for sure
 

 
Yeah I brought you 2 days before the cut the price, if the prices drop I likely contact the webstore to get a partial refund (Cause I have 14 days to return it without reason anyway), this stuff is expensive enough as is. Also I know the 1700X would be cheaper, but where is the fun in that?
 

 
An other ASUS board and an other one people say is to expensive for what it offers. What can I say my sabertooth been amazing to me and I like this board so I got it
 

 
You know originally I was going to buy some Corsair Vengeance memory, just 16GB no RGB, just like we would have no custom water cooling and all that. So here we are spending twice what I had planned on memory and lords knows how much more on the cooling.
 
Many shiny new boxes and this time I get to keep them all, no parents anymore who force one to discard all these amazing boxes. So despite the late hour the build began mostly so that I could get some idea of my flexibility for the water cooling settup. So let's see how this stunning case was looking just an hour later:
 

 
Not much left of it is there? I will say this case is a joy to work with, just being able to move it around without breaking my back (800D is heavy as all hell) is great and much of it is screwed in place. But yeah here we have the case with the MB and RAM inside, but the side, top and front panel removed as well as the radiator bracket and one of it's slides seeing it is rather space inefficient it might not return. All those lovely 140mm fans are resting on the side, guess I will sell those on as I have no need for them. Do love the small screw box from Phanteks, but a few items ended up in bags just so I know where they belong to.
 
So that is where we will end episode one, my first build log and what is to be my first real custom water cooled PC. I hope to complete the build over the course of the next week. Any feedback you have is welcome (will try to shoot the pictures in daylight following this post hopefully they come out a bit better, sorry for that just limited to my OPO for that. As for the parts see above anything in green is still up for debate so I am open to suggestions regarding that as well (specially tubing/piping/fittings).
 
Carde signing off.

Wow that looks horrible

Looks like they're trying too hard to be InWin.

I wanna see every day OCs. Dont care about LN2 results.

140k units is damn near nothing when you want to get devs to make games for it and all.
 
Really if VR was to be deemed a success this year you would need to be talking about millions of units (vive+Oculus) and you would need to see a ramp up next year even more.
 
The high costs of VR + the fact that so many people just can't use it due numerous issues is a problem to get the tech truly rolling in gaming. Personally if I could buy a unit I would, but I would take a week off to try it a lot to ensure I do not get any issues seeing I am prone to migraines for example and no game is worth those (also why I hate low fps in first person games)
 
What is going to be key is reducing the costs, making them easier to use requiring less space, but above all keep the demands down on hardware, allow the market to catch up a bit and in 2 years time if you have a 200 USD set then you can see some movement in the VR space. Until then it will just be to niece.
 
I just hope they do that and keep it alive, it is promising, just right now it is early adopter tech that will need to be handled very carefully for it not to go the way of the 3D.

This is Ubisoft we are talking about here, don't put anything past them. If they see this post they might just respond saying, "challenge accepted".

This is 100% legit guys. My dad works for Nintendo and I can confirm that this is true. He could develop Star Citizen by himself in a week if he wanted to, and Cloud Imperium can't make it in 4 years? Ponzi scheme confirmed.
 
 
But seriously though, I think Star Citizen will fail. It's like a hype machine that can not be stopped, and it is fueled by missed deadlines.

I knew from the moment that they said no SQ 42 to be shown because it is not quite up the final polish they wanted, that this news would make the headlines and nothing else.
 
While if you actually look at what is being shown and above all what they have achieved this last year it is staggering. From the changes to the engines, streamline production and crafting new tools they need to make the world. With all of that in place and working now, production can be ramped up big time and I think that we will see a lot more coming and faster as time goes on.
 
Sure things have been delayed, but frankly considering the work they have done (including building up 4 teams in 4 offices) I am pretty darn impressed.
 
Yes I will be biased of course, but when I see what is there and when I talk to the people who work there I cannot help but being positive.

I knew from the moment that they said no SQ 42 to be shown because it is not quite up the final polish they wanted, that this news would make the headlines and nothing else.
 
While if you actually look at what is being shown and above all what they have achieved this last year it is staggering. From the changes to the engines, streamline production and crafting new tools they need to make the world. With all of that in place and working now, production can be ramped up big time and I think that we will see a lot more coming and faster as time goes on.
 
Sure things have been delayed, but frankly considering the work they have done (including building up 4 teams in 4 offices) I am pretty darn impressed.
 
Yes I will be biased of course, but when I see what is there and when I talk to the people who work there I cannot help but being positive.

I knew from the moment that they said no SQ 42 to be shown because it is not quite up the final polish they wanted, that this news would make the headlines and nothing else.
 
While if you actually look at what is being shown and above all what they have achieved this last year it is staggering. From the changes to the engines, streamline production and crafting new tools they need to make the world. With all of that in place and working now, production can be ramped up big time and I think that we will see a lot more coming and faster as time goes on.
 
Sure things have been delayed, but frankly considering the work they have done (including building up 4 teams in 4 offices) I am pretty darn impressed.
 
Yes I will be biased of course, but when I see what is there and when I talk to the people who work there I cannot help but being positive.

I knew from the moment that they said no SQ 42 to be shown because it is not quite up the final polish they wanted, that this news would make the headlines and nothing else.
 
While if you actually look at what is being shown and above all what they have achieved this last year it is staggering. From the changes to the engines, streamline production and crafting new tools they need to make the world. With all of that in place and working now, production can be ramped up big time and I think that we will see a lot more coming and faster as time goes on.
 
Sure things have been delayed, but frankly considering the work they have done (including building up 4 teams in 4 offices) I am pretty darn impressed.
 
Yes I will be biased of course, but when I see what is there and when I talk to the people who work there I cannot help but being positive.

Set up email forwarding?

Why...Just why, it could be a selling point for the next samsung phones