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It's completely ruined, better sell it to me for €100 (that's a joke)
GPU should be fine, you did the right thing with the alcohol as it pulls moisture and water into itself then evaporates at a lower temperature (usually, depends on the alcohol,) and this (obviously) means evaporates much faster. The coolant may have had solid particulates or disolved stuff in it, or other liquids that don't exhibit this bahaviour, wash the PCB now with more alcohol and then dry it off again and leave it overnight, should be fine. 

Ok great! Glad I can still use it. Thank you all so much for the information, I really appreciate it!! 

Ok great. One last question for ya. Will those nickel flakes cause issues for my pump and cpu block other than accumulating in the fins? 

So will this be a big problem going forward? Or should I be good as long as I use a good coolant? 

So I recently checked out some games on my gamecube and I realized how shit it looked so I did some research. It turns out I've been using the most craptastic cables available. I did a little more research and I discovered that I can either get a component cable which is over 150 bucks or an S-video cable. They've 150 now because there is a very limited number of them and they have a proprietary DAC in them that was never released to other manufacturers. I was wondering if any of you guys have experience with the difference between the two and know how drastic of a difference it is....and also if maybe you have some component cables and want to sell it to me hahaha. I'm seriously thinking about getting a pair of component cables just because of the memories that I have of playing my gamecube with my dad. Sounds stupid but it's true. Thanks guys.

I would, but I'm not thrilled about putting having my Gamecube being drilled into...lol But that mod looks pretty sweet.
 

Same! I just turned it on this past weekend for the first time in a while and remembered the AWESOME games that I played on that thing. It makes me want to get one of those cables...damn you Nintendo for not making them anymore.....

If anyone has one or knows someone who has one and would be willing to sell it to me, let me know.

I'll give it a try. Thanks a lot!

Professional programmer of 20 years.
 
This is a field where much of what we know is self taught, college is the beginning of your education but as a professional it will never end you will be learning your entire career. You will be spending evenings and weekends playing with new technologies and learning new languages and no one is going to give you this on the job but its critical to your future in the industry.
 
What I did was do a fair amount of extra programming throughout my 3 years, I built a real time ray tracer I developed a online massively multiplayer game and artificial intelligence that played that game based on genetic algorithms. Without doing the  extra work finding jobs will be more difficult but you are in the USA and they kind of have a ridiculous market for programmers right now so its pretty easy to get hired. But its not always going to be that way and it might not be when you leave.
 
You want a knowledge of everything and the sooner you know what end of the industry you want to be in the better to tailor your course. Suck in as much as you can while there, you will never get knowledge in such a condensed and focused way again in your entire career its by far the easiest place to learn so make the most of it.

College tuition gives you the tools to learn how to do stuff, but a lot of the stuff you are doing while working will be self-taught (if you learned everything in college you'd be retiring before you finished studying :)).
 
As a comparison: English class in school teaches you about grammar, syntax and how to spell. It doesn't teach you how to write a compelling novel, or how to write a scientific paper which is good enough to be published in a journal. That comes with (lots of) extracurricular practice
 
You learn to program, be it Java, C or scripting in BASH, php or whatever you choose to do (and they aren't mutually exclusive) by doing it. That way you also have a portfolio of things that you have done to show to a prospective employer.

I graduated from university 2 years ago and have been working for a FTSE100 company as a PHP developer since then.
 
As BrightCandle said this isn't a career where you can learn everything in education and work for the rest of your life. I actually learnt a huge amount when I started working, just being around other professional developers, reading and reviewing code is a great way to learn.
 
When I started I pretty much just wrote code, now I've found myself branching out more taking part in working groups to review and improve processes, working on continuous integration, providing input on OS migrations and more server side discussions and even helping out with some high-performance computing and big data projects we have taking place in my office. While many of these things had been touched on at uni I now understand these technologies much more than before so it really pays off to put yourself forward to keep learning as much as possible.
 
You can also find developer conferences to attend and institutes like the BCS here in the UK put on regular talks and presentations from industry experts which are a great way to widen your knowledge and meet other IT professionals.

Personal projects are great and not something that you can put together in a few hours but a well built out and planned project where its clear you have really put in a lot of time and effort.
 
The one thing employers really like to see is someone who isn't a 9 to 5 developer who is going to go home at the end of the day and never look at any code or new technology. You need to show you are passionate and that you have the drive to continue learning in your free time, you don't have to be working on their code outside of work but if you refuse to keep learning and keep on top of new developments you will fall behind and that's not what you or your employer want.

If it wasn't high-pitched like coil whine, then that was the pump.
I don't have any personal experience with the EVGA Hybrid, but AIOs can have noisy pumps. Maybe the unit EVGA uses is just one of them.
I haven't noticed any buzzing with my Hydro GFX (uses an H55), so maybe that's one to try out. Don't hold me to that though...

I control 3-pin case fans using SpeedFan works like a charm. I'm assuming the fans are plugged to a motherboard header ...BIOS setting should be DC mode not PWM mode.

only if your motherboard does

Wut. You can control fan speed without a 4-pin plug. Not as accurately as a 4-pin, but definitely controllable.

I use the SP120 Quiet Edition fans on my H100i; my 4790K idles around 18-20 °C and at 100% load I hit 45-50 °C. They're whisper quiet and run off the H100i headers.

Yes that's correct.

There is basically no difference between push or pull through a rad,  I would exhaust out the top with all the front and bottom as intakes and the rear as an extra exhaust. To try and keep positive pressure having more fans with filtered intakes is good or having the same number of fans in and out with the intakes at a higher RPM than exhaust.

Meh.
 
You know how you should never with death upon most people? Well, I wish these people would die.
 
Like, be slowly lowered into a pit of fire.
 
With sharks swimming in the fire.

Been using the Das Keyboard for a little over a year now, so here's my poorly organised thoughts.

Any questions, just ask

I have a 710+ and love it. No problems, which is saying a lot since I'm an RTS player.

I have the g710+ and its an amazing keyboard. Only recently cracked one keycap but its been nearly 3 years. If you take care of it it will be fine.

I have to agree with you here. I just see this as some kind of politically correct statement rather than a genuine effort to create a good female video game character. And of course, then when you complain about it, people just accuse you of being a bigot and a sexist. If there was an actual reason to create a female Link, like for story purposes, then I'm fine with it. But there isn't. It's like of like the whole thing recently about wanting to make Spiderman gay, or the Human Torch black. Those characters are just NOT gay and black. That's not the character. It's just a political statement. And then when you come out and say that this is bull, then they just say that you're some kind of racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, what have you.