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As an American of Dutch extraction (my mother's parents came over when they were very, very young), I'm just here to say hello.
 
In English, because I never learned any Dutch, I'm afraid.  

As an American of Dutch extraction (my mother's parents came over when they were very, very young), I'm just here to say hello.
 
In English, because I never learned any Dutch, I'm afraid.  

As an American of Dutch extraction (my mother's parents came over when they were very, very young), I'm just here to say hello.
 
In English, because I never learned any Dutch, I'm afraid.  

Caselabs has some HDD mounts which, though perhaps a bit pricey, would likely work in many builds.

That depends on the company you're working at. If your company uses sophisticated software for managing it's workflow then just being the hardware guy for a help desk isn't enough.
 
 
As for me: I did Applied IT at Automation and Robotics department and took an on-site training at game dev studio, then worked for them after getting bachelors degree while doing the masters. After graduation I easily found a job at even bigger AAA games making studio in the capital.
 
Meanwhile I kind of did and do work as IT Administrator and help desk for my father's mechanical engineering company and do all kind of interesting engineering projects for them as well coding stuff from gpgpu acceleration speeding up construction optimizations through designing and coding interfaces to doing some controller coding.
 
IT has a really broad spectrum of jobs, just remember to pick what you like doing and what you're good at.

Whatever you do end up doing, remember that it's a never-ending learning process.  You cannot just acquire one set of skills/knowledge and expect it to carry you through a career unless you're very very lucky... but only an idiot counts on luck.
 
My own story... I go out of college after my time in the Army and went to work for Cisco as a tech support guy.  I didn't know jack about routers and whatnot - back in the '90s, very few people really did - but I did two things: I made myself an expert in one technology, and spread myself around other technologies to pick up what I could.
 
Now, 20 years later, the one technology I was (still am, really) an expert in is pretty much a dead letter (not too many people using ISDN anymore...) but my spreading around to other facets of networking has kept me employed, and nowadays I spend most of my time dealing with routing protocols and network hardware.
 
The point being, be prepared to never stop studying and learning.  Hardware, software, networking, protocols... it's all a moving target.  
 
If constant education (usually not formal - lots of reading and self-motivation involved) sounds like something you don't want to do, I would advise finding another field.  IT subjects change too much and too rapidly to treat education as a one-time thing.

Whatever you do end up doing, remember that it's a never-ending learning process.  You cannot just acquire one set of skills/knowledge and expect it to carry you through a career unless you're very very lucky... but only an idiot counts on luck.
 
My own story... I go out of college after my time in the Army and went to work for Cisco as a tech support guy.  I didn't know jack about routers and whatnot - back in the '90s, very few people really did - but I did two things: I made myself an expert in one technology, and spread myself around other technologies to pick up what I could.
 
Now, 20 years later, the one technology I was (still am, really) an expert in is pretty much a dead letter (not too many people using ISDN anymore...) but my spreading around to other facets of networking has kept me employed, and nowadays I spend most of my time dealing with routing protocols and network hardware.
 
The point being, be prepared to never stop studying and learning.  Hardware, software, networking, protocols... it's all a moving target.  
 
If constant education (usually not formal - lots of reading and self-motivation involved) sounds like something you don't want to do, I would advise finding another field.  IT subjects change too much and too rapidly to treat education as a one-time thing.

This bad boy. I played on this when I was really young....think it was like back in the early 90s when I first played on it.

I feel your pain.  Though good at it, I never liked math.  Fortunately for me, all the math I need to do is binary and hex, usually only counting up to 255.
 
TCP/IP FTW.  
 
(Edit: I did much more math in school than I ever have done in my career. I suspect most fields are like that... but when you need that small bit of math, you really need it.)

Whatever you do end up doing, remember that it's a never-ending learning process.  You cannot just acquire one set of skills/knowledge and expect it to carry you through a career unless you're very very lucky... but only an idiot counts on luck.
 
My own story... I go out of college after my time in the Army and went to work for Cisco as a tech support guy.  I didn't know jack about routers and whatnot - back in the '90s, very few people really did - but I did two things: I made myself an expert in one technology, and spread myself around other technologies to pick up what I could.
 
Now, 20 years later, the one technology I was (still am, really) an expert in is pretty much a dead letter (not too many people using ISDN anymore...) but my spreading around to other facets of networking has kept me employed, and nowadays I spend most of my time dealing with routing protocols and network hardware.
 
The point being, be prepared to never stop studying and learning.  Hardware, software, networking, protocols... it's all a moving target.  
 
If constant education (usually not formal - lots of reading and self-motivation involved) sounds like something you don't want to do, I would advise finding another field.  IT subjects change too much and too rapidly to treat education as a one-time thing.

So I got a free case that was silver and black and the silver was wearing off. I also got some red carbon fiber wrap off of ebay and thought it would look good on the silver part of the case. I took some before and after pictures and thought it turned out great. 
 
 

 

 

I'm a hobbyist by nature, so building the system is going to be a labor of... well, extreme like, if not actual love.
 
I've already begun prepping the case for paint.  And I do expect to post a build log at some point.

Well then, I guess you won't be needing this:
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($1009.99 @ SuperBiiz)  CPU Cooler: Fractal Design Kelvin S36 62.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  Motherboard: Asus X99-E WS SSI CEB LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($476.02 @ Mwave)  Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($779.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Intel 750 Series 1.2TB PCI-E Solid State Drive  ($900.00 @ Newegg)  Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($201.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($201.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($201.99 @ Amazon)  Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($999.99 @ Amazon)  Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($999.99 @ Amazon)  Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB Superclocked Video Card (3-Way SLI)  ($999.99 @ Amazon)  Case: Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case  ($339.99 @ Amazon)  Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1600W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($339.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Total: $7451.92 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-18 00:23 EDT-0400   I was gonna put in a Xeon E5-2699 v3 but that's 4 grand, so...

Caselabs, drops mic! 

I have finished the flip and key switch case mod!!! I soldered my positive and negative onto the optocoupler then the motherboard header cable.

Here is a video of it working....really quick demonstration: 
 

Here is the soldering for the positive and negative of the optocoupler. Positive coming from the key switch soldered directly on and the negative soldered with a resistor and onto the optocoupler.
 

Finished soldering!
 

Drilled out holes and mounted the switches

After this (which i do not have pics of) I basically just plugged everything in like I had it in the black box....put the wall plug out the back of my case but will soon be removed and powered instead off of my motherboard (either molex or usb front panel connectors).
 
Video is of my testing it directly after. Now I have to hope that I don't lose the key!

Once again I apologize for the long time gap also, but I have finally finished it!

Yeah... I'm thinking software RAID is going to meet my needs on that front, and should eliminate the contention.  Thanks.

That's blue/black not white/gold c'mon guys...

In stock colors it looks ugly, but the modding potential... I love it. I want it ASAP!!!

Hypocritical? No. Enthusiastic? Yes.
Hypocrisy would be if you advocated one way or another, but did the opposite yourself.

In a couple of months I'll be looking to do white/grey/olive drab for the tank-themed build I've been planning in my head. (Been in hospital since June - sucks having only a tablet to fool around with.)

Re(de)fine Air 240       Sponsored by         Introduction   Hello and welcome to my latest project which I have named Re(de)fine.   This project is using the Corsair Carbide Air 240 which I will transform into a stylish and sleek performing machine, which will look to belong in the cockpit of a Maclaren Spider supercar.   This project should be nice and short as I am aiming to have it completed before DreamHack Winter 2014 in Jönköping - Sweden, which is on between the 27-30 November. For those of you who have not heard of Dreamhack, it is only the world's largest LAN party!         The mods that I will be performing   Fill in all front USB/power/reset holes at the front with plastic filler Install a single monetary switch in the middle of this newly covered section Repaint entire case white, inside and out. File/sand away all of the plastic bars which cover the areas where the fans draw in fresh air Cover these bare areas with a round style mesh Paint components white to match the newly painted white interior Have a single GPU solution where the GPU sits on a 45° angle making the front face visible through window Install a custom water cooled loop Install custom leather dressed panels         Concepts                 Components TBA       Thank you for joining me once again on another project, and as always, see you at the next update!   Kind regards, Justin "MetallicAcid" Ohlsen
 

I answered your survey, but here's the story behind my words:
 
If I were to build my own case...the first thing I need to know is what is going to happen in six months with regards to SSDs. I know they are moving to PCIe, but will they use the msata interface, m.2, a normal PCIe slot? What? This matters because it determines if I go with a mini ITX or mATX/ATX motherboard.
 
As for the case itself, I am not smart enough to dream up the perfect layout, but what I want are these things:
Cable anchors so I can do good cable management with zip ties. EASILY removable dust filters on every hole except CPU exhaust. Don't assume which spots will be push or pull, just give me a filter I can remove if I need to push air out. Easily means similar to the Corsair style magnetic filters. My fans should NOT snap into any part of the filter, the filter should be it's own thing and should slide free or be magnetically attached at best. The filters should be on the outside of the case as well, The worst I should have to do is (similar to the 750D) remove a simple panel to get at a filter. If you have filters on the bottom, the handle for them should be obvious and they should have a guide or track so I can install and remove them without tilting or tipping the case. Holes for both 120 and 140mm radiators. Also, include both 15 and 20mm fan spacing options. Personally I plan to use at least one, possibly 2 2x140mm radiators in a future build. Don't include a 360mm fan option because then I'll just end up blocking out the extra bit of space with cardboard and tape to create a more-perfect air seal. Don't make it hard on me. If the case is designed similar to a 450D (cables run behind the motherboard and come up through holes), rubber grommets on all holes for cable routing. At least one, preferably 2 3.5" hard drive mounts NOT in the primary air flow path. Bonus points if you are clever and use one of the case panels as a giant heatsink for the drives, or create a clever baffle to divert a small amount of air into whatever section the drives live in. At least one internal 5.25" bay. The ability to use both 3.5" and the 5.25" bays while mounting two 280mm radiators that are at least 30mm thick. Push/pull fans need not be supported, just a single set of fans is plenty. The ability to have lots of open holes on the back of the case so I can run at least 4x140mm fans as intakes and not build up massive internal pressure. These are quality of life / nice to have features which, if it were my own custom case, I would do, but can understand their omission in a more widely marketed case:
Hard drive trays with integrated backplane. Hot swap support isn't needed, I just don't want to have to fiddle with cables once I get the motherboard in and hooked up to said backplane. Hard drive trays rotated so that I can insert/remove them by only removing whichever panel exposes the motherboard. In the event of a case like the Corsiar 250D, that would be the top panel, in a 450D case, that would be the side panel. Modularized front-panel connectivity. Reason: I'd prefer to buy this case once, and in 6 years, when USB type 17 is out, and it uses a totally different internal and external connector, I just have to pay $10 or $20 to you to get the appropriate front panel IO plate and the rest of my case will be up-to-date for the new connectivity. An integrated fan controller with at least 6 fan slots. A spot, somewhere, for a pump and res to go. A little bit of empty space is a good thing! At the rate SSDs are going, I don't see myself using more than one 3.5" spinning disk hard drive (for backups). Currently I have 5 hard drives total (when I built my PC, a raid card + drives was faster and cheaper than an SSD). But SSD technology is to the point that I could, within the next year, afford to buy a 1TB SSD and go on with my life. 

I like what Thermaltake is trying to do with the idea of full modularity. Even though this attempt looks just weird.

Hello, world.
So, there I was in the hospital last June, recovering from a micro-stroke....
Just a week earlier, I had decided that it was time to upgrade/replace my old PC. I suddenly found myself with a lot of free time to research what I wanted out of a new machine. My searching led me to LTT.
Six months later, I'm still in rehabilitation and physical therapy, and eager to get home... more than ever, since I've decided to build my own PC for the first time.
I've been computing in one way or another since 1978, when I took my first programming class in high school. We used a Data General Nova II mainframe, with an honest-to-God teletype and punched paper tape storage. Since then, I've had Apples, Amigas, Windows boxes since 3.1, SUNOS SparcStations, and even a Linux box or three. I've been an internetworking engineer (CCIE, even) for about 20 years.
But I've never built my own PC.
I've decided that if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right - and go big or go home.
Budget isn't a concern; I simply don't care if it's going to be "too much money for what I want to do," nor do I care about performance per dollar, or whatever you want to call it. My wallet isn't exactly bottomless, but let's just say I'm not overly constrained by the need to cheap out.
So right now I'm thinking I'd like to do an X99 system, dual GPUs, overclocked and water cooled, with SDD(s) and a decent-sized RAID array, contained in something like a CaseLabs SMA8. Modded, somewhat. Not heavily so.
A "theme" of sorts has been settling in my head. Olive drab exterior, white interior with various olive, grey, and black bits (since there's no way I'm going to try painting a motherboard.) And since naming one's build seems to be a thing, I thought I might call it the "Sherman" (yeah, like the tank) but then I figured that since it'll be OCed - "upgunned," if you will - a more appropriate name would be "Firefly."
So, that's as much as I've decided. Actual hardware selection is going to wait until I get back on my feet and get home, after which I'm going to dig right in.
TL;DR - hi, everyone.

Hello, world.
So, there I was in the hospital last June, recovering from a micro-stroke....
Just a week earlier, I had decided that it was time to upgrade/replace my old PC. I suddenly found myself with a lot of free time to research what I wanted out of a new machine. My searching led me to LTT.
Six months later, I'm still in rehabilitation and physical therapy, and eager to get home... more than ever, since I've decided to build my own PC for the first time.
I've been computing in one way or another since 1978, when I took my first programming class in high school. We used a Data General Nova II mainframe, with an honest-to-God teletype and punched paper tape storage. Since then, I've had Apples, Amigas, Windows boxes since 3.1, SUNOS SparcStations, and even a Linux box or three. I've been an internetworking engineer (CCIE, even) for about 20 years.
But I've never built my own PC.
I've decided that if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right - and go big or go home.
Budget isn't a concern; I simply don't care if it's going to be "too much money for what I want to do," nor do I care about performance per dollar, or whatever you want to call it. My wallet isn't exactly bottomless, but let's just say I'm not overly constrained by the need to cheap out.
So right now I'm thinking I'd like to do an X99 system, dual GPUs, overclocked and water cooled, with SDD(s) and a decent-sized RAID array, contained in something like a CaseLabs SMA8. Modded, somewhat. Not heavily so.
A "theme" of sorts has been settling in my head. Olive drab exterior, white interior with various olive, grey, and black bits (since there's no way I'm going to try painting a motherboard.) And since naming one's build seems to be a thing, I thought I might call it the "Sherman" (yeah, like the tank) but then I figured that since it'll be OCed - "upgunned," if you will - a more appropriate name would be "Firefly."
So, that's as much as I've decided. Actual hardware selection is going to wait until I get back on my feet and get home, after which I'm going to dig right in.
TL;DR - hi, everyone.