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toastythomas

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  1. I have an S7 and a PC but I love Apple so much. I like them just as much as Samsung or Google or and PC company. They're all great companies that appeal to different people and different wants. Where there's demand, there's supply.
  2. i meant plastic looking like wood. I didnt even know there was real wood caps out there
  3. Look, I've tried. I've searched and searched to no avail. Maybe I'm asking for too much or maybe I have let my imagination get the best of me. I'm here to ask: Are there any mechanical replacements keycaps that are wooden? I don't want gold or silver like Linus, I want wood! My setup theme is forming to be wood so wooden key caps wood be amazing. DONT HAVE TO BE WOOD. PLASTIC LOOKING LIKE WOOD WORKS BETTER.
  4. Builds a $36,000 computer; gets Windows 10 Home Edition.
  5. Theres a 9v input on the control box thingy. The speakers just have speaker wire to them.
  6. Besides the sound quality, will this work? I know this is really cringey to an audiophile like you but I just want them to exist.
  7. I've been developing this plan for some custom speakers and I came here just to confirm that this will work. I extracted two speakers and a control box from an old gaming chair. I plan on inserting the drivers to some wood and making a nice housing for them. To avoid cable clutter, I want to have the back of the housing have a 3.5mm female jack so that I can have the left and right on seperate 3.5mm cables coming from the control box. If I pick up these, http://a.co/2C8j1ab , one for each housing and wire them to the driver, I will be able to run 3.5mm audio cables from the control box to the speakers. I'm really sorry if you don't understand this. I am not wording it well. Let me know if you need more detail.
  8. I bet you'll be able to buy used parts for cheaper. Just combine 'em yourself.
  9. Starting this thread really increases your anonymity.
  10. Im not sure what to do. I cut MDF last night and tonight for about 10 minutes each time and I don't know how bad it is. I have compression in my lungs which is probably placebo since im freaking out right now. Will I be okay? I was cutting inside my garage that was closed without a mask.
  11. I've used a CM Devastator II combo pack for the past three years. Is that bad enough?
  12. IM FREAKING OUT MAN. I think I will.
  13. Besides some poor photoshop or grabbing some 3D models off of grabcad.com/library, no.
  14. I'm freaking out because i've been keeping my eye on the k65 and it dipped in price today and it's a good price now but i saw it drop down to $50 compared to $67 right now over the holidays and i don't know if i should continue to wait for it to go down to $50 or settle for $67. Link: http://a.co/8b68fbH
  15. I'm in high school still and I work out revolving around football. Let me just give you what I've learned so far: Don't spend money. I could give you my workouts or just look up some basic routines that works the whole body. Usually, they don't even require special machines.
  16. Haha. It's all good man. Thanks for checking me out!
  17. Prologue: My mom brought home a computer from her school that placed near the dumpster. She knew I was into that kind of stuff so she gave it to me hoping it would be useful. About one month passes and I've tinkered around on it with Linux (Mint, but later Ubuntu) because it was a locked version of Windows 7 for schools. I became very interested with the possibilities of gaming on the machine. I pick up a GT 730 for around $35 on eBay; an improvement over the Intel 2500 Graphics. From there, I am able to view Youtube videos easily and play some light games. Nearing Christmas, my brother and I are pressured by my mom to get something because my grandparents enjoy buying us stuff. My brother mentions an upgrade for our main rig (b/dKFdnQ) and then I just tell him we can build a new PC. He advises we take advantage of the i5-3470 within that Linux PC. The original plan was to purchase a 1050 for the computer and be done. After a little research and many topics on the LTT forums, I realize that a 1050 would be a gamble with the included proprietary 220W PSU. To keep the 1050 safe, I opted to upgrade the PSU. Upgrading the power supply would mean that the motherboard could no longer be used because it's also proprietary and uses custom headers for power. The plan then comes to a new GPU, PSU and Motherboard. Everything ships okay and we build inside of an old HAF 912 laying around. Everything is okay, except for the RAM. 4GB doesn't do the trick at all. Searching around on Amazon, I picked up 6GB of DDR3 1066. Admittedly, it is slower but it fills up the DIMMs and that's all that matters. My passion for the custom case came with the size of the old CM HAF 912. That's why I ditched it in the first place. After brainstorming ideas, the Thermaltake Core P5 became my inspiration. My dad and I picked up some wood and poles from the garage and went to work painting. Mounting then became my only concern. How were stand-offs going to work? It turns out, plumbing washers are the way to go. They provide elevation and are rubber so they are not conductive. The motherboard stands and is very stable. The PSU and drives were mounted with Velcro. The plexiglass on the front finished the build nicely and gave it some protection against bumps while moving. The graphics card was mounted with Velcro on the side of the plexiglass and stays in place well enough. I really got lucky with the GTX 1050 not needing PSU input. Prior to actually constructing any of this build, I had to make sure the ugly stock cooler was pretty enough to sit on the CPU without an eye sore. Using just some electrical tape, I was able to cover the cable and provide a clean look. Cable management was rather simple with a semi-modular power supply. Plus, the cables are black because Corsair is awesome. Using the included black zip ties made the build neat. The only draw back is the lack of length to reach the CPUP header without going across the motherboard. During the first couple of days in this new case, I turned on the PC using a paper clip and the I/O header. I later disassembled the again, proprietary I/O cable on the old HP PC case and plugged it in with it resting next to the hard drive. I am very pleased with this build and am ecstatic to finally build a PC out of the norm a little. Thanks for reading. Pictures on Imgur right here. Footnote: I did post this to PCPartPicker the other day and some of you may have already seen this. If you're one of those people, thanks for reading this entire thing all over again.
  18. I'm going to give an answer with as much effort as your post: Second one.
  19. I really like your signature. That's all. :)

  20. Hey man, New Years has been crazy. It was a super simple mistake and I'm really stupid. I was trying to turn on the computer through the "I/O headers" even though it was not the I/O header. Took me three hours and lots of stress to figure that out.
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