Veredux

Gameplay sucks but the graphics are great. 

Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty ^_^

Latest Pics                            Hey guys, I'm new to the forum so I figured I'd use this thread to introduce myself and share the build I've been working on the past few months.  This build started out as a 7970-powered Bitfenix Prodigy that I got through a trade back in March/April for an Alienware M14x.  I liked the build so much that I decided to sell my main setup at the time (a maxed out Alienware M18x r2 with a 3920XM and 680m sli) to focus on desktop building and modding.  Since then, the build has gone through countless stages, while growing in scope and performance to what you'll see here.  As much as I liked the little Prodigy, it was parted out piece by piece until absolutely everything was brand new.  The last iteration was an NZXT Phantom 630 (mostly air cooled except for an H100i) with decent performance and aesthetics (Titan Superclocked, 4770k, etc) but I wasn't happy with the weight of the chassis, unused internal space, and cooling.  I decided I would downsize the build some while substantially increasing gaming and cooling performance.  I wanted a case with minimalistic styling that would accommodate a full sized ATX motherboard and high end water cooling, all in the smallest and most efficient package possible.  The one case that really stood out was the Fractal Design Arc Midi r2.  The subdued aesthetics and offset radiator mounts hooked me from the very beginning, so I ordered the case and began planning out the build from there.  After collecting all the parts, I started the final build a few weeks ago, and now it's basically completed.  I had a longer build log over on OCN, but now that it's about done I figured I'll keep it pretty short here so you guys can see the near-finished pics I took today.   I suppose that's enough background info, so I'll go ahead and list the specs and post the pics.   Hardware: Fractal Design Arc Midi r2 Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5 Intel i7 4770k GTX Titan Superclocked Corsair AX850 with fully sleeved custom cables by Ensourced https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ensourced-Custom-Sleeved-Cables/351225731619723 8gb Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133mhz 2x 256gb Samsung 840 Pro   Cooling: Bitspower Summit EF Nickel plated EK FC Titan Special Edition water block (Original CSQ) EK-FC Bridge SINGLE CSQ - Plexi EK-FC Titan SE Backplate - Black Bitspower Matte Black 3/8" ID 5/8" OD compression fittings Primochill Advanced LRT XSPC D5 Vario Bitspower D5 Mod Top v2 (POM) Bitspower D5 Mod Kit (Matte Black) Bitspower Dual / Single D5 Top Upgrade Kit 150 (Black POM Cap) Bitspower Z-CAP II With G1/4" x3 ( POM Version ) Phobya G-Changer 240mm (top radiator) Alphacool NexXxos Monsta 280mm (front radiator) Phobya Touch 6 Fan Controller 4x Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentPro PK-3 2x Noiseblocker NB-Eloop Mint Green Mayhems Pastel (Mixed with Mayhems Ultra Pure H2O   Future Upgrades GTX Titan sli  
 
 
The Arc Midi arrives:


 
So much interior for such a small case

 
The Phantom immediately before the teardown

 
Huge shipment from performancepcs.com

 
Phobya G-Changer 240 v2 with Aplacool Monsta 280


 
CPU Water Block


 
Cheap Techflex sleeving for front panel connectors, fan controller, and misc accessories (POS Bitfenix Alchemy extensions on the left)

 

 
Phobya Touch fan controller

 
Touch's stock sleeving

 
After being sleeved


 
Bitspower D5 mod top and 150 upgrade kit assembled/sleeved




 
EK Titan FC Special Edition (OG CSQ) 


 
 
And now we get to the good part :D Building begins.
 
SSDs mounted behind motherboard tray

 
Anyone feel like coming over and fixing this rat's nest?

 
Sleeved cables from Ensourced

 
Radiators and blocks assembled and installed



 
As I'm sure the Arc Midi owners out there know, the r2 only supports front 240mm rads natively.  Witht he front drive cages removed, the Monsta 280 won't match up with the fan mounts on the front panel.  To fix this, I had to cut two holes in the 5.25" bays to allow for the top stop fittings to fit through.  Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of this until I already had the rads fitted, so it was a total pita to take a pic.  Sorry for the horrible quality, but here's a pic of one of the holes I cut so you can see what I mean:

Loop completed

 
Fittings running from the front radiator outlet to the reservoir's inlet


 
Leak testing/flushing.  I used the kitten in case something sprung a leak.  Kitties make great sponges.

 
Leak testing went well, so I went ahead and filled the loop with pastel

Yeah I don't use auto-fire. I find the zoltan cruiser really good it has a rocky beginning, but get a weapon pre-igniter and boy the opening part of the battle you can due so much damage while receiving minimal in return. I find that having 5-6 people is good once your crew is any bigger macroing can get a bit frustrating. Upgrade your ship all around like having 3 bars of shield and engines half way give you a good mix on defense. I personally find cloak and drones a waste of power. a mix of 1 or 2 lasers, 1 ion instead of laser, 1 beam weapon, and one missle. Always try to get there shields down asap then go for the weapons then if you can hit there oxygen so the AI fix that as a priority.  Hope this could help at all from a 40hr player of the game/ beat the boss 3 times.

I love single player games, I would always come back to them to finish it up.
Multiplayer is fun too....

How did you know I use Chrome >.>

Dedicate a room so I could have LAN setup with a sum amount of computers for friends while having LAN parties.

First console I got was because of Halo.

I don't do any illegal downloading. Developers gotta eat

depends on the game and the person, for me i like single player story based rpgs especially ones with different outcomes because i love to see how i can change and alter a story, i also love the sense of progression and satisfaction you can gain from beating a boss that maybe you werent able to beat the day before because you werent strong enough yet, and something you mention why you dont like them is their complexity, i find something more complex and challenging is way more likely to hold my attention and keep me interested, there are many good rpg's to start with but one them  that really got me into rpg's is star wars knight of the old republic 1 and 2 as well as final fantasy 7 even before star wars. although this doesnt count as an rpg in a sense age of empires 1 and 2 gave me the same sense of satisfaction though there is less story to it.

Dedicate a room so I could have LAN setup with a sum amount of computers for friends while having LAN parties.

Dedicate a room so I could have LAN setup with a sum amount of computers for friends while having LAN parties.

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take back the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell are these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!"
 
my favourite, from portal 2.

I don't think this is a re-post I did a search and nothing came up but correct me if I'm wrong.
 
What is your favourite quote from a game?
 
Mine is either, "They sent you two after me? Now that is the definition of insanity" - Sloan in Blood Dragon. (love how they referenced FC3)
Or, "Press enter to close this patronizing tutorial" - Also from BD (I loved the whole tutorial sequence)
 

Hardware
CASE: Fractal Design ARC midi
PSU: Corsair GS500
MB: Asus F1A75-M
APU: AMD A6 3500 2.1ghz triple core
RAM: Corsair 16gb kit 2x8gb 1333mhz
SAS HBA: IBM M1015, Flashed with "IT" firmware
SSD: Samsung 830 128gb (l2arc cache)
HDD: 6x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14
HDD: 2x 500gb samsung
NIC: HP NC364T Quad port gbit
UPS: mge evolution 1550
SWITCH: Netgear GS748T (with silentmod)
RACK: Ikea Lackrack
 
Software and Configuration:
My server is running ZFSguru. It is a freebsd based distribution just like nas4free.
My main storage is 6x3tb seagate in raidz2 So I have 12tb of netto storage. The 2x 500gb samsung is running zfs mirror, it is used for booting zfsguru and for torrent downloads.
 
Usage:
General home fileserver. I make a lot of youtube video's (5min is 1gb file)
 
Backup:
I back the important files to a 2tb wd mybook. And I have a 4TB usb3.0 hdd to make big backups (Is enough for now)

Photo's:
 

 

 

 
Video's:
 
Part: 1
Part: 2
Part: 3
 
ZFS hardware tutorial to use older HW

Welcome! :) 
Did you try a different browser to see if it works and check your cookie settings in your browser to make sure that you allow all cookies?

About to watch all of the videos! =D

Hard to say. I think when your park and save gets too big the save get corrupted. I don't think it was ever fixed because Nerdcubed ran into that issue when he was doing his let's play

You can split screen on Portal 2 co-op if you have an Xbox controller connected to your PC. It naturally works best if you have dual monitors or one big TV, but it works either way for any setup.
 
A few months ago you had to enter a console command to remap the controller to Player2 since the game defaults both the mouse/keyboard and controller to Player1. Now all you have to do is:
Connect the controller. Launch the game. Select Play Cooperative Game. Choose between Standard Co-op or Challenge Mode Co-op. Press X on the controller for Offline Splitscreen. Play the game. Portal 2 is by far the best game for 2 player co-op, whether it be online or offline splitscreen. Therefore, Portal 2 is the way to go!
You can also enjoy the single player story together if split screen is not your thing. :)
 
Portal 1 on the other hand is just purely single player... still a very good game for all those Valve fans. HL3 confirmed! :ph34r:

That is the point lol if you want a girl to cuddle with you then play amnesia with her haha

Chocolate covered almonds OMG

I hope this doesn't count as cheating, i'm only trying to help other people with this.
If you don't like it, please take it down.
 
list of numbers taken.
 
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I know there are repeats, I just typed them down.
 
Hit Ctrl + F 
to find if a number was taken.

I hope this doesn't count as cheating, i'm only trying to help other people with this.
If you don't like it, please take it down.
 
list of numbers taken.
 
69-202-132-298-73-3-92-183-174-254-222-187-163-2-50-135-123-13-300-296-236-83-68-226-132-91-21-298-42-7-16-231-8-3-38-17-66-3-0-1-6-123-124-125-299-288-0-250-168-298-174-154-254-172-282-88-73-123-77-99-112-1-13-169-144-2-244-166-196-113-169-24-64-231-47-177-256-277-224-139-17-254-156-23-89-165-37-64-251-111-123-222-30-70-150-21-57-134-252-1-2-3-26-82-149-22-65-98-84-76-239-54-139-267-241-167-69-128-248-3-178-89-266-74-3-134-32-173-111-245-299-246-198-180-299-1-4-7-12-154-27-143-195-108-298-49-173-218-76-114-127-10-84-112-219-121-172-57-69-250-240-80-200-100-1-299-145-166-197-13-99-62-257-168-48-137-5-155-188-288-38-279-252-91-298-7-201-9-139-295-240-120-64-276-115-199-84-279-168-111-114-129-239-15-233-131-174-67-4-53-158-247-288-1-298-55-192-20-99-180-221-113-277-93-143-86-219-79-117-269-19-255-176
 
I know there are repeats, I just typed them down.
 
Hit Ctrl + F 
to find if a number was taken.

Wow, thanks! 
 
I just checked on Steam and they're selling the Maximum Edition for $14.99
I'm gonna wait and see if they reduce the price on it.