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  1. Joshndroid
    This would be fantastic case for a wall mount, keep it higher out of the direct dust a clean setup would look very special
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    you may be able to pick up a used system for the kind of money your willing to spend. I would not go for those core 2 systems, they realy struggle. The government ones now have a core i5 so if you could pick up a reasonable one of those for a good price you would be set. If you want to go new, you can go something haswell in the pentium family with a cheap as chips motherboard with an old hdd you have at home coupled with a cheap case that comes with a powersupply. couple hundred dollars and you could have a system. Just looking at msy (if your aussie) can pick up a cheap new case with psu for $40 matx, $69 for a matx motherboard, $80 for a pentium dual core haswell, $31 for 4gb ram total being $220 if you have a spare old HDD for your os
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    Take the screws you already have down to a local nut and bolt shop. You will pick up something that will thread into those holes. The store near me has thousands of screw types/threads/lengths/etc and i pay like 5c per bolt, its so handy. If you contact cooler master or whatever they will charge an arm and a leg for something that really costs nothing.
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    Just been browsing pccasegear.com (aussie store) and stumbled upon this case. I think it looks pretty cool and could be the precursor to some fantastic builds source - http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33484&zenid=e913b419b0a268a44805f6a2da362252 What you you think? Sorry if i didn't conform to any standard
  5. Joshndroid
    looks awesome thanks for the thread. Been waiting for this game since foreverrrrrr. lol
  6. Joshndroid
    great looking board, what is it like to type on? keys look rather high
  7. Joshndroid
    Great card I have the same one, while it had some quirks with the win 10 previews it has come good on the full release and glad I got it
  8. Joshndroid
    what kind of monitoring are you doing? you could use hw monitor (free) to monitor clocks and temps (non graphical though)
  9. Joshndroid
    rattling? am i correct in saying that it is the fans that are rattling? if so, get new fans. or if they cover it under warranty, ship fan/unit back and recieve a fresh one.
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    yep that will be fine
  11. Joshndroid
    for your antivirus because it has no realtime protection i would run it whever downloading a file from the internet and intermittantly weekly basis (can even set up a tasking to run the scan) for ccleaner you can run it every now and then, once you get into using it regularly you might run it whenever your just sitting idle at the desktop (thats what i do, see it on the desktop and just run a reg scan and a system clean). for my HDD drives i also use their program called defraggler, runs a treat (also free) to periodically defrag my HDD drives. If im not using a particular drive like my drive with games on it ill run a defrag cycle on it in the background and vice versa for my stuff.
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    it is an application that can find things like registry edits/issues/etc. It can further free up space on your drive by deleting things such as cookie, app cache, etc for a wide variety of windows programs and external vendor programs. It also works as a uninstaller and has a few other functions - https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner i have been using the free program for years with nil issues and works perfect for what it does
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    EVGA 100%
  14. Joshndroid
    you can pick up cheap full license anti-virus for around $10 off ebay thats how i buy mine (with disc, etc). or/ run anti-malwarebytes free version periodically and manually run files off the net supplement with ccleaner for registry/local cache/etc and can further leave windows defender on as well. this shoudl be enough for you
  15. Joshndroid
    man that case is cheap as chips!
  16. Joshndroid
    care factor zero ey. Just slap on a $2 case from ebay and you would never know.. good pick up
  17. Joshndroid
    haha nice bargin - head straight to here and start your modding adventure - http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-flyer
  18. Joshndroid
    definitely a large spike in temp from what i have seen. I was more stable at 4.8 though than 4.7, weird but true. I backed it back to 4.6 due to this reason, the temps where just why i couldnt sit at 4.8
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    looking at the price its cheap enough to just try it and if it doesnt give you the throughput then no matter, i;ve wasted more than 10$ on a lot of stupider things, im sure you have lol
  20. Joshndroid
    while i have come a long way recently in the hardware space i dont think i could delid my cpu, think thats a line i just wont cross lol.
  21. Joshndroid
    yes and no, looking at alot of the reviews some are better than others regarding contact surface, core type, tubing diameter, tubing types, rad (type, fin density, etc), pump. Thermaltake 360mm has some half decent reviews so luckily this paid off.
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    yeah it is a little about that on peak but peak isnt too realistic, with sustained i am getting better with mostly sitting around mid 60's dipping down to 50's with the odd fluctuation just a tad over 70 which is good. whereas i would normally be easily at about 75 with fluctuations up to 80... so the cooling is there (it is a little cooler this evening) but with the thermal paste settling hopefully see it drop a tad more with sustained load
  23. Joshndroid
    for 1080p at 60 your better of going with a 970. I have one and run this all day long on pretty much ultra but if i had to choose of the 2 it would be a 980
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    so i went with the 360mm thermaltake and realistically glad i did, its about half the price and i am currently seeing about 5 degrees C less than what i was seeing which is good, awaiting the GPU bracket for my 970 so i can hybrid cool that with my remaining corsair 240mm, which i have remounted
  25. Joshndroid
    come on now did you read it, it is an i5 he is comparing it too... not the 6700K as a tech enthusiast you should know that investing in a solution to 'future-proof' is not a reason to buy something. It may well be that the OP can build a far superior computer for far cheaper now, and then upgrade to the next compelling solution once prices are at a reasonable level. Just because something is new and shiny does not necessarily make it better. edit - no argument, no derailment of thread if your doing far more cpu intensive tasks and already have sufficient ddr3 memory, go the 4790k it will be far cheaper now and once prices start to come down and level off you will then be looking to upgrade from what get now. If your gear is getting fairly old (sandy bridge [even that can still be fairly good] but definitely older), go the skylake stuff if it will fit in your budget with buying new ram, etc you wont regret it
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