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IrishFiction

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About IrishFiction

  • Birthday Dec 28, 1993

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  • Steam
    https://steamcommunity.com/id/irishfiction
  • Twitch.tv
    http://www.twitch.tv/irishfiction/
  • Twitter
    https://twitter.com/stpatrick__

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Pyongyang, North Korea
  • Interests
    Destroying those who oppose our beloved leaders reign. Also computers.
  • Biography
    I play guitar and my room is messy. I also use computers.
  • Occupation
    Eliminating Freedom

System

  • CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-8700K
  • Motherboard
    Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac
  • RAM
    DOMINATOR® PLATINUM 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz
  • GPU
    ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Edition
  • Case
    DIYPC Cuboid-G
  • Storage
    1Tbx2 Mushkin SATA3 SSD
  • PSU
    Corsair RM850X
  • Display(s)
    Samsung 24" 1920x1080p + Element 50" 1920x1080p LED TV
  • Cooling
    Custom, EK Navy Blue premix; Refrigeration Water Chiller
  • Keyboard
    Corsair Strafe RGB
  • Mouse
    Corsair Glaive RGB
  • Sound
    Corsair Void Pro Wireless W/ overpriced Corsair RGB Headset Stand :^)
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro
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  1. When I leak checked while leaving the unit running, the lines do condensate. I bought 1/2"x3/8" insulation for it, but since the coolant is dyed I thought I'd enjoy the eye candy a little while longer before doing any enthusiast-tier stuff. I turned the unit on just before starting this reply to you, and HWMonitor says that my GPU and CPU are about 19 C
  2. That is a 12VDC 10 amp (max) liquid chilling system. It is a sample unit I bought from a Chinese HVAC equipment manufacture for about $500. It's about the size of shoe box. I used this inverter. I was going to turn this into a very thorough and detailed post about my journey of building this rig, but Linus already went through the trouble of filming frustrating liquid cooling vlogs, so we already know the pain I went through with liquid cooling a SFF build. It's quite noisy, so I'll update you with some numbers when it's not the middle of the night. My specs are: i7-8700k (OC 4.5Ghz) ASROCK Fatality Z370 ITX Zotac GTX 1080 Ti Amp Edition Corsair Dom. Plat. 16gb (8x2) 2x Mushkin 1tb SSD DIYPC Cuboid-G This watercooling kit by EKWB an additional universal waterblock for my GPU an additional 120mm EKWB for no particular reason.
  3. Because of the increased amount of fluid due to the size of the coil I assumed I'd need a massive pump, which I continued to assume would be loud and bulky. But I actually switched gears and decided to have faith in a single pump, positioning the coil above the setup to let gravity do it's part to hopefully alleviate stress on said pump.
  4. I'll try to be blunt. Watching Linus dick around with that window shaker inspired the DIYest in me to try something just as adventurous. Someday soon I want to build a water cooling setup like none that I've ever seen, inspired by both the previously mentioned video and his videos on the passively cooled silent PC. I have access to coils (HVAC equivalent of radiators) from the size of shoe boxes to as big as a tall tower PC case itself. My thinking is: If I have a large enough coil, would that negate the need for fans? The ambient CFM (a measurement of volume of airflow) available to a coil of that size may not require fans to push air across said coil, compared to the micro coil (densely packed) radiators that fit inside your PC case. And a similar question, do you think the coil would transfer heat effectively enough with the fluid running through it? To rephrase that, big metal thingy stays at room temperature because metal transfers heat well so warm liquid from PC running through said metal thingy chills to room temp effectively. The only sound being generated by this theoretical PC would come from coil whine, the sound of the pumps, and the whurr of the liquid as it courses through the water loop(s). I plan to have two water loops. Feeds water through the water blocks, returning it to the internal reservoir. Pulls water from the internal reservoir and through the external copper piped, aluminum finned coil, and returns the (hopefully) chilled liquid to the internal reservoir. This coil would likely be an A frame coil that you'd find in a typical house hold setup. Such as this one. EDIT: To clarify, the the coil above would be about 2' x 2.5' x 2.5'. But dimensions could always change. (If any of you are also HVAC techs or helpers, then know that I will obviously be removing the metering device if it has one.) I also hope to find a coil that's more aesthetically pleasing. I'm completely open to comments, constructive criticism, and suggestions. And small talk with any fellow blue collar workers
  5. Thanks! How would I go about doing so? Simply deleting this one and reposting it there? Or are there context menus to do it for me?
  6. I'm not good at writing, but my purpose of writing this piece is: The Axon 7 is a great phone, not even considering its literally HALF (if not more) the price of many popular devices out there. Here's why I believe so: (TL;DR is at the bottom) These opinions are my own, and are likely biased because of my frustration with Samsung and the fact that this phone is only $400 USD. As did Linus, I came to the Axon 7 from the Galaxy S7. So far, the phone has performed very well after some tinkering*. While I do miss the S7's waterproof capabilities (I miss being able to toss it in the pool to watch friends and family members to freak out) I have been able to use my device while using in the rain, in the shower, and so on as I would with all of my other devices. While other reviewers seem to undermine its camera capabilities, in real world use (ie not actively searching for flaws) I've yet to take any displeasing photos of any kind. Shutter speed is the fastest I've ever seen, almost like my old LG G4. The quality of photos taken with automatic settings are superb. This judgement comes from my experience with Android vs iOS camera use. My opinion always was: Android takes garbage slow-mo videos, unlike the Axon 7. While S7 pictures have always been superb in any lighting, its video quality was abysmal unless you had P E R F E C T lighting. Taking random videos of me walking through different lighting scenarios in my flat, or randomly tossing my pen around on my desk in slow-mo have so far been captured in amazing quality on my Axon 7. From my experience with the LG G4, I swore I'd never touch a 5.5" or higher sized device again. I bought this device on impulse, and the thought didn't even occur until I set my S7 and A7 side by side. The lack of wireless charging does not bother me whatsoever. To me, WC was a cute gimmick, but I use my phone enough that I'd lose the same amount of charge if I was bothered to set my S7 down directly on the charger. Personally, the fingerprint sensor works better than the S7. The DOLBY ATMOS thing is obviously a gimmick as well, but I like it. The built in bluetooth module in my car always made audio lacking in sounds, but this software generously compensates for that. The capacitive buttons are not backlit, and when I was initially using the device in the dark, I occasionally hit buttons I didn't mean to. The Axon 7, if you didn't know, is a USB Type-C device. This is my first USB-C device. Buying new cables was sort of an inconvenience at first, but it always boiled down to now or never in my mind. TL;DR: After using a plethora of devices ranging from the Note 7, S7, LG G5, Pixel, I simply mean to say the Axon 7 (and the 3T for that matter) performs just as well as any of the $600+ phones that saturate the mobile phone market. It only lacks a few features that the higher priced devices have (water resistance and wireless charging). This is obviously not an in-depth review. *: The Axon 7 supports the LTE bands that Verizon operates on, but I had to reset my phone after updating to Nougat, and the A7 rarely has a weird "switching from WiFi to LTE once I leave a building on campus or my flat" issue. This is easily fixed with a few quick key dances. (Going into sim settings and toggling the "LTE" setting a few times"). Thanks for reading! I also have an interesting piece I'd like to do on how I replaced my laptop with a Nexus 7 and a bluetooth keyboard if anyone's interested.
  7. I guess for discussion's sake, the supposed planet's gravity is 9.8 m/s like our own
  8. So thanks to Vsauce, I'm an expert at everything. His video on what would happen if the Earth instantaneously stopped rotating posed a new question in my mind. My question has to do with the fact that we can't feel Earth's rotation because we've naturally adapted to the velocity, but what if I were to visit another class M(Earth-like, habitable) planet that had a much greater velocity. We're talking less than ten hour days, with many times the velocity of our own planet. Would we become dizzy? What do you guys think?
  9. Basically this. As long as you budget correctly and find no shame in dollar store grade products (my local dollar store has a million green coca cola glasses for like 50 cents each :p), then you will be okay. If you're in the states, there's really no shame in going for Great Value products at your local Walmart if you are trying to have some extra mullah at the end of the month. You're gonna be okay bro!
  10. He didn't offer a concise solution, mentioning it could be multiple overlapping problems. I don't have any spare DDR3 sets laying around like he does. And I don't have any higher powered PSUs laying around like he does. I can't afford to play the guessing game at this point, and I don't have the time to let my computer run Prime95 for days on end and continue juggling BIOS settings and versions.
  11. Sorry. I forgot to mention that I did try other configurations and my computer simply refuses to post with anything more than single channel memory.
  12. So one of my RAM sticks recently died out the other day. I rebooted my system but it wasn't posting. After swapping sticks and jumping through all sorts of hoops, it turns out one of my sticks went kaput. So I ordered a new set of 4GBx2 and it had just arrived today. It turns out my system won't post using both sticks. I've cleared the CMOS multiple times. I've set bios settings to default and disabled XMP. I'm at my wit's end here and on the verge of adding an entire mobo to my annual upgrade list. Any ideas?
  13. So a friend of mine is going off to university today and he left me a bare case to do as I please. I considered storing it away and using it to build a new computer for his younger sibling's High School graduation gift. But that's in a year or so from now. The case is a full tower ATX case, but isn't anything special by today's standards. That's not why I'm in the general section, though. My question is: do you guys see the ATX design standards changing in the foreseeable future? I'd hate to wake up to new XYZ case types and inside out motherboards that have no backwards compatibility with standard ATX designs.
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