DragonTamer1

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The policy seems to have changed since the last time I used it. And they also added the stipulation that holiday sales aren't covered.
 
In this case I'd recommend going to PCPP and subscribing for the deals newsletter.

Aint nothing wrong with a 212 evo tbh.
I would go with a CRYORIG H7, for $35 bucks it's legit. H7 link
To be REALLY competitive with water cooling the Noctua D14 is super legit for $70. D14 link
I actually have a Noctua 12s on my i7 6700k, legit and fits in almost anything for $60. 12S link
 
Cryorig has nice air cooler. Them and the 'be quiet!' air coolers probably look the best. Noctua performs the best
 

Yeah it's not a hard and set rule you can do that also, but having two 140mm intakes make it a little simpler since they will have more intake volume than exhaust naturally without having to adjust the RPM's to ensure the intake is always more than the exhaust.

Gimp is great. Open source to allow expansion as well.

I'm assuming that you are using something other than Prime95 for stress testing. Use the trial version of Aida64 if you can get it.
 
Re-seat the CPU cooler with new thermal paste first.
 
Check the CPU voltage to make sure it is less than 1.4 in the BIOS. If necessary manually set it so that it does not reach any higher than that for verification.
 
Invest in a much more substantial cooler to help dissipate the heat (see below).
 
If none of this works, then and only then should you consider deliding the CPU. It is a last resort scenario, not a first resort. Even still I would not suggest it.
 
Possible CPU coolers.
 

Typically you charge somewhere between 15 and 50% for labor on a product. Labor costs tend to go down as to products value increases especially when there are alternative brands available.
 
Charging more than $1500 for the system is going to turn away more potential customers than you would like. Somewhere between $1100 and $1500 is your sweet spot. Coming with a 2TB hard drive already in it puts it above some other systems at its price point, having a blu-ray player and a 240GB SSD would have put it solidly at the $1500 mark.
 
Be open to negotiation, start higher than what you actually want and never go for less than cost+%10.

According to the Intel datasheet, all Skylake chips have an absolute maximum of 1.52V.
 
1.4 is typically considered safe.

Mostly the difference between the GPUs is aesthetics. All of them will have very similar performance and the performance gap can be removed with overclock (or at least minimized).
 
The single fan 1060s will run a bit hotter than their dual fan counterparts, they are more targeted at compact case builders and people with a soft spot for the small and adorable.
 
As for looking into the RX 480, I wouldn't rule it out. They both are good cards and both have games where they pull ahead of each other. With the RX 480s though there are a lot of them that have heat issues (cheap manufacturing from board partners). The Asus Strix and XFX GTR are both very good RX 480s that stay very cool.
 
It's usually easier for us if you find some cards that match your aesthetic tastes and link them all here and we can help narrow them down more from there.

I personally would opt for the cheaper GPU and get some extra RAM to go with it. The RAM will help in some games especially if you have things going in the background like music, podcasts, live streams etc.
 
It also leaves you with $100 that you can put towards a second monitor (assuming you want one) or a very, very nice dinner out on the town.

Instead of benchmarking software run Folding@Home, do some good and create some heat.
 
http://folding.stanford.edu/

newspapers and magazines used to be about the articles and minimal advertising, television due to its newness, had limited live commercials, telephones didn't have SPAM calls, and snail mail was limited to local advertising.
 
years gone-by and the masses grew and an idea was screw the coverage, we can make more capital profit from advertising per piece delivered to actually doing what the goal of the publication was derived. and the main-stem came from lack of circulation. many found out that the readers of the publication were moving on to the next platform and the publication still had gross receipts to pay. once enough of the circulation dropped-off, the publication was absorbed (mailing list) or dwindled into ashes
 
now comes email and the internet. information now era. paid per clicks (whether the content was relatable) to promote a profitable business versus the viewership (unneeded as redirected traffic is the norm) of content is not a easily kept community. so they have to rely on traffic shaping to register the income needed to survive.
 
new trapsters of the internet will click on those ads, moderately sauvey will unintentionally click one, experienced will not click and expert just ignore the efforts.
i avoid those that wish to deregulate their ad sources to clutter their integrity.
 
the internet was to be an ability to exchange information in a quick/up-to-date way. marketing saw it as a way to make it profitable and sold the content creators a way of thinking to generate lifestyles through the power of 'knowledge' instead got changed to a box of tide clothes detergent.
 
like most things, the intentions were there, but have some accessibility and marketing will find you out to point you to their ways of 'reap the benefits of your content, but pay us first' schedule. and now it is the norm to be interrupted from your regular schedule to bring you the latest in undergarmet urine/fecal capture devices or the latest celebrity doing some boneheaded thing and making it a worldly topic for 15-30min stretched to 48hrs or until they can get booked on some talk show to analyse their feelings on being propelled into the limelight furthering stupidity until something else better/fail comes along and the human attention cycle starts again.
 
take-away, nice stats, figured as well and soon i will be selling robot insurance.

I made a beautiful paint image about how people here perceive bottlenecks:
 
 
 
on the left, what a bottleneck is. On the right, what most of the people on CPU & GPU sessions think it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKIavpEQQGg
 
Link to a video someone did exactly on this subject. 4GB was enough most of the time, 8GB was the ideal, and 16GB was largely irrelevant.

"Oh no!  You can't use that i5 2500k!  You're 1080 will BOTTLE NECK.  BOTTLE NECKING IS PC CANCER!  You have to spend $500 on a new CPU and motherboard, THEN your GPU will run 15% faster than it would on that 2500k!"
 
Ugh...

Mechanical keyboards are disgusting, I strongly feel that a cheap membrane has better feedback

It's normal for the whole system to lock up from processor instability. I would not hold the power button to reset the system, use the reset button.
 
Are the exhaust fans high airflow? I would recommend using high airflow fans for the exhaust and intakes (try to use an equal number) since your case doesn't have drive cages to worry about. I would also turn their speed up a little bit to get more air moving through the case.
 
Replacing the CPU cooler will help keep your processors temp down, having the extra case fans will help get the hot air out.

My GTX 760 is usually running at 99% and pushing out 30-45 FPS in a game and the CPU will be twiddling its thumbs down at 10% load. It is also an insanely hot card and was hoping to replace it with a 1060 soon. My brother needs a computer and I would probably give him the 760 to save on a GPU (Overwatch doesn't demand that much from the GPU anyway).

That would be extremely loud. If you had ur computer in a different server room, and could directly link the exhaust to the outside and put sound proofing pads in there, that would work, otherwise, it'd be unpractical and WAY too loud

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

Since you said you aren't going to be playing any AAA titles then I would just go for the 960. It would still be worth it to try and find a 970 for about the same price (you might be able to talk him down a bit). With the Nvidia card you will also get a few Nvidia exclusive features (the only one worth while IMO is Shadowplay).

The problem with adding more fans in parallel is that U3 measures their speed with their current usage. Unless all the fans are perfectly synced then it will give false readings and could possibly trigger a fault state. R9 would also continue to get outrageously small (into the miliohm range) and sine I don't have anything that small lying around I have no idea how accurate it would be. I was able to successfully duplicate the M1, Q1 and R8 portion of the circuit to increase it's output. Unfortunately sense feedback is still needed, I was unable to bypass this as I thought it wasn't necessary for a computer case fan that could be subject to interference from the user.
 
U3 creates a 30Hz signal that is sent to Q1. Based on the input from U2 it controls the duty cycle of the output to modify how long Q1 stays open.

Remind me of the Floppy drive dude...
 
 

If the metal is coated then you shouldn't have a problem as long as you don't wash it too regularly.
 
Aluminum will be more corrosion resistant than steel with stainless steel being the best.

After washing it I would dry the metal frame with some sort of cloth just so that it's not sitting in the water. The actual screen can be allowed to air dry.

I just finished a fan controler circuit for my computer case that I can post. I was planning on making a new thread for it after I had sourced all the parts to simplify things.
 

 
As it's shown in this schematic it can only drive a single fan for the time being. Some parts will need to be modified depending on your fan. It can be expanded to accommodate more fans but I don't have the schematic prepared for that yet.