TheMechEngineer

Getting the PCs: Many people throw away Pentium 4's and dual cores that still work perfectly fine with Windows XP. If you start trawling in the right places, you can find refuse stores and places where old computers just get thrown away onto a massive pile. Provided there isn't a company getting all funny about their sensitive data getting recovered (which can be a thing), then you should be fine to snatch them up. Refurbishing the PCs: Hard drives can be items that are usually dead or dying, but they're cheap nowadays and getting newer ones isn't overly hard. Also, I'll say it quietly, but for cheap systems it's best to go with a pirated copy of Windows XP. Selling the PCs: Selling working rebuilt units for $50 or $100 for newer ones might be an option, but usually it'll be hard to get a return on your investment. Computers depreciate real bad. Just try to spend as little money as possible, and there might be a chance of getting a profit if you do it right.

The rocket is a structure. And it failed as a structure. Structure + Failure = Structural Failure. You can do simple maths, right?

Battle of the Kids With Rich Parents

Near enough to a structural failure.

Buckling failure of the landing gear. It landed properly, but their engineers are apparently only good at static FEA analysis using theoretical (low) force values.

It's also proven they will run better on a Core i7 5960x. Or NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. Or God's personal desktop. You get the picture.

You should be fine with some of the entry-level R9-series graphics cards, personally I wouldn't go beyond an R9 380 with that processor though. R7 stuff is pretty crap considering that the performance-per-dollar factor tends to drop away a lot.

The question isn't why, it's why not. But I also want to make it quieter and make the cooling more effective, plus big coolers are pretty sick.

That's what I was thinkin'. The idle temp was mid 40's for the stock cooler and it's dropped to the low 30's with the aftermarket one. No idea why. Yeah, I postponed getting an aftermarket one. Gonna get a Cryorig R1 unit soon, so that should fix it for good.

Today I brought up IntelBurnTest and MSI Afterburner on my Core i5 4670K system out of boredom just to see what kind of temperature the stock CPU cooler was managing under load. Okay so I knew that stock coolers aren't suitable for overclocking, but in the past I thought that they could at least manage stock speeds or even a very mild overclock. Turns out it couldn't really manage either, and I had to abandon the test early when it almost immediately started hitting 90 degrees Celcius with a 23 degrees Celcius ambient temperature. No overclock whatsoever. So after swapping in an cheapo $16 Ebay cooler, it managed to drop max temperature to a comparably respectable 76 degrees Celcius. I'm just a little bit shocked that even the shittiest aftermarket cooler can perform many times better than the cooler that arrived in the box of a $330 CPU.

Buying a high-end sound card. Yeah, maybe the sound is better, but is it worth $200? No way.

I do all my gaming at 720p nowadays. It's awesome because it means I can play modern games without requiring a beast graphics card.

Does sound like the cooler isn't mounted 100% on the CPU. I had the same problem myself, and even though it SEEMS like it's mounted properly, you gotta double check that the pins come all the way through the motherboard. Stock coolers can be a bitch because pushing the pins through requires more force than would be ideal.

My late Christmas presents will be a Cryorig R1 Universal CPU cooler and Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD. Just waiting on getting credited for a different item I returned.

I got a Ducky mechanical keyboard for $150 a while ago, and it was so loud and I hated it so much that I'm nervous to buy a new keyboard. You gotta be real careful and do your research with mechanical keyboards in particular, because I didn't and it was a bad idea.