Gumba

Username: Gumba213 Favorite Videos Thrustmaster Warthog: https://www.vessel.com/videos/Yj4PbcgKj This controller is sick, can't wait till Star Citizen comes out, might have to seriously look into getting one of these. and 5K Nvidia Geforce Titan X SLI: https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy Holy crap this is crazy, 5K resolution with two Titan X's, all games running 50+ fps, the future is here.

The ability to have lower power consumption and get better performance over the 700 series, at a good price, there's no reason not to want one of these cards.

Thanks Linus for following your passion and making videos for us full time. I have been watching your YouTube show now for a few years and love your content. I have bought a number of products specifically based on your recommendations, most notably you made me a Noctua fan, no pun intended, got the Phobea UV LED lights for my desktop station, and most recently purchased the Avermedia portable capture card. All have been dynamite products and I can't be more thankful for your recommendations. I will continue to use your channel as a guide for future purchases. Also I have to say that your weekly WAN show is great and has been a great addition to the channel. I really stand behind your work and looking forward to continually being a part of your forum for yeas to come. Wish you the best on all your upcoming adventures. THANKS LINUS FOR ALWAYS KICKING ASS

Just to preface this post, I got a lot of flak about 4 weeks ago when I posted a list of issues I was experiencing with this Tablet, but in my case I wished there was something like this before I had purchased the device, cause looking back now, I wouldn't have picked it up in the first place and spent countless hours trying to get it to work how I envisioned it. With that said, I returned my Shield tablet and picked up an i5 Surface Pro 3 instead. Wasn't happy at all with the Shield Tablet, way too many issues out of the box, felt like it wasn't a finished product. Between the cracking case, shortage of controllers, which are ridiculously overpriced and lack of available covers I was underwhelmed with its release. But most frustratingly I had to buy a hardwired ethernet adapter just to get it to stream games remotely, and even then the latency was so bad that I couldn't play platformers. At the end of the day it felt like a Swiss Army knife with way too many add-ons just to get it to do what I wanted. I totally stand behind Nvidias video cards, have a GTX 780 ti, but this tablet totally missed the mark. After a week of frustrating issues it sat on my end table collecting dust and decided it needed to be returned. I like where Nvidia is heading in this market but more R&D was needed here and it fell short of my expectations. On the next release I suggest putting in a WiFi card that actually works from more than 10 ft away, a built in on screen controller option with key mapping options, a built in kickstand and a larger screen. Don't put this device into the same market as the Samsung Galaxy tablet, enthusiast gamers like me who are willing to spend in excess of 300 dollars on a video card, or in my case nearly 800 dollars feel this tablet isn't sufficient for what we are trying to do. When I got home with my new Surface Pro 3 I was pleasantly surprised when I loaded up Steam and worked seamlessly when streaming games. The SP3 also allows you to have all those extra features like the ability to use my superior xbox controller and Xpadder software, and the ability to install Steam games right onto the device without the need to stream them when I'm on the go. Do yourself a favor and wait for the next Nvidia Tablet release. Knowing Nvidia and their commitment to excellence, I'm sure they will make some major improvements. Good luck Nvidia on your next release, and I commend Nvidia personally messaging me and trying to resolve my defected unit with a new one, but that ship has sailed and I'm much happier with my SP3. I'll continue buying Nvidia products in the future as the 900 series cards are released but won't be looking at the Shield again anytime soon unless there's some dramatic changes made in the future. Thanks again Nvidia for all your hard work and dedication to putting out innovative products.

So I actually returned the Shield Tablet and will make a post about it here shortly. And FYI those of you saying I needed a better router to get this to work, I have the Asus RT-N66U Dual Band router which should have been more than sufficient to get a reasonable signal with this device at more than 20 ft.

I also own an iPad Air. Love it, but when it comes to PC Streaming you're out of luck.

So I made this list on Nvidia's forum last night before I went to bed and it appears Nvidia took it down. Here's my second attempt at notifying the public what the most common issues are with this Tablet. 1. Wifi Connectivity - Poor Range, 20ft or less, Also dependent on Tablet Orientation, Can block signal easily if hand is positioned over the Wifi card. 2. Remote Streaming - Doesn't work unless using an Ethernet Adapter. Wifi signal too week to stream 3. Cracks Edges on Case - Hairline cracks in all 4 corners of device. Case creaking and splitting. 4. Poor Battery Life - 2 to 3 hours max when gaming. 5. Bluetooth Controller Connectivity - Interference with 2.4GHz signal and inability to connect to certain devices. 6. 1080 Streaming - Only works when Streaming at home using a dual band router, or remotely using an Ethernet adapter. 7. OTG USB Charging and Ethernet Adapter - Not able to use a USB splitter for both the Ethernet Adapter and Charging at the same time. 8. No Virtual Controls - No Onscreen control option to play games using touch, requires you to purchase controller to play any games. 9. Mushy Power Button and Volume Rocker - Self Explanatory, less than ideal buttons on side of device.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/ssd-breakthrough-means-300-speed-boost-60-less-power-usage-even-on-old-drives A breakthrough has been made in SSD technology that could mean drastic performance increases due to the overcoming of one of the major issues in the memory type. Currently, data cannot be directly overwritten onto the NAND chips used in the devices. Files must be written to a clean area of the drive whilst the old area is formatted. This eventually causes fragmented data and lowers the drive's life and performance over time. However, a Japanese team at Chuo University have finally overcome the issue that is as old as the technology itself. Officially unveiled at the 2014 IEEE International Memory Workshop in Taipei, the researchers have written a brand new middleware for the drives that controls how the data is written to and stored on the device. Their new version utilizes what they call a 'logical block address scrambler' which effectively prevents data being written to a new 'page' on the device unless it is absolutely required. Instead, it is placed in a block to be erased and consolidated in the next sweep. This means significantly less behind-the-scenes file copying that results in increased performance from idle, during intensive jobs and a longer lifetime for the drive as SSDs have a finite number of possible write operations. In tests, drives using the technology wrote data 55% less often than drives without and performance increases of up to 300% were noted. This could enable high-end devices to easily reach transfer speeds of 1.5GB/s as current models achieve around 500MB/s typically; 60% less power was also used in the lab tests due to the lack of additional drive writes. If you are reading this on a computer booting from an SSD and are thinking of splashing out on one of these next-generation models equipped with new NAND chips then perhaps you should wait a moment. The changes made by the team were purely software-based. There is definitely a possibility that existing devices still in support by their manufacturers may get firmware updates in the near future so that they store data in the new manner and benefit from the increased speed, decreased power consumption and increased expected life of drives equipped with the new NAND controller firmware.

Tested this on a 55" Samsung Plasma TV and it has changed the color output. Grey's go to Light Pinks and White's go to Light Blue's. I am assuming that it's putting extra strain on the panel and probably not good for it. Windows 8.1 doesn't look blurry to me at all as others had reported. Running GTX 780 ti

http://pcpartpicker.com/b/NDH Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- **CPU** | [intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54670k) | $227.99 @ NCIX US **CPU Cooler** | [Noctua NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhu9bse2) | $46.98 @ OutletPC **Motherboard** | [Asus Maximus VI Impact Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-maximusviimpact) | $219.99 @ Amazon **Memory** | [Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-memory-bls2kit8g3d1609ds1s00) | $134.63 @ Amazon **Storage** | [samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7te250lw) | $168.94 @ Amazon **Storage** | [seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st310005n1a1asrk) | $59.99 @ Best Buy **Video Card** | [EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-03gp42883kr) | $689.99 @ NCIX US **Case** | [EVGA Hadron Mini ITX Tower Case w/500W Power Supply](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-case-110ma1001k1) | $139.99 @ Newegg **Optical Drive** | [EVGA 100-OD-S101-BR DVD/CD Writer](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-optical-drive-100ods101br) | $54.29 @ Amazon **Case Fan** | [Noctua NF-S12B FLX 59.2 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfs12bflx) | $21.98 @ OutletPC **Case Fan** | [Noctua NF-S12B FLX 59.2 CFM 120mm Fan](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-case-fan-nfs12bflx) | $21.98 @ OutletPC | | **Total** | Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available. | $1786.75 | Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-30 06:01 EDT-0400 |

The UV purple lighting definitely makes the noctua fans look so much better. You don't notice them at all anymore, the lights overtake the ugly tan color and changes them to purple. All things considering, I don't notice the PSU fan so much, more the GPU fan. I crank it up to 80% fan speed under load. About $1800 for the whole build

Took about a month to get all the parts together but now it's finally complete. Case stays relatively cool, with ambient temps in the mid 30's and just hitting 70C under load. Noctua fans are very quiet and only become slightly louder when gaming. i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz GTX 780 Ti @ 1400/3600MHz Valley Benchmark = 76.1 FPS Ave @ 1080 Extreme HD PARTS LIST: CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI IMPACT Mini ITX LGA1150 Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Storage: Samsung Evo 250GB SSD and Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Case: EVGA Hadron Mini ITX Tower w/500W Power Supply Optical Drive: EVGA 100-OD-S101-BR DVD/CD Writer Case Fans: Noctua NF-S12B FLX 59.2 CFM 120mm

So it took about a week to get all the parts, just finished installing the dvd drive today. With the stock i5 cooler the system ran about 10 degrees hotter under ambient conditions and almost 20C under load. Running 4.2GHz at 1.2V now with low 30C ambient and 70C under Prime95. Overclocked the GTX 670 100mHz clock and 200MHz on the memory. Luckily enough I was able to undervolt the card down to .9375V which really helped lower the GPU temps. Never hitting above 70C under load. Ran Metro Last Light for a few hours and it holds up great. The PSU fan is the loudest fan in the setup and under load it is loud. I knew I would have to compromise somewhere, nonetheless wished it was quieter. All in all I am very pleased. Jumping up from Ivy Bridge there is a noticeable difference in performance when I ran Lara Croft. Metro looks amazing in 1080, all settings are set to Ultra with exception to AA, was only able to run 3xAA as my card kept crashing, most likely due to memory limits. Haven't gotten around to testing FPS with Fraps, but did run the Valley Benchmark and scored a 2844 at 68.0 FPS at 1080 High 4xAA. Thats about it, thanks for checking out the thread and take a look at a few of my pics. CPU Intel Core i5-4670K CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U9B SE2 Motherboard ASRock Z87E-ITX Mini ITX Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Storage Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" SSD Toshiba 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB Case EVGA Hadron Mini ITX Tower w/500W Power Supply Case Fans 2x Noctua NF-S12B Optical Drive EVGA Slot Load DVD OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Thanks guys for the feedback. I really appreciate hearing what you guys think and will update with more mods here in the future. The Angled Fan at the bottom of the case gave my graphics card added airflow over the stock bottom configuration. It also improved on the amount of dust collected in the system. It's an easy mod, get some L-Brackets, bend them 45 degrees and screw them in with a screw and bolt. The choice for Red and Blue Lighting was made after the all blue config started feeling old. I like the offset of the CPU Heatsink, and at some angles you almost get a purple color. It's a nice change up from what I had before. Cutting the window wasn't too difficult, all you need is a dremel and the right bits. I recommend making a cardboard cutout of the side panel before you even trace a design on your case. I made about 5 adjustments to my design before I drew a stencil on my case. Wear Safety Goggles Alright guys thanks again for all your input, my next project is to change the front of the case and add better intake breathing for my fans.

I followed the instructional video above here is the link to my thread on the Corsair 200R Case Window http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/26947-first-gaming-pc-build-corsair-200r-case-mod/#entry342157