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lmfao no way ! Come get some !. I bought that for £5 after it flopped. I really liked that game. Well, apart from the vaseline graphics. Was bloody good fun ! The exercise yesterday was get out all games and see what I actually have. I moved house in 2018 and it has all been sat in a walk in closet since packed in moving boxes lmao. I also found this. You got it for reserving FO76. And then onto sorting out the rest. Still not done

It's funny because I never buy game related merch junk. For some reason though I became slightly addicted to collecting Fallout sets and merch. I know they opened a store later, but I bought nothing from there. So let's start at the beginning. Fallout. That is the Interplay collection. I also have this, never been opened. Because why not lol. FO3. The ONLY set I do not have is the original Pip Boy one. Mostly because they were just a clock, and known to break, and sell for several hundreds of pounds the last time I looked in about 2010. So lunchbox ed. Game has been replaced with the GOTY, but I still have the original (all three copies ffs lol). This is what you got with the BOS edition. And of course another copy of the game. I would say this here is my rarest item. Rare because they were never released or sold, and were only worn by the dev team who created FO3. IE Bethesda Softworks. I bought this at a charity auction in 2009, to help kids with autism. If you watch the documentary on FO3 you will see a lot of those shirts. Moving on - FONV. This was got through pre ordering the game in the USA only. My friend sent this over. He also sent me this. This was the point of sale hardboard poster for the launch of the game. It is now framed, complete with the backward date from the USA and all. Like the dev shirt that is probably my rarest FONV item. They would have ended up in landfills. Fallout 4. Nuka Zap shirt (Zap your thirst !). These were given out at the launch event. As were these face masks. Again, buddy in the USA (he used to work at Game stop if you were wondering how he got them). Vault 111 shirt. This was a gift from my step son. And the FO4 Vault Dweller Survival Guide. With map of the locations and some socks lol And finally this absolute monstrosity. TBH it was the best part of the game. Even though it had mould spores in and could kill you. These are the shit plastic soldiers and map. And of course the main event and ONLY reason any one should have bought FO76. Mould and all lmao. And I bet you thought I was done didn't you? nope !. Any one who was around then will know all about "Bag Gate". IE, Bethesda promised us all a lovely canvas bag. They then shipped out a shitty nylon one. Nerds were angry, and lawsuits threatened, and the result was this LOL. A real canvas bag Oh and the one that caused such nerd rage

Happy New Year all ! So the weather in the UK has been rain. With rain, and then some extra rain just in case there wasn't enough rain. On the one occasion it wasn't raining it was foggy, and I painted an amp panel black and it went all frosted and weird. So basically what I am saying is? painting is out. I had every intention of waiting until Spring. Then something happened, and red mist set in.. I shall explain ! I am a huge Fallout fan. Like, beyond huge (I have over 4k hours in FO3!). I have around 2k hours in FO4, yet FONV? maybe 200 at best. This is mostly because it has been harder to play. Again, I will explain... Obsidian did not update it very much. The way they were treated by Bethesda? I can understand why. See, the Xbox 360 version of FO3 has been updated with new textures and much higher settings if you play it on a Xbox 1x (not the S E X, the One X). It also runs at 4k, and looks really nice. Sadly whilst it does run on a 1x NV looks like potato graphics and does not run above 1080p, with no AA (so jagged heaven) and crap draw distances. These games need a spruce up if playing now. OK, so I have 3 PCs just run it on one of those right? well actually no. They all sport big navi (6800XT LC, 6900XT Toxic LC and 6950XT MBA) and NONE of them will run Fallout NV. It gets about 3 FPS, stutters and judders, then crashes. And no matter how many of the mod fixes I install nothing changes that. I think it is just because NV is a very old game, and AMD big navi is relatively very new. As such why would AMD go back 12-13 years and make sure an old game works properly when they have bigger fish to worry about frying. As such that is why the red mist set in. See, I wanted to play it bad but now I was angry and wanted to play it even more. It then dawned on me that hey, the 980Ti is Nvidia, and it's old, and so is the rest of the system. As such I can run it at 4k easy, even with hella mods, and play the snot out of it. As such I wanted this in an operable state now. Sadly the case was in a thousand bits and needed cutting around to get the hardware in and I just can't do any of that now. So, I did what we all would, and threw it all in the recycling bin. I know, it's nuts, but not when you realise I had this emptied out sitting in my attic. A much newer, much better case. Well, when you remove the crap glass and stop it being a hot box. The good thing is Lian Li realised this, and soon sold extra mesh panels. Mesh panels I did not want to have to paint, as acrylic paints are quite thick and block mesh when you try to paint it. So, I simply ordered two cut price sets of white panels. And set to work. By this stage I had made the SATA power cables and even pinned up the Molex set so they are there. Not in there, but in a nice Cablemod bag. Please note this was done with 0 fudges given, because it will all be coming apart. Everything you see that is part of the case and is black will be orange and white mixed in. Now the astute among you will notice this. Ain't 'gon fit in thar. But this will. And so a short time later the substitute skunk was kicking ass. I have now installed Win 11 (hacked it, no TPM etc) and a heavily modded absolutely gorgeous FONV install running at 4k on the TV monitor at the end of the bed. Needed to install a god load of fixes to stop it crashing, but am now about 10 hours in. I will see you all come spring time.

Human malware slowed things. My fingernails now have weird dents in them The cooler came a while back. I also found an old P68 board in the cupboard with white RAM retention levers, so I robbed those. Had they been black I would not have bothered, but they match it really well. Unfortunately what also slowed things another week was the fact that the Phanteks extensions I bought were out of stock. And they didn't tell me. For a whole week, when I asked them. I hate it when companies do stuff like that. Any way, I got a refund on them and found this as B stock for £40. It's a full Cablemod set in paracord. Which is much better than the horrible plastic stuff on the original custom cables, as they were a real git to bend. These are nice and floppy. The only issue here? they were made for a Cooler Master PSU. However, they had the correct pins both ends unlike the Phanteks, and, have dedicated braided SATA and Molex too. So earlier today I set about taking them out one by one and switching them into my loom. I was annoyed that a lot of the 24 pin wires were doubled on the extensions, and angrily started tossing them to one side. I then realised that on this PSU (Silverstone ITX) that the 8 and 6 pin PCIE are doubled on 6 wires. There is only one connector at the PSU end. So those doubled ones? man, saved me a lot of time and potentially nasty modding. So, we now have a fully done 24 pin, 4+4pin EPS and the 8 pin to 8+6 pin PCIE. All done, without needing anything but a pin remover. Awesome. I will buzz the SATA and molex connectors next time I go at it (week or two, got some stuff to do for Christmas in the meantime) and get that all done. So overall very happy. The only thing left wrong with the motherboard now from my original rage fest back in 2015 is one snapped USB3 header pin. Thing is I am not going to be using it so yeah, I will leave that. If one day I do want to attempt to repair it though? I can use said P68 board in my cupboard for pins.

Nah not cutting the GPU. The case can deffo take one that long, but you have to put it in at a horrible angle. As such things get broken etc. Just needs some clearancing is all

I'm a bit confused by that post. I am going to remove a section of the foamed area. Above where the side panel clips in. Just so the GPU goes into the case straight, and doesn't need to be put in at a bad angle. The side panel goes back on, the air comes in from the two 120s in the bottom. Cooling was always good, due to how I had made a wind tunnel basically.

Oh no mate those pics are from 2015. Not got that any more due to space. It was full sized.. Cherry blues though, a super board. Just too big now.

Good afternoon all Linus fans. I began modding PCs in and around about 2003. Since then it has been a long journey, with a lot of lessons learned along the way. This particular PC was modded and created way back in 2015, and was originally called the Pockit Rockit. IDK how many of you have been around here that long, but the original log is here. Slight change of usernames since then as the forum had a bug where it would not send a confirmation to hotmail addresses after an update. So I had to create a new account. Any way, onward and upward ! So just shortly after doing that mod I hated it so much I stopped using it. TBH it was a daft idea, because I had two other gaming PCs at the time and it was underpowered at best. So I removed and sold the Titan Black, put in a Quadro of sorts and gave it to my aunt when my uncle was first diagnosed with cancer. At that point she had been using an Ipad, but obviously then needed a proper PC in order to go through all that. Sadly my uncle passed back in January after having beating it twice. RIP Unc, I love you. As such my aunt no longer needed it and it was heading to a landfill near you. I had spent a lot of money on it (pointlessly) and thus could not let that happen. But, I needed to come up with a use for it as I am now older and wiser. And the thought hit me... LAN rig. Doesn't need to be powerful at all (we play the original HALO, COD4, COD3 and FEAR) and thus it would be worthwhile doing. So here it is back with me after 8 years. It looked like this inside. Sans the Titan, and this outside. So the idea here is to spend as little money as possible, yet create something that stands out. Before I got into that though the hardware needed a boost. Somehow a dual core Pentium wasn't going to cut it, so I ordered this. No gamble needed, I already checked the CPU support list. I then dug out 8gb of DDR3 a pal sent me last year (it only had 4gb in) and tested it. This is also the GPU I shall be using in here. It's not as extravagant as a real 1080ti sadly, it is a 980ti in drag (yes the cooler fits, you just need to mill off one screw post). Sorted. So after checking I realised that I had broken the USB3 front panel header on the board (one crushed pin. I could try fixing it but CBA) and one of the DIMM levers had snapped. This case is a real PIG to work in, and I think frustration got the better of me back then. The cooler is also broken.It uses horrible plastic lugs and pins and two are snapped. So, the big spend. I got this. I am going to use the extensions to make a new custom loom. I have pins, so that shouldn't be too much bother. The fans are to replace the ones I modded into it originally. They were Yate, but you could only get 20mm then. These are 15, meaning the case side panel will fit better. OK so the first idea I had for the refresh. The side panel grill is going. It was supposed to be meshed, but the mesh was crap so I put a window in it. That is being replaced with this. Left over from a project. So think this. The left over rocket grill will go on the fans in the bottom, to save them going into your fingers when you lift the case. I forgot what a nice job I had done on that tbh. So, strip it down and clean it all up. The orange plexi was under the silver dinoc. Result, no painting needed there Mod one. Make a real fan fit in the top. This took some head scratching. The fan in there was 120mm, but another fan would not go over the pins on the case. After a lot of thinking I realised it was the holes in the fan. So, I made them larger and. Need to cut down some long M3 bolts, but that is done. Then it was onto the IO. Like I said, the USB3 header is broken and I don't need any front IO. So.... OK so why the heck would I do that? I will tell you. Because getting a full length GPU in there is like water torture. And that did not help. Nor did this. So that is being cut out also. Now the astute among you would have clocked a whacking great bar handle. Yup, that would be this one. Hmm. OK so let's see what we can do there.. Scan. Make circle. To get this. Machine 4x out of 5mm scrap of white acrylic, and. That has now been fixed to the case with epoxy and I have begun the frenching process with JB weld. So with that all done let's talk about the plans.

Better pic of the insides before I did the end cap.

It worked. No more hitching with a full blown 4k BR rip. Coming in about two weeks - 12 SSDs. Currently running on the two 3tb 3.5.

Because it is what I had basically. I had it all in a ITX case but the CPU was getting too hot. The GPU I had (6700XT Strix) was making far too much noise in there too. I know a lot of Youtubers make HEDT in ITX cases but they are not truthful about living with it after. It's a ball pain, basically. So, like the other two I have upgraded recently? cooling all the way. Sick of having microwaves on my desk. So aye, I just didn't want to have to buy a new board. What I did need was a case capable of pulling air in through three fans AND allowing you to have two 360 rads. Which in this day and age is a lot harder than it sounds, and only a tiny handful of cases can do it.

I bought a new used GPU very cheap. I decided on black extensions, just cheap ones. I also bought a Jonsbo RAM cooler, but mostly for the VRM, considering the build would run on two 360 AIOs. This means no air flow over the board at all. Though be warned whilst it is very well made and very quiet it does not work properly with ITX boards. I had to modify it to work. I went with cheap fans, and reused other things from the PC before the upgrade. I did, however, get this. Because there was no way a 650w was going to cut it. I got it on sale for £104. Made sure to check reviews first of course. So the parts I reused were my X570i Strix, my 3950x and 32gb Micron RAM. I also reused my Phanteks Neons (x4) and then bought a GPU jack with RGB also. Case arrived, take it apart. There is a lot of it. So much I had to move the chassis away from the area to sort it out. See the plastic shroud part? well that broke. Because of this. Remember kids, always read the maual... Which is total trash. It didn't matter because of the way I configured everything, so it wouldn't have fitted back in there any way. This was the hardest part. Getting the three 140mm front fans on exhaust, and the rad with intake on the other side, and getting it all in. Think GPU with a heavy anchor attached. So here we are much later with the intakes fitted, and covers cut to hide the nasty stickers in the middle of the intake fans. And here we are even later than that with three covering the front fan stickers. One thing I hated was the open end of the PSU shroud. So. And CNC. Test fit before cleaning edges and installing permanently. And then.

Upgrade time. I ended up removing the TR. It was massive overkill and the rad got in the way of the USB 3.0 socket etc. I ended up fitting a 3470 with 8gb RAM. It was an old Dell board. It has served me for two and a half years, so it has done well. Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago I managed to procure a copy of Avatar 2 in true 4k and yeah, it wasn't happy. As such when I had a 11400F and 32gb RAM left over I knew it was time to upgrade. I ordered a B560 board, and will be using a mining riser going into this. No choice sadly. The CPU does not have an IGPU, and I can not use up one of the full sized slots on a GPU as I have two LSI SAS cards wanting X4 lanes each. Hence this to connect the GPU to a X1 slot. Got most of it done today. I bought a Super Flower 850w PSU a while ago used for £30, but never used it. So I replaced the Enermax with it, given the Enermax is 1600w and the cables are very thick (meaning it was a sod to get it all stuffed in). It is nice to have an IO shield, as the Dell board I was using had none. Am off on vacation at the weekend for a week. The GPU is at my mother's so I will collect that when I return, and at the same time buy 12 1tb SSDs. SATA ones. I will then fill every tray with one.

8 out of 8 m8 I r8

OK so the run of tremendous luck just continues..... The first thing I decided to do was beef up the CPU a little. RL prices are on the floor now. So, I bought a 11700KF for £140. The AIO has been annoying me. I mean sure, it was cheap AF but the uncontrollable rainbow farts are doing my head in. So once again I thought I would splash a large sum of money on a better "looking" AIO. Just to control the lighting. Then this happened. I had to didn't I?

So today I machined what will hopefully be the last pieces. Last night after I posted I drilled and tapped the little table thing for the digital sound thing. I then fitted that properly. Today I made something similar for the filter in the rear. I just didn't want it hovering around in there. That should be all of the machining done. I do have a couple of things left to do, namely painting the edge where it meets the face panel here. The top used to have tangs in that area that push fit into the sides of the front. Problem is it had been mangled and when I repaired it it ended up that the tangs would not go in there. Not even with a plastic hammer so I cut them off, but now you can see that silver metal through the gaps. I will likely just cut some vinyl pieces and stick them down.

Not much needed now tbh. I then gave up because the humidity is absolutely horrible here today.

OK so finally some time. I set up the sound device, with a DAC just to make sure it works. It does. Hoping to get some more time at the weekend to finish up.

So I built up a rig last year made from my leftover parts. Turns out the CPU in it didn't cut it in games (1920X) and the GPU was overkill for a server (2080TI Kingpin) and I already had a server. So I stripped it, sold a couple parts, gave the GPU to my friend and the case was then empty back in the original box. Last winter I changed the case on my away rig (the one I have at my mother's) but it drove me nuts. It looked stunning, but maybe a 120mm aio on a 3950x was taking the piss a little. AMD CPUs seem to idle very hot, and it was at 57c before you did anything at all. As such it wasn't boosting properly and therefore the top of the case was always red hot. Not wanting to spend a ton more money on a case I dragged the NZXT PUBG out of storage. As well as the cables I swapped around (blue and red) to make crate cables. The hardware was a little odd, but due to mounting the GPU the way I have (and it being enormous) it did not matter. So the spec is X570i Strix. My 6700XT Strix I paid £320 for ages ago. I upgraded the 16gb in there for 32gb of this. Was super cheap. And then spent some on cooling. Like, a lot of cooling, f*** ITX sorta cooling. Was £60. Incredible tbh, especially when you consider how well made it is AND that the pump head cover is magnetic and can be rotated around in 90' increments so it is always the correct way up. I bought four of these. For £8.50 each. I replaced the three on the rad with those, fitted one in the rear of the case, then used the three from the rad as intakes. I wish that more reviewers would review products like these. You know? the ones people actually buy. I bought a new mic as mine's tripod fell apart ages ago. And a new, smaller keyboard. I then made a booboo.... See, I now have three AMD GPUs. A 6800XT Strix LC in my desk gaming rig at home, a 6950XT MBA in my TV rig at home, and this 6700XT in my away rig. The other two work fine on PCIE 3 ribbons at home (both are Lian Li) even in gen 4 mode. However, this one? nothing However I did have a Phanteks one here that does work. Problem is I had to spend another 3 hours modding it and peeing around. However, I did get there in the end. I also bought a new desk last year but never got around to refreshing everything and making it look nice. Some cheap keycaps. Overall very happy indeed.

Because I am not 100% sure it is true. Like many things in life, you may never have all of the facts or, critically, BOTH sides of the story. However, that doesn't mean you should avoid it. I don't want to stick my neck out and start saying what I think in other words. I know how the law works for the most part too, so just being careful is all.

I know a lot about business. An awful lot. I know that it is hard. I know that for the first five years you will not be able to spend one penny, as it is all make or break for five years. I have worked with corporations, and I know a lot of inside info about the dirty business of sales, sales techniques and so on. Linus lost his character years ago. As soon as the business started making bank and he started buying big houses? you lose that hunger. That dedication. This has been easy to see with the content. Rushed, cynical cash cow videos. He even did a video explaining which videos make him the most money. He said it was live streams, and then what do you know? lots of live streams happened. The problem is? when it becomes all about money many things are sacrificed. It no longer becomes about learning, it becomes about posts like the OP - AKA damage limitation. Let's face it. LMG is a well oiled, capitalist corporation. And for making money? it totally works. People didn't even stop watching when the videos started becoming laden with "claymores". IE, sales claymores. Injecting as many shout outs to his products as possible. Hell, people even joked about it and thought it was funny. But it wasn't. It was about him making MORE AND MORE AND MORE money. And that? is what it now is. the ENTIRE structure of the channel. Look at the comments from his own staff. "I wish we could slow down and you know, make proper videos" and so on. But no. Even Linus admits this himself. But that is against the terms of being a corporation and that is? to make money at every single opportunity. I stopped watching because of the endless self promotion. Like, the meme side of it was funny for a couple of weeks but then it just totally got on my tits. Couple that with Youtube ramping up ad insertion and etc? Youtube itself to me became just a big meme and a big joke. I do watch content now BUT ONLY with Smart Tube Next. Which blocks all ads, sponsor claymores and god knows what else traps people have stuck in their videos. And it is the only way I can watch it. Like watching an episode of South Park on TV which is like 19 mins long and plumped up to a round 45 minutes with the ads in - UGH.

They could make good videos. Problem is? they would make less money. Look, Linus is a clever guy. He knows how to make money, that is for sure. He knows how Youtube's algorithms work and he knows what brings in the coin. And he is basically just doing what it takes to make LOTS of money, but nothing else. So this is why I said, this IS business, and what Steve has done has been all business, too. Good content costs money. Linus wants to do it on a shoe string, but make big potatoes. And he is, and will continue to. It's like I said man, MacDonalds videos. Junk views.

Yup his response, I am very sad to say, was completely expected.

I watched Linus at the very beginning. I found his squeaky voice quite annoying, but I loved the hunger. And the enthusiasm and everything else. The problem? somewhere along the line it became all about money. Like, 100%. Cynically so. "Buy a water bottle" "Buy a banana". I mean, the guy even jokes about how many sponsors there are and so on. Now? it is the MacDonalds of channels. Junk views. No real substance, just empty calories. Which too is why *I* don't understand why he did not just sell up. But, I guess he just can't let go of that control. Which is quite sad.