Cyborgsmith

Great Basin Gopher Snake Best I can tell, would need a better picture to be sure.

Ah gotcha, #CurrencyConfusion

@arealsnek Check out Fractals line of cases, avoiding anything with a "basement/psu shroud" if possible, not a good idea in terms of thermals. Within your budget a Fractal Define R5 would probably work well for you, and it has a ton of sound deadening material, not to mention the dust filters.. It has dust filters in the front and all along the bottom. For Reference My Current Build is Fractal Define R5 6700k @ 4.3Ghz w/Noctua NH-D15 Strix GTX1080 @2Ghz Powr limit @120% w/2x Noctua 140mm Fans as Cooling. I'm Running 2x140mm fans in the front of the case, 1x140mm as a side intake, and 1x140mm fan as an exhaust out the back. The top vents are covered up, and thermal results after a 20 minute AIda64+Furmark are as follows GPU Peaked at 61C CPU Peaked at 65C Finally all fan speeds were in 600-1000rpm range, and hardly any noticeable noise.

Money isnt really an issue if you can afford to buy into the X99 platform.

With water and a bit of tweaking you can get it past 4.4ghz

Probably cpu frequency, by the looks of things so far ryzen isn't great for overclocking.

I think the idea is to help drive more air over the VRM.

For real? Where, best Ive seen is 950CAN

Hmm, just realized I know one of the new guys... Interesting.

Ive heard the infrastructure/monopoly situation is terrible, throughout the US.

Where do you live???

Ha, ya 180Mbps down plus no data cap (at least not that's enforced) is amazing. I regularly use over a terabyte a month, by myself.

Ya no 4k Netflix. Huge downside...

Right on point there bro.

I doubt anyone actually does that, its not 2010 anymore its not like SSDs are expensive anymore. A 250gb SSD can be had for little more then the cost of a mechanical drive.

Trolling or just young and inexperienced. This thread makes my head hurt.

Cost/ Technology Most movies are only mastered in 2K, so unlike older films shot on 35mm there isnt an option to "remaster" older content.

Boom done

You can use propane too

@maxtch About the only thing I'd argue is server grade in my setup is the intel PCie ssd seeing as Intel's market for them was aimed at enterprise. Personally I would prefer to have enterprise grade gear, I don't really care for all this RGB nonsense. Except enterprise grade boards and CPUs are expensive when you want the latest and greatest. Keeping in mind my workload is a small amount of video editing/rendering/gaming and that's it.

@Tahsin Alam I'd argue that for almost any system it's worth it, with m.2 drives you can run a system with no sata cables, no extra power cables etc. Not to mention even with basic applications, web, office, etc you have the benefit of better read right performance. In terms of gaming performance here's a good real world scenerio for you. I had Doom running on a 7200rpm mech drive, the load times were so bad the system would almost hang b/c it took so long for the game to load. I generally keep whatever game (the big AAA titles) on my boot drive and other stuff where I might want to do a playthrough in a few months I just keep as a steam backup on a mechanical drive. Way faster then downloading and keeps it off my ssd.

I always forget this, "people" generally run 100% legit copies of windows.. I gave up trying to authenticate windows keys years ago. Personally just run a hacked copy while holding my legit licence. Not 100% legit but I do installs every couple months So in your case it's not idea. Your best bet is to use an external drive to make a full clone of the m.2 then install the new one and restore the clone. Acronis has a nice bootable os that does a nice job of this. You'll just want to expand your partition once your up and running.

We should have "shill" added as a rep option.

@BlargKing Why not just do a fresh windows install?

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