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    Taf the Ghost
    madaday got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in The WORST CPU Cooler EVER – Sketchy Heatsinks Ep2   
    Would it not have been possible to make the negative of the heatsink and 3d print it, then cast in the gaps?
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    Fiat-Libertas
    madaday got a reaction from Fiat-Libertas in The WORST CPU Cooler EVER – Sketchy Heatsinks Ep2   
    Would it not have been possible to make the negative of the heatsink and 3d print it, then cast in the gaps?
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    mragapigc
    madaday got a reaction from mragapigc in Old server into gaming machine?   
    Hi all!
     
    So I recently saw the LTT video on making a Server gaming PC and was looking at ebay at some cheap offerings to play around with. I know that they can be loud, and you are really limited with expansion, but I could move from gaming on it, to hosting game servers on it with relative ease?
     
    I found this HP ProLiant DL160 G6 Rack Server Twin Quad Core Xeon L5520 2.26GHz 24GB DDR3 RAM and I am out of my depth. I don;t mind paying for an OS and drives, but would love to know any tips on them. It does have a 1x PCI-Express x16 expansion slot according to the blurb so I'm guessing a small gfx card would fit, and maybe a non power hungry one! Its all up in the air right now and its not a desperate thing to do, was just browsing late one night and stumbled into this world!
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    madaday
    madaday reacted to manikyath in Old server into gaming machine?   
    for those that never seen servers go that cheap, i'll explain:
     
    sometimes datacenters upgrade their old infrastructure, leaving them with literally hundreds of machines like these that are old, inefficient, and worn out to the bone.
     
    since throwing them in the garbage costs money (even if only paying for the container to dump them in) datacenters found an amazing trick: they (or a middle man) toss them on the internet for dirt cheap prices and flip them to whoever wants one.
    "selling is cheaper than throwing them away" kinda deal.
     
    when turning these into gaming rigs - which you totally can - theres a few things to keep in mind:
    - first off the easy one: room. a 1u chassis isnt gonna fit a GPU.
    - power supply wattage, and availability of pcie power connectors. some servers do, and some servers dont have the necessary equipment to hook up a GPU.
    - cpu setup: a lot of these (especially the cheaper ones) have more slower cores, over less faster ones, creating a recipe for bottles and necking when trying to game on them. especially something to note when going for the less muticore-optimized games.
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