raystriker98

Damn i know that feeling OP, its always nerve wracking building the first fairly expensive build

It's quite simple: any "back door" into an encryption system to allow government entry merely invites intrusion. Individual privacy trumps any assurance of government safety. Your right to privacy, your right to protection against searches and seizures is so sacred that, at least in the US, it's enshrined in the Constitution, and has been continuously upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States. So much so that the government cannot force you to submit to a blood test without first getting a warrant from the Court.
 
Since the government can't just arbitrarily enter your home, the same with your private information. It's as simple as that. After all, would you send your private information through the postal service written on a postcard that anyone can read? Electronic communication is no different. The envelope is all that's changed.

I swear this is linus on the Eric Andre show from the equipment replacer or whatever but i swear its him from this clip i recorded from S2 episode 6
20160919_014006.mp4 heres the video evidence. 

Full H.265 10-bit encode and decode hardware acceleration. Even Nvidia and AMD don't have that yet.

Why would they look at the chat? It's a whole lot of rubbish.

Three words. Get over it.

Vanessa- The $150 Skylake Rig

Contents
Intro
Parts
Part Pics and Descriptions
Choosing the case
Modding the case
Rationale
Building the PC
Upgrade Path
Pictures
Final thoughts
 
Intro
Hello all and welcome to my first build log! The goal of this PC was to have a cheap alternative to a core 2 quad for some light office work and watching videos. You will find I chose these parts to provide a sensible upgrade path and so I could put in various components as needed. Enjoy!
 
Parts
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($56.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($53.88 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($23.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($17.80 @ Amazon) 
Other: Delta 400w ($0.00)
Other: some random free old case ($0.00)
Total: $152.66
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-26 22:20 EDT-0400{P
 
Part Pics and Descriptions

I chose this hard drive because it was the cheapest SATA drive at the time.

I chose this ram because it was the same price as the super cheap green PCB stuff.

The reason I chose this motherboard was easy. It was the cheapest board that would accept all the stuff.

I chose this CPU because it was just about $50, provided a reasonable upgrade path, and had 2 strong cores, what my workload likes.

For the power supply it was either this 400 watt delta unit or a 288 watt bestec unit... Yeah.
 
Choosing the case
When I was choosing the case, I was spoiled for choice! After getting my options down to only 2 I had to choose.

The larger asus one had a standard power button while the smaller dell did not. I thought long and hard here and decided to go for the Dell because of it's smaller size and overall better condition.

 
Modding the Case
Not much modding needed to be done, however the power button needed to be sorted.

The Brown and blue wires are the power button, so that is all we care about, not LEDs. I ended up just pulling the remaining wires out and making sure there is no short circuiting

So here is the finished block. We have basically a normal power switch, but with some extra block around it.


Here it is plugged into motherboard

Rationale
My decisions for parts may seem odd, putting Skylake in a rig with a $150 budget, but there are plenty of reasons to go Skylake for this rig. Firstly, the upgrade path. The upgrade path was probably the biggest reason I did this, as if my workload ever increases from basic document writing and video watching I could easily pop in an i5 and a graphics card. The only other choices in this budget would be AM1 and FM2, both of witch have no upgrade path. I chose the remaining parts other than the CPU because they were the cheapest parts I could muster up that supported the CPU, while doing what I want. The reason why I went with the 400 watt Delta unit was because I got it for free and it works, so nothing beats free. I went with the case as a placeholder until I get a proper case.
 
Building the PC
Overall this build went well. I only cut my hand once, which is pretty good for this kind of case. The IO shield was a bit tough but it fit. The mods I did worked well too!
 
 Upgrade path
Upgrades were one of the biggest reasons why I chose these parts. I will first upgrade the case then the power supply, then the build will only get upgrades when my workload increases.
 
PC Pictures





 
Final Thoughts
Thank you for reading this build log. I hope to see you again in many future build logs, but for now, goodbye.

I want it,  but i can't pay for it

Never go full linus.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US TO 3 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE!!
 
Y'all are bae. That's why we've partnered up with Razer to give away one NEW Razer Blade 14, and one NEW Razer Blade Stealth (full specs listed in the announcement video), with a custom graphic designed by our very own Edzel Yago  .
 
RULES OF THE GIVEAWAY:
 
1. One entry per user. Duplicate posts and posts from duplicate accounts will be deleted before a winner is drawn, to leave one post per person.
 
2. Winners will have 72 hours to respond. If a winner does not respond within that time, a new winner will be drawn.
 
3. This is a worldwide giveaway with no age restrictions. Shipping costs will be covered by the shipper, but any duties/taxes/other fees upon delivery will be the sole responsibility of the winner.
 
 
Alright, now that we've got that out of the way, OMG THIS IS AWESOME HOW DO I WIN ONE???:
 
1. Comment below letting us know which Razer laptop you would prefer to win. Feel free to make it fun - what would you use it for? Why do you prefer the Blade or the Blade Stealth?
 
2. This is not a REQUIREMENT for entry, but you should definitely follow Razer on Twitter and subscribe to their YouTube page. In addition to providing the laptops for this awesome giveaway AND sponsoring our trip to PAX, they work with a plethora of other incredible creators in a number of spaces, and release cool content with some of them on a fairly regular basis. Please support them on social media and Tweet at them thanking them for this giveaway!!
 
3. Check back in one week. Entries for this giveaway will close on Monday, September 12, and winners will be chosen soon after. Winners will be messaged by me here on the forum. Do not accept any other form of communication as legitimate, and do not share personal information with anyone who asks for it unless you can confirm that they are a legitimate source.
 
That's it!! If I've missed anything, feel free to let me know.


GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE ENTERING, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS CRAZY JOURNEY
 
 
EDIT:
 
Alright, we have selected our winners!!!
 
@Plavi and @willp3, you have 72 hours to respond to the DMs I am sending you right now. If we do not receive a reply in that time, new winners will be chosen! Since both said that the Blade would be their choice, it's on a "first replied first served" basis. (for clarity - what this means is that the first winner to reply will get their choice between the two laptops, and the second winner to reply will get the laptop that the first winner did not choose. This does not mean that we're only giving away one laptop...)
 
Thanks everyone.
 
 
EDIT2:
 
Alright, so @Plavi has officially claimed the New Blade! Congrats on winning

But, unfortunately for @willp3, he did not respond in time to claim his prize...

Our new Blade Stealth winner is @ted542! Check your inbox, you have 72 hours to reply
 
 
EDIT3:
 
Both laptops have now been claimed. Thanks for participating in this awesome giveaway, and please be sure to keep an eye out for giveaways in the future!
 
 
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Ah, no.
 
1: The 480's been beating the 1060 consistently in Vulkan benchmarks. Not many games utilise Vulkan though, but that will change.
2: The 1060 is actually far more expensive than the 480 in many parts of the world (eg outside the US) so the 480 is the better buy due to the fact that it's not massively far behind the 1060 but it is quite substantially cheaper.
3: Polaris was never intended to compete with Pascal. The actual Pascal competitor, Vega, is coming later. AMD made it clear that Polaris was a mid-range offering.

AMD platform is hard to upgrade.
You can either downgrade to Thuban such as X6-1055T or upgrade to FX-8300 and overclock it, but both suggestions have limits.
Best solution is... change to Intel platform.

Looks awesome

So because they didn't give you the results you want, they're biased? You realize that makes you biased, right?

I can't believe how much of a !@#$ nVidia is, and they have been for a very very long time. I won't ever doubt the boys again at AMD. Those guys are great, and they've always look out for the interest of gamers as a whole rather than as a company. They've shared their technologies and open source with nVidia so that all gamers can benefit, but nVidia will never do the same.
 
 

So gtx980 performance was just a filthy rumor after all..
edit: I like how their test rx480 performs like a potato compared to consumer benchmarks ^^

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reviewer’s Guide Leaked
Lel. Wtf. Rofl. Lmao.nvidia being nvidia How could this get out?.  if reviewers are going to  get the same results....  at least we are going to know which of them are biased or paid. 
 
Source: http://videocardz.com/62138/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-reviewers-guide-leaked
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4sh3b1/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1060_reviewers_guide_leaked/
 

Brace yourselves, the custom RX 480 cards are coming, and this is a megathread for that.

First up

MSI Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
 

Sapphire RX 480 Nitro
-4/8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1342MHz boost
-Review

ASUS Radeon RX 480 Strix
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1330MHz in OC mode
-Review
 

Powercolor Radeon RX 480 Red Devil
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1330MHz boost
 

Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming
-4/8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
 

XFX Radeon RX 480 DD
-8GB GDDR5 @ 8gbps
-8 PIN PEG power connector
-Custom PCB
-1328MHz boost
 

HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQX2
 



OP thoughts; 
These all look good and should preform similarly, I'm sitting here staring at my Reference RX 480 and its puny 6-pin connector, maybe I'll send it back for one of these.



Soruce: VideoCardz

I've left the Corsair ram running at 2133 for now. I tried to take it out but... it isn't happening in a hurry!
 
Still, did a quick SteamVR benchmark, dropping to 10.4 due to the GPU thermally throttling.
 
Gonna be away for a couple days now, so will then try swapping the rad fan direction, flip the PSU and swap the ram. Almost a total rebuild...

looks like to early for me.
The sell of the GTX1080 is still in full swing, and to maximize the profit (and you can be sure the greedy nvidia tries do this) it will be launched later when all enthusiasts have already bougth the GTX 1080. So they buy two.
 
unless they are really afraid of Vega. But I don't think so.

The number cruncher
 
73 cores and a Titan X in oil submerged and passiv cooled
 

 
 
Yes, my friend, it is as exorbitant as it sounds!
My last build was highly focused on single thread performance and it works perfect for this workloads: Link here.
However, I came across situations where I needed a considerable amount of compute power. As these workloads can be parallelized without a significant penalty, I developed a need for this number cruncher. Also I will use if for F@H during the night.
My first attempt was to use two E5-26xx v3 Xeons with the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard. But it turned out to be way to expensive. Therefor I downgraded to two E5-2680 v1 Xeons on a Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard. As I saved a lot of money on the CPUs and the memory, I was able to include a Xeon Phi 31S1P. MATLAB is able to take advantage of the “automatic offload” feature to seamlessly integrate the Xeon Phi and boost the performance. I won’t write programs for the Phi by myself.
For the GPUs I will use one or two of the upcoming Polaris / Pascal line-up depending on the performance and price. I’m tending towards Polaris, but I have not enough information to decide.
 
This leads me to the part list:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
 
As you probably know, I have an addiction to passive cooling. This time around I tried to get rid of the heat pipes. They are expensive and vulnerable. Also I'm lacking the appropriate tools to make a CPU block out of copper. Mounting the GPUs directly to the heat sinks proved itself as a good solution. Sadly, this is not feasible for the CPUs.
So I will use two Noctua NH-U12DX i4 cooler. But now I have to get rid of the fan somehow. This is certainly possible if you look at the definition of fan:
 
 
 
Source : http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fan
 
So be filling the box up with mineral oil, I’m not only getting rid of the noise. There are no fans left in the build by applying this definition
However, the build is not completely passive cooled, as the cooling used needs about 3 watts. But considering the total power this is negligible. So I will call it passive cooling. Also the oil itself is passive cooled.
 
More renderings:
 
 
 
 
Update 1: Super loud coil whine
 
Update 2: Design finalized
 
Update 3: Xeon Phi
 
Update 4: Vapor chamber
 
Update 5: 40 kg heat sinks
 
Update 6: 73 cores, 450 watts, 846 GFlops
 
Update 7: How to submerge a HDD
 
Update 8: It realy hurts doing this!
 
Update 9: Moved the build across a lake
 
Update 10: Assembly
 
Update 11: Filled the PC with 40 liter of oil!
 
Update 12: Finished: Pictures and summary!
 

those hot pockets will do 4k video editing perfectly fine, no worries.

AMD's HUGE Announcement - the Best Value Ever??
 
 
But this is what actually happened -
 
 

Note: If this was posted in the wrong section, I apologise and request it be moved to the right one.
 
For @LinusTech & @nicklmg
 
Like the title says... if you can get access to a NUC6i7KYK Skull Canyon NUC. Give it a go in terms of Gaming (both using Iris Pro iGPU and possibly using a Razor Core (again if feasable)) and Content Creation capabilities (for like on the fly at events and such).
 
Really interested in seeing your view on it...

I'm pretty excited for this. Could be possible one of the most compact gaming solutions ever.