Xineas

- Update 8 - Time for an update, it's been a busy week. Putting in the last lights in the bottom floor and putting in a floor. I then used a flat blade to get rid of some bumps and what not, I believe it's called planing the surface. Correct me if I'm wrong. It's getting cold in my workspace now that's winter is coming, so I won't be spending hours and hours there, but I'm sure an update every week should be no problem.

- Update 7 - New phone and thus new camera with wider angle lens. I guess the pictures are sharper, maybe? Ground floor ceiling joists are all up, just need to add some lights in the hallway and mechanical room and then it's ready for a the second floor.

lol. No I'm not an ice cream fan at all, I don't eat it much. I get them in bags of 1000. As Samson said, stores like Wal-Mart sell them, but unfortunately we don't have anything like that here, so I order them online. Nope I'm not studying anything at the moment, I'm working fulltime as I was offered a permanent position a couple years ago. Gotta pay the bills. I guess you could say I do like engineering and I have been thinking on doing a study in that field. I've taught myself quite a few skills just by watching videos and trial and error and I like making things or fixing things, but I don't see myself becoming a handyman. My current job doesn't stimulate my creativity much and I know I can do more, but I just haven't found the right study that tickles my fancy or floats my boat, so to speak. I'm always open to suggestions. Thanks for the continued support everyone! I'll post another update later this week, got a lot going on this week.

I had these warm white LEDs laying around from a previous project, didn't feel like buying new ones as I have about 80 laying around still. They're powered by a 9V AC to DC converter, but you can power them off of a 9V battery if necessary I suppose. There are 3 LEDs in series, with a 180 Ohm resistor and a switch.

- Update 6 - And then there was light. I figured I'd try my skills on the little overhang since it's easily accessible and it ended up working great. They're not super bright, but when it's dark they light up just enough to see everything. Doing the ceiling was a pain in the rear end, so I ended up turning the whole thing on it's side so slap the sticks on the ceiling without them falling off seconds later.

Yup, LEDs throughout wired up with switches so you can light up individual rooms. I've been testing for a while but I have a general idea of what I want to do.

- Update 5 - Finishing up the wall cladding on the downstairs. The room in the far corner is a mechanical room sort of thing and will have no interior cladding. That will also be the room where all the wiring for the lighting will come together. In the front you'll see some cantilevered sticks sticking out to carry the bay that sticks out on the floor above.

- Update 4 - Thanks for the continued support guys, here's another update. Finishing up the stairs and cladding some more walls.

- Update 3 - Time for more inside wall cladding, but first some stairs have to go in. Putting them in after the fact would be a pain.

Haha can't disagree with that. These wannabe birch wood sticks can be quite a pain in the ass to work with. They're pretty easy to bend and none of them are perfectly straight to begin with. I may try to improve my headers by actually plying some sticks and letting it rest on the jack studs like they should, but then again, it's not like it's actually carrying a whole lot of weight. The glue holds it all together surprisingly well.

Thanks for the encouragement guys! The wooden sticks themselves are pretty cheap, the glue sticks are actually the biggest expense. Painting is not my strong suit tbh, I might sand it and give it a coat of clear varnish or what not. Definitely true. Can't say my girlfriend likes the project, as it does take quite a bit of time.

- Update 2 - Interior walls going up, garage is first. Last picture is a view from the outside. Tidied up the electrical on the back wall, no more cables running all over.

- Update 1 - The base has been cut from a piece of scrap wood I had lying around and I also made a jig to make my life easier when building the wall sections. Floorplan is transferred to the base plate with pencil marks. Walls are up for the ground floor, which ended up surprisingly straight. All walls get a double top plate for solidity and strength. And yes, I do have plans to clean up my workbench and finish the electrical work. Closeup of the hallway looking through the front door. Questions, comments and ideas are welcome as always.

Howdy folks, Back when I lived with my parents I was working on a popsicle stick house, but I had to get rid of it since there was no space to put it in my new apartment. Now that I have a workbench in my shed, I can finally do some building projects I've been wanting to do for a while and a popsicle stick model house is one of them. Building and designing things from scratch is a hobby I guess, it helps me clear my head and allows me to be creative. Along the way I'm gonna take pictures and I figured I'd make a post here to have others enjoy my project, get feedback and comments, ideas, etc. I'm building this to a 1:24 scale, kinda, I think. 1 inch = 2 feet. I use the metric system on a daily basis, better yet, I don't even have a ruler with inches on it. Anyways, 4cm is about a meter and building with wooden popsicle sticks is not that accurate anyway. A fully built wall is about 4.5 inches tall, so 9 ft, which I believe is a decent ceiling height. All doors are 3.5 inches tall, which translates to 7 ft. I intend on putting LED lighting in this house and powering them off of little solar panels I will stick to the roof. I guess it would also be fun to get a small LCD screen, say 2 inches diagonally and use that as a miniature TV that can actually display something. Just my imagination running wild here. I've got LEDs laying around somewhere, plenty of resistors, heat shrink and thin gauge wire. I know electronics basics, so should be able to get some lights working. As a base I'll be using a 3/4" (18mm) piece of particle board and I'm glueing it all together with a hot glue gun and a shitload of those glue cartridges. As far as design goes, I used SketchUp to mock up a model of what I intend to make. This is subject to change though as the build progresses and ideas flow through my head. It's a modern build, I guess. My idea with this build was a house on a hill, where the back of the house is pretty much against the hill with a steep slope front to back. This picture resembles my idea somewhat. Ground floor consists of a 2 car garage and on the right from front to back: entry with stairs going up, hallway, utility room/storage room. Upper floor has stairs coming up on the bottom right to a landing, gap in the wall to a kitchen/living area, two bedrooms and a bathroom up top. Above this floor is an attic space, which could be a home office or guest bedroom of sorts. Comments and ideas are always welcome of course. I'll be updating the thread with pictures as the build progresses.

AFAIK color accuracy is handled by the output capabilities of your monitor. Any modern computer can output colors in whichever way you set it in the operating system, but most monitors have a 'limited' range of displayable colors.

Why exactly would you want to do dual quad cores? What kind of application are you using it for? What kind of budget do you have? Where are you located?

Either get a K series processor with that Z170 board such as the i5-6600K, or don't waste money on a Z170 board and get a B150/H110/H170 board if you're not going to overclock. Apart from that, looks solid.

You want a relatively beefy PSU, say 600W+ minimum, those Xeons are pretty hungry under load and you need the 8-pin CPU power plug for that motherboard, which you won't find on lower wattage models anyways. Make sure the motherboard has a PCI-E slot for your graphics card. Couldn't see it from the pictures on the link, don't have my glasses on either anyway. RAM wise you're looking at DDR3-1066 I believe. Should be able to hunt down a bunch of 2GB sticks and load up all slots. Coolers I would get some basic towers, maybe older coolermaster or noctua units if available.

This is a decent base to build upon, you can add a better CPU cooler at a later stage and add a graphics card for better gaming performance when X-mas comes. Power supply is not the best quality, but as long as you get one with a grey text label and not a green text label (see pictures in link for reference), it's fine. PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/psMgbj CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($235.98 @ DirectCanada) Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($73.98 @ DirectCanada) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($44.99 @ Newegg Canada) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg Canada) Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Newegg Canada) Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.98 @ NCIX) Total: $504.91 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-31 16:46 EDT-0400

Correct, keep the 980ti for more CUDA cores, unless you want to spend another 200 to get a 1080. The reference coolers are loud af. Get a board partner card with a dual fan or triple fan config, those are not nearly as noisy. Here's a EVGA G2 PSU: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ/evga-power-supply-220g20650y1

You now have a micro ATX board, which fits in almost any case. If you're willing to skip the cup holder, there is the Corsair Carbide 400Q. It does only hold 2 3.5" drives, but it has good looks (IMO) and plenty of fan configurations with dust filters and ticks the other boxes. And available in Suomi Finland for around 100 heavily taxed €. Vitun 24% alv... http://www.corsair.com/en/carbide-series-quiet-400q-compact-mid-tower-case http://www.aquatuning.fi/detail/index/sArticle/20632 <- I believe these guys are based in Germany 93,77€ https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/Show/117754/cc-9011082-ww/corsair-carbide-400q-quiet-atx-miditornikotelo 109,90€ As far as other new components goes: Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON ATX (159,90€) https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/17018/gvfsv/MSI-Z170A-GAMING-PRO-CARBON-Intel-Z170-LGA1151-ATX-emolevy CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad Core (271,90€) https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/61915/gbcmn/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-3-5-GHz-LGA1151-suoritin RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2133MHz (83,90€) Your DDR3 doesn't work with the LGA1151 motherboards. https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/26095/gtjvm/Kingston-HyperX-FURY-DDR4-2133-MHz-CL14-16-Gt-muistimodulipa Totals 515 euro's or so.

Looking good, pics aren't working for me, but it makes sense. Make sure you get enough airflow over the motherboard and other components as well, just have some silent fans blow over them from 1 side to the other, that should do the job. Sounds like a great project, good luck!

My two cents: PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/74kbKZ CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($56.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($36.99 @ Newegg) Storage: OCZ TRION 150 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SC GAMING Video Card ($259.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.91 @ Newegg) Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND PCI-Express x1 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter ($17.08 @ OutletPC) Total: $735.41 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-29 15:29 EDT-0400

i5 paired with 1060, and an SSD as a bonus. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/2nxRvV CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($56.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($36.99 @ Newegg) Storage: OCZ TRION 150 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SC GAMING Video Card ($259.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.91 @ Newegg) Total: $699.33 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-28 18:10 EDT-0400

I recently got two Sapphire HD6970 cards, but they're the blower style cards and they're loud af and they barely fit in my case anyways. I had an ATX motherboard laying around, new in box, because I bought it 3 or so years ago, not realizing my case only fit a micro-ATX. Having recently installed a Linksys WRT56G in the shed to get some internet there, I started planning to move the Folding rig to the shed. There it can be as loud as it has to be without bothering me. Mounting an ATX board to the wall: I used these little hammer-in M3 size nuts to get some mounting points: Mounting the Gigabyte Z77 board on the wall with the i7-3770 and RAM already installed: Using spacers behind the board to get the right distance from the wall, this is the result: Next up is the power supply, it gets a spot right underneath, little protection pads to avoid scratching the cover: Whatever gauge wire I had laying around to strap it in: Screwing some 120mm fans to the wall to get some airflow across the parts: An assortment of SSDs: Hooray, it is alive. Up next is mounting those heavy 6970s Ready for business. Tested and working correctly.