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  1. KickAHobo
    I spend a decent amount of PC time watching videos (PC based multi-room entertainment). I'd like to save my Graphics cards and their fans as much as possible. I hover around 50 degrees on the working GPU while streaming youTube. my question is do you think that temperature for a few to several hours a day will have a significant effect on my card? What's worse; the frequent on/off of the fan to the motors, or the constant 50ish degrees when streaming video to the GPU itself? Should I just run the fans low constantly? Is the starting/stopping of the fan bad for it? Worse for example than running it constantly? Can I just replace the fans if they die but the GPU is still fine? should I run quad SLI titan QUADROs? Discuss. TLDR: Is 50 degrees on GPU a problem over long term?(Steaming video, fan off)
  2. KickAHobo
    What does the LTT community think of the computers that schools and offices use for general computing. I'm thinking of the Dell Optiplex but anything like a mass produced cheap pc is what I mean. Are they total crap? I saw one for around $150. When I priced out parts for a super cheap but still ok internet machine build it came out to $250.
  3. KickAHobo
    I was looking into this option for building a computer for old ppl who only want to check the weather, email and look at their grandkids on FB (jk)/ my parents and aunts/uncles. I planned out a descent system for $250 without windows.
  4. KickAHobo
    ** videos removed ** Likes and comments as well as subs are appreciated. thanks.
  5. KickAHobo
    Here is what i am thinking.
  6. KickAHobo
    Oh I didn't realize when watercooling the IHS is removed and the cpu is literally submerged in flowing water.
  7. KickAHobo
    But the oil in direct contact with the cpu might be more efficient than the heat having to move through the IHS and water block
  8. KickAHobo
    I'm picturing the oil is not free flowing but in a closed loop.
  9. KickAHobo
    Though if the seal is reliable using water directly on the IHS might be worth looking into.
  10. KickAHobo
    It would be an open hose or more likely a little chamber sealed against the socket or mobo with an inlet and outlet for oil to flow over, in direct contact with, the cpu. The hot oil is taken away and cooled.
  11. KickAHobo
    Mineral oil
  12. KickAHobo
    I have a neat idea.(famous last words) what if we could use mineral oil in a sealed system which encases just the cpu socket of the mobo. Heat from the cpu goes directly into the oil which can be run through rads or something else crazy. No blocks or heat pipes.
  13. KickAHobo
    I had a brain fart when I first built my PC. I had it connected to my living room TV for Netflix and couch gaming and whatnot. I shut it down from the tv one day and the next day with the tv on cable input I was trying to turn on my PC. Surprise surprise blank screen. I tried things for a couple of hours eventually doing a fresh install of Windows. Only to realize right after that I was outputting to the tv which was not on the pc input.
  14. KickAHobo
    http://www.144hzmonitors.com/monitors/asus-computex-2016-27-inch-4k-144hz-gaming-monitor/
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    http://www.144hzmonitors.com/monitors/asus-computex-2016-27-inch-4k-144hz-gaming-monitor/
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