jem.graham

with a charger and battery that old plus the machine most likely having the means to prevent the system from charging in the event of a weird charging state (like being 10 years old) then yeah that'll be a tough one to solve without a new battery and charger

Hello all! Long time LTT fan, new to the forum. I wanted to share my build, as it's really been a labor of love for the past month. I trash picked it from a local computer store in December, and it's come a long way since then.

It started life in 21 years ago 1995 with a 486dx2 running at a mind blistering 66mhz, with a massive 4mb ram, and 1mb video memory. The 3.5 floppy disk could hold a maximum data capacity of 1.44MB. As of a few days ago, it now has a an Intel i7 6700k running at 4.3ghz, 16GB's of 3000mhz ddr4 ram, and 8GB's video memory. The 3.5 floppy drive can read up to 512GB of data from a single diskette. This was not a plug & play build. Massive amounts of cutting, fabrication, welding, grinding, a filing were required. It was awesome.

Here's the full build with gifs for proper demonstrations of the floppy drive in action: http://imgur.com/a/fvh1M

 

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII GENE Micro ATX LGA1151
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 390 8GB
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

heatsinks can only cool down to the temperature of the  material being sinked into (air)
only TEC and phase change (which includes LN2 and DICE) can cool below ambient, which is pretty exotic and not practical for a 24/7 OC

I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.

i've seen worse (Intel Celeron and 980ti)

For a 970 you need a FX-6300(OCed to 4.5 or above minimum!) but a modern i3 or a older i5 will be a good match to!

You mean Apple Laptops (lol)

They took the DVD drives out of the computers at my school. Didn't put a cover over the hole in the front of the case though so people used it as a bin

Setting the wallpaper of a female colleague's PC to a photo of me.
 
It tickled me so much.

I went into the BIOS and turned off some SATA ports... The DVD drive was rendered useless. Fun times when teachers wanted to watch a movie

I once got the password to the bios of the pc's, It was just the school's name, I changed the fan speeds to be 100% all the time even at the teachers pc's as they would go away in pauses between lessons, they all freaked out and shit, I of course was a dick and once changed the headmasters fans to be 0% always, his PC would shut down all the time, It was really funny but they caught me once when doing it on the community pc's in the resting areas. was really funny, did get 3 weeks of full detention though.
 
(In the netherlands(on my school) full detention means that you need to stay till 5 o'clock every day and can't play outside in reces. I swear, that was so shit)

Thats crazy haha, I thought I was sneaky with my story, but some of these are just insane

When I was in high school, freshmen had to take a computer class. It was a bunch of typing, learning different formats for different types of things. All the graded assignments were just word documents that got submitted and graded by an automated program. One of my friends, who at the time was way more computer savvy than I am now (he would frequently send harmless little viruses to computers. Disk trays would open, monitors would go to sleep, etc), figured out that there was an account on the network with all the files that our assignments were graded against. That class soon turned into 5 minutes of copy/paste and 50 minutes of albinoblacksheep.com

Fake virus:
 
Be at school, two years ago
 
Wrote code in Notepad
 
@Echo off color 02 :start echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random% goto start   Upload Matrix.bat to school server   Set network to auto-launch program along with an auto shutdown message   shutdown -s -t 500 -c "Virus detected, Windows shutting down to prevent data loss"   Whole school freaks out   There are 500 students here

I once programmed an app that changed the desktop backgrounds to fullscreen desktop screenshots with porn tabs open in chrome, had waaay too much fun with it.

umm. VBS scripts that act like a virus

I was helping a friend with something via Teamviewer and i randomly open CMD and shuts off his pc... we were in a ts3 server and when he came back... oh man, he was mad..

Wikipedia has some interesting shit.

ABS is great. It keeps you form losing control over your car, iif you have to break hard.

Hey people, don't fucking buy it this time.

Windows Defender +MBAM is what I recommend served with a dose of common sense. Common sense is the best type of antivirus, generally only uncautious people get viruses (and old people)
Windows defender is called Security Essentials in 7 and below

Bitdefender Free doesn't do any pop up at all compare to the other free solutions. 

This, honestly. Apart from malwarebytes and adblocker i use nothing else for "security". You don't really need it unless you plan on going to shady sites. @jem.graham