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  1. Summary Opera has recently posted a rather unique job opportunity on their website’s career page: They are offering a one-time cash payment of 5000$ to a single person, for them to play videogames on their new platform - GX.games - and provide feedback. Cringe name aside, that’s pretty good! Luckily, you can spare yourself the humiliation of trying to build a Gaming CV. You simply need to: The focus here is their “GX.games” platform, which hosts a variety of browser-based games made by small and emerging indie developers. The challenge ends on July 7th, and only one person will be selected for this program. The selected person will then be tasked to play on GX.games for a week, share feedback, and will be paid 5000$ to do so. My thoughts Remember Newgrounds? Is Opera trying to make New-Newgrounds? Would anybody be willing to take bets on whether this will end up making more money than Epic Games Store? Sources Opera job openings https://jobs.opera.com/p/fdeef94eff19-the-best-summer-job-only-for-true-gamers
  2. That's not the point. The point is that 50 before got you this Today 50 gets you this Spot the differences
  3. I think people who complain about modern prices haven't tried building systems 5 years ago. You have no idea how bad it was. Back in the day, one of the best under 50 offers was the Fractal Design Core 1000. It's crap, and it was crap even back in the day. Didn't even cover basic functionality like, oh I don't know, cable management holes. Any half-decent case would cost you at least 70-80. Fancy would be easily over 100. Meanwhile today under 50 you can find cases like the Antec DP501, which comes with all the basic functionalities and even a good amount of fancy. Today, at 70-80+ you get full-on fancy.
  4. The included Nidec fans are a genius idea. For anyone wondering, Nidec fans = (Scythe) Gentle Typhoons. These fans are NOT cheap, they're very sought after from cooling enthusiasts, and are top of the line in quality and performance. You want RGB? You sell them (they go for a significant amount of money), and with the money you raise you buy whatever kind of RGB you want. You don't want RGB? You keep them, and you don't need to upgrade fans because you already have some of the best in the market. Seasonic leaves the choice to you, while at the same time helping you a lot with whatever choice you make. Hard to say if this was actually intended, but it is brilliant regardless. I'm amazed that such a well designed case is coming from a company that has never delivered a case to market before. If anyone from SS is reading, you guys might actually have a serious talent for designing cases. Not my cup of tea (I like small stuff), but if I were into bigger ATX cases I'd be buying it right now.
  5. Sorry for the long disappearance. It was completed, but not without a lot of challenges, a lot of revisions, and a lot of personal drama. Here's the final pics: Older pics of the previous revision and some hint of battlestation: Devotion Beta. I had to disregard some objectives I had in the beginning, like the RGBW cables. But I'm very happy to have reached one of the main objectives which was to stuff a fully overclocked, high end system in a Shift X without turning into a fusion energy experiment Final specs: - Intel 9900K @ 5ghz rock solid - Asus Z390 Strix ITX - 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM - Nvidia RTX 2080 - Corsair SF750 Power supply - Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB SSD - Phanteks Shift X Case Cooling: - 4x Delta AFB1212SH fans, 1x PC Cooler Corona 120 fan - Watercool Heatkiller CPU block, GPU block, Reservoir - EK DDC pump - HWLabs Nemesis GTS 120 + 240 radiators - Barrow fittings - EK ZMT tubing Other / Accessories: - ADT third party riser for Phanteks Shift & Shift X - EVGA Powerlink for GPU - Initially MDPC-X Carbon BTI sleeving on cables, then made new cables with Silver-plated FEP transparent wires - Full set of stainless steel countersunk screws with black aluminium washers
  6. Bitwit's video is a good explanation. Wire size in sleeved cables actually makes a decent difference, but not really in performance or electrical power: it's more about aesthetics. Thicker wire = thicker looking sleeved cable = more rigid, more malleable Thinner wire = thinner looking cable and/or looser looking sleeve = has a tendency to not be trainable, and go wherever it wants like overcooked spaghetti I personally use 15AWG with big fat MDPC-X sleeve, you can basically give those cables a sharp almost 90° bend and they'll stick to it
  7. UPDATE #3: Some more details, some more pics. Waiting for 2 last parts. So, some more quick things that I did was painting black a couple pieces: GPU PCI-E bracket, AIO bracket, and Light Bars. It's actually my first time trying to paint something, while not professional it turned out decent I think! Got to make more pics while the system was disassembled, and I took the time to finish up the fan cables to make them invisible. PS: both my setup and skills in taking pictures is still not really impressive, so I'm trying to get the hang of doing some manual color correction. If anyone reading knows more than me about this, feel free to share your opinion And finally, back to fully assembled. Goddamn reflections, I'll have to deal with them for the next round of pics. Now just waiting on a couple RGB fans, and new black thumbscrews for the AIO to substitute those dark nickel ones. NEXT: GRAN FINALE
  8. It's noticeable but not incredible. It is specially noticeable on some games that take forever to load - but only some, not everyone. For example my laptop has 500gb NVMe but Battlefront 2 still takes forever to load because of the CPU If money is not an issue, yeah go for it. 1tb nvme is very nice.
  9. I've tried both, they're solid. Known pumps like DDC/D5 are probably more reliable. But here's a hint: for the same price, you can buy 2 chinese pumps. And 2 chinese pumps are more reliable together than one single Laing pump
  10. The difference in numbers in huge, but for gaming and home use it's not that big of a difference. It becomes a huge difference if you make really heavy use of your SSD, but that's not the case for most people. I personally consider it a luxury, get it only if the extra money isn't a big deal for you. If your budget is strict, bigger size > nvme
  11. You can test your drive with an utility called HD Tune until you've seen the SMART readings you won't know if it's bad, might just be Windows being Windows I still fully agree with the 1TB SSD, get it anyways. Get a higher frequency kit of memory. On Amazon.de there's 16GB of Corsair or HyperX kits @3000+ mhz for 80-90-100€ depending on the offer. Your PSU can probably take the upgrades. A better PSU is always nice, but I would keep the priority low. It's worth taking a picture of the label of your PSU, some prebuilts actually have pretty high quality suppliers for those. Depending on your case the D15S might not fit. It's pretty damn huge. Your CPU isn't bottleneck, it's ideal that the GPU is always at 100% during a game, that is the component that you want being taxed the most. For the GPU, unless you get the 1070 Ti used or at an amazing price, you might find better prices for the current offerings: 1660 Ti, 2060, 2070 Also, since you're in Germany: www.geizhals.de. Thank me later
  12. I've used his same materials to build cables in the past, mistakes like that are rare but it can happen sometimes. Contact him and I'm very sure he'll help you out
  13. They're a solid budget offering. Not high end, but great if you don't want to go to an artisan using MDPC-X where you can expect a very high price.
  14. I'd go with a 240 AIO, or a very big air cooler. The View 71 is H U G E and you really want to try to fill it up as much as you can, otherwise it'll look kinda weird. If you can fit in the budget, I've had a good experience with the Asrock Steel Legend B450 board (the mini-ATX version, there's also in standard ATX). I'd also argue that it looks better than the MSI. I've heard meh things about the MSI Armor coolers, but the RX 580 itself is great. I'd recommend maybe going with another cooler style, if you want to stick to MSI they've also got better models. PS: I just saw that you're planning on buying in like 4-5 months. Don't bother looking at prices and components now, everything will be completely different by the time you begin.
  15. The AIO on the GPU is a good idea. It's also the component that benefits most from water. The D15 won't fit in there but there's a lot of other big coolers that will. You could also go double AIO, no shame in that. Could consider a couple Fractal Design Celsius, as they can be daisy chained together. To be completely honest Custom WC is a challenge on its own and I'd recommend you to at least finish your first system and getting more comfortable with tinkering before going there.
  16. That Barrow M.2 block together with the monoblock makes for a surprisingly sweet combo on there
  17. Nice! Will be following I don't see any cable cutouts, do you have any plans for those? I'm still surprised at how popular that mod you're inspired by became. Just to show that simple and elegant will always win
  18. UPDATE #2: Fan cables & LED's in the works Work has been slow but steady. I'm currently doing all the splitter cables for fans, LED's and the sorts. They still have to be sleeved of course! It is a massive work but it's very important - using as less space as possible for cables is top priority for maximizing airflow. Here's where some of the addressable LED's will go, these will light up the cables from the bottom. And this is a rough idea of how they'll turn out. These are not the cables for the project, but I'm thinking about going with this same color scheme (Carbon BTI + Transparency) This is a rough idea of how the back will be cable managed. I also had this chinese RGB controller that I though of using, but it was HUGE So I pried it open... ... And burned the Bluetooth controller trying to desolder those green cable clamps, LOL. WELL, I guess I'll take the opportunity to do something I've been wanting to try for a while. Using a Raspberry! It will arrive around next week so we'll see about that. I also ended up upgrading to a Corsair SF750 Platinum And I was able to fit another fan on the bottom, for a 120 push/pull. Can't have enough fans in here. Another issue is these fan screws that have to be trimmed. I'm using M4's and they either come in sizes 30mm or 35mm. 30mm is too short and won't screw in the rad. 35mm is too long and will hit on the fins before screwing in all the way. These are stainless steel, it's not easy to cut. I'm gonna have to figure out some way. In the pic you can also see some black aluminium columns that I got to cover up the screw thread. I think it looks really cool! And finally, this is how I'm ending up with the fan configuration. It's all negative pressure, and the air will be sucked in from the whole of the back. NEXT: Finished secondary cables, installing the hardware and doing the main cables!
  19. UPDATE #2 - Fractal Design steps in! Finally we deal with the AIO and the fans! Thanks to Fractal Design for supporting the project and sponsoring one of their Celsius S24 AIO's + SIX Venturi HP-14 fans! The Celsius S24 is a 240mm AIO tailored for silence, with a couple tricks up its sleeve. It's an Asetek-based AIO, but unlike most others it's expandable - the fittings on the radiator can be unscrewed, making it possible to daisy chain multiple Celsius units. This is actually pretty cool, as it makes it possible to easily build a "whole system" AIO that also covers a GPU, or even multiple CPU/GPU systems. It comes with 2x Dynamic fans that are good quality and static-pressure oriented. This makes quite a difference on AIO's, since aluminium radiators are usually high in fin density and will struggle with low quality and low static pressure fans. It definitely fits much better on the system, compared to the one I had previously! There are also no writings/marks on the side of the radiator, unlike some of the units that I saw in Youtube reviews. The Venturi series is Fractal Design's top end, silence and static-pressure oriented line of fans. They come in both 120 and 140 size, and either with black or white blades. These are black 140's.... I asked for 3 of them but got 6 lol, so I guess you'll see the rest in other future projects! Now let's be clear - I'm very picky with fans, as I've been spoiled by the ridiculous power and quality of server-grade fans. High quality fans make a huge difference in cooling, whether you are on air or on water - and quality isn't just a fancy hydrodinamic bearing or the design of the blades. You get a great fan when you don't cheap out on motor, plastics, and when your manifacturer can work under tight tolerances. I'm definitely satisfied with the Venturi's. They have the heft and the weight that I expect from a high quality fan - yes, you can judge a fan by it's weight. Deltas start at around 250g for a 120. The blades have just the right amount of play, and when powered on they are very well balanced with absolutely no oscillations. They're VERY silent, while moving a lot of air. And here's the result: PS: you know it's good fans when you touch them by mistake and they cut you. Don't try it with Deltas though. NEXT: Finishing touches and fancy pictures!
  20. UPDATE #1 - Overclocking & Stability, other updates. Sorry for the delay with the updates! While the system was working out of the box, testing revealed that it wasn't stable at all. I went a bit further with the physical modding, but the system's stability has been my main focus for the past few weeks. I had a nasty combination of issues, and I had to invest some time into learning more about the board, the Ryzen platform in general and overall memory tuning to make it work well. 1) This RAM kit's XMP has weird timings, isn't tuned at all for Ryzen (specially 1° Gen), and wasn't stable at all. 2) This board looks great, has really cool features, BUT... OC settings and defaults are not really amazing. It has the tendency to go really hard on voltage: default SOC is around 1.1v, and default VDDP is 1.05v. 3) 1° Gen Ryzen IMC is very picky, so it made all of the above even more of a headache to stabilize. After much learning and tweaking I was able to get 3000mhz 16-16-16-16-36 stable, with decently tight secondary timings. Considering that this is b-die (although meh b-die), I definitely could've done better in frequency. But this already took wayyyy more time than I expected, and since this isn't my computer in the end I give full priority to great long-term stability over slightly better performance. SOC voltage is 0.95v with auto (low) LLC, DDR4 is at 1.35v, and VDDP is at 0.95v. BGS/BGS-alt, power-down and gear-down are disabled - with CR at 1T. Currently testing all of this with a 4ghz CPU overclock, at 1.375v looks stable so far. Passed 30K% memory coverage with 0 errors. I don't consider the usually recommended 3K/6K% passing to be an indication of good stability - at least not enough for customers. I've often had settings fail at 8K/11K%, but anything that is over 15-20K% looks to be able to go forever with no issues and I'd consider it close enough to JEDEC-level stability. I also want to give a massive shoutout to Karhu Software's RAM Test. All of this wouldn't have been possible without his software. This thing is absolutely amazing and will drastically decrease testing time - which is VITAL if you're doing some serious RAM tinkering and want to be done with it before your platform becomes obsolete. This 2 week's work would have easily taken me 2 months with HCI. It's paid software, but worth every penny. Consider purchasing his RAM Test utility at: https://www.karhusoftware.com/ramtest/ Aside from that - I also went a bit further with the modding, although it's not complete yet. I've built and installed some UV light bars, and look absolutely stunning! Still not 100% final as I want to fix them better to the case and paint the frame in black. The Jonsbo M.2 heatsink has also arrived. You can see it installed in the pictures of the system right above. There's more: new fans and a new AIO incoming, courtesy of a special supporter that will be unveiled when everything arrives I'm waiting for those to finish the last sleeved cables. And well, I've also modified a bit the photo setup with some fancy vinyl marmor. Should make any future pics look a bit better than my old brutalized table, what do you think? NEXT: New fans & AIO!
  21. Still looking for deals. Both of those would look great, but they cost so much that they defeat the point of squeezing the budget (the PC is made with 650€).
  22. Man I agree so much, I got it for really cheap but it's such a punch in the face to the rest of the system. I have to change it lol.
  23. An all-AMD budget system, made with care and attention to detail. Sponsored by Fractal Design. Made with by Enter Plasma.Main Features:Fully custom sleeved system, with MDPC-X Haze Grey & Code RedCustom light bars with UV LED'sMaximum price/performance and budget squeezingHardware List:CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (@3.8ghz 1.35v, SOC @ 0.95v)GPU: Sapphire AMD RX 580 4GB PulseMotherboard: Asrock B450M Steel LegendRam: Kingston HyperX Predator (@ 3000mhz 16-16-16-16-36 CR1)SSD: Crucial P1 500GBPSU: FSP Hyper S 600WCase: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini TGCooling / Accessories:AIO: Fractal Design Celsius S24Fans: Fractal Design Venturi HP-14 & Dynamic X2Jonsbo M.2 HeatsinkCustom Stuff:Stainless Steel Screws + Alu WashersSleeved Cables - MDPC-X Haze Grey & Code Red, with Alphacool Eiskamm Alu red cable combs.UV Light BarsTwister Mod Stickers (Fans) First Pics:
  24. Some motherboards support that but I'm VERY sure yours doesn't. It's a feature called "PCI-E bifurcation" and it's usually found on fancy/ITX/workstation/server motherboards. Needs also a very expensive riser. Really no way to do it home made either.
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