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Raytheon

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About Raytheon

  • Birthday Mar 15, 1986

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  • Discord
    The fudge is a Discord?
  • Steam
    You can link it?
  • Origin
    I rose from the ashes.
  • UPlay
    NO UPlay!
  • Battle.net
    Please, Airsoft
  • PlayStation Network
    lol!
  • Xbox Live
    I'm not 16 any more.
  • Reddit
    Even I know not to go there.
  • Twitch.tv
    Raytheon I think.
  • Twitter
    Wrong generation.
  • Heatware
    Had to google that one.
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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Beyond the event horizon (London, GB)
  • Interests
    I'm in my 30's so all the same stuff as you ... just I can afford to do it.
  • Biography
    Jesus has been AFK for thousands of years, so God sent me.
  • Occupation
    Architect

System

  • CPU
    i9-9900k
  • Motherboard
    ROG Maximus XI Hero (WiFi)
  • RAM
    32gb Vengeance Pro RGB
  • GPU
    Asus ROG 2080 Strix OC
  • Case
    Corsair 500D RGB SE
  • Storage
    970 Evo + 3TB HD
  • PSU
    Corsair AX860i
  • Display(s)
    Generic Asus 1080p 28" + Vive VR Headset
  • Cooling
    Corsair H150i Pro RGB + LL120 x6
  • Keyboard
    Generic Amazon Thing
  • Mouse
    Razer Deathadder Elite
  • Sound
    Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 (in ear) + Dolby
  • Operating System
    Windows Millennium Edition ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°

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  1. Interjecting with my 2 cents, most likely already covered but I wish to add my voice weighed up against the near decade of viewership. Like any other company exposed as liars and the alleged abhorrent treatment of its female employees, I've voted with my feet and cut my ties with your platforms. For me to feel able to return Miss Reeve Allegations - Following the outcome of the investigation, if the allegations are found to be accurate, you should pay Madison significant damages, make a full visual public apology and sack those responsible, regardless of their standing in the company. Billet Labs scandal - The sheer unapologetic incompetence of this is astounding. There needs to be a full internal investigation, leading to significant compensation to Billet Labs for, one would assume, breach of contract, theft and a separate full visual public apology with those responsible sacked. Conflicts of interest / inaccuracies- The thinly veiled accusations of, call it what it feels like, 'trust me bro' to skew results, burns any trust I had to the ground. I expect this is an industry wide issue in most large tech reviewers. I'd like to see a full video series on the of top to bottom overhaul of testing, involving professionals, maybe even Steve from GN. Sponsorship needs to be overhauled in such a way that I feel able to believe and trust the information you present in a video. Take Linus off air - Linus needs to take a 6 month sabbatical away from tech, go work on his other projects and enjoy living, he needs it. Right now I sadly expect videos to return unapologetically to their previous cadence as if this whole saga never happened and I'm expecting future WAN shows with LLT / Linus gaslighting the community, Madison, GN and sponsors who cut ties. I sincerely hope to be wrong, Old LTT, the time before this scandal, must come to an end. I see what comes next as a start from the beginning.
  2. Everyone’s opinion will be different, for me this is the right call. To continue as a consumer of LTT content I need these allegations addressed with the seriousness they deserve. Monetising Maddison’s allegations would have been an abhorrent mistake.
  3. As far as I can ascertain as a disappointed 37 yo professional over dinner from reddit, twitter and GN, It's finally happened, you've come off the rails. LTTs reputation is a train wreck at the bottom of a burnt bridge. Serious sexual harassment allegations, questions on toxic work place culture, questions surrounding sponsorship ethics, accuracy. There's some sort of apology video, I'm not sitting through another Youtuber knee-jerk, it'll be nails on a chalk board in what ever light you tried to paint on the fire and you've all run off for a week to reflect. Good for you. WAN should be a single topic fixed show, unsponsored, hosted by Luke and Terren Tong where they talk through what has happened, address allegations and the GN video in full. Update and address the community, answer questions for as long as it takes to get through them all. Sorry but Linus needs to take an extended sabbatical and go and enjoy some of his other projects. LTT three years ago was a world leading force during Covid that spearheaded the Folding at Home charge to develop a vaccine, you've taught generations, including myself, how to build a computer, you've informed, educated and stood up for the user for a decade. This is your one and only wake up call, you need to rediscover this mojo, or call it a day whilst you are ahead.
  4. Last 24 hours or so WU's have been all over the place - bad work units, WU's taking an hour longer than normal, irregular temps and GPU utilisation, double the usual TPF and 230k points being returned as 30k ... Just seen there's a new v7.6.13 version of the F@H software c:\Hommerbackwardsintohedgememe\probablythat
  5. Some say that if you actually connect to 3.21.157.11 Magical Trevor will appear out of your modem and give you a leathery whip. *nostalgic 56k dial up sounds*
  6. Hey guys thanks were thanks is due, setting client-type "advanced" and next-unit-percentage "95" & danielocdh babysitting script working its magic along with a fresh install of the latest F@H client. The WUs are flowing again, much appreciated.
  7. I feel like the guy who just joined EVE and flew to Nullsec to mine Veldspar ... My WUs have hit a brick wall, enough to post here and ask if I've missed something. Not had a problem to date, client set up -apparently- properly, WU flow was good (as per stats below), then nothing since Saturday. Am I really not the One or should I ignore the Oracle and just be patient? Cheers guys i9990k / 2080 / F@H Client 7.5.1 Stats - https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=944813
  8. Answering the call to fight - i9-9900k / RTX 2080 OC - i7-4710 / GTX 980 - i7-6920HQ / Radeon 455 Two Steps From Hell wrote Magika for this moment
  9. JULY 2019 update: I've learned a good lesson this week - Small drives are small. When you're filling up a parts list with your rapidly depleting savings, 256gb is a lot softer on the wallet than 1tb, especially when the box is already full of £1000 shiny things. In a giant surprise to literately nobody, it's taken Windows Update ... and Adobe Creative Cloud, Autocad Suite, my entire picture library and not at all DCS World 4 months to max out the diddy 256gb M.2 970 Evo. Opps. Prime Day to the rescue with a 60% off 1tb 860 Evo in the back along side the 500gb 860 from build. Cheaping out on the storage was one of the few corners I cut and It's unsurprisingly come back to bite. That financial balancing act is hard but a small drive will write off a future afternoon enjoying a tare down, a reminder of the mess you made of cable management and a fresh windows boot. 2tb 970 on the Christmas list and maybe a Hydro X loop. Cheers, Ray
  10. RAYTHEON "A Celtic ray of sunlight" Hey folks, I'm Ray. Welcome to a 20 minute read about me nerding out over building my first dream PC. Bit about me first, I grew up in the countryside as a kid and got my first Amstrad computer when I was 14. Played and modded the original Operation Flashpoint (2002) from demo to death then headed out into the big wide world of work. Trained for and ran my own graphics business which accidentally became successful which moved to London. With the big 3-0 rocking up I decided to pack it all in and go to University to chase my dreams of becoming an Architect, 5 years later here I am! I've watched LTT since the early days back in the house, loved the old car park unboxings and liked to think Luke & Linus taught me how to build a computer - Linus's review of the monster Asus G751 laptop turned into my daily driver at Uni. Now I'm an "adult", I mean now that I can afford this stuff, the laptop is a worn out render rig, I needed a new baby and decided its time to put my money where my mouth is and build my first PC ... I'm just a middle aged nerd who's never built a PC before so 'knowing what I was doing' was key before I even started sourcing parts. I watched and re-watched build logs from all over Youtube and developed an idea of how it's done - and not done. PC Parts Picker made me want to cry for my bank account but in Fall 2018, a post here on the LTT forums for advice, both gave me some great help on a starting parts list and confidence I knew what I was talking about. Quickly realising I was about 1000 short in the finance department with Christmas approaching I postponed until 2019. March 19' arrived, the old laptop was close to copping it every time I opened a 3D model, it was time to purchase the replacement. Using PC Parts Picker as a base for sourcing the parts, I made sure to pre-contact sellers I'd never heard of (some small but excellent shops in England), made sure I was buying from the Uk and populated a painfully expensive Amazon list. Moved the finances into place and began buying. This is where I hit my first snag. My bank flagged my account for suddenly spending thousands and blocked my card. Kinda makes sense when you think about it but easy to overlook - tell your bank before you start to avoid a sweaty panic and agonising wait in a phone queue. I kept track of the purchases, costs and shipping dates for each item. Made sure to check three times a day and know exactly where everything was. When you're playing with this much money you kinda have to. This was snag number two. Someone stole my Corsair 500D RGB case from an Amazon warehouse in Marseille, France. They re-stuck the label to an empty box which was delivered to me late. Enough phone calls later to Amazon and getting far enough up the chain to talk to an American head of service they fully refunded me and I over-nighted a new 500D case from the Uk. Amazon is easy, but cover yourself, theft does happen. With a large stack of boxes and curious house mates wondering when my time machine would be built, it was time to open all the presents! I'm super fortunate to live in a modest Thames side apartment so rearranged the sitting room to build the rig right there with that epic view. Setting out boxes in build order, tool locations, light, laptop for guides, bins and trays I was ready. First job was to strip down the 500D case, take the doors off and remove the Commander & Node Pro. For what ever reason I don't know, Corsair glued and 3M taped both units to the bottom of the case. When your a bit butter fingers being delicate at the start of a build the last thing you want to be doing is wrenching at a core part. After an hours battle with an old soapy credit card both were freed and set aside. From there it was pretty simple. Having a play-list already set up on the laptop of installation guides for each step, videos I'd watched many times over, I found I already knew my way around the hardware. Installed the H150i radiator first to get comfortable in the build and then moved onto the mobo. Something I did find whilst building was after years of watching LTT videos, the hardware in real life is actually a bit smaller than I realised. Weird point but valid. Felt smug using the mobo box as a stand and pushed myself through opening up and installing the i9 in the housing. It'd be too easy to make a 'careful not to drop it' joke but years of watching just that made me take extra care and place a towel around the bench, just in case I was a muppet. The M.2 970 Evo was simple to install, though a bit taxing making sure I didn't drop a screw. The Ram wasn't so simple. I thought it'd be easy to just click in but actually it required more push than I was comfortable with giving. All 4 sticks did eventually give and click into place successfully, man did it look good! Mounting the Motherboard was a pain in the butt! Trying to line up well over a thousand pounds worth of hardware in your hands with metal sticks without scratching up the back was one of the hardest parts of the build. I MacGyvered some thin cable ties to act as guides and after a good hour of careful in and out, managed to seat the board - first try! Knowing how much thermal paste to apply was a thoughtful moment. I'd decided to be brave and apply Kryonaut over Corsairs packaged circle. In the end I went with a video from Der8auer who spread it evenly as to maximise the full contact potential of the surface. The PSU went in easily as did the SSD, can't really mess that up, the fans went in properly facing the right way and I ran all the wires loosely to where I wanted them to sit. A BIG issue I discovered was my knowledge shortfall on what wire went where and did what. The AX860i PSU came with a bag of wires and a guide which didn't help at all. Genuinely thought it was going to beat me and I spent a good 12 hours out researching and learning, going back through build guides to figure it all out. Know how to power your rig properly, trying to learn it on the fly is hard! The main mobo connector would not fit in the motherboard, turned out the ax860i is 24 pin "only" meaning it was a 20+4 something, I wasn't too confident here but with a bit of tinkering it seated and ultimately worked so fixed it. A dumb snag I hit whilst cable managing at 2am, I went to trim a cable tie and cut the head off a fan wire. Much cursing and another 30 quid later (Amazon redeeming itself with same day delivery) I was back on track, after a decent sleep. Top tip - go to bed ... or don't drink and tie! The 500D case has a tight cable management system at the back but for my first time I was quite proud how it came out. The graphics card was an absolute beast, much heavier and slightly panic inducing in length until I measured it. Probably should have checked that at the start, you noob. With the all important RGB light strips in place and the doors re-hung I carried my new baby into its final resting place in the studio. After an Oscar worthy performance removing the protective glass plastic, the wires were plugged in and it was moment of truth time. I wish I'd read the part in the PSU manual where it says it tests the connection before it starts fully ... As a grown man I might have screamed a little when it cut out briefly before powering up. I let myself have that one ... Scroll forward 4 months to today. This machine is OP. Drone Lidar footage used to generate 3D rendered models used to take 30 hours to process, this monster does it in 15 minutes! Ai overclocked at 5.1ghz its a silent whisper even at full chat, if I manage to get it there. Vive VR daily doesn't touch it and I've yet to really stretch its legs despite throwing bonkers architectural renders at it which would have straight up broken previous machines or anything in the main studio. Hiccups have happened. Updating the Bios required me to use the manual Bios / USB update in the rear of the board and it does like to BSOD if you don't keep on top of windows updates. I recently installed a V1 Tech backplate and GPU bracket as the card had a notable 1 degree of droop on the far end, fair seeing as it weighs more than a London Bus! Looking to the future I'm thinking Corsair Hydro X or EKWB, second 2080 when they drop in price (lol Super Cards) and I'm laser cutting a few custom parts for fan covers and the front filter. The rig is about to feature in an Architectural event showcasing VR technology and beyond that it'll be upgraded to keep it at the sharp end of fun. Thanks for inspiring, teaching and supporting this build LTT. Thanks to you a total novice nerd built his dream PC, that's a pretty decent victory. Cheers, Ray Raytheon Glory Video 1.mp4
  11. @LukeSavenije I see what you did there (and thanks, much more sensible). @Neftex On a time frame I'm afraid, need the box operational inside a month for an upcoming project.
  12. Hey folks, TL;DR Looking again for that LTT forum seal of approval™ (and advice) on a new 2019 gaming / light workstation £3k build, much appreciated. CPU: Intel - i9-9900K 3.6GHz 8-Core (£469.99) CPU Cooler: Corsair - H150i PRO (£136.99) Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (Wifi) ATX LGA1151 Mobo (£295.99) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32gb (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Ram (£290.48) Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1tb M.2-2280 SSD (£154.81) Video Card: Asus - ROG STRIX RTX 2070 8gb Video Card (£582.64) Power Supply: Corsair - 860w 80+ Platinum Fully-Modular ATX PSU (£179.99) Case: Corsair - Crystal 570X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (£169.99) Fans: Corsair - HD120 RGB 3-Pack w/Controller 120mm (£58.75 x2) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows Millennium Edition 32-bit (° ͜ʖ ͡°) Total: £2493.30 (+ VR Vive £500) August last year, with great advice from @Taf the Ghost and others here, we came up with a £3000 ($3850) light workstation / gaming build. Chose to hold off purchase until after RTX / i9-9900K and mobo refresh, hence back with updated list. Even on an Architects wage a 2080 is still expensive, at least I can save on heating costs with the i9. The Corsair fanboying is unintentional and single storage is enough as will add SSD space per project requirements. Original post text ( https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/964012-architect-2018-build-advice/) "I'm an Architect and old boy gamer based in London, GB with £3000 ($3850). This will be my first full build but I'm confident in my skill level. Aim is for a middling prosumer rig - General 3D work (Sketchup/Rhino/AutoCAD) & light rendering, full Adobe suite with amateur video work, maximum VR & gaming. This will be my home rig, Quadro's are at work hence consumer GFX. Probably run two 27" Asus MX279h 1080p monitors (I have one, I like it), these, cablemod cables and other peripherals I'll handle outside the build cost. Will look to upgrade year on year to keep the rig sharp, eg a second gfx card, water cooling, etc." As always cheers you awesome people Ray
  13. @Taf the Ghost Hey bud, After a little learning homework looking up your list and having a solid think, you've got it nailed there. Thinking OC the chip on water and liquid metal (delid) on the x299-XE board to keep temps down and then save up for another 32gb kit to add in later on. I suppose its just a waiting game now to see how the 2080 / i9-9900K / x299 refresh pans out in the run up to Christmas. Black Friday is going to be a busy one this year! Cheers for the help, hopefully I'll link you to a build log when it comes! Ray
  14. @Taf the Ghost Good shout! Spent time today looking up Adobe & Autodesk suite core usages, the general consensus being (for my level of work) multi-core but pointless beyond 6 - 8 with recommendation being to spend money on ram and ssd over cores. (Unless heavy rendering which was more the merrier / 3D models being more ram based over cpu hence 64gb future upgrade). So it'd come down to higher clock speed vs more cores? Thinking single largish M.2 boot + suites with SSD project storage. Nice spot on the PSU (+£160ish), my budget is flexible to a few hundred if needed. Cheers for the reply, really got me thinking, thanks! @Jurrunio Thanks bud, 3200 seems to be peoples sweet spot for DDR4 and folks saying its harder to push to full clocks? Do love the shiny but I fancy dipping a toe in the RGB, see how it looks. Want to see if I can pull off making lightning controllers work (BS excuse I know but it's Friday) cheers.
  15. Hey folks, TL;DR Looking for that LTT forum seal of approval™ (and advice) on a new £3k build, much appreciated. CPU: i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core (£320.35) CPU Cooler: Corsair - H150i PRO (£137.99) Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X HERO ATX LGA1151 Mobo (£245.10) Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32gb (4 x 8gb) DDR4-3200 Ram (£377.09) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500gb 2.5" SSD (£83.94) Storage: Samsung - 970 Pro 512gb M.2-2280 SSD (£198.97) Storage: WD - Black 1TB 2.5" 7200rpm HD (£58.96) Video Card: GeForce RTX 2080 8gb (£819.95ish) Power Supply: Corsair - 860w 80+ Platinum Fully-Modular ATX PSU Case: Corsair Crystal 570X RGB ATX Mid Tower (£154.79) Fans: Corsair RGB HD120's Operating System: x64 Win 10 Home (£99.99) https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RrK3NQ Total: £2497.13 (+ VR Vive £500) I'm an Architect and old boy gamer based in London, GB with £3000 ($3800). This will be my first full build but I'm confident in my skill level. Aim is for a middling prosumer rig - General 3D work (Sketchup/Rhino/AutoCAD) & light rendering, full Adobe suite with amateur video work, maximum VR & gaming. This will be my home rig, Quadro's are at work hence consumer GFX. Probably run two 27" Asus MX279h 1080p monitors (I have one, I like it), these, cablemod cables and other peripherals I'll handle outside the build cost. Will look to upgrade year on year to keep the rig sharp, eg a second gfx card, water cooling, etc. Few other questions - Trident Z ram or Dominator Platinum? The Mobo supports two M.2 SSDs, can they be main drives/boot with the 850(s) as storage? Cheers you awesome people Ray
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