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morriscey

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About morriscey

  • Birthday Jan 14, 1986

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Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    PEI
  • Occupation
    Graphic Designer

System

  • CPU
    i7 2700k
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte z77x-ud5h
  • RAM
    4x4GB Corsair Vengeance
  • GPU
    XFX HD 7970 3GB
  • Case
    Corsair 500R
  • Storage
    240GB Agility3, 10 TB on various Disks
  • PSU
    750w xfx gold
  • Display(s)
    23" Asus proart, 20" syncmaster, 20" benQ, 17" syncmaster
  • Cooling
    ThermalTake Water 2.0
  • Keyboard
    Corsair k90
  • Mouse
    Corsair M60

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  1. Hadn't even considered plastidip - may be easier to get ahold of than conformal coating and may do a decent enough job. Yeah conformal coating is what I was looking for. it'll be in a garage - so hot humid days with a bay or two open and cool dark evenings might make a problem. in the summer the surfaces in his old shop were commonly covered with a slick coating of condensation. Lol looks like a solution for a much better class of hardware - I'm not too worried about messing it up - all this machine has to do is basically be a web terminal to look up information in the shop so I'm using *close to* garbage hardware. If I wreck it I'm out roughly twenty bucks - forty max.
  2. Looking to build a garage PC for a house warming present for my fathers new garage. I want to make sure that even if it's kinda frosty out there, or humid in the summer that it won't short out if it's turned on so I was looking for recommendations on condensation proofing a mobo / PSU. Will likely be an old core 2 duo board or maybe an FM2 board. Have a few old PSU's to sacrifice as well. Hopefully something I could just spray apply to give it a small insulation. thinking about perhaps neoprene sheets, or dielectric grease.
  3. I have an aging m60 and k90 with no headset at the moment
  4. I want to put it in my Raijintek Metis HTPC build - it has a HD 7970 jammed in it right now, but I want it to be VR capable because the living room is the most viable place for such a setup.
  5. I'm currently using an OG K90 sporting blue LEDs. I bought THIS board for a few specific features I don't use very often, and the colours don't match my white & black Case with white LEDs. The White KB Glowing between cyan - white - purple- white - would look pretty fantastic.
  6. I have tried sync thing, but the versions I've tried were extremely limited in folder options, and had no GUI. I could use it, but getting users to be able to use it would be a nightmare.
  7. My company is looking to expand the robustness of our customer facing file server, that will also be able to run bittorrent sync, and be kept up to date with btsync. We are currently using a thecus n5500, and the webdisk functionality is ok, if a bit slow. The bittorrent sync module however, is totally out of date (1.4) and gobbles up all available resources, bringing the poor blue box to it knees. Sync was never officially supported, and they have fired the guy who was making all of the great but unsupported mods. Currently, our staff have bittorrent sync with a pro account. This uploads to the Thecus automagically. Once uploaded to the thecus, customers are able to login to a webdisk portal on the thecus, to view and retrieve files. Cost of hardware isn't a really big issue, speed and reliability is. I don't want to spend more than I need to, but I would like a bit of extra horsepower than a purpose built NAS provides. I would like to avoid proprietary solutions like thecus, or even officially btsync supported devices like drobo, and go with a Xeon, ECC memory, redundant PSU, and UPS for hardware. It should be a pretty basic box to build and configure, as it really only needs to be a http accessible file server, and bitsync pro box. Hardware & software suggestions, help and criticisms are more than welcome, and much appreciated. Thanks
  8. I'm not sure how far off we are, but how much room is in that goddamn helmet.
  9. By browsing kijiji for people selling stuff for less than its worth.
  10. Love to see episodes like this. Actual "tech tips" not just a review of the latest thing I can't afford. In my eyes the best ones are the ones where uncertainty is a factor. Don't get me wrong I still like and watch all of it, but I enjoy things like this, Lukes software recommendations, handy tech under 100, mineral oil pc, scrapyard wars etc far more than just the general review stuff.
  11. Username: morriscey Vids https://www.vessel.com/videos/JYZEYDYx0 https://www.vessel.com/videos/LCoY5zfFf The site has potential, but ads on a premium membership, and lower quality than youtube is a stumbling block. I understand it's probably more favorable to LMG, but hopefully these are just teething problems that will disappear soon. If not I'll wait a week for Luke and Linus on youtube.
  12. Honestly, for the price of building an all new rig, your CPU, RAM mobo and storage is more than fine. A 4000 series quad core i7 will give you a 5%-10% boost. If this machine is primarily for gaming, then just sell the 460 for $80-100, and buy a shiny new GTX 980 or wait for the 390x to come out. Maybe add a 3tb disk. Unless you plan on jumping up to a 6 or 8 core i7 for better rendering, there is almost zero point in upgrading your CPU/MOBO, especially for gaming. CPU bottlenecking shouldn't be a very big issue for another year or two. you have a z77 board so maybe get a nice aftermarket cooler (hyper 212 evo is a great cost effective choice, the raijintek ereboss is pretty fucking beefy as well, while a cheap water loop such as the corsair h55 will help keep overall system temps down by dumping heat outside the case.) and you can overclock your CPU. Some 3000 and 4000 series intel chips have garbage TIM between the processor and heat spreader, so if you're feeling brave, delidding and replacing the TIM carefully should give you a much higher overclock.
  13. I'm looking forward to this card. If I can get it with a rear exhaust, for about $200, and it gives performance slightly north of the 7970, I will gladly give AMD my money. My 7970, or 7950s won't fit in my mini ITX case
  14. Just about every new GPU I've bought in the last several years has come with a game, starting with NWN2 that came with an HD 3850
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