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NIce Work, this it the kind of things that I am starting to get into myself. I have not decided on a CAD program just yet but i am looking into them.  I will be nice to design and print a prototype part for a build. right now I am creating my own from spare ABS and metal parts from other projects. Seeing what you are doing here is fuel to my fire Thank you for sharing your amazing ides and your work.

those are jumpers to make the drive behave differently. On your dirve I am not sure what they do but a search on Toshiba's website should give you the info for that
 

If you're on a really tight budget I would suggest this for $25
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kz8j4D/tp-link-archer-t4e-pcie-x1-wi-fi-adapter-aa528899
The big drawback is that the antenna is fixed so if you need to adjust you can't do that aside swiveling the antenna around.
 
If you can spring a little more then I would suggest this at about $36
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tTdqqs/gigabyte-wireless-network-card-gcwb867di
You can move the antenna around more freely and put it on top of the PC as well for some better signal as well, it also has Bluetooth support

yea those button boxed can be pretty expensive, a cheap tablet will do i mean you dont need a fast processor for such stuff anyways

Good evening, folks!
I just wanted to know if it was possible to use a tablet as a custom keyboard when connected to the computer. Basically I would like to put makro keys or some type of additional keys with a custom pattern on there that I can map in video games?
 
thanks in advance for the help!

Moar cores = moar better, logic checks out. I'd be running a biggboye 6950X if they were reasonably priced, for now I have to make do with a mere 8c/16t j-bin 5960X ?.

3900X because i think having this many cores is cool

Still have one of those in my old system. With OC it's 80ish% as good as the 9900K so no upgrade needed yet 

Kilrah thank you for replying excellent information shared in yout post. I followed your link to Case Modding and I left a comment for you there on your amazing project/ Nice work!

There we go.
It's not going to win beauty contests, but that was never the goal, it does its job of packing as much power and storage as possible in the smallest/lightest package, which it pretty much does with its 9900K/GTX1070/12TB storage in 4.8l and 3.5kg.
Seems sturdy, fastening worked out as hoped.
I will replace the power button though, only thing I found in my parts bin ?
 
 

I'd like to add that if I were buying TODAY coming up from something really old or insufficient (like Pentium it something) I would totally get a 3700x.

3700x because it is more power efficient and faster than 2700x. 3700x is balance between gaming and productivity. 

8700k Was best cpu at time 
delidded and running at 5.2ghz, 4.9ghz cache 

sempron 939 3000+, vecause i have a lanparty ut nf4, overclock is fun and oldies are goodies.

1) I chose the 8700k coming up from an i5-4570 for scrictly gaming two years ago even though everyone said to just get a 1600 instead. I saw the 720p benchmarks and knew the 30-40% difference would be worth the extra cash. Seems I was right, and many of those who got 1600s ended up also upgrading to 2600s and then 3600s. And even the 3600 doesn't really beat my two year old 8700k today in any meaningful way.  I also considered the 8600k, but coming from an i5 that lacked hyperthreading, I wasn't going to make that same mistake again. 
 
2) I have a 1600 system for my upstairs bedroom gamer. It was a dirt cheap black Friday sale being only $149 for both CPU and motherboard. Unfortunately the motherboard took a shit and I ended up having to buy a new one. It's fine for 1080p/60. I spend more time using this one because of location, oddly, specifically for console ports.

NIce Work, this it the kind of things that I am starting to get into myself. I have not decided on a CAD program just yet but i am looking into them.  I will be nice to design and print a prototype part for a build. right now I am creating my own from spare ABS and metal parts from other projects. Seeing what you are doing here is fuel to my fire Thank you for sharing your amazing ides and your work.

Kilrah thank you for replying excellent information shared in yout post. I followed your link to Case Modding and I left a comment for you there on your amazing project/ Nice work!

9900K, to cram as much power as possible in the smallest case I could: 
No AMD because the high end parts don't have integrated graphics which I wanted to have in case I occasionally need to use the PCIe slot for something else than a GPU. Plus I do editing and QuickSync is sometimes beneficial.
 

? I'd do fingerguns but I don't have that emoji here. 

But yeah I've always been a fan of both complete overkill rigs (mine is quite overkill for what I do, I just like the hardware) and lower spec rigs that still kick ass. I've always liked older hardware because pushing old stuff to compete with the new parts is hella fun. My main rig is sporting a 5960X now, a CPU from 2014 that can still beat the 2700X I used to have, and is more fun to OC (moar PCI lanes and quad channel RAM too). I'll be building an X58 rig again in a bit too, used to run that platform in my main with a 980 Ti, killer setup especially for the price (my first X58 mobo and CPU was only $120 for the full package). Fun to see CPus from 2009-2011 still usable nowdays, hoping to get a pair of older GPUs to pair with it too and see how they do (have 780s on order but they're taking a while to ship so I'm lowkey worried). 

Still have my OG i5 2400, which was the first upgrade I did from the Pentium I mentioned. Need to do a rig with that again sometimes, it was pretty damn solid for a tiny 2nd gen quad core (LGA1155 CPUs are so teeny compared to my Xeons and HEDT i7s lol). On the Intel mobo I have for it, it actually hackintoshed without any issues too, and for running macOS it's pretty overkill, that OS isn't hard at all to run. 

Heck I had a Core 2 Quad system running Vista for a good while before I got into building my own PCs, and that kicked ass for what I did. And before that I was running a Core 2 Duo laptop with random RAM I found in my dad's tech drawer, with Ubuntu 12.04 - 14.04. Ran VMs and all sorts of stuff off of that just fine. You can do a hell of a lot with not much hardware if you use it right. Something I should take to heart so I stop spending so much on more hardware, but the GPUs and mobos and CPUs are just so pretty... ?

Zando Bob, Welcome to the big kids room!! yeas that is exactly what I meant lol

I have a Ryzen 5 1600, bought it as my fx 6300 died the day Ryzen 5 first came out ( seems fishy  ) has been good to me ever since but it's about time I upgrade and grab a 3700x on a asus tuf b450m gaming plus and see what it can do 

AMD 3600X best bang for the buck (except for the x part)
 
Xeon X5680 - Free X58 Sabertooth mobo
 
I7-2600 cheap office Optiplex eBay deal

my first cpu was a fx 6300 because i didnt want to get a duo core. then i found my parents had a pile of "dead" company computers and I found a lot of them had working cpus and motherboards and they already replaced all of them and didnt need them so i took one of them with a i7 4770 and thats my cpu rn

Had to buy a new laptop after the old one was barely enough for school (3630qm gtx 675m). Was also using a fx 8320 for my desktop paired with a 7870 xt back then. Had to sell both to afford a 6700hq, 970m, 32gb ram laptop and hated the fact that that cpu was barely any better than my way older laptop but the gpu made all the difference in the applications I used on a daily basis. I lost on combined render power but that laptop was a lifesaver and ran at almost 100% from day one. Nowadays I still do 3D and such on the side and it's really showing it's age quite badly but it'll just have to suffer on till it can't no more. Been running for almost 4 years and still going.
 
I did get a z620 workstation later on due to a company being in debt and that helped a lot for rendering and ended up leasing it out quite a bit dual e5 2697v2's are not to be messed with :p.

Home PC 9900k because it's the best for gaming, and I mainly game at home.  It is also pretty good at premiere and pretty good is enough for my use case.
 
Work PC (clarification: PC that I keep at work, I dont actually use it to DO work, just like to have my own rig there); 2700x.  I have B450 mobo.  I went to upgrade from 2600 to 3700x.  Got a dud 3700x around launch time and had to RMA.  When I went to get another one, the price of 2700x had dropped so low I couldn't pass up the value deal.  8c/16t and enough performance for gaming, can video edit well, was a great deal at 200$.  Put the extra money into more GPU