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I am remembering an episode of LTT where he designed that rack mountable case, and i'd like to know what software he used to design it. I remember of a few shots of the computer screen showing a program with the inside of the case and some parts. I am thinking of designing my own case, and would like to take a crack at designing it.

Looking at completely upgrading my pc next month, what would the best CPU be to mix with a 1070 for a decent amount of gaming, full time illustrator and photoshop?

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My buddy needs a laptop. He's a college student and needs it for CAD word and potential 3d rendering. What's the best thing he could get for 800?

I want to start designing my own ATX computer case (professionally). The reason for this is because after spending hours, days, months and years of research and looking for a perfect case that has everything from; looks, sound cancelation, feel, function, easy mounting, cable management ext. ext. I have not found it. I need your help, what does a 2018 ATX computer case need? Also I am in need of some basic blueprint for all the mounting holes, anyone? Feel free to reply, thank you!

Hi all, I'm an architect in training who recently graduated college and is working at an architecture firm, but I'm starting to realize that my passion for design may be able to be fused with my passion for building computers. I specialize in making my builds beautiful inside and out, a lot like how architects do so with their buildings. My question for you all is this: is there a career out there that would allow me to design and/or build beautiful computers as a full-time gig? I don't really know where to start looking for something like this, so if anyone has any personal experiences that offer insight I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Cheers!

I have been looking for the perfect monitors that are high quality, high refresh rate with amazing color quality and I have to say, theres a lot to chose from. I am trying to find monitors or monitor that are/is good for gaming and image editing. my budget is 5oo dollars and I am willing to go a little pass that... Now I dont make a decision yet but I have been told that you cant go wrong with benqu. If you have any other suggestions please tell me as I am open to suggestions. Benqu xl2430 I have been recommended : Benqu xl2430 - for gaming https://www.benqdirect.com/xl2430-esports-monitor.html Im not sure if it has G-sinc I dont play many games mainly cs go and some casual games nothing special. If you really care you can see my steam game library here : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197974442019/ BenQ 24" BL2420PT - for design / image editing https://www.benqdirect.com/bl2420pt.html Do you think this is a good choice ? Should I buy 144hz or wait and get 240hz gaming monitor ? Should I chose a monitor with G-sync or without ? Would you recommend that I should buy something else ? What would you buy ?

Hey guys, So I didn't really know where to go with this, but my mind drifted here and so I figured I might as well ask. For a project for my heat transfer class we are designing a laptop cooler, you know, those gimmicky things with usb powered fans. I'm thinking, dumb dumb dumb, blah blah blah, but then the professor says don't worry about making it cheaply, you have to incorporate a heat pipe into the design. Now I'm excited, but I need some real world data, that is what I'm asking for. If anyone out there has a temp gun and Aida 64 that doesn't mind helping a guy out, I'm hoping to get locations of hot spots on the bottom of the laptop and how hot they get. We are designing to keep a 6x6in section of the bottom of the laptop at 60C (roughly, the design hasn't been flushed out yet but the contact pad with the bottom of the laptop is supposed to be in the center), but if most laptops have hot spots off to the sides then our design would be pointless. Also, my laptop has a nice flat bottom to get contact with barring the 4 rubber stand offs at the corners, but we did notice most laptops have strange uneven bottoms, or even grip strips going along the whole length of the bottom raising the whole laptop out of contact (dang it Dell!) I was wondering how common is this on 15.6" models (we are designing for 15.6" and smaller as we assumed an additional external cooling solution wouldn't help a 17")? I don't know if anyone will help out or even how to collect the data, I guess I'll just browse through the comments or maybe create a strawpoll or something later. Thanks to anyone that helps out! And if you have any ideas about better contacting a wider range of weirdly shaped laptops I'd love to hear it! Here is a quick poll I made of the bottom shape question. Thanks for the help guys! http://www.strawpoll.me/13418058

Hey all! I failed to buy a reliable laptop the past 2 times, where 1 just wasn't a good build (MSI GT70) and my current laptop (ASUS U501UX) has such a horrible display, it's useless for any color work. So I'm hoping you guys can help I'll be mainly using the Office Suite, various Adobe programs (mainly Photoshop) and CAD software (Solidworks). So I'm looking for a laptop with pretty good specs (i5/i7 and maybe a dedicated GPU, not sure how much difference that makes), but especially: - A good display (Full HD is fine, color accuracy is more important) - Solid build (it will be carried around daily, and sometimes used in the train) I would also like an SSD and a HDD, but I understand that maybe only an SSD is possible. It should be fine as I have a portable harddrive anyway. Budget: Preferrably under 1000 euros I am also looking into buying used, so recommending older models is fine too! So far I fell in love with the XPS 15, but it's kind of out of my preffered price range. All suggestions are very much appreciated!!! -Kaasgeelheid

I'm Thinking about starting a Niche Tech Site, and I need some ideas. Can anyone help? (Tech-Related ideas only please)

Hi guys, I'm currently building a pc build for 1000€ for a friend of mine. It'll be used mostly for Adobe CC programs and secondly gaming. I'm building in Czech Republic, so the prices are changed to those in my location, except Win10. I'm going to buy it from Kinguin. Here is the build: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/DYynPs The Monitor is Benq GW2270HM 1080p75Hz, but I couldn't find it. What's your opinion on this build? How would you do it better? What will you change? Thanks for your answers Sorry for my english

So for the record I have purchased this desk https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06X1H22XJ - I am looking to build my PC Rig into the shelving unit thatcan be seen in the images on Amazon with measurements here below too!, I am looking at using the EK water cooling set A240 But was wondering what sort of design layout people would choose to have their PC set up with? Designs - show me your designs, and also where you get the plexiglass from cheap enough to make doors with for the shelving unit... One of your designs may well get picked so make it Good and Feasable - My Budget is not an issue. unless it's going to cost over £300 All listed parts are accounted for already, so only Extras in the design need to be costed up! hardware to be inserted AMD Ryzen Motherboard RGB Lighting GTX 1080 Ti EVGA 750 W PSU 4 2.5" SSD's 2 3.5" HDD's EK A240 Water cooling kit Also Bonus Items - Custom Cables (from Cablemod!) - Theme - Got to match the black desk! - RGB (in theme) - Red Coolant Liquid! Lets see what your designs are!

Hey all, I'm an architecture student and I'm considering building a desktop to help speed up my work flow a little bit, things are getting a bit slow on my Macbook Pro. Most of the recommendations I see about hardware are general focused around gaming or video editing. I'm trying to figure out what I should be looking for in a GPU and the importance of a GPU compared to CPU to the software I'll be using. I'm pretty much only going to be using this computer for design work not gaming. The bulk of what I work with is vector based. I use Rhino 3d, which is similar to autoCAD, and adobe illustrator quite a bit, some photoshop, but probably more in the future, and some solid modeling software (solidworks and fusion 360), I also do renders using a vray plugin for rhino 3d. The biggest issues I see now on my MBP are in illustrator. I try to do anything with an even somewhat complex file and I get the beachball of death for 5 or so minutes, and when doing renders with vray where it is a crapshoot as to whether the render will run quickly and smoothly, take 8 hours, or freeze and crash after 5 min. There is also general sluggishness throughout most the work I'm doing. My first big question, is whether a workstation graphics card (I'm currently looking at this AMD Radeon Pro https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814105068&ignorebbr=1 ) would outperform a gaming GPU in a dollar for dollar comparison. My priorities right now have reliability and speed about tied. Having programs crash can waste a lot of time, even when I'm saving often. My second big question is how much a GPU matters to the overall system. Should I be focusing more on RAM (and does RAM clockspeed matter for this kind of application)? Should I be focusing more on CPU? I really can't consistent or reliable answers to these question for the given application. Basically, what would be a good approach to make a system that won't seize up constantly in the application given above?

Hello guys, could you recommend a monitor which is suitable for Graphic Design and as well for Gaming? What is important for me, is that the monitor is atleast 2560x1440 resolution and it has a IPS panel since it is mandatory for graphic design. But i also like to play some FPS, like CS:GO. These games require high refresh rate monitors as well if you want to be pretty good at it so i'm also interested in a high refresh rate monitor. Talking about my budget, it is under 1000 euros. Thanks for any provided help

So I have a purple and white S340 case, I have a white, purple and blue theme and have all this empty space on the right side of my case..,... Do you guys have any good ideas of what to fill it with? I don't have the money for a $500 custom loop, and there's no point as I just have a 1070 under the hood. If you folks have any creative ideas please do share.

Hi I am looking to upgrade my cooler from a crappy Zalmon CNPS5X since it has a horrible coil wine when my CPIU is under load and am interested in the Fractel Design Celsius. My case is the Fractel Design arc midi R2 so I'm pretty sure the radiator will fit however I was wondering if I need to buy some thermal compound to put on my CPU or if the cooler has it pre applied. If I do need some paste can anyone reccomend me a good one to buy? and also I might aswell get some rubbing alcohol while I'm at it.

Hi all, I'm working on a new documentary series about interior design. The theme of one of the episodes is about tech homes/rooms, garages, warehouse or just attics. The series is called Amazing on the Inside and it features 2 or 3 stories in per episode - we're looking at some completed projects but we'd also like to find at least one project that we could follow from the beginning until the end. So, if you guys know someone who already built or currently building their dream setup, or maybe refurbishing their living room, attic, garage etc. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!

Hi all, First off, thanks to Linus Tech Tips for all of the awesome YouTube videos. They are informative and totally awesome! I'm a developer who has used Mac for about 15 years. I still mostly love it, but I'm not a fan of Apple's direction towards: overpricing, lack of self-serviceability (i.e. replacing / upgrading parts)...and I'll spare my vitriol about the 'touchbar'. While I'll still continue as a Mac user as a fail-safe, I want to start transitioning to Linux (Ubuntu) for my production. Plus, I'm a big fan of supporting Open Source. I've looked into companies like System76 and ZaReason; I still may go this route for a portable option (also looking into a Lenovo laptop for this), but I feel like 1) I could probably accomplish what I want by doing things myself (for less) 2) I want to actually get my hands dirty and work on hardware for the first time. I'd like to think that I'm fairly 'tech-savvy' but as a developer my wheelhouse is very much 'code-focused' as opposed to 'hardware-focused' (for instance, why turning off/on my router works when I have internet issues is pretty much black magic to me). What I do/require: High-level: a lot of simultaneous 'production' processes Speed! (macOS is generally OK with this, but when I have Adobe CC apps, virtual hosts, two browsers, etc open...things get slow even on a 16GB RAM MacBook Pro) Design (vector/image manipulation) Development (virtual host servers, SDKs, IDEs - LAMP, Ruby, NodeJS), I very much use my machine as a local server QA (loads of browser testing) Some MS Office stuff - easy enough via Wine (because I don't think any Spreadsheet app is better than Excel on Windows) General productivity (Loads of browser tabs in multiple browsers, Slack, Git, etc) Ubuntu (I know that there's other distros, but I like Ubuntu's UI and like to avoid terminal when I can) ...I know there can be driver compatability issues Don't want a huge rig that looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer (clean lines, small/compact, no lights/fanfare) Most of my storage is routed to S3 / Git repos; I do use DropBox for collaborative docs (about 100 GB), I'm not too worried about storage and figure that 500GB of SSD will more than suffice I don't want to overheat things (I almost fried my MacBook - my keyboard and trackpad don't work now as a result of overworking it/heat issues) I may do some video editing, but very little and nothing fancy (i.e. super basic) I don't care about gaming (I may do this on another machine, but this is purely for work/production) 'Playing nice' with other machines (I currently have a MacBook Pro, MacMini Server, and Ubuntu Samsung laptop) Stability / support - Because this is my first build I want to make sure that it 'works' and I don't have to fight with configuration/compatibility issues all of the time. I also want my rig to be as forward compatible as possible (I envision that this will be my workhorse for 5 years) What I think I need (or perhaps just 'want') 64GB ram capacity (may not leap for that to start, but I want to have the option) High processing power (I'm looking at Ryzen 7 ... I'm more concerned with power as opposed to graphics rendering) Good internet connectivity/speed Mini/Micro ITX board (because I want a small rig) I came up with this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ryanaD/saved/9TwLkL Bonus points: fingerprint reader, which I can assume would be part of a keyboard (because I hate typing in my password all of the time) My questions/query: What should I look out for in terms of Ubuntu compatibility? (I am aware of Ubuntu's Hardware Support, but I get the feeling that this isn't to hot when it comes to information on bleeding edge technology) I'd love to hear any insights from people who have done custom rigs built for Linux (this is my first time, and I 'know that I don't know') Does my rig setup from PC Part Picker make sense? (I don't care about 'overkill' I want to have a beast machine that will last for 5 years) What kind of n00b mistakes to I need to look out for? (I feel like when I commit to buy things, I'll then realize that I lack things like cable, etc) Thanks in advance and looking forwards to your insights!

Hello. I make very simple frame-by-frame animation videos in Photoshop for YouTube. Those videos generally require 500-600 individual images to be saved (From the same opened file with minor changes) and sometimes even thousands. As you van imagine, manually saving each individual one by clicking "File" "Save As", selecting JPEG and then manually renaming them in sequential numbers one after the other (1,2,3,4,5) is unbelievably demotivating and tedious. I am aware that there is a way of automating this process but simply can't find a solution. So what I need is a script\action which by pressing a shortcut key on my keyboard: -Saves the opened image file as .jpeg quality 12 -Saves it in the same folder as the opened .psd file -Saves all of the following images in ascensing numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10..) Thank you for the help. Luka

I'm getting heavily into design. I'm looking at picking up a new display in the near future. Currently I'm using a BenQXL2430T and it's not the best outside of gaming. What I'm after: 1. BIGness. After using a 24" display it doesn't provide the real estate I need with Illustrator, C4D etc. (as well as general multi-tasking) I'm looking for 32" ^ so I can have a lot of things happening at once. 2. SHARPness 1080p just doesn't cut it for me anymore after using a 1440p macbook, looking at a 1080p panel strains my eyes when working with type. 3. IPSness. As I'm using this for design and graphics I need colour accuracy when viewing from any angle. This is very noticeable on my current monitor. The contrast and colours change if you aren't looking at the screen dead on. 4. Your opinion. I'm no expert on hardware I just want to do my thing. Any personal experience or tips that you have be sure to mention them in your response. Thanks heaps

Hey everyone! So I've been a big fan on LMG videos on Vessel and thefloatplaneclub sounds like a great idea like explained in the WAN video. So I took all of the ideas posted by Linus on the original post and made a quick design from it. Is this the end goal for thefloatplaneclub? Is there a timeline or a set of next steps? Tell me what you think, but I would really like to have a proper site other than YouTube, something that accommodates the sponsors, conversations, links and information about the hardware shown, etc. Jay

to discuss 3d printer hardware, software, prices, refills and uses around a pc build

I enjoy using both OS X and Windows for different things. Currently, I have Mavericks installed on my Mac and Windows 8.1 on my PC. The reason I haven't upgraded either of those is that I just cannot stand how flat the newer operating systems look. For OS X - The looks of Yosemite and beyond just totally destroyed everything I enjoyed about OS X visually. I love the subtle gradients on the buttons and icons on Mavericks, and even the taskbar just has this nice roundness to it that's really pleasant to look at. It looks really professional, elegant, and almost kind of polished, at least in my opinion. The newer OS's have this cartoony vibe that I just cannot stand behind. I think the dark mode thing is alright, but everything from the icons to the system text, to the plasticky transparent glassish vibe just makes it feel like an ugly phone OS on a computer. For Windows - My dislike for Windows 10 is mostly a color and shape thing. It just seems like a mix of dark colors with some highlights, and then just squared-off edges on seriously everything. Plus it just feels so washed out with just white and grey on some areas, especially on the taskbar and the minimize buttons and all that. The lack of vibrancy in the colors just makes it feel super dull and uninspiring to me, and I know a bunch of people would probably disagree with me on this, but I much prefer the brighter colors and vibrance that was shown on Windows 8. It made the OS more of a delight to use, and was more inviting and bright to look at. Windows 7 and 8 also both had some lovely, subtle gradients that were really nice, another thing missing from 10. It's kind of not important, but especially with the newer versions of OS X, I don't enjoy feeling like I'm falling behind in the past with an older OS, especially with certain programs and stuff that will only run on newer OS's. But at the same time, I would hate to upgrade to say Sierra, but then hate how it looks to the point where I just don't enjoy using it. Kind of a petty rant, but does anyone here share this sentiment with either OS's? I remember when Yosemite came out I wasn't totally alone on the whole "Yosemite is ugly thing," but I didn't know if most people have gotten over that or not.

Hello. As the title states, what is the better case for this build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HZHrqk I plan on bringing the build to lan's and to the classroom from my room(e-sport school) I want good airflow,temps and be as silent as possible since sound bothers me, feel free to recommend anything else. What fans should i use for intake since I have read alot of different articles and I can't really decide on what is the best. Don't know what else to say except thank you for taking your time to help me!

do i need a graphics card for 3d models and programs such as cinema 4d, maya. i heard that it can speed up renders, i also heard that some programs do not utilize the cpu just the gpu is that true? or are graphics cards just for better pixels and visuals.