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***IMPORTANT: This is a request for help selecting an AMD mobo. No Intel or nVidia suggestions please.*** I'm broke, but I want to try moving from PS3 to AMD PC to play ROTR and BF1 (lock 60fps@1080i), with the possibility of spending more money in the distant future. Here are the parts I have: Phenom II X4 925 (2.8ghz, AM3 socket) 8GB DDR3 PC3-10600 MB/sec (4x2GB, PC1333??) WD Green 1TB 5400 802.11 Wireless a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 card assorted fans DVD-RW ROM (extra part; might not be used) BLURAY ROM (extra part; might not be used) 32" Panasonic LCD (720p & 1080i) salvaged from pre-built HP : HP Pavilion Elite HPE-112y Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support Here is what I want: RX 480 4GB/8GB (>$200USD) Mobo (need help) Case (need help) PSU (no suggestions needed) SSD (no suggestions needed) Here are the mobos being considered: BIOSTAR TA970 Ver. 5.3 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - Newegg.com ASRock 970M Pro3 AM3+/AM3 AMD 970 + AMD SB950 6 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard-Newegg.com ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 AM3+ AMD 760G (780L) / SB710 USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX Motherboards - AMD - Newegg.com Budget for April 2017: $100-$150USD Comment below your thoughts, racial slurs, harsh criticisms, personal judgments, insults, and general disappointments with my involvement in humanity. Thank your for your time, Kids, may your chimichangas always be crispy and delicious. -John Smith (ENIAC1946) BONUS ROUND! Here are the cases I'm looking at (>$50USD) DIYPC  DIY-F2-O Black/Orange USB 3.0 Micro-ATX Mini Tower Gaming Computer Case with 2 x Orange LED Fans (Pre-installed)- LOGISYS Computer CS368RB Red & Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 480W Power Supply-Newegg.com AZZA CSAZ-208S Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Newegg.com iMicro CA-IM552U3 No Power Supply ATX Mid Tower (Black) FRYS.com | Raidmax Bitfenix Nova ATX Tower Window Case Guardian 921RB Red PC Gaming Case = Computer Gaming Case - NZXT **FAVORITE

My favorite is the chicken quesadilla, I always tell them to add chipotle to is as well.

UPDATE 3: It feels like I'm nearing the final revision! I've added a PSU shroud and updated textures, as well as completed the internal framework of the cuts. I'm hoping I can convert this model to a CAD software to have it routed on a CNC, so if anyone has experience with this, I would really appreciate advice! Sketchup has served me well, but I doubt it will interface well with more professional applications. I also realized that there was no easy way to mount or clean the rad, so I opted to mount the faceplate with magnets and added a magnetic dust cover. I'm still eager to find flaws in this design before I build it, so feel free to chime in on any further improvements! ==================================================================== UPDATE 2: Incorporated a DDC pump/res instead of the apogee, redesigned loop accordingly, made better pics. ==================================================================== UPDATE: I've completed a new revision of the case with a different water cooling loop, rotated PSU, and bigger radiator (triple 140mm), pics below! I switched from a pump/res combo to a pump/CPU block combo to make the design of the loop more simple, let me know if this is unwise. ========================================================================================== So I'm in the early stages of designing a custom case for my next PC. Below are images of my current iteration, let me know what you think! Since I've never designed a case before, let me know if there are any ways that this could be improved as well. I am in the US and price isn't a major concern. The PC I'm building into this will be used for gaming/VR, streaming, editing, recording, basically everything, lol. The parts going into it will be whichever top end nvidia GPU is out in a couple years, and the highest non X SKU I7 (will be overclocked and delidded). Why am I building this? I've looked around a lot for a case that can fit perfectly in my media center and come up with nothing that satisfies my needs; to fit nicely in my home theater with minimal noise and light pollution, and without compromising on cooling or components. I also wanted something that doesn't look out of place in my media center (pictured below). Sony 65" A1E for scale My Current case is the Lian Li in the bottom center. Current questions: What material is ideal for this? I'm looking at 1/4" MDF currently, but am concerned about strength due to the small cuts being made. Could HDPE serve better? There are a lot of fine cuts needed for this design. Should I even attempt that with a router and guide, or should I go through the effort of finding someone that has a CNC router? Part list: Radiator: EK-CoolStream CE 420 Reservoir/pump: EK-XRES 140 DDC Rad fans: Noctua NF-A14 CPU block: EK-Supremacy EVO Mobo tray/PCI cage: Caselabs Merlin ATX Front I/O: Corsair carbide 240 replacement part Building material: 1/4" MDF & 1/2" MDF Top window: Tinted acrylic Vinyl wrap: 3M Matte black Ventilation grate: 3'x3' Black aluminium grate If anyone can recommend better alternatives to the parts listed above, I would really appreciate it! ============================================================================================== Keep in mind that most of the internal components are only placeholder parts that match average sizes. This currently includes mobo, GPU (and cooler), sound card, radiator, and PSU.

@Real_PhillBert gave me the idea, so lets run with it. Have a little fun on a this Taco Tuesday

Hello, im bored in class and im trying to figure out what i should have for dinner, im thinking tacos but im not shure. anyone have any delicious taco recipies to share?

Before you call me insane, read first. HI, I'm MasterGeek.MX, and by that nickname and and tha data at the left, you surely noticed that I'm from Mexico. As many of my countrymen, I love tacos. But when I was in the 'murica, and I'd wanted to go at Taco Bell for some homeland-remeber food, I'd encounter something different, awful and strange. THIS: And I was like: My northamerican hosts noticed my complain and they asked "dude, what's the problem?" THE TACOS, THIS ISN'T TACOS!!!!! And they was like: Fowards that moment, I started to realize that great part of northamerican fellows have a wrong idea of how tacos really are. So that's the reason that pushes me to make this cheesy post. THE REAL MEXICAN TACOS THAT I ATE SINCE FOREVER ARE THIS: So, you will be like: "So, How mexican tacos really are?" Let's begin at the first. A taco is something in a tortilla (BTW, in spanish a doube L makes a sound like the name of the letter G, not a long L, so it spells "torti-G-a") Now, a tortilla is a disc made of corn flour. Not wheat flour. Is like the dough that doritos are made. And it's made at the flat griddle, not baked or fried or other sort of coocking method. So, i'ts meant to be soft, not crispy, and fresh-made (or at least reheated) So, ther is not something like "taco shells" or something. Usually are made in a local at the block called tortillería (literally tortilla store), made by a machine, selled them by weight. Usually this local sells also chips, hot sauces, and some typical mexican food in disposable boxes, like seasoned rice, nopales, etc. Even they had a little salt shaker so if you are really hungry you can take one tortilla out of yout package, put some NaCl on it and bon appetit! They also sold it in supermarkets, either made there or in bags from a company's factory. But never frozen (let it goooooooooo...) But the most delicious ones are the hand-made, by some old woman in the traditional griddle (the "comal") heated by some logs. So, enough about tortillas Let's go to the real mojo of the thing. What you can put in a taco? EVERYTHING! even another tortilla (tacoception). So, while you having a meal, grab some of the plate, put it on a tortilla, bend it for holding the stuff, and you have a taco! But the usual partner of a tortilla that makes the taco is meat. What meat, you ask? EVERY MEAT YOU WANT! But in the tacos restorants, taco-places and street post, there are some "familys" of usual tacos with their own contents and caracteristics. The usual tacos are from coocked meats: steak, chiken breast, porkchop, etc. This local have some interesting type of meats, like "suadero", that is steamed steak, "pastor": porkchops seasoned with orange stuff, and it's cooked in a vertical grill called "trompo" (spinning top), very similar to the greek gyros or the mid-eastern shawarma: (these are my favorites BTW) Chorizo, that mainly consist in a type of sausage. Even some locals sell tacos of -brace yourselfs- cow's bran, tongue, eyes, uterus, guts, even bull's dick. Yes, BULL DICK! These kind of tacos can have diced onion and coriander, salt, lemon, guacamole, and hot sauces. The diced vegetables are added in the kitchen by customer's choice, but the other toppings are in the table and you can put it at pleasure. Just want to notice that pastor tacos often came with a little slice of pinapple. Often (and sometimes is kinda-like an obsession), they offer you the tacos with cheese. But not the cheese that you find on a hamburguer. Is a white, fresh cheese from here. And they grill the cheese with the meat for melting it, in order to merege it with the meat. Thee locals ofen sell also other food like gringas (called by you nickname, with is meat with cheese like mentioned above, but between two wheat tortillas), tortas (kinda like sadwiches with bun-type bread caled telera), etc. The other family of tacos are the "guisado" tacos (lit. tacos of dishes) In simple terms: tacos of typical main dishes like seasoned rice, nopales, meat with pepper, boiled egg, chorizo with popato, chiken in mole sauce, beans, etc. Personally I don't like much this kind of tacos. Usually go with lemon, salt and hot sauces, the diced vegetables are not usual on this ones. The Basket tacos. (tacos de canasta. I like to translate literally as possible) These are different from the other because this are sold alredy made, instead of the mayorit of tacos being prepared at the moment. This are more greasy tacos, and as the name suggests, they are sold in a basket filled with it, in order to keep it warm and fresh. Because the quantity of tacos in the basket, they often get really flatty and squeezed. Very common in parties, they consist in mainly 3 types: cooked potato, beans and "adobo" (a type of food dressing) Usually go with hot sauces. no more. And they usually found in streets outside offices and workspaces in the back of a bycicle. Now came the tacos dorados (fried tacos, but golden tacos if translated literally cuz here something fried is refered as golden by the color it takes) Also called flautas (flutes), these kind of tacos are mostly of chicken or potato. The special part is that their are rolled in a tube-shape (that's why the flute name), and then deeply fried in oil. These tacos are dressed with very diced lettuce, green hot sauce, some shredded white cheese and sour cream. This is the only type of taco that cames with sour cream. This are usual of local markets or street stands. Also in the beach and coasts are the fish and seafood tacos. Shrimp, marlin fish, clam, etc. There's even exotic types of tacos, like the ones that replace torilla with lettuce (often filled with vegetarian or vegan foods in very hipster places) And, if you wanna get into the taco world for your own, grab a note pad, cuz i'm gonna give you the recipe: The tortilla's dough is very simple: water, very fine corn flour and a pinch of salt. No butter, no oil, no sugar, juts that 3 things. the amount of water-corn must be enough for making a consitant dough similar to bread one. Not too dry so it crkacles, not too wet so it moist all the place. Experiment with little bits until you find your ideal balance and go on. BTW, the dough is a bit sticky, so cover the surfaces of work with plastic sheets and moist your hands Add the pinch of salt and mix, then grab a ball, and manage to queeze it into a disc. How? Use your imagination!. then, in a very hot frying pan WITHOUT OIL OR BUTTER put with careful the disc. Very carefull cuz they're very fragile until is cooked. When the border seems more solid, flip it! This is like making pancakes. When the first is done put it in a coocking pot big enough for fitting in, and put the cover for keeping em' fresh. Now you can explore the world of the real taco, with your taste as your only pathmarker.

So i just bought a used pair or Sony MDR-ZX750BN's and the ear cups are a glossy plastic. I hate glossy finishes and want to change it to a matte finish. I want to know if instead of going for the brushed look with steel wool or sand paper if there is a spray paint or something like that, that just does a clear coat of a matte finish and if it will work on the plastic or if it won't bond well or if there are any other alternatives, thanks in advance.

Sooooo I got a 500GB SSD and I was kinda wanting to make a 50-100GB partition to use as a scratch disk for Photoshop, Premiere pro and Shadow Play. Would this work or should I just put them in a folder on the main partition? Thankz Peoplez!

This is my list of parts I've picked out for my first PC and I would like to know what you would change on the build or what PC you would make in the budget of $2000 or Less. My mindset for this build is to be used for Gaming, Streaming, Video editing, Content Creation (CAD software and Adobe after effects). I want to play 60 FPS and up on 1080, 1440, and if possible in this price range 4k (I currently only have a 32" 1080p monitor for the PC). PC part picker: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ThunderStormMC/saved/rjdMnQ Things I really want on this build: 1. Geforce GTX 970 of some kind or better 2. Corsair Vengeance K70 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard Thanks for the Help!