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The Safe?

An Imgur/Reddit thing. There was a guy who found an old safe in a cellar... and he was gonna try and open it.. took him weeks i think.

Then all hell broke lose and everyone found safes everywhere :P

here is one (couldnt find the original):

http://imgur.com/gallery/oaSYi

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An Imgur/Reddit thing. There was a guy who found an old safe in a cellar... and he was gonna try and open it.. took him weeks i think.

Then all hell broke lose and everyone found safes everywhere :P

here is one (couldnt find the original):

http://imgur.com/gallery/oaSYi

Not sure why people are going around digging up safes for fun but ok.

 

 

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I get paid on Tuesday so I will be ordering a new case and possibly some ram. I'm not entirely sure that I wanna try the gaming angle. Would a pci-e 1x to 16x riser even give me 16x performance? I don't really know. 

 

What would you guys like to see me do with it? Possibly a log. (build log, not a tree trunk)

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I get paid on Tuesday so I will be ordering a new case and possibly some ram. I'm not entirely sure that I wanna try the gaming angle. Would a pci-e 1x to 16x riser even give me 16x performance? I don't really know. 

 

What would you guys like to see me do with it? Possibly a log. (build log, not a tree trunk)

Why not just set up a home server/NAS?

 

 

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Why not just set up a home server/NAS?

I have zero need for either.

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The 750Ti won't work in that case, BUT you could mod it and turn it into a mini-itx Steam Box w/ a riser card for the GPU.... 

i don't see PCIE so not even that

my computer beats all computers in a 1,000 NM radius

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I actually work with these all the damn time. (I volunteer at a refurbishing center for ex-felons) They're not bad systems. LGA 775 boards, pci-e, I know at my work we loaded one up with a Core 2 Quad q6600, 6gb DDR2 800 RAM, 500 GB HDD low profile graphics card for dual monitors and we use it as our new server. :P We're a non-profit so we don't get much coming in. We have about a half dozen of these sitting on the back wall. It makes me sad to see that someone just threw it out. I know a lot of people who would love a nice little system like it.

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take out things you can use like the hard drive

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i don't see PCIE so not even that

The mobo has a pci-e slot

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I have zero need for either.

dude load the steam os on it and have a steam machine 

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I was using one of these for my first "gaming" PC haha. Not the one OP posted, but the full tower variation.

 

I put a GTX 550ti in it and a Corsair GS700 PSU, worked fine. I've since upgrade past it and built a full tower, I have the Dell, 550ti and Corsair PSU still, just not being used, yet :P

 

I'd definitely get a decent 500w PSU and a 750ti to put in it, would be a nice gaming/emulator box.

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750 without ti low profile may work better for you. Less power=less heat (:

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750 without ti low profile may work better for you. Less power=less heat (:

I didn't know the regular 750 as a thing.

 

 

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I've taken that exact computer apart many times at my former job. I couldn't find much use for it there.

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I didn't know the regular 750 as a thing.

It is and only has a tdp of 55w instead of 60 and I assume that it may/could be a little smaller

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It is and only has a tdp of 55w instead of 60 and I assume that it may/could be a little smaller

but it doesn't have that cute little fan that the 750TI does.

 

 

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Well, right now, I am trying to install Linux on my old Pentium III system to use as a server. It's an SFF pizza box, so i don't know if putting a second hard drive is feasible.

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Well, right now, I am trying to install Linux on my old Pentium III system to use as a server. It's an SFF pizza box, so i don't know if putting a second hard drive is feasible.

Wow we are talking about linux right now on experiences with non-techies.

 

 

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Windows 8? What?

 

It's all wonky but I suspect some of that is to do with drivers because I just yanked the boot drive from my main rig.

 

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Installing Open Suse on another hdd. Hopefully that will make things better. The disk drive that was in the computer is no good :(

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Check the harddrive. there may be fun things on it  :ph34r:

 

2nd that , maybe its the harddrive with those bitcoins on it :D

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Installing Open Suse on another hdd. Hopefully that will make things better. The disk drive that was in the computer is no good :(

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why not just install it via a bootable USB?

 

 

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why not just install it via a bootable USB?

 

Problems. It doesn't even want to boot into Open Suse now. It's saying it can't find /dev/root. Maybe I'll try installing through usb.

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So I got Kubuntu working. Runs butter smooth. Any suggestions for good free htpc os?

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