http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Inspiron-570-...=p2047675.l2557

Sniper strikes again!

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I use a pre mixed formula from XSPC, it has all the chemicals for it already mixed. I also used some flush formula to begin to make sure that the loop had no debris in it. The coolant in my res is still nice coloured, so I think the washout helped, and some debris did come out with the wash.

My temps were around 45-50C at first, but after the AS5 settled (It officially takes 200 hours, but mine settled in around 110), and after settling it now sits at 30C on both GPU and CPU at idle.
My loop runs as follows:
Res/pump -> CPU -> GPU -> Front 200MM Radiator with no fan -> Top 240mm Radiator with x2 SP120mm fans -> Res/pump
Under full load, 40C.

CPU: i7 2600K
GPU: AMD Radeon R9-290X

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820208972 Going to give that a whirl, not blazing fast but cheap. It's just going into that Atom system so anything faster (or even that fast) is a waste since it's going to be limited by the SATA controllers (lack of) speed.

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We have sold a bunch of these at work, no RMAs that I am aware of either. I would have to say: good purchase.

I'm happy to hear that! I'm excited to see how the jmicron controller performs,I wasn't too impressed with the sandforce in my first SSD a few years ago. Raw numbers only tell you so much, but I saw a review that showed it handles uncompressable data and compressable the same but they complained the write speeds were low for it being synch memory and that it behaved more like asynch. Well nuts to that, any system here it's going into is only SATAII so it'll peg out the port before it pegs out the drive, the high iops mean more to me when it comes to real word 'click a bunch of **** and it all opens fast' performance. Booting Xubuntu 14.04 is going to be blazing fast even on the wimpy Atom D525. I may grab a second one for my i3 in sheeps clothing Dell setup that's going to be my cheapy cheap HTPC, instant on or near to it. Sadly, also SATAII on that board. I may see if I can find a good nix friendly PCI-e SATAIII card somewhere for cheap.

So today I spent painting up a Nintendo 64 controller for the GF,
Before:




During:



Got some runs and the spray can paint was really thick for some reason...
Once fully cured I will sand back the runs, give one final pink coat, then going to paint the 'nintendo' satin black and then a final clear coat over the top...

Cute! I'm sure it'll turn out nice, maybe mask off and put some textured paint on the grip areas?

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Might do that on a future controller


Got the controller back together, but the Left Bumper isn't activating properly so I don;t think I put the contact board in properly lol...

Anyone here play with FreeNAS? I'm thinking about using it here to manage backups of my stuff and serve media to my PC's so I don't need huge drives with redundant copies of all my stuff on each PC or could even access it when I'm away from home to download or stream movies from myself to myself.

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I had a play with it at Tafe, but never really used it too seriously... Heard good things about it though

I did some reading and it seems that...
If I don't use ECC RAM, I'll loose all my data.
If I have less than 8GB of RAM and use ZFS the best file system ever, I'll loose all my data.
If I use UFS, I'll loose all my data.
If I use ZFS, I'll loose all my data.
If I use FreeNAS, I'll loose all my data.
If I don't use expensive sever class hardware and disk drives, I'll loose all my data.
If I use ZFS and the pool crashes, I'll loose all my data an ZFS recovery software doesn't exist.

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Just keep an external 3TB HDD laying around and put everything on it, They were or sale here in Australia for $120delivered the other day lol.

Forgot about this thread, but a few weeks ago I purchased an Asus ROG G750J.
Absolutely amazing laptop.

17.3" Screen with 1920x1080 res.
i7-4700HQ
12GB of DDR3L memory (expandable to 32GB)
1TB HD
Nvidia GTX 860M graphics - 2GB GDDR5 memory
HDMI and Thunderbolt outputs
4 USB 3.0 ports
And a bunch of other crap, but that's the most important part hahaha

Now to just get a second monitor for it.

Any reason why external monitors on a laptop?

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Bitrot, I've been bitten by it once before.

Got a free laptop, was failing randomly, it would black screen, not post, loop cycling on/off before post, etc.
I let a guy take a stab at it for $40 he told me it needed a new motherboard. I declined his repair as the price was way too high, I took it home and opened it up to just double check everything and I found that. So I ordered a new stick of memory and took a good look at the memory socket and found 3 pins on the bottom row on one end and 2 on the top row on the other end that were corroded and pushed flush with the plastic socket. I made a special tool out of a safety pin, scraped them clean, and pulled them back up, socketed the memory, and I'm running Memtest86+ for 24 hours and then going to run Prime95 blend for another 24 hours.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Jun 25, 2014 - 9:17 PM

Sounds like a score if it pulls off...

I carbon wrapped my 3DSxL top case today, looks alright, could of done better but hey, first attempt

Yea, I was pretty excited when it posted with both memory installed. It's nothing special but it's decent. P6200, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, integrated graphics which are teh suck. I can drop in an i5 480M for like $60 and a 256GB SSD for about $100 and then it'll be somewhat decent except for the weak graphics. All I really care about is 1080P playback since I watch a lot of anime and stuff on my laptop.

Not the best, but first time I've ever wrapped anything:




Now gotta get another small sheet and do the bottom

Looks good to me.

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Mainly for photo and video editing. I just got a job doing product photography and I need the bigger screen for editing purposes.
The 17" is big enough for now, but it'd be nice to have something bigger since you have to zoom in for all the detailed editing.
I opted for a laptop since it's portable and I can take it with me to a shoot and whatnot. Then I can at least review my photos while I'm at the shoot.

When I built my desktop it was so I could Play wow
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/bone...alephvav/simple

IDK if that's nerdy enough for ya or not :E
I haven't actually been on a raid team since Dragon Soul, and that was 2 years ago. I don't even pay for a subscription anymore I just wait for them to send me an inv for free 7 days. then Ill log in and dick around for a while, I don't even want to play the game I just like hanging out in the city and messing with people in trade chat.

virtualbox Windows7 install up and running. woot. pretty smooth for the lame hardware.

Another hobby of mine; Aquarium.
Spent the past week re-setting up an old tank that had some CoryDoras and a Pleco Catfish.
Cleaned it out, rearranged it and cleaned the filter.

Let it run for a day and reintroduced the fish and today introduced two Queensland Kreffts turtles.

Some photos of the hatchlings:

wow those are super cool looking and different from the ones we have, here's some shots from when mine were hatchlings



and not long after...


I also had a sporty soft-shell
he was a bit too aggressive to handle and liked to burrow under the gravel and chill with just his nose poking out

They look cute!

Mine always chill around the reed end side of my tank (I set it up especially for them) and my fish just chill at the rocky end haha, occasionally one of the turtles will go and chill with the fish but he always tries to sit on top of the fish and then the fish moves and then the turtle swims off, almost as if he is just trying to piss the fish off haha

I had a female painted for about 10 years, it ate the fish we put in with it, couple of blue gill...it also ate the crayfish but we didn't mind that one bit...that crayfish was kind of an asshole. It took a long time before it was big enough to get the blue gills, which we got to eat the feeder guppies the turtle didn't eat but who were eating all the turtle pellets.

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Yeah, guppies are way to small and slow to keep with a turtle. I've got:
Two Leopard Cory Dora at 3cm long:


One Bronze Cory Dora at 4cm long:


One Albino Cory Dora at 5cm long:


And a single 22cm Pleco:

Yea, nothing that fancy for us when we had it. Thinking back, they weren't even bluegill but pumpkinseed! We thought the feeder guppies would make a good snack for the turtle but it didn't even bother with them, the guppies multiplied into a big school of fish that would eat all the turtles pellets before it could even get them, so I caught a pumpkinseed from the local pond and dropped it in the pond with the turtle and guppies. After about 3 days there were no guppies and a very fat pumpkinseed. A few years later I caught another pumpkinseed and introduced it as well, and about 4 years later the turtle had grown large enough to overturn the rocks the fish hid under and was able to eat one, then the other a couple weeks later. It would drive them into the shallow and get them, leaving just a floating head in the morning. All it left of the large crayfish was a pair of claws and the head, it dispatched of it within a week, which was good because the crayfish kept trying to pick fights with the turtle which was pretty suicidal...and it ate the big apple snail we bought so we were glad when the turtle made a snack of it.