The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[g-unit1111]

Speaking of tournament days I was in Best Buy yesterday and there had to be some 70 people competing in a Smash Bros tournament. I was considering joining and whooping their poor behinds with Jigglypuff, but decided neh. Then I looked to my left and saw on the shelf these overpriced junk power supplies. I was getting ink anyway, I wasn't looking for a PSU.

I can't believe anyone would actually *WANT* an Insignia or Rocketfish PSU. I'm guessing they sell those to make people think they're selling PC components.

 

[cst1992]

LOL @ "make people think".

Nailed it right there.

 

[tiny voices]

I have a friend who is a competitive Melee player. He is ranked in the top 250 in the USA. Those guys are in a league of their own. Wave Dashing, Wave Landing, teching, meteor canceling, etc. All kinds of stuff you need to master.

 

[g-unit1111]

LOL @ "make people think".

Nailed it right there.

No one goes to Best Buy to buy PC components though. :lol:

Although I did order a Corsair 500R through their online store and actually got a pretty good deal on it.

 

[tiny voices]

I have bought thermal paste from Best Buy brfore. And an SSD once. Lol

Also, you might find it interesting that there were actually a few half-decent Rcketfish PSUs available in the past based on Huntkey platforms.

 

[cst1992]

Although I did order a Corsair 500R through their online store and actually got a pretty good deal on it.

Which one? I have the white one, it's empty at the moment though. I'll post a build here and PCPartPicker when I finally get the money. Man I love that case.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Well, CSGO runs, with everything on low.... Granted, I can blame my CPU since it's below the minimum, but it doesn't hit 100 and there are no stalls so I think I can put some sliders up...

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I went through the trouble of calculating electric bill savings of Nvidia vs AMD for various cards. The thread is here http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2833574/electric-bill-amd-nvidia-mathematics-calculated.html#16809362 since I spent over an hour on it, I'd appreciate it if someone provided their input 😀

 

[Turb0Yoda]

My new Goto thread for people who will complain about the energy bills that will go up by buying an AMD card...

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2039049/ram-installed-computer-laptop.html
Now rate my thread on finding the amount of RAM in a system...

 

[turkey3_scratch]

My new Goto thread for people who will complain about the energy bills that will go up by buying an AMD card...

That's exactly what I hope to do, I want to end all speculation and have exact numbers to show to people from now on.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

My new Goto thread for people who will complain about the energy bills that will go up by buying an AMD card...

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2039049/ram-installed-computer-laptop.html
Now rate my thread on finding the amount of RAM in a system...

Nice RAM article! You forgot that the H110 chipset uses DDR4, too. I like how you include pictures for all those operating systems, pictures are the best way to go, good job!

I updated my electric bill article. I added the GTX 980 vs the 390X, and also added a conclusion. The conclusion found that the 370 is certainly the best in terms of power, and the 380 is the worst. The 390X came in second, with the 390 in third.

 

[g-unit1111]

Although I did order a Corsair 500R through their online store and actually got a pretty good deal on it.

Which one? I have the white one, it's empty at the moment though. I'll post a build here and PCPartPicker when I finally get the money. Man I love that case.

The white one. I built my work PC in it. It's pretty much perfect, though I might replace the Hyper 212 at some point with a Cryorig H5/H7 but otherwise that's it.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

helping my friend fix his grandfathers note 4 10.1... I can peel the entire back off with my fingers as his grandfather thought it was the battery and replaced it... From my end, it looks like the lock button is in really bad shape... Also the back that it won't boot. I can get into Odin mode, so that should fix it...

 

[Turb0Yoda]

G-Unit, did you ever set up that NAS?

 

[g-unit1111]

G-Unit, did you ever set up that NAS?

I kind of put that on the back burner for now - my Wifi is in dire need of an upgrade before I can set up something like that. Plus getting the Raven setup as my primary HTPC was a much bigger priority than anything else I had going. But now I will be looking at buying a new Wifi router and a signal booster. Then all I need is FreeNAS setup and I'm done.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Ah... See, my friend has one at home, with a 1.5 TB HDD... He has it installed on a USB because you cannot use the storage that the OS is installed on for Data.... This is FreeNAS 8

 

[g-unit1111]

Ah... See, my friend has one at home, with a 1.5 TB HDD... He has it installed on a USB because you cannot use the storage that the OS is installed on for Data.... This is FreeNAS 8

I only have a 500GB hard drive in there right now, my 2TB is in the Raven where its' being put through its' paces. I've been monitoring NAS hard drive prices from Seagate and WD on Newegg, if I can score a 4TB or more that would be pretty sweet. Though I think my 78LMT board can only support 3TB max.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

They have a 4 TB external for a hundred bucks on Newegg.... argh...
I noticed that my wifi router/modem has a USB port... might be able to attach any old hard drive and have it appear on the network...

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I was thinking about picking up one of these.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9705/western-digital-my-cloud-mirror-gen-2-review

Looks pretty sweet for the modest price. I don't know though having to buy that new mower set my upgrade to Skylake back to a Christmas present for myself so I'll see if I can fit it into my budget. $300 really isn't bad though and I need the backup.

 

[Bossyfins]

Just gonna build my own. I Found some cheapo servers that are fairly decent, Dell poweredges with dual CPUS fr 8 cores for about 125$. Might just go for gold and use it to do everything.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Newegg seems to be having a lot of those on their shell shocker or whatnot...

 

[nikoli707]

my personal confidence level in mechanical drives larger than 1tb isn't very good. 2tb is about tops for me.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Just gonna build my own. I Found some cheapo servers that are fairly decent, Dell poweredges with dual CPUS fr 8 cores for about 125$. Might just go for gold and use it to do everything.

Really? $125? I am guessing they are extremely low frequency?

 

[Bossyfins]

BS or not BS? I don't think they cover it in warranty.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sop/5279275444.html


@Turkey
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sop/5273728639.html
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sop/5232788657.html

and there is this too. Bound to find something great in there for cheap.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sop/5255592528.html

 

[nukemaster]

I do not think they cover bent LGA pins. I mean those are VERY bad and i have heard many users complain about company <insert name here> would not honor warranty for bent pins.

I would contact MSI to ask about such a thing.