The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[Bossyfins]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2849953/budget-rig.html

Do you need a z97 board to OC... You do.
Right? LOL

 

[Turb0Yoda]

The SAT is tomorrow...
Oh God...

 

[tiny voices]

You'll do fine. Just don't stress. The WORST thing to do is freak out and stress.

DO NOT just fill in stuff if you run out of time. It is better to get 15/20 correct and leave the other 5 blank than is it to get 15/20 correct and the other 5 wrong.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Last night I had butterflies in my stomach. Not so much in the morning... I had to leave two blank, math, because they were unlike anything I have seen before.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I should be ordering a E8500/E8400 this month....

 

[g-unit1111]

You'll do fine. Just don't stress. The WORST thing to do is freak out and stress.

DO NOT just fill in stuff if you run out of time. It is better to get 15/20 correct and leave the other 5 blank than is it to get 15/20 correct and the other 5 wrong.

Why do I have that scene from Old School in my head right now where Will Ferrell is yelling "WE GOT TO KEEP OUR COMPOSURE!!!!" and banging the chair against the lockers? :lol:

I'm thinking about ordering one of these sometime soon (mainly because I love the look of this case) and rebuilding my old HTPC into it: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-DSCBB2&c=CJ

 

[cst1992]

I should be ordering a E8500/E8400 this month....

Why don't you get a whole new rig? Even the faster Wolfdales seem to pale in comparison to modern CPU's. The slow Pentiums seem to be 20% faster than them in benchmarks.

 

[cst1992]

I'm thinking about ordering one of these sometime soon (mainly because I love the look of this case) and rebuilding my old HTPC into it: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-DSCBB2&c=CJ

I have seen one of those videos where Linus Tech Tips put a PC in a fridge to see how much the temps are affected. That case reminds me of that fridge.

It's a good case though.

 

[g-unit1111]

I'm thinking about ordering one of these sometime soon (mainly because I love the look of this case) and rebuilding my old HTPC into it: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-DSCBB2&c=CJ

I have seen one of those videos where Linus Tech Tips put a PC in a fridge to see how much the temps are affected. That case reminds me of that fridge.

It's a good case though.

I'm thinking that it's not going to make a lot of sense to have a Silverstone HTPC case set up as a home surveillance rig. :lol:

 

[Turb0Yoda]

It's more of me only having 10 bucks to my name...

If I could, I'd spend 6-709 bucks on a new rig. I think I've asked 10 times now and each time the date gets moved farther up. Same with the car AND provisional...

 

[cst1992]

Which one is it? Home surveillance or HTPC?

 

[g-unit1111]

Which one is it? Home surveillance or HTPC?

Well it was an HTPC and now my parents want to get a few cameras set up around their house and I'm going to take the components out of the case and rebuild them into another one, and get a couple of 4TB hard drives for video recording and get that PC turned into a different use.

 

[Mirakledba]

How did that SAT go?

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Eh?
The essay was a weird topic. I just did two fleshed out body paragraphs rather than three.
Math I knew most of the stuff, but I left 2-4 blank... Crit reading and writing was OK

 

[tiny voices]

I didn't even write a single thing about the essay prompt when I took the SAT. EVERY SAT essay is graded in 2-4 seconds. All you need is good handwriting, square paragraphs, and underlined fancy words.

I restated the question in the first sentence, and then just wrote about what I did that weekend and threw in some big words in the middle of sentences where they made no sense at all, not even used in the correct context, and underlined them.

I got an 11/12 on the essay and I didn't even address the prompt at all. I learned this in my "how to take the SAT" class.

 

[Bossyfins]

If I told what you said to my mom, I'd get punished for life. haha. But, I still think that experieance is important.

 

[tiny voices]

The SAT has nothing to do with knowledge, and all to do with how well you can take a test. That's it.

You just have to not be nervous and make sure you bring something to eat on breaks.

 

[Bossyfins]

Hmmm, I might try that. Maybe on an practice SAT.

 

[tiny voices]

I have no idea if the practice SAT is graded the same as the real one. I'd guess no.

If you want, try just writing ANYTHING at all about the topic and doing the same underline and neatness things I did.

 

[Bossyfins]

All right.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I didn't even write a single thing about the essay prompt when I took the SAT. EVERY SAT essay is graded in 2-4 seconds. All you need is good handwriting, square paragraphs, and underlined fancy words.

I restated the question in the first sentence, and then just wrote about what I did that weekend and threw in some big words in the middle of sentences where they made no sense at all, not even used in the correct context, and underlined them.

I got an 11/12 on the essay and I didn't even address the prompt at all. I learned this in my "how to take the SAT" class.

That is what I did... And I wrote about the prompt though..

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Just Ordered the E8400... It comes with some Thermal Paste and I am buying some Ispropyl alcohol tomorrow or this week... I'll get it next Tuesday.... So three times the L2 and from 2.6 to 3.00 Ghz

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Cool what price did you get it for?

 

[Turb0Yoda]

10 bucks.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Sweet!

Christmas is coming. That rings the PC parts bell in my head. But what to upgrade?

CPU: I5-4460
Mobo: MSI H81M-E33
Case: NZXT H440
PSU: EVGA 850W G2
RAM: 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport
HDD: 500GB WD
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barricuda
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 120GB
GPU: MSI R9 390

Ideas anybody? The cheapest thing there is the motherboard. However it's running perfectly fine, so I don't see hwo upgrading that would benefit. Perhaps I won't ask for PC parts at all.