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@Nuke, Dorm? I live in a three bed house dude, although technically my 'bedroom' is now a workshop and the bed itself is raised so the feet of the legs are 30" off the floor so I have tool storage, somewhere for my laundry basket and still have space for exercising :-D
Monitor will be bracketted to foot end, hardware and W/c guts on the reverse of that wood and I'll design and build a foldy keyboard rest that will stow when not in use and fold out to allow me to sit up in bed and use the Pc,
I already made a little phone bracket but fancied a bigger screen for movies so thought meh, build Pc into the bed as well :-D
Simple enough to execute I reckon lol
Moto
 


Yeah the Angels lost, Ducks lost, and the stupid Blackhawks won. Grr. :fou:

I wanna build an EK loop so bad man. While most of the parts in the starter are good to go the reservoirs offered are just too small for my tastes. (that is, just the ones in the starter kits) Plus I'm hardcore all about the hardline tubing, so really I need to buy all the parts individually and that requires time and measurements. I'll probably do it eventually, but I'm good for now.

Also, orange builds look awesome. The LinusTechTips guys just build a custom rig in their signature orange color (which required some painting) which turned out looking awesome.
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Yeah I've been doing a lot of research on what I want to put in this water cooled build in terms of hardware. I don't know what it is going to cost when it's all done but I'm looking at dropping at least $200 on the radiator and then all the tubing, CPU block and GPU block I'm looking at spending at least $400 - $500 when all is said and done. I'm kind of nervous about doing this because I've never done anything like it, I've only ever done CLLs and air cooled rigs. But I think the payoff will be great when it's all said and done. I think I remembered too a while back I found a place that was selling tempered glass panels for the Enthoo Pro so I will also be buying one of those.
 
Everyone's nervous their first time doing a custom waterloop but it can be easy if you've watched enough build logs. It's such a wonderful feeling when it works. Recently picked up a second job so that means more of my pc obsessions can be fead mwahaha. Currently doing research into soundcards, audio equipment etc etc, quite alot of material to read and watch :heink:
 
Similarly, only the income from my FT job is in my regular budget. Anything I get from freelance work is "off-budget" and pays for PC-related stuff like the Scrooge experiment, test lab upgrades, and similar things.
I'm not sure what my next project will be, but at the end of it, my primary rig (whatever it turns out to be) will be in a regular ATX case to put its ports within reach.
 
[strike]svchost.exe is still eating up 50% of my CPU...
I ran Roguehunter, MalwareBytes, Spybot SSD, and Avast all in safemode and it is still there -.-
To play any game, I have to kill it, and that causes more problems...[/strike]

Turns out disabling Windows update in Services did the trick...

I "Redid" the cable "management" in my case, and while my GPU temps dropped a lot(which is nice)... My CPU was hitting 75-79C in some games... Can't stop with the problems...
 


We mods are not big fans of his either. :lol:

I'm not sure what my next project will be, but at the end of it, my primary rig (whatever it turns out to be) will be in a regular ATX case to put its ports within reach.
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I think my next big project is going to be the custom loop. I'm not building any new rigs any time soon. Only thing I am doing is upgrading and improving the ones I do have. The White Knight rig is done, but the Dark Knight rig is the one I will be upgrading because I really want it to be a show off piece. I will be pulling the trigger on the Asrock OC Formula and the 6800K when they are available, then I'll wait until the next generations of GPUs before I do a full GPU upgrade, plus that will depend on what monitor I get. Though I might wind up getting a new laptop at some point since mine has been doing some incredibly weird things lately.
 
Well, Omega still has indeterminate issues with its RAID1 volume (not degraded, drives show fine, but once again needed a repair yesterday). It's relatively slow, which could probably be addressed by a good OC, except that it already sucks down too much juice compared to Minion.
 

Double wide cases are not my thing, but it is a nice looking case with lots of room for expansion.
 
There is like only 1 currently sold, and it's the black one on Newegg for $380. I am willing to spend under $400 certainly. A case that'll last me a lifetime will be well worth it, and I've been saving up a lot.

I contacted Lian-Li today asking where I can get the gold or green version. Have not gotten a response yet, but I am certainly more than ready to give them my bucks. It's the case that calls out to me.
 
Today is a sad day, Galax called me and told me the 980 Ti Watercooled Edition i had ordered will have to be canceled as they wont be selling them anymore. I guess i could always buy an air-cooled card and just install a waterblock but im so lazy. Bah so much sadness.
 
Hi everybody! (and good to see this thread is STILL going xD) My desktop days are done, just got myself a lappy recently. a Dell inspiron (7559?) anyway specs are i7-6700HQ, 8 Gigaboots of Male Goats, a 1TB "Le Hybrid" drive and a GTX 960m wif dah 4gb GDDR5, overall its a great system, performance is better than i expected for something costing 1300 AUD, and the IPS panel is far superior to the ASUS monitor i had (VE48 or something like that). Only complaint is the trackpad, which is pretty average, and the fact that it doesnt have an optical drive. But hey, i wanted a portable system that could run a game or two at 1080p, and it fits the bill nicely, might just become a flag flying Dell fanboy now hehehe!
 


Trouble is i have 980 hydro copper im trying to sell which no one seems to be buying and it's been a month since my PC last ran (was waiting for new gpu so i to put in the new motherboard at the same time..) so at this point i'm just sad. Going from a beast rig to a macbook pro (what im currently using) feels so disgusting.
 


That Pro4 that I got from you is a pretty solid board. I haven't been able to really use it yet because I haven't had a chance to get an OS license yet but I will definitely let you know once I get it installed.
 
Yes, it is. I likely would have used that one myself, although in this case full ATX is ok.

My new PC's name will be "Enough." With an i3 and a GTX750Ti, it should indeed be "enough" to handle almost all of my needs.
 
So I've heard
I'm just setting up one USB for win 10 64 bit pro and another for drivers
My plan is to install windows on the SSD, boot to that, copy my data from the old drive, wipe old drive, and set it up so everything and steam games is on the 500 gig Hitachi

I have a backup on the 80 gig dell win 10 machine... Then I'll put that machine back to the linux tri boot experiment stuff
 
Win8.1, drivers, and test SW is all loaded on the H170 Pro. After I run through the few standard tests, I'm going to run a few more so I can do comparisons with the i3 and other components when it becomes "Enough" later this weekend. I'll actually end up running it through some extra test cycles since I'm going to do Win8.1 vs. Win10 on it.
 
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