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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition
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19. August 2011 @ 15:10 |
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If you liked ASUS ROM's and don't want to buy from them now look at Pioneer as most ASUS ROM's are really pioneer drives they have re-firmwared. ASUS used to be good stuff to bad their customer support has gone to the way-side.
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19. August 2011 @ 18:00 |
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There's always an element of personal taste when choosing a case, because you don't look at your internal components much, but you see your case all the time. If you like the look of something, that adds weight to buying it, and vice versa. There is obviously a point at which you have to take specification over appearance though, no point buying something that looks good but is of no use to you!
Being the owner of a case with a very large window, I find myself putting effort into my internals. My cabling is immaculate and all components are color matched to some degree. I like to have a show quality PC :)
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19. August 2011 @ 18:06 |
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cabling should be the first thing on someones list for a case IMO. The neater the better.
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19. August 2011 @ 18:42 |
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19. August 2011 @ 18:53 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Asus sucks!
What have I been saying for years?
Some companies never change.
Omega: those acrylic cases are pretty naff. They have no structural rigidity without a metal frame behind them so they're weak and can't hold too much weight, they have no heat transmission properties or many fan mounts so they're awful for cooling, they look pretty awful once you put components in them because you see the reverse side of the PCB and can't hide any cables away, and they're usually pretty tacky quality as well.
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19. August 2011 @ 20:59 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Call me crazy, but I'm considering this badboy for a hard drive server :p
http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-9bay-acrylic-uv.html
OK I'll byte :) You?re crazy! But seriously I'd have to agree with Sam on this one, plus you would have to hide it in a closet or else it would burn your eye balls out. The 9 external bays would be great for hot swap modules but again that would really add weight and stress to the enclosure.
LOL...
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19. August 2011 @ 21:29 |
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Is there some unanimous hate for cubes here or is it just the price? IMO they're functionally superior to any other case design I've seen.
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19. August 2011 @ 22:03 |
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Cube cases as far as I've seen and worked with are very small cube type cases which are really only good for a few things like a Media Center box for your TV. Acrylic cases aren't cubes and like Sam said are not very good even if you think they look cool, I don't think they do.
So I guess your speaking another language because I'm not following you.
Here is a cube case:
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19. August 2011 @ 23:27 |
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now mountain mods cases are the shnizzle.
just do your self a favour, get sams server case, he uses it like no one else and its been fine.
or if you want a top end case, silver stone, lian li or corsair.
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20. August 2011 @ 00:55 |
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LOL! You guys crack me up. To each his/her own, right? I happen to like any and all black light reactive stuff. I could probably rig it to light that way only on occasion(unless it already does have a switch), and as for the transparency, I happen to like seeing the inner workings of stuff. Tacky? perhaps :p I'd probably position it in such a way, that it wouldn't be too bad anyway. ~$80 isn't too bad to play with a new toy. At least with a tax return :S
And now to check out mountainmods :D I've seen a few of their cases before. Outstanding!
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20. August 2011 @ 01:04 |
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It will be a cheap way to learn a good lesson. Load it with tons of 20G drives in removable bays and go to move it all loaded up, just to find the case came apart on you. Good idea.... LOL
You may want to get some dark sun glasses and maybe some ultraviolet blocking tan lotion. :P
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20. August 2011 @ 01:07 |
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You really think it would collapse under serious weight?
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20. August 2011 @ 01:14 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
You really think it would collapse under serious weight?
Absolutely! If you load it up and move it around much it could come apart at the seams. They do a pretty good job at welding the seams together but fully loaded with swap bays a couple of good video cards and you could have problems. If you careful I'm sure you would be fine but you wouldn't want much lean force loaded up.
Also turn off your ceiling fan if you intend to raise it above your chest. :)
Sam is truly correct about heat as the acrylic will not sink heat as it is more of an insulator so heat could be a big issue especially loaded with less airflow. So that is something to think about too.
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20. August 2011 @ 01:16 |
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20. August 2011 @ 01:21 |
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With proper fans, Surely cooling wouldn't be TOO much an issue.
Believe me, I will not make that mistake again LOL!
Ha ha! I was looking at that Mobo on newegg recently. Impressive to say the least!
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20. August 2011 @ 01:22 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
For the record Mountain Mods makes one of the very rare few cases that can fit the Evga Classified SR-2.
http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=238992&mpage=1
Thing was actually meant to live on a tech bench. They never intended it to go into case. Was surprised to note it supports Crossfire as well, being so caked with Nvidia and Evga branding.
A server type board aimed at work stations and gamers, very nice I haven't seen that one before.
The better swap bays also have fans in them and that would help to if you chose that path.
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20. August 2011 @ 05:36 |
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For epic storage space you might want to consider a Nexus Edge (if you can find one) - it's basically a carbon copy of the NZXT Whisper but is taller, so can fit more 5.25" bays (8 vs 6). It also has a top fan mount for slightly better cooling, and the lower fan for the hard disks is single 140 instead of dual 80. It's not exactly a great looker, but for function over form, it's about as good as you'll get without spending crazy amounts on a mountain mod cube :)
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20. August 2011 @ 07:35 |
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Got a question! Has anybody been getting emails from their contacts that appears to have been sent by a third party, but your contact's email address is where it tells you it's coming from. At first all of these were No Subject. They've apparently learned that people throw away emails like that because I don't usually open any no subject emails from anybody. I'm just concerned for the day that even if you open it to see what the file is, it could activate and load you up with malware. Good Old Micro$oft has known about it for a while, but has no answer yet. Tell me that isn't weird!
Whoever is doing this is learning and now no longer sends them as No Subject. I just dumped 7 of them, 3 supposedly from Rick, 2 from Fred, 1 from ZosoIV and 1 from Omegaman7 about a dead snake! All had malware in them! The real strange thing is with most of them a copy is sent back to the person that originally sent you the email. I have noticed that it hasn't affected gmail yet, but I don't use it that often because it's a PITA to use, and has far less capabilities than Hotmail or Yahoo!
Micro$oft is such a wonderful company to deal with. They wouldn't allow me to send more than 6 legitimate emails to Europe at a time, but some D*ckhead can send out thousands of these emails, full of Trojans, Malware and Viruses. Do you see a wave of new Malware and Trojan removers coming out in the near future? All promoted heavily by Micro$oft! Generating revenue to help get the economy back on track? Jesus! I sound just like one of those Damn Conspiracy Theorists!
Russ
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20. August 2011 @ 07:37 |
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It's no microsoft conspiracy, it's nothing to do with them, it's a botnet that's infected your friends' computers, massmailing everyone and pretending to be them. I had one once, only found out when my ISP cut me off when they detected my IP sending out masses of data to various IPs on port 25.
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20. August 2011 @ 07:57 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
It's no microsoft conspiracy, it's nothing to do with them, it's a botnet that's infected your friends' computers, massmailing everyone and pretending to be them. I had one once, only found out when my ISP cut me off when they detected my IP sending out masses of data to various IPs on port 25.
Sam,
Any recommendations?
Russ
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20. August 2011 @ 07:58 |
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I've gotten the odd email from you Russ, but afaik always just you forwarding something.
I've had massmailers before as well. Funny enough my previous ISP was using ancient hardware that couldn't even monitor my traffic. Imagine my surprise when I have some angry guy in India telling me I'm a scammer... and the ISP didn't even know where to begin helping me.
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20. August 2011 @ 08:10 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
I've gotten the odd email from you Russ, but afaik always just you forwarding something.
Estuansis,
What bothers me is Sam saying that it's a bot net, yet as of yesterday Micro$oft acknowledges the problem, but doesn't have a fix for it yet! I can pretty safely say that after sending over 600 emails to Europe in May/June, and having heard back from most of them with no complaints that it's not being generated by my computer. This problem started to appear a couple of months earlier than that, so it's got to be something in a growing number of friends computers. It's like I'm a carrier or something. I'm going to run MalwareBytes in safe mode and see if anything pops up!
Best Regards,
Russ
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20. August 2011 @ 08:10 |
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20. August 2011 @ 08:12 |
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20. August 2011 @ 08:33 |
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It's not really MS' responsibility to safeguard against stuff like that, depending on what's been compromised. Most AV/malware scanners should sort it out, but that will only sort your PC out, it's up to whoever's spamming you to sort their problem out. Most of the time these issues will be accompanied with other problems/slowdowns, so usually they end up getting fixed.
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