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Buttcoin purse posted:Are there really that many people willing to spend a grand or more on a video card or is the supply just really low? Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.
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We've been stuck at home for months now and the whole I NEED THIS NOW part of our brains is going into hyperdrive.
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Dec 21, 2020 00:58
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LifeSunDeath posted:gonna laugh when he only plays minecraft on it. Buttcoin purse posted:Are there really that many people willing to spend a grand or more on a video card or is the supply just really low? Though my aforementioned friend works for Snapchat, and though I do not know his salary I know he has very inexpensive tastes and probably does not know what else to do with his social mediamoney
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I think I may have found out there's some issues with a disk I was trying to use: I reckon it is more the drive than the disk itself. Going to pull apart the computer and give the heads a clean with some IPA during the Christmas break from work. Was also trying to get Windows 98SE installed on a Toshiba PII laptop, but couldn't get it to read boot disks properly then while trying different boot disks the HDD in it died. Waiting on some SD Card to 44 pin IDE adapters to come in now.
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You Am I posted:Was also trying to get Windows 98SE installed on a Toshiba PII laptop, but couldn't get it to read boot disks properly then while trying different boot disks the HDD in it died. Waiting on some SD Card to 44 pin IDE adapters to come in now. I got Puppy Linux running on a Toshiba PII laptop, and was able to use a PCMCIA wireless card to get it online. Browsing the Internet on like a 300mhz processor with a 800x600 screen was certainly an experience. A very slow experience.
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Dec 21, 2020 02:16
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Buttcoin purse posted:Are there really that many people willing to spend a grand or more on a video card or is the supply just really low? They're too dumb to buy a PS Quadruple lmao.
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Dec 21, 2020 03:30
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Bargearse posted:Hmm that's a very good point but have you considered I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. https://i.imgur.com/COl77rO.mp4 Your argument against invalidity is now invalid.
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Dec 21, 2020 07:15
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. What is this dark sorcery?!? *calls the Spanish Inquisition Hotline*
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. Glorious.
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Dec 21, 2020 09:10
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. I wanna open the door to 104 161
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Dec 21, 2020 14:03
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. you're telling me, this whole time, I could have been making calls on my mouse? 
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Dec 21, 2020 14:53
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. Thank you for having "pee tape" on your phone just show the 3-digit dialing shortcut instead of doxxing me by showing my entire phone number.
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Dec 21, 2020 14:59
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LifeSunDeath posted:you're telling me, this whole time, I could have been making calls on my mouse? There's no one you can call to help with your subpar DPS.
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Dec 21, 2020 15:00
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Admiral Joeslop posted:There's no one you can call to help with your subpar DPS. jokes on you, I don't have anyone to call to help with my problems.
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LifeSunDeath posted:gonna laugh when he only plays minecraft on it. This is why I was looking at the more budget options. I mean, Battlefront II and Battlefield V are the most demanding games I've bothered with in quite awhile, and they run just fine on my 6 year old i5 and GTX 960 so for once in my life the part of my brain shouting "NEWER SHINIER BEEFIER, NOW WITH NEW HAT" has shut the gently caress up. Plus the Ryzen system I'm parting out would end up bottlenecking a 2060 and up anyway  I have been looking at what apparently *is* a tech relic these days: a case with actual external bays for a card reader and my Blu-Ray writer. Lord save me from featureless waffle fronts with 4 billion multicolored LEDs behind it. The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse. in it, voted 5
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Dec 21, 2020 18:38
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Plinkey posted:I think my P3 or possibly older AMD, around the 2005 range had those too My roommate just built a new pc in this monstrosity:  Room for like five optical drives, two floppys and about 10 hard drives. None of it in use because the main drive is m.2 now. And yes that is RGB lighting shining through because of course the main board and GPU have it even though you can't see it with this case! We both got the same video card (3060 ti at msrp baby  ) and his runs 5C hotter cause the case is just not designed for airflow. But he bought it like 15 years ago and it's got the little feet so he's keeping it...
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Shai-Hulud posted:My roommate just built a new pc in this monstrosity: That's a beauty, I had a silver one. It cost a bunch, weighed a ton, and I was a dumb kid when I decided to throw it away.
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mng posted:That's a beauty, I had a silver one. It cost a bunch, weighed a ton, and I was a dumb kid when I decided to throw it away. Yeah I had the silver one. I think my parents still have it in the attic somewhere. It was noisy and moving it to/from college every year was getting annoying so I swapped it for a regular size NXZT "screwless" Apollo case with a modular power supply. I don't miss it one bit. I'd give it to you if I could. Edit: I still miss my Apollo case though. I loved that thing  Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 21:09 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Man I miss those Antec/Chieftec monstrosity full size cases. I always wanted one, but could only afford cheap midtowers with razor sharp internals to cut myself on. I once salvaged an absolute unit of an AT server case, I had plans to redrill the motherboard spacers and create a custom backplate to convert it to ATX. Also had room for an internal mini ATX motherboard to run a fileserver, and enough room to mount the guts of a WRT54g for Wi-Fi. The plan was for it to become the ultimate lan party computer. I think I used it as a nightstand for years until I finally accepted my lan party days were over, and scrapped it. E. I forget, I still have the WRT54g and the massive pair of high gain antennas I got for that case mod. They're currently extending Wi-Fi out to my shop. Small world. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 23:29 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Mak0rz posted:moving it to/from college every year was getting annoying so I swapped it for a regular size NXZT "screwless" Apollo case with a modular power supply. 
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I’ve got an old IBM server case I’m planning to do my next build in. It will accept an ATX motherboard and has front drive bays, but it’ll be a tight squeeze getting everything in there with adequate cooling.
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Dec 22, 2020 02:19
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The Wurst Poster posted:I see your burger mouse and raise you my novelty CocaCola land line phone mouse.  Meanwhile in North Carolina, LGR has just felt the hair on his arms stand on end.
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Dec 22, 2020 03:06
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Bargearse posted:I’ve got an old IBM server case I’m planning to do my next build in. It will accept an ATX motherboard and has front drive bays, but it’ll be a tight squeeze getting everything in there with adequate cooling.
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Dec 22, 2020 05:37
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Shai-Hulud posted:My roommate just built a new pc in this monstrosity: Holy poo poo, I used to have this exact case in silver. I had it because I bought a dual Xeon EATX motherboard and this was the only case that it would fit in. Had to lug my mobo to CompUSA.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I lived in a situation for six months where I had to be in one state half the week and another state the other half, and I did not own a laptop nor particularly want to buy one. I instead invested in one of these debatably bad boys and moved my desktop twice a week the whole time Wow I had that exact same case used in those pics. What a blast from the past. IIRC I got it from a friend along with a P4 CPU as I was using an old P3 at the time. The deal was the case and cpu for a case of beer but since he never specified what brand I got him a case of Milwaukee's Best.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I lived in a situation for six months where I had to be in one state half the week and another state the other half, and I did not own a laptop nor particularly want to buy one. I instead invested in one of these debatably bad boys and moved my desktop twice a week the whole time I did the same thing on a weekly basis years ago. Dragging the desktop into hotels was a pain but worth it. Somehow managed to never have a work roommate either. I got through most of the Fallout New Vegas DLC those months.
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I had one of these monstrosities back in the day, not with a window though but with a solid side panel. Heavy as heck (Dragged it home via public transport) and the wiring was a mess due to the fan controllers but it stayed nice and cool. The EL lighting for the front panel also generated a bit of noise on the soundcard so that stayed off after the novelty wore off.
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I can tell you. That thing is not designed for modern hardware! Yes it all fits, but the wires from the PSU are designed to connect to drives from the bottom cause thats where PSUs are in a modern case. Here the PSU is at the top so adding to the complete lack of cable management options is a fun little loop at the end because the plugs are the wrong way around! I also 3D printed him some adapters to get his 2.5' drives into his 3.5' drivebays because the case does now know of those futuristic drive shapes! Theres also two 80mm screamer fans in front and space for two in the side panel. The only 120mm fan is at the back. Fully equipped this thing gets loud!
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Shai-Hulud posted:I can tell you. That thing is not designed for modern hardware! Yes it all fits, but the wires from the PSU are designed to connect to drives from the bottom cause thats where PSUs are in a modern case. Here the PSU is at the top so adding to the complete lack of cable management options is a fun little loop at the end because the plugs are the wrong way around! I have a friend who had one of those like first gen cpu coolers in college that was like one of the first coolermaster or something that came out and used it in his desktop next to his bed in college, after a semester he couldn't sleeping without the constant noise and had to buy a white noise machine when he went back to his parents house over breaks. It was one like this before heat pipes were a thing. 
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Plinkey posted:I have a friend who had one of those like first gen cpu coolers in college that was like one of the first coolermaster or something that came out and used it in his desktop next to his bed in college, after a semester he couldn't sleeping without the constant noise and had to buy a white noise machine when he went back to his parents house over breaks. It was one like this before heat pipes were a thing. LOL. I remember my buddy taping up a system with a desk fan and bags and his computer case to cool it, because they didn't make poo poo to cool a voodoo, but he had done some overclocking or something and it was genuinely overheating, I believe he fried his computer once doing this. This lead to a lifelong superstition about coolers going bad and making my system melt down, which was a genuine problem way back when, but isn't really an issue now since they'll likely shut themselves down before it's too crispy. Oh and the early days of liquid cooling were pretty great, lots of people making mistakes and flooding their computer case.
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Spent a number of years playing TF2 and BF2142 on a system that VERY MUCH did not want to do so via popping the side of the case off and directing a desk fan at the innards on high. Ah those were the days.
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LifeSunDeath posted:
This just reminded me that I have a water cooled pc in a storage unit that I didn't drain when I put it in there, I should really go get it, and assume that the water froze and destroyed everything.
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LifeSunDeath posted:This lead to a lifelong superstition about coolers going bad and making my system melt down, which was a genuine problem way back when, but isn't really an issue now since they'll likely shut themselves down before it's too crispy. I had something similar to that coolermaster screamer posted above and it was utterly insufferable. I was young and had no money so removed it, cut a hole in the side panel, mounted the cheapest 120mm fan I could find and used a hacked-up plastic plant pot as a makeshift shroud. It worked remarkably well.
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Years ago a friend of mine got given an SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer. It had a spare empty cabinet that I took (as shown below, but not my photo) but it's too wide to fit through the door and so has sat in my garage for many years. No idea what I'll ever do with it, but too cool to get rid of. Has 3-phase power input that breaks out into a poo poo-ton of standard power sockets.
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an actual frog posted:Is it time to re-post that Tom's Hardware video? Project X by Allister Brimble, if anyone's wondering about the music This video is awesome. The music, everything, brings me back.
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Gromit posted:Years ago a friend of mine got given an SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer. It had a spare empty cabinet that I took (as shown below, but not my photo) but it's too wide to fit through the door and so has sat in my garage for many years. No idea what I'll ever do with it, but too cool to get rid of. Has 3-phase power input that breaks out into a poo poo-ton of standard power sockets. Friend of mine turned one of these into a fridge.
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I've been working on my Pentium overdrive PC. This is an AT motherboard with the big DIN keyboard connector, so I used a serial mouse to get going in Windows. I found a floppy disk with a copy of After Dark from 1993 on it. The floppy still worked fine, and I installed it on Windows 98. I HAVE FLYING TOASTERS! Sorry for the terrible phone-lcd picture 
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0toShifty posted:I've been working on my Pentium overdrive PC. This is an AT motherboard with the big DIN keyboard connector, so I used a serial mouse to get going in Windows. I would kill for After Dark on Win10 holy poo poo Man do I miss it
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It's a pain to set up, but After Dark 3.2 + Windows 3.11 works in DOSBox. You might be able to combine it some sort of launcher to make it work as a screensaver. There's also this, but it costs money and I don't know if it sucks. http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasterswin/index.shtml
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Code Jockey posted:I would kill for After Dark on Win10 holy poo poo https://youtu.be/zTz__hvOQus Merry Christmas Edit: Dip Viscous posted:It's a pain to set up, but After Dark 3.2 + Windows 3.11 works in DOSBox. You might be able to combine it some sort of launcher to make it work as a screensaver. You can do it this way too but I never found a way to completely kill dosbox on mouse movement. If you can figure that out you can get dosbox to launch as a screensaver and with an old macro program you can make it immediately launch after dark. Setting it up is a little funky but once you get it going it behaves almost exactly like it should. If you get it going right though you get access to the really big library of after dark screensavers though, not just the handful of 32 bit ones. Chairman Mao has a new favorite as of 08:01 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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