The Flat Earth Society
Other Discussion Boards => Technology & Information => Topic started by: juner on February 19, 2015, 06:05:27 AM
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As I mentioned, Saddam's journey (plight) inspired me to throw a build together. I got the rest of my hardware in today and put it together tonight. It boots and picks up all drives, so I will throw an OS or two on it tomorrow. In hindsight, the video card was a bit overkill. Overall, it was an enjoyable build. Wire management took several times longer than the actual assembly of the hardware.
PARTS:
(http://i.imgur.com/gLLXS7Z.jpg)
BUILD:
(http://i.imgur.com/xiyEK1l.jpg)
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Wow takes a real dick to buy a computer to rub Saddam's nose in the fact he is an idiot
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Wow takes a real dick to buy a computer to rub Saddam's nose in the fact he is an idiot
>:( That wasn't the intent at all. I've built many computers, but it has been a while. Saddam's thread just made me want to give it a go again.
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Aww yeah, AMD graphics. You should be all set to install OpenBSD on that baby. Since you have an optical drive, why not buy it on CD-ROM and support the project (https://www.openbsdstore.com/cgi-bin/live/ecommerce.pl?site=shop_openbsdeurope_dollar&state=item&dept_id=01&sub_dept_id=01&product_id=CD56)?
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>AMD graphics
>AMD CPU
I hope your smoke detectors work.
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>AMD graphics
>AMD CPU
I hope your smoke detectors work.
<--- has AMD CPU, south bridge, and GPU. Working great since 2009.
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OpenBSD ... buy it on CD-ROM and support the project?
Why not buy Windows 8.1 and support their project? Your raging idealism has yet again caused hypocrisy in your reasoning.
@Junker - why the enormous case? You used one slot for your graphics card and almost all your drive bays appear empty. But you have given house room to a hulking great box that could easily be a computer from the 1990s. Yes, you'll claim you have room for expansion ... but you won't expand. You'll build another computer. I'll bet the psw has been bought with 'expansion' in mind and is throwing our 850W of heat as well. ::)
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Aww yeah, AMD graphics. You should be all set to install OpenBSD on that baby. Since you have an optical drive, why not buy it on CD-ROM and support the project (https://www.openbsdstore.com/cgi-bin/live/ecommerce.pl?site=shop_openbsdeurope_dollar&state=item&dept_id=01&sub_dept_id=01&product_id=CD56)?
I don't care for disc media, but I will donate $20 because why not. I put the the optical drive in for when I give it to someone else, since many people use them still.
>AMD graphics
>AMD CPU
I hope your smoke detectors work.
The Intel 5960X I sold to fund this build has the same TDP, so that is irrelevant. The difference between the AMD and Nvidia card I was looking at was negligble.
OpenBSD ... buy it on CD-ROM and support the project?
Why not buy Windows 8.1 and support their project? Your raging idealism has yet again caused hypocrisy in your reasoning.
@Junker - why the enormous case? You used one slot for your graphics card and almost all your drive bays appear empty. But you have given house room to a hulking great box that could easily be a computer from the 1990s. Yes, you'll claim you have room for expansion ... but you won't expand. You'll build another computer. I'll bet the psw has been bought with 'expansion' in mind and is throwing our 850W of heat as well. ::)
The plan is to install both OpenBSD and Windows. The case was a little bigger than I wanted, but it was the best priced Lian Li that had the features I wanted. The only thing I use the extra room for is wire management since I didn't get a modular PSU. I don't have any intention to expand. I don't have a real use for this computer at all.
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I don't have any intention to expand. I don't have a real use for this computer at all.
So basically you could have sent the money you spent on it to me instead and fund my whisky purchases.
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I don't have any intention to expand. I don't have a real use for this computer at all.
So basically you could have sent the money you spent on it to me instead and fund my whisky purchases.
Yes, I could have.
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You should have.
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The Intel 5960X I sold to fund this build has the same TDP, so that is irrelevant. The difference between the AMD and Nvidia card I was looking at was negligble.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to put a 5960X in their desktop, anyway.
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The Intel 5960X I sold to fund this build has the same TDP, so that is irrelevant. The difference between the AMD and Nvidia card I was looking at was negligble.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to put a 5960X in their desktop, anyway.
Because some people loving the bleeding edge. I got it for free so I figured it would be better to build a functional system rather than hang on to a CPU I wouldn't build a system out of anyway.
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Because some people loving the bleeding edge. I got it for free so I figured it would be better to build a functional system rather than hang on to a CPU I wouldn't build a system out of anyway.
From what I've seen of benchmarks, the extreme series of processors always do worse on any graphics heavy applications. I've only ever seen them be better at CPU heavy functions and even then they were only marginally better (~5%) than the i7 k series that cost half the amount. Most applications don't even know what to do with eight cores.
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i do need a new computer
ship this one to me when you"re done with it and ill even pay for postage>
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i do need a new computer
ship this one to me when you"re done with it and ill even pay for postage>
I'll consider it.
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No, send it to me so I can sell it and get money for whisky
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No, send it to me so I can sell it and get money for whisky
No.
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Why are you denying me whisky? :(
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It's not a real PC build if you don't have a legendary heatsink.
(http://i.imgur.com/cavi35j.jpg)
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I'll also buy it if you wanna let it go for a very low price. Now I'm done shitting up this thread , just keep it in mind
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It's not a real PC build if you don't have a legendary heatsink.
I agree. If it was a PC I was keeping for myself I would have used something other than the HSF that came with the proc.
Also, there is a fair amount of room in there, and openings between the motherboard tray and chassis. Get on that wire management, you could make them nearly disappear.
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Get on that wire management, you could make them nearly disappear.
The big bundle of colorful wires makes the computer faster.
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I decided I am going to get a better processor. I got the 6 core for this build. Going to get one of the 8-core models. I didn't see their 220W 8-core until now, that is a bit ridiculous. I will probably get one of the 125W models.
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I helped! I assisted in making the wires look pretty.
It would have been a hot mess of wires without your help.
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I decided I am going to get a better processor. I got the 6 core for this build. Going to get one of the 8-core models. I didn't see their 220W 8-core until now, that is a bit ridiculous. I will probably get one of the 125W models.
You see that video card in my computer? It's TDP is 700W. Step up your game.
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I decided I am going to get a better processor. I got the 6 core for this build. Going to get one of the 8-core models. I didn't see their 220W 8-core until now, that is a bit ridiculous. I will probably get one of the 125W models.
You see that video card in my computer? It's TDP is 700W. Step up your game.
I will when I build a computer for my own use.
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watch out, badass, etc.
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I will when I build a computer for my own use.
I don't believe you.
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I will when I build a computer for my own use.
I don't believe you.
I suppose I can just get another 5960X, throw in a couple GTX 980's, 64GB of the fastest DDR4 I can find. Along with a PCIe flash-based drive and have a monster super epic mega gaming computer that I won't use.
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How much did the parts cost you.
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How much did the parts cost you.
About $750.
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How much would it cost to build a good PC for my needs. Like surfing the webs and listening to music and watching movies, and would it be worth it to build a PC rather than just buy a laptop?
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How much would it cost to build a good PC for my needs. Like surfing the webs and listening to music and watching movies, and would it be worth it to build a PC rather than just buy a laptop?
You can build something for under $500 that would do that adequately. Finding a laptop that isn't a piece of garbage around that price will be nearly impossible.
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How much would it cost to build a good PC for my needs. Like surfing the webs and listening to music and watching movies, and would it be worth it to build a PC rather than just buy a laptop?
>not playing tons of games
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You can build something for under $500 that would do that adequately. Finding a laptop that isn't a piece of garbage around that price will be nearly impossible.
Finding a new laptop, yeah, but buying a used one off Ebay or some other site can be super cheap. You'd be amazed at the amount of people who do very... strange things. I bought my Surface Pro from a mom that said "bought this for my son, he didn't like it and said he wanted a mac." Wasn't even opened.
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How much would it cost to build a good PC for my needs. Like surfing the webs and listening to music and watching movies, and would it be worth it to build a PC rather than just buy a laptop?
You can build something for under $500 that would do that adequately. Finding a laptop that isn't a piece of garbage around that price will be nearly impossible.
Uh, no. My ThinkPad X201 (Core i5 560M, 4 GiB RAM, in a convenient 12-inch form factor) cost me under $300 on eBay. I replaced its HDD with an SSD, so overall it cost a bit more, but that's optional. Finding a decent cheap laptop is dead easy.
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I suppose we will all have different opinions of what a good laptop is.
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I suppose we will all have different opinions of what a good laptop is.
I am assessing "good" based on Sean's description of what he wants to do, which is less intensive than my own use case. I recompile OpenBSD on a regular basis on my X201, which it is very fast at doing, although it does get a bit hot in the process.
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I am successfully posting from the OpenBSD 5.6 install I did on this new PC. I will set it up for a dual boot in the coming days.
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I am successfully posting from the OpenBSD 5.6 install I did on this new PC. I will set it up for a dual boot in the coming days.
You really want to install OpenBSD as the second OS in a dual-boot setup. You can shoehorn a dual boot onto it with a different OS later, it's just more annoying and error-prone. I recommend reading this (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting) and making sure you understand it before attempting a dual boot; the OpenBSD/amd64 boot process is very simple and straightforward (or as simple and straightforward as amd64 gets), but understanding how it works is important for being able to integrate it into some other bootloader.
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I am successfully posting from the OpenBSD 5.6 install I did on this new PC. I will set it up for a dual boot in the coming days.
You really want to install OpenBSD as the second OS in a dual-boot setup. You can shoehorn a dual boot onto it with a different OS later, it's just more annoying and error-prone. I recommend reading this (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting) and making sure you understand it before attempting a dual boot; the OpenBSD/amd64 boot process is very simple and straightforward (or as simple and straightforward as amd64 gets), but understanding how it works is important for being able to integrate it into some other bootloader.
Yes, I read through that yesterday. I wanted to better understand navigating BSD only before I setup dual boot. So, I will purge everything, install Windows, then OpenBSD.