PC Tech Talk

[StarsMine]

zero, we cant all afford a 300$ custom water cooling set up that only gets things 2 or 3 degreas lower then a noctua d 14

[ZERO]

You can water cool for $300!?

[StarsMine]

its still only 2-3 degrees better then a noctua d 14

[mag36]

My cpu is water cooled for 50 bucks with the corsair H50

[StarsMine]

My cpu is water cooled for 50 bucks with the corsair H50

Those premade water cooling sets acatually kinda suck when compared to equal cost air coolers, the only thing they are good for are small cases. although usually you have a small case for some thing you want to be out of sight... and things like the h50 and h70 are quite loud. Kinda defeats the purpus, but its a nich market so eh.

The only real way to go water cooling is by going custom, and that actually costs you a shit load, espesially if you want to add your gpus and chipsets into the loop, but due to its design you dont need airflow, so you can have uber boss case mods . If I ever get stupidly rich, im doing it.

[toma]

found this interesting

http://kottke.org/11/03/upgrading-wi...-from-10-to-70

also building out a PC for a friend

i5 2400
2 TB Caviar Black 7200rpm
EVGA GTX470 SC 1280MB
Lite-On CD/DVD Burner
8 GB RAM
ASUS P8P67-M PRO REV 3.0 Socket 1155 uATX Motherboard
Antec 750Watt TruePower
Sonata Elite Case

All for less then a Grand =)

[mcilwain]

My cooling fans suck and i have been killing my computer for almost the past months

But i can't afford even a game or nonthing but play crysis 2 demo and starcraft II.

The highest temperature that happened was my GPU at 78 C and i even got a $15 pci-e cooling and the case is in good condition.

But currently the latest thing i am happy with it as it can play the 2010 games all the way on DX10.
But once i can get a job i will be treating my computer with more parts and space and then will just keep it that way. In case you noticed if i didn't post my specifications here it is:

Power supply:Stock PSU 500W.
Case:Unknown but was made by cooler master cosmos, has 4 fan ports and a front open door.
Disk Drives:2 DVD+RW.
Hard drives:
-C:\, 80GB/21GB free
-E:\, 80GB/74GB free.
Both are High performance drives thats why its low space but i will be adding 2 more overtime if i get luck into getting money.
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0 GHZ(OC with TurboV performing at 620mhz.)
RAM: 1x1 2GB DDR3.
MotherBoard: Asus M4a78t-e

Thats all but i think the overheating is also caused by poor fans or just the stock heat sink. Which i wish to get a buy a heatsink and new fans that will power better than my current ones.
I use my laptop to surf and do my things on it now.

[maynard]

windows 7 regular cheap version or ultimate? which should I get? from a gaming standpoint do I really need anything above the cheaper version of windows 7?

[toma]

depends if it's only gaming and nothing else get home, if ur going to do a little networking the get win 7 pro, don't need ultimate because i doubt you'll be using bitlocker and the other features in ultimate that pro already doesn't have.

[mag36]

I do alot of networking stuff with my servers so i have pro..... but home should be fine if your not doing much more with it then play games