Whats your pc?

[SMR 510RR]

I by no means was bagging it just seemed like n entertainment build more than a work one but when you say you do rendering and art work then getting those types of things is understandable. Also, when I said "aggressive" I meant for cooling purposes, best I remember its got a few 140/120mm fan spots, with what is going on inside makes sense but once again its not something I'd expect to see in a work environment. The LAN party was a joke as its a running idea at my work that we are going to do it with some older games so the idea was fresh in my mind.

I wish that instead of buying through Dell we could build our own, it would save money and I would look forward to work so much more. The SFF Dell's are cool but I'm getting pretty sick of bloatware at this point.

I mean yea there are definitely builds that the software companies recommend more than this one but then you are talking serious money. A 760 will perform just as good in my situation as a quadro for less money, so why not.

The case was sort of a last minute development. I wanted something with clean lines that is relatively quiet since I will be using it all day, I knew I wanted to use the X61 so NZXT was the first place I looked. After watching a few videos on the H440 I was sold. Had everything I wanted including a large, square, well placed window and with all the foam inside and build quality I was sold. I actually wish it was out when I built my home system around Christmas last year, if I ever do a custom water loop I think it would be the case I used unless something else is out that improves the couple weak points like the awkward SSD Mounts on what is supposed to be a clean looking PSU cover...

Since I work for my Dad and everyone else that I work with is older I am the "tech" guy in the office so I get to make the decisions. Its a blessing and a curse, I also get to troubleshoot every little problem anyone in our building (also 2 other offices) has. My printer isn't working, how do I do "x" with my iphone, you get the idea haha.

[KTM57]

H440 is beautiful, and I would have one if I wanted a mid tower case.

Seems like a pretty solid PC. I laughed when I saw a Sabertooth and then read that 32GB of RAM is unneccessary, though.

Any particular reason you went with the Samsung SSD?

[Pumaxcs]

I'm an IT in a hospital, that last paragraph feels like my whole work week. Of course I get the idea!

Thats a really cool build just to have for working, I do agree its a nice case. I plan on stealing and modding in the LED switch for the back I/O into my 750D.

Since this thread seems to be alive again I'll post this again.

Mk, so some opinions are welcomed here. I'm going to WC my system around winter, as a congrats to me for getting an Associates. What I'm doing right now is RMA'ing my motherboard and keyboard, motherboard has USB problems and keyboard has a few lights gone out. For the keyboard I'm just going to get a RGB K70 from Corsair, thats decided and done. What I want opinions on is motherboards. I'm torn between two, the Gigabyte Z87 G1. Sniper5 or the ASUS Z97 Deluxe/Pro. The colors in my water loop will be Black/Green which is why I love the Sniper but if they make a waterblock eventually for the ASUS boards they work just as good. I've heard that maybe EK will do blocks for them but, no one has made any blocks for Z97 stuff yet. I'm shipping out my stuff soon and I'll be selling the motherboard I get back and it will go towards the new one which as of right now is the G1. Anyone else with opinions I'm open to anything still.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-m ... ag1sniper5
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97deluxe

I'm literally looking for anything, even if all you have to say is which one looks prettier.

Tubing and Fittings for extra thought provokers.

[Jayaym # 119]

ive finally come to something solid i believe. im looking in to gaming(obvi).i used to be in an arma roleplay clan and i had to get rid of my pc for rent and a car so.now im getting back on my on my feet im just trying to get a pc that can max out arma games and sim.(http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xHmpzy).but i also want something that will last years but obvi im gonna have to update few parts here and there.

[SMR 510RR]

H440 is beautiful, and I would have one if I wanted a mid tower case.

Seems like a pretty solid PC. I laughed when I saw a Sabertooth and then read that 32GB of RAM is unneccessary, though.

Any particular reason you went with the Samsung SSD?

The sabertooth is actually one of the cheaper of the new z97 boards, cheaper than both the Pro and Deluxe. The extra 2 years of warranty is also nice. I can always add a couple more sticks to get to 32gb if necessary haha. I have a Samsung Pro in my home computer and it has been great so I figured I would stick with them.

I'm an IT in a hospital, that last paragraph feels like my whole work week. Of course I get the idea!

Thats a really cool build just to have for working, I do agree its a nice case. I plan on stealing and modding in the LED switch for the back I/O into my 750D.

Since this thread seems to be alive again I'll post this again.

Mk, so some opinions are welcomed here. I'm going to WC my system around winter, as a congrats to me for getting an Associates. What I'm doing right now is RMA'ing my motherboard and keyboard, motherboard has USB problems and keyboard has a few lights gone out. For the keyboard I'm just going to get a RGB K70 from Corsair, thats decided and done. What I want opinions on is motherboards. I'm torn between two, the Gigabyte Z87 G1. Sniper5 or the ASUS Z97 Deluxe/Pro. The colors in my water loop will be Black/Green which is why I love the Sniper but if they make a waterblock eventually for the ASUS boards they work just as good. I've heard that maybe EK will do blocks for them but, no one has made any blocks for Z97 stuff yet. I'm shipping out my stuff soon and I'll be selling the motherboard I get back and it will go towards the new one which as of right now is the G1. Anyone else with opinions I'm open to anything still.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-m ... ag1sniper5
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97deluxe

I'm literally looking for anything, even if all you have to say is which one looks prettier.

Tubing and Fittings for extra thought provokers.

From a looks perspective its obvious that the Gigabyte board fits your build better. As a Asus fanboy I hate to say both probably will perform almost identically, there is practically no difference in the features unless you need something specific to one or the other. Sometimes color coordination can go too far (too much green in this case) but I think the goldish heatsinks on the Asus board wouldn't look great with the neon green tubing. My vote, the Sniper.

You do IT for the hospital or just happen to know a bunch so people ask you questions like myself?

The LED's for the IO area are a nice feature but I wish there was a separate switch for the logo on the PSU cover. Would have been nice of them to leave an extra header to attach some in case lighting but I don't think I am going to do any since I am trying to keep it "work appropriate" haha.


One of our clients says he has a "huge" (his words) monitor he is going to give me and a server he doesn't use anymore (not sure what it is). He seems like a forgetful type though and I am not the kind of person to ask for free stuff so I guess we will see if he brings it to our meeting tomorrow. His business is selling patch cables, I am guessing reals of ethernet cable, those velcro wire ties, and stuff like that. Hoping he brings me a goody bag so I can tidy this build up really nice when I get going on it.

[Pumaxcs]

Thanks for the opinion.

Yes, real IT work. I'm mostly a break-fix guy or the first responder in medical terms around here then if I can fix it I will or if it needs to be taken to the specialist in that field (networking guy, printer guy, phone guy, etc.) but I'd like to think I hardly ever have to do that. The way they have trained me around here is good at everything, great at nothing. I prefer it that way aswell since I don't have a degree yet its an awesome way to get to work with all this stuff to see what I'd like my degree for. So far though, all that I've learned is from curosity and my own work to get me the job, (also had connections but I aced that interview so I'll take credit for that ) but since the two years I've worked here I can tell you the guy that applied for this job didn't know anything about computers.

Like a racked server or just a Xeon PC? Speaking of cables and cable management, you have no idea how rock solid I get when I see properly managed cables these days. I've seen some nightmare material in these network closets so when I install new computers or someone moves their desk I use SO much velcro. For stuff that I've seen I can promise you selling cables and velcro seems like a super profitable thing to be doing.

[SMR 510RR]

Thanks for the opinion.

Yes, real IT work. I'm mostly a break-fix guy or the first responder in medical terms around here then if I can fix it I will or if it needs to be taken to the specialist in that field (networking guy, printer guy, phone guy, etc.) but I'd like to think I hardly ever have to do that. The way they have trained me around here is good at everything, great at nothing. I prefer it that way aswell since I don't have a degree yet its an awesome way to get to work with all this stuff to see what I'd like my degree for. So far though, all that I've learned is from curosity and my own work to get me the job, (also had connections but I aced that interview so I'll take credit for that ) but since the two years I've worked here I can tell you the guy that applied for this job didn't know anything about computers.

Like a racked server or just a Xeon PC? Speaking of cables and cable management, you have no idea how rock solid I get when I see properly managed cables these days. I've seen some nightmare material in these network closets so when I install new computers or someone moves their desk I use SO much velcro. For stuff that I've seen I can promise you selling cables and velcro seems like a super profitable thing to be doing.

Ah nice, I have a similar background to you (although completely different although I never went to college haha). Everything I know about everything you don't get in HS has been on the job training. I did go to trade school to be a mechanic but that work stucks and after 6 months I knew I should do it as a hobby rather than a career.

Not sure what kind of server it is, he said he hired some guys to do his website and he bought a bunch of stuff so they could do it in his office and that is where all the freebies are from. Not sure if he was hosting it himself at one point or what.

Cable management, oh yea. We remodeled our building like 3-4 years ago and brought in a "IT" company to run all the drops to the workstations. Nothing is labeled, nothing is organized. I will take a picture of the way our network closet is setup before I redo it. There is a modem feeding a router that feeds a unmanaged switch with too few ports to actually carry the entire network so then it feeds another router IDK why and the first router has some drops plugged into it. They also left 0 ports open for expansion so when we added our server I had to add another small switch up at my desk to plug that in.

My plan is to unplug everything and redo it all. First step will be testing every wire to label where it goes at both ends so if I ever have a problem I can easily figure out what wire is the cause. I bought a HP 1810-24g switch that has enough ports to carry the entire network without any trouble including moving my server down to the closet to get link aggregation on it. Should help quite a bit with reading/writing large files to it and I can get it off my desk haha.

[SMR 510RR]

No free stuff today, he said he had the monitor ready to bring over but forgot it at home. Like I said, this guy is that guy that always forgets to bring you free stuff. My coworker overheard him saying that he forgot it and now he wants a new monitor.

[Pumaxcs]

Best of luck with that rewire junk! When I was hired on we did something similar as the company I'm contracted under to work for the hospital was moving offices so I took some extra time during the weekend to help their cable guy do exactly that to the new building. EFF THAT!

Your network setup sounds like an absolute mess and after finding what wire does what I think redoing the wires sounds like the best option long term, might be best to do it during a long weekend or something though. Last thing you'd want through that is to be rushed. You should do like an imgur gallery of a before/during/after because thats easily something I'd want to see of that project.

With the motherboard issue, I like the ASUS and if I got the ASUS I'd have to get a waterblock which they may or may not ever make just so I can get it all "blacked out"and blend with my WC colors, so if it doesn't happen I think I just wouldn't do the loop all-together, which I've estimated at another 1k for waterblock/fittings/tubing/radiators/etc which is scary and almost enough for me not to want to do it. If I got the Sniper then I have no problems not using it as a WC loop either as the board looks cool but it be much easier for me to change my mind at any given time rather than swap back and forth between not doing the loop or doing it and possibly having things look off because lets be honest loops are not only performance worthy but I want my loop to be an art piece that shows I put an extra thousand, which is why I'm leaning towards the Sniper. Simply because its gives the most flexibility down the road.

[SMR 510RR]

Yea, its going to take a good amount of time to get the network back up and running. Planning on going down there on a Sunday morning and working on it until it is done hopefully wont be too bad. May enlist my GF to run the other end of the cable tester to make it go faster but crawling under all the desks is going to suck.

I wonder if it is possible to remove those heatsinks. Does the water block just sit on top or replace them like with a GPU cooler? If you can take them off it would be easy to take them to a anodizing shop to get them anodized whatever color you want as long as it wont damage the other components of the heatsink (I am assuming they have copper plates and the tube connecting them is probably copper as well).

Or you can just buy the board that is the right color from the get go.

[Pumaxcs]

Thats a thought I hadn't had but then again I don't even know where to begin on pricing it and finding people who can do it. Though, The heatsinks are just held down by screws and have thermal pads to have heat transfers so it is an easy enough thing to take off and replace. Easy of use Gigabyte wins but I also like that if I went with the ASUS with an all black PCB/Slots and then get the heatsinks anodized into some neutral color like silver then I'm free to change color schemes forever and not have any conflicts which may or may not be worth it. If I could get a quote thats reasonable enough I would totally go that route because cost wise the motherboards are fairly equal. Anyone know a guy who colors metals?

[SMR 510RR]

Thats a thought I hadn't had but then again I don't even know where to begin on pricing it and finding people who can do it. Though, The heatsinks are just held down by screws and have thermal pads to have heat transfers so it is an easy enough thing to take off and replace. Easy of use Gigabyte wins but I also like that if I went with the ASUS with an all black PCB/Slots and then get the heatsinks anodized into some neutral color like silver then I'm free to change color schemes forever and not have any conflicts which may or may not be worth it. If I could get a quote thats reasonable enough I would totally go that route because cost wise the motherboards are fairly equal. Anyone know a guy who colors metals?

Just find a local shop and ask them when they will be running clear. Bring cash (they love cash) and they can just drop your parts in with a big batch of stuff they are already running. Probably cost no more than $50 probably closer to $25 since it wont actually cost them anything. Not sure if it would work with any non aluminum stuff attached so ask a shop before taking everything apart or even ordering the board. They etch the parts with some acid or something not sure how it would react but they will know, that will remove the gold color and then they will clear it and it will be silver. I wonder if you can get just the heatsinks separated from any other metal part to make it easier but I have never had one of these types of heatsinks off before.

You could also strip the anodizing off with oven cleaner and polish them up but getting in those little nooks would be a PITA.

Looking at pictures it almost looks like the gold parts can be taken off. The part that attaches to the board seems to be black. May be worth investigating.

[mace-x]

Finally assembled a desktop pc F yeah!

Gigabyte 970A-UD3P
Amd Fx-8350 (Coolermaster x6 elite)
G.Skill Ripjawsx 1600mhz 8gb x 1
Asus gtx 550ti
Evga 80plus 600w
Tt commander ms-1

for the soon future i`ll buy 8 gb more of ram and a gtx570, or that`s the plan

[Lynch]

Changed PSU and GPU in my friends pc and got his old Gtx 650Ti Boost, gonna see if it's alot better than my current 650.

[Spazz]

Does anyone have any experience with Lenovo Y510p laptops or Acer Aspire V3 laptops? Looking for a laptop when I go to university. I've heard good and bad about the Y510p but was wondering if anyone has had them.