Muel Posted January 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) Okay sure I'll listen to you because your mates said so. One of your mates AIO broke so they all must be shit. You build me a custom loop that's similar to a Corsair Hydro H105 in terms of size/performance/looks for less than £83.99 currently at overclockers and I'll buy it off you with £50 on top. Also, do custom loops not have a pump? The liquid flow by themselves?Dude, chill... I meant big air coolers, wasn't comparing custom loops to AIO, that would be silly. All I'm saying is that a big air cooler is often more efficient, usually cheaper and always quieter and always more reliable than an AIO cooler.I'd got one of these, beat the H50 in every test I saw it in and was £15-20 cheaper at the time. 140mm fans included as well. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-PT Edited January 20, 2015 by Muel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) Geeky enough for here, I think. I wrote a little tool. If anyone knows people who have websites they'd like to be structurally 'correct', they might be interested in it:https://www.fifty6.co.uk/page-grader/ If you do happen to go on there, I'd really appreciate it if you clicked any/all of the share buttons Edited January 20, 2015 by JD™ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Dude, chill... I meant big air coolers, wasn't comparing custom loops to AIO, that would be silly. All I'm saying is that a big air cooler is often more efficient, usually cheaper and always quieter and always more reliable than an AIO cooler. I'd got one of these, beat the H50 in every test I saw it in and was £15-20 cheaper at the time. 140mm fans included as well. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-PT Of course they are look how big it is. But majority of these coolers won't fit in the 240 case hence AIO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Pretty much sorted. A few cables to tidy up inside. Overclockers was nice enough to upgrade the 2 Noctua NF-F12s I ordered to the IndustrialPPC ones for free as they were out of stock so I stuck them on the radiator. Then used my existing NF-F12s up top. Not sure if I reaaaally need the two 120mm fans up top since the case has plenty of vents anyway. They're pulling air in and the radiator fans are pushing air out. Selling the 660s and going for a single GTX970. All fans are set to 1:1 temp/speed in BIOS. CPU temp idles about 23 degrees. Top GPU about 30 degrees, bottom GPU about 25 degrees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 After I got a course on Friday, and I have been told that I can solder up to IPC 610 Class 2, I could get class 3 if I practice some placing a JLegged device, as it was off by half a mm, so I am really glad about it. Biggest concern at the moment that I will have a competition in May, where I need to develop my skills and habits to be in the top 10 Electronic Engineers in the World and for that I must have a top notch soldering station. School has 3 at the moment, but my headteacher who organizes this competition in this region, does not want to give me it for some weird reasons.. so I might buy one for around £180, included some tips, flux and flux remover Also I have a project to design, route than build an DAC (simple one) in 7 hours, will be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted January 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I see why you wanted AIO now haha, that build looks so neat. Very jealous!Are those cards 760s? How do they perform? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Neat eh? Nah they are the 660 Superclocks I got back in late 2013. Definitely going back to a single GPU though, just played 10 minutes of Alan Wake and the top GPU was pushing 60 degrees, bottom just over 50 degress. The reference design isn't really suited for SLI in this case/mobo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Those temperatures are fine, my 660 ran up to 75℃ under full load. Since putting the thermalright heat sink on there it doesn't top 48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted January 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Aye they're decent temps for a GPU in that setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I found out last night that Windows10 is going to be a free upgrade for Windows7. This pleases me as from the 10 minutes I've played with it, it seems really rather good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted January 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I kinda want to like it but I just can't get over the interface... It looks so garish and ugly.I've got a testing VM for it but not bothered to fire it up yet. Will do when I get chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Imma stick with W7 for a while still. Works perfectly fine for me. I need to get some light strips or something to go in my case. Only thing lit up in there at the moment is the Corsair sign on the CPU block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 (edited) I'm going to upgrade because the latest patch of arma3 disabled a registry tweak that allowed large page addressing on Windows7 but not on 8.1 or 10, it can give a fairly significant boost in performance so probably worth the hassle Additionally dx12 it's supposed to dramatically increase cpu performance in heavily cpu bound games like arma. Edited January 25, 2015 by forteh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Free upgrade to win10? I'll do it asap. Win 7 is 5 years old now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 OK I tried Win10 out. It is *grim*.The start menu is some kinda half arsed W8/W7 hybrid thing, with W8 style tiles AND W7 icons. Couldn't they have just remade the icons?! Stick with W7 IMO. I reckon it'll be the last Windows OS that isn't totally shit. Doesn't matter if it's 5 years old, everything will run on it and they'll keep releasing drivers for modern hardware for a good few years yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Yoshi Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Looking into getting a new laptop. Got around 2k to spend, will just be used for gaming and photo editing. Looking at the alianware 17, is that good for the price or are you paying for the brand name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waybe2014 Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Don't get alien ware. My laptop is better than most of them and cost 900. Go to cyber power and you can get an absolute monster laptop for that money and the service is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Second that, alienware is just a Dell machine with a different badge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Gents, bit of small (business) network advice required if anyone's clued up. My dad is self-employed. When he first started out solo it was just him so a single PC was more than capable of doing everything on and when the second person came along the easiest way to work together was simply to buy another workstation and enable file/print/etc sharing across the two. He's at a point now where the company has 5 employees and he's asked me the best way to keep everything connected and accessible from (at present) 5 workstations. As a quick fix I've stuck them all on a Homegroup with shared access to the main HDD (used as a central file store), shared network printer etc which is fine, but I can't help but feel things could be far slicker. Would I be right in thinking that this is about the time to start considering a small, simple server? Something that would allow me to set up a domain and for each employee to be able to log in from wherever in the building, enable shared calendars through Outlook etc would be ideal. I've been pretty busy with my own work etc so haven't been too involved with it all recently, but none of the folks working there are overly techy so I'd like to make things as simple for them to use as possible really Any advice on roughly which direction I should be looking at going in with this would be awesome. Obviously being pretty small it' be good to keep costs down as best as possible - I've got enough parts to stick together a relatively competent tower (with the exception of a hard drive, but with them needing minimal storage space I could pick up a couple of SSDs for £100 or so to use. If that's not going to cut it, of course, feel free to tell me so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Hardware side of things sounds fine for general office work. What's the plan for server OS, need Exchange for example? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 If I'm honest, I have next to no knowledge about this side of things. I've got a copy of Windows Server Essentials, with the thinking that keeping it all M$ should make it a little more familiar if for any reason my old man needs to do anything on the server side of things rather than a Linux unit. Having had a quick look around Exchange looks to be relatively handy in terms of email/calendar sharing etc - excuse the n00b question but presumably the server would run Exchange with the client boxes using Outlook for the end user interface etc? I've very little "proper" networking experience as you can probably tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 As a little follow-up from my earlier posts - I got that HP laptop and it's been cool so far. Still not massively keen on Windows 8.1, but I've basically arranged my shit so I don't really need to interact with the "big colour blocks of colour for retards" element of the system. Premiere runs fine, and being able to add clips to the timeline and play around with stuff in each evening in Barca was super helpful. Thanks for all the advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 @ Luke, would a nas drive and network switch not be sufficient? Plug it all into the switch, assign the printer ip and work off the nas; going full blown server might be more complicated than he needs initially although having the exchange server running would be useful. @ obm, upgrade to Windows10 when it comes out, it's going to be free for 7 and 8 users for the first year and is pretty similar to the 7 guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 I have no idea At the mo they're running one computer as a main storage drive (effectively like a NAS, I suppose) and it works pretty well. The main advantage of going for a server setup would be the ability to set up a domain and have the security/flexibility of individual logins and a decent email setup (though perhaps I can sort that out as a separate issue in itself) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Yeah Exchange is a mail server with calendering, contact managing etc and Outlook is the client. I only ask as MS have killed off SBS so now you have to have both Essentials plus Exchange. As a result there's been a bit of a move towards simpler stuff like Igaware small business server and ClearOS professional. Both are worth looking into IMO as they are very easy to manage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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