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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:26 pm
by Cakedaddy
Oh, and don't forget to include www.mircocenter.com in your pricing. I buy most of my stuff from them now because they are cheaper than newegg even with tax. Especially on CPU and motherboards. Super discounted CPU and MB often come with $50 off when purchased with a CPU.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:53 am
by GORDON
Cakedaddy wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product....&cm_sp=
Not familiar with ITX though. Looks really small. Could be cool. Not sure if you could put a video card in that PCIe slot either. I'll let you do the research to see if this would work for you.
OH, and when you add it to your cart, you'll see that it also comes with 8GB RAM.
You keep posting unavailable shit.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:19 pm
by Cakedaddy
You are too slow in your old age. Give me your credit card number and I'll just buy the next one so you don't miss it.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:58 pm
by TPRJones
GORDON wrote:...I still need a power supply, case, and monitor...
Case? If you're building a cheapo why does it need a case? Just nail the parts to a small square of particleboard and call it done.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:05 pm
by GORDON
TPRJones wrote:GORDON wrote:...I still need a power supply, case, and monitor...
Case? If you're building a cheapo why does it need a case? Just nail the parts to a small square of particleboard and call it done.
It occurred to me to build a PC into the wall of my basement. I could do that.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:19 pm
by TheCatt
I thought about doing one of these after having heating issues once
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:26 pm
by TPRJones
The only downside would be the fan noise.
Better add headphones to the build.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:32 pm
by Malcolm
TPRJones wrote:The only downside would be the fan noise.
Better add headphones to the build.
Bah. Go straight liquid cooling and pipe the outflow to your hot water heater.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:36 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:TPRJones wrote:The only downside would be the fan noise.
Better add headphones to the build.
Bah. Go straight liquid cooling and pipe the outflow to your hot water heater.
I tried convincing Cake once to use the Michigan winter as a heat sink for a water cooled rig... run the pips outside. He didn't have the balls to do it.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:37 pm
by Trooper
ITX is a very very very small form factor. Smaller than Micro ATX even. I ran a Micro ATX for about 4 years, and when it came time to beef it up things just did not fit anymore. If you're trying to build him a computer that he can build upon over the years, I would NOT recommend the ITX form factor, and I'd steer clear of the Micro ATX even. Stick to standard ATX, leaves you plenty of room for expansion in the future, not really that big. I built the Micro ATX with the intentions of LAN parties every weekend. . . . . That rig left the house maybe once a year if that. Not worth the extra money you pay to downscale important parts (Ex: Mobo, PSU, GPU. . . )
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:19 pm
by TheCatt
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:27 pm
by Malcolm
Pick the vid card, then the mobo, then the case, then go from there.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:29 pm
by Trooper
Screw that SSD in the $1,200 build, instead put that towards an i7! SSD's die too quickly, not worth the $$$ in my opinion.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:47 pm
by TheCatt
I love my SSDs. All 3 drives in my laptop are SSDs. My boot RAID on my server is SSD. Boot RAID on the wife's PC = SSD. Love them. Absolutely worth it.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:34 pm
by Malcolm
SSDs beat the shit out of HDDs. What brands are you buying such that your failure rate is higher than the mechanical equivalent?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:54 pm
by Cakedaddy
Here is yet another bundle deal you can ignore until it's too late.
http://www.newegg.com/Product....&cm_sp=
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:06 pm
by GORDON
Just bought it, along with a 21.5" lcd monitor for $99.
Newegg always denies my credit cards the first time I try. We'll see.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:14 pm
by GORDON
Looking at this thing, it pretty close to my own gaming system. He should be happy.
I almost bought 2 of them to make one of them the new server.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:17 pm
by GORDON
They accepted my $500 payment on the first try. Behold the power of my Amazon credit card.
Or behold its lax security. Either/or.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:17 pm
by GORDON
Me and the kid built it today. The video card doesn't require extra power... I am a little concerned about that. Haven't installed the OS to test it all, yet. He thinks it is the new server, not his own Xmas present, so I'll have to finish it off while he is in school.
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