I’d like to get a 4k monitor, but it would have to be smaller than 50". Trying to use this 58" as a monitor is enough of a necksore, lol. Wouldn’t mind a 42" 4K though. I’d like to upgrade my video card sometime soon too, hopefully in the summer time or closer to fall. Will have to see though, new furniture comes first 
My two Chroma kits sold instantly on Steam. Made $4, I sell one more of these and I’ll have made my money back on CS:GO. I’ll probably just get the Vanguard DLC I’m thinking.
Pretty awesome. Do Team Fortress 2 hats still sell for dumb amounts?
Is it better to have 1 big monitor or 2 smaller ones? and is 3 overkill?
Just for the sake of pictures:
What will or has changed:
The 8 pin cable in the top left corner Above the black z87 killer…thing (not even sure what that is) is purple. So its the 24 pin motherboard cable.
You can’t seem them but the sata cables as well. The 3 pin cables for the cooler will be changed tomorrow and the ram now matches. Oh and yes that’s a laptop hard drive in the right ssd slot, the new one gets put in tomorrow as well.
Edit: hmm from this angle you can’t see the clear sides of the pump with that glorious purple liquid.
Two.
I would say no, but a) I don’t have a third one and b) it depends on what you want with it. But I know I want 3.
Got my old laptop running… Need to see about getting in house streaming up and running to my TV. Could be pretty neat if my network can handle it
I like 2 monitors. I have 2 23.6" monitors and could never go back to having one…EVER
I have 2 at work. It’s ridiculously useful. If I could swing it, is get a second for my pc at home.
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If you’re still attending college for those IT courses, I would aim for an Intel CPU; maybe i5 or i7.
You are going to appreciate the HAXM that comes bundled with the new to fairly recent line of CPU’s they’re selling. They hold a bigger advantage in Virtualization than AMD does. You’re going to be utilizing Virtualbox/VMware a lot IF you want to get on dat IT (specifically network administartion) life.
my computer case. i don’t like the look of an external radiator, so i’m building a case that will fit it. i just goofed up and didn’t check to see how big the radiator was before i started sketching.
I WORK LONG HOURS, DAMMIT!
I was wondering If I could cross match RAM sizes. I have two 4GB of slot ram, can I insert 2 slots of 8 GB of RAM.
I would recommend against it. Google it a bit but from what I saw it was mostly negative. I’ve tried it before a long time ago and fucked up my motherboard too (although technology has improved since I admit).
I don’t get the question.
I have different sized ram in each pair of my RAM sockets. One 4GB kit and the other 8GB kit. Works fine.
This is probably the best pitch for a Kickstarter project ever.
mixed up rams can cause problems like random restarts and crashes. generally people use same type/size/speed ram sticks. I used mixed ram before and didn’t have any problem. but I hear about…issues.
Who the hell do you run with that would require such destructive methods?
Here, BTW:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/themes/Shoryuken/design/inc/emoticons/smilies/coffee.gifSo you recimend just buying the same ram again. I’m trying to increase ram because I’m going to do more computing (3d programs, math modeling, 3d printing)
And I’m not sure 16 gb is enough. And don’t want to buy x4 8gb cards.
This is what I wanted to do.
Good to hear, I’ll probably buy a x2 8gb ram, and buy the second set later.
The best thing you can do is have 4 of the exact same thing. Make sure the speeds match too. Plus it looks nicer.
Speaking of Ram, I’m a big fan of mushkin. Their customer support is spot on and their hardware is top notch. Easily modded too. And I just saw their new design for DDR4 http://poweredbymushkin.com/index.php/press/124-mushkin-announces-new-ridgeback-heatsink-design.html
Holy shit that looks nice.
8GB and 4GB kits will work together without any extra configuration on the vast majority of modern mobos. The only real downside is that RAM of the same format will scale down to match the speed of the lowest frequency in the group. Meaning that if you have DDR3 1600MHz and purchase some DDR3 1866MHz, it should auto clock down so that all of your sticks run at the common maximum available frequency (IE 1600MHz). If you’re having problems running different RAM sizes or frequencies, it’s most likely because you either have a faulty mainboard or faulty RAM modules (or maybe your BIOS settings were changed to try to manually set frequencies/bus/voltage/etc).
Of course, if you’re looking for maximum productivity I’d still suggest that you purchase a matching kit that will run in dual-channel at the correct timings etc. However, 16GB is overkill for most applications IMO. Our HyperV core only had 32GB, and that ran multiple virtual servers (with full GUIs in most cases) in a mid-sized telecommunications company, including frequently-accessed platforms like SQL, security backend, etc. What I’m saying is that the ram is a good (and cheap) way to boost performance, but ensure that you’re not spending your money in the wrong place. If you’re working on lots of real-time modeling calculations, the CPU and HDD are going to likely be bottlenecks in a lot of situations. Hopefully you’re already running an SSD as well?