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reply to jchambers28

Re: Insane pc upgrade

Yeah you're being a fart.

I guess no one wants to see my computers. I piece them together, spreading them across a 2x2 piece of wood. Then put them on shelving.

10 years ago I drooled over lights and high end hardware. I am a fart, but a cheap one.

reply to matt5

Look at linustechtips

He asked about roll over ads stating it would give more money for buying stuff he did on that chan, I may take the time later to find the vid, but not right now.

Now as far as ncixcom, I do not know about that chan. But I know he asked about ads on techtips and tied to to buying stuff for the chan. I did not pay attention to what location the vid was posted to... it is posted to techtips.

reply to signmeuptoo
People often greatly underestimate the level and duration of pleasure a "thing" will bring. As well as the level and duration of frustration when or if things go wrong,..

reply to jchambers28
IMHO, as an example:

A good PRS guitar has more intrinsic value, more lasting worth and meaningfulness than the most expensive i7 + 4 x $600 video cards + 1200 watt SMPS + 32 G RAM + 10 TB HD space.

I am just not as dazzled by chrome as I used to be. Bottom line: What do you NEED. How will you USE it. Will something that costs 1/4th as much get you just as far along, really?

Some people shop like spoiled brats. I have a fiancee living on rice and water, so I am not too sympathetic to self indulgence in computer parts.

That doesn't have any bearing on the fact that I like hardware, I just don't like self indulgent crap. (deleted snip) so conspicuous consumption is kind of bothersome to me.
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reply to jchambers28

Re: Insane pc upgrade

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reply to jchambers28
That's a beautiful cat, very cool, but yeah, letting it near that expensive hardware with the static it will inevitably make, I dunno. At least it doesn't appear to shed much. Nice kitty kitty!

What you don't get is its not his computer its the cat's computer and the cat just rents it to him.

reply to jchambers28
The cat is a ham for the camera, that is for sure. Funny how a cat will want to be the center of attention but feign indifference.

His build is nice, I don't know about the power supply's silence feature, I'd be concerned it would overheat and not last as long.

Silver connectors is nice, but is it enough silver in the loop to do the trick?
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I would personally like a powersupply that had a feature to set the fan at full speed

so many of them instead go after being quiet and have temp controled fans, would it be so hard to add a bypass switch to select temp controled or full speed?

reply to signmeuptoo
I have a PRS guitar, albeit a PRS SE.

I too am annoyed by the amount of money people spend needlessly on needles hardware. He upgraded an already stellar system (in almost all aspects), yet he didn't need to. I suppose it's good marketing for NCIX, but nonetheless....

Nice. My dream is to get a hollow body of theirs, I have a love for semi hollow body and hollow body electrics.

Years ago, on some occasions, I've had some cool guitars, but the best guitar I ever had (even with some of them being almost, erm, expensive) was my first electric, a Hagstrom III. Some people thought they were junk, but I loved mine, world's thinnest neck. An H truss rod. Lots of switches for different sounds. Back then I could *almost* shred just a little. Today I can barely play, but want to learn again.
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I for one, would love to get my hands on a Gretsch White Falcon, but that isn't likely to happen.

I can barely play as well, it's been so long since I last tried.

reply to sk1939

He's a product manager, which means he investigates, selects, and develops products for an organization, performing the activities of product management. This is his personal system he's reviewing, so I doubt it's needed for his job, other than from a publicity standpoint.

To begin with, very few people need an SB-E or Ivy Bridge system, and the amount of hardware he shows is clearly excessive. 9 SSD drives? You don't need 9 SSD drives. Upgrading from a GTX 480 to a GTX 590? Really? Again, mostly unnecessary when driving single, or even dual monitors. 980X vs SB-E? Not even going there. Other than demonstrating their e-peen, 99% of users will not come CLOSE to using all of the available system power (especially with threaded quad cores), gamers or not.

It bothers me because it's highly conspicuous consumption, bought with the hopes of impressing others and demonstrating "I can" rather than any kind of use. It's like the people who buy the Lincoln Navigators or Cadillac Escalades, there is no reason for it, other than the "Look at me" factor.