Quote (Sayaka @ Jul 3 2014 06:56pm)

the amd brackets for my respire t40 apparently don't orient for the front to back i would have rather done, but overall i'm pretty impressed with it for 30-35$. the intel brackets can do either orientation but nowhere in the instructions did it show f2b for amd :c
even youtube and google turned up no results for mounting the t40 on amd sockets. which was annoying, especially considering one of the parts (4 'rubber' (not actually rubber) spacers had notches and i didn't know if they were supposed to go a certain way) was entirely different from what the documentation showed

but temperatures aren't a big worry, it's pretty chilly with how cool washington is pretty much all the time
max temp with my bedroom door open is usually 55c because all i play is league/osu!
http://puu.sh/9VVpN/40304b822f.png

i plan on getting another 140mm fan for the top, and then maybe a 120mm for the bottom if i move my hdd's up one or two slots each, just so i can get maximum airflow out of my case.

and thanks! i tried my best managing a non-modular psu, worked out pretty well, hiding my ssd behind the motherboard panel as well as every last cable i don't need.
tried going for a minimalistic look, which the xfx 290 will help achieve, and maybe i'll end up removing the side sticker from my psu, but i'll see about that later.
unfortunately my cm sickleflow fan i have on the side panel has red led's i can't be bothered to remove but i think i did a good job so far

Quote (Bankai @ Jul 3 2014 07:38pm)

i love the cm sickleflo's, those are what i use in my Lian Li. they do have non-LED ones available on newegg, should be the same exact ( 69 cfm 19 dbA ).

Quote (Sayaka @ Jul 3 2014 09:47pm)

yea i don't plan on getting more of em though. i have a fan controller but where i have it, it won't reach the controller without looking super ugly. planning on eventually getting the grey noctua fans grey/black/white theme

Quote (rockonkenshin @ Jul 7 2014 12:07pm)

Where I get shit done and then play vidja games:

Inside:

http://i.imgur.com/GG3XPEB.jpg

Gaming PC:

FX-6300 @ 4.6, cooled by EVO212 Push/Pull
8GB DDR3 (Crucial, i think)
Sapphire R9 270x 2GB
Samsung 830 128GB SSD
3x Seagate 1TB drives (pulled from server when I upgraded)
Windows 7 x64

Main PC:

2013 13" Macbook Air
1.7Ghz Core i7 (Haswell)
8GB DDR3
512GB PCI-E SSD
OS X 10.9.4

Server:

Core i3 3220
Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F-O
8GB DDR3 ECC
4x 3TB Western Digital Red (RAID-Z1)
Some shitty ATX case I had lying around
FreeNAS 9.2

Gaming/Audio/Misc Shit:

PS3 Slim 160GB + 2x DualShock 3 /w charge dock
Monoprice HDMI/TOSLINK 4x1 switch
Astro A40 Mixamp
Sennheiser HD 558
Logitech mx518 (this fucking thing won't die. i've had it since ~2005)
CoolerMaster Quickfire Rapid /w Cherry MX Blue switches
Kanex DualRole USB 3.0 hub /w Gigabit ethernet (for the mac)
Griffin Elevator stand
Monoprice adjustable monitor arm
LG 27" IPS screen, 1920x1080

Outside:

http://i.imgur.com/zl1sFSJ.jpg

Sorry about the shitty lighting conditions.

Quote (Bankai @ Jul 7 2014 02:47pm)

you makin shaft happy
but makin me sad
with psu fan facing up

Quote (rockonkenshin @ Jul 7 2014 01:09pm)

The ventilation area on the bottom of the case isn't very good, so I figured it pulling from the top to blow out was a better option. The label of my PSU being upside down would drive me crazy.

Quote (Bankai @ Jul 7 2014 03:23pm)

well, looks good bro
be careful with those stock Nzxt fans, i've broken every Nzxt fan i've ever used ( about five i think ) when trying to clean them because the blades are so fraile.

Quote (rockonkenshin @ Jul 7 2014 01:27pm)

Yeah, they are kinda shitty fans. They aren't too loud, but the build quality on them definitely isn't great. I wanted to build this thing on a pretty strict budget (I spent less than the cost of the XBONE on everything but the SSD, hard drives and PSU. That stuff came from an old project) and the case was the nicest one I could find that kept me under budget. Once those fans go I'll replace them with something nicer. The PC is really just there to run VMs for development and to play games on. Any serious work and programming is done on the Air. The server's purpose is for high-speed, shared network storage and to run torrents/usenet, plex media server for my 2 TVs and sickbeard/couchpotato and crashplan.

Quote (Bankai @ Jul 7 2014 04:48pm)

I'm thinking about making a little HTPC because we never bother to look through our blu rays lol. would be nice to get them all on a pc with wireless mouse, and run out surround sound off a sound card. is it common to lose quality when putting movies into hard drive? i know i would need something to get around the copyrights ofc.