Posts made by Mike Ralston

Happy birthday, @GregoryHall

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Sounds cool. I nominate @coliver as the system administrator

My lad may become ML's youngest member

@Mike-Ralston admins some already. He built one in the NTG lab last week.

It's currently undergoing some changes, as a server cannot realistically be run with more than a few people without any plugins. I'll get right on working on it more, though!

Hope this gets more traction than the last three iterations. But with DirectX 12 coming with full Tesselation support, I don't see how OpenGL can possibly keep up...

@MattSpeller You won't regret it, haha!

@MattSpeller I'm a little disappointed in the Red's, I'll probably go Blue next time. And the R.A.T. 7 is fantastic! I've got large hands as well, and it's entirely adjustable. And if you're worried about pinky drag, you can change out the side-piece for one of the included ones, that has a shelf very akin to the one that's attached to the thumb side. Overall, a very comfortable mouse, despite looking angular, as you can adjust it to fit your hand very naturally. And the 8600 DPI sensor, Sniper Button, on the fly DPI changing, sideways scroll wheel, and fully customizable button layout, those just helped to seal the deal for me. The weight system gives you another level of customization, but the frame for the mouse itself is fairly heavy for what it is, so don't expect anything super lightweight.

Corsair K70 Mechanical Keyboard with MX Cherry Red switches, and a Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7. @art_of_shred I just did a bit of looking, and I'm not actually seeing too many trackballs that are decent. I mean, besides the ones with the mahogany ball and such Maybe you'd like a DVORAK Keyboard to go with that?

So no Malware or anything, but my PC is being EXTREMELY slow, for no discernable reason.

Listening to some rare Hendrix LP's on my whole new vinyl listening setup, right behind my desk

@scottalanmiller said:

Just watched most of the first Hobbit movie again. My BIL has a huge home theatre, so large it is a separate building from the house.

That's pretty awesome!

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

Since this is a gaming machine, I'm a bit surprised you went with the i5 and not an i7.

i7s price per performance really isn't there yet for gaming. Or at least as far as I can tell. However for an extra 100$ I could get a 4790K which would be awesome. Still considering...

For gaming, an i3 is barely fully utilized with most games. A few, like Metro: Last Light Redux, and Star Citizen will push well beyond that, and even some i5's, but the new Devil's Canyon processors should be more than good enough for the next 3 years, even the 4690K. All the physics simulation and such is done on the GPU (so long as you buy Nvidia), so as long as your processor doesn't cap PCI-E 3.0 8x, and it can do basic tasks, it's usually fine. RAM and GPU are what the games need large amounts of performance from usually.

@coliver Someone isn't kidding!

I'd just look up the power requirements for each part, then add them together, then give yourself around 100 more than you need. Edit: To answer your question directly, not very much.

@PSX_Defector I've never even powered it up. It's just there.

Just for my area of the house, I've got:

 Red Dragon

• AMD FX 8350

• AMD R9 Gamer Series 16GB of RAM (2x8GB)

• EVGA GTX 660 SC OC'ed to 1387 MHz

• ASUS Xonar Phoebus

• Asus Generic DVD/RW

• WD Black 1TB HDD

• Corsair 600W PSU Non-Modular (Don't remember the model)

• Beyerdynamic DT 990 Premium 600 OHM

• Blue Snowball

• LG 25UM65 21:9 25" monitor (2560 x 1080)

• Corsair K70

• Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7

  Mini ITX Stream Box
  

• AMD A6-6400K

• 8GB Generic RAM (2x4GB)

• Some Goofy 400 Watt PSU

• WD Blue 1TB

• GA-F2A88XN-WIFI

• 42" Samsung TV

• Logitech 5.1 Surround System

  Server Rack for NTG Lab
  

• DL185 G5

• DL145 G2

• DL145 G3

• Dell PowerEdge R510 x 3

• Dell PowerEdge R720

• HP DC 5750 x 2

• SM SunFire V100 x 3

• HP Server RX2600

• SM SunFire V240 x 2

@garak0410 There are issues with the current version of OneDrive on Windows 10 (last I knew, about a month ago), but I suspect that it will be full and working by the time Windows 10 actually launches.

@thanksaj It's got 16GB of RAM, AMD FX 8320 8-Core Processor, and an AMD R7 260X for the GPU, a 600 Watt Semi-Modular Corsair PSU, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD for boot drive, and a standard 1TB mechanical for storage. Boots in a little over 6 seconds

@Minion-Queen Aww, you didn't even mention how kick-butt the rig you're on now is, either,

@nadnerB The efficiency rating, 80+ Bronze, means that it's at least 80% efficient at 100% load. Every PSU I've used from Corsair has been an entirely hassle free and satisfying, and I can highly recommend any of their CM/CX/RM/AX PSU models from experience.

@scottalanmiller My bad, didn't see this. @nadnerB Looking for a 550W or larger, huh? Well, how important to you are things like Modular Cables, Efficiency, and Fan Noise levels? I would recommend a Corsair, EVGA, or Silverstone PSU, I've had very good experience with all of them (Especially the EVGA, but you tend to have to pay a bit of a price premium for them). I've used Seasonic three times now, and one of them failed after about six months. They get really good reviews generally, and supposedly are very stable and have long lifespans, so I would say I just got an odd case with mine.

@scottalanmiller For what you want, you shouldn't have to spend more than $600, and that's if we put the extra money in to make it look pretty.