re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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if we had a yard

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Yea two would be a lot in a townhouse with no yard. I have about half an acre fenced in for mine. They stay out all day and I let them in at night to eat and sleep then back out at 6AM every morning. They are spoiled rotten. I recently built them an outside AC I dump 2 gallons of ice into every morning.



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That isn't mine but that's where I got the idea. It works too. I did mine better with a real ice chest and coiled the copper in circles nice and tight like a condenser should be.

That's spoiled, not that i can talk. My dog has a house that she lets me live in.

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I would take another if we had a yard but in a 2 bedroom townhouse, 1 is fine. I'm a dog lover though.

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we just bought a house 3 months ago with a really nice yard.......... except our back porch doesn't go into the backyard, oh well, we are going to get it fixed, but for now, 1 dog is enough for us.

My wife and I are both HUGE dog lovers though

Except they're cats. My wife has had her cats for years, and I don't know exactly what they went through when that happened, they seem to be perfectly fine now. They still have their back claws for climbing, but considering how much I see them running their paws on our furniture and knowing how gnarled all of it would be, I'm certain it was the right call.






Tree huggers.

that's how I feel, I would have to get my cats declawed if I ever got one.. I can't be in the same room with one for longer than a day or two.. I couldn't imagine having to live with one.

We removed all 4 because our vet recommended it. I wish we would have been more educated on the matter.

What a big middle finger to those who bought 700 series, aka overclocked Kepler.

Build will begin in a few weeks. Master Race will be a reality for this dirty peasant.

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so i was wondering what your thought is about custom cooling in a micro case. Seeing this mean little thing on Tomshardware (Cooler Master) this morning made me want to do this for a small budget build. I would buy pieces here an there. Anyways, how hard is it to run custom cooling in these micro cases?

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That's a strange build. It appears to be configured for benchmarking. I've been reading about using an Nvidia card exclusively for Physx since Coyote mentioned it. It can apparently be done even alongside an AMD card. The Tom's build I wouldn't recommend for practical gaming use. There could be another reason behind the two cards, such as clearance issues for a single full-size PCB, requiring them to divide the workload between two weaker cards.

As for custom cooling, are you talking about custom water cooling? Skimming the comments on that Tom's build, I saw someone mention they put their H100i in there but just couldn't run it push pull. I've never put a custom loop in a case that small, but I'm sure it's possible with careful planning. The main problem is that you probably can't fit more than a 240mm radiator, which I wouldn't recommend for cooling both a GPU and a CPU. This case looks better suited for all-in-one liquid coolers. You could reduce heat and noise by liquid cooling the GPU and using some type of quiet aftermarket air cooling for the CPU. That case seems to accommodate large air coolers. But whether it can fit a radiator and an air cooler at the same time, not sure.

Man, I just saw that Newegg has a promo code for 10% if you use that V.me payment system. I am buying this to resell

GIGABYTE 760G AM3+ Micro ATX Motherboard
AMD Athlon II X3 3.2 GHz Triple-Core CPU
CORSAIR XMS 8GB MEM
LG 24X DVD Burner
LOGISYS ATX Mid Tower with 480W PSU
Western Digital 1TB HDD
EVGA GTX 650

Guess how much after the instant and MIR?

$250