What is new in your little world?

[Pext]

Last day at my job... feels weird..

next job already planned or some time off?

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I stopped working in february to chill a bit and work on personal projects.

With my current spending I think I could go without work for another year or two.
But it would set me back a bit on my retirement plans.
Also I plan on buying a new PC/VR setup for gaming and some machine learning experiments and I will need some 3-4k for this. :drool:

I will most likely get back to working for money simetime early next year :down:

[Captain]

I'm sure another chick-fil-a will open soon.

[Eraser]

My youngest daughter had her first day at school today. Was a bit weird having an empty house all to myself today.

[Silicone_Milk]

Got cleared to go back to work so I'm back part-time making a little money to supplement my Harvest Moon ripoff project I'm working on.

[phantasmagoria]

Just dropped 800 quid on a Lian Li O11 XL, a bunch of noctua fans and an EK custom loop for my Threadripper. Hope I don't piss water all over my rig and ruin it.

[shaft]

nice! what type of tubing?

[phantasmagoria]

Just the flexible black zero maintenance stuff from EK. Hardline would've been more chic but flexible is much easier and less prone to leaking. I also quite like the industrial look of the flexible black hoses. I got black fittings too. Zero RGB. Full nickel waterblock. Baby poop noctua brown fans. Can't wait.

[shaft]

Just the flexible black zero maintenance stuff from EK. Hardline would've been more chic but flexible is much easier and less prone to leaking. I also quite like the industrial look of the flexible black hoses. I got black fittings too. Zero RGB. Full nickel waterblock. Baby poop noctua brown fans. Can't wait.

Yeah that stuff is nice, definitely the best looking soft tubing and easy to work with. One day id like to try chrome plated metal tubing...but until then this is what mine looks like. Nothing exciting, I put my pc in a drawer and routed tubing to a MO-RA3 in my basement.

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[Captain]

Nice, don't think I've ever seen a drawer PC lol

[phantasmagoria]

That's fucking brilliant

[vesp]

hah my orientation on that pic was all wrong - looked like that was the desk top with a wood panel wall, and the "drawer" was flipping upwards (or sliding vertically).
Neat idea tbh, is it some sort of custom drawerplate mounting board that youve fitted into a desk, or custom desk entirely?

[shaft]

I made the desk, it was originally just a cabinet space but I mounted the door to a large pullout drawer, made a wood base to sit in it and just put a Thermaltake Core P5 in there. I then wired a power switch to the front and put some AC Infinity airplates for ventilation. Works great, completely silent.

[dekayd]

Little cable management (possible?) will make it look nicer Shaft

[scared?]

Owned...

[shaft]

who cares? its in a drawer, thats the first time i opened it in 2 months...

[Don Carlos]

I'm gathering the things I require to rebuild my PC. So new case, power supply, mobo and NVME drive incoming. Going to use my old CPU until the new Ryzen chips come out and the old GFX card until either the 3000 series becomes available or Big Navi is released and bench marks well at a nice price.

I dare say this will be the last big wholesale upgrade I do.

[seremtan]

i can't be arsed to build PCs any more. got my current machine pre-built from Overclockers

[scared?]

Have u built one lately? Fucking easy....

[Pext]

i can't be arsed to build PCs any more. got my current machine pre-built from Overclockers

How much did you pay and how does it compare to building it yourself?

I did not really pay attention to PCs in a long time but plan on upgrading sometime next year.

Have u built one lately? Fucking easy....

Yeah sure... But it's also OK to be lazy and avoid work by throwing money at things.

[scared?]

Lol welfare bums...

[seremtan]

i can't be arsed to build PCs any more. got my current machine pre-built from Overclockers

How much did you pay and how does it compare to building it yourself?

tower only, £865. nothing special since i don't play new games. last time i built it was >£1,000 but that was - for the time - a better machine iirc

[phantasmagoria]

I can't get started on my closed loop this weekend because a £3 fitting isn't in stock and it's delayed an entire order of parts.

>:(

[Whiskey 7]

Just returned from a few days up north enjoying a little holiday
Just asking, what's been happening here and about the world?

[mrd]

So, serious question for all this water cooled madness - how much of a performance gain do you actually get out of it? Does the water cycle through a radiator or a heat exchanger of some sort? Pretty neat stuff.

[vesp]

Isn't the real benefit noise reduction, and less dust being drafted through your machine by fan airflow?

Water cooling is far more efficient than air cooling though, so yeah more potential for overclocking - additional performance just depends on the hardware and what it can OC to really