by "Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
Published 05/21/2017 at 21:05
by "Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
Published 05/21/2017 at 21:05
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I built it mainly for racing games like Assetto Corsa (might try out iRacing at some point). Who else plays?
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
05/21/2017 at 21:48, STARS: 1
I was going to build one, had no time, so I ordered an Asus ROG thing and it is fast.
"Vítor" (vitorcesar)
05/21/2017 at 21:56, STARS: 0
That is a really good looking tower. Nice to know that there are gamer PCs that aren’t full of creases and neon lights
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
05/21/2017 at 22:10, STARS: 0
Fractal Design case?
Wiffleballtony and I are probably going to get Project Cars 2. I want to get a high dollar simulation rig built.
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
05/21/2017 at 22:25, STARS: 0
Actually if you shop correctly you can easy mod an existing new system. I bought an ASUS PC with Bulldozer 8 core processor 3.4ghz added 8gb ram and upgraded video from Radeon r7 240 to EVGA GeForce Nvidia GTX 1050 ti with no power supply change needed. Total expense was $620 which included a 1080p monitor. I don’t have room for big monitor at the PC but if I want to I believe I can easily run an HDMI cable to my 52" TV. Its only used for some email, printing, photos, games and web.
"hike" (hike15)
05/21/2017 at 22:32, STARS: 0
That tower is sharp looking. I play a little Assetto Corsa and Project Cars. Not much time lately though.
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
05/21/2017 at 22:32, STARS: 0
I got mine for VR, but I was annoyed with always having issues so I sold my Vive.
"facw" (facw)
05/21/2017 at 22:37, STARS: 1
Like the case, have been thinking about doing a Define Mini for my next build (don’t really want to part with my optical drives for some reason). Wish they offered it without the vent on the side panel though.
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
05/21/2017 at 22:53, STARS: 0
One of my friends who does IT for a Big10 school told me I wouldn’t see much more performance from my present system which with the extra 8gb ram is at 16. I was considering bumping it to 32gb. He said get instead to spend the money on a SSD to put OS on and just use the 2tb drive for storage.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
05/21/2017 at 23:01, STARS: 0
Get a wheel. It is 100% worth it.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:06, STARS: 1
I did! Got a G29, with a shifter too. It’s on the left beside the desk.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:12, STARS: 0
Yes, Fractal Design Define S!
Idk anything about Project Cars 2. Hear it thrown around a bit though. Might be worth researching.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:18, STARS: 0
Yeah, it is Fractal Design’s Define S.
I agree with your statement. Side windows only look good when the entire side panel is just tempered glass and no bezels, but that’s expensive. Aggressive styling is just out of control and can become dated-looking (just look at some from 2015...you can see the 2015 all over them).
One of the objectives while searching for a case was to have no side window. I could care less about having a light show (plus coordinating that is expensive) and did not want sunlight to pass from outside of the case into it (dat heat transfer). My motherboard and GPU light up, not a lot, just a little.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:21, STARS: 1
I have Samsung’s 960 EVO PCIe NVMe M.2 (250GB), and it is niiice.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:22, STARS: 0
I won’t have much time either, generally day time on weekends but not many nights.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:27, STARS: 0
Interesting that the Mini doesn’t have a full cover available on the side vent. The Define S does.
The Define Mini is for MicroATX, yet it’s more expensive than the Define S...
...wat?
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
05/21/2017 at 23:27, STARS: 0
Nice, I’ll check that out.
"facw" (facw)
05/21/2017 at 23:28, STARS: 0
2015 was downright tasteful compared to some points in the past. A decade ago, you could do so much worse...
That’s an actual case with ~900 reviews at Newegg. People were actually buying it! https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811145047
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:29, STARS: 1
MY EYES!
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/21/2017 at 23:32, STARS: 1
Also, I wasn’t trying to take a dig at case designs of prior years. There definitely are cases that look great for their model years. Simply that when looking at particular cases, you know they are either very old or quickly becoming dated in design.
"facw" (facw)
05/21/2017 at 23:34, STARS: 1
I think it’s just because it’s more niche (though I don’t know why, almost no one needs a 7 slot motherboard these days, and on most consumer boards you’d just choke the PCI-E links with that many cards anyway.) Personally I feel like I’m done with full ATX, but going down to mini-ITX cuts out too much expansion (I’d especially hate to lose the 4 RAM slots, though I guess Ryzen is supposed to have problems with more than 2 anyway), and the cases tend to be too small for good quiet cooling. Micro ATX seems like a sweet spot, but instead is largely ignored.
"facw" (facw)
05/21/2017 at 23:42, STARS: 0
Definitely good and bad are available at any point. FWIW, my system lives in an Antec P182, which is pretty nice aside from being absurdly huge:
Having such a big case probably drives my desire to go mATX next time, I don’t move it much, but when I do, it’s always a pain.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/22/2017 at 01:27, STARS: 0
Totally understandable. The case I got weighs 20 pounds. Probably weighs 30 pounds after all the components are added.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/22/2017 at 17:05, STARS: 0
Just make sure you have an M.2 slot, and that doesn’t share PCIe bandwidth or disable any SATA slots...something like that was mentioned in my mobo manual.
"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/22/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 0
What about those HTPC form factors? I don’t watch or read much about them but I wonder if they are any good.
"facw" (facw)
05/22/2017 at 17:19, STARS: 1
Those are normally mini-ITX, you normally get 2 RAM slots (basically never more than that) and a single PCI-E. Seems a bit restrictive.
For what it’s worth, my HTPC is actually mini-ATX:
Though it’s fairly large for an mATX case. I do actually have all the expansion slots filled due to a tuner and dedicated soundcard in addition to normal stuff.