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[crafferty]

We all this nerd talk has me pumped up! I just bought a dell poweredge T130 server last week for $400 shipped. End up being over $600 off with discounts. Should have my VMWARE setup tonight and multiple environments as well. Still need to grab a few more HDD's and RAM.

 

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[SnakeEyeSS]

HDMI, batteries, and a credit to the M store or whatever it is that roku has for you to rent movies. May have been something else that I got with it that was given to my brother or mom.

the 3 comes with batteries and earbuds everywhere, and credit depending on where you buy it. The one I got yesterday came with $5 Vudu credit.

[LongrangeLauber]

Y'all talking all this fancy talk about computers and I have a desktop and a laptop, I know a little bit about them but not a whole lot. And also a smartphone, that's about it lol

[Jsdirt]

I have just a desktop. Oh, and a 8 year old flip-phone. Just got high speed internet for the first time last year.

 

The way I look at it, I've lived over 4 decades without it - I can continue to. Saves me alot of money.

 

Technology ain't my thing ...

 

 

[StinkyCheese]

We all this nerd talk has me pumped up! I just bought a dell poweredge T130 server last week for $400 shipped. End up being over $600 off with discounts. Should have my VMWARE setup tonight and multiple environments as well. Still need to grab a few more HDD's and RAM.

 

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One day I'll build an actual server, but I'm lazy. I stuff my tower with HDDs and then share the folders/drive I want to access from my media pc. Only used really use VMs to test shady sourced programs or test out operating systems, nowadays I use Sandboxie to run questionable programs. Really wish 5+TB HDDs would come down in price so I can pick up another 2-4 of them.

 

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[crafferty]

One day I'll build an actual server, but I'm lazy. I stuff my tower with HDDs and then share the folders/drive I want to access from my media pc. Only used really use VMs to test shady sourced programs or test out operating systems, nowadays I use Sandboxie to run questionable programs. Really wish 5+TB HDDs would come down in price so I can pick up another 2-4 of them.

 

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I'm using this server for application development with a buddy of mine. It was cheap and fit what we need. I'll grab 4 1TB hard drives and 32GB of ram well be cruising.

 

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[SnakeEyeSS]

I built a HTPC once, and got a BSOD every 15-45 minutes after it was up and running with windows. Trouble shooting made everything look possibly bad. Every time it was a different code, rotating between hard disk, motherboard, and processor. So I returned everything.

 

Everytime I build one one of the parts is crap, don't know why my luck is so bad. First build the EVGA board went bad but they have great Customer service. Second board went bad, and they refused the RMA because a pin was bent when they got it. I explained how we were able to trouble shoot so it wasn't bent when I pulled it, but they said it was my fault.

 

Third PC, I thought I had a few bad power supplies in a row. Turns out the MSI card, a 660Ti OC Twin Frozer, was severally overvolted by design, WAY past specs(a few sites shamed them but MSI shrugged it off). I still have it,(didn't find out about the hack job MSI did on that card version until warranty was up) you have to reboot the PC 2-8 times every start up until the card doesn't overvolt so bad, because if it does it won't pass a signal to the monitor. And why did I keep it so long? Well, I got used to it. I guess their advertised super though electrical parts is true, since it still works great when it boots properly. And I haven't played through my games backlog enough so I don't even need more power yet.

[crafferty]

I built a HTPC once, and got a BSOD every 15-45 minutes after it was up and running with windows. Trouble shooting made everything look possibly bad. Every time it was a different code, rotating between hard disk, motherboard, and processor. So I returned everything.

 

Everytime I build one one of the parts is crap, don't know why my luck is so bad. First build the EVGA board went bad but they have great Customer service. Second board went bad, and they refused the RMA because a pin was bent when they got it. I explained how we were able to trouble shoot so it wasn't bent when I pulled it, but they said it was my fault.

 

Third PC, I thought I had a few bad power supplies in a row. Turns out the MSI card, a 660Ti OC Twin Frozer, was severally overvolted by design, WAY past specs(a few sites shamed them but MSI shrugged it off). I still have it,(didn't find out about the hack job MSI did on that card version until warranty was up) you have to reboot the PC 2-8 times every start up until the card doesn't overvolt so bad, because if it does it won't pass a signal to the monitor. And why did I keep it so long? Well, I got used to it. I guess their advertised super though electrical parts is true, since it still works great when it boots properly. And I haven't played through my games backlog enough so I don't even need more power yet.

Sounds like a user problem lol. The worst luck I ever had was a bad Intel CPU. What it made so bad is that DOA CPU's are extremely rare. But I showed newegg all my proof from troubleshooting and they resolved it. A few months ago I was helping my old roommate troubleshoot his new rig. Turned out he put on way to much thermal paste and it was throwing all sorts of errors because of it. Cleaned off the CPU and thermal paste with a coffee filter and rubbing alcohol. Reapplied a small dot/pea size and all issues were resolved.

 

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[StinkyCheese]

I bent the pins on one of my processors once, that was a fun couple hours bending them back and test fitting them until it fit back into the socket.

[crafferty]

I bent the pins on one of my processors once, that was a fun couple hours bending them back and test fitting them until it fit back into the socket.

Lol you're not alone. I've never built a computer with a AMD cpu but I've seen lots of butter knife videos involving AMD.

 

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[Jsdirt]

Now I know how my wife feels when I talk automotive repair with my buddies. No clue what was just said the past several posts ...

 

 

Weather is officially sucking now. Went from 80° days & 65° mornings to this. I dread this season every single year ...

 

[StinkyCheese]

Lol you're not alone. I've never built a computer with a AMD cpu but I've seen lots of butter knife videos involving AMD.

 

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I've never built an Intel build, my next one will be since I highly doubt AM4 is going to do much. I wish it would Intel needs a real competitor, especially in the enthusiast realm. Butter knife...crap that might have helped a lot! I think I did each pin individually, only bent a dozen or less though.

[Coby7]

This fall has been amazingly warm, here's proof. Just took this picture. Yes those are strawberry blossoms

 

[SnakeEyeSS]

Put one of my rare collectibles (mass effect) on ebay, I got pretty good at figuring what will be valuable in yhe future. My problem the last few times is sometimes I get obscure stuff that takes forever to sell(like that rare, expensive, and signed Star Wars book I had if anyone remembers that). Never even opened it. If it sells it will pay for an Xbox Scorpio next year. If not I might open it. Looks pretty sweet even if you don't know what it is.

[SnakeEyeSS]

http://m.newson6.com/story.aspx?story=33366844&catId=112042

 

The officer that shot him had specialty training as a PCP expert(to be able to quickly identify people on it).

 

Sounds like there is going to be enough reasonable doubt to get her off, even though he didn't appear to be aggressive, there is no audio of what was being said.