Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

[TVTyrant]

A guy who lives on my floor has one of those. He loves it, except it doesn't game

[Amit]

A guy who lives on my floor has one of those. He loves it, except it doesn't game

Really? The Quaddro NVS 3100 is good enough for most games. Plays Crysis 2 with tweaks at 1024x768 around 35 FPS with my optimized config. All other games work well with some settings turned down. Trine really taxes the system, though. BC2 works good on this laptop too.

[TVTyrant]

I'm not sure of his specs, but he doesn't think it will for whatever reason. Its a thinkpad, thats all I know. He says he paid like 1600 for it.

[hobojoe]

Update:

New cable management job + taking Freelancers advice on H50 mounting


H50 keeps my i7 930 at about 30 - 35c idle

[Amit]

Very clean and tidy. Seems a little empty, but the emptier the better for air flow.

[hobojoe]

Well I don't know what else to fill it with, lol

[Cortexian]

taking Freelancers advice on H50 mounting

My advice is to mount the CPU block portion upside-down so the tubes are on the top, I see you flipped the radiator/fan portion.

The theory is that air will rise to the top in a liquid-solution, so putting the CPU block tubes above the block prevent any air bubbles from forming there. They form in the radiator if they do at all, which isn't a big problem.

Keep the radiator/fan portion like it is, but flip the CPU block part as well.

[Cortexian]

Derp.

Yeah I stopped trying to transfer it all back at once don't worry.

[Patrickssj6]

How about deleting Avatar altogether since it's a bad movie good work on Top Gear though.

[Cortexian]

I have the completely opposite opinion on Avatar, seeing it close to 7 times in theaters and probably 20 time since in 3D and extended varieties.

Just finished copying over the last bit of Top Gear I had elsewhere... Unfortunately I've discovered that if you plan on doing RAID-5 it's pretty much required to do it with a real hardware RAID card. The "PCI SATA Controller" software RAID card I'm using (based off a Silicon Image 3114 chip) can only sustain 13MB/s write speeds, copying all my data back to this RAID is literally going to take 3-4 days. At least when I benchmarked it using HD Tune Pro it got reads up to 60MB/s which should be more than enough for streaming and such.

Oh, the burst write speed starts at about 110MB/s but degrades to 20MB/s in about 10 seconds, then it takes another 10-20 seconds for it to drop down to 13MB/s.