General computer talk/advice

Actuation point on an MX is somewhere around the 2mm mark, shifts a little depending on exact colour and some chinese copies (the razer switches are actually just a rebranding from a company that used to make illegal copies of MX switches, now legitimized by expiration of the patents) but the total travel is around 4mm. The o-ring just cushions out what happens after the actuation point. The click of an MX Blue/Razer Green occurs at actuation. So sadly the O-ring wont help with my main concern, however they are beneficial to all switch types and I was going to try getting some anyway.

The cherry silent switches are in the strafe, a non tkl design that is hideously expensive. It appears they also just aim to reduce the clack as a key bottoms out or returns to centre rather than altering the actuation properties, they otherwise mimic red and black switches.

Rage has put me onto the cooler master storm quickfire tk. Right on upper end of budget, however it does come in browns and in a tenkeyless size but with an actual numpad, numlock then switches the numpad over to arrow keys.

- - - Updated - - -

Pretty sure its a desktop...

 

Oh, there was a desktop 920. I knew that.

 

Yeah, it's pretty much a 870 but with more cache, unlocked, and ran on LGA1366.

 

Ordered a cooler master storm quickfire tk. Bit more than I wanted to spend, a bit unusual, but tenkeyless size and in MX Browns.

 

Bought Sims 1 Deluxe at Goodwill to bring back some memories. I don't remember not being able to get it to run though.

Can't figure out any way to make it work on Win 10.

 

Windows 2000/XP virtual machine.

 

But. Effort.

 

Any y'all know of a good ISO mounting tool? Microsoft's one doesn't work on 64bit, most of them are paid and the free ones are full of adware and spyware.

 

Yeah, even with locked multipliers on mine I can still mess around with the turbo limits and TDP. It's fun. (Til it hits 100c or my charger shits itself from the power draw.)

 

Its called windows 8 (native feature)

I used to use WinCDEmu which at the time didnt have anything dodgy in it, it might do now though, times have changed, well obviously they've changed considering windows has it natively now hence eliminating need for 3rd parties to contribute so much.

 

Today I start work placement as a TSO for my high school... yay. :|

Its been less than one hour and all I've done is swap out a monitor, look for a HDMI to DP (For my own computer) and only found VGA heaven and built a paper storage thingey, where I installed the metal rods backwards.

Yes, I effed up within the first hour, the reason I'm typing here now is because I'm alone in the office ;_;

 

So yesterday at around 11PM me and Reddustone talked a bit via Steam (I was on my phone due to wifi problems, had to switch to 4G eventually) and when my PC rebooted due to an update, I just got a black screen. All the cables were hooked up properly and everything should've worked.
Reddustone eventually told me to take a look inside and take the GPU out for a bit and put it back in.
For some reason, it worked again after that.
Lets just hope my PC doesn't do this again.

 

Yay, got a free Dell Optiplex 990! Core i5.
A branch of the company relocated and there was a bunch of stuff left behind.
Even a complete server room full of switches, new tapes, .... We could take like eight Optiplex'es and a bunch of Dell monitors. And some Latitude laptops. Most of them are going to the new location, we can keep some of them because they're needless

Edit: it's an i5 2400, with 8 GB RAM and a HD 3450 GPU!

 

There's an old server here at the school's server room... looks like it hasn't been touched in around 2 - 3 years, I wonder what type of CPU it has... or RAM... I'll see if I can steal the RAM & CPU out of it ( I'll have to ask first D: )

 

And my quickfire tk has arrived, MechanicalMasterRace

 

What is a good low-profile GPU for under 40$ second-hand? It has to get power from the PCI-E-slot-thing.

I did some research and the R7 240, GT 730 and GT 640 seem as good ones. R7 250 is just a bit too expensive and quite rare in low profile.

Edit: I'm picking up a R7 240 tonight. Seems to be cheap, low on power consumption and decent performance for its price (25$!). I'd be able to play GTA V on console settings. (720p30). Some people even get more FPS. Nice.
I have my XPS for more serious gaming of course, the Optiplex will be connected to my tv and I'll get a wireless controller for it. Instant smart TV

- - - Updated - - -

I guess you have to get a new MoBo and everything then.. Would be easier to buy/take/steal the entire thing I suppose. I do not support the last option though

 

You could just get a 750ti and hack it in with a PCIE riser. I used a 650ti which I got new for $60 but it required a SATA-6 pin adapter. Still works well on the 240w PSU along with the Q8400.

When I got my Elite 8k I threw in a low pro GPU that I got from the same place I got the PC itself. A mighty Radeon X1300. (I got it because it was the suspected killer of the board in another system that it was running in. Hasn't caused me any issues though.) I was planning on getting a low end half height GPU like you but I decided that it wasn't worth it for that little performance so I bought the 650ti and got the dremel out.

 

I can't find any 750 low profiles here for a reasonable price unfortunately..
Dremel-ing is an option, but that would ruin the key point of the case: its moderate dimensions

 

well, i upgraded to windows 10 and swiftly downgrade back to windows 8.1 a day later. reason is all the bugs windows 10 has.

 

Well, in my case I was able to fit the card in without ruining the "moderate dimensions" of it. (Meaning I could still put the top cover back on.)


(imported from here)