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  • Color Me Badd Fan
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 12519

    #121
    Who wouldn't want this sitting on their desk at work?

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    Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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    • old_gregg
      scaly man fish
      • Nov 2009
      • 16915

      #122
      Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
      Who wouldn't want this sitting on their desk at work?

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      sorry it doesn't fit in with your cubicle decor
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      • pelagius
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 5288

        #123
        I've actually come around a bit to using some RGB in a build. Here is a recent build (beginning of the year) I did for one of my daughters (she wanted it to have blue RGB):



        Pretty simply build and the only RGB is the fans. It's in the Fractal Design Nano (mini-ITX) case.

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        • Color Me Badd Fan
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2009
          • 12519

          #124
          Originally posted by pelagius View Post
          I've actually come around a bit to using some RGB in a build. Here is a recent build (beginning of the year) I did for one of my daughters (she wanted it to have blue RGB):



          Pretty simply build and the only RGB is the fans. It's in the Fractal Design Nano (mini-ITX) case.
          I'm getting the Fractal Design Define C, at least probably. I wish it came in white. I'm still thinking about getting the white NZXT 340 which is what the guy has in the picture I posted above. The Fractal Design case is quieter and has better cable management.

          I already have the motherboard -- here is a link to what I got: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...D=3938566&SID=. It has some LEDs on it, which I'm sure can be turned off.

          Here is the power supply -- https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...D=3938566&SID=

          This is the SSD I'm about to buy, but I'm still wondering if I should go 500 GB, or just stick with the 250 GB and get a second drive later on. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...D=3938566&SID=

          What's interesting to me is how little it cost to go from a normal SSD to a M.2 SSD.
          Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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          • old_gregg
            scaly man fish
            • Nov 2009
            • 16915

            #125
            why that mobo? do you have plans to overclock something?
            Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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            • pelagius
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 5288

              #126
              Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
              I'm getting the Fractal Design Define C, at least probably. I wish it came in white. I'm still thinking about getting the white NZXT 340 which is what the guy has in the picture I posted above. The Fractal Design case is quieter and has better cable management.
              I have done builds in the Define R4, Define S, and the Define Nano so I'm a bit of a Fractal Design fan boy (it's a distant second to my Noctua fan boyism). Still, the NZXT 340 is a nice looking case.
              Last edited by pelagius; 08-30-2017, 02:30 PM.

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              • Color Me Badd Fan
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2009
                • 12519

                #127
                Originally posted by old_gregg View Post
                why that mobo? do you have plans to overclock something?
                No. The Z270 has more M.2 slots than a B250, and you have to get a high end B250 to get USB 3.1 to the point where you might as well get a Z270. There really aren't many H270 boards to choose from and the costs savings isn't much.

                As for this particular board, I also liked that it had all three video connections on the back since I'm not initially getting a video card. I bought two 27 inch screens from Costco at Christmas and they only have HDMI and VGA connections. That is not a big thing to gamers, but it's a big deal to me. Newegg had this board on sale for just over $100 for a couple days, so I grabbed it.
                Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                • Color Me Badd Fan
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2009
                  • 12519

                  #128
                  Originally posted by pelagius View Post
                  I have done builds in the Define R4, Define S, and the Define Nano so I'm a bit of a Fractal Design fan boy (it's a distant second to my Noctua fan boyism). Still, the NZXT 340 is a nice looking case.
                  Is there any reason why someone needs an external bay at this point?
                  Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                  • pelagius
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 5288

                    #129
                    Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                    Is there any reason why someone needs an external bay at this point?
                    Fairly specialized at this point. You want/need blueray but don't like external; media card data hubs; and if you still use a lot of hard drives you can use bays to hold a lot of SAS 2.5in or SSDs (of course, you may be better off moving to an external enclosure and a RAID card with external connectors or a rackmount enclosure).

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                    • Color Me Badd Fan
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 12519

                      #130
                      Originally posted by pelagius View Post
                      I have done builds in the Define R4, Define S, and the Define Nano so I'm a bit of a Fractal Design fan boy (it's a distant second to my Noctua fan boyism). Still, the NZXT 340 is a nice looking case.
                      I'm thinking about buying this case. It comes with a manual fan control on the front. I'm not thinking about buying it because of that; rather, it's the quieter version of this case and it has tempered glass. It's one of the big selling cases besides the NZXT 340 and Fractal Design Define cases.

                      https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q9v...h-ec416pstg_bw

                      I'm concerned with the manual fan control and that it overrides the motherboard/bios control of the fans. So, are the fans that come with the case only controlled by the button on the front of the case and not the mobo?
                      Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                      • old_gregg
                        scaly man fish
                        • Nov 2009
                        • 16915

                        #131
                        Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                        I'm thinking about buying this case. It comes with a manual fan control on the front. I'm not thinking about buying it because of that; rather, it's the quieter version of this case and it has tempered glass. It's one of the big selling cases besides the NZXT 340 and Fractal Design Define cases.

                        https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q9v...h-ec416pstg_bw

                        I'm concerned with the manual fan control and that it overrides the motherboard/bios control of the fans. So, are the fans that come with the case only controlled by the button on the front of the case and not the mobo?
                        it will be on top of mobo fan controller
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                        • Color Me Badd Fan
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 12519

                          #132
                          Originally posted by old_gregg View Post
                          it will be on top of mobo fan controller
                          So the mobo fan controller will still turn on the fans?
                          Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                          • old_gregg
                            scaly man fish
                            • Nov 2009
                            • 16915

                            #133
                            Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                            So the mobo fan controller will still turn on the fans?
                            yes, but the hardwired fan switch on the case will disable them even if the mobo controller is set to on
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                            • Jeff Lebowski
                              Corporate lackey for Jesus
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 69674

                              #134
                              Geez. And I thought I was a nerd.


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                              • old_gregg
                                scaly man fish
                                • Nov 2009
                                • 16915

                                #135
                                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                Geez. And I thought I was a nerd.


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                                the funny part is i have this water cooled rig with an overclocked 7700k and 1080 ti, and the most resource intensive thing i do is have three online poker windows open at a time
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