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I have 5.1 surround as well... let's just say my neighbors don't want to piss me off or I won't feel the need to be considerate. If they do I'd move my sub woofer to the floor instead of it sitting on top of my UPS's, then instead of leaving my bass at 50% I'd could put in on 100% and make their windows vibrate. I keep my 24" off on my left on the second teir of my desk... it's like my monitoring monitor to keep an eye on my PC probe and taskman and any downloading I might be doing at the time while I'm in game. (Heat is an issue in my apartment, air doesn't circulate well and it can get very hot in the summer... so I always have PC Probe running to let me know what my mobo and CPU temps are while in game. Some games drive it up quite high. I don't like to see the temp on my CPU get any higher than 50 degrees Celcius. 60 degrees is what I have the alarm set to.AEmer wrote:I can relate
Although I don't see myself ever moving away from my current setup...not unless I can get 3 3d screens.
It'll probably be tricky to find replacement monitors in the future, though...so I've taken to keeping a black desktop background without icons to save monitor usage on the sides.
I run a 1x26" on the table, with 2x20" 20'es at the sides, wall mounted. Yes, the computers from Deus Ex was probably the reason I thought this setup would be cool.
I also run a 5.1 hifi surround sound system, so its framed by bigass speakers(for a computer) on either side and above by the center speaker.
I wouldn't really need more of a vertical dimension, even if it looks cool.
The side monitors are from 01 and 03 respectively, bought used from a guy who found out quad-monitors arranged in a square wasn't for him...it's taken a while to put together, piece by piece, without breaking the bank =P
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I have small girlie feet... with my badass gamer slippers on...
. You run UPS's? Plural? I've never had one...It always seemed like a lot of money when I could get a PSU with surge protection...though we never have brownouts in Denmark, so that might play into it. Walmart slippers... LOL I liked the froggies...AEmer wrote: And socks that look homemade...
The viewing angles on my monitor are perfect. I lay on the couch and watch it like a TV, or watch it from my kitchen while doing dishes... I've never had a problem. Still 27" seems so small now... I wanna go bigger... bloody things 30" and up are so expensive!AEmer wrote: But sadly, yeah, I don't think I would like your monitor very much, though not because its an asus XD - It looks like that monitor is a great deal, and I love having a lot of inches and still using 1920x1080, but it's also a TN panel, and I try my darndest to avoid those...it used to be that the viewing angles on those were so narrow that the same colour could look different near the edges of the screen from how it would look at the center, on the larger panels...
It started with one UPS, APC 1300V ... I live in an apartment building that even when the weather was nice the power would flicker and restart my computer, so much so I could see it shortening the life or just damaging it all together... then I bought more equipment that dropped my 30min battery time to about half that... so I bought another APC 1300V. Then a few months ago I bought another APC 1500V for just my desktop... since I have a whole lotta hardware in my desktop, and 7tb worth of hard drives. Since there was a power outtage at the time that lasted about 3hrs and I was almost crawling the walls of boredom! By some freak of nature not only was my laptop battery dead, so was my tablet I let them run down without realizing and then when the power was out I had nothing to entertain me. So I that's the reason behind the latest one. So now happily I have power when the power goes out and I don't have to read a book by candle light... that is so boring!AEmer wrote: You run UPS's? Plural? I've never had one...It always seemed like a lot of money when I could get a PSU with surge protection...though we never have brownouts in Denmark, so that might play into it.
Yeah I keep my puter far away from the radiator. I have an Antec 1200 so I'm good for fans as well... Plus my video card has pipe cooling and a 120mm fan, and my CPU I went with a 90mm fan/heatsink instead of the stock tiny one. My mobo and video card both have their separate software that speed up the fans depending on how hard they are working... I can hear the vid card fan gear up during a game...then go quiet once I'm out...AEmer wrote: Oh, and I must admit to not minding my computers heat levels...My motherboard will speed up the fans when heat reaches a certain level...the way I configured it, I have 6 fans on that system, and I blindly trust it to keep things chilly and as quiet as possible. Sadly, I botched the room layout...the computer is next to the radiator so I have problems with heat both summer and winter....
Atlantic Canada. It says so right out there in the left under her nameAEmer wrote:Wow, so you're in the US, and your power problems are that bad?
Well it says you're in hafnia and furthermore so is your face.Jonas wrote:Atlantic Canada. It says so right out there in the left under her nameAEmer wrote:Wow, so you're in the US, and your power problems are that bad?
I hate the stretchyness too... I am always on 1080p... unless an older game forces me to play lower res. if I can't frig with it's config file...AEmer wrote:"Huh...good to know! But I don't like 27"+ tbh - not unless it sticks to that 1920x1200~1920x1080 resolution range. I think its too demanding on the computer for games to go higher res. With 1080p you can get a really good upscale from 720p, but there isn't really a higher resolution screen that "fits" nicely with the lower resolutions, so either you're stuck with an insanely demanding resolution, or you get stretchyness.
What Jonas said...AEmer wrote: Wow, so you're in the US, and your power problems are that bad? You live in a large city? Countryside? Because that seems really bad from the way you're describing it...
I live in the capital, and the birth place of Canada... and yes I'm speaking vaguely... But I live in an older building and it's just crap.. and where I live is at sea level. Oh and in Atlantic Canada what you may have heard of our storms... yeah we get bad ones because we are so close to the sea.Mine fits in the computer place in my desk and has a glass door that I can close, which is almost silent when I do that. Although when gaming I always have the door open... I also have my desk about 4" from the wall so the back of the computer has air flow...AEmer wrote: I like my computer to be quieter than an open window, though when gaming that's obviously not the case.
I envy those silent designed cases as well...AEmer wrote: I'm really envious of my friends who have the Fractal Design R3...that case is simply amazing. It's a complete carbon copy of the p180, but its much improved imo.
A lot of programs... but mostly storage. I have almost 300 games on Steam and I'm a fan of NOT downloading a game every time I get the itch to play it. I download it once and it stays on there, ready for any time I wanna play it. I also switch from having movies on DVD to just digital. Storing DVD movies and games in my apartment was getting ridiculous and digital just made more sense. It's cheaper to buy a 2tb hard drive than have to dust around yet another storage container in my apartment... I also store all my photos digitally now.. yet saving even more space and clutter in my apartment. I have a surprising amount of GBs of personal photos, oh yeah and music...AEmer wrote: "since I have a whole lotta hardware in my desktop, and 7tb worth of hard drives"
What do you have onthere, the sequenced genome of the nocturnal fruitbat? Or do you just partake in the enjoyment and archiving of Hi Def television? =P
7tb...man. That is a _lot_ of stuff.
Yeah, I hear you have some nasty storms. Comes with living on the east coast of a continent, though obviously its much worse at some longtitudes than others...I live in the capital, and the birth place of Canada... and yes I'm speaking vaguely... But I live in an older building and it's just crap.. and where I live is at sea level. Oh and in Atlantic Canada what you may have heard of our storms... yeah we get bad ones because we are so close to the sea.
Probably wise. Most antecs, including yours I think, sucks the air in at the front, so unless you also give it clearance at the front, the airflow will suffer.. Airflow out ~ airflow in, so it needs about similar clearance on both ends...well, that's my rule of thumb anyway.Mine fits in the computer place in my desk and has a glass door that I can close, which is almost silent when I do that. Although when gaming I always have the door open... I also have my desk about 4" from the wall so the back of the computer has air flow...
Its not just that they're silently designed...it's also the cabling system. You run them along the backside of the plate where the motherboard is mounted, and there are little entrance points for all of them. Combined with modular cabling, theres litterally no cable clutter - and you don't have to use duct tape to accomplish it!AEmer wrote:I envy those silent designed cases as well...
Yeah that I can believe will eat up a lot of space. As would 300 steam games.AEmer wrote: I'm also a Network Admin. I have VM Ware setup with several different types of server environments that I can test out and troubleshoot.
My case has removable washable dust filters which is another reason I bought it. I like a clean case. So yeah there are 4 intake fans, 3 on the front and I have one on the side. The cabling is all secured under the mobo panel. I have everything zip tied so it does move. The only cables I can't control as much is the main power cable going to the mobo and my SATA cables. I have one PATA cable left which is for my DVD burner... however I almost never use it and have never gotten around to turfing it. I was going to replace it at my last build because there was a BluRay burner on sale for a really good price but when I hit the process button on my order it was sold out. Some bugger bought the last one from under me, never thought about it again till now. I hate moving my case when I don't have to, it's very very heavy... and I'm very very lazy...AEmer wrote: Probably wise. Most antecs, including yours I think, sucks the air in at the front, so unless you also give it clearance at the front, the airflow will suffer.. Airflow out ~ airflow in, so it needs about similar clearance on both ends...well, that's my rule of thumb anyway.
Its not just that they're silently designed...it's also the cabling system. You run them along the backside of the plate where the motherboard is mounted, and there are little entrance points for all of them. Combined with modular cabling, theres litterally no cable clutter - and you don't have to use duct tape to accomplish it!
I hardly see the effort worth it for a burner I hardly use... anyway the only time I'll shift my case around is when I take it out to remove the dust filters to clean them. Which is getting around that time.. they are getting kinda dust... stupid carpet in this rental...
