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2007's Best Rigs
frisko54
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This year we saw some crazy shit. Voodoo building a stupidly expensive computer and ending up selling their company to Dell. We also saw a mineral oil-cooled comp. These are some of the rigs and screensetups i want to play on in 2008:
http://www.titanstrike.com/gallery.php?x=1021
som might run shittier than others, does anyone know what that 1st pic is?
http://www.titanstrike.com/gallery.php?x=1021
som might run shittier than others, does anyone know what that 1st pic is?
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Because you have a special needs kid as your avatar with the word "NOOB!" on it?
you need a sig with a computer in it.
I wonder how many computers he trashed doing this
Well, that particular photo was by a company that does custom PC's, so I don't know.
Presumably the reason for using mineral oil is that it's non-conductive.
Bingo. I remember reading the step-by-step they made when they were putting it together. It took them a few jugs of mineral oil to fill that aquarium.
What worries me is that the CPU, graphics card, and PSU all seem to have normal fan driven coolers. They should work submerged in oil, but I think the relative density of oil as opposed to air would put a hell of a lot of strain on the fans. I wonder how much protection there is against heat build up if a fan were to fail.
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Also it's going to be rad seeing those machines in a few years. Imagine if your neighbor had a Pentium 2 overclocked to 700MHz with mineral oil cooling.
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Got a link? I'm wondering if they're actually cooling the oil in any way, or just relying on it's heat capacity and mass to keep the temperature under control.
If it does need active cooling, it seems like careful placement of radiator intakes and outlets would be required to avoid any dead spots.
This is the one I watched: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/12/puget-custom-computers-mineral-oil-cooled-pc/
But those cushions are "in" the drive, right? This looks like the drive is hanging out in oil.
Also: This website doesn't have nearly enough information about any of these pictures.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
It did get pretty hot at times, but running bubbles cooled it down.
So solid state drives will resolve this issue right?
p.s. I still don't get why one of the pics has 3 keyboards to it ... I guess that setup would suck for games. Also wtf is that thing sticking out out of the back left on the last pic, looks like a fan but i'm not sure. u have to click on the pic to expand it.
Did we see some crazy shit this year? Cause all I saw in the those pics was the same clear-acrylic, UV sensitive water piping boring shit we've been seeing for the past half a decade.
(And the first pic is just a leaf/snow blower pointed at a "rig" without a case)
While it makes me think of commercial trucking and laugh, it's far from an incorrect usage.
Rig
noun
1 the particular way in which a sailboat's masts, sails, and rigging are arranged : the yacht will emerge from the yard with her original rig.
• the sail, mast, and boom of a sailboard.
2 an apparatus, device, or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose : a lighting rig.
• an oil rig or drilling rig.
• (in CB and shortwave radio) a transmitter and receiver.
• a particular type of construction for fishing tackle that bears the bait and hook.
3 a person's costume, outfit, or style of dress : the rig of the Army Air Corps.
4 a tractor-trailer.
• another type of vehicle, such as a horse-drawn carriage.
You could use some sort of virtual machine setup so you could run six copies of World of Warcraft and start your own guild of goldfarmers.
Or you could view six different webpages at once.
Or you could watch six different porn videos at once. That's what I'd do.
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Yeah, if we're getting into "what does your dream PC case look like?", I'm going to head off into the ultraviolet end of the freak spectrum and ask for something like this:
I hope it's cool but I've added it as my album cover and given you props in the description:
http://www.titanstrike.com/gallery.php?x=1021
I stand corrected. although closing porn windows when my wife walks in while spanking it is hard enough, but closing six? I might as well unplug it. (the computer that is.)
indeed, the wood box is a work of art. has anyone seen the half-life 2 custom? its pretty sweet, just not this year. http://members.home.nl/gis/
(that even a word?)
It's just generic steampunk, I think. Everyone on the internet seems to be in love with the style, but it doesn't do much for me. Usually, I see it and think of how victorian-style woodwork needs to be left to the pros.
I was under the understanding that 360 DVDs and the 360 DVD Drive hate each other, but I could be miss informed.