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02-05-16, 02:50 AM #1PC Before and After
I found an old harddrive with some pics from around 2007, and the state of my battle-station back then. Thought I'd do a little before and after comparisson. I had older PCs from before that which were hand-me-downs from anytime my brother would upgrade, but this was the first one I fully built myself.
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My my, how things have changed. Any of y'all have some photos of your battlestations from back in the day?SpecOpsScott liked this post
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02-07-16, 05:19 PM #4
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Damn dude, though not surprising to have quite the change over 8 to 9 years... It is getting close to my time to upgrade too I think..
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02-08-16, 01:46 PM #7Re: PC Before and After
Nice, that's the same ram I've got, though I only have 16GB (2x8). I've recently started doing a lot of remote sessions and server-ish tasks so I'm thinking of populating my other 2 slots with another 16GB.
That's a nice loop too. I've just got an all in one corsair h100i but I've been wanting for a while to do a real loop with acrylic.
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02-08-16, 06:07 PM #8
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My mouse from that era: Logitech Mouseman Dual Optical:
New feature for me: Thumb Button. It also had some new rubbery grip-enhancing stuff applied to the mouse above the thumb button. It was really comfortable to use.
Advantage: Two sensors, Zero skipping!
(Disadvantage: 5 tiny teflon glides. They worked great until they started to detach):
Sitting with it's cousins, back-in-the-day:
I used it for years. Great mouse. I had a friend who loved it, but they had stopped making them at that point. I gave it to him and bought a new mouse (G5, and later an MX518).
I visited him a couple years ago, and that damned mouse still works great. The only issue is that the grippy compound is now so tacky that it almost feels gooey. I was like "Gross! I'm holding a decade of thumb sweat!", but no - he cleans it regularly. Whatever that stuff is, it has only gotten more tacky with time (where it hasn't worn away).
He swabs it with a cotton pad doused with alcohol (maybe the alcohol is what has affected the grippy stuff), hoping that it'll last forever.
So far, so good.
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02-09-16, 03:52 PM #9
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There was a bit of a sale on them. I had 8 gigs before on 4 sticks.
This is actually the pump from a very old build when I first got this case. I bought a PC from Cyber power because it was my first time with vista and water cooling. I wanted someone else to set it all up. The only issue was the system had to be filled via the radiator. Needless to say that was a pain in the ass. I few upgrades later, the stock cooler for my AMD 8150 does keep the CPU cool enough. Bought a Zalman, didn't work because it was designed for a 90w and I have a 125w CPU. Bought a 125w rated Zalman, didn't work......
Fuck it, found the pump from the old build, ordered all the parts individually and built it my self. They reservoir is the key to a lot less head aches. Keeps the bubbles out of the system, wicked easy to fill. The only pain was building a fixture to hold it. Which was just a trip to the Depot for a bracket, and few extra holes, nuts and bolts later, and voilą....dex71 liked this postDispatch the DooM
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