Few month old picture. Desk is too unorganized for a new one.

It worked better than you think it does

>>54600

Pfft, I don't buy that at all, you can't see anything except the major towns on that map. It's worthless and shit.

>>54602
Naw dog. It's got all the locations of the treasures marked on it.

My desk has a habit of getting a bit... messy.

My desk at the moment, listening to the last part of Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans. Holly fuck if any of you are interested in history this is an amazingly good podcast.

http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-of-the-khans-i/

>>54607
KHAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!

KHAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!

Seriously though, thanks for the link. Never heard of the Hardcore History Series before this but glad I found it.

>>54606
What da fuck

>>54607
Yeah Dan Carlin is great, I'd suggest Ghosts of the Ostfront if you haven't listened to it yet. Though it seems like he's a little bit of a anti from his current events podcast.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THE SUN IN 173 DAYS

>>54710
Reminds me of my dorm room in Kadena, save for the copious amount of liquor and beer bottles.

>>54665
>"Eh, I'll just put this over here for now."
>"Eh, I'll put this away later."
>Eventually forget about it.
>"Oh man, how did all this crap get here?"
>Don't remember most of it
>At this point it's too much to just put it all away properly

>>54713
"Contraband" n "HAZMAT" go in2 da closet, m8. B)

>>54717

>>54718
I wasn't in a dry dorm, however i did get an LOR for leaving 20+ beer bottles on my desk after leaving for a very sudden deployment. Also I left my window open and apparently there was water damage after a typhoon rolled through.

Good times lol.

>>54596

here's the "main" battlestation

And this is the HTPC and other crap

>>54773
Do you have enough Bass, King of Subs?

>>54774
Eh it's not even that bass-y, the bigger speakers just handle louder sound better than the smaller Onkyos I had originally. If I ever play murder monkey jungle beats it does piss off the neighbor though.

guts update

I gotta clean off my desk

>>54600
My old computer's fan stopped working, so I turned it on it's side and removed the up facing panel and placed a box fan over it.

It's usually messier than this.

Just finished putting it together again, minus a lot of cable management.

>>56264
Surround takes some getting used to though...

>>56264
also cable management

Took me 2 years to decide on that, but I guess table is just a table sometimes.

Just finished building this thing for my nephew... Not much I can do to make the cables prettier, but at least they're out of the way for the most part.

New laptop! Got for $700 off Amazon, $100 off sticker price cuz of a damaged box. Has 8 gb of RAM (upgraded to 16 gb for 35 bux) and a 256 gb M.2 SSD, added a 2.5" 240 gb SSD for additional storage. GTX960M with 4gb of VRAM. I likes it.

>>57008
Full specs hurr:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYYDMQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01

>>57008
good price. I don't like dell, but that's me. CPU supports DDR4 memory, so that's kind of a shitty trade off that they gave you DDR3.

I havent used an Intel CPU in a long time, but I have herd that even when disabled, the integrated GPU can draw current and still warm up the CPU a bit. Be aware of that.

Other than that, ya dun good.

Ordering water blocks for the GPUs and hardline fittings and tube to redo the loop in the big blue monster. Prolly gonna use the old flexible tubing fittings and some spare tubing I have to do a loop in my HTPC.

You can compare the two photos from this post and here: >>55822

Dunno if I didn't flush out all the flux from the rad or if the coolant adversely reacted with the tubing... either way, gonna make the hardline loop a drainage system so's I can flush it real good if it happens again.

  This is a crazy build

>>57214
I got goosebumps

Ugh, what an adventure this was....

>>54596
I was just going through my pictures and found the pics of my Carry On Computer. I scrapped the project after I accidentally the power supply, but I did it, and it worked. A full gaming computer that fit into a carry on pelican case. (The TSA was very confused.)

The Best Buy monitor that fit perfectly.

Test layout.

Made the chassis out of 6061-T6 Aluminum. Used a sheet metal break from Harbor Freight and a saber saw with metal blades to cut the material. The saber saw sucked hard. (A sheet metal shear is the way to go.)

With motherboard mounted.

The real trick to the case was the PCI-Express ribbon cable. That allowed me to rotate the video card and reduce the overall height.

It was also the real problem. The cable wasn't shielded. So in the first config here, the cable would pick up noise from the processor fan.

For version 2, I flipped the video card over and rearranged the layout.

The compeleted and operational Carry On Computer. Well, mostly operational. Any heavy graphics use would blue screen. So I ordered a shielded PCI-Express cable.

Getting impatient, I decided to make my own shielding with Aluminum foil and blue tape.

Turns out blue tape is more conductive than I thought.

And here it is on a hotel room table in Harrisburg, PA. No workie. Pulled everything out to trouble shoot. Power supply dead. I probably could have warrantied the power supply, but I was traveling so much I just went out and bought a ASUS Laptop with Nvidia 860M. The laptop has been working great since, and (to be honest) is much more convenient. The COC took a little time to set up and take down. I'm sure I could have ironed out the bugs, but work shit got in the way.

I made this. Things Happen here. I have since gotten a larger center monitor.

>>57340

>>57746
And finished... maybe? It's never finished.

>>54710
>>54718

Dat barracks life tho.

Pic is my battlestation.

>>57772

And the rig.

>>57768

That's a fantastic looking loop.

>>57772
That's sweet. I was considering doing the over/under monitor when I was playing a lot of Flight Simulator X.

>>57773
I changed it again.

I call it Burple Rain. The Mayhem pastel purple wasn't the same color as the sample photo showed... so I ordered some dark blue dye to darken it up. Still looks pretty neat with the blue and purple LEDs going.

>>57904
....and again.

>>58126
I have liked all your builds. I just don't have time for all that custom water cooling and block work.

>>58163
I would really like to do custom loops and fancy computers as a business... but there's no demand for it in central GA. Oh well.

>>58181
Have you had any issues with dye gunking up your rads/water blocks? Any problems with moving it (if you've moved it)? I keep debating on building a custom loop, but I'm going operational at the end of the year and dunno if it's worth it or if I should just get an AIO CPU watercooler.

Pic partially related.

>>58192
You can always get one of the expandable loops from EK if you want custom loop quality without the headache of making it look pretty.

I've traveled with my rig quite a bit to parties showing off the Vive's capabilities. A soft tubing rig with compression fittings is probably more shock resistant than my hard tubes because I can literally yank out the hard tubes from their fittings while the soft tubing is held in a bit more firmly and doesn't rely on O-rings, but I'd never go back to soft tubing for a display rig.

This thread is almost making me want to redo all the wiring on my rig. All these machines are so cleanly put-together, while mine looks like some kind of electrokraken with power supply cables and shit going everywhere.

>>58274
I feel your pain, my system looks like a rats nest. I'll probably clean it and maybe zip tie some wires together when my new graphics card comes in and I'm forced to crack the bitch open but still won't look great.

Its funny back when I used to build and repair computers semi-professionally I used to be a perfectionist. Always had to make the computers looks spiffy, wipe up the cases, bundle the wires, give everything a once over even on simple jobs.

I tried to actually take pride in my work.

But then that optimism and pride had two in the back of the head and I'm stopped caring even about my own shit.

Pic thankfully not my set-up. Because Red Bull is fucking ass tasting.

Upgrades! Time to bleed the air out. Just replaced 980 SLI with a 1080.

Finally somewhat set up.

its_not_pretty_but_it_works_and_its_cheap.jpg

>>58638
Witness the earth-shattering computing power from this incrementally upgraded over ~8 year box.

>caution
I live life on the EDGE.

>>58658
Damn I used to have that lamp.

chris is that you

My incognegro battlestation is a bit of a mess, but I like that I can close the doors and no one knows what it is (if you disregard the gigantic watercooled monster sitting next to it anyways)

Also it's comfy as fuq

>>58658

That's such a good mouse but I still can't believe they went for that "dented to hell" look. It's similar to my disdain for pre-ripped jeans except... it's not even really the same, because mice aren't made out of metal and futhermore wouldn't get dented to shit to begin with.

I want to meet the guy who pitched this idea in a boardroom, "Alright fellas, it's a quality gaming mouse... but it looks like it's made out of aluminum that some guy went apeshit on with a ball-peen hammer."

>>58680
Shit, I didn't even realize that was pre-dented.

Yeah I feels ya on the pre-damaged look, really the whole fashionably damaged look in general. I mean sometimes its cool for like custom shit, battle damaged costumes and crap like that. What really gets me all pissed off is when people try to do that to imitate physical damage. Back in my goth days, such as they were, I'd regularly see people with painted on scars on their faces and arms. Douchebags are so fucking pussyfied they can't even actually cut themselves because mommy and daddy didn't buy them a Playstation or N64. I actually got complimented by fucktards on how good my makeup looked, how realistic my scars looked. Wall, meet head.

Apparently people do that shit with like firearms, take a nice weapon and fuck it up, bubba it, to try to make it look like it went through a war or some dumb shit. Not just weathering the weapon, but actually damage it to give it a battle damaged look.

If something looks damaged through wear and tear and you want to leave it like that, thats fine. Fuck, I got a pocket knife I literally dug out of the ground, blade is corroded as shit, wood is nasty look, brass ain't shiny, it looks like the Grim Reapers pocket knife. I like it that way. But to try to get looks like that artificially seems wrong.

Now that said something like the dented mouse would work with some computers. Shit like the Stalker inspired rigs wouldn't look good with just a normal mouse. You'd need a battle damaged look for it.

Made a dual loop last weekend.

>>58676
Oh look a fellow VR-naut, here is my Vivarium.

>>58676
Where does one acquire that Mini-Nuke?

>>58818
The Fallout Anthology. Unfortunately if you want it now you are going to be paying out the ass for it.

https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Anthology-PC/dp/B012E58DFC?th=1

http://www.ebay.com/p/Fallout-Anthology-PC-Windows-2015/215481001

>>58819
But I already have all the games....

Fallout Tactics came on THREE CDs. That's a son of a bitch on a 6x drive CD rom drive.

It's like Resident Evil. I have the GC, Wii, and PC versions of RE4.

Hell, for Metal Gear Solid, I've got the PS1, GC, and PC versions. (With the GC version, Twin Snakes, being the best.)

Srs gamer.

>>58820
Reason I unfortunately didn't buy it. It was almost, almost, worth the 50 bones when it came out just for the mini-nuke but I must have some jewish ancestor because I just really couldn't bring myself to pay $50 for what is no doubt a cheap ass paperweight.

I know the feelings of being a srs gamer. Red Faction 1 and 2 I've bought 3 times on PS2, PC, then Steam. Have Fallout 3 twice, physical GFWL version and Steam. Jedi Academy I've bought 4 times, launch day PC version, Xbox version, a replacement for the original PC version after a family member nabbed it and a replacement for that one because the discs were starting to get worn from overuse. I'm pretty positive I've had atleast 3 copies of GTA 3.

I've had 4 copies of DOOM 3, original I still got despite the fact the cardboard is falling apart, the castrated Xbox version, a Steam version of BFG edition that I could never fucking get to work, and a PS3 version of the BFG edition I bought after getting royally pissed I couldn't play the Steam version. Thats not even getting into all the other versions of DOOM I got.

Resident Evil 4 I used to have the PS2 version and played the GC version and now got it for PC. By the Force I'd forgotten how wonky the controls are and how cheesy Leon is. I understand them wanting to leave the original play style intact but goddamn is it bad. Not nearly as bad as the other Resident Evils that came before, couldn't even play those games at all, but its going to take a bit of getting used to again.

Much as I love the game I'd love to find some mods to improve the graphics and maybe add less Micheal J Fox style aiming.

>>58639

hey as long as it works... but yeah might want to look into finding a replacement for that drive :)

>>58809
oh lawd
Been wanting to get into custom liquid cooling. watching tons of youtube vids about it but haven't got around to trying it myself.

Probably blurry enough for PERSEC. I just got a new chair and threw the one in this pic out though.

>>58834
Recently celebrated 8 years of power-on-hours for that drive.

I think I'll be doing a full upgrade soon enough though, maybe next month.

Upgraded to X99 chipset with an i7 6800k. Broadwell- chips run super cool, so the loop was unnecessary... Already had the equipment and it looks cool, so why not.

>start to make parts list to upgrade 8ish year old mess here >>58638
>>58639
>it's more of a whole build as nothing of old computer save the PSU can be used (and a new GPU I got like two months ago)
>aforementioned 960 GTX out of the picture because reasons
>rest of build is Evo 850 500gb M.2, Gigabyte Z270X mobo, Corsair 16gb ram, 7700k CPU
>gpu bottleneck?
>whatever it's good enough for now
>can't install win7 because no USB drivers for USB install
>own a hardcopy of Vista
>install it to a random old platter HDD
>boot vista
>use it to install Win7
>oh hey an old PSU from ages past
>throw it in old computer along with old GPU (9600GT)

And now I have two computers!

Redid the loop again. Added a second 1080.