Engineering the Impossible PC LOL

andaca · Post by **andaca** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:38 pm

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/htp ... ges/19.jpg

the ARTICLE

http://www.firingsquad.com/media/articl ... sp/2039/19

what a dork... it's hard to believe, so many wrong / stupid choices... should i laugh / cry i dont know where to start

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Meato · Post by **Meato** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:58 pm

Fools and their money...

nick705 · Post by **nick705** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:07 pm

I wonder if there's a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Hard Drives...?

paulesko · Post by **paulesko** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:19 pm

nick705 wrote:I wonder if there's a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Hard Drives...?

looool

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:43 pm

Hmm, there's a few things that could be better:

1. Corsair HX 620. it's quiet, but not the quietest you can get.
2. Drop the fan grilles.
3. hard drives need room to breathe. Plus, suspension = no vibration = win
4. wire management. eeww to those dfi cables. coulda used the ones the board came with?
5. Coulda picked something like a scythe ninja. and then passive'd it
6. what fans are those?

BillyBuerger · Post by **BillyBuerger** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:04 am

Considering the mess of wire going on, the fan grills are probably a good thing.

The round IDE cables can actually work out pretty well sometimes. BUT, first you need to cut off the big chunks of rubber they stick by the connectors. Those do nothing but get in the way.

Given the small case, there is no room for HD suspension. With 4 HDs, you'd need a pretty big case with lot's of 5.25 drive bays to suspend them all.

Shadowknight · Post by **Shadowknight** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:32 pm

1. What's so wrong with the computer in the article?
2. The pictures are too big; you're not supposed to post anything bigger than 640x480.

replay0 · Post by **replay0** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:32 pm

What's wrong with it? Look at the cabling. It's all over the place. Look at the hard drives, there is no breathing space for the hard drives stuck in the middle. It's probably a good thing they're not suspended because transfering the heat to the metal cage is probably the only way some of these hard drives are surviving.

And a BluRay drive? Regardless of the HD vs BluRay war, he's about a year too early to be wasting his time on HD / BR drives right now.

andaca · Post by **andaca** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:49 pm

Admin edit, again, this time for stupidly wide text formatting...

Do not do something like that again.

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:53 pm

This thread lacks width.

andaca · Post by **andaca** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:03 pm

ok mom
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