The last poster wins

[Werne]

 

Win8 sucks, the only thing that can fix it is a factory HDD wipe, or you can run the HDD over with a car, either way works. :smile:

Nope.

You're biased to Linux so you don't get to have an opinion :tongue:

Yes, I'm biased towards Linux, but there are tons of people that never even heard of Linux that think the same as I do. The fact that Win8 looks ugly and makes a PC feel like an oversized piece of crap tablet without touch means it sucks. Not to mention Win95 and Vista are prime examples of stability, security and usability compared to Win8.

 

By the way, what the f*** is wrong with Win8's looks? I has an ugly square taskbar, ugly square buttons, ugly square menus, and ugly square windows - ugly square everything! Who the hell thought squares, rectangles and colors that make me puke in my mouth are good for a GUI? Even Win98 looks better!

 

I did some research and they say the h80i can fit in a Fractal Design case because it mounts like a fan and the heatsink is the lowest profile heatsink you can get.

I don't know, you can try. A thick radiator + two fans might be too thick to mount since the mobo heatsinks and CPU mount comes pretty close to them, but as I said, you can try since that would be the most cost-effective solution.

 

bigger the fans, the noisier they are.

It's quite the opposite. In order for a smaller fan to move the same amount of air as a big one, it needs to spin at much higher RPM, which makes it noisier. An 80mm 2200RPM fan that makes 21dB noise moves much less air than a pressure-optimized 800RPM 120mm fan that makes 10dB of noise.

 

The CoolerMaster HAF X case is an excellent example - it has a 240mm front fan, a 200mm top fan and 140mm rear fan that come with the case, they are damn quiet and they move more air than 4x120mm fans in push-pull.

 

The only noise you can hear with big slow fans is a whooshing sound. It's air movement noise (which is heard with small fans as well), but that can be solved by removing the case's fan mesh since air passing through the mesh is what makes the whooshing sound.

 

 

 

By the way, I hate earthquakes. We had an earthquake tonight and it severed my landline, now all I have is a 4KW generator to power my house with electricity. F*** earthquakes. :dry:

[billyro]

I've never been in an earthquake before. We don't get them here in Australia - too far away from the tectonic plate edges. No, instead we get bushfires, droughts, floods and cyclones.

 

Earthquakes sound like fun, actually; everything just suddenly starts shaking... well, that would be very fun if stuff didn't break and people didn't die.

[Werne]

Earthquakes sound like fun, actually; everything just suddenly starts shaking...

It is fun, until you realize you won't have electricity for a week and that you have to spend ~5$ per hour for diesel in order to power a generator, then it becomes much less fun.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Werne

[Iv000]

 

 

Win8 sucks, the only thing that can fix it is a factory HDD wipe, or you can run the HDD over with a car, either way works. :smile:

Nope.

You're biased to Linux so you don't get to have an opinion :tongue:

Yes, I'm biased towards Linux, but there are tons of people that never even heard of Linux that think the same as I do. The fact that Win8 looks ugly and makes a PC feel like an oversized piece of crap tablet without touch means it sucks. Not to mention Win95 and Vista are prime examples of stability, security and usability compared to Win8.

 

By the way, what the f*** is wrong with Win8's looks? I has an ugly square taskbar, ugly square buttons, ugly square menus, and ugly square windows - ugly square everything! Who the hell thought squares, rectangles and colors that make me puke in my mouth are good for a GUI? Even Win98 looks better!

 

 

I know, I was joking of course. Everybody is free to have their own opinions.

 

And I agree that they failed at making a proper desktop UI because they're pushing the tablet UI far too much into places where it shouldn't be. But I do love the simple yet dynamic look of it. I like the flat squares, they're simple and obvious, everything you really need. I'm a sucker for minimalism though, so I'm biased to an extent too.

 

I still think that W8 is ok, and that it could be a really great OS if they removed the Metro system or made it optional, just separating the desktop and metro UI's would make the whole OS a favor.

 

 

I also dreamed today that I got a Macbook Pro for some reason and I was hyper excited for it. Then I realized that it was a dream and I woke up a few seconds later with huge disappointment, and I'm now trying to get OSX to run via VirtualBox. I never actually tried OSX, so I'm really curious on how it feels like.

[billyro]

I had a Macbook Pro a few years ago. I wouldn't recommend it. :no:

[BlackRampage]

Forget that wussy little fan I posted earlier. I want this.

 

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/aerocool-cases/p1s.jpg

 

I'll bet that thing will actually topple over if it's running on max speed. You could always make a mini hovercraft out of it if you put it on it's side.

 

 

And I agree that they failed at making a proper desktop UI because they're pushing the tablet UI far too much into places where it shouldn't be.

 

This. Though it is rumored Microsoft might actually bring back the good old start menu in their Win 8.2 update. Only as an "option" of course. :facepalm: Still won't bite, Microsoft. I´ll stick with Win 7.

[Werne]

I never actually tried OSX, so I'm really curious on how it feels like.

It feels proprietary and expensive, even more so than Windows. Lots of eye-candy and stuff, it looks like a hybrid between GNOME Shell, Unity and GNOME 2 with Avant Window Navigator and all that running on Compiz, but that's about it. As for the feeling, imagine Ubuntu with more fancy effects and a bottom dock, but so oversimplified that Windows starts to look like a hacker OS, there's so much hand-holding you start to feel like you're that weird kid that eats glue in class.

 

And that my friend, is OS X Mountain Lion I got to try on a friend's Mac.

 

Personally, I'd rather spend that 6,000HRK (and I'm not kidding on the price, that's how much it cost, and it's a freakin' desktop with a single 500GB HDD storage drive, Intel HD graphics and a low-end i5) on a gun so I can shoot myself in the face for being dumb enough to even think about buying it. :smile:

 

 

 

By the way, does anyone know why that stuff is so expensive? I've built two copies of those (similar specs in similar-sized case) and the total price on hardware comes nearly 500$ less than the price of an equivalent Apple product.

[billyro]

 

Earthquakes sound like fun, actually; everything just suddenly starts shaking...

It is fun, until you realize you won't have electricity for a week and that you have to spend ~5$ per hour for diesel in order to power a generator, then it becomes much less fun.

 

 

Ugh, generators. We had to run one about 5 hours a day when we lived on the other side of the Daintree. Expensive and loud. :dry:

 

Oh well, better than having no power.

[Thor.]

Earth Quakes are no laughing matter, especially in the usa, they have fault lines all over the place. But here, though the only thing that spark mass earth quakes is if Yellowstone worlds largest Volcano blows its cap.

 

hence the term super Volcano.

[Ironman5000]

That's probably the only redeeming feature living in the uk - no extreme weather, or at least very watered down versions like flooded seasides, mini tornadoes that knock over a chimney, tiny earthquakes that scare the dog, thats it really