My former Xbox 360 controller finally has a new home 

The third-party heatsink was also the hardest thing for me to install.  As you describe, it is a tight fit, and my biggest fear was that I would break or unnecessarily jam something in the process.  I actually overdid the thermal grease, and in the process of removing the excess I got some on the edge of the chip...but so far nothing has blown up. 

Also, I may have received a lemon, but my HDD died about two weeks ago.  Thankfully, my OS and other important programs were on my SSD, so no big loss.   

The mounting bracket for this guy was really well designed so thankfully I didn't need to worry about anything breaking. Honestly I was more worried about my push pin heat sink when I bought my conroe.

Man that looks so sick can't wait to finally find a job so I can build one!

Damn illegal immigrants from Portugal/Brazil are taking all the jobs

World's fastest CLI

6 seconds get REKT!
$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 1.202s (kernel) + 1.715s (userspace) = 2.917s


fetch computers are cool

BIG NUMBERS

okay i just ordered a new mobo n cpu and rams

cant figure out why exactly tho????

the better question is why not

exactly

What did you buy???

What did you buy???

GOOD QUESTION
Apparently I didnt take a picture of all my dumb boxes but WHATEVER
cpu: i5 4670K
mbu: asus Z87-A (difference between Z97 and Z87 is as far as I can tell inclusion of an M.2 port, and I have no idea what an M.2 port is)
rams: 16gb (2x8gb) ddr1600
see:

I decided to buy and install windows 8.1, and since I'd be installing off a dvd and this new mobo didnt have an IDE port I had to buy a new sata dvd drive.

OLD SETUP:

I WILL MISS YOU COOL LANPARTY MOBO

Since my waterblock is for LGA775 I needed to buy a new backplate for the new socket. Luckily the two mounting hole sizes were close enough to work, I just had to flip the mounting bracket on the block around to get it to fit the new backplate.




Everything works great, new UEFI thing is cool, windows 8 is dope.

boots in 5.99s

 

Z97 gives you support for Broadwell and beyond but it doesn't really matter if you're planning on sticking with Haswell for a while.

I forgot how desolate water cooling looks.  I'm guessing your case is massive because there looks to be a ton of space.  Now you need to get a new GPU!

wow blair that's pretty close to my build, good choices

yeah my case is huge lol