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  1. 2 hours ago, markstanco said:

    My 10 year old wants to do this for his Christmas gift.  I have been playing with newegg.com on a build, I just would hate to get some parts that werent compatible and disappoint him.

    What hard drive are you getting?   

    Start from the PCMasterRace builds (a reddit community for PCs, basically the build bible). Linky - https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/builds. You really can't screw it up as long as you make sure the mobo matches the proc, and the memory plays well with the proc. Both situations are easily google-able.

    I'm re-using three Crucial SSDs that I already have. Will probably add an M.2 NVMe SSD in the future to really streamline things, but don't need it right now.

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  2. There was a thread on the old site, but haven't seen one here. My current build is getting onto about 6 years old, and it's loud and big and frankly, ugly :). Plus, I don't need things like spinning hard drives, and 5 PCIe slots anymore. So I'm putting together a miniITX build and shooting for silent operation under normal workloads. Just pulled the trigger on the following:

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    • ASrock Fata1ity B450 AM4 Mobo (4x SATA3, USBa+c, 802.11ac, BT4+)
    • G.Skill Ripjaws PC4 24000 (3000mhz) DDR4 RAM - 16GB
    • Noctua L9x65 CPU cooler (known to be basically silent)
    • Corsair RM750x PSU (fan doesn't run <40% load)
    • Powercolor RX570 4GB GPU
    • Cooler Master Elite 130 case

    Should be smaller, quieter, and cleaner vs. my current build (i5 + R7300 + ATX form factor).

    What about you? Any other nerds out there?

     

  3. The bourbon craze is really pissing me off. I can't find ANYTHING fun these days. Haven't seen Eagle Rare on the shelves in months, no EH Taylor Single Barrel, and certainly no chance of getting something like Blantons or W12. I'm also not interested in spending $200 for Kentucky Owl or the like ... 

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  4. 23 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    it was very intense. Record crowd of over 105K and they put Woody Hayes's name in the ring of honor or whatever that night as well.  their fans were exactly like the stereotype- drunk, belligerent, jorted out pricks. most thought there was zero chance they would lose, and were talking shit all day long as we watched games at the original Buffalo Wild Wings location. after all, the game was at the shoe. at night. the stadium was very loud- I've been to plenty of games at the tackle box and the shoe was louder than pyle ever thought of being. their fans were pissed at tressel settling for all those field goals. their offense had Ginn Jr and Santonio Holmes, both of whom were 1st rounders and 4.3 40 guys but they were underutilized for sure. I was nervous as hell kicking to those guys...leaving the stadium it seemed like the world's largest funeral procession, for the buckeyes indeed lost. at the shoe. at night.

    post-game we went to some bar called the outside inn or some shit like that that actually had Shiner Bock in bottles. they were out of Shiner Bock when they closed that night. sunday morning we drove up to cleveland for the opener vs the bengals. browns fans did not care for my Texas hat. Browns lost , and i had no voice until Wednesday/ csb      

          

    God the horseshoe was such a badass setting. I am very comfortable saying it's the best college football atmosphere I've ever been a part of. I'll echo everything Dennis said above ... fans in Columbus were such a fucking stereotype. I remember getting a double bird from a 13 year old girl after the game. We legit had a cop tell us to "just stay quiet and keep walking" after the game, and we weren't talking any shit at all. We had a totally ridiculously drunk tOSU fan throw up on himself, pass out, and get kicked out of the stadium before halftime. While I admire his commitment to the Buckeye concept, fucker missed half of a football game. He was an ass, tho, so we enjoyed it.

    Plus, Vince to Limas. I wasn't sure at that point that we'd beat USC, but I was 100% certain that we'd be at the Rose Bowl. Fuck what a game.

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  5. On 9/27/2018 at 11:01 AM, Lurch said:

     


    What day? Seemed like everyone was trying to get rid of Sunday tickets last two years. I’d guess Thurs/Friday are ideal if you can skip work

     

    Best day out there is Tuesday. Find someone you know from Dell and get tix.

  6. There's a "strength of field" rule that got put in maybe 5, 6 years ago. I don't remember the exact details (and too lazy to google right now), but basically the exempt players still have to play a given tournament like, once every four years. Otherwise, the big name players would do exactly what you suggest here, and never show up until Feb 1st, and even during the season places like the John Deere would get largely ignored. The rule boils down to the idea that a strong tour is good for everyone, but for the strength of the tour the names have to show up or a quarter of the tournament sites can't make any money.

  7. 42 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    If there is one golfer in need of some time off, it's Phil.

    Isn't that the truth.

     

    I'm looking forward to seeing some of the younger guys from the web finals get some run. Always interesting to see who's able to take advantage while the big guns take some time off - Aaron Wise, Beau Hosseler last year, for example. Schauffle. Others. I'm a golf junkie, I'll be watching.

  8. 1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

    I was just listening to some old Neil Diamond just the other day. I took the money that should've gone to him and bought a case of beer.

    Christ, how much fucking Neil Young did you rock?

  9. 3 hours ago, JBJ said:

    However, the Ryzen is fluff.  It's still gets outperformed by Intel processors and with less power consumption.

    We have literally three full cycles of historical data to prove this out. No one out competes Intel, especially after a downtown (and especially one that's self-inflicted). That's not to say that AMD makes bad product, they're just not the giant killers that people think they are. Take your profits now, and buy Intel.

  10. 2 hours ago, BigDHornfan said:

    It's been a few years, but is the craps table at Casino Royale still next to the bar?  That helps a lot in the speed of drinks.

    Yes, and drink service is still lightning fast. Unfortunately, the CR is trying to rebrand itself. They took out the craps tables by the front door and put in a shitty sports bar, and reduced to one craps table towards the back. No more $3 minimum. No more 100x odds. Just one regular old 3-4-5 table. Sad.

  11. 5 hours ago, torre said:

    72 consecutive Texas-OU games in the Cotton Bow

     

    38 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    Here's my "cool story bro" ... 

    For a few years before I went to college, I worked for a small record label. One of the people I interacted with often was the lawyer we worked with who was based in LA, but I knew was from Texas and attended UT. 

    When I decided to go back to school and focused on Texas, I asked for two letters of recommendation, one from my brother who had graduated top of his class there a few years earlier and another from the label's lawyer.

    It wasn't until a few years later that the connection between Denius Field and the fact that the lawyer's last name was Denius finally clicked for me. 

    I had fun calling my brother to let him know that, as much as I still appreciated his letter, it may not have been the one that carried the most weight with admissions.

    Never met Frank, but his son is one of the nicest people I've ever known and I'd imagine that's a reflection of all the good things I'm reading about his dad here. 

     

    Did you get in?

  12. When I got my Aqua Terra last year, my interest in owning any other watches just completely vanished. I guess that means I purchased well? Still love this fucking thread ... 

    Anyone want to buy a Sinn EZM3? I need to get off my ass and get it listed somewhere. Just sitting in a drawer, and I'm never going to wear it.

  13. On the tiny house idea ... had some friends trying to make that work here just outside of Austin. The permitting is potentially a NIGHTMARE depending on local building regs. Austin has some stupid shit like minimum sizes for dwellings, and the floor is bigger than you think. Also, ADA compliance on a tiny house is very difficult, and Austin construction regs now REQUIRE things like sidewalks and ramps to front doors on new construction. Political opinions aside, it's really driving up the cost of construction, and since the unit cost of a tiny house is so much smaller, the impact is more obvious. Plus zoning laws for land usage, although I think they were looking closer to Bastrop so that wasnt as bad as it could have been.

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