I'm a lot more interested in this ad I spotted on the same page...
http://www.daymak.com/em2.htmlSeems almost reasonable, depending on what top speed actually is. A bit concerned by the "no license/no insurance required" claims though.
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ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE TRUE.
...But I do get a verbal tongue lashing when she discovers my socks have holes in them. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
That's because she knows what you do to them when she's not around to satisfy your pervy desires.
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Some more philips love / fanboyism. They put all the damn caps on the same sheet as the power supply on the schematic ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
For any caps on the rails exactly as good schematics should be. ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif.pagespeed.ce._JElyJQqdB.gif)
I disagree. For caps which function are specifically localized decoupling and/or stiffening/brute force filtering, they should be on the same schematic sheet as the device they serve. If you "run out of room", that usually means you've got too many devices on the same sheet. Time to decerealinize.
NAMING/NUMBERING CONVENTION, however,
should place ALL caps on a specific rail in the same alpha-numeric series so that they are easy to aggregate from the parts list.
grr. Got all my cabling sleeved up and tidied literally just as the new processor arrived. New CPU installed; no boot. "Memory Error" beep code. Memory is BALLISTIX/MICRON, checked part # on MB QVL before I bought. Cleared CMOS... removed cooler, checked CPU; installed flush & tight & good coverage. Still same. Stripped down to MB, RAM, & Processor... still no boot.
Gonna step back, go play with my son and get the eff away from this monster for a little bit. Will probably come back after the wee beasties are in bed and go through all the obvious troubleshooting step by step. I know it's something STUPID.
mnem
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This is why I tend to buy ex corporate workstations and laptops now. I find it too worrisome integrating a PC now. I used to build everything myself up until about 2005 but I had a bad experience which cost me £400 in the end as the retailer refused to honor their warranty and the machine was never stable enough for my requirements. I sold it and bought an HP desktop and never looked back.
Before this one the last one I built was an XP based Athalon 2400 from memory at the time it was harder to sort out bits and drivers by far. Since then I have made do with re tasked ones apart from my Asus Laptop. Overall mine was dead easy apart from the BIOS upgrade and it was always going to be a bit of a risk buying in week one of a release.
Nothing wrong with second hand ex work stations but depending on the use needed and buying someone else's potentially cooked gaming rig didn't make sense as locally they sell for 80-90% of parts pricing.
Agreed on all points
IN PRINCIPLE. My daily driver is whatever I've got lying around. But that's NOT what I'm building here.
This build is SPECIFICALLY a bleeding edge gaming rig; the absolute highest on the food chain I can buy, beg, borrow or steal. I used to be one of the "Liquid Ninjas" crowd; I knew what I was getting into.
But SOMETIMES you want to have the "new wonderful" while it's still new and wonderful; for me and this build, THIS is that "Some time".I can understand that on rubylith. Major screw ups mean start again. However no excuse not to pencil the design out first. I usually do that even today before I hit kicad. I've caught a lot of weird problems with kicad libraries that way!
Fukkin-A-Diddy! Anything worth designing must start out on the corner of a napkin!!!
The really good designer incorporates that coffee stain and smooshed blueberry! ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
mnem
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