ChristopherRobin
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I'm mainly on Liberty. After that it's Triumph, Victory and I have a few on Virtue and Justice plus a few odds and ends scattered.
I'd be willing to move a few or start some new heroes, sorry Wassy I got no villains (well like 3 that are below L12 that I never play but I am a hero through and through) it's not my style.
Quote:OMG j00 ain7 d0wnZ VVi7 teh 1337N355???? I'z s0 1337 da7 I 3a7'5 i7 4 BR3AFA57!!!11!!Originally Posted by Soul Train
Virtue is good for RP, yes.
Pocket D on Virtue is equal parts emo gothiness out in the open, and graphic public displays of affection in the corners.
We've asked if Isaac can be set up as a condom vendor, but so far War Witch hasn't approved it.
As for myself... I will probably move a couple of characters to Justice, a couple to Pinnacle, and a few more to other servers. Victory is off my list due to my intense dislike of the Hamster - Freedom is right out because Soul and 1337 are mutually exclusive.
Oatmeal is teh SUX!!111
EAT l33T!!!11
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Some light reading to keep ya busy... there were no less than 15 manuals that came with the system ranging from 8 page booklets to a 131 page motherboard manual... a lot of it I know already and am well versed in the processes described within but there is a bunch of new tech with this build that I did have to read up on... good thing I trained myself in speed-reading a few years back.
Bonus: the top manual actually mentions a pc Simplified on it's cover hahaha.
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Quote:Several great sales going right now Fox I don't know what lists you are on but many sites you don't even have to be a preferred customer to get on their deals list (it helps though as you can sometimes get first crack at stuff before the "public" see's it) ...sign up for a few. A casual search of my lists turned up 32" 1080p under $400 and 40" around $550. Don't know what you are looking to spend and I don't have time to go digging further but the deals are there. I just snagged a 28" 1080p for myself last week that was half price for myself (1 day sale... sold out in a few hours).Originally Posted by the_fox_Rox
I run 1440x900 too! Although i'm trying to find something in the 30" range that'll do full 1080p, but those are expensive...and i'll need a bigger desk. I think a 22" screen is the biggest screen i can fit on it. however, as a TV replacement which i'm also considering a 32-40 would be hella awesome. I totally drifted here...sorry.
here is a external LC kit.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/88...html?tl=g30c83
I think thermaltake used to have a big external radiator (like 3ft tall) but surprisingly that wasn't very popular so it looks like they stopped making it, i can't find it anywhere.
The reason you can't find the huge external cooling tower under thermaltake (if I am thinking of the same one you are) is cus it's made by Zalman... it's called the Reserator as in part reservoir and part radiator... it was fanless and totally silent.
Thank you Manny, I am glad if you are picking up some useful stuff.Quote:Originally Posted by Manny
This is shaping up to be a dream rig for sure, great work CR, I like what I see so far. Thanks again to you and Pyro for sharing this with us, I have enjoyed the trip and the knowledge you have shared with us. I don't know much about building computers and their parts so following this has taught me a lot. Makes me want a custom computer badly so I can reap the benefits of the upcoming graphics upgrade.
Well I don't give out what customers paid for their systems but I would be willing at the end to put up a "what it's worth retail" if that helps ya Foo.Quote:Originally Posted by The_Foo
I'd like to know what kind of price range this thing is in the end, just so I know how broke and how far from affording something like this I actually am.
Several of the parts (exact part names and even pictures) are already in the thread so someone ambitious enough could come up with a pretty good number on their own. For my part I usually charge $35 -$50 per hour for my time but I do also have flat rate builds and occasionally sales.
Yeah I saw that sale too. Sent you a PM on how to maximize your setup for that Wolffe.Quote:Originally Posted by Blood_Wolffe
Just thought I'd chime in with an update on my pc... I got a deal on a 40 inch 1080p tv, and am going to be using that. Hah! The only problem is it will be about three feet from my face. Aaw. We'll see how it works out. I'm pretty excited.
P.S. Nice butt grab in the Hot pencil thread lol.
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Very carefully?
Nice work on this one Bobby.
I like the golds and yellows turned out in your coloring.
Maybe a brighter white for his goatee to give it more contrast... there is a lot of blending and something
to serve as a focal point would really punch it up. The eyes being brightened or having some effects applied could do it too.
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Hahaha good one Wolffe.
You know in all the pile ups that happen in all the team wipes... there's always that one perv copping a feel lol. -
Quote:Do Mine! Oh wait you are... darn it Foo messed up my train of thought there. {>. >}Originally Posted by FrozenDeath
Gonna call this one done for now. Larger image on my deviant page.
This Thursday for the Livestream I'm going to be working on coloring a sketch for the book. I've started on Christopher Robin's. If that one is done by the time I do the livestream, I'll start on something else. If anyone has any requests which one I should do next lemme know.
This ought to be really cool can't wait.
Hey BDub are you still going with that multi-image setup you spoke of earlier (to better tell the story) or are you working it some other way?
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Quote:Yes.Originally Posted by Starwind
Sa-Weet CR! Did you use a reference shot for that?
The idea behind this category (as I did with Caemgen and Crestent also) is to use their avatar as a reference and do a quick sketch of a person you want to see try the Hot Pencil.
Pretty simple shapes on this one actually, Blood Wolffe's head is a diamond, the ears are triangles, the nose an ellipse, eyes are almonds etc etc... then just scribble scribble until I looked up and noticed 10min had gone by... spent another minute darkening, smudging and tidying it up and that's it.
I did stray a bit from the expression on his wolf because in my head I just ran up and "tagged" him... apparently wolves don't like being tagged hence the snarl (and my running away lol).
Cool can't wait to see what you come up with.Quote:Originally Posted by Blood_Wolffe
Damn that's sweet! Alright, I'll do something tonight. Already got a dirty idea for ragdoll. Heh heh heh.
I got another idea for someone to tag already and maybe a bust... or two.
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It's a perv collective kind of... thing.
Ahem.
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Tanks Vex... and scrappers too.
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Too late I've been naughty.
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You didn't kill it totally... err I mean reeeet reeeeet reeeeeeeeeeeet
no one here but us crickets.
It should pick up again for the holidays and I have a present to give Psygon soon enough.
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***Blows dust off Hot Pencil Thread***
Ahem... for the category of "Tag, you're it!" I present
----------- Tags Wolffe... then runs away!
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Gah ran out of time on the neck and shoulders... scribbled non-stop as fast as I could then used my finger
to smear as much as I could to cover ground then made a 2nd pass to darken ears eyes etc...
still took 11 minutes... in my defense I plead fur... the stuff takes for ever to fill in
You're up Blood Wolffe, lets see it!
Oh and new category: Ragdoll Physics
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Thanks for posting that I love seeing the WIP stages.
Quote:I knew Caemgen would beat me to that.Originally Posted by Johnnykat
I knew someone would pick up on that comment... lol
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Another teaser for ya.
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This was to be teaser pic #8 but sorta spilled the beans early on it... yeah huge rubberized case feet... they are like triple size of anything else I have seen before. They own Mwhahaha
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Quote:Aha! your search-fu will not save you from inevitabl.... err I mean... I'm sure someone else will help out or have a guess.Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
I'm stumped...anyone gotta guess?
They do space things... sorta. And they technically provide some support... getting warmer.Quote:Originally Posted by The_Foo
I have no idea. They look like spacers or supports.
Totally unrelated: I have to point out that I have trouble reading CR's longer posts due to the random line length. You must have a ridiculously wide screen, dude.
You could say that... funnily enough they are using CoX to advertise their ultimate panel (5th image if you scroll down or hit the design tab and choose "display") I just added another slightly smaller one recently too.
So you are saying the lines are out of whack on your screen Foo?
Dang I thought by cutting my paragraphs even they would look better on a smaller screen?
What kind of monitor do you have Foo? And does anyone else have that problem with my text?
Correct on the material.Quote:Originally Posted by PowerStream
Okay I'll take a shot but I honestly have no clue nor time to search fu this....
Black Checkerboard is some kind of filter and or sound proofing. I only say sound proofing because it slightly resembles Dynamat (which is usually silver) used in car audio sound proofing/deading.
The other guys are some kind of supports because they appear to be rubbery. But I don't know where'd they go or what to.
It is indeed a close relative to (you could say a premium version of) Dynamat which is most used for speakers and automobile damping. Good one Powerstream.
Is it bad that I heard the "Ding!" in my head before I read it? Curses on suggestive marketing... years later their slogans lingerQuote:Originally Posted by DarkEther
I'm thinking sound and vibration dampening materials, myself.
But I think those are not Cheerios, they're Certs...with Retsin. Ding!
Ding Ding (lol) we have a winner. Sound and Vibration dampening materials it is.
The black sheet is to make anything it's bonded to acoustically "dead" or not able to resonate or transmit sound. The black sticks are for "soft-mounting" fans so their spinning motion doesn't transfer to the metal of the case and the "Certs" are decoupling grommets to soft-mount hard drives and the like. All the above combined with the right parts (silent fans etc passive coolers and aftermarket addons) make up my "Cool and Quiet service. It's normally costs $100 plus labor but since Pyro was being so patient waiting on the video card (and now Windows7 ahhh holiday shipping)coming back into stock I decided to hook him up for no charge. There is always a little material left over from a kit and I get extra sticks that build up so ever 4th kit or so I have enough raw material left to make a 5th for free so it just costs me time and effort... Pyro is the lucky recipient this time.
Combined with a case that has huge rubber feet (I'll put up a pic) that decouple the tower from whatever it sits on you should barely be able to hear this sucker when idling. When gaming the videocard fan ramps up but I am still fine tuning the profile on that and most of the rest of his parts are thermally "aware" so cooler his system runs the less sound it will make... right now its running almost 9 degrees cooler than I even expected so yeah... we'll see how it holds up to the burn-in.
P.S. If there is a way to put up short video clips to Photobucket (I've seen them just don't know how they are done) I would post up a before and after of just how dramatic a difference Cool and Quiet can make. -
Bunch of stuff to post throughout the day today (assuming I find the time lol) and I will be wrapping up stuff from earlier
when I said things like "...more on this later" and also going over more of my build process
too and posting up more teasers, so stay tuned.
Some great news...
THE BEAST LIVES! MWHAHAHHAHAH!
...sorry had to get that out of my system... ahem.
It successfully passed it's alpha stage power up test late Saturday night/early Sunday morning and is on it's way to beta stage now.
Strangely I ordered three copies of Windows 7 (2x32bit and 1x64bit) and even though I ordered the 64bit
first both the 32s have arrived but the 64 has not. Shipping tracker says it's sitting in a town one hour away...
no reason given why it's sitting there.
I will give it until Monday evening to arrive and if it's not here I will drive out and pick it up. Can't use a 32bit one
for Pyro's rig as he has waaay more than the 3.5GB cumulative of total memory in his computer addressable by a 32bit OS.
Anything more than 4GB would be going to waste so make note of that anyone building/buying/ordering a PC built
if you have more than 3.5GB total (including the memory that comes on your Videocard) in your system make sure you get
a 64bit operating system or you are needlessly bottlenecking yourself.
Note: I know some of what I say in this thread is "Well Duuuhhhh" to experienced builders but I don't know
who all will read it so I'm trying to help people avoid some of the rookie mistakes. If all this is old hat to you than
just skip ahead/skim through and sorry for the "obvious" stuff.
A few points about my build process:
The APT (Alpha Power Test) is assembling the basics like the Motherboard, CPU/HSF, Video card, power supply, ram etc
(no hard drives, or any non essentials though and no hardwiring anything) into the case arming the front switches
and turning it on. At this stage I am just checking to see that
A. the main components work
B. everything will fit (few close calls which I will post pics of later but nothing touches that shouldn't touch)
C. the voltages on the PSU are stable.
D. CPU temp is within spec
E. the ram speed and all it's timings are correctly recognized by the mobo's SPD (that's Serial Presence Detect)
mode which in this case the RAM is actually faster (and there is a ton more than the mobo expects) so I have to
enter the values and tweak timings by hand.
F. there is a picture on the screen (i.e the videocard is in working order)
Note: D also verifies a correctly mounted and functioning HSF (read: Heat Sink/Fan or "that thing that cools the processor"
which is not a problem with the stock Intel cooler as it's just four plastic push pins and comes with some thermal compound pre-applied...
But stock just don't cut it for a rig of this caliber and with a custom mounting bracket like the Crossbow bolt through system
and a HDT (Heatpipe Direct Touch) aftermarket upgraded cooler (which requires a different kind of application or the TC,
Arctic Silver 5 premium in this case, and a entirely different mounting prcedure) involved and without the use of a slideout
motherboard tray it's an exercise in manual dexterity and attention to detail to get it all done up right the first time (yay me).
On most any my normal builds it would be nearly complete (but oh there is much custom work and tweaking to go)
I would just power it down take it off the test bench and load the rest of the stuff, clean up the wiring, install the OS.
i.e a flavor of Linux, Windows XP or Windows7,
....or maybe Vista or Apple OSX....
HAHAHAHA snort, ok just kidding about the last two lol
Then it would be time to run a 12-24 hour (depending on the system) burn in to check for stability, thermal envelope
(temps stay within the desired range), and that all components are working successfully and benchmark as expected.
Load up security and any software ordered + any bonus goodies like codecs (short for coder/decoder) and such and it's ready to go!
For those that have asked:
Build time ranges... my fastest was 1 day (including the 12 hour burn-in) and my longest was 5 (notincluding 24hour burn-in)
days but typically it's 2-3 days from the time I have all the parts on hand. Delays, parts lost or damaged in shipping to me
(thankfully rare), a non-successful burn in (i.e it works but runs too hot so I added more/better cooling and re-burned
it or something failed {that is why I do the burn in so if anything will fail I catch it before it goes out the door and fix it...
if a system passes my battery of tests I'm sure there is nothing the client will throw at it during day to day use that will
come anywhere near what it's been through already and so they should have years of trouble free PC goodness.}
and I replace it and re-burn) can add time to that. Also holiday shipping can add many days the closer it gets to Christmas.
That is all for this wall o' text... more to come later
For all that made it this far here is another teaser pic of some of the custom touches going into Pyro's rig.
Hmmm what be the purpose for all these silly looking "sticks" and blue Cheerios?
...and what's that strange black checkerboard in the background???
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Glad to see you are still kicking around.
Some nice stuffz PC, I really like the looks of
Enchanted Raven, Mizukage, Noxxious and Whitebeard (the beardless).
Frobin kinda reminds me of Ace Ventura pet detective...
if he were to accidentally absorb the forearms of Popeye the sailorman in a freak lab accident.
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Lol don't even know what Tiger has been accused of doing
(been busing building custom computers and haven't seen the news in weeks)
but whatever it is Palin is worse lol... she always gonna be teh villainz yo.
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A good way if you want to get her some business would be to PM Thor's Assassin to get her name added to to the list of commissionable artists.
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Quote:Agreed. I forgive Tiger, can't we bring him back instead lolOriginally Posted by Caemgen
But... but... We don't want her!!!!!
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Maybe have VexXxa wrapped around one really big gingerbread man.
With his arms and legs splayed out in the usual pose he can be blocking her naughty bits and yet show just enough to make it interesting.
Also she can be taking a bite out of his shoulder or nibbling on his ear and the whole :O expression would have a double meaning then.
Just a thought.
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Yes glad to be of service
by the way I think you got it backwards...
Palin totally goes on the redside.
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Ok some updates and pics what's going into the system.
Samsung makes the best ROM drives and have for a while now. There really hasn't been a worthy challenger to the DVD drive crown.
Oh well I'll take a pair of your fastest "burns every format under the sun except Blu-ray (which won the HD standards war) and HD-DVD
(which is dead now)" Samsungs then... oh wait what's the L at the end of the model number stand for in this latest revision?
That's right now there is no need to compromise, you can have the best DVD drives and LightScribe support thrown in...
oh and Speed Plus too since you know this rig is all about the speed.
For those that don't know Speed Plus goes by different names but is essentialy the ability to burn at a faster rate
than advertised on the media (disks) you buy. In the case of these drives a lot faster... up to 22x speed on
16x media and up to 12x speed on 8x media.
Lightscribe on the other hand is more a cosmetic technology. It was invented by the code monkeys at HP
and is licensed out to other companies as a superior method of disk labeling.
No need to bother with the black sharpie anymore to scribble a label for your discs... and why would you
want to when you can have results like these instead?
Pyro you always seems to be creating cool custom graphics for things so this should
be right up your alley bro.
P.S. oh and now the discs come in 5 colors...
...including orange.
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Quote:If you mean because it's in a slideshow mode?Originally Posted by Implicit Bookcarrier
err.. I need ta print out a ref shoot... that photo thingys not letting me do it...
You can pause/stop (or speed up or slow down) the slideshow at any point with the control buttons
in the lower left or just go up to the address bar and take the word "slideshow" off the end of
the address and hit enter. I figured it was easier to provide one link and let you browse through
for what you wanted than putting up 15 individual links that get confusing and you can never
remember which one was the one you liked.