Bickering thread

[Prussian Havoc]

Thank you @CmdrDunsail. :bow:

I kept getting sidetracked to a Guild Hall game being sold on Amazon and no matter how deeply I looked into that particular gaming company Jordan was nowhere to be found!

Sea of Legends looks great and I’ve already subscribed for news and access. It’s the feeling of getting in on the ground floor of something that is really, really fun and exhilarating.

This is going to be fun. : )

 

[Kereminde]

HBS BattleTech: (continues headcapping Dekker from maximum range)
Me: You son of a...

BattleTech:

 

[Havamal]

HBS BattleTech: (continues headcapping Dekker from maximum range)
Me: You son of a...

BattleTech:

"the Solar system is so like humongous big"

 

[Kereminde]

"And yet the AC/20 shot can still find it's way from the moon . . . to Dekker's 'Mech."

 

[Prussian Havoc]

"And yet the AC/20 shot can still find it's way from the moon . . . to Dekker's 'Mech."

Stray Shots are stray shots... some just have to stray a bit harder to hit Dekker. : )

 

[starscream]

Its Dekker we all know he's an AC20 magnet

My Dekker took an RAC5 to the head

 

[Rentier]

my dekker is still going sneakyly around in his big Assault Highlander....gets headshotet a lot but the +3 injury is still covering it...but stys quite out of AC20 range ofc

 

[Prussian Havoc]

my dekker is still going sneakyly around in his big Assault Highlander....gets headshotet a lot but the +3 injury is still covering it...but stys quite out of AC20 range ofc

No problem... the AI has an Annihilator with Dekker’s name on its ammo. : )

 

[starscream]

No problem... the AI has an Annihilator with Dekker’s name on its ammo. : )

Let me guess Dekker is in a locust

 

[Prussian Havoc]

Let me guess Dekker is in a locust

Same Armor... the Assassin-101. : )

 

[Kereminde]

- Start a list of what should be a simple build for a gaming rig, and also do brief research to make sure the internal components are what I'll want.
- Stretch budget so all the parts of my new gaming rig can be arriving in the same two days.
- Begin assembly, and midway through notice I forgot a standoff post for a screw but determine it's probably nothing.
- New rig stops POST, powering on but not recognizing the RAM sticks. Quick Google shows someone with a similar error forgot a standoff post and putting it in fixed it.
- Tear everything apart carefully, and make sure all six screws are put in. This involves having to remove some case elements to get a good angle.
- After assembling most of everything, a test has the same result - diagnostic LEDs show DRAM is not recognized. Checking the motherboard's online data and other sources show it should be perfectly compatible.
- Testing one RAM stick at at time, neither seems to be accepted.
- While reviewing things, find out the case you've bought is quietly infamous as a budget case with terrible airflow, which means components are "going to run hotter than is sane".
- Swear off building PCs for good over the frustration of making it all work.

 

[Prussian Havoc]

- Start a list of what should be a simple build for a gaming rig, and also do brief research to make sure the internal components are what I'll want.
- Stretch budget so all the parts of my new gaming rig can be arriving in the same two days.
- Begin assembly, and midway through notice I forgot a standoff post for a screw but determine it's probably nothing.
- New rig stops POST, powering on but not recognizing the RAM sticks. Quick Google shows someone with a similar error forgot a standoff post and putting it in fixed it.
- Tear everything apart carefully, and make sure all six screws are put in. This involves having to remove some case elements to get a good angle.
- After assembling most of everything, a test has the same result - diagnostic LEDs show DRAM is not recognized. Checking the motherboard's online data and other sources show it should be perfectly compatible.
- Testing one RAM stick at at time, neither seems to be accepted.
- While reviewing things, find out the case you've bought is quietly infamous as a budget case with terrible airflow, which means components are "going to run hotter than is sane".
- Swear off building PCs for good over the frustration of making it all work.

I commend you for not just persevering but for even trying to do this in the first place. :bow:

I’ve long thought of building one’s own PC as a rather exotic and enticing Skill Set that just like being a helicopter pilot, I will never share in. : )

Good luck and better airflow!

 

[Havamal]

I’ve long thought of building one’s own PC as a rather exotic and enticing Skill Set that just like being a helicopter pilot, I will never share in. : )

Good luck and better airflow!

Actually you can do it PH.
I've done it. It's fun.
Components are pretty plug and play now, so long as you've researched compatibility.
There are many great youtube videos to literally walk you through if all else fails.

I'd highly recommend you give it a go.

 

[Havamal]

- Start a list of what should be a simple build for a gaming rig, and also do brief research to make sure the internal components are what I'll want.
- Stretch budget so all the parts of my new gaming rig can be arriving in the same two days.
- Begin assembly, and midway through notice I forgot a standoff post for a screw but determine it's probably nothing.
- New rig stops POST, powering on but not recognizing the RAM sticks. Quick Google shows someone with a similar error forgot a standoff post and putting it in fixed it.
- Tear everything apart carefully, and make sure all six screws are put in. This involves having to remove some case elements to get a good angle.
- After assembling most of everything, a test has the same result - diagnostic LEDs show DRAM is not recognized. Checking the motherboard's online data and other sources show it should be perfectly compatible.
- Testing one RAM stick at at time, neither seems to be accepted.
- While reviewing things, find out the case you've bought is quietly infamous as a budget case with terrible airflow, which means components are "going to run hotter than is sane".
- Swear off building PCs for good over the frustration of making it all work.

Sorry to hear that bud.
Can you return the case?

If not, can your budget and case size support adding a closed loop liquid cooler like a Corsair H80 or H100.
That will have your cpu running at like 30 degrees regardless.

 

[Kereminde]

I enjoy it, in a sense, there's a few things which annoy me currently. And it pretty much comes down to how GPUs have evolved. Video cards have gotten bigger, and heavier, with most of the weight being cooling . . . and requiring dedicated power direct from the power supply. It seems more articles and discussions talk about how good things perform when overclocked rather than at default performance specs... so I can't be 100% sure whether "slightly inadequate cooling" is regarding when overclocked and pushed, or during normal operation. Cases now are expected to have multiple fans, forcing me to hunt for where they connect on the motherboard - only I can't seem to locate it all that easily. Similarly, the RAM sticks I have are heavy like an Atlas mini - and a lot of it is cooling shield.

Then . . . you start to try to pin down exactly what you want to get the performance you need, and for a long period it felt like buying into the "near-top-shelf" was not a good play since games kept pushing further and further every few years. And if you didn't go to that level, you were even more likely to get a card which would have you unable to play a game next year.

But for me? The big kick in the balls is not the whole process of investigating, searching, and learning about the parts. It's when something goes wrong and you have no tools to figure out just what it is which is broken, because you had better things to do than build a diagnostics lab and learn how to use it.

 

[Kereminde]

Sorry to hear that bud.
Can you return the case?

If not, can your budget and case size support adding a closed loop liquid cooler like a Corsair H80 or H100.
That will have your cpu running at like 30 degrees regardless.

I could return the case, but my budget was literally close to $500 and . . . I don't really trust liquid cooling. I'm too old fashioned in that regard. This is proving to shape up as a "dry run" for what I'm going to start shopping for with my Income Tax return come next year, more than anything.

 

[Havamal]

I could return the case, but my budget was literally close to $500 and . . . I don't really trust liquid cooling. I'm too old fashioned in that regard. This is proving to shape up as a "dry run" for what I'm going to start shopping for with my Income Tax return come next year, more than anything.

Then definitely return and get something that suits you better.

 

[Kereminde]

Then definitely return and get something that suits you better.

There's the other issue - the few recommended ones are simply not in stock. (And from a poking, haven't been in stock for a while.)

 

[Kereminde]

For the record, this is the parts list I've got/bought through various avenues. It's - as I said - the "Beta test" for my ability to build computers. Right now, though, I'm seeing the attraction of paying a site to build and test the thing before they ship it.

 

[Prussian Havoc]

Actually you can do it PH.
I've done it. It's fun.
Components are pretty plug and play now, so long as you've researched compatibility.
There are many great youtube videos to literally walk you through if all else fails.

I'd highly recommend you give it a go.

You and @Kereminde have more in common with ComStar Adepts than you may yourselves recognize! :bow:

Thank you, but I’ll just stick with my incantations to RAM and sacrifices to GPU. : )