Winners of the 2012 Buld A PC Sales Contest! Sponsored by Quixby & MYTHLOGIC!

Icouldbeanyone · 19 days

Congrats to all the winners! I'll be getting the info from icouldbeanyone and I'll have stuff shipped or emailed to you ASAP.

Icouldbeanyone · 1 month

This is amazing.

armond21 · 1 month

Sure! I'll PM you contact info.

armond21 · 1 month

I have a literal STACK (like 40+) of these brackets sitting around. If any redditor wants one, just cover shipping (like $3) and it's yours.

Icouldbeanyone · 1 month

We'd like to donate some prizes to this if it's alright with everyone. Sent a PM to icouldbeanyone already.

Jeff_Drake · 3 months

Win7 gets along with SSDs quite nicely, since it is the first Windows OS to support TRIM. No special steps, SSDs plug into SATA cables the same as normal HDDs, and they'll show up in the BIOS and Windows Setup like normal.

mythlogic · 4 months

This person is correct. OP image is actually upside down, I was too lazy to flip it. The cable along the bottom was not the source of the combustion, though the fire did melt/burn through the insulation.

The likely source, as mentioned by my budde on Facebook, is the thing that looks like a power inverter to the right (left on the correctly oriented pic). Which is burned pretty thoroughly.

mythlogic · 4 months

Quite literally. The customer in question said it filled their entire storefront with smoke.

mythlogic · 4 months

lol, fortunately the guy who brought it in knew it was DOA. I've had the good fortune of not having anyone try to pull stupid shit like that (so far).

TroublesomeTuna · 4 months

Love this thing. Got one for the shop and it's amazing. Easily paid for itself in a month by not having to buy 5 cans of air. It's basically a vacuum cleaner motor with a handle attached. It's really loud, but it will move some goddamn air. And the best part, it never loses pressure no matter how long you go, unlike with canned air which has to boil off more gas after a minute or so.

luckybuilder · 5 months

As mentioned elsewhere, ditch the desktop board and get a server one that can handle some Xeons, that'll give you a really nice boost.

Where you planning on RAID'ing those SSDs? Intel SSDs would work better if you do. And you might as well throw in a 3rd GPU into SLI for the 3rd monitor, because, well, why the hell not?!

mythlogic · 5 months

I'm amazed it didn't shut down sooner. I believe all modern BIOS' come with an automatic temperature shutoff, which you can adjust downward if you want, but it's generally around 100C I think. I usually set builds to shutdown at 85C, which no desktop should get above 80C or so unless you overclock them or have bad airflow.

The laptops we build regularly get to 95C under stress tests, especially the GPU.

mythlogic · 5 months

That's the crazy part, they where all organized into bundles and zip tied away from major components.

mythlogic · 5 months

It was a Antec TruePower 80Plus 750w PSU. I've no idea why it didn't immediately shut itself off, didn't have time to investigate what the connector shorted out too, but it's possible there was enough resistance in the circuit for the PSU not to trip a fuse.

QinGu9221 · 5 months

If you where to bring this in to me for repair, I'd tell you to get a new one, because the cost of labor is going to exceed the value of the laptop. It takes around 2hrs or more to disassemble and reassemble the average laptop. The 1557 is pretty average in this regard. Some of the slim-form laptops are a huge pain in the ass.

That said, if you do it yourself you can probably get another year or two out of the system before something else fails. So if it does what you need it to do, you can invest ~$200 into fixing it, instead of getting a new one.

Ebay has the MB for around $170
Sadly my favorite parts site does not have it

mythlogic · 7 months

Sadly, they have all fallen out of the boxes. I'm such a clutz.

mythlogic · 7 months

No, but I'll tell him you said hi!

mythlogic · 7 months

Sorry about the bit of marketing, we really like our logo. :) In the future I'll leave it out and put a disclaimer in the comments, like so :

Note : This is a build I'm doing at the custom-build desktop/laptop company I work at in Ann Arbor.

First one of these cases that we've had ordered, I had to show it off. I'll add some more pics later with components in them.

Krames12 · 9 months

Everyone should, it's trendy and cool now.

:edit: Also, happy cake day :)

Krames12 · 9 months

That'd be us :)

We supplied Ops with some better hardware to help them keep going awhile back. We also maintain their hardware/software to help keep them going. LoL is a constant pain in my ass, always updating.

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