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cadaveca

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Personally i don't care as long as the systems running right, i am no fan ( HA ) of them either but it's rare to see them some what blend in.

EDIT:
I am not one to pick parts due to looks function \ cost come first, looks are the last thing i buy some thing for.

As my mother always says never judge a book by it's cover, always felt like some thing was missing from that when your talking about fans like those.

agreed 100%


ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :p:

 

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fukll msi hardware! great, also the pillow mascot seems great!
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ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :p:


I was just trying to say a good thing is all :).

And yeah they should last their frigging expensive, i have a bunch of Rosewill 120mm fans that i have been using for over 7 years ( X38 ) working perfectly fine and those were $7.99 :).

As for MSI getting it right, not to me, my love for dragons and all i think MSI got it wrong. Still would not stop me buying some thing of there's and have in the passed but i seem to have bad luck with their products but i try them every so often.
 

cadaveca

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As for MSI getting it right, not to me, my love for dragons and all i think MSI got it wrong. Still would not stop me buying some thing of there's and have in the passed but i seem to have bad luck with their products but i try them every so often.

I try them more often than anyone else; I get my gear for free as samples! For the products I have tried (which are all on the front page here), MSI truly is one of the best when it comes to quality and a focused design. They aren't ASRock; ASRock's engineering feats are ungodly; yet MSI has a true focus on their gaming products that no one else seems to.

Aesthetics are something else; I don't include that in my opinion much. I know looks only get you so far. I am thinking in terms of meeting the needs of the product's target audience, and then drilling down to the fine details of how they do that, including pricing. MSI today is not the MSI of 5 years ago.

Now, of course, they do hand-pick the hardware they send me, so my view is limited. I also outright do not like ASUS and their greater focus on OC before usability. Gigabyte products are for those that want a PC that's like an Apple device. When I do reviews, I have to strip those opinions out, but every product that passes through my hands only seems to bolster those thoughts.
 

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ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :p:


its good to see a Welsh dragon guarding it all for you. Iechyd Da ...:toast:


 
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I am not sure whether you consider rackmount gears sexy... But I generally like rackmounts.

I have a 14U rack which was once full of WCG rigs more than a decade ago. Nowadays, I have just one 2U unit that is used as a data storage. It runs on Fedora 24. Nevermind the Core 2 quad sticker. I never took it off.

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Not bad, but this is my kind of storage:



:pimp:
 

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Recently decided to redo my thermal paste. Always wanted to see it naked :eek:

 

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Not bad, but this is my kind of storage:



:pimp:


Now when did you come by and get a picture of my pron storage???????? :laugh:
 

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If you need 38.4TB of 12Gb/s Flash for your porn, then we need to talk...

BTW, that is my pic, not something I found online. :pimp:
 
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ROFL. The Noctua fan came from one of my very first review samples ever. Still kicking it hard, too. Noctua sent me a couple of extras with the D14 is used in my review rig for ages and that fan (as well as another that I have sitting over the vgas blow air away from the VGAs I've used in my test bench for an amazing long time because they are nearly silent.

However, these days, I go for looks before I go for function, but MSI has smashed both together in a lot of their products as of late.

Full disclosure :p:



Oh damn, they sent you a dragon. Nobody tell @Toothless!
 
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If you need 38.4TB of 12Gb/s Flash for your porn, then we need to talk...

No, I'm pretty sure some things are best left not talked about.
 

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I'm upset at you for not sharing me.

I know this is going to sting toothless, but...

We actually hate you, we just can't think of a diplomatic way to tell you so we hide all the dragons from you and hoard them in a cleverly disguised tech site that is actually a dragon dungeon.
 

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New cooler, hope to get it installed and tested today.
 
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@khemist how come u got a new cooler?

U ordered one to replace a ref. cooler on a founders edition card or u had a faulty cooler that needed a replacement?

Still a nice, awesome cooler I only hard good about and congratz :toast:
 
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I didn't know you could buy this EVGA cooler on it's own.

With the Gelid one i have to connect the fans to the motherboard and change fan speeds manually when gaming as when connected to the actual GPU they run at full speed all the time.

At least i can set up a fan profile now in afterburner although since i don't have a direct case exhaust i'm sure my CPU temps will increase over the founders edition.
 
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I didn't know you could buy this EVGA cooler on it's own.

With the Gelid one i have to connect the fans to the motherboard and change fan speeds manually when gaming as when connected to the actual GPU they run at full speed all the time.

At least i can set up a fan profile now in afterburner although since i don't have a direct case exhaust i'm sure my CPU temps will increase over the founders edition.

EVGA's europe site use to sell their ACX coolers on their shop but the last generation or so only backplates has been available sadly :(
 
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