Show Us Your Rig [6]

Ok to answer all you guys, my mobo has 4 back USB3 ports, of which I need 2. The front ones I connect my Ipad3 to because the USB3 have 10watts of juice, and the New Ipad is a power hungry something something. Even if I didn't need the ports, it would drive me crazy to have a cable that is not hooked into its bay inside my computer...OCD I guess. As for the ram coolers, I don't need them, but they help out with some of the heat dissipation around that area since I am loop cooling and don't have the direct advantage of a CPU fan, not to mention I noticed that ram coolers keep dust off of ram...a reverse vacuum if you will....and I like to watch bright things spin when my nightly pain meds kick in...what can I say, I have a boring life. As far as Newegg goes, sure I can get stuff from there, but since I am located in Eastern Europe, it means asking family in the states to order it, then send it in a package which can cost up to a 100 dollars, because you're not just going to send 1 cable in a package, when I want something I get a bunch of stuff to make it worthwhile, but it's not a problem. Here in EU we have something called Allegro, its basically Amazon for EU. So any part I could buy in Newegg, I can order here, without having to shell out an extra Benjamin. :)

Britton30 said:

paulpicks21 said:

I just changed my desk layout this morning and had a good clear out of junk, PC is still on top for nice easy access :)

Very organized Paul but you have much desktop space going to waste. Y'all have seen what mine looks like.

crankypenguin said:

Ok to answer all you guys, my mobo has 4 back USB3 ports, of which I need 2. The front ones I connect my Ipad3 to because the USB3 have 10watts of juice, and the New Ipad is a power hungry something something. Even if I didn't need the ports, it would drive me crazy to have a cable that is not hooked into its bay inside my computer...OCD I guess. As for the ram coolers, I don't need them, but they help out with some of the heat dissipation around that area since I am loop cooling and don't have the direct advantage of a CPU fan, not to mention I noticed that ram coolers keep dust off of ram...a reverse vacuum if you will....and I like to watch bright things spin when my nightly pain meds kick in...what can I say, I have a boring life. As far as Newegg goes, sure I can get stuff from there, but since I am located in Eastern Europe, it means asking family in the states to order it, then send it in a package which can cost up to a 100 dollars, because you're not just going to send 1 cable in a package, when I want something I get a bunch of stuff to make it worthwhile, but it's not a problem. Here in EU we have something called Allegro, its basically Amazon for EU. So any part I could buy in Newegg, I can order here, without having to shell out an extra Benjamin. :)

Thanks Ralph, I gave the Newegg links for references to find stuff in your corner of the world. I know what you mean about orphaned cables, I even hooked up the IE1394 and I have no blooming idea why or what it's for.

If I recall, ie1394 replaced parallel scsi and I think its for audio/visual, I would turn that off if you're not using it, its just eating up cycles during bootup time and increasing it.

I turn off stuff like Serial COM1 ports, firewire, its just less things your computer has to boot up and less cycles eaten.

Indianatone said:

Firewire is being phased out now.

Yeah USB3 is taking over, and I don't blame them, I like USB3, I have two USB3 externals and I get speeds of around 130mbs of transfer on say a 10gb file. Not too bad I guess.