[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[TristanLuigi]

Right, well the case came with three different kind of screws. One is short and stubby (there are a bunch), the other's pretty long (there are four), and the other is absolutely tiny (there are a bunch). There are also 4 rubber padding rings, which were in the same package as the short screws. Which combination do I use to attach the motherboard

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[Tokthree]

The case's manual should tell you, if not try putting them into the standoffs until you find the one that fits. I'd expect them to be somewhat short with an average thread and a smallish head

[mutt]

I thought the front box said BDSM at first

You're not the only one:

Thought this was some BDSM kit.

[TristanLuigi]

Hooray, build is finished and Debian is installed! Now just to make it usable.

[ZERØ]

Hooray, build is finished and Debian is installed! Now just to make it usable.

Wish I was a pro with linux, my linux comp (mint 17, cinnamon interface), decided to implode after simply updating the gpu driver.

Either it was bad luck or something else that went wrong, that was the 6th re-install of mint on that computer and I'm really fed up with it so I decided that even though its an ancient computer, I bought a windows 8.1 pro key from some guy at /r/microsoftsoftwareswap, then used a free upgrade to Windows 10.

Also In a nutshell all the times I have had to reinstall mint was because of trying to change simple things like a wallpaper in the login screen, a cursor, updating drivers, installing drivers, deleting something using terminal, and other general stuff going wrong for one reason or another, my recent experience with mint only adds to this.

However just to be clear though I have had good experiences with mint, back then it used to be my primary os on my laptop, until I was able to get Windows 10 on it via the Insider Program when Windows 10 was in development, and it was my secondary OS on my main computer until I got tired of the delay in dual boot, maybe one day I'll install it in HyperV and run it along side windows.


Also Incase any of you linux pros are wondering what I did, I was trying to use AMD's latest Catalyst drivers , but the installer would not let me install them without uninstalling the stock fglrx Drivers, I was trying to update the drivers because the the stock drivers did not want to detect a monitor connected with a dvi to hdmi cable, for some reason after the restart even though everything seemed fine, I logged in a cinnamon was in a crashing loop going into fallback mode and I could not uninstall those drivers I got from AMD due to navigation being non-existent and no hotkey to open the terminal.

An explanation of what went wrong would really help so I can avoid this when I use mint or any other distro one day.

[Becquerel]

Wish I was a pro with linux, my linux comp (mint 17, cinnamon interface), decided to implode after simply updating the gpu driver.
her it was bad luck or something else that went wrong, that was the 6th re-install of mint on that computer and I'm really fed up with it so I dec

i always thought of linux to be like very strong vodka
it takes alot to become used to it

[Pecon]

Linux is a very customizable system and gives both the user and programs that you install a lot more ability to trash the system. Windows is a clusterforget of redundant permissions with a lot of them that you simply can't have as a user, which makes the system a lot more foolproof and less prone to accidental trashing.

Because of that Windows is still my preferred OS to actually do work on. I don't have time to figure out what I did to break things I just want it to work. Also because installing 3rd-party graphics drivers in linux is a few times worse than a pain in the ass.

Servers are another story. I love using non-gui (server) Debian and Ubuntu in all the servers I run. It's fast and frankly much harder to mess up than Windows when it comes to the server environment, primarily because having to do everything through the command line seems to demand that you have half an idea of what you're doing before you do it.

[DJ Charizard]

Was having overheating problems, and I just cleaned out my heat sync/rethermal pasted my cpu, so that couldnt have been the problem looked to my GPU and there was absolutely no thermal paste left on the GPU.

[shitlord]

looks like thermal paste to me

[Becquerel]

I remember the day I managed to pry off the entire GPU processor chip completely off the board
It was hard

[DJ Charizard]

I remember the day I managed to pry off the entire GPU processor chip completely off the board
It was hard

Jesus christ that hurt just to read

looks like thermal paste to me

If what you're talking about is on the sides, it's dried up.

[Becquerel]

Jesus christ that hurt just to read

I used only a screwdriver too
Plus the card was an old disposable one

[espio100]

version 4.2.0 is best version

[Alyx Vance]

Do you even blaze it bro?

I remember the day I managed to pry off the entire GPU processor chip completely off the board
It was hard

Now why'd you do that?

[Becquerel]

Do you even blaze it bro?
Now why'd you do that?

It was a dead card so there was no money lost
I did it because... I dont think I even had a reason to do it, I just felt like removing it, I dont know how else to explain it.