meade916

March 20

awesome!!! you guys are great, thanks for doing this!

January 4

I would love to if I could just get Call of Duty to work. It never boots. That is on the older MW2. I am afraid to by MW3 because if it doesn't work I'm gonna be more upset than I wanna be about it LOL. I wanna play. I think MW2 did boot once or twice but crashed the VERY next time I tried and still doesn't want to load. Very frustrating.

January 2

All the colors are programmable, I just haven't programmed them yet. I kinda like it like this anyway.

Dedicated VR tower to the left, Main PC to the right. 3 Alienware 38" Monitors

Dedicated VR Tower:

Corsair 7000D Airflow Full Tower
MSI Meg Z590 Godlike Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 1600w Platinum PS
Intel Core i9 11900k
Corsair H170i Elite Capellix Liquid Cpu cooler
128 G Skill Trident Z Neo 128g Ram
EVGA RTX 3090 Ultra FTW edition
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB (main)
Seagate HDD 3TB
Seagate HDD 2TB
27" LG 165hz Monitor

Valve Index VR Headset

Main PC tower:

CORSAIR iCUE 7000X RGB Full-Tower ATX
MSI Meg Z790 Godlike Max Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 1600 P+, 80+ Platinum 1600W PS
Intel Core i9 14900k
Corsair H150i Elite Capellix Liquid Cpu cooler
128G Corsair Vengeance DDR5
Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition GPU
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB (main)
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
(3) Alienware 38" 3840x1600 @ 144hz 1ms (in Surround mode @ 11520x1600)

January 2

Thanks Kay Kay, I love it!!

January 2

The new ones should feel much nicer. He is showing me the difference as he replacing them. MUCH MUCH nicer!

January 2

i love the gaming keyboard I had already but it didn’t have any F keys, arrows, or even a delete key. Among several other keys I need for editing video. Basically none of the stuff to the right of the main keys. I was using my old Corsair keyboard on video editing day but it's such a pain to have to switch them out every time. So I got a new one and retired the old one to my VR tower. The Corsair can come to the shop for one of the work PC's. My son Kay Kay came by and upgraded my switches and keycaps. I didn't really know this was a thing till recently. I can DEFINITELY feel the difference!

December 31, 2023

that is a very stange situation. They should be turning on. Maybe you bumped the remote wire. Check that.

December 24, 2023

dueling gaming pc’s 😁 I networked the drives so I can use the “older” pc as a storage server also. Win!

The one on the left is the previous PC but with an RTX 3090 in it. The 4090 was migrated over to the new tower.

December 23, 2023

We still have some stuff to configure and get the VR machine up and running next. I will post more pics when it all comes together! So far this thing is blazing fast!!

December 23, 2023

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December 23, 2023

I just built my last rig not to long ago and I am already at it again. The reason I chose the parts for the last build was due to not having a mainboard that could support my new 5gig Fiber internet. There wasn't many boards in the latest gen at the time that had what I needed. You can see that build here

**** This link below is the OLD 11th Gen build that is now my VR rig, you can see the NEW 14th gen if you keep scrolling****

While that build worked GREAT, I also have another issue. I have a Valve Index VR setup. My main PC runs 3 monitors and every time I want to use VR I have to unplug display ports and restart the PC. When I am done I have to plug it all back in and restart the PC again. And then after that I have to reset my monitor configuration because it flips out when I start making changes like that. Easy to put back, but a pain none the less. I just want to pick the headset up and use it without all that drama. So I decided I wanted a PC dedicated JUST for my VR. My first choice was a gaming laptop. I have one I use all the time that has an RTX 2070 in it. I plugged it in and it works pretty good (for VR). The only problem is for fast games like VR racing, it is pretty weak. Not anywhere near the quality of my PC. So I decided to build another gaming rig instead that I can dedicate to that. While trying to figure out what I was going to use for the build, I decided that my "old" rig from March (2023) with the 11th gen could be the perfect tower instead and I can build a NEW NEW for my main rig instead. I also have a spare RTX 3090 not being used that I spent $2500 on during covid lockdown. So my VR PC will be my "old" PC with a 3090 in it and I will take my 4090 and put it in the new rig since it is still the latest card. A little confusing but it might make sense by the time I am done with both of them.

New build:

CORSAIR iCUE 7000X RGB Full-Tower ATX
MSI Meg Z790 Godlike Max Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 1600 P+, 80+ Platinum 1600W PS
Intel Core i9 14900k
Corsair H150i Elite Capellix Liquid Cpu cooler
128G Corsair Vengeance DDR5
Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition GPU
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB (main)
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
(3) Alienware 38" 3840x1600 @ 144hz 1ms (in Surround mode @ 11520x1600)

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March 20, 2023

Like is stated in the video, I have spent the last two years since we moved into this house with the worst internet options known to man. We live in a forest somewhere in the Sierra Nevada's between Sacramento and Reno. I never thought internet could be as bad as it was. I got by with the local provider who climbs up a tree and aims an antenna at the nearest tower and then charges you an arm and two legs for service. That was $100 a month for my plan and with overages they were trying to charge me upwards of $400 a month! For service that wasn't worth a damn at 15 down and about 3-5 up. HORRIBLE. Then I got a business hotspot plan from ATT. That cost me $200 a month and was doing about 30-45 down and about 8-10 up. I added a Waveform flat panel external antenna and was able to get about 100 down and 28-30 up. Not to bad. I can survive on that. I had the entire house running on it through a very expensive mesh network. It was really the only choice. I was able to game on it no problem and youtube video uploads weren't too painful. Then i tried Nomad internet, another 4g LTE based service that hit off the Verizon towers. It cost $150 a month. It did about 30-40 down and about 15-20 up on it's best day. It was spurratic at best. No way i could game on it and uploading videos to the internet was hit or miss. Terrible. I got rid of that after about 6 months and tried a T-Mobile 5g service with the thinking i would maybe hit a T-Mobile tower and it could be better. I saw 60-75 down and 15-20 up. But again, it was unreliable as i couldn't upload very well and gaming sucked on it. For just $50 bucks a month, i kept it acive for an emergency backup. A few months later my Starlink arrived after waiting for a year and a half (we ordered it summer 2021 and were on a waiting list). That costs $110 a month and just now going up to $120 a month. It did ok at 100-150 down and around 12-15 up. We mainly used it for the entire house (i put it on my mesh network) and kept the ATT Hotspot (a Nighthawk M5) dedicated to my office. That was how we did it for several more months and it worked pretty good. But I was still paying $120 for starlink, $200 for ATT (business hotspot), and $50 for T-mobile (as a backup). That is a wopping $370 a month for total crap! Then one day, the sky opened up and the gods handed down Frontier Fiber internet to my neighborhood in the woods. Of course, when i saw 5000 up and 5000 down for $154 a month (and several other amazing teirs for even cheaper), i pulled the trigger and said let's go!! I cancelled all the other stuff and i am saving a ton of money. Maybe i don't need 5000/5000 but dammit, I am so excited to finally have REAL internet at my house I don't care! Give me ALL the bits! As you can also see in the video, i had to make some changes to my PC in order to achieve these speeds. Most PC's aren't capable of doing more than 1000/1000 and that includes my beast gaming rig with an MSI Godlike board. So if you do the same as me, be warned, anyting over 1000/1000 might not be achievable until you make changes. Typically the 5000/5000 is shared in the entire house so my PC doesn't NEED to have those speed all to itself. But I am on a mission to see those numbers with my own eyes. So i build a new one with a 10g ethernet port. The results were pretty good i would say!

March 20, 2023

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The whole entire reason I am upgrading my pc...for that 10g port!!

March 18, 2023

March 18, 2023

The previous PC i have been running for 3 years (see the build in this section) was still going strong. I ended up putting 2 3090 RTX in SLI (NV Link) in it last year and it is still smoking fast, with no problems at all. The only NEW problem I have is that at my new house (we moved 2 years ago) we just got fiber internet here. I ordered the 5gigabit service. It's supposed to be 5000 down and 5000 up. I know, major overkill. I could do with much less. But i wanted the best after 2 years of being on a HOTSPOT, several OTHER cellular based internet services and Starlink. They got me by but now the real internet is here I went all out. The problem is, my PC, even though it says "2.5 killer ethernet" on the back, they are only capable of 1000/1000. That is still very nice. But not enough. I bought a 10g PCIE NIC to try and get the bigger numbers, but it wouldn't fit. The video cards take 3 bays each and hog the entire board. I can't get to the last open PCIE. So the next logical step is to get a new mainboard that can. Scratch that. Might as well build a new PC if i am going to do all that.

So here are the specs of the 2023 Godlike build.

Corsair 7000D Airflow Full Tower
MSI Meg Z590 Godlike Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 1600w Platinum PS
Intel Core i9 11900k
Corsair H170i Elite Capellix Liquid Cpu cooler
128 G Skill Trident Z Neo 128g Ram
Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition GPU
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB (main)
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB
Samsung 860 Evo m.2 2TB
Samsung 850 Evo SSD 1TB
Samsung 840 Evo SSD 1TB
Seagate HDD 3TB
Seagate HDD 2TB
(3) Alienware 38" 3840x1600 @ 144hz 1ms (in Surround mode @ 11520x1600)

February 21, 2023

always with the great deals! Thanks Second Skin!!!!

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