(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:I think it's less expensive for me to move into a room that's affected by the house's heater than to buy ~100' of wire (and wire protection), and also a lot easier than trying to find an unused spot on the breaker. The cold stuff isn't really a problem, though, really. The problem is my screen, which wobbles because of my keyboard-abusive typing, which is caused mostly by the fact that I'm cold so often. It's not an issue during the summer, though.kinkinkijkin Wrote:Now, I know you never could have known this without me saying it before, but, because of the fact that my wifi card is dying at an ever-speeding pace, I have to have my desk directly below the router. Unfortunately, there's no power outlet right here, and, in fact, there's not on anywhere near this placement. So, I have to run an extension cord down through a vent from the living room, over to my desk. And then, once it gets there, it has to go through a really old power bar into a computer, a screen, a tv (which is right by my desk, other people in the house use it), a MIDI keyboard, and a really old pair of speakers that I'm using as a headphone amp. Adding a heater would amplify the danger, if one of our extremely playful dogs ever bumps the plug upstairs.
There are so many easy ways to fix this:
1. Get a better wifi adapter
2. Outlets come in pairs. So run a second extension chord from the same GFCI.
3. Use chords/power strips that don't completely suck
4. Add an outlet down there, the electrical work really isn't that hard.
And so on...
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:I change what's going on back there rather often. Putting it under my desk would not only make that more difficult (especially since I'm a really, really big guy), but would also detract from the massive amount of footroom that I like to have, as a really, really big guy.kinkinkijkin Wrote:Well, I also use my desk as a table for everything, and I want to move away from using a separate, smaller table to hold my computer. In getting a new desk, I have to get a smaller one (area restrictions where I'm moving the stuff when I buy the new desk), and I can already hardly fit two meals, a coffee, my disk binders, and my screens* on this desk. Also, I enjoy the novelty of having a small computer.
Why not put the desktop UNDER the desk?
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Windows 8. It flickers the second monitor when I have more than one screen. Did you not know of this? It seems to be a common issue, as far as I've looked.kinkinkijkin Wrote:* = sometimes, when I need to do more multitasking than 1080p is designed for, I brave the flickering and put one of my other screens on my desk and use it as well
What flickering?
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Okay, so my rough estimate based on absolutely no grounds was wrong.kinkinkijkin Wrote:At this point, I'd either have to get a really powerful GPU or multiple GPUs to double that, really.
Not true. Do the math.
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:By "normal", I mean ~21-22 inch for 1080p, iirc. My screen is, last time I checked, 25-inch, which is horrible to try to look at if you aren't really far away from the screen. Thankfully, my current desk's long enough to just shove it at the back, but I used to deal with this on a tiny little desk meant for a 12-year-old to have their first computer on.kinkinkijkin Wrote:My current screen is slightly larger than normal.
What is "normal"?
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:The best part is that it wasn't a troll account.kinkinkijkin Wrote:rejoin pretending to be a german-american girl who cannot understand spoken english but who understands written english
Probably not the response you were looking for but I found this part hilarious to try and imagine. That would make for a very hard but rewarding troll account.
(04-05-2014, 06:25 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Well, before, I was using the stock cooling. A low-noise 70mm fan on a heatsink with a big crack in it. And, my CPU was just BARELY qualifying for the 65w bracket, it seems, because as soon as I fill her with 700MHz core and 900MHz CPU-NB, she jumps up to 72w.kinkinkijkin Wrote:My CPU, when overclocked, has a TDP of 72w. The humidity can do wonders to choke up a fan.
I doubt that. Your cpu is 65w at stock. And how crappy is your cooling?
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body