Vote for buyer's guides

[Feronix]

Hey guys,

Just a quick thread plus poll to let you vote for your favourite buyer's guides that I can do!
The next I will do is the 100% Silent Build.

After that, I'll take the top vote from this poll, then the second top vote, but the poll will remain open! After I've done a build I will remove it from the poll.

Let me know guys!

 

[JR23]

Can we have an irrational buyers guide, for slightly mad people where logic is not always applied or like a shear aesthetic quality price no object kind of thing. Actually this is giving me a thread idea...

JR

 

[Wraith]

I agree with JR23 I'd like to see a balls to the wall, all out money no object "Bonkers Mental" rig Also a stealth black number.

EDIT: I think tweektown did one at around £13,000 but all the hardware made no sense and wouldn't have worked anyway. i.e quad SLI with PCI-e SSD, Raid Card, WiFi card & Sound card.. their build was dumb.

 

[MadShadow]

ITX hackintosh sounds interesting. It might be a bit challenging though

 

[YouWhat]

I too would like to see some hackintosh stuff on here, as at present, it is very thin on the ground.

As for the form factor options, I am using ATX, so would like to see something using the hardware I have, and possibly a series on them using the different form factors and varying hardware to show some of the possibilities of it. I for one would like to try it out, but at present can never be bothered to spend the time getting my head around all the different patches and stuff you need to get it up and running.

*Edit*

Maybe make an initial post, and then reserve a few posts below it for updates and different hardware combinations and form factors? (just an Idea)

 

[Feronix]

Can we have an irrational buyers guide, for slightly mad people where logic is not always applied or like a shear aesthetic quality price no object kind of thing. Actually this is giving me a thread idea...

JR

I agree with JR23 I'd like to see a balls to the wall, all out money no object "Bonkers Mental" rig Also a stealth black number.

EDIT: I think tweektown did one at around £13,000 but all the hardware made no sense and wouldn't have worked anyway. i.e quad SLI with PCI-e SSD, Raid Card, WiFi card & Sound card.. their build was dumb.

I like the idea, however these guides take me a solid 3-5 hours each which seems a bit much for something that's just kind of for fun and doesn't really help anyone.

Besides, if you do that you pretty much have to watercool it, of which my knowledge is limited. But if anyone is up for doing it you're absolutely free to do so! I'm doing these independently so it's not an OC3D business thing, anyone can join in if they want

ITX hackintosh sounds interesting. It might be a bit challenging though

Well I have one so it can't be that bad

I too would like to see some hackintosh stuff on here, as at present, it is very thin on the ground.

As for the form factor options, I am using ATX, so would like to see something using the hardware I have, and possibly a series on them using the different form factors and varying hardware to show some of the possibilities of it. I for one would like to try it out, but at present can never be bothered to spend the time getting my head around all the different patches and stuff you need to get it up and running.

*Edit*

Maybe make an initial post, and then reserve a few posts below it for updates and different hardware combinations and form factors? (just an Idea)

As said though, these builds take a very long time so I can't exactly make one with every different form factor out there. For that there are specialized websites like TonymacX86.

Also, because the guide will be for people who are new to Hackintoshing, the guide to installing it will be using the Tonymac method, which pretty much requires a Gigabyte motherboard.

I'd love to do all of them, don't get me wrong, but I'm not /that/ bored yet




Also, with for instance the laptops, it'd be much more time effective to make videos. What do you guys think?

 

[Damo666]

I clicked the 'I don't care but I really like voting so I'm picking this option' but looking forward to the silent build mate.

I also agree with JR & Wraith about a 'balls to the wall' option too lol

 

[tinytomlogan]

We can look into doing a version of these for the front pages if you guys want them - meaning they get built and tested too

 

[Wraith]

We can look into doing a version of these for the front pages if you guys want them - meaning they get built and tested too

Yes yes yes, lets do all that stuffs I know a lot of other so called tech sites do these and they bring in a fair bit of attention, but I've yet to see a site actually physically build them, they're always hypothetical. I recon with a little gentle persuasion and sweet talking maybe get some reps on board too you could actually break the internet.

 

[JR23]

I like the idea, however these guides take me a solid 3-5 hours each which seems a bit much for something that's just kind of for fun and doesn't really help anyone.

I didn't mean it exactly as others have taken it, not deliberately stupid and excessive. But so far and looking at the others going forwards all of the builds have been focused around achieving the best performance for a price point, or achieving an end goal for as little money as possible.

But in the real world that is something only system builders concern themselves with not enthusiasts, not people who stick around of forums. So nobody will ever follow the guides down to the letter, especially the more expensive they get. My point was sometimes price and performance just don't rank that highly on the priorities list and quality or aesthetics take priority. Perhaps there shouldn't be a build with that single goal but I just think some of the guides should take that perspective. Naturally it's all a bit subjective and based on opinion ofc. and we haven't really got to a high enough budget yet but I just thought it was something worth considering.

JR

 

[Davva2004]

I'd love to see just how small you can make a PC while still having total balls to the wall performance - AND it's got to be silent.