Hey! A new page in the oldest thread around!

I pity the fool who reads this thread from the beginning.
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I agree with you bamccaig, but unless Nintendo changes anytime soon (which won't happen), I won't be able to play Metroid, Zelda, Pikmin, or Mario outside of Nintendo's own consoles. Now, there is the potential to emulate games on PC... but decent emulation is seldom made realized until the end of a system's life.

You'll be waiting for a while then.

I think the Wii U is Nintendo's best console. With it you can play Wii, Wii U, and (through some special trickery) GameCube games. Not to mention you can play NES, SNES, and DS (probably GB, GBC, and GBA too) games through the eShop's line of emulated titles. If you're interested in Wii or Wii U games, now's a good time to buy a Wii U.

Wow, that's such a low price! Galaxy is a lot of fun. Go play it now.

You know what they say... can't beat 'em, join 'em.

The last console I owned was a PS1, and it was used, didn't play it much. Before that it was an Atari 2600.

Can't use the PS1 because of the crappy CD door broke and now won't shut.

I have it around somewhere. I think I have two of them actually, the older, larger model and the smaller slim one. Whether they work is another story. Got lots of carts for them (including the now famous ET one).

I got my custom built water cooling setup made today.

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It doesn't even need a fan. Well, the CPU doesn't, but I think my VRM module / northbridge overheats with no extra "dirty air" from what would normally be a CPU fan waste air. So I may need some sort of quiet, low flow to keep it from overheating.

That said, it's completely silent. The water pump creates almost no noise, just vibration, so as long as it's not touching anything (without vibration dampening--in this case just a shirt), it's quieter than even my PSU fan.

I put off using that car radiator for a later setup. So I'm currently using 2 x 380mm radiators. I've considered upping it to four for the heck of it. I think the flow rate may be too low though and the natural convection may be a limiting factor (gotta do more testing). A gentle, quiet fan breeze on those radiators would do wonders.

I've also considered putting the radiators outside during the winter. Imagine getting 0 degree F ambient temperature for your water cooling. I wonder if I'd run into condensation issues though.

One last issue is the interface between the cpu water block and the cpu is a little iffy. It's got pressure on it, but it's possible there's too little or too much thermal compound which allows the thermals to spike quickly but never go too far after that initial spike. So I'm wondering if there's an initial soak issue / high resistance layer (the physical interface between CPU and cooler) and once the delta_t rises high enough then the thermal conductivity evens out. (higher delta_t = higher heat flux)

[edit] OH, and lesson learned, I never put an official reservoir in it. Well, now I know why they have them, and why your car radiator cap is ALWAYS the highest point on the cooling system. Because air bubbles get trapped in EVERYTHING and will eventually end up at the highest point, so if you want to drain them you have to find some sort of plug you can open and have that plug at the highest point. Otherwise, you have to go to frustrating lengths to rotate the entire cooling system so that he air bubbles end up somewhere you can easily remove them. And then you unscrew it, and too much flows out and spews everywhere. Apparently 50/50 mix is very sticky. Ethyl-gylcol mix I believe it's called. It also smells super sweet. Like some sort of magical almost-glowing mountain dew. (Slurm, from Futurama?) No wonder kids and dogs die drinking the stuff.

Oh yeah, I basically did it for the fun. Not because I think it'll unlock some sort of magical CPU power.

I'd be curious to see a remake/clone/re-imagining of E.T. From the few gameplay videos I've seen of it on YouTube, I honestly don't know what the real objective is. I guess you're looking for something in the game, but I don't really know. The minute-to-minute gameplay looks pretty bleak. I can't be too hard on it though, as the guy tasked with creating it had only 5.5 weeks to do so.

Neil, I just saw a face in the very top right corner of your avatar.

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White Supremacy status confirmed. You might as well be standing with Hitler as he makes his speeches!

#call_of_duty_did_nothing_wrong