Merlin007

Pretty neat and imaginative.

Happy Birthday ph4nt0m. Have a good day.

LMAO. Awesome mick. Just emailed these to my wife. She will get a kick out of them.

Welcome to >XI< Thor.

I think it was a good call to bring back the Jets name. Fans wanted to see their team come back and that in itself may have helped sell out the tickets. And yes, performance will dictate how ticket sales will go later on which is important of course to pay salaries and such and keep the team's fan base. Unless you're like me, I am a Leafs fan always just biding time till they strike back (hopefully before I am dead but that's not the point). And not a word Shamu... LOL

THOR435 I have always found that propietary cases like Dell, HP, etc are always set up to where you can not buy an other MB because the outputs are reversed. I think that is so that you have to go back to them to buy the MB when it fries. I had a gateway that the mother board fried ( and no I do not want any salt with those), They wanted over 260.00 for a new motherboard so I said screw it and bought a Cooler Master case and built a new one that will allow you to put what ever you want in it. Well almost......lol I had Thor's problem. My Gateway case was proprietary so the case opened on the opposite side and the board was mirrored to that of a standard ATX board.

Oh, and for the vid card, looks like the one big difference is the 560 is 256bit and the 550 is 196bit with a substantial price difference. Me personally, since I do things with budget in mind, I'd go with the 550 just because of the cost and spend a few dollars on a new case. I don't know what the performance difference would be but you can read up on that and see if worth the while.

I agree with Bama. If you're on a budget, you could do this with a little work of course but airflow will definitely be important here. With all the fans, I would also think that you would want more air pulled out of the case than pulled in (negative pressure) so you don't have stale air sitting in the case waiting to get pushed out. Would help with cooling. The fans on the front typically you would want to pull air in since hot air rises so the lower front fans would pull cool air in and not pull it out. If you have a fan on top, this would help get rid of the hot air and as far as a fan inside the case, it is not unheard of but you would just need to have the space and mount it properly but I don't think you need that here. The rear fan and top fan since these would be drawing air out, you would want a decent CFM rating since you will have other fans on the side pulling air in. In short, from your pictures, I see 2 on the front, 2 on the side, 1 on top, and 1 at the rear. The front and side, pull air in and the top and rear, pull the air out but do it so you pull more air out than you pull in. As long as you don't mind a bit of fan noise, you should be alright. Personally, I'd get another case. If the Dell mobo is an ATX board, should fit an ATX case that is designed for good setup and airflow and case's are not all that expensive. With that said, if you go that route, do you homework just to make sure the board would indeed fit into a standard ATX case as some manufactures like Dell and Compaq (etc) sometimes do something proprietary where that would not work. I've ran into that before. Anyway, good luck. It looks like you are on the right track.

Well done wildbill. Looks very nice and the cable management looks pretty clean as not to restrict air flow and that's a big frigg'in CPU cooler too. Should have no worries of your processor over heating. All in all, nice investment. Should keep you going for a while and looks like you got room for another vid card if you choose to later on.

I have this one already and a few other Steam games I don't play. My Son plays them more than I do but Team Fortress is a fun game once you figure everything out (which I have not yet LOL).

Good 1 ak. LOL

LOL. I like the news clipping one. LMAO

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day.

She is on the + side but what me laugh was her expression when she said "Oh Crap" when she saw the wall shape she had to get through. Gotta give her credit though, she played the game and regardless had good spirit.

I say this clip today of funny game show exits and thought I'd share. I laughed my ass off.

Keep up the good work fellas. I am sure everyone appreciates the time you put in. Thanks

Cool. With check it out.

LOL. Good one eh... you hoser!

How's this Cheese?

CplMOFO Hey Merlin, Keep up the good work man! Your sigs are nice!!!!! Thanks Mofo.

Welcome iRoN mAiDeN to the forums and good to see you enjoy the servers and spending time with us Idiots.

I have to ask, what the heck is a skill cannon?

Hey Cheese. Something like this?

Welcome Shadow Lord to the >XI< forums. Maybe see you on the CoD5 freeze tag server. Have Fun.

Thanks everyone and Happy Fathers Day to all of you Fathers. Have a great day all.