All in one.
It's the cooler for your CPU. It all comes as one unit, rather than having to set up your own watercooling loop from all of the separate parts. I've one on mine and they work well so long as you mount it right. It also aids my light show which is a bonus.
All-in-one, it's the CPU cooler. It's a cooler which uses liquid/water but the pump, CPU block and tubing comes as a premade enclosed loop i.e. all-in-one. That's as opposed to custom water cooling where you buy all the parts separately and create a loop (usually custom loops would also cool the GPU as well as the CPU).Originally Posted by phonics
The alternative is an air cooler. Unless you are trying to cool one of the absolute top-end CPUs, good air coolers perform just as well as AIOs. The main benefit of air cooling is that fans are less likely to fail than pumps, you're more likely to be able to work out that's what's wrong when they do, and a fan can just be replaced (whereas I believe if your AIO pump goes wrong you have to replace the whole lot).
So yeah unless you REALLY need the cooling, I don't see the argument for AIOs . I think they are generally a bit quieter but also more expensive. But if someone gave me a PC with one in I wouldn't take it out.
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Fuck's sake, I clicked Phonics' reply notification and didn't realise there was a new page before I responded. Oh well.
I should really get back into video editing or at least give my youtube account something to do. I've got it in my head cobbling together the Metal Gear fiction like it's an Adam Curtis documentary would be neat idea.
Been done to death that one. If you want to jump on a bandwagon that might blow up I'd say start doing a very indepth retrospective of the Armored Core series stat.
I'll be doing it for the process, not the views.
I had a similar thing, I was a bit ropey early on but suddenly became undisputed Korn Ferry King
After Canada it let me move to the PGA Tour so maybe it has to be a certain way into the calendar to kick in?
I built a new machine a month ago, and by the sounds of the convo above I've massively overspec'd the PSU as well.
The hardest bit for me was trying to find components which didn't light up in every sort of RGB. I'm really not sure why it's so popular to have computer parts doing a lightshow.
Even after spending ages trying to avoid it, turns out my motherboard has some tiny internal standby-power light which glows in RGB, even when the bloody PC is shut down. WHY?
Definitely but oh well.
Can RGB not be turned off on components which have it?
That is by far my luckiest but also my best putt on the game.
I have no idea how people can play on Sim (daily tournament) on a regular basis. The game tells you NOTHING other than distance to the flag and wind direction but not speed.
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Just suck your finger and stick it up there mate.
Not sure how a finger up my arse will help with wind speed but I'll give it a go, cheers.
Depends which wind you mean.
On for my best result yet in a daily tournament. It was not on Sim difficulty though so no finger up my arse yet to judge for wind speed.
That might be my favourite shot thus far. I don't think I've ever just casually dropped a ball right into a hole (oioi).
I could legitimately runaround my room screaming rn
Congrats. Were those matches close or was it never in doubt?
Cash prize?
How much we talking?
Lost the first series vs the same person and then came back from Losers bracket. They were really cheesy (basically all-out aggression that if it fails, they lose) so I did it back to them and they couldn't handle it.
For example here is a picture of me building my entire base outside their base as revenge for the previous series
This got me the points that I'll prob finish top 3 which gets me high seeding in the season ender cash prize tournament which is like 500 bucks or so.
Cool. Best of luck.
Phonics
It's pathetic that 24 hours later I've thought about it multiple times.Phonics
Nothing pathetic about that. Enjoy your victories, however small they might seem.
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Metal Gear Solid coming to PS5 including a remaster/remake of Snake Eater.
Take all of my money ever.
Yes!
They've also done a deal with Konami to get 1, 2 and 3 back on the Playstation store for autumn.
Bungie's back doing what matters: Marathon.
They also announced a new portable playstation device, which looks funky but apparently allows you to play any PS5 game over WiFi.
I won't be going back to it any time soon so if Mahow is he's welcome to the code first. Cheers.
Need a 2nd place finish to clinch season qualification and boys, am I working the refs to get a better bracket position lemme tell ya.
Dead fucking last. I want to die.
Shambles.
The Dortmund of Starcraft.
Nah I got 2 weeks more. Todays results puts me on 170 points, Santy on 180 and Millka on 225.
I just need to finish top 8 to qualify but still very demoralising.
Warhammer 40K: Boltgun was pretty fun to blast through. It's come at the right time whilst I'm on a boomer shooter kick but it's got some really punchy weapons and smart, chaotic encounter design.
For lack of anything to play now I went into Scarlet Nexus.
It really is very odd. Fun combat but feels kind of like a mobile game or something - quite simplistic and drab.
Would fucking love to. But I don't have a PC anymore
Listen up, nerds who also like XCOM type things: play Warhammer 40k: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters. Shit, overlong name, great game.
I shall get on it. Thanks.
Wow, I'm not sure they could make it look more like XCOM if they tried. The loadout screen looks like it's a XCOM skin.
Shardpunk Verminfall is another one for those who like that style of game.
It's very XCOM though I'd say it has a bit more aggression akin to Gears Tactics (without being as slick as that) baked into the combat.
Shardpunk is on my steam wishlist.
Its much harder. Great game though.
Diablo 4 is a fucking banger
Whats the deal with Diablo 4? It says it's out 6th, but you can already play it, or?
With the Deluxe or Ultimate edition you get four days early access. Xbox versions are way cheaper on CDKeys so got mine from there.
Aha! Well, it's out tomorrow anyway. I need to finish this Scarlet Nexus and then I'm getting on Diablo fo sho.
Have until next Tuesday off, been off since last Thursday.
So ordered a 1tb usb drive, and now set the Xbox up with a GUI for emulation and filled that drive with everything I could from NES to PS2,, including PSP, PS1, Gamecube, Wii etc.
Emu works so so well on dev mode, and it's the ultimate machine for it.
Left 360 emulation as its not that good right now, and secondly what is the point.
That Lies of P demo is out. Too on the nose for a souls like. Not sure there’s much else to it.
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