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Mist said:
Better than paying 10-12k to install AC.
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Mist

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ZyyzYzzy said:
Who, in 2020, doesn't have central air...
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I live near-ish the ocean in a place where you only need AC 2 months out of the year. But those two months are fucking brutal lol and then September is a total tossup. By Columbus Day you're back to freezing your ass off. It's mid-June and it was in the mid-40s last night.

Hyper-heat capable splits were looking like a good investment until home heating oil dropped like a rock...
 
Crone

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Noodleface said:
Any house in new England built pre-1990
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Nearly every house in WA doesn't have it either. Lucky for me it was installed in the house I bought.

So on topic... I got the approval from the wife to build a desktop "for me", but RGB'ed out like crazy for my 7 year old son. I think the idea will be wait until around Black Friday and buy all the parts then, and hopefully by then we see something on AMD's 4000 series desktop processors and nVidia's 3000 series cards.

What's the best way to get quality parts, but RGB it? Like look up the H100 fan, but then see if there is an RGB version? Will have to google RGB cables as well. I'm going all out on this build for the kid.
 
slippery

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Nearly every house in WA doesn't have it either. Lucky for me it was installed in the house I bought.

So on topic... I got the approval from the wife to build a desktop "for me", but RGB'ed out like crazy for my 7 year old son. I think the idea will be wait until around Black Friday and buy all the parts then, and hopefully by then we see something on AMD's 4000 series desktop processors and nVidia's 3000 series cards.

What's the best way to get quality parts, but RGB it? Like look up the H100 fan, but then see if there is an RGB version? Will have to google RGB cables as well. I'm going all out on this build for the kid.
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Listen I can be okay with most rgb stuff, but if you buy rgb cables we can't be friends (and all the rgb cables are garbage)
 
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slippery

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I don't know if it's a thing that exists, but glow in the dark cable combs would be a neat/okay thing. Or something uv reactive or whatever
 
Big Phoenix

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Also just about every home in Hawaii. Though I think thats more to due with their insane electricity costs.
 
Mist

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Noodleface said:
Impossible unless I take my house down to the studs.

I did install ductless though, which is god-tier if you can't get central air
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Isn't ductless more efficient than central air anyway?

Certainly if you're going to use it as supplemental to oil fired hot water heat.
 
Mist

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Crone said:
Nearly every house in WA doesn't have it either. Lucky for me it was installed in the house I bought.

So on topic... I got the approval from the wife to build a desktop "for me", but RGB'ed out like crazy for my 7 year old son. I think the idea will be wait until around Black Friday and buy all the parts then, and hopefully by then we see something on AMD's 4000 series desktop processors and nVidia's 3000 series cards.

What's the best way to get quality parts, but RGB it? Like look up the H100 fan, but then see if there is an RGB version? Will have to google RGB cables as well. I'm going all out on this build for the kid.
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Unless your computer literally dies in a fire don't buy anything until Ryzen 4000 and the new GPUs come out.
 
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Noodleface

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Mist said:
Isn't ductless more efficient than central air anyway?

Certainly if you're going to use it as supplemental to oil fired hot water heat.
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It's the most efficient cooling/heating as far as I know. I find in NE that using it as a supplement to radiant heat doesn't really work too well though. We seem to go from summer to dead of winter super fast. And you can't really use these for heat outside of fall/spring. Inefficient as hell in the winter.
 
Aazrael

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ITX boards are really small. Thought mATX was small enough. Got everything connected I think. Just hope the chassi fan splitter works now as there is only one chassi connector on the board.

Hopefully the correct RAM will arrive tomorrow so I can start it up.

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Fucker said:
You are still roasting your ass off in that shoebox? Jesus. Put in AC and be done with it.
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It still won't do anything if this room is 85 degrees in January. Having to open a window in the dead of winter to play video games is pretty stupid.
 
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