The Toolsetting Beast

For toolset tutorials as well as question and answers.
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The Toolsetting Beast

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I got sick of out of memory errors when toolsetting.. so I have ordered this... overkill I know, but I don't care.

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Re: The Toolsetting Beast

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The most general way to solve any problem: Throw money at it.
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Not too far away from mine, only ever got 1 memory problem when I had the following open.
Dm Client
Mirc & Web browsing ~10 tabs
I was remoting into the MS host
I had 3 huge areas and about 10 convos open in the toolset.

And I only have half the ram you do.

You should be fine.

If you're throwing money at a PC though, 2 monitors is always handy as all hell.
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Yeah, but I got a 28" monitor, so I would need another one right? If I could have a 19" next to it running at a different resolution, I'd consider it.
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Not sure I've got 2x 24" its a godsend that's all I know

Although I now want 3...
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I want a bigger home to put more than 1 monitor into.
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You can run 2 monitors with different resolutions no problemo.
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ElCadaver wrote:Yeah, but I got a 28" monitor, so I would need another one right? If I could have a 19" next to it running at a different resolution, I'd consider it.
I usually do just this - pull out my old 19" monitor and sit it next to my current thing (at least use to - an laser printer which doesn't work has taken it's spot). Really handy when toolsetting.
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next you'll put glowing flouro lights under your car.
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Re: The Toolsetting Beast

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I've just bought four 30cm lamptron white led light strips to really make the insides POP!

And I'm changing the heatsink to a Thermaltake SpinQ VT, as the other one touches the ram heatsinks, which can't be good electrically.

So absolutely no money for under car lighting I'm afraid.
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unless... you strap the pc underneath the car!

genius!
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drool.
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Had to change the CPU Heatsink, because the Coolermaster TPC812 actually sat on top of the gaming ram heatsinks. Any metal touching that isn't supposed to be is bad, so I went for the Thermaltake SpinQ VT, which isn't quite as efficient, but looks cooler. I picked up some Lamptron LED strips to finish it off.
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Why would you want a glowing PC? I always go try remove all the silly little lights I can find - hate when they make the power button glow.
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