Any of you guys run with a gaming pc onboard?

I used to rebuild my gaming desktop every year in another lifetime. I thought many times to just leave it in my truck but I think it will get damaged in time by all of the potholes in liberal cities. I did get a nice ASUS gaming laptop but even with the laptop cooler that thing got so hot but palms sweat. I could have used an external keyboard with it but then I got really busy at work and just said forget it.

Are you a new driver OP? When I was new I thought I could transfer my old life into a truck and after a while my old life disappeared and my new trucker lifestyle began. Where I can stand in a line for an hour and not even be frustrated staring at a wall. Where I can sit in my driver seat staring out the window. I am glad trucking has toughened me up to where I can go into a meditation type state where no one can break me.

 

Since I researched this myself they have some prebuilt desktops that are really small, smaller than micro ITX. It has everything but the RAM and Hard drive but it uses an hdmi output. I cannot remember what they are called but I found it on Amazon when I considered building a desktop for my truck.

 

Since your doing workstation stuff.... you see the latest hotness?

http://www.techspot.com/news/68044-check-out-nvidia-new-workstation-gpu-beast-quadro.html

 

Since we're talking geek... what are you running for CAD? I have a pure gaming rig myself

Dell 4K S2817Q / Logitech Z-680 / Func MS3 Mouse / Corsair K70 LUX rgb
NZXT Source 530 / i7-3770K / Corsair H100 / ASRock Z77 Extreme4 / SoundBlaster Recon3d
850 PRO 512GB/850 EVO 1TB/Seagate 2TB/WD 2TB
4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 2133 / evga Classified GTX 980 ti/ Seasonic M12II 850W

 

When I used to work on offshore oil rigs all of our power was of course generator. Some of it not real clean power. There are several companies that make plug in units that clean up power and make it well... clean...lol.. I know I installed a few made by Trip-Lite. It has been many years, I don't know if TL still makes them and I can't remember the makers of the others.

They look very much like a medium size home UPS and cost was pretty reasonable, usually about the same as a good UPS. They would plug the UPS into the wall, the power filter into that and the electronic equipment into the filter. That way all the power the equipment saw was nice and clean. Worked very well and back in the day electronics were MUCH more sensitive to bad power than they are today.

Hope this is helpful.

 

Fx6300 oc'd to 4.5Ghz
ASRock extreme 3 R2.0
2x4 crucial ballistix
XFX R9 380x
WD 1T hdd
CM V650 psu
Corsair H60 water loop.

I think that covers my rig. You know I've been looking at upgrading my case and water but I'm thinking I may just wait until ryzen comes out and see if a whole new rig is worth it.

 

I have to agree, especially the continuing stories about how tired people are even with a 10 hour break.

But I have to ask too, why is this thread in this forum?