What if it Snows?

Yes they do. My last machine essentially was made there. With componets, MSI comes to mind, motherboards, video cards and so on. Im running 4 of their older MSI 680 GTX 4 gb cards still, three in this machine SLI tri and one in the 12 year old machine with the ex. These cards are pushing quite a few years of service and doing well.

My last computer had a MSI board of the Military series II type and so forth. That one was a special overclocked machine used in competition gaming back then. The capacitors finally burned out 4 years in. It was continually pushing 4.3 gigs on the CPU, the ram was overdriven at 32 gigs in 4 modules and fed the 3 MSI Cards described earlier. We did a maximum test with it one day and realized a 24 hour stretch at 5.2 gig on the CPU off it's 240mm liquid cooled radiator at 82 C temp. It's hard to appreciate how truly fast that was. My current machine is cruising along at 3.4 stock with a i7 3930 6 core CPU that can accept overdrive to 5.2 max if not beyond if you knew the math and had the special liquid nitrogen pit cooling system in a open caseless chassis. Once you pour in a pint of liquid nitrogen and drive it to 6 gig max all out against the wall you have about 30 minutes before you have to refill the cooler block with more liquid nitrogen. That build only lasted about 6 months. That kind of overdriving just eats the hell out of the guts of those parts. (*Im not doing that again...)

There was a time between Korea and Taiwan (Samsung and MSI) virtually all of my home computing was built using those parts. I still have a bin in one corner that contains the spare parts and a closet in which I can probably build another computer out of parts. ASUS was another provider of parts. Once they sold me a pair of Matrix platinum video cards unlocked. And those two... if you were to touch the face of god with something that good in that day (1200 dollars worth of cards...) and learn that you can heat a home (1400 sqft) from 60 to 74 in the dead of winter and cooling involves leaving a computer room window open to 30 degree winter weather outside.

I sold the cards. I would not want to run monsters that hot without liquid cooling to the cards themselves. I actually planned to build one with that technology in total with a half gallon tank cooled by fans and condenstation. It would have cost about 5000 dollars for 4 of the cards and another 600 to plumb them all.

I better stop. It's one thing to consider how very good computer parts can be bought from overseas and how little we make them at home in America. it's my hope someday America can claim some sort of quality in computer parts. Something other than Dell.

anyone with parts can build a computer and then install windows or linux. That's why those skills are never used for a living. Just for myself and never having to take anything to a best buy geek squad or something stupid along those lines.

 

Just because you grew up there. Doesn’t mean you deserve to live there.

That’s a direct quote from the #1 real estate agent in the Bay Area.

I wanna smack the SOB

 

AT&T is good. I won’t verizon.

 

Does the tank have any insulation around it?
Sounds odd, but it works for some situations.

 

i just switched to tmobile after having verizon forever,. unlimited talk text and data for 70 bucks a month for 1 phone,, service not as great as verizon, but almost 100 dollars cheaper each month is worth it imo

 

a frozen spetic tank or a partly thawed septic tank doesnt sound like a very good time, i had a septic tank back up at the last job i worked, that thing was so full up to the cover that comes out of the ground, i can take some pretty bad smells and visions and it doesnt phase me but man when the plumber took that cover off , i gagged like a school girl on prom night and i couldnt eat or get the smell out of my nose until the next morning

 

Honestly...I've never seen a cat skeleton on top of a pole or in a tree. The stupid animal would have found it's way to the ground one way or another. Besides, Verizon needs to realize, those were media cables he was near, not electric lines. The electric lines run up from the ground to the street light, and any electric lines that close to buildings and the ground are shielded.

 

The one sound you don't want to hear (Actually two...) it's either a gurgle or a bubble. Or both. A tree root killed our septic. Took it oh.. 30 years to do it. We actually became a lawful shipper of sewage by small tank truck getting it out and delivering to the county seat to introduce into the sewage treatment. Finally spent 8000 for a 545 foot run from three inches at the house below ground down to 9 foot 5 or so plus or minus three inches to intercept the main sewage pathway to the treatment in the area.

The first benefit to that was after the septic was destroyed and filled in with a dump truck of gravel, was were able to do everything at once. Laundry shower, dishwasher and toilet etc. Should have done that years ago. We had been living a time on how much water to use for what reason when depending on that failing tank. It was a good tank until that tree root busted it up. Once breached it's unable to maintain a certain stability.

 

X1? Please show me the trees growing here. The septic is in the middle of the photo. The darker green is the leach field. Nearest tree is more than 60 feet away. I mow it off 3 - 4 times every summer


A typical install looks like below. No insulation other than the dirt that surrounds the chamber. The chamber is 8 feet tall. There is no need to insulate it other than the ground itself.

 

Aaaaa nope not quite. Heading back down Donner in a couple hours trucks at minimum grrrrrr. Probably because the CalTrans snowflakes saw a snowflake