Planned Budget Build, which has links to all of the products listed below

Quote:(All prices listed from here-down are in USD and are from either Newegg or Amazon, I will add a (N) or an (A) to signify which of these the cheaper price is from, and, as I have Prime, all Amazon pieces have zero shipping/handling!  )

Performance-Effecting Specs:

• (A) CPU: Intel - Core i3-8350K 4GHz Quad-Core Processor - $168.49 (+$0.00 s/h) - $168.49
  
• (A) RAM: ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory - $159.99 (+$0.00 s/h) - $159.99
  
• (A) Graphics: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card - $179.99 (+$0.00 s/h) - $179.99
  

Other Important Items:

• (A) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler - $29.99 (+$0.00 s/h) - $29.99
  
• (N) Motherboard: ASRock - H370M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard - $106.05 (+$0.99 s/h) - $107.04
  
• (A) Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive - $69.99 (+$0.00 s/h) - $69.99
  
• (A) Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive - $53.88 (+$0.00 s/h) - $53.88
  
• (A) Case: RAIJINTEK - Metis Plus (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case - $66.66 (+$0.00 s/h) - $66.66
  
• (N) Power Supply: SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply - $54.90 (+$0.00) - $54.90
  
• (A) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit - $99.99 (+$0.00 s/h) - $99.99
  

Total Wattage: 247W
Total Cost (before any extra build-day supplies*): $989.93 (+0.99 total s/h) - $990.92

*Including potential pick-ups such as an extra fan, thermal compounds, etc.

Currently Owned Items:

• Audio: Harman/Kardon CN-04N567-48220 (literally a couple speakers I found downstairs, works great once I've cleaned the cobwebs off) - can be found on eBay in the $20 range
  
• Monitor: Acer S220HQL Monitor (1920x1080 60Hz) - found around $100
  
• Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech MK320 (Keyboard: K330/Mouse: M215) - found in the $20 range
  
• Western Digital 1TB My Passport - approx. $60
  

I guess I'm asking for advice. This is me cost-scraping as much as I want to (I was originally looking up near the $1,800 range) but I want to know if there's any ways I can push the price down further, whether it be a cheaper way of getting the Win10 OS or perhaps a different config that'd enable me to go cheaper. This'll be my first desktop and I'm a bit nervous about it, to be honest, but at worst this'll end up being a serviceable mini-PC with upgrade ability, and at best this is a stepping stone to a better PC. Thoughts and advice welcome -- should this be built (hopefully I'll have enough saved up by the end of the year to outright buy this or get family to fill in the gaps to have it as a birthday present), I may or may not put it in a separate thread. If anything, point me to a site where I could get advice if none is available. 

Hopefully this'll bring me back up towards the top of the folding food-chain soon enough! Might be time for me to make a return...

what’s this crap? lol

http://prntscr.com/k0l83s

Green specs randomly after loading, i think it might just be my PC though, just posting incase.

https://prnt.sc/k0kv20

Sorry for the delay, y'all. This week has been absolutely crazy for me.
Please accept this W0tley Wednesday as a peace offering.



Shout out to @mustangman who helped me out with this one!!

Open me after watching the video

Yep, this is the super secret project I was working on that involved dots. I hope to release this for next Motley Monday at the latest.

In other news, the dots music is fire. Here's the link to the full song.

Or Wotley Wednesday, who knows? Hopefully it won't get to Thotley Thursday. Things have been crazy so please bear with me. ?

Sorry for advertising :c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNT47NpZ7A8

I'm seeing alot of people wearing a cool signature with some of their info, and most importantly, PR2 STATS/INFO. I thought "Wow, these signatures are pretty cool!" and i wanted one for myself. I didn't find anything, though. Can someone tell me how do you do these signatures?

If you don't know what i mean, check out Zelante's (Yanko on PR2) signature.

Life update!

For those of you who don't know, I was a lifeguard last year before I went to school. I'm in a recertification class this weekend so I might be a little inactive until that's done.

I also just got back into some of my console gaming and have been pretty absorbed in a lot of that. I have a lot of games for the Xbox One that I haven't even opened yet, so I've got some work to do on that front.

I don't think you'll want to miss the update this week. Not sure if it'll be a video or text, but keep an eye out!

Hello Guys!

A lot of you guys probably don't remember me but I used to play PR2 under the name of "10swordman1" and used to post on the old forum and on freegose

It's amazing to see how a community from a game that's so old still lives to this day!
PR2 has inspired me and thanks to that I'm studying game development and programming today.

Ever since my return, about 5 or 6 day ago, I have noticed some problems with the main chat.

1. When I click on PMs, then lick back on chat, the chat is just a whole white screen, and I can't see what I typed, or what others are typing, so I have to refresh.

2. Sometimes when I type something, it does not appear in chat, and it makes it look like nobody else is typing either, even though when I refresh, it is all there and people were typing the whole time.

3. You know when you type something and in front of the last character you typed there is a blinking stick, to let you know where you are at when you are typing? In chat, I do not see this blinking character, nor do I see it in PMs.