I have a hell of a system myself, but that makes a me a tad envious. You're pushing a lot of horsepower there for a desktop, putting in the same components I usually find myself mounting into a rack. I'm genuinely curious what you use it for?

Cable management is an art form that requires practice and ridiculous amounts of patience. As for your SSD being the only drive read, here's the order of things to check: Cabling, SATA port, then BIOS. Assuming your cabling is all good, and there's nothing visibly wrong with the SATA port, it's most likely that…

The worst part of having experience and not knowing what went wrong is knowing all of the things that could have gone wrong.

My sympathies, friend. Were you using an aftermarket GPU waterblock or did the GPU come with one preattached?

He could also be referring to the fact that the subject of the picture is attempting to fit a Pentium 4 heatsink onto a (best guess) Pentium MMX processor.

Contemplating the use, or lack thereof, of a thermal compound?

Good luck, Patricia. I wish you all the best. Having built computers, both as an enthusiast and professionally, for far too many years, I can empathize that the first time is always the hardest (as I'm sure many of us can). Despite your hardships probably including a few bloodied knuckles, and given the proper…

So, it tastes like six million completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area?

Too soon?

Sophie's Choice?

Despite the blonde hair and eyebrows (could be dyed, who knows), the guy in the fabulous suit looks to be of Asiatic descent to me. I'm probably wrong, but we won't know for sure until more details surface.

Now, if only we could spend our ill-gotten Amazon Funbux® on these.

It'd have more to do with the bandwidth between the sites connected through the VPN, not the PC's connection to the gateway. Or are the different networks you're talking about local to each other? Because that's just a routing issue.

It's just the particular game they happen to be playing, and I believe Steam gives the original owner preference (i.e. you can kick who you're sharing with off if you want to play).

As a comparison to Leberschnitzel, I do all my streaming over a 1Gbit LAN connection with zero lag.

It's recommended that both PCs be connected through a switch via Cat. 5 or 6 cable, but they've done extensive testing with wireless streaming and with a sufficiently fast/optimized wireless connection the lag isn't too bad.

The Family Sharing was released to all Steam users back in February. They have a group called Steam Family Sharing that you can read more information at. I use it all the time, though, so I can confirm that it works.

You could theoretically make it work if both PCs were connected through a VPN (like Hamachi), but the lag would most likely make anything but turn based games unplayable.

A strange coincidence: Was watching an old episode of X Files last night, the one about the totally-not-Amish cult (Season 1 - Gender Bender). At the beginning of the episode, which takes place in a dance club, there's a very brief shot of a mural on a wall. Immediately upon seeing the mural I thought "That looks like…

Oh, this is so relevant to my interests. Every once in a while you come across a game on Greenlight and you think "yes, that will do nicely." Darkwood was/is one such game, and this looks to be one as well.