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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition
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11. November 2010 @ 20:41 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Old IGP will be dedicated analogue video, rather than digital to analogue conversion, which often results in artifacts. You shouldn't still be using VGA, it's a major quality loss.
Blue S-ATA cables is news to me, they were yellow with my P55A-UD4.
Sam,
OK, I'll ask where are the blue Sata cables. All I see in the pic are red ones????
Russ
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11. November 2010 @ 21:00 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Sam,
OK, I'll ask where are the blue Sata cables. All I see in the pic are red ones????
Russ
i'll bet omega changed the picture, the post was edited. Its a conspiracy to discredit samm...
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11. November 2010 @ 21:38 |
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LOL!!! Here they are. I didn't see the need to change out the already working red cable ;) And I edited to say the following:
"By the way, it's near silent. Even sam would like it"
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11. November 2010 @ 21:45 |
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What's silent, the integrated graphics? You're not surprising me there!
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11. November 2010 @ 21:53 |
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3 fans. The CPU being the weakest link LOL! It is near silent though. In a decent size living room, they're not gonna hear it. Excellent!
By the way. The blue cables resemble the PCI E slot more so than the board.
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12. November 2010 @ 01:19 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Not for longevity eh? I would :p
With blazing temps like that, its almost necessary...
Sam mentioned some good points but my reasoning is simply that under normal use the stock cooler should be sufficient to keep the card from dying prematurely. With that being said I did a fair bit of folding on my OC'd 8800GTS with stock cooler (it's been past 100C in the summer) and it was running fine last time I checked so I'm not really concerned about a gpu failing during it's useful lifespan due to heat.
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12. November 2010 @ 01:43 |
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I doubt manufacturers build things to last forever. Or even close for that matter. Some of us get lucky, and are stuff lasts a decade+. A stock cooler usually is sufficient. In my opinion though, 100+C is ridiculous heat! Boiling point is unnerving to say the least. Personal preference to be sure. If the card can supposedly handle it, than so be it. I'd prefer lower temps myself.
Everything seems to be running fine now on the HTPC with the new board. Unfortunately, I can't find anything within ati/catalyst software to correct for the overscan. Where I could with Nvidia, I cannot with ati. I know that sounds bad, but that's the way it looks at the moment.
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12. November 2010 @ 06:09 |
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Overscan adjustment settings in the display section. Not difficult to find :P
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12. November 2010 @ 12:39 |
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I'll look again today. I was drinking a bit last night. I did try multiple settings to no avail though...
Edit: could it be the refresh rate???
Looks like another typical Gigabyte problem though. The Kingston 16Gb Flash drive is still slow to respond on the new board (About 60sec). I still find this highly weird. The MSI acknowledged it in under a second. Also the MSI installed windows 7 highly rapidly(15min). Where as all my Gigabytes take upwards of 25-30 min. Sure wish Gigabyte would shed light on this. The only logical explanation is that the kingston has some unique chip on its board, which is unusual to the acknowledgment process for gigabyte boards. Or at least something on the gigabyte boards, which requires revision ;)
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12. November 2010 @ 14:12 |
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Installing windows is slow on most boards due to a bug with the I/O setup of windows vista, which they didn't fix in 7.
Not recognising the drive for 60s is weird though.
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12. November 2010 @ 15:33 |
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Something to note about the 16Gb drive. Windows indicates connection with its typical connection sound almost immediately. But Explorer does not show the drive for ~60s. It is discontinued on neweggs site. Perhaps this will be a thing of the past. It is the only drive that has done this. I have 2 of them. They both exhibit this problem.
I'll be going over to my bros shortly. Try and solve this Display issue.
They also interrupt printer connections. Weird...
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12. November 2010 @ 17:13 |
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Have multiple 4GB and 8GB HP and Sony flash drives and all of them work perfectly...
As far as Windows being slow to install I've noticed that as well. My DFI board does it extremely fast from a flash drive, like 10-15 minutes. My Gigabyte boards are like what Omega says, about a half hour.
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12. November 2010 @ 19:07 |
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Yah, either its something about 16Gb drives, or something special about that particular chip. Probably won't buy another though. I wouldn't mind a super large SD card. Perhaps when they aren't expensive.
I wonder if it has something to do with some of the chipsets. Or perhaps the bios.
I got the overscan corrected. I went through the help menu reading options. Found something for overscan. It told me to RIGHT click on a screen on the menu. If I hadn't right clicked on that, I may have never found it. It should be easier to find than that :p
By the way, I recently discovered with 7-zip that it doesn't require the windows temp folder. Its simply a windows explorer issue that causes that. Since most of my files reside on storage drives, I tell 7-zip to extract from one folder to another. It doesn't require a temp folder :D Apparently no one in this thread knew that either, or they would have helped a guy out :p
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12. November 2010 @ 19:58 |
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And there's something wrong with WinRAR? Never needed to do something that WinRAR couldn't do...
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12. November 2010 @ 20:08 |
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WinRAR is a pay program though isn't it? 7-Zip is free, and does everything that winrar does, I believe.
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12. November 2010 @ 20:18 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
WinRAR is a pay program though isn't it? 7-Zip is free, and does everything that winrar does, I believe.
Free version works forever, you just have to close the popup telling you its past your trial date.
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12. November 2010 @ 20:30 |
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I gather you're a fan of winrar as well. I think I may have used it once, once upon a time. Bumped into 7-zip and haven't looked back. In fact it's required for archives on one of my drives. They're in the actual 7-zip format.
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12. November 2010 @ 20:45 |
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I prefer 7zip over winrar because there's no annoying popup and the LZMA compression method, which winrar doesn't have afaik (I haven't used winrar in many years though).
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12. November 2010 @ 21:13 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
I gather you're a fan of winrar as well.
Correct sir. Became a fan when i realized it was not only for .zip files but also will view the contents and unpack .iso files.
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12. November 2010 @ 21:20 |
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Interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind ;)
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12. November 2010 @ 23:27 |
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I just "acquired" the full version through other means... Takes less than 30 seconds even on my slow internet...
WinRAR is totally worth it when you realize how powerful it is. 7zip can do some stuff, but WinRAR does all that, plus everything else.
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13. November 2010 @ 03:58 |
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I will definitely have to give WinRAR another shot ;)
I have now bought 5 Gigabyte boards. 5/5 were in fully working order when I received them. I think it's pretty obvious where my loyalties lie LOL! Gigabyte is the new Asus! What do you think of that Asus? I hope i'm not out of line here. I think we've pretty much established just how good Asus is in the scheme of things ;) And besides, there's nothing wrong with a friendly competition. I hope Asus does try harder. The consumer always reaps the benefits :D
↓↓One big happy family :) ↓↓
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GA-790XTA-UD4 My baby :)
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13. November 2010 @ 09:38 |
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Not seen an ASUS board I liked in several years. Totally aimless board design, no standardized features, obscure 3rd party components. Gigabyte is a stark contrast.
For the record
GA-M61P-S3
GA-MA78G-DS3HP
GA-P35-DS3L
GA-965P-DS3 Rev 3.33
GA-MA790X-UD4P(Current prospect for my main rig)
All still going strong except for the M61P which was an Nvidia chipset...
Just for the record haven't actually installed my 955BE in the main rig. Going to be using the Gigabyte 790X for it though I still have to get around to it... prolly today.
Also have a pair of XFX HD6850s on the way. Selling my 2x 5850s and 2x 4870s to recoup the price plus a little extra ;D
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13. November 2010 @ 12:19 |
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Yeah I'm a fan of WinRAR. It's payware, but er, you know :P
full Gigabyte fleet in my systems too, P31-DS3L, X38-DS4, X48-DS4 and P55A-UD4, though I think the audio on the X38 is starting to go bad :S
Could just be the ATI HDMI audio though.
Lol wow at replacing your 5850s, they didn't last long!
Delays to the 6970 disappoint me. I suspect that's going to push prices up.
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13. November 2010 @ 12:32 |
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The 790X is an excellent board. My 940 phenom resides there. I do all my Blu Ray encoding there. I'll likely upgrade its CPU to 1090t in the near future. I've chatted it up in the Doom9 forum, and heard that X264 encoder can utilize MORE than a 6 core processor :D Which more than warrants the purchase of 6 core phenom. I wonder how bulldozer would run X264...
But of course, bulldozer will require a whole new configuration/motherboard, AM3+. I'm hoping it will drive 6 core phenom costs down ;)
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