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22. April 2008 @ 10:12 |
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nice list rob. ;)
A look at some Mushkin RAM is ok too. ;) link
And some other Aluminum cases too. link
Cases are similar to hats! You just like what you like and that's it. :D
Good luck with your build....
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22. April 2008 @ 18:04 |
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@GM
whats the difference in the 2 blue sets of mem? outside the physical look of them one being taler than the other(thats how they look to me).
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22. April 2008 @ 18:17 |
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Thnx guys :-) its great to be here :-)
i currently have a 300 gig hd, and a 250 gig hd.
i whould start here though, i recently had my gateway die on me, i think.
between me and my Boyfriend, we play a lot on the computer. but while the computer was playing some music while were eating dinner, it just randomly restarted, i didnt think much of it and went over to check it out. to my sadness it was stuck in a boot cycle.
So, i tried messing with it a little and couldnt get anything to happen. I decided to stick in the boot discs and format it. i have the option of creating a back up so i did, but i could not figure out how to acess this. when ever i went into the root folder there after, it went kachoo and would not let me in because i did not have access???
anywho, after formating it worked fine for about 30 min.s then jsut shut off completely while i was redownloading all my add on applications like firefox, open office, patching my games, ect. now when ever i turn it on *and i look at it with the case open* the fan turns a little then stops, a green light turns on On the Mobo, and thats it... so i said it was dead and im moving on to vista, even though i loved Xp...*tear*
Anywho, so i do have a 2nd hard drive, and then a Sata hard drive, which i have never actually used before, it came with the gateway. its the 250 with all my info and sutff on it i jsut could not get off for the life to save me. Then ontop of that i got a great deal a while back at new egg, they had Element WD external HDDs 500 gig for 70$... 70$! so i picked up three and blew my pay check. I have so far filled one and a half up with pictures and such, so it was worth it in my opinion.
I just got home from work so i will look at all your suggestions for a while then write another reply, but as far as Cases go, we decided we kinda wanna go over the top. We looked around and saw this really nice case. Its a full size Aluminum.
http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/review.php?id=409&page=6
We like it because we figure we can use it again on our next computer when we decide to make the next one when the time arises, ya know?
If you know of any other full size Alum. cases that you would high rate/suggest i can look into those, but as of now our hearts are set on that :-)
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22. April 2008 @ 18:19 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
@GM
whats the difference in the 2 blue sets of mem? outside the physical look of them one being taler than the other(thats how they look to me).
Timings and Voltags Rob
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22. April 2008 @ 18:27 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
@GM
whats the difference in the 2 blue sets of mem? outside the physical look of them one being taler than the other(thats how they look to me).
timing and voltage rob, other than that not much. ;)
...gm
edit: sorry Pepp I was in the middle of 3 posts and you sneaked that one in on me. :) well there's 2 responses Robert. :P
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22. April 2008 @ 18:58 |
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i'll look at them again but wernt they both CAS5?
yup but 5-5-5-18 vs 5-5-5-15
heres my sign...lol
i like that color of blue. but them red G-skills look cool too..
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22. April 2008 @ 18:58 |
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ldhewlett: You could always stick with XP you know, we all pretty much do...
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22. April 2008 @ 19:02 |
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Get the red... or not. It hasn't been the most lucky color for you.
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22. April 2008 @ 19:21 |
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abuzar1,
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Get the red... or not. It hasn't been the most lucky color for you.
If you want 1066 memory, these are the current hot item at the moment!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231144
Better than G.Skill's more expensive 1066 Ram! Much lower voltage as well (2.0-2.1v vs 2.3-2.4v)! At $59.99, they're a bargain. OC like hell too!
Best Regards,
Russ
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22. April 2008 @ 20:10 |
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Nice find Russ. ;)
I know it's personal preference but any ideas/input on these HDD's would be helpful. :) tia....
link to 500GB HDD's
...gm
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22. April 2008 @ 20:14 |
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Avoid the Hitachis, but the Seagate, Samsung and WDs are all good drives. Options 4&5 are the two types of drives my friend uses in his file server - both are quiet and fast. Option 2 are the drives I use in my file server - also excellent. You can't go wrong with any of them really. May as well save the 10 bucks and get the WDs, I've had a few and they've been great.
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22. April 2008 @ 20:37 |
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Thanks sam.. I have a few WD's myself and they've all been good performers. (knocks on wooden anything for protection from Murphy...lol) I agree about saving the "tenner". lol I've been needing a new HDD for storage and those seem like winners to me. thanks again!!!
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22. April 2008 @ 20:44 |
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Hehe, IIRC Creaky uses those drives too.
Do they use the expression "tenner" in the US?
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22. April 2008 @ 20:46 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
Nice find Russ. ;)
I know it's personal preference but any ideas/input on these HDD's would be helpful. :) tia....
link to 500GB HDD's
...gm
here ya go buddy. for the price its the best money can buy. the newest one out. 32mb cache super fast. just remember to pull the jumper pin in the back to get the 3.0gb/s instead of factory 1.5gb/s... go ahead get ya 2 to go with those 3 360gb WD ya got..lol
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288
not my day..lol thanks sam
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22. April 2008 @ 20:49 |
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Um, link?
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22. April 2008 @ 21:39 |
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greensman,
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I know it's personal preference but any ideas/input on these HDD's would be helpful. :) tia....
Hands down, none of the above! LOL!! Not when this is available for your $99.99! I discovered it quite by accident and it has a 32MB cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288
Best Regards,
Russ
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22. April 2008 @ 21:45 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
greensman,
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I know it's personal preference but any ideas/input on these HDD's would be helpful. :) tia....
Hands down, none of the above! LOL!! Not when this is available for your $99.99! I discovered it quite by accident and it has a 32MB cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288
Best Regards,
Russ
LMAO
Dang Russ thats the same thing i linked him too..lol
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22. April 2008 @ 21:46 |
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cincyrob,
Great minds think alike! LOL!!
Russ
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22. April 2008 @ 21:48 |
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lol.
cant wait to get me one of them if not 2
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22. April 2008 @ 22:16 |
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I too was going to recommend the seagate 32mb 500gb hdd. best hdd of the bunch big time and same price. I'm gonna pick one up myself soon but 1st I want to get another seagate 32mb 250gb hdd to pair with the one I have now for RAID configuration.
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22. April 2008 @ 22:21 |
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ok educate me some more please.. what advantage is it to use RAID? and from Morts last statement do the HDD in use need to be the same size?
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22. April 2008 @ 22:22 |
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It's a Seagate so it'll be good, but is there any concrete proof saying how much faster these are than 16MB drives? I seem to remember WD talking down the extra cache saying it's not beneficial for performance, and WD sound like a company who know what they're talking about...
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22. April 2008 @ 22:25 |
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Raid0- Performance. Half the stuff is written on one drive and the other half on a different. In theory this should cut time in half.
Raid1- Redundancy. Basically you have mirror copy drives. If one drive fails the other has the exact same stuff on it.
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22. April 2008 @ 23:01 |
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abuzar1,
Don't forget the down side of Raid0! If you lose 1 drive, you lose it all! You can have the drive recovered, but it's horrifically expensive to do. I do Raid1 mirror on all my customer builds. Most are Doctors, Dentists and Lawyers, people who cannot afford the have something happen to their records. Very easy to install too!
Best Regards,
Russ
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22. April 2008 @ 23:03 |
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give me your addy Russ and ill send ya all my junk and see if you can get it working...lol
EDIT:
thats not saying you couldnt get it running like a champ that i thought i'd be able to do, its saying i dont have a clue as to what the hell im doing and shouldnt have even tried...
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