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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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Any Flaming Results in a Temp Ban or Worse. Your Choice!!!
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23. December 2008 @ 15:47 |
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23. December 2008 @ 15:56 |
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SSDs are a new use for an existing but emerging technolgy, and it will have to age a bit before it has truly arrived. But think about it? Which drive uses a technology that is most likely to fail when both have peaked? Moving parts with electric motors and moving heads, or stationary parts?
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23. December 2008 @ 16:25 |
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I'm intrigued by the idea of putting the OS on a flash drive.
Sam, if you do that for, let's say XP, how much write activity would you actually have? I know that XP is always making backup copies of things, and of course the registry gets added to all the time, but I would imagine that the basic core dlls remain the same, read-only. Apart from the supposed limitation on writes, SSDs can be READ an infinite amount of times, isn't that correct?
Assuming then that the lifetime would be huge, maybe 5 to 10 years given the Wear Levelling that TheftAuto mentioned, how much faster do you think it would make your system? Would you expect a direct benefit in games - increased FPS?
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23. December 2008 @ 16:43 |
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Most games don't run off the hard disk directly, the only one I know that does is Crysis, because it would break the 32-bit RAM barrier otherwise. SSDs are mainly for faster application loading and transfer speed.
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24. December 2008 @ 19:42 |
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I never left, I just keep on reading and learning, anyway, Merry Christmas to All.
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24. December 2008 @ 21:41 |
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Originally posted by FredBun:
I never left, I just keep on reading and learning, anyway, Merry Christmas to All.
Good to hear from you anyway.
Happy Holidays to You and Yours,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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25. December 2008 @ 03:28 |
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MERRY CHRISMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE HERE AT AFTERDAWN.
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25. December 2008 @ 16:01 |
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I second navskin. Happy holidays to all. Nice Christmas tree, Russ! (Some of Russ' organ music playing in the background would be pretty perfect for a holiday get-together me thinks. lol)
Rich
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25. December 2008 @ 16:24 |
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so what is everyones high and low of 2008?
personally the high of 08 was the release of the R7X0 series of Radeon GPU by ATI.
the low was the poor Phenom CPUs by AMD, and the power usage of graphics cards.
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25. December 2008 @ 16:32 |
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Shhhh, don't let Russ hear you! :D
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25. December 2008 @ 16:58 |
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Wow, interesting idea.
Highs, 3008WFP, moving to the R700 series, finally getting a nice quiet Corsair PSU, finally getting a 24/7 working fileserver after ridding myself of all those cheap unreliable Asus boards, and finally becoming good at Rock Band.
Lows achieving absolutely nothing in the academic year 07/08, not getting a proper summer holiday, spending too much money as usual and witnessing the decline in true PC games.
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25. December 2008 @ 17:24 |
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Originally posted by harvrdguy:
I second navskin. Happy holidays to all. Nice Christmas tree, Russ! (Some of Russ' organ music playing in the background would be pretty perfect for a holiday get-together me thinks. lol)
Rich
Rich,
Funny you should mention that. It's playing in the background while I'm preparing/cooking Christmas Dinner! Great minds think alike! LOL!!
Happy Holidays to You and Yours,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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25. December 2008 @ 17:27 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Shhhh, don't let Russ hear you! :D
No! He's absolutely right! The Phenom II is much more encouraging.
Happy Holidays,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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25. December 2008 @ 17:37 |
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The all time High....SEX
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25. December 2008 @ 18:17 |
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Originally posted by rick5446:
The all time High....SEX
That's a given! From a low of Poor Phenom Performance to Sex. Now that's quite a gap! ROFLMSOAO!!
Happy Holidays Rick,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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25. December 2008 @ 18:38 |
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Yup, that is a real nice tree Russ, I copied that bad boy and started pasting it to all my xmas e-mails to all my friends and family, they think I'm some kind of high techie doing stuff like that LOL, if they only knew.
Either way everybody enjoyed it, hope I didnt break any copy right agreement on you Russ LOL.
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25. December 2008 @ 18:47 |
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Originally posted by FredBun:
Yup, that is a real nice tree Russ, I copied that bad boy and started pasting it to all my xmas e-mails to all my friends and family, they think I'm some kind of high techie doing stuff like that LOL, if they only knew.
Either way everybody enjoyed it, hope I didnt break any copy right agreement on you Russ LOL.
It's how I got it 3 years ago! LOL!!
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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25. December 2008 @ 19:24 |
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Well then, there we have it:
The new highs for 2008 - Russ' very popular Christmas tree (that he swiped 3 years ago lol) 
and his fabulous organ music - so PERFECT for ALL holiday seasons - nothing swiped about that at all.
Now I'm hungry, Russ. What's on that Christmas dinner menu? LOL
Rich
(I've got it playing now - that organ music is SOOOO pefect!)
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25. December 2008 @ 20:00 |
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GAMING COMPUTER - Intel q9550 @ 3.4ghz | EVGA GTX 260 core 216 | Gigabyte ds3l | 6gb Gskill DDR2 800 ram | Silverstone 700 watt psu | WD 640gb hdd | Seagate 300gb hdd | LG dvd burner | Samsung dvd burner | Antec p182 case | logitech 2.1 speakers | logitech g11 keyboard | Samsung 25.5in 1900x1200 monitor | 19in 1440x900 secondary monitor | Windows 7 64bit | SERVER - Gigabyte 785g motherboard | AMD Phenom 9650 | 6gb ram | three 1.5tb hdd | Seagate 1tb hdd | WD 750gb hdd | two 300gb hdd | Maxtor 200gb hdd | Ark rackmount case | CentOS 5.5
Steam name = "krj15489" alias = Jordan-k
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25. December 2008 @ 20:41 |
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Wow, what a fabulous read - 24 pages loosely translated from the colorful greek - "staring in the face of the prince" - and ending up with:
"At last we can say that AMD is back in the game. And as if this were not enough, now we are waiting for the AM3 parent, the new CPU with Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller! Will Intel be raped just to Core i5 ..."
Hahahaha.
All to the glorious strains of Russ' gifted melodies in the background - I'm so glad that I put that on.
What really caught my mad gamer eye at the very end:
At higher resolutions of Crysis and Far Cry 2 - AMD kicked ass! - Straight out winner without taking BETTER PRICE POINT into consideration!!!!
Rich
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26. December 2008 @ 01:32 |
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Originally posted by krj15489:
Here is a review for the new phenom 2. It looks like it could be competitive with the q9000 series.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...hl%3Den
krj,
Interesting review! Not the most polished because of the translation, but very thorough and meticulous. I didn't expect the Phenom II 940 to perform this well. I expected it to be a lot better than Phenom, but not quite at this level. We'll have to see just what all the other test sites have to say about all of this once they get their hands on one and run comparisons of their own. I believe what I see, but I want to see more! LOL!!
Happy Holidays,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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26. December 2008 @ 01:46 |
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Russ, maybe it's time to change your sig? :D
Here's to seeing more great results!
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26. December 2008 @ 02:59 |
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Merry christams all
Woo hoo, made it in time, lol
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26. December 2008 @ 03:12 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Russ, maybe it's time to change your sig? :D
Here's to seeing more great results!
A man after my own heart, lol. I LOVE amd! Intel can... well, ok. I wont say that.
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26. December 2008 @ 07:02 |
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Interesting review, confirms my suspicions really - in normal apps the II 940 is a bit behind the Q9450, in the multimedia benches AMD fared better in, they do better than the Core 2 Quads but get obliterated by the i7s as they pick up the same advantage.
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