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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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23. February 2009 @ 14:02 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
Originally posted by cincyrob:
Originally posted by redice:
cincyrob
seagate cut there warranties to 3 years now instead of 5 years on select ones.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/15305-Seaga...es-on-HDDs.html
i know you were talking about getting the cool masters HAF case. did you ever get it?
after reading that article, it sounds to me seagate is saying to hell with the consumer. that is the main selling point for me was the 5 year warranty.
I saw the change a while back and that's the reason for my questions earlier in the thread. I've liked both companies for some time now and I've always had one or the other for OS drives but it seems that WD is drawing me in for the next purchase. :)
Originally posted by RedRob:
as for the HAF,not yet ive used the money i had for it else where. but i will have it soon.
Yeh how is that hair plug surgery going?? :P
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Got a question for you lappy people. I've just purchased this memory for a friend. It's compatible and all but my question is the "playing nice with others" dilemma. lol. His other "stick" is 512, I just bet on it going along like the desktops do. Hopefully I was right and if not he at least doubles his memory. :D tia for any responses....
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link to RAM in case you missed it...
Hey GM,
I have a matched pair of Samsung 512MB PC2-4200 double sided Cas 3 ram, if you are interested!
Russ
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23. February 2009 @ 14:13 |
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If that were PC2100 I might be interested! I offed my 1gb to my sister a while back. Now I NEED IT! My poor HP only has a 1/2 a gig! And apparently 2gb is the magic number. Might use it for an HTPC later. Dvd mp3 playback anyway. a 1.4 single core PROBABLY isnt gonna think to much of blu-ray playback, LOL. It is however the smoothest single core ive ever seen. Perhaps the CPU was produced on a wednesday(best day of the week), LOL
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23. February 2009 @ 14:13 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Hey GM,
I have a matched pair of Samsung 512MB PC2-4200 double sided Cas 3 ram, if you are interested!
Russ
I knew I should have called your O.S.A. for some RAM. lol. I already bought the RAM for the guy but I might need some more. I've still a package to send your way buddy.... been busy avoiding all my responsibilities lately... sorry old chap. ;)
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23. February 2009 @ 14:19 |
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LOL, I totally forgot about 2 towers I recently acquired, that I havnt even looked at, LOL. My neighbor just gave me some stuff of hers just laying around collecting dust! I guess it still is! Havnt had any time to check it out.
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23. February 2009 @ 15:15 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Hey GM,
I have a matched pair of Samsung 512MB PC2-4200 double sided Cas 3 ram, if you are interested!
Russ
I knew I should have called your O.S.A. for some RAM. lol. I already bought the RAM for the guy but I might need some more. I've still a package to send your way buddy.... been busy avoiding all my responsibilities lately... sorry old chap. ;)
....gm
GM,
If you need them, you know where to find them! $25 for the pair!
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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24. February 2009 @ 10:22 |
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http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-.../208190148.html
thats the best i can find it. i will be ordering it thursday. maybe friday at the latest.
so a segate 250gb,wd 500gb and a wd 1tb.
1.75tb of space...im trying to catch up with everyone..lol
my OS is on the 250gb drive. im gonna copy it over to the 500gb drive the reformat the 250gb and start fresh pulling the stuff i need off the 500gb drive. a good weekend project. its been a little over a year now i thinks its time for a freeeeeesh reinstall of XP..lol
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24. February 2009 @ 11:06 |
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Rob is that a 10,000 RPM HDD ? my Seagate HDD is crap to,but I'm going to wait till windows 7 is officially released before i get a new one. and will probably upgrade my CPU at the same time so i can encode/backup blu-ray faster
Antec 1200 Full-Tower Case/Thermaltake 750-Watt PS/ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 Mobo/Western Digital Black WD500 500GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache/NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express Video Card/CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM 16GB DDR3 /Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo)/CORSAIR Hydro High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler/3-Asus DRW-24B1ST Sata Drives/Samsung 2493HM 24" LCD Monitior 1920x1200 resolution,5ms respone time/OS Windows 10 Pro SP1 64-bit
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24. February 2009 @ 11:11 |
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No, the FALS is 7200rpm, a good one, but 7200 nonetheless.
The only 10k drives WD produce are Raptors and Velociraptors.
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24. February 2009 @ 11:14 |
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Sam which one is superior the Raptor or the Velociraptors.
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24. February 2009 @ 11:16 |
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The Velociraptors, in every sense. quieter, less power, much faster.
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24. February 2009 @ 11:25 |
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cool since i am going to start encoding/backing up blu-ray DVDs i want the best HDD i can get. i will check them out
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24. February 2009 @ 13:36 |
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Im not completely opposed to Raptors... or velociraptors for that matter. I have a 74gb thats on the verge of failing. Its considerably noisier than my other loudest drive. I would buy a Veloci to speed up the OS, keeping all my vital data on other drives, :D And I would probably clone the drive regularly too! Sorry, but in my opinion the raptors run themselves to death. The price we pay for insane read/write speeds!
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24. February 2009 @ 13:38 |
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One of my 36GB Raptors is 2.5 years old and was built even longer ago than that, and still works fine. The other one I have I bought for £5 knowing it had bad sectors but it still also works fine, the latter drive is actually quite good acoustically, the first is really loud, but it's old.
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24. February 2009 @ 14:03 |
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You know...im gonna have to give that drive another shot! It could have totally been driver issues, that I was experiencing. I simply leaned toward it being a used drive, and S.M.A.R.T. not looking too good, so I yanked it! There were reallocated sector counts, it was noisier than I liked, so I worried about the likely hood of a crash! At the time, I only had 2 HDD's. Now ive got several. Gonna have to play when I get my new case!
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25. February 2009 @ 07:20 |
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ZOSO
what CPU you getting now? the Q9450 not enough for ya? going for the Q9650? soph is haven a ball with his Q9650. useing it for the encodeing of the blueray stuff.
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25. February 2009 @ 15:34 |
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Rob yeah the Q9650 or maybe the Intel Core i7 Nehalem chips we will see after the first of the year what happens with windows 7 etc. .Yes i want to start encoding blu-ray also
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27. February 2009 @ 16:33 |
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Oh Yah!!! Guess who got there tax return from federal today :D <------
Not a bad return either! Didn't get what I wanted from state but...I got almost everything back from federal! So NOW, I can play with my new rig!!! Bring on the fun!!!
Next week, Im buying the HAF 932 (IF it comes back into stock)!
The PhenomII 940 Deneb! (A new cooler for the beast)
Possibly a sata burner!
AND...looking into a larger LCD screen!
OH YAH!!!
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27. February 2009 @ 16:45 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Possibly a sata burner!
I hope you have fun with your money but also spend it wisely.
Unless you already have your IDE channels used, there is really not many reasons to waste an SATA port on a burner. The only benefit is prettier cabling and lack of master/slave designation.
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27. February 2009 @ 16:54 |
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Indeed. I have 2 SATA burners but i would much rather have had 2 extra hard drives instead (i have an Antec 900 and all hard drive bays are full and i don't like E-SATA). I also have an IDE burner and numerous IDE burners in USB 2.0 enclosures so the SATA burners weren't even needed. All's not lost, maybe one day i'll plump for a future pc with way more hard drive bays.
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27. February 2009 @ 16:56 |
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Much like all newer boards, not enough IDE channels are supplied. I just so happen to need more than 2 devices :D One of my HDD's is using one channel where my LH-20A1H is using the other. My other ide burners are ran via usb. NOT good enough. Ive found that the converters dont last long :(
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27. February 2009 @ 17:00 |
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You must just pick bad ones, i've been using IDE burners over USB 2.0 for donkeys years (i only use Belkin enclosures for burners), plus i have loads of hard drive enclosures that work great too, though i've not had those too long
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27. February 2009 @ 17:06 |
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I've yet to ever have an IDE to USB box break. It's the S-ATA ones that seem to go wrong.
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27. February 2009 @ 17:11 |
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Use any of these??? The one on the left is Good! Its the newest, and I cant see it failing anytime soon. The others have began having problems burning at 8X and beyond. Where out of the box they would hit 15.5X before Buffer underrun! The other 2 also have connection issues. E.g restart windows and its no longer recognized! Unfortunately the GWC converter is 20+ dollars!
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27. February 2009 @ 17:14 |
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I use 3.5" hard disk boxes and just sit the DVD drives on top. I don't often burn using these enclosures though.
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27. February 2009 @ 17:21 |
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I've never used those fiddly converters, i only use proper enclosures, i don't like the idea of loose connectors.
Plus i'm pretty certain that USB2.0 is only rated for a reliable maximum of 8x burning anyways. I've probably only burnt one or two discs at 12x (by mistake) so my comment is from memory but as i'm pretty certain that 8x is the top-end speed
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