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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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22. June 2009 @ 20:23 |
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Trimming is one thing, not stocking any is different. Samsung and Pioneer are now the only S-ATA DVD burner providers at newegg, and Pioneer only have one model left in stock. Most of the IDE ones are fast disappearing as well. It doesn't seem to have happened with many other components...
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22. June 2009 @ 21:13 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Trimming is one thing, not stocking any is different. Samsung and Pioneer are now the only S-ATA DVD burner providers at newegg, and Pioneer only have one model left in stock. Most of the IDE ones are fast disappearing as well. It doesn't seem to have happened with many other components...
Economics is very much a trickle down thing, so it all depends on how a particular manufacturer is doing financially. If it goes on long enough, we may well see a number of companies that make excellent products go out of business, or consolidate and merge with another company. You can bet your a$$ that big business is going to force a lot of smaller companies to merge with them or vanish, regardless of how good their products are.
It's just like the food industry here in America. Half a dozen or so companies have taken over most the old time companies and make about 80% of all the food we eat. That why food here sucks! You can't buy decent cold cuts any more because all the good companies were bought out by the big boys and trade on the product name and sell crap instead. All you get these days is generic Shite! If you are lucky like say Fred, who lives in an area of the country that has a lot of ethnic places to buy homemade foods like Italian Sausage, Cheeses and other things that have been made by hand for years. Imported items as well, like various Salamis, Knockwurst, Mortadella and so on. If you are unfortunate to live in an economically depressed area, the situation is even worse, as all the supermarkets carry is the cheapest crap they can find to sell! They know that people have to eat and take every advantage of it!
I suspect when it's all over, our Government will control everything that big business doesn't. They keep taking from the poor, while doing nothing to the rich. as I pointed out the other day, as of July 12, there will no longer be Medicare in the state of California! The Government will take over the Healthcare system, and it will be up to them who lives or dies. The rich will survive, while the poor die! Millions of children in the US go hungry every day, while the rich sit in their Multi-Million dollar Mansions and eat Imported caviar and Steak! In the end there will still be a revolution, and people will be killing each other for food! It's already begun in some places in the US! The people with the money will control everything, and dictate how everyone else will live, or should I say exist! Right now some people are pointing their finger at President Obama, while all the time they know that it's not his fault. As long as we live in a society where people are paid for their failures with huge bonuses for upper managment and CEOs from companies that are bankrupt, it will continue to get worse! As long as they are allowed to make money without any product involved, things will continue to go downhill! Very sad, but true! I consider myself lucky that I won't be around to see it all happen. Remember my words when it does!
Russ
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22. June 2009 @ 22:30 |
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is a corsair 750w power supply enough to run two gtx 275 in sli and a i7 920 (perhaps oced)?
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22. June 2009 @ 22:38 |
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It's tight if overclocking. You should really be buying the 850W version. Better yet get an 850W Zalman. Modular, silent and supremely powerful.
Originally posted by Russ:
As long as we live in a society where people are paid for their failures with huge bonuses for upper managment and CEOs from companies that are bankrupt, it will continue to get worse! As long as they are allowed to make money without any product involved, things will continue to go downhill!
Hear about the Royal Bank of Scotland? It happens over here too, big time. Ultimately we don't have to worry about healthcare (yet, when the political parties switch hands which undoubtedly they will next election, nobody has any faith at all in Gordon Brown it seems), and I wouldn't say it's got to the stage where any significant people are forced into buying the cheapest food to survive, people are being laid off left right and centre, especially in local government where my mum works. It's looking pretty shaky for her job at the moment if the whole facility is privatised.
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22. June 2009 @ 23:40 |
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Whatever happens in the UK, I just hope you guys do not lose your healthcare the way it is, your's is superior to ours, even if it was crappy it still would be superior cause many people here have none, suck on that lollypop for a while, having none is not fun, it's outright dangerous, here the rich laugh at your healthcare, they call it social medicine, always scaring people you need to wait 6 months to see a doctor.
What a load of crap, I have been in the UK twice the past two years, my Uncle is 86, he never waited for anything kind of medical treatment, even when we had to take him to the hospital twice when I was there, I was shocked how fast he received help, and my hospital near me is not a flimsy one, it's top notch and your butt is gonna wait for treatment, and if you don't have the right medical cards, guess what, your s*%t out of luck, and if you none, pray, cause unless you are an emergency patient, meaning dying, bye your out of there.
Bottom line, sure the rich want us to believe your system stinks, how else would they rip us off. Sorry for the off topic it's just a touchy subject with me, and I hate bum raps they give out with the system you guys have.
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22. June 2009 @ 23:53 |
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Off topic, but yes, our healthcare system is a little on the average side, but for being included in taxes I think it's alright. Add to this the fact that it's only really overburdened because of all the drunks, smokers and the stupid.
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22. June 2009 @ 23:53 |
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FredBun,
Besides being OT, you have no idea what you are talking about, and on this thread I am not going to get into that subject (and you shouldn't either, because it is POLITICAL, and against the rules), so STFU.
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22. June 2009 @ 23:56 |
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no politics.
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22. June 2009 @ 23:58 |
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sytyguy why is is when u make an appearance its not to further anything about the thread, just to put hate on someone? why do you always come with the personal attacks? why not contribute to these threads?
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22. June 2009 @ 23:58 |
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I've passively ignored your crap at aD for a while now sytyguy, but I'm not standing by while you say that. This is unashamedly off-topic, and normally I wouldn't mind someone calling us out, but literally ALL you do at afterdawn is kiss the moderators' backsides and pick on those who don't abide by the rules. You don't post anything useful here at all. if you don't like a post, silently report it to the mods. Personal attacks like that are shameful.
Also, why fredbun? Me and Russ are just as much to blame, if anything Russ is since he brought us onto politics in the first place, we just continued it.
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23. June 2009 @ 00:04 |
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agreed as should have been reported so as not to have a flamewar.
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23. June 2009 @ 00:10 |
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Quote: by sty: Besides being OT, you have no idea what you are talking about, and on this thread I am not going to get into that subject (and you shouldn't either, because it is POLITICAL, and against the rules), so STFU.
I said I was sorry for being off topic before I finished typing, even though you dont know your ass from the hole in the ground about this subject you do have your right to your opinion, you blasted me all over the place and it is your right to disagree and I had no quams about it, but to tell me to STFU, now thats crossing the line., lucky for both of us were not in a public place facing each other, and I know now I'm crossing the line, so I end it here and now, and again I apologize for the off topic.
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23. June 2009 @ 00:59 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
no politics.
DDP,
Sorry! I let that get away from me a bit. I do apologize to anyone I may have offended. I love my Country, and I guess it shows! It won't happen again!
Sincerely,
Russ
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23. June 2009 @ 15:49 |
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Hey guys sorry this is the wrong thread but this PC is so slow and I happened to have a bookmark here on my flash drive. I'm posting from work and this page took all of 5 minutes to load so sorry. The PCs suck and they won't do a reformat or clean them up so bear with me.
We have an ASUS A8N-SLI here with random restart issues. Boots fine, BIOS flash and it's fine. Installed into different cases. Different CPU, PSU and memory. Every time it reboots randomly maybe 30 minutes in. I figured overheating. Maybe remove the heatsinks and reapply paste? Any input would be welcome.
Sam you had an A8N SLI. What happened with yours and how did you find out what was wrong?
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Everything else checks out. Please help.
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23. June 2009 @ 16:03 |
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Total chipset failure 5 months or so in. Firstly the onboard NIC vanished, a month later it stopped accepting PCI network cards. A few days after that, the USB voltage dropped from 5V down to about 2V. At that point I stopped using the board as it was useless.
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23. June 2009 @ 16:56 |
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Chipset fan on mine went, it was spinning to fast.ASUS replaced free of charge. Chris
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23. June 2009 @ 17:27 |
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Well the board is all there. Everything detects properly. Benches stable but still random shut downs. Maybe heat related? I dunno, the chipset fan works fine. Just got home so tomorrow I'll probably be reseating all the sinks on the board with some ceramique. Possibly going to get a re-cap. Boss doesn't want to toss it so I'll see what can be done.
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23. June 2009 @ 18:16 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Well the board is all there. Everything detects properly. Benches stable but still random shut downs. Maybe heat related? I dunno, the chipset fan works fine. Just got home so tomorrow I'll probably be reseating all the sinks on the board with some ceramique. Possibly going to get a re-cap. Boss doesn't want to toss it so I'll see what can be done.
There are so many different things that can happen to cause that problem, it's not funny. CPU, CPU voltage, Memory, Memory voltage, timings and problems in the hardware itself. Generally I've found that when overclocking, down the road as the components age you sooner or later have to reduce the overclock a bit. With my old E6750 it was the CPU itself that caused the problems. I kept having to add a bit of voltage ever month or so. When I RMA'd the CPU, the new one overclocked higher and it runs good enough that I sold it overclocked to 3.55GHz without worries. It will run at 3.8, and I might have run it that fast, but 3.55GHz is pretty ideal with 1066 memory, and it's not at all twitchy! If you start finding corrupted files, it's generally the CPU itself causing the problem.
Best Regards,
Russ
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23. June 2009 @ 20:30 |
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check the capacitors on the motherboard that they are flat not domed or leaking brown stuff. look in the bios to see what the voltages show as maybe psu problem?
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24. June 2009 @ 13:24 |
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hey guys got a question. kinda little off topic but it deals with installing a hdd and movieing one..lol i looked at the space on the 500gb hdd i have my OS on i dont store anything on it so it should have 400gb+ available. it shows as 246gb of used space??? so i went searching and found in the AVG8 folder there are sub folders. do biggie. but one named DUMP has the 246gb of stuff in it.. it is all dmp.file and exh.file can these be deleted or is it something i shouldnt mess with? i was wanting to clone this drive onto a 160gb wd sata drive but with 246gb of used space it wont fit... is it ik to clear this stuff out?
here is a screan shot of the file.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/dumpfile.jpg
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24. June 2009 @ 13:46 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
hey guys got a question. kinda little off topic but it deals with installing a hdd and movieing one..lol i looked at the space on the 500gb hdd i have my OS on i dont store anything on it so it should have 400gb+ available. it shows as 246gb of used space??? so i went searching and found in the AVG8 folder there are sub folders. do biggie. but one named DUMP has the 246gb of stuff in it.. it is all dmp.file and exh.file can these be deleted or is it something i shouldnt mess with? i was wanting to clone this drive onto a 160gb wd sata drive but with 246gb of used space it wont fit... is it ik to clear this stuff out?
here is a screan shot of the file.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/C...ile.jpg
Rob,
I have to suspect that it has something to do with the size of the partition. I have a fairly small boot drive, only about 37GB, and I still have 25GB of it left after months of use. I'm not at all familiar with that file extension though, but I would think if I had anything like that my small boot partition would be chock full. I also don't let it scan my drives daily, which could also have something to do with it too! I've used both the free version as well as the pay, full Suite, but I've never had a drive that large either, so I don't really know.
How many times have you installed AVG? And if multiple times did you install it over itself or remove it first before you installed it again. I would think multiple installs without removing the old one first could account for some of that.
Best Regards,
Russ
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24. June 2009 @ 13:48 |
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Well...i'll tell you what. That particular folder is virtually empty on my OS.
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24. June 2009 @ 13:51 |
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yes Russ i have installed it a couple times without a clean sweep of the older files and such..
OM7 i hear ya.
so it be safe to say to delete them.. going to work now i wait until tonight to do so. maybe some more response will help also...
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24. June 2009 @ 13:58 |
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Dump files are usually reported system error files that can build over time. It should be safe to delete them.
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24. June 2009 @ 14:01 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Well...i'll tell you what. That particular folder is virtually empty on my OS.
Same here across all my machines
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