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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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22. September 2009 @ 06:11 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Gm: I'm sure he does, I think what Russ is trying to say is that not all pre-applied pastes are bad. Just all except Arctic's! lol
Yeh I'm sure you're right Sammy but I never know with Russ. ;)
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22. September 2009 @ 08:11 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
@Russ,
You do realize I was commenting about his (bigtwilly's) question on the Cooler Master paste/grease right? OH... and that MX-2 is on the list I gave for Mike?
GM,
Yes I do realize that, and I did see the MX2 listed. Not all pre applied Thermal pastes are bad! That's why I commented on it! MX2 comes pre applied on a number of CPU coolers, besides Arctic Cooling's. It works equally well either as pre applied or manually applied compound. It's also the most consistent I've ever used. I've never had to remount a cooler using it, or had temperature issues with it. I probably use it 100 or more times a year!
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22. September 2009 @ 08:17 |
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Never had any grief with AS5 (other than after about 10 cooler reseats with the same paste!) but I must only have used thermal paste 20 or so times in my life, versus your several hundred...
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22. September 2009 @ 12:04 |
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mx3 is out now :D
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22. September 2009 @ 12:36 |
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couple things here.
got the new WD2500AAKS hdd up and running. main OS on this and a few programs thats all thats going on here. man is this this fast...
now all i need is one of them WD 1tb drives OM7 loves... what ya think 1 or 2 of them??lol naw gotta get my mobo and case then i can put everything together and have both puters up and running. getting my E8400 back up and running. maybe at this speed.
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22. September 2009 @ 12:45 |
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I Can't stand any less than 3 Hdd's in my tower. Makes multitasking a breeze :D Im not suggesting getting 3 Fals drives though LOL! I have one in one tower, and one in my secondary. Though I suppose I would like another for archival purposes ;) Perhaps when the new 2Tb beast comes down a bit. Or I'll simply wait for SSD to come down substantially. By the way, the secondary towers OS runs of the FALS drive MUCH nicer than I expected. I've always treated the drives as storage drives. But I thought I would give it a shot running an OS. Its doing wonderfully LOL! :D In fact i'd say it runs as well as the VelociRaptor!
Though they do start to slow down when Fragmented, and reaching full capacity...
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22. September 2009 @ 12:56 |
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and as if by magic, in a month or two's time my gaming PC will make the transition to three drives, the newcomer being of all things, the WD1001FALS :P - I will probably swap the 37GB Raptor for an Intel SSD at the same time.
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22. September 2009 @ 13:17 |
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well defrag them bad boys... damn id hate to defrag a 1tb drive thats at near full capacity....lol what a 16hour defrag...
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22. September 2009 @ 13:18 |
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Is this Intel SSD you speak of, SLC SSD? LOL, so many acronyms so little time... ;)
Actually, it defrags in about 2.5-3Hrs...
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22. September 2009 @ 13:19 |
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Not the regular man's one (the X25-M) no. The X25-E, however, is.
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22. September 2009 @ 13:21 |
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I think my eyes are gonna be trained on the Intel ssd. But first, the Dell monitor LOL!
My FALS drives defrag in under 3Hrs provided they're not beyond 75% capacity.
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22. September 2009 @ 13:45 |
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I just checked my 320GB Samsung and it has 67GB of fragmented files :(
I really need a new drive mines 30GB from full but then I also need some way if backing it up instead of 'dicing with death' as I am now =/ All these TB things are wayyyyyyy beyond my budget....
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22. September 2009 @ 13:47 |
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Haha just got my hands on a free Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. 2.4Ghz P4, 768MB of RAM, Radeon 7500 64MB, 60GB HDD. It was a junked laptop with an overheating problem. Did a full teardown and rebuild with new TIM on the CPU and it runs like new. Did a reformat with XP SP3 and it's just fine for homework and web browsing. Gets a little warm but not too bad. Not to mention it has integrated wireless so it picks up the network at school. Plus, it's fun to play with :P
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22. September 2009 @ 13:50 |
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=/ hmmm I just noticed the 25GB in my recycle bin....
lol it would seem my sixth-form has copped out form giving us the free EEE PC's they promised us in an attempt to get us to sign-up. Something like that would do great as an alternative :-)
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22. September 2009 @ 13:54 |
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Omega: 3 hours is a lot. Use a third party defrag like AusLogics, not the windows one. Auslogics rarely takes much more than 50 minutes to do a large drive.
keith: 1TB drives are amazingly cheap now really, and £ or $/GB the 1TB and 1.5TB drives are actually the best value for money right now.
Jeff: I sincerely hope that isn't one of the Northwood ones - those things were outrageous, they practically ran on magma with 8000rpm (yup, 8000) 40mm fans to cool them, which usually ran at full speed due to the incendiary temps.
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22. September 2009 @ 14:41 |
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My drives get extremely fragmented. I won't go into that LOL! I use Iobit's smart defrag. I like the way it works. I haven't used windows defrag in over a year :) And actually, compared to the 5000AAKS drive, thats fairly quick...
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22. September 2009 @ 14:43 |
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22. September 2009 @ 15:36 |
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I find it interesting that a lot of the comments there are just slagging Seagate off for reliability...
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22. September 2009 @ 17:58 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I find it interesting that a lot of the comments there are just slagging Seagate off for reliability...
Sam,
It looks like the Seagate haters are out in force! For a drive that large I would have to have two of them, Duplexed into a Raid 1 Mirror, with a separate controller for the mirror drive! Without some sort of redundancy, I would never risk losing that much data all at one time! Just my opinion, of course. I can't imagine how long it would take to completely wipe a drive that large!
Best Regards,
Russ
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22. September 2009 @ 19:29 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Omega: 3 hours is a lot. Use a third party defrag like AusLogics, not the windows one. Auslogics rarely takes much more than 50 minutes to do a large drive./quote]I like O&O Defrag 12 pro for a defrag. I usually never wait more than half an hr but that is only with HD with about 30 or 40 gigs free. I can't really comment on AusLogics since I never tried it before.
Does it offer a free trial like O&O does?
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22. September 2009 @ 19:43 |
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It's free. Permanently.
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22. September 2009 @ 20:34 |
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Seagate lover myself. Never had a failed Seagate drive but I have had 2 failed WDs so mileage may vary :P
@Sam
Yep I'm pretty sure it's a Northwood. It gets pretty hot but not too bad compared to what it was before. I want to see if the Laptop will take a Prescott Celeron D but I doubt it as it didn't work with my 2.8GHz HT Prescott P4. In fact I'm not sure if it supports Prescotts at all. I can't even find out the BIOS revision because there's a password set and AFAIK no way to reset it on this laptop.
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22. September 2009 @ 20:36 |
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Surely a northwood P4 is better than a prescott celeron?
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22. September 2009 @ 20:59 |
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Yeah but the Celeron D will run cooler, use less power, and should still be fine for anything I do with it. And remember the difference between the 2 P4 Celerons. The Prescott based Celeron D is a different beast than the Northwood based Celeron.
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 4GHz(20 x 200) 1.5v 3000NB 2000HT, Corsair Hydro H110 w/ 4 x 140mm 1500RPM fans Push/Pull, Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5, 8GB(2 x 4GB) G.Skill RipJaws DDR3-1600 @ 1600MHz CL9 1.55v, Gigabyte GTX760 OC 4GB(1170/1700), Corsair 750HX
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22. September 2009 @ 21:01 |
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I'd be surprised, I would have thought the Prescott architecture would mean it running hotter.
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