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6. January 2010 @ 16:15 |
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when are the SB of amd and the intel chip going to get sata 3.0 and usb 3.0 support
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6. January 2010 @ 16:59 |
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I wondered that, but don't really see it as that important. If you buy a board with that chipset, It doesn't seem like the NEC USB3 chipset is a cause for any reliability issues unlike other additional chipsets.
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6. January 2010 @ 18:33 |
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6. January 2010 @ 18:35 |
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Russ, I think what he means is on the actual southbridge chip, not the dedicated NEC chip...
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6. January 2010 @ 19:59 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Russ, I think what he means is on the actual southbridge chip, not the dedicated NEC chip...
Oh! LOL!! I don't see that happening with either the Intel or AMD! I don't think it would be very economical at all, so it would be far more costly that way. There's only so many channels available to do the job, and it would take a complete redesign of the southbridge, to accomplish the task! The NEC chip is a simpler and less expensive solution. For some reason people think that the Intel Southbridge is better than anything else. When I had my Intel, the two Gigabyte Satas performed better than the Intel's did, by roughly 20%! I was never able to set the drives up in AHCI mode with the Intel. It just wouldn't boot, regardless of what drive you selected from the boot menu!
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6. January 2010 @ 20:03 |
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Intel's ICHs aren't great (especially not the ICH9) but they're cheap, get the job done and have universally reasonable driver support, hence their success. I wouldn't forsee USB3 retrofits to current chipsets, but I'd expect it to be factory-fit on the next generation.
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10. January 2010 @ 11:36 |
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10. January 2010 @ 12:50 |
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2nd and 4th pics are corrupted somehow. Only load partially. Nice looking case. ;) Seems somehow familiar LOL!
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10. January 2010 @ 12:56 |
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Yeah, Imageshack is awful lately. It actually took 40 minutes to upload those pictures. I'll try again.
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10. January 2010 @ 12:58 |
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OK, try now :P
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10. January 2010 @ 13:10 |
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Man I can't wait to try crossfire/Sli. I love delving into new frontiers :D New to me anyway :p
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10. January 2010 @ 14:37 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Mmmm, mess...
After having said I'd do so for so long, finally bothered to upload the current internals of two of my PCs. The third will have to wait until it is rebuilt in a new case in a few days - it's a bit tricky to get everything back together again at the moment :P
Yes, the wires will be tidied up when the upgrades are done. After failed motherboards, replaced S-ATA cables, several fan changes and so on, cable management took a bit of a backseat.
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Hey Sam,
Are you sure you have enough case fans in Voyager? :) I counted 9 that I could see! You need to chain it to the desktop, or it might fly away on it's own! :) Pictures open all the way here, so they aren't corrupt! When ImageShack is busy, it take a lot of time because of the large resolution of the pictures! smaller stuff like benchmarks or scans, are pretty fast. Looks very good!
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10. January 2010 @ 14:41 |
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Nah, I managed to replace the corrupt versions - I couldn't open the two mentioned either until I replaced them. The new website is terrible though, it took me several attempts to upload them.
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10. January 2010 @ 14:53 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Nah, I managed to replace the corrupt versions - I couldn't open the two mentioned either until I replaced them. The new website is terrible though, it took me several attempts to upload them.
Hmm! I did several yesterday that I posted in the scan thread and it seemed to be running fairly fast then! it's not so much ImageShack, but the net itself. Weekends are the worst because everyone and their Mother is on line. BTW! What cooler is that in Voyager? It doesn't quite look familiar.
Cable management is a thing of the past for me. It looks good in a window case, but anything hidden becomes a nightmare to replace! That's why I got rid of my window cases! It's hard enough just to replace a Sata cable, as it is, without having to partly remove the MB! I know, I know! Get a full tower! LOL!!
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10. January 2010 @ 15:03 |
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I had 14 fans in my Supermicro SC-750A case, it did sound like a wind farm though, they weren't quiet fans, some were YS-Delta (i think that's waht they're called) and another of the noisest brands.
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10. January 2010 @ 15:12 |
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Haha yeah, proper industrial grade fans they are. This PC is little different, as the four side fans along with two of the top fans are Scythe SlipStream super high speed fans, rated over 100CFM. Ironically, the top ones are effectively inaudible over the side ones, due to the resonance of case side panels.
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10. January 2010 @ 15:33 |
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Hey welcome back Sammy, you bet my internet gets super slow on some weekends, like this weekend for instance, anyway, Russ, I just finished the bathroom, if I can find some time I might give you a call, I have the hardrive, the cables and that rosewill card you told me about, should I install the drive and the card before giving you a buzz, those two seem easy it's the cables that will have me confused, Also.
Emma finally cought her flight from London, she left like 3 hours ago, I hope to pick her up around 10 pm, man 3 days stranded, I don't think I could have been able to put up with that, man to be young again, they had some cold weather and a couple of inches of snow and shut things down, are you kidding me, what the hell is going on over there in the UK lol. I'll have to send over some care packages of crushed salt so those guys can salt thier runways :)
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10. January 2010 @ 15:38 |
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Ugh, tell me about it. 2 inches of snow utterly ruins this country.
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10. January 2010 @ 16:16 |
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O Wow Sam you need a redo Badly
Sam's b4 shot
Sam's need to be After
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Cable management is a thing of the past for me. It looks good in a window case, but anything hidden becomes a nightmare to replace! That's why I got rid of my window cases! It's hard enough just to replace a Sata cable, as it is, without having to partly remove the MB! I know, I know! Get a full tower! LOL!!
I love cable management keeping everthing in order and neat to have everything hidden is to show people How did he do that? replacing the sata cables are easy if you don't have big hands.LOL
Done out of Here!
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10. January 2010 @ 16:55 |
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Here's a good question. What is the proper name for a device such as the following?
http://www.provantage.com/teac-america-d...-h~7TEAC1C9.htm
No, im not interested in duplicating cds or dvds. Im simply interested in a storage solution for multiple drives, rather than ran externally via single external solutions. That'd get rather spendy buying multiple external enclosures for each drive. Surely a 4-8 drive case doesn't cost that much? Surely "Duplication Tower" is not the proper name...
Well...I just found one anyway.
http://www.amamax.com/fshxce9baysa.html
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10. January 2010 @ 17:47 |
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It never occurred to me that my NEC ND-3550A may have died from insufficient cooling. I'm reading up about duplication towers, and one little tidbit caught my eye. A duplication tower can produce more heat than a PC. Go figure, lasers burning discs LOL! I always assumed that it was because I WAS a smoker at the time(february 3rd makes one year no smoking). It still might have been cancer LOL! But now I wonder about heat, because that case was pretty packed with stuff. I now have a lot more respect for the HAF 932 :D Something tells me it won't be discontinued anytime soon. :)
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10. January 2010 @ 17:47 |
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I bought some kind of multiple CD cabinet thing back before the invention of DVD's, it had stupid amounts of CD drives. It was crap though, finicky/unreliable drivers and/or crap software (well this was back in the days of crap software), it went to landfill in the end. I also considered those 400 slot DVD jukebox things too, but that was all back when optical media was the in thing, i personally can't stand DVD's anymore, and despite Bluray media offering to hold more data i'm not interested, as i posted somewhere before, i only use DVD's as backups now, all my movies are written as data now, when you have thousands of DVD's it's just a waste of time trying to ever find a specific movie.Of course the DVD's are just as useless as backups as the same mindset applies, hence why any movies i keep on hard drives are copied to a second hard drive also. Hopefully (he types optimistically) that way i get to avoid ever having to 'restore' from them en masse. In these days of huge hard drives it's just a pain using DVD's, even though hard drives are always so prone to fail (they are, they're mechanical, it's the law :) )
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10. January 2010 @ 23:02 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
O Wow Sam you need a redo Badly
Sam's b4 shot
Sam's need to be After
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Cable management is a thing of the past for me. It looks good in a window case, but anything hidden becomes a nightmare to replace! That's why I got rid of my window cases! It's hard enough just to replace a Sata cable, as it is, without having to partly remove the MB! I know, I know! Get a full tower! LOL!!
I love cable management keeping everthing in order and neat to have everything hidden is to show people How did he do that? replacing the sata cables are easy if you don't have big hands.LOL
Will,
Nope! Sounds and looks like an obsession to me! I keep things neat and tidy, but there's no need to hide anything in a non window case, and I get to organize things for simplicity when something needs to be done inside it! I can disconnect things quite easily for any kind of service or repair. I never liked all the lights anyway! Being so close to me, they were annoying! And yes, I do have big hands and long fingers! LOL!! No, I don't want or need a full tower. Don't like them!
Russ
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10. January 2010 @ 23:28 |
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i prefer a desktop case over a tower as i just have to pop the cover off & i'm into the guts of it without having to move anything.
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10. January 2010 @ 23:47 |
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I'll be in the market for a Desktop case or HTPC case before too long. I wonder what a good HTPC case with good cooling costs. Hopefully no more than 80-100$. I'll be putting my MSI board in the HTPC case, and putting my current primary board in the secondary case, to make way for my NEW primary :D Wonder if the onboard graphics (Nvidia 6200), coupled with Athlon 5200 can handle blu-ray. If so, it could be a very good HTPC for a few years at least.
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