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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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3. February 2010 @ 19:42 |
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I don't know about the 300Gb version, but my 150Gb is merely a 2.5Hdd converted to 3.5 Form factor. It has a chip/board conversion on it. Here's the pic of it. Please correct me. What do you call this then? The red area is the chip which completes the conversion...
Please excuse the crudity, for I haven't reinstalled photoshop yet.
If you would like me to post the bottom, just ask. I forgot to take a pic of that :p
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3. February 2010 @ 19:45 |
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There's no chip there, or at least there shouldn't be. All the red section is is a mating board to wire the drive to the power and data connectors on the heatsink. 2.5" drives don't need special connections to work at all, that red board just runs PCB tracks to the connectors instead of ugly wires.
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3. February 2010 @ 19:50 |
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PCB tracks then. Ahh. That area was slightly dusty, could that cause a serious issue? Certainly not as serious as it behaved! Sorry, it appeard like a chip at first glance. I understand what you mean by tracks now :p Sure is a crying shame. I loved that drive LOL!
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3. February 2010 @ 19:53 |
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It shouldn't, it should have no more effect than having dust around the S-ATA ports on your motherboard. Feel free to try and clean it, but if there's something amiss with the power to the drive, then it's probably the drive itself. Sadly, removing the Velociraptor from the heatsink even for an instant voids the warranty, so you'd lose the ability to return it if you wanted to check the drive on its own. This seems harsh, but if the drive was run on its own without being actively cooled (i.e. near a fan) it would thermal runaway and melt.
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3. February 2010 @ 19:59 |
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Hmmm, experiment with a 189$ component that I've already began the RMA process with... NAH! LOL! I'll let them look at it, and get a replacement. And no doubt sell it to someone. Perhaps even a AD user. It won't be no wheres near retail either. Pretty nice guy here :) The way I see it, I spend money on entertainment, and education. If I get 50-100$ of that back, no biggie. I enjoyed it for a while, at little cost, and some more education :) Next drive is probably gonna be SSD now. Now I have a reason to get one...
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4. February 2010 @ 01:38 |
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Pretty much 100% back to normal now. Minus the super speed of the velociraptor(Using 5000AAKS) :( From now on, I talk down at my components ;)
I even spruced up my desktop. Though I don't have everything ran yet. Soon enough, and I'll reconnect my capture card, and cable box :D Decided to wait, since I don't have retail edition of Windows 7 yet, or my new board.
Spruced up desktop
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4. February 2010 @ 02:38 |
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Honestly I am an organization freak. One fairly large desktop with my Armor on the right, and both monitors side by side, one hooked to both PCs through my KVM switch. Nothing on my desktop except an ashtray and my mice and keyboards. My other case is on the floor tucked under the desk ATM. I have my desk set into a little cubby in the corner of my room so it was perfect to wall mount my surround speakers all professional like :P Very clean layout, no exposed wiring, everything tucked neatly behind the desk. All my PC games on a shelf above my monitors with my Western Digital MyBook 500GB external tucked in nice like a book so most people don't even notice it XD
I really need to get a camera of my own so I can post. Eh procrastination rears its ugly head :P
Looking at that thread, most of those setups are too visually cluttered for me. Organized or not, just too much kit to keep track of. I like to have everything stealthed in. I always say the best part of my setup is what people DONT notice ;P
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4. February 2010 @ 02:46 |
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I am organized. Just not currently :p I have very little space to work with, and it's quite irritating. Trust me LOL!
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4. February 2010 @ 04:20 |
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I like to make everything as simple as possible. Tuck everything away so the only thing I have to worry about is actually using the PC. Managing routers and multiple machines and networked hardware is not my bag. Heck my networked printer is up in the family room hidden in a drawer. Most people don't even know it's there till someone at my house prints. Even my subwoofer is hidden behind the desk so you can only hear it, not see it ;P
Currently considering making everything wireless as well. I like to make up a concept and build around it. Sleek and stealthy is the current idea. Plug and play is my hot ticket. One of the main things that keeps me from delving too far into Linux territory.
Oh yeah did a new mod today. Put Dual Shock 3 joysticks on my corded 360 pad. Can be changed out easily too if I want to switch back. Very cool :P
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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4. February 2010 @ 04:26 |
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Ah hah! I have a sub under my desk! Very good stuff.
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4. February 2010 @ 05:40 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
I like to make everything as simple as possible. Tuck everything away so the only thing I have to worry about is actually using the PC.
Funnily enough as cluttered as my stuff is, a place for everything and everything in it's place, every single thing is where it is for a purpose, i'm a tidy freak, but i use lots of things :p
Originally posted by Estuansis:
Managing routers and multiple machines and networked hardware is not my bag.
I hear you, once the initial setup is done, everything 'just works' and keeps working so the initial setup is always worth it for me
Originally posted by Estuansis:
Heck my networked printer is up in the family room hidden in a drawer.
Mine are so old (circa 1994ish) they're not networkable, but go to sleep when not in use and not very loud. I rarely print anything but the bonus is that the toner last for years as they're laser printers
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One of the main things that keeps me from delving too far into Linux territory.
A-ha so that's why you haven't mentioned you experimentation with Puppy linux for ages. Puppy is my main OS now, i have everything so that it 'just works'. I write scripts for anything extra i need, keeps the brain 100% more active than any of my Windows machines could :o
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4. February 2010 @ 07:05 |
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I hear you, once the initial setup is done, everything 'just works' and keeps working so the initial setup is always worth it for me
I know you have it worked out, but that is a lot of kit just sitting there. And the old laptops oh my the old laptops. How do you find a use for them?
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Mine are so old (circa 1994ish) they're not networkable, but go to sleep when not in use and not very loud. I rarely print anything but the bonus is that the toner last for years as they're laser printers
Mine's a big HP LaserJet 4050 out of my mom's workplace from when they upgraded. Windows auto-detects it so network setup is cake, though I did get it setup in Puppy as well. Not to mention the cartridges are gargantuan and it prints color. I've reloaded it once in 3 years.
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A-ha so that's why you haven't mentioned you experimentation with Puppy linux for ages. Puppy is my main OS now, i have everything so that it 'just works'. I write scripts for anything extra i need, keeps the brain 100% more active than any of my Windows machines could :o
That laptop seems particularly picky. It'll install and run Puppy, but there is always a Grub error after the first boot. Reading through the Grub manual I found out Grub got pointed towards the wrong partition. Oddly enough when trying Ubuntu, Grub has no issue. Playing with different distros ATM to find the right one. Puppy is nice and performs well but I need something a bit more "cohesive". Ubuntu seems a little more seamlessly put together to me and is a bit easier to understand.
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4. February 2010 @ 07:27 |
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The laptop on the desktop gets used quite often, the one on the middle shelf is just an older spare laptop, the ancient one down on the floor under the xbox 360 is a Solaris laptop, it's too old and slow to use for anything other than Solaris. Linux is great and everything but at the very least there's subtle differences between linux and proper *nix OSes at the scripting level, it's just nice to have a Solaris machine sat there for when i get back to work.
As to your linux travels, just find whichever distro suits you and take it from there. I just like Puppy as it does everything i want without all the bloat of full distro's, i don't have to apply updates or mess with it, i just use it all day every day. The trouble with linux (and PC hardware in general, for that matter) is that it's too easy to end up constantly messing and hardly using PC's for constructive things. One of the reasons i gave up the constant PC upgrade game years ago was that i was always upgrading video cards, and upgrading other bits and pieces, and constantly, such that i spent too little time using the actual kit properly. So i put all the work into building something and getting it setup, then i stop messing and use the machines. Hence why most of my stuff is older stuff.
As to what i use my kit for, i use the main Dell linux box all day every day (and half the nights usually), even though it has 6 workspaces ie in effect 6 monitors it's still nice to use another screen at the same time, as i haven't got any gfx cards that can utilise dual monitors i tend to have the Quad box on whenever i want a second screen, or when i want less racket from the Quad's fans (since i had the mobo and RAM failures i prefer to have fans on a bit louder, i previously always kept the fans on silent) i use the Athlon 2800 machine as the second screen as it's on the same KVM as the Quad box. The Dell linux box always runs Seti@home when it's on, as does the Quad box, i like to keep the CPU's completely occupied if they're up and using power.
So that explains the three main machines on the main desk, on the other desk are the laptops and i've since replaced the old Dell tower (as it's mobo seems to be on the way out) with an old Compaq P4 SFF that also has a dodgy mobo, dodgy IDE port(s) to be specific. The Compaq thus runs off a USB stick, Puppy linux again. It runs a treat, i just use that machine occasionally, the same goes for the main (P4) laptop, sometimes it's nice to just sit and use a laptop, and whenever i do i use the Compaq alongside it so i still have dual screens on the go on that desk, helps with scripting to have stuff on two screens at once. At work i would always have two linux machines (as well as an XP machine but that one was only really used for Outlook, you can't do much else with a Windows OS compared to linux) on the go 24/7, 6 workspaces on each so that i could keep obscene amounts of command line sessions active for months at a time (it was the norm to keep both machines up and running for at least a year between reboots), certain sessions for scripting, certain ones for specific work projects, etc, a lot going on, hence the workspaces and command line sessions
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4. February 2010 @ 07:45 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
I like to make everything as simple as possible. Tuck everything away so the only thing I have to worry about is actually using the PC. Managing routers and multiple machines and networked hardware is not my bag. Heck my networked printer is up in the family room hidden in a drawer. Most people don't even know it's there till someone at my house prints. Even my subwoofer is hidden behind the desk so you can only hear it, not see it ;P
Currently considering making everything wireless as well. I like to make up a concept and build around it. Sleek and stealthy is the current idea. Plug and play is my hot ticket. One of the main things that keeps me from delving too far into Linux territory.
Oh yeah did a new mod today. Put Dual Shock 3 joysticks on my corded 360 pad. Can be changed out easily too if I want to switch back. Very cool :P
mpre about this please!
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4. February 2010 @ 10:34 |
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ok the parts are slowly rollin in..lol
with the 200x30mm fan installed
this case is about a inch taller than my 690 and a inch wider.
i would have had plenty room for the 932 to fit. but im more than happy right now :) i will be ordering the leg/rollers from the 932 to go on here. these little feet on this are only a 1/4 thick a good 1-1 1/2 inches shorter than the 690's
and with any luck there will be a new color on the inside of this one and maybe the mesh on the front by the CM logo. mesh only that is.
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4. February 2010 @ 11:30 |
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hehe, the 922 is a nice looking case. I had the pleasure of looking at those photos from my phone for the first time. not amazingly ergonomic, but handy nonetheless.
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4. February 2010 @ 11:56 |
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@Cincy
I know you can't wait to get all together:) Robo what's the CFM and the RPM's of that side panel fan? I was just wondering.I hav'en had time to look it up myself:)
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4. February 2010 @ 12:20 |
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700rpms and 110FCM aall 3 of them are the same speed
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4. February 2010 @ 12:22 |
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They are 700rpm, but 110CFM they aren't, nowhere near it. Then again fan specs are usually false, so that's unsurprising. They are quiet, but two 120mm fans would be superior for the same noise level, let alone four.
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4. February 2010 @ 12:43 |
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thats a thought. take out the black 200mm fan on top put the red led one up there and then put 4 of the antec tricool red led's in the side panel..
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4. February 2010 @ 12:45 |
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Believe it or not I used to have four Red LED Antec Tricools on the side of my 932. It was pretty good, but the tricools are ultimately quite cheap fans and the bearings started to get noisy quite quick and annoyed me.
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4. February 2010 @ 12:48 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
They are 700rpm, but 110CFM they aren't, nowhere near it. Then again fan specs are usually false, so that's unsurprising. They are quiet, but two 120mm fans would be superior for the same noise level, let alone four.
LOL.. Sammy you is a funny SOB!! :D
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4. February 2010 @ 12:50 |
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I should know, I owned them :P
On the whole, four 120mm fans looks far more messy, but is far more effective.
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4. February 2010 @ 12:56 |
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i have all 5 of my antec tricools running on medium right now and have been for a year or so and cant hear them the only fan i can here is the one on my OCZ Vendetta 2 (120mm) maybe i should put a tricool on it..lol
hell the very first tricool i got was about 2 years ago a little green elf sent it to me. it is in the front of my 690 right now blowin cool are on these hdd's..
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4. February 2010 @ 13:02 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I should know, I owned them :P
On the whole, four 120mm fans looks far more messy, but is far more effective.
I'm sure they are.. I don't see needing such devices unless ye is gonna push your rig to the brink.. then it's time to think about water cooling or keeping your computer room at about 50F.. ROFL. :p
My biggest 'curiosity' is what kind of dust is that BIG BUGGER gonna attract?? ;)
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