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13. April 2010 @ 13:02 |
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id love 2 80GBs. one for games one for OS.
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13. April 2010 @ 13:03 |
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To be honest, I'd be reasonably tempted by the new 600GB V2 Velociraptor.
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13. April 2010 @ 13:10 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
To be honest, I'd be reasonably tempted by the new 600GB V2 Velociraptor.
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13. April 2010 @ 13:11 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
Originally posted by FredBun:
Mr green, maybe a little help, I'm from near the Philly area, I have mailed some DVD's to Russ in California in the past, they cost around $1.70, just make sure you specify it's an educational CD to a family member, also if you are sending something near the size of a book or books say it's an educational book to a family member, a trick I was tought by friends I had in the post office, you would not believe the savings, it works everytime.
i sent 100 verbs to Russ for 100 TY's via UPS. i cost me $16.70 to send to cali. and it only weighed 5lbs. now ive sent things to GM the same way UPS and the max it cost was $7 and that was for 7 lbs.????its a cali conspiracy. lmao. tbh i didnt even think about how much it cost to ship them to russ as i was just wanting the TY's instead of verbs..lol goes to show people pay just about anything to get what they want...lol
Holy Crapola Cincy, look, I need maybe to be careful here, I'm not advocating anybody to break any laws, but lets say that DVD shipment of yours to Russ you said by mistake mind you, you said they were books, educational ones, even though the package doesn't look like books, don't forget books come in all kinds of sizes, you would be suprised the difference in the cost, actually shocked more like it.
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13. April 2010 @ 13:16 |
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Omega: Well I didn't say I was buying one just yet. My mind is still torn with what to spend next term's budget on. I would ideally like a fileserver duplicate, but I would also like some HD5 series graphics. Either one is going to be several hundred pounds, so I am literally unable to do both.
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13. April 2010 @ 15:36 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
Originally posted by sammorris:
Generally using 230V adds around 3-4% efficiency due to the lower current drawn from the mains.
My record for delivery is ordering at 10:45pm from ebuyer and having it arrive at 9:10am the following morning. Still, living 30 miles away from the shop in question is a bit cheeky :P
Man that is some nice delivery speed if you ask me.. ROFL. ;) Sux for me since most of the stuff coming from the EGG is California or New Jersey... I'm smack dab in the middle of the states so that means at least 2 day delivery if NOT more. :( So the added FREE delivery is welcome at any time as you well can imagine. :) I've mailed quite a few packages to members here and I have sold some stuff on eBay and it's dang expensive to mail stuff in the states!!! :( Heck just ask Robert how much it costs to mail some DVD's to Cali!! It ain't cheap!! LOL
GM,
In a Real World sense, it really wasn't worth it, but in the sense that both of us got what we wanted, it was! It costs $14.34 to ship 5 pounds from Cali to Cincy! USPS isn't any cheaper either. I can't ship through the Business either, because they charge a fee for residential delivery these days. Any way to make a buck, I guess! LOL!! It cost less than half that to ship the D-940 to England! ROFLMAO!!
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13. April 2010 @ 21:37 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
That and it's only 40GB, so once Win7 is installed that's about 13GB left. You might get one, maaaybe two games on it.
I was fine with my 30GB for OS till last week. after about a year using Win7 I found a program that needed the install of the VirtualXP mode integrated into all but home versions of 7. It runs about another 5GB so it is now crammed full of goodness. I still have a few GB left but now I will have to actually pay attention to what I do.
Good thing you don't defrag an SSD cuz mine would be too full if it were a regular HDD
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14. April 2010 @ 07:33 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Originally posted by sammorris:
PCI is useless for graphics cards. Nothing you can buy on the PCI bus will run The Sims 3, sadly.
I've got the machine, it's a small form factor HP Compaq d530, basically it's a P4 3.0, with a AGP half height graphics slot, cards for which i think are as rare as hen's teeth but it does have a spare standard sized PCI slot (i've used the other standard PCI slot for a wifi card). So... i'm now in need of ideas of a PCI graphics card. It has to be 128MB or above, and pixel shader 2.0.
edit- no need, i googled briefly and plumped for a simple Nvidia 5200 FX PCI card as it's sufficient for the Sims3. All sorted now :)
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I just got sick of trying to find something that was future proof enough; if the 5200 is too laggy i'll get something better, then sell the 5200 and that pesky 4650 that i bought the other day. I don't think i'm alone in finding the graphics card naming conventions frustrating to say the least, it's no wonder i stick to onboard video
The FX5200 plays Sims3 on the d530 sufficiently well so all is quiet in the graphics card department now, plus i got a full refund for the HD4650 i bought previously.
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14. April 2010 @ 07:42 |
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That actually surprises me, obviously I assume all the graphics settings are set to minimum, but considering the HD4650 you bought was 50 times as powerful, it must mean The Sims scales very well.
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14. April 2010 @ 07:48 |
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Dunno, eldest is too engrossed in the game to care about checking settings. She's happy, so i'm happy. If it didn't play well i would have traded the d530 with her for one of my E6400's, and bought a HD4650 again. What i do know is i wouldn't be buying one of those £400+ cards you just posted in the PC hardware Deals thread :o
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14. April 2010 @ 07:55 |
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That £470 is a steal. Those regularly go for £575, sometimes as much as £620! However, the HD4650 might be 50 times an FX5200, the HD5970 is 15 times an HD4650!
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14. April 2010 @ 23:01 |
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15. April 2010 @ 07:37 |
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Interesting, you would think a single core CPU would overclock the best, but that's shy of what I've seen AMD's dual and quads get up to.
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15. April 2010 @ 16:12 |
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:D <---- a smiley doesn't exactly express how I feel right now LOL! Cloud nine, ecstatic, jumping up and down, etc. The darn box weighs almost 8 pounds!!! There's that corsair quality I love. I opened the package and smiled immediately. The fresh scent of metals, and paint :) Call me crazy, but I love that smell LOL! I can't wait to hook that bad boy up. Unfortunately, too busy right now. Saturday on the other hand, Oh baby!!!
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15. April 2010 @ 16:25 |
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15. April 2010 @ 16:40 |
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at a whopping 1.9V!!! Unless given the CPU's infancy, the software/bios are acknowledging it falsely.
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15. April 2010 @ 16:45 |
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LN2. itll survive :P
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15. April 2010 @ 16:48 |
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Indeed :P Definitely NOT recommended for day to day LOL!
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15. April 2010 @ 17:31 |
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Nah, I like that smell too :P Still pales in comparison to the smell of plastic mounting they used back in 1999 though, was a lot nicer then. Probably more carcinogenic too, truth be told :P
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15. April 2010 @ 19:21 |
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What have you guy's heard about the new WD FAEX? I need an OS hdd for another system and was considering getting one of those to replace one of my older, smaller hdd's but I've read a few things about them making a lot of noise.
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LN2. itll survive :P
Even with the heat under control I'd still be worried at that voltage.
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15. April 2010 @ 19:55 |
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Pointless, S-ATA3 for mechanical drives makes no real difference.
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15. April 2010 @ 20:15 |
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Since it's only 10$ more than the FALS, I would think, possibly incorrectly, that the FAEX would be worth it as it's cache is twice as large.
Edit: I was never intending on getting it for it's SATA 3 capability, it's not even going on a SATA3 port lol.
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15. April 2010 @ 20:22 |
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For $10 more the extra cache might be worth it, it doesn't add up to much in terms of real world performance, less than half the extra % the price causes. I think the WD1002FAEX is a 4K sector drive though,so it has merits for that. Ultimately here, the price difference is more than $10 worth, so it makes more sense to buy one in the US.
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16. April 2010 @ 00:48 |
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The fresh scent of metals, and paint :) Call me crazy, but I love that smell LOL!
Haha I love the smell of a freshly unpacked motherboard. Really nothing quite like it ;P
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Nah, I like that smell too :P Still pales in comparison to the smell of plastic mounting they used back in 1999 though, was a lot nicer then. Probably more carcinogenic too, truth be told :P
Plastic Mounting? Can you elaborate or just some random jargon? :P
But yeah my favorite smell ever is when you build a fresh new PC with new parts from the ground up. My whole room stinks of new electronics and I love it :)
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16. April 2010 @ 02:03 |
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Yah, I was definitely enjoying that smell earlier LOL!
Here's a size comparison of the VX550 to the HX750. Or at least their boxes :p I was in awe that newegg sent such a large box! Then I picked it up, and opened it LOL! I didn't expect it to be much larger than the 550. Boy was I wrong LOL! Though the PSU itself is generally only heavier. Not sure on its dimensions. I've seen PSU's online that are much larger of course ;) I believe it was a 1300W one that I saw once upon a time. It had to be twice as long! I believe those are generally aimed at servers of course LOL! Although Quad SLI/Crossfire would probably benefit from a beafy PSU ;) Depending on the GPU's power requirement of course...
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