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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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18. June 2010 @ 17:29 |
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Originally posted by rick5446:
Hey Russ call me when U get their,you'll know my number let me know which way U went
Down should be something your used to, as you live in California
Up should be Cloudy with moderate Tempatures
My self I think I would rather go DOWN, IF ITS TRUE WHAT I heard.. I heard theirs no Sex in the up position, so down suits me better
ANYWAY Pleasant JOURNEY, Hope your trip Doesn't take 2 Long
I'm going to steal the Wonkavator, so I can go sideways! LOL!!
Check out the fan mod for chipset cooling a few posts back!
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18. June 2010 @ 17:40 |
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Have been back at work for 3 weeks now, it's mainly a Windows place, but with quite a bit of linux. I'm doing a lot of Active Directory admin, pretty good considering i've never done that before. Windows server admin is as easy as i always thought it would be anyways. Going to be architecting software and systems as well as supporting the existing systems (we have a few UK offices plus a few dotted across the world, but i work at the main IT centre), so basically am doing what i was doing in my previous job but not on Unix anymore, just Windows and linux, which is fine by me, always wanted to get into Windows servers, just so i could fill the gap in my knowledge (not that Microsoft stuff requires much knowledge LOL).
At my new workplace we have SSD's running the main (MySQL) database, very fast indeed (don't forget i've never used SSD's myself so know virtually nothing about them). At some point we might be replacing them with new-fangled SSD type cards, basically they're super fast SSD memory bolted onto some kind of PCIe cards, can't remember the make/spec of the cards now, they're around a grand each i think.
We also have 2TB hard drives for some of the nightly backups, am still familiarising myself with the systems and how they hang together so can't remember what flavour of Windows is hosting the 2TB drives.
At some point i would like to start replacing my own 500GB drives with 2TB drives being as they're only around £100 each now.
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rick5446
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18. June 2010 @ 18:28 |
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creaky : isn't 100 equal to $250.00 U.S.
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18. June 2010 @ 18:36 |
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I've always (very approximately) compared £1 to roughly $2; just did a quick conversion using google converter and 100 British pounds = 147.86 U.S. dollars. The 2TB drives i saw were £107 i think.
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18. June 2010 @ 18:38 |
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Russ Wrote:
I'm going to shut it down after this post and install a grille on the fan. I wouldn't want to accidentally get a finger in there! Credit for that mod, goes to Will!
Stock fan flipped around doin the Pushing on the radiator
Look no Gigabyte shields on the NB HS or the MOS HS so the heat can escape better a Russ's Ideal and pretty good in facted!
Hey Thanks for mentioning me About not getting your finger accidentally in the fan.my Eco is Resting at the moment...Waiting for the Results back from Gigabyte next week sometime...
You should have said something . I would have shipped you a few of these fancy Scythe Grills.lol Hey take care of yourself get much rest as you can friend. I shipped my board back today should be in Cali by monday or tuesday. I sent reports with it and what it's doin they need any info. I told them to contact me Via house phone or cell right now.I'm playing around putting together a intel chip board nothing fancy just from so new and old parts just laying around collecting dust
at the moment my mind is stuck getting another Board from my 965BE it's back in it's box also all cleaned up waiting for a good board to live:)
Happy Building:)
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rick5446
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18. June 2010 @ 20:08 |
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I'm really impressed with the Samsung 2Tera Drives. I've never had anything run as Cool
I bought 2 of them over the WDs
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19. June 2010 @ 00:44 |
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As it stands right now, £100 is $147.95. However, since we pay 17.5% VAT on products as consumers (Businesses can claim VAT back), £100 only gets us something worth $125.90.
Rick: Samsung temperature monitors work differently to other drives. Typically if a drive is 35C on the top, a WD or Seagate temperature monitor will tell you the drive is perhaps 36-37C. If a Samsung drive is 35C on the top, it may only show up as 24-25C. Frankly, I think the temperature monitors for them are false. Also though, 5400rpm eco drives run very cool compared to 7200rpm drives. If these are your first, they will seem very cool. In my old case without very good cooling, my WD 7200rpm drives ran around 47-48C, the Seagate 7200rpm at 59-61C, the 5400rpm WD Green drives at 38-39C.
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19. June 2010 @ 00:52 |
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I think my WD5000AAKB drive ran fairly warm (Upper 40C's) before I installed the 140mm exhaust fan in the top of my mid tower case. Now it stays around 35-38C. That exhaust helped EVERYTHING. If a case does not have a top exhaust fan, it should definitely be considered ;)
Though now we're experiencing some pretty warm temperatures. I might see most of my temperatures begin increasing. I don't run my secondary PC very often anymore. It's kind of my BD converter. And since my experimentation has pretty much came to a halt for now, its really not needed. Though I occasionally start it up for either exercise or a disc to disc backup. It has a good reading drive, I trust to keep up with the burner drive.
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19. June 2010 @ 03:18 |
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Finally recieved OS dvd tossed it in got up to selecting where to install the OS but it says there are no drives recognized and that I need to install the drivers. Yet there was no driver cd with the HDD and the seagate website is saying the OS should have the drivers allready its a 1TB barracuda 7200.12. I figured I could download the driver to my EHD and then plug that into the desktop to get the driver on there if only I can find one. Or is it more likely that my Sata cable doesn't want to work. BIOS detected the drive so I'm more inclined towards mising driver. tia
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19. June 2010 @ 03:19 |
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Should already show up without drivers. Which OS is this?
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19. June 2010 @ 03:24 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Should already show up without drivers. Which OS is this?
Win 7
Does it matter which SATA port the HDD is plugged into?
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19. June 2010 @ 03:28 |
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It shouldn't in theory, but I would always advise when installing an OS to use the main chipset S-ATA ports, and not any provided by an external controller such as a S-ATA 3 chipset or GSATA chipset. In the case of the 790XTA board this means you should use one of the main blue ports, and not the white ones.
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19. June 2010 @ 03:32 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
It shouldn't in theory, but I would always advise when installing an OS to use the main chipset S-ATA ports, and not any provided by an external controller such as a S-ATA 3 chipset or GSATA chipset. In the case of the 790XTA board this means you should use one of the main blue ports, and not the white ones.
was plugged into the lower blue one closest to whites tryin upper blue closest to whites now
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19. June 2010 @ 03:36 |
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Check if there's a jumper on the drive, a quick google throws up results about them coming with an incorrectly set jumper preventing them from being visible to windows setup.
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19. June 2010 @ 03:42 |
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I think sam may have just hit the nail on the head ;)
I have used the G-sata ports, or Sata 6/Gbs ports. The differences are very minor. The only large difference, is reading SMART statistics on a hard drive. It isn't possible at present. At least with speedfan. There are probably other utilities out there, up to the challenge. Sata 6/Gbs is still pretty new. Its probably best to still expect minor/moderate bugs. But two of my storage drives are currently connected to them. There hasn't been any troubles xD
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19. June 2010 @ 03:43 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Check if there's a jumper on the drive, a quick google throws up results about them coming with an incorrectly set jumper preventing them from being visible to windows setup.
If theres supposed to be one there isn't assuming I'm looking at the right thing 4 tiny metal pins to the right of the SATA connection I see a jumper on my old HDD which isn't in the pc
moving the SATA cable to upper blue also failed to recognize
BIOS shows its channel2 master the ODD is channel0 master if that makes a difference
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19. June 2010 @ 05:01 |
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if your odd is sata, use that cable for the hdd. It could be the cable, esp if in bios it doesn't show up. Is the odd on a blue port aswell?
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19. June 2010 @ 05:14 |
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Yeah, S-ATA cables have a habit of being or going bad, that'd be my next suggestion.
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19. June 2010 @ 07:10 |
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I would like to thank everybody for their kind posts, PMs, IMs and emails. I've had a few people ask me why I said anything at all, and my answer is simple. It's time, and I feel I owe it to the many dedicated members here. I didn't feel that it was right to just vanish one day, and I've taken steps to be sure that AD is notified, when the time comes.
Thank you everybody, from newbies to oldtimers. It's been a fun 5 years!
Warmest Regards,
Russ
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19. June 2010 @ 11:07 |
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sammorris : I'm not going by the Monitors. I'm sayin they R cooler, when I put my hand on a Seagate it's HOT, when I put my hand on a WD it's warm, when I put my hand on a Samsung it's cool. Now when I say cool I mean cool, no warmth (COOL)as in anything U touch. Now U tell me which is Truer Monitor or your hand
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19. June 2010 @ 11:31 |
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Is this your first 5400rpm drive?
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19. June 2010 @ 13:02 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
if your odd is sata, use that cable for the hdd. It could be the cable, esp if in bios it doesn't show up. Is the odd on a blue port aswell?
the ODD is IDE and he BIOS recognizes the HDD I thought the 7200 meant its rpm is that just a model number?
by first drive do you mean if PATA the master drive? then yes only drive in case atm
if you mean first drive you've ever installed yep again or would be if dumb OS cd would recognize it
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19. June 2010 @ 13:15 |
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is rpm. see if can change in bios the sata to ide or raid to non-raid.
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19. June 2010 @ 13:56 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
is rpm. see if can change in bios the sata to ide or raid to non-raid.
pretty sure its sata to ide atm but can check again the other 2 options were RAID and ATHI or something like that I don't know what the athi one does and I know I don't have more than 1 hdd atm so no way to raid though I thought it odd for it to say SATA to IDE I left it at that. Just went to best buy in hopes of getting a jumper alas they should be called the can't squad. I will try the other SATA cable that came with the box
onboard SATA3 mode IDE
sata3 controller enabled
running win 7 setup again with new sata cable though my hopes aren't high
no luck tried formatting c drive in browse for HDD driver window
and it says Windows can's format C
hey lookit that I'm a junior member now no longer a newbie woo sadly I still can't get the durn computer to behave so I'll have to disagree to the upgrade to junior
check make sure connected and not read only I assume a jumper on the back would make it read only which there are none but I'll look at the online manual again to see if this assumption is correct
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20. June 2010 @ 00:14 |
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I would like to thank everybody for their kind posts, PMs, IMs and emails. I've had a few people ask me why I said anything at all, and my answer is simple. It's time, and I feel I owe it to the many dedicated members here. I didn't feel that it was right to just vanish one day, and I've taken steps to be sure that AD is notified, when the time comes.
Thank you everybody, from newbies to oldtimers. It's been a fun 5 years!
Warmest Regards,
Russ
I wondered the very same thing. Why tell everyone in such a way? But it makes sense now. Good to see you so optimistic Russ. Death is the end of one adventure, and the beginning of another! I firmly believe that. It'll be tough to see you go old-timer. The scary part isn't where you'll go, but going :)
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