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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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bigwill68
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10. August 2010 @ 20:12 |
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bigwill68
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10. August 2010 @ 20:14 |
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The Sequential Access - Read up Sequential Access - Write is pretty fast tho!
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11. August 2010 @ 10:54 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I wouldn't go near a Colors IT PSU in any PC system myself. When you say that unit didn't work at all, can you elaborate?
Whenever I checked the connections on it, it only had two sata ports on the one lead. I was assuming that I could only either put an optical drive or a HDD in the computer. When I got the optical drive thru it fell into place as to why the PSU had the four prong adaptors. (usually for the chassis fans). I had already sent it back assuming that there wasn't enough connectors. In the long run it would have worked fine with the differnt connectors. This is the first computer I am building so this is all new to me, check the signature.
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11. August 2010 @ 14:31 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
The Sequential Access - Read up Sequential Access - Write is pretty fast tho!
Will,
If it was me I would buy the OCZ Vertex2. It's on sale for the same price, but with a $20 MIR, so it's $149. It's faster, has better redundancy and longer MTBF than the GSkill! Same read/write speed, but access time is half that of the GSkill!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227550
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11. August 2010 @ 14:33 |
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Depends what you're looking for. I'd recommend the X25-V I bought in a heartbeat. The continuous write speed isn't much, but if you think about it, you almost never use continuous write other than when installing large programs, and any SSD fills up very quickly. Where it counts is random read/write and sequential read, for which the X25-V is still a top 5 performer, despite its tiny price.
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11. August 2010 @ 14:50 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Depends what you're looking for. I'd recommend the X25-V I bought in a heartbeat. The continuous write speed isn't much, but if you think about it, you almost never use continuous write other than when installing large programs, and any SSD fills up very quickly. Where it counts is random read/write and sequential read, for which the X25-V is still a top 5 performer, despite its tiny price.
sam,
The Intel is only 40GB, a little small for an OS drive in my eyes. The OCZ is almost 8 times faster at continuous write and 105MB/s faster at continuous read, with far better redundancy in error correction. I would spend the extra $30 for the OCZ!
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11. August 2010 @ 15:03 |
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To be fair, what use is the extra continuous write speed? The entire drive will fill in 19 minutes at that speed, and error correction is a non-issue as well, it's not as if SSDs are prone to errors. The only benefit the OCZ has is being bigger. It's $40 more not $30, and that's after a $20 rebate. The Intel is $60 less up front. 60GB is little more use as an OS drive than 40GB. It will fit windows and precious little else. In my opinion, the drives are pretty equal.
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11. August 2010 @ 15:21 |
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Here is the part where i say I'm glad i recently purchased the 50GB Vertex2. I tested it and read speeds were as advertised. Write speeds were a shade lower than advertised but perhaps it is my older x38/ICH9R mobo.
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11. August 2010 @ 16:11 |
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Depends what you were writing. Some tests will read different to others.
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18. August 2010 @ 01:18 |
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MGEdit
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18. August 2010 @ 08:48 |
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Question guys..I tried to boot up my computer and it wont boot.
I pushed the power button and there is no power at all.. no fans spinning or LED lights coming on. I took the mobo out of that case because I thought it would have been a case short...however whenever I put it in a new case and connected everything up I get the same problem. It wouldn't be the PSU as it is a brand new one and works fine...the question is...Any ideas on what the problem is with it?
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18. August 2010 @ 08:51 |
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You have presumably tested another power supply? New components can still be faulty :P
If not the PSU, and you've checked all the connections are in (the 8-pin CPU connector especially), it could be the GPU, memory or the board. Do you have a case beep speaker plugged in? If not, can you get one? (Old cases came with them, new cases, not so much). If you have a speaker hooked up and you get beeps you can identify the fault. If no beeps even with a speaker fitted, it may be a faulty board.
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18. August 2010 @ 09:15 |
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you say this is a new case? Then try shorting the two power pins on the mobo. It might be that you have connected the front pannel up badly.
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18. August 2010 @ 09:49 |
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Ugh, misinterpreted the post. Quite right, I thought he said he got power but no activity. No power at all and it's more likely the PSU or the connections.
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18. August 2010 @ 10:12 |
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(ps i just realised, i am an addict)
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18. August 2010 @ 11:17 |
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I was going to say, weren't you before? Then I remembervall the accounts you had :P
Congrats, welcome to the club!
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18. August 2010 @ 12:12 |
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yeah probably would have reached it AGES ago.
now wheres all that free pr0nz i was promised?
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ddp
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18. August 2010 @ 12:25 |
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you were a naughty boy so you didmn't deserve them.
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rick5446
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19. August 2010 @ 17:46 |
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I've used up all the letters in the Alphabet. Is their a way to add more Drive Letters to Win XP ? Such as useing dbbl letters or letter and number, etc.
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19. August 2010 @ 17:56 |
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It seems like I remember XP giving the option for numbers, but windows 7 doesn't seem to be giving that option. Unless I'm mistaken :S
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19. August 2010 @ 18:04 |
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Quote:
I've used up all the letters in the Alphabet. Is their a way to add more Drive Letters to Win XP ? Such as useing dbbl letters or letter and number, etc.
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19. August 2010 @ 18:20 |
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I've never heard of the idea of using numbers. As far as I can tell, when you run out of letters, you have to map drives as folders instead.
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19. August 2010 @ 18:32 |
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Maybe flash drives then?
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19. August 2010 @ 18:33 |
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How would that help? They still require drive letters...
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19. August 2010 @ 18:34 |
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Maybe flash drives open up a whole new line of code? Which allow numbers. I SWEAR I remember seeing number options somewhere...
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