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- Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:04 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Small, quiet i7-860 build for audio/video work for $1000
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5546
I do network administration for a small business that creates websites, so I can feel ya. Everyone that uses creative suite has a very similar spec hardware, either a 27" imac i5, or a custom built PC from me, with an i5. Sometimes an i7 if they do video. I always use Corsair power supplies, gskill ...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:50 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Lian-Li PC-Q08 File Server.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10169
Lian-Li PC-Q08 File Server.
This feels a little hurried, and I don't have any nifty power readings for it. But my power supply and the 945gc chipset isn't really going to knock out any people's eyeballs with low power consumption. There has been some hype with this case, and I have to say I'm pretty happy with it. Other that I...
- Sat May 15, 2010 8:08 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system for HD video editing in M-ATX
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4657
Should actually be just fine. I'd say some of the new H55 or P55 MATX motherboards might work great for you. You might even look into ITX, they have a couple high-end chipset ITX motherboards that would work well too. I put together workstations at work for about $1k, they generally consist of - Int...
- Sat May 15, 2010 7:56 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fed up with the hairdryer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10790
I'd consider bumping to a better power supply. I've had crap luck with no-name supplies. The antec supply listed is pretty nice, but I have bought about 20 corsair supplies between work and not work, and prefer them. I have no experience with the gigabyte cases. Antec cases get a thumbs up from me, ...
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:17 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HDD Reliability - Best Buys? Musts to Avoid?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8922
It's pretty much always a crap shoot. Newegg reviews don't represent a useful statistic; plenty of people with working drives don't bother to write a review, while the angry people with a single DOA drive certainly speak there piece. Every brand has good and bad batches. Every brand has had problems...
- Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:10 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: $1500-$1800 GAMING build! Quiet!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4019
The Samsung (or the Seagate) does not bottleneck anything :P Everything you're going to be doing with your computer : loading games, loading your web browser, loading into windows is all going to be bottlenecked at HDD read/write/access times. You're always waiting for your hard drive to do things....
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:21 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: need advice on I7 860 build
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2673
- Save a bit of cash on the motherboard if you want, you can get the non-pro version of that motherboard. unless you need that PCIe-4x slot. - Thought about replacing the case fans? Tri-cools with a water cooling system seems a bit mismatched. Either go for air cooling and keep the tricools, or go w...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: $1500-$1800 GAMING build! Quiet!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4019
It seems kinda silly to overclock when you're going to be bottlenecked by the other components [HDD] you're not spending as much money on. Unless you just like the thrill of it. As for the component recommendations, I'm partial to high end corsair power supplies myself, they are over-engineered and ...
- Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:50 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li Q08
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26302
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:25 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: FreeNAS low power build with ZFS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4299
Thanks for the read. I'm doing something very similiar build with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182205 and a supermicro 8 port card [http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8~7SUP918N.htm] hoping to not just hold data, but to try out iSCSI over the two gigab...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:36 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Tricks of the P180
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5147
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:08 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: virtual playground
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3803
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:53 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: 800$-1200$ Build -- need motherboard/cpu/vga advice!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2472
1. There is only one model of i5 that you can currently buy, the i5-750 2.66ghz. I'd consider upgrading to the i7-860 if you do any video encoding at all, ever. It's very nice. 2. P183 is fine, quiet. Fans are mediocre at best. 3. PSU: Totally overkill. Corsair 550VX would be fine, especially since ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:13 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: [Sold] Motherboard, Q6600, Arctic Cooler 7, 4GB DDR2 - 250$
- Replies: 0
- Views: 875
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:33 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Recommendation on [quiet], powerful and small Corei5 system?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7521
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:33 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: WTB: Q9400 or better
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1521
I've got a q9450 I'd let go for 150$ also a used artic cooler 7, and 8GB of DDR2. and a motherboard that may have a flaky sata port. was trying to get rid of the whole lot for 250$ I posted this on another board "1. Processor is a 2.66 LGA 775 processor with 12MB of cache. Never overclocked, and wel...
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:38 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HDD Rack / Drive Cage for HDD Suspension?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1138
There isn't much that will softmount or suspend drives, but there are plenty of solutions you can do to hardmount a drive or drives in 5.25" bays.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817995004
would let you cram 3 drives in your 2 5.25" bays.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817995004
would let you cram 3 drives in your 2 5.25" bays.
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:33 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HELP! Major computer issues
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3423
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:27 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New hardware - System halts/freeze at random - Wall of text!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8846
Sounds like you have gone down most of the general troubleshooting. I'll throw you a couple more ideas. 1. I'd try an ubuntu live CD, see if that crashes. 2. I'd feel the heatsinks on the motherboard. Just because the CPU is within specs doesn't mean the northbridge isn't roasting. 3. Swap video car...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:17 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Some SSD for sale - Acard 9010b and Intel X25-E 32GB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1789
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only bump, i promise ^^
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- Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:18 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Some SSD for sale - Acard 9010b and Intel X25-E 32GB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1789
Some SSD for sale - Acard 9010b and Intel X25-E 32GB
Howdy. I figure I would post this here, and if no go, I'll try ebay; I haven't had any takers on craigslist. I have the following for sale; 1. A-Card 9010b with 12GB of Kingston unbuffered, ECC DDR2. Asking 300$ for the whole thing, cost me over 400$ to get it all together. http://chrisrandel.com/im...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:54 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: What Windows X64 OS for my SSD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1956
I've actually done a significant amount of research already. I know that Windows 7 [and Vista] automatically do the disk partition "Alignment" which gives you faster speeds. I've actually read the article you referenced. They never talked about drivers or anything in it, but yes, 7 had faster sequen...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:30 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Too noisy - P4 dual Xeon in 3U chassis
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4109
why not start by un-overclocking it? if it's too hot... well, isn't it obvious? a small overclock like that isn't likely to really have much performance effect. As fans go, I like Yate-Loon fans, with zalman fan controller. Works great and less than 10$ per fan+controller. Scythe and Noctua fans are...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:20 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: What Windows X64 OS for my SSD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1956
What Windows X64 OS for my SSD
Hello. After some research, I recently coughed it up for a Intel X25-E 32GB for my OS/Boot drive. I read SLC flash lasts a significantly "longer" time than MLC flash. I was running on a Acard 9010B, but due to some flakyness issues, I've moved off of that for OS. It was great while I had it, though....
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Modding an old Athlon XP 3200+ system
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3826
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:45 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Athlon X2 5000 BE acting strangely, why?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3807
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:33 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Challenge: Quieting a PowerEdge 2900 III
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15762
Nothing is impossible, but it will likely void your warranty. It seems like you have a lot of good hardware, and your limiting factors are your case and existing fans/PS. I would consider investing in a more moddable case [P182 ? Antec 300?], a more reasonable power supply [Antec 500W earthwatts? Co...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:52 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4955
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:20 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Question about SATA port PCI bandwidth
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1536
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:57 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Question about SATA port PCI bandwidth
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1536
Question about SATA port PCI bandwidth
The situation is: all devices on your SATA controller share the same PCI bandwidth lane. For example, I believe my motherboard shares six SATA ports for a 66mhz PCI lane, with up to 266MB/s bandwidth on it [at least according to spec] I know with traditional hard drives, it's unlikely you're going t...