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    best way to clone hard drive

    I have a 250gb hard drive that is my primary boot disk. I've just set up a raid 0 array with two hard drives, and I want to clone my boot disk onto the raid array. A pretty common scenario, really-- upgrade hard drive, don't want to reinstall *everything* from scratch, so just clone! I...
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    raid 0 for dummies?

    thanks! It was that easy. I was confused at first, because the screen where you set up the raid flashed by too quickly. But I was able to see that control- i got me there, and it was straightforward after that. Now... trying to figure out how to clone it....
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    raid 0 for dummies?

    Hi! I'm setting up a raid 0 array with 2 240gb sandisk extremes. They just arrived in the mail today, and I've physically installed them and updated the firmware. I already learned that the two hard drives destined for the raid array need to be plugged into very particular sata ports, and...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    finally, question on the thermal paste. I've been putting on a few tiny, tiny dabs around the cpu, then spreading with a credit card or razor blade. Someone else said just to put a rice-sized piece in the middle--- that the clamping pressure will spread it all by itself? (or did I...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    hmm... now this is more interesting. Someone else with similar issues-- he started with too much paste, but continued to have high temps: "He's not even checked his Vcore, there is no way that at full load he's running it on 0.9v, if he's got his voltage set to auto it'll pump through a stupid...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    found one forum post where a fellow bought nylon washers to lower the backing plate. (the washers that came with the h100i were not meant for that). This would mean that you could tighten the screws further and exert more clamping force. Worth trying? Would more force between the water block...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    err, also, the previously observed 95C temps were scary. And the computer still had not shut itself down. Should I tell it to shut down at a certain temperature, if so, what temperature, and if so, where's the best place to set that instruction? Would that be in the bios, or a windows 7...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    "In AIDA64 look under Computer->Sensor for thermal readouts." Still couldn't get aida64 to help me: looked there, and all it wants to tell me is the hard drive temperature, and for that, it says-- 'trial version' [that is to say, it refuses to tell me] May be that the trial version is severely...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    now, the difference between the cores-- that has to do with manufacturing variance? So if core 4 is consistently at least 15C cooler than core2, which is consistently the hottest, is there a way to instruct the computer to somehow favor core 4 in every task? Assign a priority list if you will...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    There's almost no difference at idle. But after several minutes of prime95, there's a huge difference. 40-55C difference (before, and after fixing my h100 install gaff), with coretemp reading fully 40-55C higher on the highest core than HWMonitor or speedfan, which both give just a single temp...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    is that something that 'unliding' would help, and if so --since I don't have $300 to waste on a mistake-- is there a forum member who offers unliding services?
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    I was reluctant, but I tore out the motherboard, and sure enough, as you guys suggested, I did not have it oriented correctly! Now that I reinstalled it, I can tell that it is much firmer. In theory the flexibility of the thin steel tabs might have accommodated this little issue, but it really...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    tried again for 5 minutes. coretemp says it reached the same levels-- 98C on core 2, but steady. this time also ran speedfan speedfan says 59C :) HWMonitor is another program, and seems lock-step with speedfan-- must be getting the same number from the same source. Also says 59C speedfan does...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    alright-- pulled off the cooler block. found 50% contact. Wiped it all down, Tried again: very thin and even layer on the cpu, with a credit card, tightened the nuts in an balanced criss cross pattern. same results! I actually counted the minutes more accurately; within 2 minutes of...
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    h100i water cooler-- installed wrong?

    the h100i came with thermal paste, but, I had to reinstall it (DOA motherboard, and to remove cpu to RMA it), so I wiped it all off and reapplied some arctic silver. I used a razor blade like a fine putty knife, to get what I thought was a thorough but thin layer.
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