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    A10 5700 hybrid crossfire with 6670 (ddr3 version)

    I may have misinterpreted what I was reading, but the chart shown on this page made it sound to me like "crossfire support" is a feature of the A85x chipset that is not shared by A75 or A55. Are they talking about the ability to crossfire multiple PCIe cards as opposed to doing it between the...
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    A10 5700 hybrid crossfire with 6670 (ddr3 version)

    I could be wrong but I believe I read that you need an A85 motherboard to make use of the APU's crossfire capabilities. I have an A75 motherboard (w/ an A10-5800K) and found out about that after I bought it, but personally it's not a feature I was likely to use anyway.
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    Hard drive advice for new build

    I agree those are not close in price, but there are inexpensive 7200 rpm 2 TB drives. Newegg has a Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 2 TB for $70 at the moment. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834
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    Internal vs. External HD for Backup?

    I guess one possible strategy would be to disconnect the cables to the drive when you're not going to be using it.
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    Internal vs. External HD for Backup?

    In my experience, one vulnerability of an external HDD is that it's fairly easy to knock it off the table while it's running and wreck the drive that way.
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    Blu Ray Burners

    Some of the newer burners support a higher capacity disc format called BDXL with capacities up to 128 GB, something to look out for if that interests you. I don't know how many players are compatible with the format though, and the media is ridiculously expensive for now. Personally I just have...
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    Hard drive advice for new build

    I have a couple of WD Green 5600(?) rpm, 2 TB drives that I use primarily for media storage, and IMO they are certainly fast enough for that purpose (since playing movies doesn't remotely push the drive to its limits in terms of transfer speeds). At that time (pre-flood) they were significantly...
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    Development PC build

    Canada Computers has a physical store in London too I believe.
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    Simple / small htpc – is zotac e-350 a way to go???

    I have a computer with a Sapphire E-350 ITX motherboard (Pure White Fusion). I'm generally pretty happy with it but I have encountered a few downloaded videos that it chokes on (x264@1080p with high bitrates).
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    Which component have I fried?

    As it turns out, the PSU in the other case does have one of the 4 pin connectors and I was able to start the computer up and install the OS. I'm still down one power supply but at least I can give the new hardware a try now. Thanks everyone for talking me through this problem.
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    Which component have I fried?

    The computer had stopped working recently which is why I chose this time to upgrade, but I guess the power supply could have caused that problem as well for all I know. I do have another desktop computer that I could test the new motherboard with, thanks for the idea. Edit: works as before...
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    Which component have I fried?

    I did not know that. This PSU doesn't have a 4-pin connector though. The PCI-E power cable I used to cause this mayhem is actually a Molex to PCI-E adaptor.
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    Which component have I fried?

    The connector fit easily without excessive force in one of the two possible positions with the clip parts on the same side. I believe the polarities were opposite to what they should have been. If I can get this PSU to work with a simple adaptor then that would be great, because I was not...
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    Which component have I fried?

    Thanks for the feedback. If you're right, at least it's not the more expensive of the two parts that needs replacing.
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    Which component have I fried?

    I made a very boneheaded mistake and seem to have destroyed some equipment i just bought, but go easy on me. I bought an AMD A10-5800K cpu and Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H motherboard to upgrade a computer that's around 5 years old (HP a1700n, vista era Athlon 64 dual core). The power supply does not...
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