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    Cheap power supply in my new iBUYPOWER Supreme TG931SLC

    (shakes fist at info left out) ;). If you had said that you were intending to buy there due to the gift certificate, could have recommended better ones for $90 CND that that shop carries. That "Enermax" is far from the best you could get for that money. At least it received an average "Pass"...
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    Cheap power supply in my new iBUYPOWER Supreme TG931SLC

    Yep, not reassuring. Also doesn't answer whether you still have a warranty or not on the rest of the system if you do replace the power supply. I'd contact them again and try to get a definite answer to that. If you replacing the power supply does not affect the warranty, get a new one. And...
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    Looking for a viable dual socket option for the price of a hexa SB-E and x79 board

    :rolleyes: Its called "regurgitating" experiences working with multi-million dollar clients. Clients who actually deal with machine-check exception logs and know what (fucking) risk assessment means. Overclocking (seriously?) and running without ECC memory to do CAD in a business just makes...
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    Looking for a viable dual socket option for the price of a hexa SB-E and x79 board

    And you seem to be blindly applying your sample size of one to this ;). And no, I'm no "blindly repeating" anything. Servers and workstations in reliable businesses--and CAD businesses/departments--don't use ECC just to spend (usually extra) money. Its called investing to reduce risks...
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    Looking for a viable dual socket option for the price of a hexa SB-E and x79 board

    I'm saying that the thought of not using ECC memory for CAD simulations that you perform for clients that are part of a money making enterprise is absurd. Not that you are. "I think flipped bits/memory errors haven't happened to me yet" just isn't a valid reason in a business where accuracy...
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    Looking for a viable dual socket option for the price of a hexa SB-E and x79 board

    ^^^ Hardly. Doesn't look like you understand what ECC does. If you are running CAD simulations as part of your job (for the company to make money, for you to have a job), doing without ECC is absurd. Especially so with large memory quantities. 4 socket SuperMicro boards are here. E5-4600 or...
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    frustrated: cloned hd won't boot.

    So does Macrium Reflect Free Edition, as noted previously. And Clonezilla for straight cloning/backups/recovery. And PartedMagic if you want to combine Clonezilla and Gparted (for expanding partitions after cloning). And other options. No need to pony up dough for a reliable cloning solution.
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    Program that measures harddisk activity use?

    The free Sysinternals ProcessMonitor is one option. A bit unclear to set up to see disk activity exclusively, however. Have to "unclick" all the icons on the right side of the toolbar except "Show File System Activity".
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    Scroll Stopped Working

    The scroll wheel is often the first thing to wear out on a mouse. If you have any other mouse with a scroll wheel around, plug it in and see if it exhibits the same behavior. If not, look to either replace/return for a RMA that G510...or clean it. As in blow with compressed air around the...
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    Can RAM be incompatible but still function?

    Its an anti-overclocking sentiment. Intel's statement: "Intel recommends using memory that adheres to the Jedec memory specification for DDR3 memory which is 1.5 volts, plus or minus 5%. Anything more than this voltage can damage the processor or significantly reduce the processor life span."...
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    Mechanical Keyboards

    Wanted to ask: how's the build quality on your Unicomp? Any deformed keys or odd clicking, etc.? I have one from many years ago and its pretty decent; not up to Model M (or Lexmark Model M) standards, but OK. However, have heard their overall quality has gone downhill in recent years. So...
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    frustrated: cloned hd won't boot.

    Didn't realize the second sentence; I've never personally used Macrium, just received positive feedback locally (as well as the web). Like Old Hippie, Old Coffee Slurper here follows traditional logic. In my case, that you can only adjust partition size of the clone after doing it, not before...
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    blue-ray media backup ? outdated ?

    Heh. "Economical" isn't the only consideration for reliable backups ;). I used to think that too. I have literally hundreds of backup DVDs (and CDs) floating around here. If commercial software DVDs can still be read years later, DVD writables should be just as reliable, right? Wrong...
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    Dropped a running hard drive

    After doing an extended (or quick) test, fully shut down your system properly, then turn it back on (to make sure everything is recorded properly). Then look at the SMART data in Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows. Click select a drive, right click, then select "Show SMART Disk Info". It...
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    frustrated: cloned hd won't boot.

    Sorry I wasn't able to come in earlier to help before you gave up. That 100MB system reserved partition--as pointed out by Old Hippie above--shouldn't have been touched at all. The _only_ partition to work on was was the second one on the new drive. The bootrec commands that you tried should...
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