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Recent content by Zayla74

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    ICH10 AHCI Drivers for EP45

    Hello everyone. Im not sure if this is the correct section to post my question, or if it needs to be in the Storage Devices. thought this may be more appropriate, but feel free to move it if not Mods. I have a Gigabyte Motherboard (EP45-UD3L) It has total of 4 Hard Drives (SATA) 2...
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    Best bang for buck SSD?

    16.8 of 29.8 free with all apps installed. But i deleted the hiberfile and disabled system restore ( Use Acronis Instead) But i moved Documents/Videos/Music/Pictures to spinning drives and install games to Spining Drives. As well as the TEMP Folder. they are great for the OS and all...
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    Best bang for buck SSD?

    I cant speak for the Intel, as i do not have one, but do hear very good things about them. I can say the OCZ Vertex is very good. im really happy with mine. I have the 30GB version which you can get for around 125-130$$ which isnt bad. Mine shows 215MB/s reads and 101MB/s Writes --...
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    Single SSD with Raid 0 Spinning drives

    Hello all. I a question concernig a raid (stripe) partition. I have 3 Drives in my system. A SSD 30GB Vertex (That Windows 7 is on). A 640 WD Blue and a 1TB WD Black What Im wanting to do is create a RAID array out of those 2 spinning disks just for DATA storage. Likely 3...
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    Looking for 250-750GB drive, recommendations please.

    Can't go wrong with the Wd drives IMHO, good speeds and highly reliable. I would recommend the WD 640 AAKS (blue or black edition) One of WD's best drive IMO. I have the Blue 640 and a Black edition 1TB and both are excellent drives. As single drives: My 640 Blue shows 94Mb/s in HDtune (12.6...
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    Raid Array VS single SSD

    Then I think Ill go with this lil 30G SSd then :) thank you all for the advice, much appreciated.
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    Raid Array VS single SSD

    Thanks :) looks like the SSD is the way to go from those tests -- at least for the intel you benched. If I go with the OCZ 30GB, I know that will be enough room for my OS and apps. As it is now I only use around 17GB or so with everything. By keeping all my other data, music...
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    Raid Array VS single SSD

    Hello all. Looking for some advice. ATM, the largest bottle neck my system has is the HD's. Currently My HD setup is: single 640WD and a single 1000 WD -- partitioned into 2 partitions each. 640 has a 50Gb for OS remainder partitioned for games 1T has a 40G for Documents and...
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    Q9650 and OCing

    I have the Xigmatek HDT 1283... the only issue i have with it, is that i have to mount sideways ... so that it where it pulls air from bottom of of case and blows it up .. Due to the NB heat sink on my Lanparty DKx48 it wont seat as it should :( Hopefully that shouldnt be a problem .. or...
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    Q9650 and OCing

    That what i was thinking as well, just some post i had read confused me a bit. Thank you for the reply.
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    Q9650 and OCing

    Hey everyone. I recently decided to upgrade my E8400 because i do ALOT of vide encoding, mostly he-def content, so i thought the Q9650 would benefit me for this situation more than my E8400 (even tho its a sweet chip). I ordered one and should be here this week and Ive seen so many threads im...
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    Advice on DDR2 Please

    I recently purchased some new RAM as 1 of my old PC6400 DHX sticks was bad (wouldnt operate above Cas5 @800mhz) I ended up getting the Dominators (1066 Cas5) set 2x2GB. The problem I have is it will not run @ 1066. Even w/CPU at stock setting the DRAM strap to 333/1066 and 2.1V as it...
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    A Good 22" Monitor

    Thank you all for the suggestions. In the end, I went to Best Buy and picked up the LG L227WTG. Maybe just me, but just seemed to have a better picture quality when looking at em up close. Course, that coulda been settings too. So far I love it :) I think I got lucky however...
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    A Good 22" Monitor

    Thank you all so far for the advice. So it seems My choices (in my price range) are: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001268 And http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005112 It would seem many would prefer the Samsung. Hopefully...
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    A Good 22" Monitor

    Im in the market for a new monitor, sadly I do not know much about them TBH. Currently I have a DELL SE198wfp. 19" 1440x900 and never really been happy with it. The color just doesnt seem right I cant explain .. the whites seem dull I guess you could say and rather dim. At any count, I...
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