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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...

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...

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 --...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thanks for the response. I have tried DRAM voltages up 2.3 already :( the one stick is perfectlyu happy and content at 800 4-4-4-12/2.1 OR 1066 5-5-5-18 The other gets very moody beyond 800 5-5-5-15. :( Ok, so as far as GPU, the 4870 wont help much over the 4850 at 1440x900? And also...

I really like IBT. It may not be the perfect test, but is able to find most any problem in a matter of minutes.

Hello All. I need some advice on upgrades Im about to do, or second opions rather. this may be a bit lengthy but bare with me please. For reference my OC is sitting at a 1:1 ratio 3.6Ghz Vcore 1.24V. Ram is Corsair DHX PC 6400 2X2GB kit. (rated 4-4-4-12 / 2.1V) I posted about...

Every Chip is different. But my guess is the voltage is slightly to low. Mine will run Linpack stable 25 passes at 1.24V 400x9 3.6Ghz. Some can get by with less and others need more. What you could do is under clock the RAM, Then run Linpack 10 passes. If it fails .. give a bump to...

Thank you for the advice. I tried dropping the multi to x8 and raising the nb using the 4-4-4-12 timings but didnt work for me. I went as far as 1.46 ... but stopped there as I personally felt it was a bit much seeing as the FSB is only 400. Just seems like such a huge leap just to...

Having a odd issue .. trying to keep stable 3.6 Ghz. I have ran MEMtest 86 @ rated speeds for my ram and passed 3 passes. Maybe not enough .. which was 2.1V 800Mhz @ 4-4-4-12. I also tested it using a 333/400 strap which puts it at the 960mhz rang 5:6 ratio (5-5-5-15) and passed there to...

Thanks Zero. I just wanted to be sure about those VTT and NB voltages before I started pushing things up more on the CPU. Leaving them at stock for some reason causes it to fail really quick ... Thanks again.

For the longest time my PC would always fail 64bit Prime. Yet, passed 12hrs + using the 32 bit version. So.... I decided to try Linpack (64 bit)and yet same .. failed. Usually 2-3 errors in a 10 test run. After much trial and error I think im good now. I ended up lowering my my clocks a...

I had the same question earlier ths year. Well ... kinda... I had a 5600+ i had OC'd to 3.0. It was decent. But I was curious if it would make much of a diffence going to the Intel set up w/a E8400. Anyway, as said before it depends on what you are doing. Once in windows, As...

Getting redy to upgrade as well.. I was looking this up the other day .. and everything I seen showed the X-fire 4850's equal to or in some cases a good deal faster than a GTX280 for like $200 cheaper ... (That is if you can Xfire) Hmmm im thinking ill go the 4850 Xfire route ...

If this has been asked before I apologize .. but im curious Does any one know or have run tests that could tell me what the difference is between 2X2GB RAM at: A. 4-4-4-12 800Mhz 1:1 Ratio B. 5-5-5-15 940Mhz 5:6 Ratio I know its been said little is gained from moving away from 1:1...

1 in a million chance but ... Ill sign up :P

You mean the 4870 x2? DFI released a bios updates that addresses this issue.

Hmm .. i always thought Norton Ghost worked like Acronis. Im not familiar w/ Ghost but Assuming it does work similar ... Dont you have a secured partition thats locked and hidden where the image is? I know with acronis you can burn a emergency image to a CD (of the program)to boot...

If disk management sees it .. all you need to do is right click it ... Create a new partion ... (repeat if you want more than 1.) Format em and assign letters. Sounds like they havent been set as a single or multiple partitions yet.

Hmmm .. Im actually getting ready to get some new speakers as well. Though i dont need anything amazing ... Where I live cant crank it up much anyway without irritating everyone :P Anyway .. Was looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836116025 And...

Any should be fine especially big names like Corsair,Mushkin,Kingston etc ... But in case you didnt realize you can get something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145194 You can run em at 4-4-4-12 800 (little bit over) and 2.1 OR They also OC to...

II have tried both. .. perhaps for some Vista FW would be fine. And to each their own. If you go into the advanced menus you can effectively control what comes in and out but ... To me personally this isnt good enough. I want to know when ANYTHING is trying to connect to my PC or going...

I used to have issues with Vista 64 when it came to gaming. BUT .. Since SP1 .. theres really no reason NOT to go w/Vista 64, especially if you have 4gb or more of RAM. Just make sure to get all the 64 bit drivers you need ahead of time. Its at the point now it runs games as well .. and in...

As far as the anti virus in Vista 64, what I have found to be a terrific combo (better than some paid software in fact) is the free version of Avira AND Comodo Firewall Pro. Also free. Comodo Firewall is the best firewall period IMHO. A bit naggy at first, but once you get used to it its...

I had a HP a few years ago that done something similar until eventually it wouldnt power up at all. Now this may not be your trouble, but something to look at. On that PC, the issue was the power switch itself. Have you checked that the switch itself is connected firmly as it...

Seeing as You run ATI cards .. I would def. go with a intel chipset x38 or x48. I have heard many good things about the Rampage suggested.. tho never had one. But .. I would also like to suggest the DFI DK x48 :) As long as you do not need things such as Firewire .. these boards...

Im quite impressed with my WD 640 tbh. My only gripe about it was the fact it had a 15.8 seek time, Due to AAM turned all the way down ... but one quick boot into DOS with Hitachis feature tool was able to set to normal seek time vs very quite. Now at 12.4. Even at that ... Its...

Hi. I recently added a WD6400aaks to my system, and windows vista 64 DID NOT see it. Bios knew it was there though, but the OS disk management has no options for it. Unless I totally missed something in Windows ... I used was Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 - and it worked...

Hi guys. Basically I have 2 Hard drives. 1st WD 640GB and 2nd. Seagate 7200.10 320GB Im using the 640GB As the Primary drive with Vista 64 installed in it. I made the 1st partition on the drive 45G(Primary) and the second is for games etc at 550Gb(Logical) On the 320GB Seagate I was...