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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by ddp, Jul 16, 2008.

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  1. abuzar1

    abuzar1 Senior member

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    Whooo I WIN! lol

    I might end up getting one of those samsungs later. Unless 21122112(I'm calling you numbers from now on) cares to elaborate on how they can use any drive.
     
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    LOLPiracy?
     
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    All you burner peeps. Sony NEC Optiarc 7200 is good right? I'm trying to order today and I'm a cheapskate so I'll buy this one over the Pioneer. I don't need the BEST anyway.

    Greg, they are just backups.
     
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    Don't know. I only have about 15 burners so i don't bother keeping up to date with the latest drives
     
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    15 burners, thats IT? You're falling behind man.
     
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    This is unfortunately true because titles are determined by the number of posts rather than what you know. I suspect that AD has lost a lot of really good people on that basis alone. Sometimes having addict status isn't all that it's cutup to be either. I came close to ending my Sophocles nick a few months ago and returning with a new one or just quitting altogether. Perhaps you know someone who's done exactly that. I guess some of us have been at this for too long and it's nearing time to move on to another distraction.
     
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    Are you seriously going to jump on me for being a prick because of a silly little Title? I misunderstood what you said, I'm not ignoring you or looking down upon you. I'll be the first to admit I don't know all that much about computers, video game consoles, etc.
     
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    e2140 is blowing his top to much voltages..lol

    @abuzar

    roll with the Sony Optiarc 7200 it's a good burner..and for the price you can't beat it..when your friends come over just stick a BenQ sticker on it and ay ..I got 1..lol
     
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    Abuzar

    I don't think that he meant anything by it and I was just ruminating back over the last 5 year of being here, and the changes I've seen. There are a lot of addicts on AD who probably have a hard time just tying their shoes, but they feel comfortable giving advice without really knowing what they're talking about.
     
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    bigwill68

    yeah the benq drives are good drives ( i have a 1650) its just to bad they are not being made anymore.


    abuzar1

    the lite-on drives are good burners as well. ( just like everybody in this thread has stated already.) i also have a Sony Optiarc 7200 but i have done a few burn's on it and they play fine. however have not done a dl dvd+r on it yet so i can't say how well it works with them.
     
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    Heck, while we are on the subject, we are discussing quality burners so why not media?

    I used to use Taiyo Yuden but my burner never liked them so i have a big stack of about 90 lying around. I have had good success with using the Sony DVD media(Accucore)

    Any other media i should keep an eye out for?
     
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    greg, royal mail them this way then :D

    i need some haha.

    good to see you back. whats ur clocks on your P5K-E. dont you find there arent enough voltage options to select from?
     
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    So all Video Games have to be burnt on DVD+R Discs
     
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    So I bought the Optiarc. No going back now. I just bought 4GB of PC2-8500 corsair dominators, the optiarc, seagate 250GB hdd, and an asus 4850.
     
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    The max i could get my Quad to with 800Mhz(oced it to a number i cant remember)ram was 3.6

    I had to push quite a big vcore threw(less than 1.5 though) but i need this quad to last so i stopped. I could have maybe made more but the ram couldnt oc for the speed i needed.

    I have found a sweet spot with this board though. If you set the FSB to 333 you get a nice 3 Ghz and have it rock solid stable at Full Load with a 1.3250v core. Which is like 1.298 after v droop.

    As for voltage options, i can't complain really as i don't do much ocing anymore. I'll find a sweet spot like the above and leave it there.
     
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    i burn all my xbox games (not xbox 360) on +R discs, but only because i use Maxell +R for all my xbox games so i don't know if -R work.
     
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    I burned all my Xbox(not 360) on DVD-R. They all worked fine and I burned about 80 of them.
     
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    A lot of burning software book types DVD+R discs to DVD-R.
     
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    They're both good memory but if I was going to overclock I would go with the one that is rated for higher bandwidth the OCz.
     
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