The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Sam,
I know it exists, because I googled it to look for a Newegg link and didn't find one. I then went to GigaByte and looked it up, and there it was! LOL!!

Russ

 

Well you know what ,I suggest or would build myself they make a Great match together and you saw it for your self hands on helping!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138159

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
Micro Center i5-750 cost $179.99

Teamed up with these boys
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231259

can you say 4.2ghz Oc'd all day...lol


that P55A-UD5 is a gamer man's board that's surely Sam's Cup of Tea when it comes running multi video cards that produce some heat,lol not picking on you Sam


The Battle still continues Between Amd 965BE C3 & Intel Q9550

 

not enough sata plugins on it and only 3 fan headers, plus he has RMA'd it twice now. mem slot 2 & 4 were non functional, I/O panel on half the usb ports dont work. plus DDR3 2000 is the way to go on these I5/I7 builds the mem i choose i will swap out for DDR3 2000. more reliable wuth most every board for OC'ing.

i wouldn't mind that GA-P55A-UD5 but it cant be found around here...lol but in a few months it just might.

 

If you read the reviews, most of them are complaints about the limitations of P55 itself. Most of those reviews weren't using any learned information at all. Every single thing they complain about is covered in the documentation. There is no excuse for giving a bad review to a product you don't understand...

Case in Point:

Slagging Gigabyte when it's not their fault? You ignorant edited by ddp. It's listed in the P55 documentation.

 

Hurr Durr how do I get two USB3 ports at 150MB/s each, two S-ATA3 ports at 600MB/s each and two graphics cards at 8x each off a chip that only provides 16x bandwidth?
Tards.

 

a bit defensive there calling a random person an ignorant prick lol. But i agree he should have gone with ECS

I thought the link to the PCH was 2GB^-1s? So that's 6x3000Mbs^-1s (sata) plus 14x480Mb^-1(usb) plus 8x500MB^-1s (pcie 1x) use all of them and that's 18000+26880+32000= 76880/8 = 9.6GB^-1s. Yeah 2GB^-1s isn't enough lol. That's if my maths right. And id assume the sata3 and usb3 use pcie 1x for their bandwidth, as does one lan port, and that can double upto 2, so 6 ports gone there. Leaving a theoretical 2x pcie slot left. Its why nvidia realistically can't do onbaord graphics for it.

 

If you're going to try using the scientifically accepted unit, you need to do it properly
2GB^-1s is two seconds per gigabyte. 2GBS^-1 is two gigabytes per second.
The Peripheral controller hub controls the standard USB2 and S-ATA3 connections I believe. I am unsure exactly how USB3 and S-ATA3 are wired, because their use reduces the speed of the 16x slots if they are set to 'fast' mode. You can use them without this side-effect, but their performance is of course stunted. Assuming 16x worth of bandwidth for the USB3, S-ATA3 and PEG alone, that renders, of the 8GB/s available bandwidth, a minimum of 6GB/s, since 2GB/s is used for the pair of 600MB/s S-ATA ports and pair of 400MB/s USB3 ports, assuming both ports can operate in SuperSpeed at once, without shared bandwidth.

 

Hey sam, for whatever reason, it now seems to be averaging ~68MB/second transfer speeds over Giga Lan, on the 5000AAKB. Perhaps my drives are too fragmented. It is possible. I'm pretty bad about defragmenting LOL!

 

Hmm perhaps the IDE interface just isn't that fast...

 

Think I might have bad sata cable, are there any good brands (or ones to avoid)?

TIA,

redmaw

 

Red_Maw... it's luck of the draw if you ask me.

Try some of these.

SATA cables at www.svc.com

or these

SATA cables as www.coolerguys.com

 

Agreed

However, on multiple occasions I've been told that Gigabytes yellow cables are very good. I have multiple different types myself, And as far as I know, all are perfect I believe my current problem to be caused by something else...

 

Large fan of Gigabyte's yellow cables myself. Every single red ASUS cable I've used has had a failure. In stark contrast, I'm still using cables from my Gigabyte P965 board for OS drives

For those of you who don't know me from way back when, I bought my P965 board in mid 2006...

 

Every red one? That makes me really nervous LOL!!! I have at least 1 in my tower right now. I believe that one is ran to one of my burners. All yellows are ran to my HDD's I believe I have 5/8 yellow, 1/8 black, 1/8 blue, and 1/8 red. Well, at least over half of them are yellow

LOL! I think I have enough to make them all yellow

 

I applaud you for your diversity. Some people are prejudiced towards those of different color and it is examples like this that show we can all get along. If this mixed relationship is possible whats next?
XBOX vs. Playstation wars end?
Pepsi vs. Coke?
Browns vs. Steelers?
Liverpool vs Manchester United?
Apple & Windows marry, get Linux drunk, and talk it into a 3way just to keep things fresh in the bedroom?
Is this what the whole 2012 thing was about?

 

Edit=multiple post

 

LOL! Cable is cable. I bought two super cheap HDMI cables from the EGG as well. They work perfectly. I think that some people are either too rough with their cables, or they simply got an EXTREMELY rare bad cable. Though machines aren't perfect either Machines are only as good as WE make them

 

Well the Gigabyte ones certainly seem to be of higher than average quality. The snap-in connector clips especially are more solidly built(not to mention older ASUS cables have no clip at all).

And yes, EVERY red one. 1 was running an ODD and its function slowly deteriorated over time. The disks wouldn't autorun, the tray wouldn't open and close properly(I had to use the emergency open hole exclusively for that drive), and it made like 3 drink coasters in every 5 burns.... at minimum speed. Replaced it with an orange/yellow Gigabyte cable and haven't had an issue since.

Imagine a similar horror story for the other 2 failed cables but on OS drives

It definitely can't hurt to have all identical cables. For me, it's both functional and aesthetic considering my windowed case

Also, round IDE cables seem to have a failure rate as well. Bought several OEM and 2 of those have failed on me. Replaced all of mine with XFX brand cables and no issues since

 

Quick Question when using an External SATA where do U get the power ? Do U have to use an Adapter power cable

 

My Western Digital MyBook is eSATA compatible though I'm currently running it through USB. If you have an enclosure, like mine, it uses its own external power adapter. If it's just a bare drive, I think there are external adapters you can attach to get power through USB. If you have neither, just leave the case open and plug in a SATA power cable.