The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

GM,
In a Real World sense, it really wasn't worth it, but in the sense that both of us got what we wanted, it was! It costs $14.34 to ship 5 pounds from Cali to Cincy! USPS isn't any cheaper either. I can't ship through the Business either, because they charge a fee for residential delivery these days. Any way to make a buck, I guess! LOL!! It cost less than half that to ship the D-940 to England! ROFLMAO!!

Best regards,
Russ

 

I was fine with my 30GB for OS till last week. after about a year using Win7 I found a program that needed the install of the VirtualXP mode integrated into all but home versions of 7. It runs about another 5GB so it is now crammed full of goodness. I still have a few GB left but now I will have to actually pay attention to what I do.
Good thing you don't defrag an SSD cuz mine would be too full if it were a regular HDD

 

That actually surprises me, obviously I assume all the graphics settings are set to minimum, but considering the HD4650 you bought was 50 times as powerful, it must mean The Sims scales very well.

 

That £470 is a steal. Those regularly go for £575, sometimes as much as £620! However, the HD4650 might be 50 times an FX5200, the HD5970 is 15 times an HD4650!

 

Did these guys take this to the limit or what!

When overclockers get bored: AMD Sempron single-core CPU gets pushed to 5.5GHz | Laptops and Desktops | ZDNet.com

http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=2122&tag=nl.e539

 

Interesting, you would think a single core CPU would overclock the best, but that's shy of what I've seen AMD's dual and quads get up to.

 

<---- a smiley doesn't exactly express how I feel right now LOL! Cloud nine, ecstatic, jumping up and down, etc. The darn box weighs almost 8 pounds!!! There's that corsair quality I love. I opened the package and smiled immediately. The fresh scent of metals, and paint Call me crazy, but I love that smell LOL! I can't wait to hook that bad boy up. Unfortunately, too busy right now. Saturday on the other hand, Oh baby!!!
HX750W Corsair

 

very very nice omega. hope u have a giodo time with it. and remember use protection!


and fred yuo thought that was good with a single core

check out what they did with a hexa-core

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18474/1/

 

at a whopping 1.9V!!! Unless given the CPU's infancy, the software/bios are acknowledging it falsely.

 

LN2. itll survive

 

Indeed Definitely NOT recommended for day to day LOL!

 

Nah, I like that smell too Still pales in comparison to the smell of plastic mounting they used back in 1999 though, was a lot nicer then. Probably more carcinogenic too, truth be told

 

What have you guy's heard about the new WD FAEX? I need an OS hdd for another system and was considering getting one of those to replace one of my older, smaller hdd's but I've read a few things about them making a lot of noise.

Even with the heat under control I'd still be worried at that voltage.

 

Pointless, S-ATA3 for mechanical drives makes no real difference.

 

Since it's only 10$ more than the FALS, I would think, possibly incorrectly, that the FAEX would be worth it as it's cache is twice as large.

Edit: I was never intending on getting it for it's SATA 3 capability, it's not even going on a SATA3 port lol.

 

For $10 more the extra cache might be worth it, it doesn't add up to much in terms of real world performance, less than half the extra % the price causes. I think the WD1002FAEX is a 4K sector drive though,so it has merits for that. Ultimately here, the price difference is more than $10 worth, so it makes more sense to buy one in the US.

 

Haha I love the smell of a freshly unpacked motherboard. Really nothing quite like it ;P

Plastic Mounting? Can you elaborate or just some random jargon?

But yeah my favorite smell ever is when you build a fresh new PC with new parts from the ground up. My whole room stinks of new electronics and I love it

 

Yah, I was definitely enjoying that smell earlier LOL!

Here's a size comparison of the VX550 to the HX750. Or at least their boxes I was in awe that newegg sent such a large box! Then I picked it up, and opened it LOL! I didn't expect it to be much larger than the 550. Boy was I wrong LOL! Though the PSU itself is generally only heavier. Not sure on its dimensions. I've seen PSU's online that are much larger of course I believe it was a 1300W one that I saw once upon a time. It had to be twice as long! I believe those are generally aimed at servers of course LOL! Although Quad SLI/Crossfire would probably benefit from a beafy PSU Depending on the GPU's power requirement of course...