The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Hehe great stuff, I hear they were very reliable for their day, well, the standard versions at least. Just, one of the noisiest drives on the market, and from Seagate. What's new eh?

 

LOL The one I have still works AFAIK. Has its original install of OS/2 as well.

Just for the record I seem to have avoided the noisy Seagate drives. 2 7200.9s and 2 7200.12s and all 4 are whisper quiet. Admittedly the 7200.10 I just got is a bit noisy, so I put it in my Intel storage box...

 

LOL! Definitely belongs in a museum. Sounds similar to an old WD 80Gb drive I have. The whirring anyway. The clicking is pretty extreme! 1500$ for a Legacy drive? I think not

 

Ha ha! Air conditioning never ceases to amaze. My 965 is at 34 idle, and my 940 is at 48-49C at High load. Love that 940. It does all of my BD encoding. I recently converted a Standard definition Star Trek Voyager 90min+ episode to a 1.4gb Mini DVD.

Sure am loving the X264 codec. 90min is utter crap(on a mini-dvd) in dvd compliancy. But in BD compliancy using the X264 codec to encode to AVCHD, it actually looks almost agreeable. I think that HD videos compress better than Standard Definition videos. Probably because HD is way less noisy. Much like how Jpeg images have a kind of Mosquito effect. The same thing can be noticed on standard definition.
I like star trek quite a bit. Every series that has been released. I hope that they do The next generation, and voyager on Blu-Ray. More than likely. I believe the original 1960's series is on HD disc. If that was doable, than anything is

I think I'm becoming spoiled to High Definition. You think? LOL!

 

Sam,
Here's an oldie for you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.25_inch_MFM_hard_disk_drive.JPG

5.25" full height. I had a 20MB Seagate SCSI drive that was about the size of a loaf of Raisin Bread. Note the two Data cable plugs!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Rob,
It's not a Cali conspiracy at all. UPS costs have risen quite a bit in the last few months. It cost me $14.34 to send you those DVDs, regular UPS. Someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested throwing them away, that it cost more to ship them than they were worth. I don't look at it that way. You got what you wanted and so did I, for less than placing a new order. I'm happy, and I'm pretty sure you are too!

All these shipping companies are all adding surcharges, for some of the silliest things they can think of. Same with the companies that sell them. I was looking for an AC adapter for an older Toshiba Laptop for Will. Came across one for $9.99. By the time the added the Handling Charge, Insurance charge, and everything else you could add, it came to around $27! LOL!!

Russ

 

Ha ha! My 750W Corsair is all hooked up And as you'd guess, I'm happy as a fly in $h!T. LOL! Speedfan just loaded highly rapidly. Much faster than it normally loads. I'd say at least 3X as fast. I don't know if all ailments have disappeared, but I'll definitely be vigilant! The Velociraptor has a dedicated Sata power connection, all 7200RPm drives have proper connections, all Optical drives have proper Molex or sata connections. And every sata device has a Gigabyte yellow sata cable The only oddball in the case, was a red cable going to my Blu-Ray drive. I replaced it for logical reasons
The power supply is no louder than the 550W. I've honestly never noted the sounds that a PSU can or do put out. Every OTHER fan puts out MORE noise than the PSU. My front HAF932 fan for instance is the most noticeable to me. And then the CPU fan.

I decided to leave the Tuniq towers stock fan in its rightful place. Its not incredibly loud, and it is proper

And as you can see, the 750W is a monster compared to the 550W Much more notably then I would have thought.


I find it strange, that Sata power connections require coiling in this fashion. Its almost as though either they designed them using a mirror, or my PSU passed through a Quantum Singularity LOL! My PSU is from an alternate universe LOL! Nah, every PSU i've had has the same design...


And here is my finished work. Cables are slightly messy, but not too bad...
Ok...perhaps it is rather messy! LOL!!!

 

Oman7,
Strange that the power connectors for the Sata drives appears to be upside down, which is why the need for the loop. My Cooler master has it's Sata power connectors all pointed in the right direction. For the life of me I can't understand why yours are upside down, since I've never seen a Sata anything that had the notch of the little "Ls" pointing up. Strange!

The AC Adapter for the Toshiba Laptop came today, and it just has a broken screen and needs a memory upgrade to 2GB, so now I can order my 955BE! Yay! The 630 is going in Oxi-II, so there will be 2 Quads in the house! LOL!!

Happy Computering :0),
Russ

 

they arnt upside down, its that he is goign from bottom to top rather than the de facto standard top to bottom, with the wiring. if the PSU was installed top of the case they wouldnt be upside down.

 

LOL! I can be such a fool sometimes. Thanks for pointing that out

Creaky, I'm face-palming right now LOL!!!

 

Shaff,
What do they teach you guys in College these days? ROFL!! Mine are plugged in exactly the same way, with the end Sata Power Plug at the top. No Loops! It wouldn't matter whether his PSU is top or bottom, as long as the wires were long enough. His will still only be straight, without the loops if you put the end plug in the bottom one. Turning the plug doesn't matter. In fact, the mistakes are the lower 2 being upside down, not the single one, because the loop continues to the next one because each plug wire goes from bottom to top in each of the lower plugs!! One of those simple things that Engineers sometimes fail to spot! It's just so simple a thing, no one notices! I've seen, and had to fix, far worse!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Omega: Never watched any of the original series, but I'm quite a big fan of the modern Star Trek series, would love to see them in HD as I'm an HD fanatic. However, it's not likely because TNG, DS9 and VOY were shot for the live action on 35mm film, easily converted to HD. However, the special effects were overlayed digitally onto 480i broadcast. The only way you could make the series high def would be to re-render all the special effects. They've done it with the original series because the original series' special effects are so outdated and basic, but for all 21 series of the modern era stuff, that's a monumental effort, I doubt they'll bother

As for the PSU, neither the 550VX or 750HX are among the quieter Corsair models so they probably are quite similar. Comparing the 750HX to the 450VX or 520HX you'd probably notice quite a bit of difference, depending on the noise of the rest of the system.

 

Never was a fan of Star Trek. I like certain story arcs, but the fiction is too... sterile for me. There's no hardship, main characters RARELY die and even then sometimes not even permanently, and there's no driving motivation to the plot. "Oh no, we're exploring!"

On the converse I LOVED LOVED LOVED the re-imagined(new) Battlestar Galactica!!! Have watched the entire series start to finish several times and I am absolutely enthralled. Luckily the series is very modern so there are already Blu-Rays out! I own the entire series in the DVD box set and am currently "in the process" of acquiring the HD version

I mean, wow they use nukes in nearly every battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_sAxukU2M&feature=related

Of course I am watching equally for the action and the fiction, so maybe not a "true" Sci-Fi geek's cup of tea. But TBH Star Wars pwns both so badly it's not even funny

Also am a huge fan of HD video as well. Nothing quite beats watching a good 1080p rip with 1:1 pixel mapping

 

omegaman7...I think U need a larger CPU Cooler
I've never seen anything like that what is it

 

BSG was often good for violence (better than ST, no question) but I hear people moan a lot about the storyline. The writing in Star Trek is really what keeps me there, not the ultimately still cheesy SciFi effects.

Rick: Tuniq Tower.

 

I would like 2 C a new series on The Hulk, with a no budget 4 CGI
Would be very interesting to see it start where the movie left off
Of course theirs no chance in hell of that happening

 

I found the story riveting and I was glued to my seat for several hours a night for weeks. Really should give the first episode a watch and tell me what you personally think. The series actually has excellent writing and a deep, meaningful story.

Violence, well that's a given. I'm a fan of large scale battles

I think Star Trek is an excellent series, and I'll watch it if it happens to be on. But it's not my favorite Sci-Fi fiction


Anyhoo to get it back on topic I finally have my HTPC build together. And will probably be ordering my second 5850 sometime this week.

 

Been meaning to for a while, will probably do so once I'm done with all of DS9 and Voyager. I have another 72 episodes to go in the former and another 123 episodes of the latter.

 

i want a redo.. i wanna send my HAF922 back and get this one.
thanks for the link WIll

http://forum.coolermaster.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14157&p=103807

 

I'm gonna look at power adapters really differently now. With contention Every one of my devices has a proper connection now. I'm experiencing zero lag. My hard drives are behaving exactly as they should. It was not a windows issue. I will still however remain skeptical. For when I think all is well, that's when $h!t hits the fan

Wow sam, you got some serious catching up to do I was laughing my butt off yesterday watching voyager episodes. I forgot how excellent it was. Can't believe there aren't more fans. Looks like if I wanted to, I could back up a single episode on a CD, and have the video quality look agreeable for standard definition Certainly better than basic satellite stations

Eh, its pretty rob. But I like having my side intake fan