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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. theonejrs

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    No, I meant FM.
     
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    Have I gotten that senile? LOL If you aren't talking about the model of the Silverstone, then I missed something???

    Russ
     
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    Well, no offense, but the FM121 is the fan you were fond of for ages before replacing it with the FN. The FM is the one that was 2400rpm with the 3.5" bay controller. I was just using it as an example as it is the only other fan I've had that does at least the 1900rpm speed of the scythe with more than 7 blades. I'm well aware the FN121 can't do 1900rpm.
     
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    Thanks Sam. You had me worried for a moment. I though I'd gone "Round the Bend"! :)

    I used to run that fan between 1300 and 1400 rpm. Full tilt was more noise than any man should have to endure! 37dBA is loud!

    Russ
     
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    My mom recently went to a yard sale that had oodles of PC stuff. She wishes I was there to see it. I guess I wish I was there too LOL!
    But she brought me home multiple pc screws, multiple fans/heatsinks, and a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor still attached to the heatsink. I wonder if one of those fans will serve the purpose.

    This is my current stockpile
    [​IMG]
     
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    You sure those 60mm fans are 10mm thick? The lattewr one looks more like 25 to me.
     
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    Looks like the mysterious Flash drive printer bug is back. I plugged my kingston 16Gb drive into the BACK of the tower, and for whatever reason, my printer no longer receives data. At least it wasn't in the middle of a print job this time :p Very weird. The 16Gb kingston is the only one that effects the printer. No other flash drive has caused it. So somehow, its disrupting the printers connectivity...
    I wonder if anyone else has experienced this with the following drive
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139018
     
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    I measured them sam :p
     
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    Fair enough. If any USB peripheral interrupts of any of the others, and it's only that peripheral that does it, it usually suggests a USB fault with said peripheral. This is actually quite common, my cheap nasty USB enclosure does it.
     
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    Oman7,
    Measure those 60mm fans. They look more like a 70mm to me. A 70mm x 15mm is 2.75" x 19/32"

    Russ
     
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    Nah they're 60s, I have an identical heatsink to the penultimate one on the bottom at home, and it has a 60mm fan.
     
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    I measured in exactly millimeters. I have a lovely little ruler, that measures both Metric, and Standard inches. What are the measurements of the fan you're using russ? You say you don't use the 965's stock, I'm not sure what fan you ARE using ;) Likely you've mentioned it before, and it's slipped my mind :S

    Wow creaky! That sucker sounds highly impressive.
     
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    Is that PCIe 4x slot 2.0 spec? Assuming it is, there's 2GB/s of bandwidth to play around with, ample for the rated speeds. With Sandforce controllers, the random access performance should be pretty good as well. If all you need is 480GB of space (ample for most uses where this level of bandwidth is required) then it sounds like a solid purchase.
     
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    It's all gobbledegook to me at the moment, SSD's and databases. Am going on a MySQL course in a few months and i've yet to properly look into how our MySQL system is configured, the database replicates across 2 or 4 servers plus there's the webservers and all associated gubbins. The database itself lives on one or more pairs of SSD drives, the idea is to possibly upgrade from those to the OCZ cards
     
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    You make that sound really grim LOL!
     
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    Grim ?, i take it you mean the course; no, (well i hope not!), but it'll be a bit different to what i'm usxed to i guess. Then there's php scripting to get into after that, which should hopefully just be an extension of my Unix & linux scripting, and loads more stuff that i wouldn't normally do. This new job means i'm finally working with all the Windows Active directory/Windows server stuff (which i'd never done before), as i expected that side of things is a piece of cake, but i'll certainly have my hands full with MySQL and php. But i'm always busy linux scripting for now in between other stuff, that's keeping the grey cells exercised 'til i go on the course.

    Had just never been interested in SSD's before, as work uses them i'll be looking into how they work at some point. We are also about to undertake a project to see if we can find an alternative to the current (linux sendmail) mail server, and then migrate to the new one when we have found something and tested it, we're looking at something called Zimbra.
     
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    Sorry. I simply meant your terminology intimidated me. Made it sound grim/ghastly to me LOL!
     
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    Oh sorry :). Just don't get much chance to drop by AD much nowadays so i thought i'd best explain my absence LOL. Was just wondering if the SSD PCIe cards sounded (to you guys) much different from normal SSD drives being as such technology is alien to me at the moment, i tend to only bother researching some things as and when they land on my radar.
     
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