The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Well then, I stand corrected

 

what would be a good HD5670 512MB in the price range of 79 us dollars?

 

Today! Breaking News
Ati will be no more!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103117-AMD-Pulls-the-Plug-on-ATI

The upcoming new cards will all be AMD.

Russ

 

Oman7,
It doesn't work that way. There's a check valve between the compressor and the tank, so there is no back pressure issue. Usually the pressure release valve will pop off, long before the tank is filled to the max pressure, but the compressor will continue to build pressure, and can even blow the tank without a safety relief valve. It will reach a point where it will no longer build anymore air pressure in the tank, but that's way higher pressure than you would ever get to under normal use. Most tanks today, have a fiberglass lining in them to prevent rust. I was standing right next to an older Dental Compressor, when it blew the entire bottom out of the 6 gallon tank, because of rust. The Doctor and I, who were talking in the utility room came out of there looking like a pair of bronze statues from all the rust dust! we were covered from head to foot with rust! LOL!! The pressure switch and the relief valve on the compressor both stuck from rust and the pressure got up to 175 lbs, just before it blew. I saw the air pressure guage at 175, and was just reaching for the switch when the tank let go. it blew about a 2.5' hole in the bottom of the tank (it was old). Thankfully, no one got hurt.

Don't underestimate how much power there is in relatively low pressure. I once noticed a developing crack in the door hinge of an Autoclave. I was just barely able to flatten the girl standing in front of it to the floor, when the door blew off. 30 PSI was enough to throw the 17 lb. door clean across the room and bury it about half way through the lab door. She would have been seriously hurt, or maybe even killed if it had hit her, not to mention all the instruments that flew out of it as well. I also saw one blow out the bottom of the chamber, and it jumped about a foot in the air when it did. It takes a lot to move 57+lbs. like that. Again, only 30 lbs of pressure!

Oh! More than likely it wasn't the weight of the car that prevented the tire from filling. When a tire is flat and sitting on the ground, it usually pulls the bead of the tire slightly away from the rim at the bottom enough, that it won't fill. Jacking up the car allows the bead to seal enough to fill! Higher air pressure and airflow will usually overcome that too!

Russ

 

I guess that makes sense LOL! I overlooked that part...

 

Got back from the LAN and didn't have any major problems, however this morning I noticed the speed of the fans on channel 2 of my controller kept going down and then back up in a rhythmic cycle. Curious, I decided to take the side panel off and inspect the fans, which is when I noticed the second fan on that channel wasn't spinning, even at 12V. There's no impedance to movement, but whatever's happened electronically, the fan is moving backwards and forwards rather than in only the correct direction, basically shorting the channel on the controller. Removing this fan from the channel stopped the variations in speed (and voltage) of the other fan. I wonder if this shorting is what fried the other Rheobus. It certainly seems plausible.
No amount of blowing, tapping or bashing the fan (though it did produce some interesting noises) corrected the problem, so I'll need to buy a new Slipstream

 

Haha wow Sam ever seen the like.

 

jumped my case back to my Lian-Li PC-A70B.

CPU temps drops about 20C idle (from about 50 to 30) and GPU from 55 to 46.

mind you the CPU was OCed to 3.2 before, now at 3.42. But i am using a push pull configuration, with the H50, being a gentle typhoon > H50> corsair stock fan.

 

Is this your case shaff? Pretty sharp looking

 

Well...My velociraptor has me rather unimpressed lately. It's been slowing down. It doesn't multitask as well as I'd like. Suppose the size of the cache could have something to do with it

I also came close to maxing out my 4Gb of ram earlier. And I don't like closing photoshop, because I lose history states when I do that. My next system is gonna REQUIRE 8Gb or more

 

I thought you sold it?
And yeah that's the case he had. The A70Bs are vast cases, I'm pretty sure they're noticeably larger than the HAF932.

Yeah I'm going to be going for an upgrade to 8GB of RAM relatively soon, certainly by the time I upgrade my graphics. As for the velociraptor, they are still mechanical drives. Defragged lately? How full is it?

 

yes sir ill post pics up tomorrow of how it dwarfs my system

though thats a modded side pannel, i have also had mine modded and the top. this is how it looked 2 years ago:

http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk50/shaffaaf27/PC and desk/

i then had the case in my sig and the SG01 before that (for uni purposes as transporting was annoying) and now im home for a the forseeable future, back to the big case

 

I still can't believe you went with scabby City university just because your mates weren't with you in York...

 

not mates, tbh they arnt at city either, but i just couldnt stand york.

id take big city over a village any day

nop i gave it to my brother.

i think i shall be keeping it, even though the FT02 is MIGHTY tempting.

but 6 series upgrade and P6X58D-E i7 950 unt ram n SSD (160GB G3 intel) will be coming first, as soon as all are available in steady stock.

i realise sandy bridge is around the corner, but lack of OCing, minimal gains in performance (games really), according to anadtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/the-sandy-bridge-preview-three-wins-in-a-row/1
"Clock for clock however, Sandy Bridge seems to offer a 10% increase in performance" this is compared to lynnfield.

and i really cant wait a year for BD. to come out. hell its the server parts being released first, no? as i cant see anything that doesnt state sever.

 

A year? Better not be! They better bend over backwards, just for me LOL! I've been waiting for a super upgrade that Bulldozer would surely be!

 

all answers point to a Q2-Q3 release.

 

Unfortunate.

You know what? I really need to read a windows 7 optimization forum. I imagine both me and the PC would benefit from some tweaks

LOL! The PC and I

 

A village, I lol'ed. I'm still interested what the real reason is
I agree about Sandy Bridge to be honest. I think the way to go is going to be LGA1156/1366 until Bulldozer comes out, assuming it's as good as we're hoping it will be. I'm surprised you're buying an X58 board though, what use do you have for i7s over i5s?

 

anyone else find that after a while FF crawls to a stop? white screens and then starts again at a snails pace?

for the extra RAM, instead of getting 8GB, plus itll stop me from jumping to X68/bulldozer asap, as im sure the extra power should last me. though, if funds arnt enough, i will go the P55 route. i just rather not populate all my ram slots.