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- Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6395
Re: Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
The ramdisk is really used as a scratch drive for things like temp folders, file unzipping workspace, browser cache, etc. The SSD is for installing the operating system and applications on. In reality, a ramdisk isn't really necessary at all. I just created it for the sake of putting the ram to use....
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6395
Re: Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
An update of my new SSD upgrades. Replaced the Intel SSDs for a pair of Samsung 840 250gb in raid 0.
- Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6395
Silent Gaming Machine (Very large picture warning)
First off, here are the specs: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe Intel Core I5 3570k with Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with 1155 Bolt through kit 32gb G.Skill DDR3 1600 with half used as a ramdisk Seasonic X-660 80+ gold AMD Radeon 6970 with Accelero Xtreme PLUS II, dual 12cm fan replacement 2x Samsung 840 250g...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:35 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31975
Re: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
Maybe this question is more suited to a graphics card review, but I'm interested in how quiet it is in an idle or desktop situation. I like to leave my computer on at night when I sleep so extreme silence is pretty important. When I game, I have headphones on so system noise under load isn't too big...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:23 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: News: Sandybridge, Bulldozer and UEFI
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11319
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning HDD off in Windows 7 not working
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4179
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:20 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning HDD off in Windows 7 not working
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4179
I've updated windows and searched for new drivers but windows tells me it's up to date and Seagate doesn't have any drivers for download that I can find. Indexing service by default is disabled in windows 7 but I double checked and it indeed is not running. I have absolutely no programs running. I e...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:20 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning HDD off in Windows 7 not working
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4179
Turning HDD off in Windows 7 not working
Greetings, I'm currently using an ssd for my primary drive and a 500gb hdd for storage. I recently installed Windows 7 and changed the power plan settings to turn my hdd off after 10 minutes. This however is not working. I have used the resource monitor under the task manager to watch for disk activ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Active Noise Cancellation For Computers?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19351
Re: Active Noise Cancellation For Computers?
Or pay me $500 and I'll silence your entire computer for you.phantomferrari wrote:however there system is a few thousand dollars which is way too expensive for my liking.
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:47 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SSD upgrade (fixed images)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5165
Running those Intel SSD on RAID, wouldn't that disable the TRIM command on the drives? Unless they are G1 which doesn't support TRIM in the 1st place. That is correct. Trim is not supported but I feel the raid 0 outweighs the lack of trim. For trim to be supported on raid arrays, the raid controlle...
- Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:51 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Samsung UN55B7100 55" LED HDTV
- Replies: 39
- Views: 33152
- Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:10 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: PCStat's Most Common Ways to Kill a PC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 31134
Speaking of static, I feel I need to address this. It's commonly stated that touching your computer case frame will ground you and prevent you from damaging your electronics. This is only true when the power supply cable is plugged into the wall socket and installed in the computer. An unplugged pow...
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:54 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: PCStat's Most Common Ways to Kill a PC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 31134
They also left out sabotage. I remember when I was a kid I had a really old 300mhz pentium 2 and my dad was the type of person who would use things till it's broke. I couldn't convince him to replace it so I introduced Mr. cpu with miss 9 volt battery. I think that was the precise moment in my life ...
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SSD upgrade (fixed images)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5165
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SSD upgrade (fixed images)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5165
SSD upgrade (fixed images)
About a month ago I finally decided to upgrade my boot drive from a 2.5 inch HDD to a pair of SSDs. The noise difference was not so much the driving force as the performance difference (for once). Here are a pair of Intel G2 80Gb SSDs in raid 0. I put them in a Patriot Convoy so that the SSDs won't ...
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:11 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Should I use notebook drives (or not)?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7657
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SSD for portable storage
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3141
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:30 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SSD for portable storage
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3141
SSD for portable storage
I've been thinking of getting an esata enclosure with a cheapo SSD like the Kingston 40 gig SSD. Seeing how a 16 gig flash drive is about $35CAD +tax, I'm wondering if this would be a great idea. An external Kingston 40 gig SSD with enclosure would be about $140CAD +tax This is obviously where high ...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel 34nm SSD released
- Replies: 237
- Views: 304351
Alrighty. Time to seek the wisdom of the Internet peoples. Here are 3 drives I benchmarked for reference in this order: DDR2 800 ramdisk 80 GB Intel X25-M G2 Raid 0 7200rpm Seagate 3.5 Is it just me or do the readings from Crystal Disk Mark differ from the HD Tune? (most notably in the 4k random rea...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel 34nm SSD released
- Replies: 237
- Views: 304351
Haha thanks for all your responses. There's an electronics disposal depot nearby. I might go by and ask if I can go treasure hunting in their garbage. Im, I find it more sad than funny :P . Fortunately if Windows 7 really ends up being the XP replacement, this issue won't be a problem anymore. By th...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: benefit of a second drive?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9048
I'm not sure how useful using separate drives would be, but I think you would be better off using separate partitions. It doesn't give you a performance boost, but if you install your applications onto another partition than your OS then you may be able to rerun those apps even after an OS reinstall...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel 34nm SSD released
- Replies: 237
- Views: 304351
- Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Weighted Companion Cube HTPC (with pictures)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7314
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:32 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: The future of air cooling? New radical heatsink design
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10821
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Innovation Cooling IC Diamond 7 TIM Giveaway/Testing
- Replies: 206
- Views: 287831
First I'd like to thank Innovation Cooling (and Mike of course!) for supplying me with this sample to test. Here are my summarized results. Full raw data has been uploaded to this link: http://rapidshare.com/files/242310535/Raw_temperature_data.rar.html Ambient: 23C Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual ...
- Sun May 17, 2009 12:28 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Innovation Cooling IC Diamond 7 TIM Giveaway/Testing
- Replies: 206
- Views: 287831
- Sat May 16, 2009 12:43 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Innovation Cooling IC Diamond 7 TIM Giveaway/Testing
- Replies: 206
- Views: 287831
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:32 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: FOR 24 HRS: ZONEALARM FIREWALL DOWNLOAD WITH 1 YEAR LICENCE
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- Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:30 pm
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- Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:23 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why don't people write descriptive subject lines? (Rant)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10776
I'd have to say that the SPCR forum is way above par of the "bad subject line forums" (if that even makes any sense). Based on observation, it is generally reflected by the age group of the forum members. Look up any music band or MMO forum and you'll find that an astonishing number of topics/thread...