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- Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:53 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Windows 10 Retail doesn't come on cd anymore?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3938
Re: Windows 10 Retail doesn't come on cd anymore?
Using tools like YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator it's also possible to put a lot of stuff on a single USB stick. Very practical.
- Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:28 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: How do I get into my BIOS with a Corsair keyboard?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7534
Re: How do I get into my BIOS with a Corsair keyboard?
Now the caps key is stuck as well. Corsair should stick to making memory sticks? ;) Have you gone through all the USB settings in the BIOS? There's usually a bunch of them, legacy this and that etc. You probably also have tried all possible ports? Sometimes USB3 can be non-native and such, only waki...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
You just write how the LEDs that you love whine, and then you go on to say that you need more evidence of whining. I mean, how much more can you be in denial? You want me to tell you the stuff you are already seeing but you deny? And what if those others are also seeing but they deny? Because the t...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:57 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
Only LEDs at my place. :) The new LED filament ones are really nice. At the place I work there are two very warm pear bulbs in two lamps with open tops. The plants nearby get burnt by the heat, 25W bulbs get hot. A few days ago I replaced them with 2.1K LED filament bulbs. The same warm light, 1.2W ...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:13 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
The form can introduce negative emotions in what would otherwise have been a factual or clean message. I'm sure you notice how your mind rewrites the messages that you want to say, before you utter them. I never noticed this in the past so much because it was more fluid and I was not aware of the d...
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:38 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
Not saying you were doing so here. And you were the one that winked ;-) in your first post ;-). So I am not blaming you of any sense of closedmindedness here compared to the rest ;-). But if "people get hooked by themselves" then I wonder how you would explain that most people get defensive when I ...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
If you now accuse me of being judgemental about SSD using people; it is consistently the SSD lovers that push people around and say stuff like I have quoted earlier. "Just use an SSD". "Why not buy an SSHD instead?" "Why not do as I do?" "Why are you trying to do your own thing when all the world h...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:42 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
No I never said that the SSD shouldn't exist. I am saying that you shouldn't be using it as your OS drive. You should be using it as a cache drive. That is what it is really meant for. There is a history of caches everywhere. Your CPU has caches that would function in exactly the same way as an SSD...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
If you value big space over responsiveness, get a HDD. But I don't think that HDD would be that much greater if the SSD never existed. Zero RPM is my sweetspot. ;) A sweet stable zero RPM. Opera has been my browser of choice for a long time, it's always been quick for me both on Linux and Windows. I...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:26 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
Sure you can. I was saying now you have to. It is a sacrifice you make for getting something else. I would not much like that (I have done it myself on a 50GB VPS, that "saving space thing" but it is not the most convenient or fun thing in the world. It is a sacrifice). You are sacrificing one thin...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:57 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Newbie help needed windows 10
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4326
Re: Newbie help needed windows 10
You can boot from USB and get a live system. This will not touch your Windows installation. You are simply booting Linux from the USB stick. This can give you a chance to see if the problem is hardware related. Also, installing it could be an alternative to a system restore. Just saying..
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:47 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
If we forget about SSDs and HDDs for a moment and instead look at the tech behind them. Surely you can agree that solid state has some appeal over the mechanical movements of parts? No matter how much you develop the latter it could never beat the responsiveness of the former. Starting firefox takes...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
Well you know that is very odd because I thought my systems were always very responsive and I never had anything faster than a Samsung SpinPoint F1 at 7200. But in recent years that feeling has gone down. I mean, I guess you did was in the deep minority doing that thing? System slowness is still ab...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:09 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
I think they are great. I was an early adopter and got a very expensive 16GB Mobi SSD early on. I never regretted that purchase. Before that I was very much hunting for the optimal OS HDD. Short stroking, the 10K RPM Raptor, trying to shave down the microseconds in seek time that made such a huge di...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:26 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Ultrasonic SSD?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41718
Re: Ultrasonic SSD?
What's with the rage against SSDs xen? ;) I thought mine made a sound, but it turned out it was the motherboard, while reading/writhing to the SSD. No ultrasound though as far as I know, just "normal" noise that electronics make. A sound we all can enjoy now when or systems can be made solid state. :)
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 12:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Newbie help needed windows 10
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4326
Re: Newbie help needed windows 10
You could try another OS, like Linux Mint and see if the problem persists. That will give you an indication if the problem is software or hardware related.
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:12 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Compact mATX case recommendation?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14221
Re: Compact mATX case recommendation?
Fractal Design Core 1100 is the best cheap case I've used. But it is a cheap one. The Antec NSK 3480 is much more solid. That said, if it's a simple system it will do the job.
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:24 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: A small plug and play grid tied solar setup.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5677
Re: A small plug and play grid tied solar setup.
Come on, can't you see the man/woman/script is working. You create a profile at your forum of choice, then you find a topic, google a few chosen word from that topic and you get a page like this http://www.solarpowernrg.com/index.php/faq/101-what-does-on-grid-and-off-grid-mean.html Then you just cop...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:57 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: R5 define case - power LED too bright
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5756
Re: R5 define case - power LED too bright
Connecting a resistor in series with the LED will make it less bright.
I don't like light pollution in my single room apartment, so I usually don't connect any of the LEDs in my systems.
I don't like light pollution in my single room apartment, so I usually don't connect any of the LEDs in my systems.
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:12 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: use Northbridge cooler as a cpu cooler in 2009 Mac Mini?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7283
Re: use Northbridge cooler as a cpu cooler in 2009 Mac Mini?
Very nice! Thanks for the update.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:52 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Computex 2016: Raijintek presents their first passive AIO
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4443
Re: Computex 2016: Raijintek presents their first passive AI
Interesting, but I would like this but with water. The special fluid makes it something else. Maybe something for the future but my conservative mind would prefer regular non-leaky heatpipes.
- Sat May 21, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is my Power supply theory correct?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6410
Re: Is my Power supply theory correct?
The bigger PSU would be less efficient than the smaller one and generate even more heat.
- Sat May 21, 2016 10:55 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPCs dying inexplicably
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24974
Re: HTPCs dying inexplicably
If it's not bad power, then maybe overheating? Or the motherboard don't get a RPM reading on the CPU fan and shuts down? Grasping at straws here..
- Sat May 21, 2016 10:52 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is my Power supply theory correct?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6410
Re: Is my Power supply theory correct?
Hypothetical how? Would it work? Sure. But why?
- Sat May 21, 2016 10:49 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is my Power supply theory correct?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6410
Re: Is my Power supply theory correct?
What's the point of a 1.5kW PSU for a sub 300W system? Future proofing? If you want guaranteed fanless operation, why not a passive PSU with a capacity closer to the actual power consumption? It should be both cheaper and more power efficient.
- Fri May 20, 2016 12:34 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green HDD vibration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4734
Re: WD Green HDD vibration
They are the same I think. The early drives are more quiet than the more recent ones according to reports, and also according to the data sheets, but that is due to louder seeks not any differences in idle noise as far as I know. The number of platters makes a difference and there are some individua...
- Thu May 19, 2016 2:49 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green HDD vibration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4734
Re: WD Green HDD vibration
Hello and welcome to SPCR!
Some HDDs vibrate more than others. Try to decouple it from the case. There are many ways to do that. Check this thread for ideas
- viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19147
Some HDDs vibrate more than others. Try to decouple it from the case. There are many ways to do that. Check this thread for ideas
- viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19147
- Wed May 18, 2016 9:04 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPCs dying inexplicably
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24974
Re: HTPCs dying inexplicably
Nothing wrong there. +12V looks good.
- Tue May 17, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPCs dying inexplicably
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24974
Re: HTPCs dying inexplicably
Try measure the +12V rail in various places. You can do that from a molex (between yellow and one of the black wires). Or on the 4pin cable connected to the motherboard. You can also try measuring on the brick, without it connected to anything. Of the points you have measured, what sticks out is -10...
- Tue May 17, 2016 1:57 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPCs dying inexplicably
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24974
Re: HTPCs dying inexplicably
Not crap then. Hard to imagine the brick being responsible for damaging the system. Are the voltage levels ok? No damaged caps on the motherboard?