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by jammi
Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:49 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: run a Q9550 passive?
Replies: 5
Views: 3456

run a Q9550 passive?

want to get a heatsink that maybe able to run the above cpu without another fan. Current setup is TJ09, 4x 120mm yate loon @ 800rpm, 8gb dominator no fan, gtx280 and 4x ssd, atm I have a zalman cnps9700 running at the lowest setting and keeps the cpu about 40 idle 65 at 100% the cpu is at stock and ...
by jammi
Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:23 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Good affordable SSDs?
Replies: 110
Views: 56572

want to know if your SSD will studder before you buy it? its easy, does it have onboard cache? If its an MLC drive with no cache, theres a good chance it will. If it does it likely wont have any issues. The cache sequences random writes so that it doesnt slow down when written to the MLC drive itse...
by jammi
Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:14 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Good affordable SSDs?
Replies: 110
Views: 56572

so far im getting very good speeds but hd tune shows alot of dips not sure why as iv never noticed drop in speeds when im copying files be that large 4gb+ or loads of 50-500kb photos/text files Iv tested file transfers from my external sas array 2x 80gb X25-M (works ssd's not my own) raid-0 on my ad...
by jammi
Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:34 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Good affordable SSDs?
Replies: 110
Views: 56572

all the OCZ ones out at the moment stutter even under windows vista/7 with all the tweaks, some people say they dont see this with the IC10 raid chipset but i still notice it on my i7 board. The "Solid series" OCZ suffer from my tests more then the "Core v2's" which are still a pain as a single driv...
by jammi
Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:18 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: mATX cases with six external 5.25" bays?
Replies: 14
Views: 10109

I'v got a mini-itx file server C7 1.2Ghz 1gig 100gb boot drive (20gb boot, 80gb temp download) 6x seagate 1TB adaptec 2610sa raid 200w psu All fits :) in there http://img7.imagevenue.com/loc1171/th_83301_IMG_0915_122_1171lo.JPG http://img101.imagevenue.com/loc849/th_83319_IMG_0916_122_849lo.JPG http...
by jammi
Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:18 pm
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: "Hot-plugging" fans to a power supply connector
Replies: 15
Views: 8327

iv had a motherboard short on me while doing this mobo was fine just powered off but the fan was a bit funny after