Best filesystem for SSD that windows can run on would be FAT right? NTFS keeps writing to the disc for unknown reason. I also hear FAT is faster, and it's fragmentation problem will be a non-issue for SSD. But FAT is less secure and also less safe. A file system doesn't "write to the disc" for any ...

I'm with Nick705 on this one. Video encoding performance vastly benefits from having different source and destination drives -- reading and writing those incredible amounts of data to the same drive really slows things down. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest having 3 drives: 1 for system/swap fil...

I would just keep them and take them apart, keeping the platters and those rare-earth magnets because they are so cool! Well worth the lost money.

IBM PCjr Good times, good times Heh, me too. Paired up with Borland's Turbo Pascal for $50 and I was in heaven. It meant I didn't have to use the 5-user Apple 2E networked computer lab system at school anymore. With all 5-users going, it could take more than 20 minutes to compile a 100-line Pascal ...

I recently bought a pair of PX-100s to replace a pair of Sporta-Pros that broke (the left earpiece connector broke - mostly my fault). The Koss were comfortable and sounded great on my Creative Zen MP3 player. The Sennheiser are also very comfortable and sound great as well, perhaps clearer and brig...

Oh God, how noisy that HDD is. I just installed it to external case It had sharp seek noise now while I am writing data it has very loud and sharp tone while its writing data or seeking. I mean you couldn't believe that I have two other Seagate 7200.6's and those are virtually silent. When this bar...

Hmm. I wonder if the "Preemptive Wear Leveling" feature causes any "meowing" noise as has been reported in some other drives. As far as being used in standard desktop systems, I would think the firmware for these drives "gives up" more quickly on read and write failures and would therefore not be su...

You probably just got a bad sample drive. I have two of these drives - one has been in a TiVo for about 18 months with AAM enabled and is very quiet. The other has been in my desktop for the same amount of time without AAM enabled and it is fairly quiet (I don't care about seek noise so much in my d...

Try to remember that, if both surfaces were perfectly flat and smooth, then no Thermal Interface Material (TIM) would be needed at all. In the real world, though, there are microscopic gaps on apparently smooth surfaces and it is only these tiny gaps that need to have the TIM. Metal to Metal contact...

I built a system for my brother around the Biostar TForce965 motherboard in a Solo with a Ninja Rev.B and there were no clearance issues at all. This motherboard was favorably reviewed at Anandtech and is a good overclocking platform. It falls into the "budget" category though, and does not have som...

I have been running that combination in the 3.2GHz Northwood system for over 2 years and it works pretty well. Max temps under load peak at 52C or so at 30C ambient. E6300 should be no problem at all.

*signs* The black interiors look sooooo good. looks good but you´re not going to see it since the p180 doesn´t have a side window. I don´t see the point.... Well, you'll see the back, also when you want to open it up and show off to people. Wow, you "show off" the inside of your computer to peop...

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No way the Zalman gives you lower temps than the Ninja. Considering you got the same temp reading whether Idle or running Prime95, I'd guess that the temp you are reading is not the CPU temp. What are you using for temp readings?

The YS is designed for use in a redundant RAID configuration, and shouldn't be used in other setups. If you have a damaged block, it will give up trying to read the block after only 7 seconds instead of persisting for minutes like a regular desktop hard drive. Western Digital call this feature "tim...

I wouldn't assume that simply staying under the manufacturer's max temp is enough. Higher heat shortens the life of hard drives -- you'd be hard pressed to argue against that. Members of this community have higher standards than these "bare minimums". That said, your temps look pretty good. Perform ...

Caps being bent by, and touching the exposed metal of the heatsink just seems like a very undesirable situation. I wouldn't allow that to happen in any of my systems. Period.

preti9cboi wrote:What ram did you use?

Used these

This board is very nice and has absolutely no problems with the Ninja Rev.B. I set one up for my brother a few weeks ago and the installation went without a hitch.

EDIT: Link fixed.

Actually, you'll be putting together an Allendale system, not a Conroe one as the title suggests, because you're going with the E6300. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/e6300-vs-sff/index.x?pg=1 "You'll find plenty of sources that will tell you the code name for these 2MB Core 2 Duo processors i...

Actually, you'll be putting together an Allendale system, not a Conroe one as the title suggests, because you're going with the E6300.

are you gonna OC your system? I've bought a pair of 1GB Apacer PC6400 CL5 with gold colored heatspreaders this weekend in a local shop: €135 each (that's about 112 USD) . Certainly cheaper DIMMs can be found, but not from an A-brand like Apacer (at least not in local shops around here) I don't kn...

The AIW 9600 is already fanless (that's the reason I got one). You must have the Pro version, which runs hotter.

tay wrote:...I prefer my dad's Prescott 2.8 user experience but it randomly crashes and only has 1 GB of ram...

Only 1GB of RAM? Geez, what an underequipped system!!! How on earth can your dad use that system at all?

None of this thicker/thinner stuff is relevant; what you want to look at is the thermal conductivity; annoyingly Arctic Silver give thermal conductivity in non-standard units, so it is hard to compare with this solution. If anyone does the math, can they please post it here. Practically speaking, a...

blandoon wrote:Any opinions on whether ECC would be worthwhile for something like a HTPC or PVR box, which stays on all the time mostly unsupervised?

Media systems are the one place you really do NOT need ECC memory. If a bit or two of video or audio are incorrect, it will not be noticeable.

but these are 7200rpm drives, not 5400rpm drives like the Samsung you linked to. That is true, but the Samsung actually has a faster average seek time than the Hitachi, despite the slower spindle speed: HA250JC tech specs 12ms versus the Hitachi's 14ms. Drives used in PVRs typically aren't doing mu...

Flash memory is really not all that fast -- certainly not "super" fast. In fact, most CF cards are probably WAY slower than modern hard drives. Not to mention that flash memory is typically not rated for all that many read/write cycles. XP's swapfile would probably kill a flash card in a few months...

is it bigger files compress better, or more total files compress better yea im only using 200gb and prob half that is movies etc so prob only need to backup about 100 Most popular digital video formats do not compress at all with lossless compression programs like WinZip. Many people do not realize...

You have to do a "finger" test. I have 2 different drives in my system that feel exactly the same temp to the touch but report 15C difference between them. I've come to the conclusion that HD sensors are simply not accurate. I still find them useful for relative temp changes, though.

If they are positioned close together, they will run significantly warmer. If this is the case, try to give them a little more space. May not be possible in the P150, though.