Not a single Samsung failure so far, I've had -two SP2504C's -HD321KJ -HM160HI -four HD154UI's Although to be completely honest, I haven't used these drives for long enough to make any conclusions. I've used one SP2504C for two years maybe, HD321KJ for maybe another two years. HM160HI is in laptop a...

I've read on another forum that HD154UI get much higher seek times when mounted vertically like in P18x cases. I don't know if there is any truth to it because I never bothered to test for it even though I have several HD15UI's.

Apparently original owners couldn't make the ends meet, so they sold business to someone else. Website is back in business, however, prices are back up as well.

falcon26 wrote:I get my XFX 5870 on monday or tuesday I'll let you guys know how quiet or loud it is

I'm not sure if it's possible with ATI videocards, but can you check actual fan speed? 20%, 30%, 50% is all fine and dandy, but actual RPM will give a better idea how quiet/loud the card is.

You do not need AHCI for SSD to work. They will work just fine in IDE mode. However, SSD drives, at least intel drives perform almost twice as fast at small read/writes with AHCI enabled compared to IDE mode. You just need decent controller, for example early nVidia controllers had problems with AHC...

Heh, the reason I went with Abit during my last round of upgrades was because then current P35 based Asus motherboards were too power hungry and because my experience with Asus was bad. Old P3V4X (still remember the name rofl) was good but had faulty temp sensor which would raise alarm needlessly. P...

You'd have to be running DELTA's to approach 1A. I don't think any typical fan draws more than 0.5A.

As I said before I don't think my WD10EACS-00D6B0 drives ever parked their heads, and I never pay attention to seek noise unless it's really really and I mean really obtrusive. So I can't help you here.

Get MLC based drive if you want to go SSD for boot drive, they should last you long time. If you can't get intel drive at reasonable price get an indilinx based drive. They cost around $200 for 60GB or $130 for 30GB. For storage get 502HI like mond said. They are quiet and should be more than fast e...

Looks exactly like Scythe Kaze Master except for more wattage and multicolor display. Not sure why you would need 30W per channel unless you're planning on running blowdryers. Nexus 1000RPM fan draws 0.30A which is less than one third of what Kaze Master is rated at. Gentle Typhoons that I just boug...

Thanks, I already got Samsung 154UI drives. They do make loud calibration sound on startup, but not during operation, I can live with that. I'm not bothered by seeks and idle noise is in line with WD GreenPower, so I'm satisfied with new Samsungs.

Xoxide is going out of business. The prices are not spectacular, but if you need couple of fans or fan controllers now is the time. I ordered couple of fans from xpcgear several days ago, could have saved myself $10-15 if I waited. Oh well, it's always the case that good deals come through after you...

I use this ram in my main PC and fileserver/MSSQLDB rig, 8GB each. I use four 1GB sticks of older Micron PC2-1000/2.2V ram in my 24/7 rig. Those are the older ones that are infamous for burning out easily when clocked at max speeds/voltages. So far they are fine, haven't had to RMA them, but I never...

Scary if true. I got three IP35Pro's and so far they've been nearly flawless. One is running 24/7, other one is running in a fileserver/MSSQL DB rig 16 hours a day, third one in my main PC, all three rigs run with 4 or 8GB or ram installed with all four memory slots occupied. So far there has been c...

Heh, seems like a lot of good feedback on this fan. My Nexus exhaust fan is nearing its life, it has trouble starting at low voltages and hub noise is increasing, when I touch it I can feel lubrication is gone. Only problem is I've tried so many fans that I think this might be just another "flavor o...

I intend to buy a Dremel very soon, because the rear fan grill is very restrictive. You don't say... It's painfull just to look at it... You should have done it when you got the case before putting any of your components. If you do it now, fine metal dust from dremelling will settle all over your m...

$200 sound about right for 12GB of DDR3 for low end stuff. You'll have to pay a little more for better sticks, but it shouldn't cost more than $300. Good thing prices have come down so much, I remember seeing announcements of well above $1K. Crazy. As for who needs this stuff, some people do. I'm us...

If you can duct it, and if you are not going to load your CPU 100% you can probably get away with 600RPM. I wouldn't go any lower though.

Just FYI, Newegg has the drives in stock, however thanks to their automatic price gouge script, you can now buy 80GB G2 OEM version for $500, 80GB G2 Retail for $600, 160GB G2 OEM for $900, and if you find too much money in your wallet you can pick up 160GB G2 Retail drive for a low low price of $99...

I'm interested in hearing more comments on noise levels. Interested in having one of these in a external harddrive casing, anyone tried this and could comment on the noise? is there better "noise" options 1-2tb hdd's? Tomshardware says WD has less noise: http www tomshardware com/reviews/1.5tb-hdd-...

I used to run 3.0c with single 800 rpm noctua as exhaust fan. But I also used original Ninja which put more pressure on the CPU, I also run it vertical and I don't think I've ever stressed CPU 100% for any long period of time, but it worked. You definitely won't be able to cool it passively though.

I'm not convinced. I had some silicon frames almost exactly like this one, except they didn't go all the way around the fan and as far as I remember they didn't do much to reduce vibrations.

If you want to reduce vibrations soft mounting is the only way.

I got my 160GB from buy.com ebay store, I also used 10% bing cashback, so essentially I got my drive for $400 shipped. Still expensive, but to put it into perspective newegg has the drive listed at $500, currently OOS, but they had it in stock for a couple of hours this weekend. Anyway, I installed ...

I'm surprised FRY's even sells those... Is the power brick included has a fan in it or not?

Install FileMon and watch in awe how much read/write activity windows does even when it's supposed to be "idle", and most of it for small files/registry/checking if file is there or not, etc... Although it looks like this conversation already degraded, I will say that Windows has very aggressive ca...

Browsers: non-issue. There's this thing called "write cache". DLL checking / registry / what not: non-issue. There's this thing called "read cache". Boot time: non-issue. Computers usually boot once per day. Game level load times: non-issue. Relevant only for some gamers and in some games. I unders...

Not really related to ASUS, but I've read that a lot of P55 features are being delayed, in particular no SATA3 and no USB3 in early boards. This kind of killed it for me. I was toying with idea of upgrading to 32nm i5 or i7, but it seems like there is little point in doing that right now as the feat...

Apparently it's only been a couple of months since these drives went on sale and newegg is already running combo deal on F2 HD154UI 1.5TB EcoGreen 5400RPM drives. Basically buy two drives in one order and get $40 off. Two drives come to $200 or $100 each, free shipping and reputable retailer, what's...

Compddd wrote:I plan on replacing my noisey 625 Modu82+ with a Seasonic X750KM I can't wait to have a high quality PSU again!

Noisy Modu82+? I must have missed something, is yours defective?

BTW, 750W PSU is absurd unless you're running tri/quad sli/crossfire.

Seems like I'm going to take my chances with Samsung. I don't like parking thing on WD and the fact that they use 4 platters instead of 3 is disappointing, Seagate has been slipping lately, and it seems it's also using 4 platters. There is negative feedback on F2 EcoGreen drives, but I've had good e...