Re: Laptop upgrade

Posted on 2015-12-29, 20:59

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:lol: You got it wrong, that's one single SSD, the Promise raid card is there just for providing a SATA header to plug it into. As you said above, SSDs in RAID-0 make little sense. Even though the 133 MB/s PCI bus severely handicaps this SATA II SSD, sequential speeds are much better than 440BX …

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Re: Laptop upgrade

Posted on 2015-12-29, 14:03

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... If you have a reasonably new main PC (anything Core 2 Quad and up) you'll definetly notice the difference. For older rigs probably not so much since the hardware will be a bottleneck on newer OSes ... Even a cheap SSD handicapped by PIII era hardware is still orders of magnitude faster @ 4K …

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 12:31

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And how much does your PIII system draw from the wall?

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 11:56

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Tetrium wrote: ... EDIT: There you go. Now that is a PSU in distress :lol: […] Show full quote ... EDIT: There you go. Now that is a PSU in distress 🤣 ^ Pay no attention, that voltage is not real. You just can't trust HWmonitor (or any other software BTW) for voltage readings. You need a multimeter …

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 11:48

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Frankly I don't believe that. (The highest ever from part) The 98W AC peak draw is on system boot, when the HDD & DVD motors draw extra current while they start spinning. After booting up the most it ever draws under torture is 93W AC, and it idles at 75W AC from the wall. There's no need to …

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 11:20

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... Dorky lights aside, this looks like a fair quiet PSU- http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817148008 This one is miles better, and cheaper: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151086&cm_re=300w_psu-_-17-151-086-_-Product http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/ …

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 10:58

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The highest ever draw from the wall I've ever seen from my PIII (Tually 1400-S @ 1.6, GF6200 ,768MB of RAM, 1x SSD on Promise s150 TX2+, 1x HDD, 1x DVD, AWE64 Gold, PCI USB 2.0 card, 2x 120mm fans, 2x 92mm fans) is 98W AC. The PSU is a (restored) Oh Deer with a glorious inefficiency of about 70% at …

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Re: Laptop upgrade

Posted on 2015-12-28, 23:02

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PCBONEZ once you taste the forbidden fruit there will be no looking back. I just refuse to boot systems from anything else anymore, even the PIII relic had to get its SSD.

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Re: What are your favorite games from a musical perspective?

Posted on 2015-12-28, 22:47

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Outcast, legendary breathtaking orchestral music.

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Re: P4/Netburst Build - Equal Amount Pleasure and Pain

Posted on 2015-12-26, 15:22

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http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2012/02/the-big-cooling-investigation/dsc_6889-614x250.jpg […] Show full quote "The two exhausts around the CPU cooler are two of the most important fans in the case" ^ Fundamental truth (for ATX mobos with CPU at northwestern corner).

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Re: P4/Netburst Build - Equal Amount Pleasure and Pain

Posted on 2015-12-26, 12:29

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What PC cases for a such system would you suggest? At the very least something with one 120mm front low intake and one 120 rear up exhaust: http://media.bestofmicro.com/Y/Q/312290/original/psu-bottom-01-EN.png Inexpensive example: Zalman Z1 Even better, as above plus one 120mm top rear exhaust, or …

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Re: My first pc - restoring

Posted on 2015-12-23, 22:14

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Yep that voltage regulator would be happier with a real heatsink. Filename HS.png File size 1.25 MiB Views 2476 views

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 16:28

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On this particular mobo (ASUS M4A89GTD-Pro) the manual says that CPU Bus Frequency range is 100~600. Guess that at 0.5 x 100 the CPU should tick @ 50Mhz, but I've never tried something of this sort. :lol: Just to clarify: K10stat can't control FSB freq, just CPU multiplier, CPU voltage and NB …

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 14:50

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How does it get a .75 multiplier? There is this little wonder called K10stat that allows you absolute control on Phenom II, Athlon II and Llano CPUs. :cool: x0.5.png ... have you ever checked to find the lowest fsb? Nope, in fact I use K10stat mainly for CPU overclocking. I set FSB in BIOS.

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 13:03

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philscomputerlab wrote: CPU speed isn't an issue. On an AMD system I played around once I was able to lower the multiplier and have it run at 800 MHz 😁 That was a Phenom II X2 555. Indeed. 🤣 Filename Crawling.png File size 42.31 KiB Views 2778 views

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Re: Let's do this right this time. Dual 462 system.

Posted on 2015-12-22, 11:44

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From the first page of this thread: I'm not sure about A7M266-D VRM configuration, but my Tyan Tiger MPX draws power from both 5V and 12V rail. Half of the VRM are connected to 5V (first socket) and the rest to 12V (second socket). Two Palominos 1600+ measured power consumption (CPUs only) is 95W …

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Re: Let's do this right this time. Dual 462 system.

Posted on 2015-12-22, 10:54

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The fiercest Athlon MP was 66W TDP . These relic comps draw little power empirically. "I used to run my Dual AthlonMP on a cheap "Sparkle" brand 300- or 325-watt :lol: power supply. I finally did get the machine to overload the power supply, but I had to have both chips fully loaded, both hard …

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Re: Let's do this right this time. Dual 462 system.

Posted on 2015-12-22, 02:48

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Overkill. With only one of the two Athlon MP drawing from +5V, I doubt that mobo will draw even 20A (100W) from +5V. Look how little a Barton system draws @ full steam: http://i.imgbox.com/3AKExgOQ.png http://www.silentpcreview.com/article265-page3.html To quote again the guy from the Anadtech forum …

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Re: Let's do this right this time. Dual 462 system.

Posted on 2015-12-21, 21:23

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^ Plenty enough, overkill in fact for this application. It's made by Delta and sports indy regulation and some Chemicon caps. http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ACC_8184.jpg http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ACC_8175.jpg http://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies …

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Re: Thermal pastes

Posted on 2015-12-21, 20:36

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Found this in my travels :lol: : Old guy #1: The TRUE geek makes his own from a brick of silver. In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones. Old guy #2: Silver bricks? You was lucky! In my day we had mine our own ore and smelt it down. Then our dad would assay it, and if …

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