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| Mikhailoh | Apr 16 2011, 03:24 AM Post #26 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Jeez. And all I'm going to buy is a fairly low end laptop. I guess my needs are simple. Besides - we already have a Macbook. Samsung RV511 |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 16 2011, 04:03 AM Post #27 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Mik this is neither here nor there but why in the HELL are you up so early on the weekend? |
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| Axtremus | Apr 16 2011, 04:06 AM Post #28 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's alright, Mik ... |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 16 2011, 04:06 AM Post #29 |
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Are u kidding? I slept in until almost 7. Always been an early riser. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 16 2011, 04:07 AM Post #30 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I woke up at the crack of noon today and legitimately felt like I was getting a jump on things. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 16 2011, 04:18 AM Post #31 |
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Never have done that. I'm a 7 or 8 hour a night sleeper, preferably 8. About twice year I'll sleep 10 or more. |
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| schindler | Apr 16 2011, 04:19 AM Post #32 |
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8:18 here, and I've been up for well over an hour already. Oh, it's awful! Why? |
| We're all mad here! | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 16 2011, 04:20 AM Post #33 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Oh me too, and these days I get closer to six. (Passed out 'round 4 am yesterday/this morning, depending on how you figure). I just don't like daytime as much. |
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| PhJ | Apr 16 2011, 04:24 AM Post #34 |
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Senior Carp
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I loved Portal ! Quite enjoying Mirror's edge right now (9,99€ on steam) |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 16 2011, 04:26 AM Post #35 |
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Oh, I am a daytime guy for sure. I'm surprised you aren't, being a bicyclist. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 16 2011, 04:31 AM Post #36 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I love riding my bike at night. Night + bike + mp3 player =
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| George K | Apr 16 2011, 05:11 AM Post #37 |
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That is one of the best lines I've read in a long time. I am *SO* going to use that at work. You've made my morning. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 16 2011, 05:24 AM Post #38 |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 16 2011, 06:06 AM Post #39 |
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And I just watched Caddyshack the other night. "I tell ya, i get no respect, no respect....." |
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| George K | Apr 16 2011, 06:13 AM Post #40 |
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Finally
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Was that from Caddyshack? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 16 2011, 06:20 AM Post #41 |
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Nice setup man! Even though you jumped a little soon as Sandy Bridge goes, your rig will last you quite some time I reckon. Dude! I was also going to go with the GTx580, for the same reasons you mentioned. Get the fastest card now and get another later down the road when I would need one. But I caved and ended up going for the dual card scenario because of cost and immediate performance. The 6950's cost me $275 a pop so 2 of them came in at $550. A single 580 goes for $500, so I went with the bang for your buck mode. I haven't even plugged in the second video card yet, am only running a single right now PC killer, Crysis, is running tops! Since you're an avid Tom's reader, you have probably heard that the 6950's can have their bios flashed to its bigger brother, the 6970 (which costs an extra $75), which I did the other day, and it has boosted my FPS appreciably. I plan on adding the second card today to see the boost I'll get with Crossfire. I also sit about 2 feet away from my 28", and I have no issues. In fact, with my horsepower, I'm looking into purchasing 2 more monitors for a 3 monitor setup called Eyefinity. It'll have to wait a while though, Mr. Tax Man is depleting my savings this weekend! Bastards! I also almost got the same Blue Ray burner you got, but in the end decided I just don't need it right now. I do have the Gold Strider and not sure if my case has the upgraded fans or not, how does one tell? |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 16 2011, 06:21 AM Post #42 |
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No but Rodney was the star of the movie. Just made me think of his famous line. Great minds like mine think on a higher level you know.
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| George K | Apr 16 2011, 06:51 AM Post #43 |
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Teh Rodney! FTW! |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| 1hp | Apr 16 2011, 08:54 AM Post #44 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I don't think that is necessarily true Ax. I haven't looked specifically at solid state drives, but I have done some work with serial flash memory, and it is faster to read from consecutive addresses than random addresses. |
| There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................ | |
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| Horace | Apr 16 2011, 09:02 AM Post #45 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Basically agreed about not needing the blu-ray burner. In fact, I wouldn't need a media drive of any kind if I didn't need it to install windows... it has sat dormant since then. Silverstone just came out with "air penetrator" fans and made them stock on all newly built FT02 cases. You can tell if you have one by looking at the model number on the fan (can't remember if it's visible without taking the fans all the way out). The Air Penetrators start with AP. Here's a video showing the difference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m8fC809TK0 If you still have the case's box, it apparently also lets you know if you have the APs: ![]() |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Axtremus | Apr 16 2011, 09:24 AM Post #46 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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(responding to 1hp 2 posts up) My understanding of flash memory as used in SSD is roughly as follow: With NOR flash, it's usually architected as true "random access." With NAND flash (probably the most popular type of flash used in SSD these days), it's usually architected such that one reads things at the "page" granularity (i.e., you read it one "page" at a time), with multiple pages making up a "block." (You can only "erase" at the "block" granularity.) It's true that reading from sequential addresses on the same "page" would be faster than reading from random addresses spread over different "pages." The way I worded my last post was "[r]eading two blocks of data with addresses that are far apart is just as fast as reading two blocks of data with contiguous addresses." I was addressing the issue at the "block" level, which makes the statement no less applicable at the "page" level. And it's a fair comparison to spinning hard disks because there, you read things one sector at a time (well, actually, N sectors at a time with N being the number of read heads in a hard drive). Typically, a sector holds 512 bytes of data (with new standards being proposed to push it up to 4 kB). A 4-platter, 8-read head setup would read 4 kB worth of data at a time. Typical NAND flash "page" size range from 512 bytes to 4 kB per "page," so it's about the right order of magnitude to make the comparison. |
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| George K | Apr 16 2011, 09:49 AM Post #47 |
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Finally
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So, you guys, how long did it take to assemble, and how much did they cost? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 16 2011, 10:43 AM Post #48 |
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well it appears I have the AP fans! one less thing. |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 16 2011, 10:54 AM Post #49 |
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I didn't time myself and I went slow, because I haven't done this since 2003. One day after work, all my parts had arrived, and I got started. Next thing I knew, it was 12:30am and everything was put together but I hadn't started the Windows install. Now that I know what I know, I could put this thing together with Windows in under 2 hours easily. The trickiest part, IMO, is installing an aftermarket CPU cooler for the Intel chip. Every cooler is different and they all have their quirks. The one I bought had so-so instructions, but Youtube is your friend. There were dozens of videos of guys installing this cooler, so that made it easier with the visuals. You also need some thermal paste to apply between the CPU and the cooler, and the coolers are usually HUGE and heavy, so they install with a bracket that goes on the other side of the motherboard. You definitely want to do this with the MB out of the case. I already had my monitor and speaker system, but everything else came under $2500. The case is $250, the power supply $225, CPU $225, Motherboard $250, RAM $100, Video cards $275 each, SSD drive $200, Hard drive $65, Keyboard $50, Mouse, $30, Windows $100, CpU cooler $50. It sounds pricey but you get what you pay for. |
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| George K | Apr 16 2011, 11:01 AM Post #50 |
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Finally
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Fvcking Mac Fanboi
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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