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If all caching for the drive is disabled and you're making sure nothing is writing to it as you unplug it, you can just rip it out - no dataloss to be expected. If either one or both windows and drive caching is enabled, you need to eject it, otherwise you're just calling for data loss sooner or...
TRIM does not depend on AHCI. It will also work in IDE mode as it is an ATA command. However, AHCI will enable NCQ which in turn will get the most out of your SSDs random access performance.
As been mentioned, check in the device manager if your SATA controller uses the driver iastor.sys...
As long as MS doesnt fix the issue with MSE not updating signatures if the computer has been in standby at the scheduled update, its pretty much worthless because it will still claim everything is alright, despite it using outdated signatures.
Of course, if you dont use standby or are willing...
Holy cow, have mercy on yourself! I have win7 + pagefile + 54 programs (worth 5 GB) + XP mode (it does not eat 16GB) on a 60GB partition of my 160GB SSD and still see 40GB of free space.
You will only fill that thing if you store your images on it and are a habitual software installer who...
Its the best upgrade Ive ever done for that amount of money. So many people are wasting more cash every 6 months on video cards just to keep up with ... whatever. With a good SSD, you are ahead of the curve for quite some time, if you do more than just surf the web and play benchmarks, that is...
It was actually, according to intel, only the firmware loader that bricked SSDs under certain conditions. The current firmware (02HD) is essentially the same as the one released in october (02HA). Thats why intel suggests not to flash to 02HD if you successfully flashed your drive with 02HA - it...
Just that this logic doesnt have the same result everywhere. For it to be true, the GPU does indeed have to run circles around a CPU. 6ms faster rendering at most is a joke nobody will understand, though.
At best, it wont make a difference, both in power consumption but definitely in...
Make room for it! :) And stick with an intel G2. Maybe even a 160GB one. Could throw some games on it (games generally dont benefit too much from an SSD but there are exceptions) and/or make a scratch partition for your image edititing...
But most of all, dont listen to the nay-sayers. They...
Stock will do of course. Without overclocking, it will be a question of how much noise you can take (I'm not familiar with the stock HSF on that phenom processor). It may very well be not noisy at all... likewise for the fans coming with your case (if any).
However, you should aim for a much...
It doesnt have to keep up, it just doesnt use the bandwith. You could use a SATA port multiplier and hook up several drives on one SATA channel to saturate the bandwith. But the only benefit would be to load your machine up with a silly number of drives while effectively using the bandwith at...
No. But I'd just get a 160GB Intel G2, partition it and be done with it. You'd have the overall best product right now and enough space for whatever you want to throw at it that benefits from being on a SSD.
Silly thread. Both vista and 7 do a great job for me without crashing. The usability of 7 is just better than that of vista, thats all. That means, one person cant possibly declare failure of a product like this.
/end thread
AHCI is good for two things mostly:
eSATA hotplugging
NCQ
If you own a SSD, you certainly want NCQ. Otherwise you're sacrificing much of what makes SSDs so great: extremely fast random file access. Without NCQ, an SSD simply will not perform at its peak. The A SSD benchmark tool is a nice...
Speaking about LED backlights. There is not just one type of LED backlight. The cheap edge-type backlight allows for a slim design and doesnt consume as much energy as direct LED backlights, where the entire surface behind the panel is filled with LEDs - these LEDs can also be locally dimmed or...
The v2 "egg" cooler does perform better in every way. Its less noisy and cools better, both idle and load.
Here's a (german) comparison between the Asus EAH5770 (egg) and the old reference design:
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2009/asus_radeon_eah_5770/index7.php
In a nutshell:
Under...
Talking about more than 4GB for games is nonsense today and for quite some time to come. Show me a game that (besides being 64bit or specifically large-address-aware flagged as a 32bit EXE) actually uses more than 3 or even only 2GB. I cant think of one. Not even crysis with its 64bit executable...
The G1 without TRIM isnt that bad even after months of usage, unless you like to play SSD benchmarks all day long (which also makes things worse, of course). Intel still sucks for leaving their early adopters out in the rain - probably not even for technical but economical reasons.
I think for two reasons:
1) They got nothing else to release
2) There are still plenty idiots out there who would replace the virtually same card with a different name just to be "up-to-date". Granted, this expensive little sucker is quite good on the idle wattage. But I'm not going to...
Case in point why F@H isnt a good stability indicator then. You probably still give them alot of garbage WUs back with that rig...
This Linpack really makes my box steam like no other tool. I'll probably do a full run myself later this weekend.
Its a double no-go. First of all, you cant upgrade from XP and secondly, you cant upgrade from a 32bit to a 64bit OS - theres no workaround for that. You will have to perform a clean install, which would be offered even by an upgrade edition if you were trying to upgrade from XP 32bit to 7...
Ads? What ads? Folks, as much as AT may dislike this attitude, but you should take matters in your own hands and get rid of ads by using an appropriate browser that supports blocking of ads. Simple as that. Dont blame the forum software for it...
Neither ATIC nor Mubadala owns majority stock in AMD by themselves. Mubadala owns 19.3%, ATIC none (or nothing significant) at all IIRC. They didnt buy shares of AMD, they bought the fabs pretty much. Thats less than the 24.4% held by insiders of AMD.
As for GF, AMD owns some 35% and ATIC...
Its sort of the same here in europe. The retail boxes are harder to find than the bulk ones and thus a bit cheaper despite them coming with a 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor bracket and a nice box.
The way I understand wear leveling, it ignores partitions. The controller on the SSD will spread out writes over the entire range of flash cells regardless of partitions. Anything else wouldnt make sense in my opinion.
As for the habit of separating OS and programs - why dont you just put OS...
Actually, the loophole he mentions that exists in vista exclusively - you do not need an installed OS or any previous OS on a disc to install the upgrade version of vista as a clean install. Thats something that never worked before for me with upgrade versions. I always had to at least throw in...
Why not report it to avira as a false positive? They will check it and adjust their definition files to fix the problem.
Concerning your problem with uninstalling avira, I cant reproduce that...
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