Dang, I've had Sandy Bridge for five freakin' years and it looks like it's finally at the point where the performance boost is enough to justify a rebuild upgrade. Definitely waiting for Intel to fix the teething problems with Skylake. Why do they keep cheaping out on stupid stuff? I might go...
I might get a bigger SSD eventually and bigger hard drives. But the only reason I upgraded from a 2500K to a 2600K was because my board from 2010 borked and I needed to replace it. This is probably the longest cycle I've been on since I started building PCs back in 1985.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249959/Newegg_takes_pre_orders_for_Samsung_s_first_3D_Pro_SSD
Looks pretty cool to me. And check out the price! Not that I have any issue at all with what I have now. But my wife's next build might get one of these.
(I bet this is old news.)
I notice you can't contradict me regarding Moore's Law, which is the foundation of my argument. In turn, I think your argument is absurd and doesn't recognize reality. Point by point:
1) "Display revolution?" Really? Uh, Thunderbolt? We already have a form factor suited for portable...
It wouldn't shock me if in 8-10 years, or less, the smartphone we have on our hip could run Photoshop and Illustrator spectacularly well, handle all office and creative apps with no issue, and have ample storage and display performance for any important application. (Games? Well, that might be a...
$579 is horrid? I remember coughing up $750 for a 386-33 back in the day and another $700 for the mobo. Man, stop *whining.*
I have to say though, Newegg's discounts these days are just pathetic. Their big edge is they get the cutting edge stuff in stock. None of the others (TankGuys, etc.) are...
Man, that high-end with the i7 is sweet. Pretty tempting. I wish Anand had had that one to test against the others instead of the i5. I bet we'll see that soon.
Micro Center had/has incredible deals on 3770Ks. Right when I was in the market to upgrade, the store in Silicon Valley had to close down and MC does not ship their chip specials, in-store only. Gaaahhhrrr.
Update. I downloaded and installed the latest Asus BIOS version (1908) and the sleep problem is not solved. Sleeps for about 30 seconds, even with the mouse battery removed, and wakes right back up. Serious bummer. So, now I have my browser settings defined to resume all existing tabs and make...
OP: I think you're rationalizing, pure and simple. Get in. The water's fine!
No matter what you argue, eventually you still have to load your OS and applications. I think using a mechanical disk of any kind as your bootloader and apploader is an unnecessary bottleneck. What is especially stupid...
Well, you can definitely forget overclocking.
http://us.shuttle.com/ModelComparison.aspx?CategoryCode=62
I used to have one of those with an Athlon 64x2. It ran like a tank for 6-7 years. Always ran hot but never crashed, worked flawlessly. Eventually it became obsolete (2GB RAM is not...
It's behaving just like that; I have a wireless Bluetooth mouse but a normal USB keyboard. I'll try yanking the battery out of the mouse before I put the thing to sleep and see if that has an effect. Actually it has an on-off switch. I don't really have anything else actively plugged-in thru USB.
This little beast simply won't Go. To. Sleep. It's like a two-year-old that constantly wants to party with Mommy and Daddy. After a ten-second shutdown, it pops right back up to full wakefulness, wagging its tail and irritatingly ready for misadventures. (Sorry for the mixed metaphors, I've had...
I can only add to what everyone else is saying - upgrade to a hardened gigabit switch first. I doubt the SSDs are a good investment in this context. I would avoid doing that and possibly offer SSD upgrades on the desktop, that would give people more bang for the buck.
On a current-tech system, you would be seeing double the overall numbers that you're getting now. I think the SATA 2 is holding you back. However, you're still hugely faster than any disk drive on that system. Still a net gain.
I haven't been around as much lately and that's the first time I've seen the benchmarking feature on AT's site. That is incredible. Nope, I think I'm doin' OK with my 2600K...
I can't complain at all about my 840 Pro; I also think that OCZ had a very severe quality problem for awhile but I get the general impression around here that most of that has gone away and that OCZ products are now generally reliable. Of course we will always see individual anecdotal evidence...
It's always fun to squeeze more life out of an old reliable. For a lot of things, if not necessarily games, that chip is still pretty respectable. I'm also glad to see the 8350 is competitive.
I miss my 486-100 rig, that thing ran NetWare 3.11 for years. But I think my favorite ever was the ol' 286-20, which I ran alongside an Amiga 1000 with a 14MHz 68000 processor. The 286 outlasted the Amiga by at least a couple years; eventually I bought a 386-33 board to replace it but kept the...
Right - exactly.
I think opticals are not a good option because the capacity simply isn't there. For the same reason you never see TAPE drives anymore.
I simply got a 3TB Seagate external drive and backed up my RAID array to it and then put it away. I think that's sufficient. You can't...
Try it again in a different SATA connector. Many boards have two different sets of SATA ports, each set associated with a different controller. Also, try a different SATA cable. Most of them are cheap pieces of crap, in my experience. Defective drives do occur, however, and it shouldn't be too...
I disagree with others on the power. Why cheap out on the PSU? If you're trading during the day, you need that thing to be reliable. I recommend an 80+ PSU of 500w or so, perhaps a Corsair or Silverstone. Generics are nothing but trouble.
Actually, I am going to steer clear of firmware updates for awhile since I just installed the drive. I can't see any benefits to frequent updates if the thing is already screamingly fast. Also, I am skeptical of updating the firmware for ANYTHING in Windows. Thing is, until recently it was far...
For a long time I was buying the $110 - $140 boards from Gigabyte and Asus. I've never found one to be as reliable or stable as I wanted. So this time I took the plunge and went up a pay level to the Sabertooth Z77. Time will tell, but so far it looks extremely solid to me. I can't OC as much as...
Well, if you only have the one disk controller, then it sounds like you're OOL. If there are two separate disk controller (like there are on some motherboards), then I'd consider using the other one for the mirrored set or for the boot drive. This might have nothing to do with Samsung, you know...
I got a Samsung 256 GB 840 Pro which came with its own cloning software; couldn't have been easier to swap my 128 GB C300 for it. Otherwise, I suppose any modern cloning software would do.
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