That blue is likely 7200 rpm cuz it's an older model. WD wants to sell their overpriced blacks, and reduce the rates of failure for the other drives, so they slowed the other hdd to 5400 rpm.
I used to only buy wd, but not anymore.
Seems so, I am really annoyed at how they first announced this whole renaming of colors to "help consumers" (marketing BS), and are slashing warranties as well, but WD isn't alone in this, now that we have less competition for HDs, we are getting the shaft.That blue is likely 7200 rpm cuz it's an older model. WD wants to sell their overpriced blacks, and reduce the rates of failure for the other drives, so they slowed the other hdds to 5400 rpm.
I used to only buy wd, but not anymore.
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/which-hdd-out-of-these-should-i-get.2475815/#post-38272304 if you care what he has to say about the other colors.The WD Green line is indeed getting integrated in our WD Blue line and all the features are getting transferred too with the only difference being they are all fixed 5,400 rpm instead of having the IntelliPower feature with different RPMs for each drive.
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Calm?! Everybody is locked in and primed, set to go off March 2. It's going to be a fireworks show.Everyone else seems kind of calm so I thought it was maybe just me.
Ok , what components would you suggest then?
PSU and water tubing came in. Ram should be here tomorrow. Stuff is trickling in. Is anyone else just really damn excited right now? What a time to build a rig. Everyone else seems kind of calm so I thought it was maybe just me.
PSU and water tubing came in. Ram should be here tomorrow. Stuff is trickling in. Is anyone else just really damn excited right now? What a time to build a rig. Everyone else seems kind of calm so I thought it was maybe just me.
Yeah, I'm chomping at the bit here, just waiting for reviews to see if I should ruin my personal finances for the next few months by buying a 1700(X) instead of the 1600X I was planning on. My impression is that everyone else is going bananas too. This has been the longest couple of weeks in a long, long time for me.Calm?! Everybody is locked in and primed, set to go off March 2. It's going to be a fireworks show.
Does anyone know at what time (in what time zone) the embargo ends? If it's like 4pm Pacific, I'll be pretty pissed. That's in no way enough time to read all the reviews for us Europeans.
PSU and water tubing came in. Ram should be here tomorrow. Stuff is trickling in. Is anyone else just really damn excited right now? What a time to build a rig. Everyone else seems kind of calm so I thought it was maybe just me.
PSU and water tubing came in. Ram should be here tomorrow. Stuff is trickling in. Is anyone else just really damn excited right now? What a time to build a rig. Everyone else seems kind of calm so I thought it was maybe just me.
If so, that's all right - that's 2pm here. A bit late in the day for ordering online and have the order shipped ASAP, but if I'm lucky I can stop by my local computer store on the way home from work. If reviews are positive, of course. And if I decide to spend more money than I really can afford to. Oh well.Usually it's 9am ET. Can't quite remember if we have confirmation that it's at 9ET this time around but it's 99% sure.
I have to ask: did you take time off from work to build your PC?I had 2 day shipping on the cpu and board, was hoping to be building it this sunday. But if that doesn't work out, I have monday and tuesday off from work next week just in case. And if things do come in on time, I have a few days off to fine tune the system and get it optimized
If so, that's all right - that's 2pm here. A bit late in the day for ordering online and have the order shipped ASAP, but if I'm lucky I can stop by my local computer store on the way home from work. If reviews are positive, of course. And if I decide to spend more money than I really can afford to. Oh well.
I have to ask: did you take time off from work to build your PC?
If so, that's all right - that's 2pm here. A bit late in the day for ordering online and have the order shipped ASAP, but if I'm lucky I can stop by my local computer store on the way home from work. If reviews are positive, of course. And if I decide to spend more money than I really can afford to. Oh well.
Sure. "Medical stuff." Open-case surgery? A motherboardectomy and CPU implantation?Actually no, It was because of some medical stuff I needed to get done, and would rather not deal with leaving work to go for an appointment and drive all the way back to work. Made more sense to book time off. But it worked out for the better, as my appointment is minutes away from home, so I can have most of the day to do what I want.
That's pretty much what I'm expecting as well. No miracles, just competitive IPC. 10% behind BDW-E would be a little disappointing, but anything above that would make me a happy camper. Right now I'm leaning quite heavily towards stretching my wallet to fit either a 1700 or 1700X - that site that did benchmarks of new (not 2-3-4-year-old) games showing good scaling to 8 cores made that suddenly more attractive. Especially in light of the 6- and 4-core versions possibly not clocking much higher than the 8-cores.My expectations are overall slower than Broadwell. Well ahead in few, ahead in some, even in some, behind in plenty and well behind in some. Not gonna be 10% behind overall, that's more vs Skylake i guess.
Might have a substantial advantage in power,not in peak power but in actual usage and at idle.
The 6 and 4 cores might end up more interesting for many.
The top SKU would have similar clocks to the top 8 cores SKUs and they'll have more memory bandwidth on a per core basis.
At the same time, these SKUs would compete with Intel products clocked lower that the 7700k and they become very attractive.
That's pretty much what I'm expecting as well. No miracles, just competitive IPC. 10% behind BDW-E would be a little disappointing, but anything above that would make me a happy camper. Right now I'm leaning quite heavily towards stretching my wallet to fit either a 1700 or 1700X - that site that did benchmarks of new (not 2-3-4-year-old) games showing good scaling to 8 cores made that suddenly more attractive. Especially in light of the 6- and 4-core versions possibly not clocking much higher than the 8-cores.
A thought, though: In addition to the obvious of selling as many high-priced SKUs as possible and not diverting initial fully functional dies to 4- or 6-core SKUs with lower margins, might AMD be holding back Ryzen 3 and 5 (both specs and launch) to optimize clock speeds? One thing is showing developers slides with specs (like we've seen leaks from), another is actually announcing it publicly. And it's not like any developer would complain if the 4- and 6-core SKUs suddenly ran 2-300 MHz faster than initially shown.
Your Seasonic x-660 looks like you have good taste in PSU's, and I agree, quality is formost, but sizing... You never want to exceed 70-80% load. Thats when it really can damage a PSU, if its constant usage. The closest I have run is 600 watt load on an 850. That even worries me a little. So, get a kill-a-watt. See your wall load. Then multiply by about 80% to see your max capable(efficiency), then multiply that by 1.3 or so to see the optimum size you should get.
So in my case, a 600 watt drain and an 850 watt psu, is at 88% load, and thats really pushing it. That 850 only gives about 680 watts to the computer, and with a 600 watt drain, thats asking for trouble.
Edit. Its possible that the PSU manufacturers rate their PSU's after loss, so don't yell at me if I got this wrong.
Looks like my 1800X is about to ship, but no Crosshair VI Hero yet