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Something happened to my post. :mad: Her motherboard is crapping out, so I need to replace MB, CPU and RAM. The budget is limited to under $500, so I was looking at 2500K, Z68 µATX board, 2x4GB DDR3 1600 RAM, with option to add more RAM later. Is that a reasonable plan? I'm not sure about...

Ridiculous. I know 75+ year-olds that are carrying around a couple of pro Canon DSLR bodies and a 500 or 600/4 IS lens to boot. And when I was in Canada recently there were a number of people with SLRs that had to be in their late 60s or early 70s.

Many of the cheap externals include a spindown when not accessed. I think the vendors assume that will increase the lifespan enough.

The rootkit travels back in time?

One of the older small computers is dying and I need to

:cry:

Nobody uses Ghost or the Acronis anymore?

Thermal heat from any source is all the same, although it may be distributed differently within the room by fan, convection, IR , etc. a heat pump is a different issue. By space heater we typically mean a small, relatively cheap unit, not the kind you mount on the wall.

A lot more expensive. :)

I expected that at least it could be partitioned.

I tried it on four different controllers, but no go. I hope I can obtain a refund. :pale:

That is very inefficient like a space heater.

So? I was teleconferencing with the Canadians yesterday and it sounded like 1-JUL was celebrated not unlike other summer holidays such as US 4-JUL. That was in fact in the Montréal headquarters. I think they all have to be bi up there.

So nobody in Canada detonates anything on Friday for 1-JUL? I don't believe it.

They will just make it 5 bits per cell or something so that it will be 99% unreliable crap and perhaps a small amount will be produced at premium prices for the high end.

No, the computer locks up and only the cursor blinks endlessly. :mad:

The single M4 is doing fine. It's quite a solid little drive, rather like the X-25M for the new decade. Only time will tell if it is reliable. ;)

One to the body and one to the head?

The OWC has reached a whole new level of crapitude. It cannot be partitioned or formatted in Windows and licks up the BIOS at boot. :tdown: $300 for this POS? :doh:

Wow. Normally I hear them about 1-2 days prior to 4-JUL, but only ocassionally. Are fireworks legal in your county?

Sorry, the board was stalling out on me. :( I thought maybe changing the formula would help ram those bytes through the series of tubes in the interwebs. ;-)

No Atto? I'd try other ports/controllers as well.

The M4 may be sleeping with the hippos. The OWC 6G will overtake it by Thursday. :colors: :spiderman: 8-)

Do you ever seek entertainment such as movies, sporting events, concerts, etc.? What about activities with friends and family? What are you doing on Friday for the holiday?

Because most consumers want to buy cheap crap.

So my package is in the limbo. It went from Memphis to practically all over the country and is back in Memphis again. :mad: What is so great about Memphis; is it waiting for Elvis to rise from the dead?

Maybe a crowbar or a bolt cutter...

Some of them had nearly impossible-to-remove screws. :tdown:

I think Greg should know by now that it is much better to build them with a separate enclosure and drive.

Me too, but if I go bnakrupt or have stroke or rupture, does it matter anymore?

Nobody buys SSDs lately? I guess I must make the first sacrifice.

Was USB 3 identified on the box? There is a logo you know.

IIRC MS did that when Word for Windows 2 was replaced with 6 in one jump to compete with WordPerfect. :monkey:

Buchner, Buchner... What do you feel about the OWC 6G drives?

You don't have to have politics, you can have women. And some of them Canadians have nice racks. ;)

The problem with fixed, low-speed fans is that they don't provide a lot of cooling with the 4-6 core O/C systems under extended full load.

Thanks. She ordered one today.

I'm thinking about moving Canada in 2012-14 if I can get nominated. :(

Oops, I said too much already. :spiderman: No, I did not have a Ford or the egoboost. :skepo: :elephant: :bsmurf: :smurf:

There is one connector for the motherboard CPU fan header, one for the power in and two (or three for the splitter shown) sockets for the 4-pin fans. Only one of the fans is actually supplying the tach back to the MB, and it is typically labeled as such.

80MPH. I assume that it is only for the rental company. Drudering would probably hack it. :D

I rented one of those Ford egoboost vehicles for about a week. The engine was quite responsive and passing was very good at highway speeds. Fuel economy was also very good, more along the lines of the lighter-weight Asian vehicles. The speed was limited to 80 though, which is a problem when...

Thanks. I started using that in 1987, but I'm sure the term has been around much longer.

How are you planning to span those USB drives or are you diving data into folders? It seems like a nightmare. At use eSATA for usable speed.

Does your M4 suffer from the freezing or is that only on certain Intel ICH?

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The power is from the Molex connector, not the mainboard.

One of my drives (last 2TB Hibachi) was diagnosed with a Smarter problem and I'm thinking of replacing it. Unfortunately the WD2001FASS is no longer made and not so sure about the WD2002FAEX (advancing format, etc.), which is the new model. Are there any other fast 7200RPM 2TB drives to consider?

I turn the Balckberry off on the weekends if I'm not travelling on business. Surely they don't have a personal phone number?

The May/June vacations in the US are very strenuous and exhausting for me and it gets worse with age. After the second one this spring I was mentally and physically numb and practically all worn out.