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post #21 of 27
4/1/09 at 8:20pm
Have to agree that it is indeed bottlenecked by the hdd's. As big as you've gone on the last few builds shazza I kind of thought you'd have gone with ssd's by now.

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Originally Posted by archalien View Post
there is a new one from OCZ about 300$ that is a blazer!!! 2nd only to the intels, raid those and you will decimate all!!!
I've been messin with the OCZ Vertex's and I find that they are the best bang for buck/performance goin right now (in ssd land that is). Sure they can't beat the Intel's but they aint that far behind either. Put two of them in a raid 0 and you are nearing the limit of the ich10 chipset (three does) . If you order now I'm sure you could have them by the weekend .

Gots to give it to ya shazza. Some of the best/cleanest builds and pics I've ever seen (here or elsewhere). Not that it is anythang new though .
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post #22 of 27
4/1/09 at 8:53pm
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Ha ... you guys are just trying to get me to make one more upgrade, ain't ya.

Yes, I absolutely agree the HDs are currently the bottleneck. I've been lookin' at the Vertex gang ... SSDs will come.

BUT ... for what I use the computer for, waiting on the HDs really hasn't been an issue. Photoshop runs quickly, Fallout 3 runs seamlessly, and if my Office Apps ran any faster, I'd have to actually get some work done BUT ... I do agree with y'all.

As for screen size ... I have a choice of several big screens to game on (from 58 to 71"), so the novelty of a large monitor is perhaps stale. The 30" is just a little big for me when sitting at the desk. My 27" on my other rig is better for me. I actually feel like I get more immersion sitting at the desk for PC gaming than I do with the Big Screens and the sofa. But, nothing like a good racing game on the PS3 or 360 to get the adrenaline going on the Big Screen. When I'm slashing zombies, I prefer to do it in privacy and not show the whole world how depraved I am.

And, wrt sound ... yeppp, I know it makes a diff. My den at the Florida house has 5.1 surround. We're converting a spare bedroom to my office here in AZ, and then I'll worry about sound. But then, at my advanced age, I'm a tad hard of hearing as the old folks say...
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post #23 of 27
4/1/09 at 9:27pm
did anyone notice the little fallout 3 guy? haha i like that!

and yes i noticed it first time I saw the pics!
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post #24 of 27
4/1/09 at 9:35pm
She's the one that got me to buy the game . Loved every second of it .
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post #25 of 27
4/2/09 at 12:16am
Um dumb question what do you use to control fan speed? Bios? Speed fan?

Um i have this 120MM fan inside my pc that is nice and quiet and keeps things cool but If I plug in my 80MM fan which plug in via one of those molex connector its wicked fast and really loud but it keeps things even cooler but this annoyingly loud i want to like turn it down some how any way to do that? thanks!

I want to play fallout 3 now lol but i already beat it and both expansions/dlc! lol
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post #26 of 27
4/3/09 at 11:15am
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Hi nate ... For fan control, I'm using an Aquaero controller, but have also used the controllers from Sunbeam, Scythe etc.

You can use something like this to control a single fan.
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post #27 of 27
4/3/09 at 11:31am
Thanks!
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