Harrison 16:50 19th May 2010
That is annoying, but would happen with all tower style heatsinks, which are the most efficient type these days.
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Submeg 08:43 26th May 2010
Wow, I really know nothing about building PCs these days...
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Harrison 11:21 26th May 2010
It isn't that different building a PC from the past 10 years really. You still have a case, motherboard, ram, CPU, cooler, PSU and graphics card as the main parts.
The big differences are the need for a powerful PSU, graphics cards are now much bigger and longer so need larger cases for them to fit, and good after market CPU coolers are much bigger, with tower style ones being the current popular and most efficient design.
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Submeg 11:40 26th May 2010
I guess, but I just have no idea what is out there anymore!
PS Tis good to be back and posting
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Demon Cleaner 06:41 27th May 2010
I ran the Windows 7 experience test (WEI) yesterday, and I get an average of 7.5, only the hard disk test (disk data transfer) gives me 5.9 points, thus giving me a rating of 5.9, as the lowest subscore counts.
As I read so far it seems very difficult to get a higher score for the hard disk test, unless you have an SSD.
Originally Posted by Techradar:
Hard drive performance was always a difficult one: even with the last WEI, you had to opt for a Western Digital 10,000RPM Raptor, a RAID solution or be very picky with your main drive selection to hit the magical 5.9.
Even with two RAID0 SSD drives, we didn't achieve anything higher than 6.5. And frankly that's not the sort of solution we expect anyone to be regularly running even by the start of 2010.
Anyway, the system runs so slow, I can barely hear it running, although there's 6 fans on the case plus CPU,GPU and PSU fans! The HDDs are really silent too, that's why I got the Samsung F3 EcoGreen models, they also run only at 5.400.
I also updated the BIOS and all other motherboard drivers, which were all a bit older already. No I still need to install most of my software, currently I'm copying my files back from my old HDDs.
But at the moment I'm very pleased with my new system
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Demon Cleaner 21:10 29th July 2011
I ordered more RAM for the PC, lately when I'm doing stuff like copying, converting video, extracting, downloading... together, my memory usage goes up to almost 100% and the PC almost freezes. I checked today and I saw that the RAM dropped a lot in price. I go now 2x4GB Corsair for 50€. It's the Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 CL9 (9-9-9-24). My 2x2GB RAM I bought with the system were almost 150€.
Perhaps I can even fit the new ones next to the others, and keeping also the old ones, remember there was the problem with one RAM slot being blocked by the CPU cooler, making RAM with bigger heatsinks not fit. This new RAM doesn't have a big heatsink, so perhaps it will fit.
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Harrison 23:40 29th July 2011
It should fit and you can have 4 DIMMs fitted at once. I've got 4x 2GB in my main PC, and I've yet to get anywhere close to using up the 8GB for anything other than video preview rendering in After Effects.
Ram definitely had dropping in price a lot recently. A bit surprising as I was thinking the recent Tsunami in Japan might have effected manufacturing and pushed prices up.
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