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I didn't, the "3 bar" was a joke. I have no idea what the air pressure is inside the case, nor do i really care! 10 minutes at full load and the processor cores never got above 57C. That's all I care about.
Nice job. I couldn't even tell you which way I set my fans up when I was last in there. All I know is that 29° works for me.
Thanks, I'd never even thought of that. Not sure I care that much but I guess I'll trust that the makers of my $150 case thought about this. Though I did reorganize the fans and add two to the top to blow air out so maybe I should reverse them.
Just ordered a 512GB Samsung 850Pro for the new build as a cache/swap drive for things that need quick writes, but can be transferred to a slower drive once complete.
I really wanted a 950Pro M.2 but the price needs to come down a little before that makes sense.
But...
Max Sequential Read
Up to 2200 MBps
Max Sequential Write
Up to 900 MBps
Just ordered a 512GB Samsung 850Pro for the new build as a cache/swap drive for things that need quick writes, but can be transferred to a slower drive once complete.
I really wanted a 950Pro M.2 but the price needs to come down a little before that makes sense.
But...
Max Sequential Read
Up to 2200 MBps
Max Sequential Write
Up to 900 MBps
I do the same thing. All my photo editing is done on the SSD (which is still orders of magnitude faster than a HDD) from my old computer before all the files are transferred to my storage drives.
The main SSD (Samsung 850 EVO) runs the whole show though as that's my boot and application drive.
Now the thorn in my side is his WD Black2 drive. It's a 120GB SSD/1TB HDD combo. I didn't know I'm supposed to uninstall the HDD section before I formatted the drive for a fresh install. Only the SSD portion is supposed to show up, but I'm getting a 1.043TB volume and Windows refuses to install onto it. I've been dealing with it since yesterday and just found that they recommend zero-ing out the drive to try and reset it to it's factory default of the 1TB being hidden until their software is installed. Most frustrating build I've dealt with
Last edited by MaxMike93; May 23, 2016 at 08:16 PM.
I think those hybrid drives make sense in laptops but outside of that, no thanks.. I'll just get a dedicated SSD for OS and a 4TB or other traditional platter drive for the the hairy midget videos..
It's an interesting point. I have a 120GB primary SSD, but a 1.5TB HDD for media, and a 1TB backup drive installed in my desktop. I have plenty of room for more drives, I'm wondering if I should start swapping out two or three SSDs for the media drive.
Even then, though, you can get a 1TB SSD for $300... Just throw your OS and "hairy midget videos" collection on that and call it a day.
Less heat. Less noise. Less vibration. Less moving parts to fail.
I mean, you can even Velcro an SSD to the side of the case if you are out of room...
I bought a 1TB SSD few weeks ago for $200. You can get 256GB for $60 so it makes no sense to buy normal drives now. If a client's drive dies now I just throw in an SSD and blow their mind.
I think we've reached the tipping point to where SSDs are going to be everywhere, for 99% of people a 256GB SSD is more than enough for them. SSDs are going to skyrocket over the next couple years.
My mom was paying for everything as his birthday present (my brother is a student and doesn't work). So to try and keep the cost down I figured that this drive isn't too old and should have plenty of life left. I submitted a case to WD because their zero-out method didn't work. I bought my dad a new Samsung 850 EVO for my brother's old Ive Bridge Dell XPS but he said it's no rush for him to have it, so I tossed the drive into the build so he can at least start using the system.
I just wouldn't think of buying one of them for a build. Would be like buying an IDE drive.
That's pretty much what it felt like trying to get Windows onto that drive. It has worked pretty well for the time he's used it - just I wish that a format would trigger the firmware to disable the HDD component. Haven't gotten a call or email back from them so I guess I'll have to harass them some more . Hopefully they have some way of forcing the firmware to be flashed to factory defaults with it being connected via USB or if I have it connected via SATA as a secondary drive.
Added a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO to start shouldering the media load, and I should have gone bigger. Oh well, I'll grab a 500GB next time it goes on sale. I like to keep things organized, and my iTunes folder alone is almost 300GB. Movies, music, etc.
I had the issue of one, then two of my RAM sticks had gone bad, and I was running on 4GBx2 for the last few months. Then after I put in the SSD, it showed I was only running one 4GB stick. The hell? Three out of four sticks bad in a few years with little fiddling?
It turns out, none of the sticks are bad. I can get any of them to work in A2 and B2, but only those two slots. The ASRock system browser in the BIOS shows all of them present, as does CPUZ. But the BIOS itself and Windows only shows two sticks. I reseated the CPU and didn't lock down the cooler as much this time, which allowed for it to post (wasn't with the other two sticks before). I'm wondering if the MB is slightly damaged. So, what's the plan?
The board is a Z77 Extreme4, the CPU is a 2500K, the RAM is 4GBx4 (or was) G.Skill 1333 (I know, but I think it was a great deal). I could swap the board out, but buying newer, faster memory on two sticks would be way cheaper.
The Z77 will take 2800 on OC, but I'm way out of my element on getting RAM these days. I think I'll stick with two channel, just in case the board is indeed damaged. Think I'm going to order a 8GBx2 1600 Kingston set that is supported, try it out. I think I'm going to pull the CPU one more time and look for a bent pin before I do.
Just built this a month or so ago. Yes I know I need to do dust and do some major cable tucks.
Loose specs off the top of my head
MSI PCMATE Mobo
Corsair case (with lots of sound deadening)
Whatever the fastest intel i5 skylake core is CPU
8gb Corsair DDR4 ram
Samsung EVO 250GB SSD dual booting Linux and Win10
3TB Hitachi HDD (Multimedia)
1 TB Hitachi HDD (archiving and system back ups mainly)
Big Azz Zalmann copper CPU fan
Corsair 80+gold 450watt fully modular PSU
LG Blu-ray reader/writer/burner
Graphics Card LOL (someday maybe, but mostly this gets used a media server for PLEX and Kodi and the skylake CPU can apparently power two 4k monitors so they say)
Not Pictured LG 28'' 1080p IPS panel monitor
Logitech Speakers, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, my supermodel Russian wife lol
How many instances of Google Chrome DO you have up anyway
Indexing a forensic image of a hard drive. When the indexing engine gets to the unallocated space, it starts loading large amounts of data (most of it is near empty) into RAM to process it.
Indexing my porn collection. When the indexing engine gets to the 1080P porn, it starts loading large amounts of data (most of it is near empty) into RAM to process it.
nope, one process, no leak.
