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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 07:13 PM »
3D Mark 11 runs nicely.
I wanted to stress my GeForce... Well, it gets a bit noisier, but it's barely noticeable. Only when there's no sound coming from my speakers. Nice. I've been using exclusively passive cards for the last 10 years because of a bad experience with a Radeon that screamed at me every time I launched a 3D game. I guess this 'issue' has been fixed by manufacturers in the meantime.
Still, the program crashed on me before the end... (I don't care about getting the score, though.)
And it took so long to install...
Maybe I've got a virus and it's spreading to my new rig :P
I wanted to stress my GeForce... Well, it gets a bit noisier, but it's barely noticeable. Only when there's no sound coming from my speakers. Nice. I've been using exclusively passive cards for the last 10 years because of a bad experience with a Radeon that screamed at me every time I launched a 3D game. I guess this 'issue' has been fixed by manufacturers in the meantime.
Still, the program crashed on me before the end... (I don't care about getting the score, though.)
And it took so long to install...
Maybe I've got a virus and it's spreading to my new rig :P
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 06:36 PM »
I will, I certainly will...
A bit bothered by my chkdsk on my safe drive... It's a 512GB partition. It took it over an hour to go through 50k files... (Out of 300k) Uh.
And I still can't find any information online on how to remove a hard drive from a rack without breaking it. Uh. Got fooled... I'll have to buy another one is my guess.
A bit bothered by my chkdsk on my safe drive... It's a 512GB partition. It took it over an hour to go through 50k files... (Out of 300k) Uh.
And I still can't find any information online on how to remove a hard drive from a rack without breaking it. Uh. Got fooled... I'll have to buy another one is my guess.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 05:44 PM »
12384 points in Peacekeeper... Cool!
(Here's wondering how the top numbers can be above 20k though... Probably heavy overclocking :P)
I just plugged in my biggest hard drive... Using the rack... Here's the question: how the heck do I remove the disk after I'm done with it? :lol:
Seriously, I don't see any way to remove the hard drive from the rack. It's just too tight... :-/
Plus, I've been unlucky in my choice of hard drive. It's the one where I don't remember getting any problems.
I'm currently checking it and it seems to find no problems. Phew... At least that's a gig I didn't lose.
But as for the rest... I'd like to be able to remove the disk :P
(Here's wondering how the top numbers can be above 20k though... Probably heavy overclocking :P)
I just plugged in my biggest hard drive... Using the rack... Here's the question: how the heck do I remove the disk after I'm done with it? :lol:
Seriously, I don't see any way to remove the hard drive from the rack. It's just too tight... :-/
Plus, I've been unlucky in my choice of hard drive. It's the one where I don't remember getting any problems.
I'm currently checking it and it seems to find no problems. Phew... At least that's a gig I didn't lose.
But as for the rest... I'd like to be able to remove the disk :P
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 05:22 PM »
So, here I am... With my new PC!
They didn't have the one I came for (the Revolution machine -- first link I posted). However, I was lucky: they did have my favorite rig of all, while it was marked as not available. Only, it was a demo machine that had been running for 2 months already, and was a bit dusty. Because of that, I managed to haggle and get the price down by 200¤ (honestly I'd never have thought they'd offer such a discount! I would have been sold at 50¤ :lol:)
So, the rig is as such:
- i7 2600k (3.4ghz)
- 8GB ram
- GeForce GTX 570 (I would rather have had a 560 for less money, but it's better than the 580 that was on the Revolution... 32W consumption for 580 in idle, and 24W for mine. It's better, though it could be even better.)
- 4 USB3 ports + plenty of USB2
- 1TB drive
- 128GB SSD (yay!)
- :edit: and Windows 7 Ultimate... I forgot to mention it. Ultimate is cool. Has XP Mode... Although I don't know how to enable it, eheh.
- EXTREMELY silent machine. I thought it was noisy in the shop, but it really isn't. I just can't hear it!
All for the price of 1500¤.
I'm pretty happy with my purchase, really. I really can feel the speed of SSD. It's not a myth!
I also bought an external eSata rack for my old drives... Hopefully I can recover them!
I'll get to it soon.
Holy cow! Opera installed in UNDER a second!! :lol:
They didn't have the one I came for (the Revolution machine -- first link I posted). However, I was lucky: they did have my favorite rig of all, while it was marked as not available. Only, it was a demo machine that had been running for 2 months already, and was a bit dusty. Because of that, I managed to haggle and get the price down by 200¤ (honestly I'd never have thought they'd offer such a discount! I would have been sold at 50¤ :lol:)
So, the rig is as such:
- i7 2600k (3.4ghz)
- 8GB ram
- GeForce GTX 570 (I would rather have had a 560 for less money, but it's better than the 580 that was on the Revolution... 32W consumption for 580 in idle, and 24W for mine. It's better, though it could be even better.)
- 4 USB3 ports + plenty of USB2
- 1TB drive
- 128GB SSD (yay!)
- :edit: and Windows 7 Ultimate... I forgot to mention it. Ultimate is cool. Has XP Mode... Although I don't know how to enable it, eheh.
- EXTREMELY silent machine. I thought it was noisy in the shop, but it really isn't. I just can't hear it!
All for the price of 1500¤.
I'm pretty happy with my purchase, really. I really can feel the speed of SSD. It's not a myth!
I also bought an external eSata rack for my old drives... Hopefully I can recover them!
I'll get to it soon.
Posted: June 11th, 2011, 05:19 PM
Holy cow! Opera installed in UNDER a second!! :lol:
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 02:34 PM »
Downloaded ubuntu live cd on my safe hd. Crashed halfway through download. Reset. Windows 7 is dead, too.
Yay.
Yay.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 01:50 PM »
2GB is definitely not enough when you're a heavy Opera user like me. 4GB would be better, but I'd like to be able to run recent games alongside my Opera... So 6GB is a must, and 8GB is ideal.
I'm also looking into Asus's offerings... Hmm.
I'm also looking into Asus's offerings... Hmm.
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: Removing deprecated code
« on June 11th, 2011, 12:46 PM »
I'm not sure PHP 5.2 is 'that' outdated, really... It's certainly not flavor-of-the-day, but it's still very much usable.
Using PHP 4 definitely is outdated, though. By 10 years :P
Using PHP 4 definitely is outdated, though. By 10 years :P
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 12:44 PM »I'd say that is more appropriate for you, it has power but not a lot of it. I still beats mine though.
PS: I'm not into penis size contests :P When I buy a machine, it's not so that it's the fastest around -- it's only so that I can be sure I can keep it for as long as possible. My current rig was built in 2005 (using a couple of components I bought as far as in 2001!), and I'm still happy with it -- except for the Ram (2gb), but I postponed the Ram upgrade because I was planning to upgrade the entire computer anyway... Honestly I could have kept it for a couple extra years if it wasn't for the hard drive failure.
Pete: no such thing as Linux Format in France, AFAIK ;)
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: Removing deprecated code
« on June 11th, 2011, 12:02 PM »
Sure, we're not looking for a large audience, but... What about the existing Wedge enthusiasts who are on PHP 5.2? I don't know if I can 'force' them to switch to 5.3 just because I want to be able to use lambda functions...
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 11:58 AM »
I haven't got the time to do it. I need to reinstall Windows and try to import as much data as possible from my earlier configuration... Believe me, I don't WANT to do it. But I can't exactly do it any other way. My hard drives seem to be dead. :(
Aaron: I don't know... I doubt it'd work any better. The problem happens in both XP and 7, so it's not an OS problem. If you mean Linux has better error recovery, I don't know, but I don't have a live CD anyway right now and I'd like to be finished with this ASAP...
Aaron: I don't know... I doubt it'd work any better. The problem happens in both XP and 7, so it's not an OS problem. If you mean Linux has better error recovery, I don't know, but I don't have a live CD anyway right now and I'd like to be finished with this ASAP...
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 11:31 AM »
I'm also interested in this one...
http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00110770.html
http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00110770.html
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 10:35 AM »
I'm not sure about the GeForce though-- it's a greedy one, and I don't play that many games... I could do with a GF 460 or even below, see...? But the rest fits me (I can buy the SSD separately.)
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 10:01 AM »I don't get it... I copied flawlessly my profile from Documents and Settings. Isn't that this folder which is supposed to fail? It's the one with my name on it... Also copied Default User and All Users without a problem. Uh...
I'm going to buy a new machine today. Something in the 1500¤ range. Then I'll plug my disks into it. Even if it's just a controller failure, it *probably* screwed up my disks just by saving data onto them... Otherwise, why would the Wedge folder copy just fine, except for a file in the cache folder? Probably because that file was saved after the disk started to fail... I don't know.
Posted: June 11th, 2011, 09:57 AM
What do you think of this rig?
http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00100625.html
Ok it's in French, but it's just a computer with regular devices...
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The Pub / Re: So this is where you folks have been hiding
« on June 11th, 2011, 08:48 AM »Why didn't anyone tell me?!
Anyone interested in Aeva Media has a chance to know about it (since it's linked in my page), so those who were following my work should have no problems here...
This is exciting, and sad I'm so late. : /
But please don't go ahead and start giving your 'ideas' and then arguing that we're stupid for not listening to feature suggestions... We've already been though that, okay?
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 02:32 AM »
Yeah, well, losing my XP is much worse to me than a few days worth of work...
I mean, XP loads, but then when I reach the UI, it says it failed to load my profile, and it builds a new default profile. Yikes. It takes hours to initialize, and then XP fails at doing anything, like launching a program or whatever...
The only difference between that time and the last time it worked, was that I pressed the Reset button because it refused to log off... Then I had crashes at startup -- BSOD + "Hard Error" (never got that one before. It doesn't even show a log!) I suspect it's due to the fact that I'd requested both a partition check (on whatever partition) and a pagefile defrag (through the Contig software) on the next boot. One of the programs must have failed to play with the disk... And then it probably screwed my profile folder as well.
A real mess...
It's 2:27am here. I need to sleep. Badly.
I don't get it... I copied flawlessly my profile from Documents and Settings. Isn't that this folder which is supposed to fail? It's the one with my name on it... Also copied Default User and All Users without a problem. Uh...
I mean, XP loads, but then when I reach the UI, it says it failed to load my profile, and it builds a new default profile. Yikes. It takes hours to initialize, and then XP fails at doing anything, like launching a program or whatever...
The only difference between that time and the last time it worked, was that I pressed the Reset button because it refused to log off... Then I had crashes at startup -- BSOD + "Hard Error" (never got that one before. It doesn't even show a log!) I suspect it's due to the fact that I'd requested both a partition check (on whatever partition) and a pagefile defrag (through the Contig software) on the next boot. One of the programs must have failed to play with the disk... And then it probably screwed my profile folder as well.
A real mess...
It's 2:27am here. I need to sleep. Badly.
Posted: June 11th, 2011, 02:27 AM
I don't get it... I copied flawlessly my profile from Documents and Settings. Isn't that this folder which is supposed to fail? It's the one with my name on it... Also copied Default User and All Users without a problem. Uh...