I'm also interested in this one...
http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00110770.html
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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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Linux Format ships internationally but it is a UK based magazine...
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I've read in the comments that adding Ram requiresQuote from Mr. Huckabunghaga on June 11th, 2011, 12:11 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 ;)
4GB of RAM should be fine, I don't think you really need more .
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*shrug* Can never have enough RAM, but it depends what you're doing. I stuck 8GB in mine last year mostly because I was doing heavy virtualisation stuff at the time running Win Server 2k3 in VirtualBox.
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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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Nao: have you tried accessing your harddrives from a Linux live cd or pen drive (e.g. Ubuntu)? I know, it might sound crazy, but that's how I usually recover data when a Windows machine fails to boot.
Of course, the success rate will depend on how broken the hardware is...
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*shrug* Can never have enough RAM, but it depends what you're doing. I stuck 8GB in mine last year mostly because I was doing heavy virtualisation stuff at the time running Win Server 2k3 in VirtualBox.
Although for someone who's looking to have over 100 tabs in Opera and play Crysis, I'd say get as much as you can.
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Downloaded ubuntu live cd on my safe hd. Crashed halfway through download. Reset. Windows 7 is dead, too.
Yay.
Yay.
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Error Nº1: Downloading Ubuntu :P
Get online backups! Maybe kind of boring waiting them to download, but, hey... It's safier right?
Get online backups! Maybe kind of boring waiting them to download, but, hey... It's safier right?
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Re: PC hotline
« Reply #25, on June 11th, 2011, 05:22 PM »Last edited on June 11th, 2011, 05:49 PM by Nao/Gilles
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.
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Holy cow! Opera installed in UNDER a second!! :lol:
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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Now throw some pretty games at it in order to do some justice to that beautiful piece of hardware.
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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.
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