Recent content by CottonEye

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    Which drives, RAID

    Can't decide between.. 2 x 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda's 7200rpm or 3 x 1TB Samsung F3's I know Seagate have had a hard time with firmware issues in the past so not sure what they're like atm. Drives will be used in RAID 0, NAS, Download box. Don't really want any "green" drives. Thanks
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    Build Help - Spec Please

    Thanks for your help guys, in your opinion would an Intel system perform better overall? Thanks for all your help so far I really appreciate you guys going to the trouble. I want to change the case to something along the lines of the Xigmatek Utgard with the IcyBox Backplane - Could someone...
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    Build Help - Spec Please

    Many thanks for your help mfenn, What if I changed the CPU to the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition CPU at £65.27 - would that be an improvement? What's the risk of going for a cheaper PSU, such as the EZCool PS-10 Silent 500W at £10.99! I greatly appreciate your help.
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    Build Help - Spec Please

    hehe - It's a great combo, Usenet and Virgin, get around 5.9mb/sec I had my doubts about the Atom but wasn't sure. I've just tried to stream / transcode on a Celery 2.53GHz (very old machine) and it took 3 min to start playing, was a bit jerky but managed a 600MB file to my iPhone 4 using...
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    Build Help - Spec Please

    Hi I've not put together my own rig for what seems an eternity, the last I remember is back when the first ever Athlon was released I'm not very familiar with what's available today and what works well together. What better place to get some expert advise too! I've moved to Mac's for...
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    Cisco 837 ADSL Router ? Any Good?

    Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong form. Over the past few weeks, I?ve been having problems with routers crashing (freezing) when there is a large amount of p2p and Bittorrent (Azureus) activity. I then have to manually reboot the router; recently I?ve had to do this every few days and...