Recent content by Wali

Somehow I wasn't quite on the ball when ordering the DVD-burner. Of course it says "bulk" (and "SATA" - duh), which should've tipped me off. But I did look up the product codes for the SSD and HDD, and they returned google results for the retail versions. I'll have to be more careful about that...

Mmmkay.. so.. I'd been fairly sure that I had stuff(tm) figured out now - thanks to you folks - but another unforeseen issue just popped up. First things first: the parts are finalized and have arrived! Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 PSU: Corsair HX650 650W 80 PLUS Gold (modular)...

To me, it looks like you're trying to put an ATX board into a case specified for micro-ATX boards. I'm not sure that would fit without problems? There may be an m-ATX version of the board you listed. Alternately, you could take a look at the ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M. It likely offers better...

While I have to admit that I have no experience with HP screens, the last PC-system I bought from them broke down with hardware defects often enough to bring me to tears, before finally passing away with an explosion of the PSU. Accordingly, I am holding a tiny grudge, and would like to offer...

>.> What can I say.. there was a time when I used ext2, and those were simple, happy times (unless you lost data in a crash). And then they suddenly came along with all this new-fangled stuff, including higher numbers and what have you. First ext3, then ext4.. I mean.. just where is this...

I'm really glad you mentioned that, mfenn. First thing I would have likely done is format the SSD in ext2, just because that is what I usually do with my HDD-partitions. Another question that just arose is: How much of the SSD do I allocate for Swap? Back in the days, I used to go by the...

You're very welcome, but unfortunately this is where my area of "expertise" ends. As it is, I signed up just two days ago, looking for advice - which Steltek, mfenn and others promptly provided. This is really an incredible community, so I'm glad I had something helpful to contribute as well.

It depends a bit on how effective your CPU and GPU coolers are - but as you plan on overclocking, I would recommend an additional case fan. I'm fairly sure that one of the reviews on the case mentioned the R4's stock fan controller can only handle 2 (possibly due to power constraints?), but...

If you can not get your hands on the Nanoxia case in the States, I would recommend you take a look at the Fractal Design Define R4. You will notice a lot of shared features between the two. One notable difference is the R4 may have slightly worse cooling performance - but only because it is...

All the feedback is very much appreciated! It's a lot to take in, of course, so I'll try to sum up the next steps. Please let me know in case I got something wrong. 1. "Downgrade" PSU to a Corsair HX650 Gold (7-year manufacturer warranty?! I'll take that!) 2. SLI is (in general) not worth...

Thank you both for looking into this in so much detail, and for the feedback, too. This is exactly the kind of help I had been looking and hoping for. I really should have included the retailers I'll be using to avoid this, but the two coolers you recommended are not readily available to me...

I'm by no means an expert, but it likely wouldn't hurt to also check for non-hardware-relared causes. If you managed to back up your entire data several times without any read failures, and now Chrome specifically is causing issues, it could be time to find a support forum for hijackthis...

Intended use for the PC: Gaming and office work, perhaps some minor video editing. OS will be Linux, so I'd like to stick with Nvidia GPUs (and kinda took a liking to the GTX 660 line due to a relatively good power to performance ratio?). The system should be able to handle some minor...