Recent content by Zenara25

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    SSD or Mechanical HDD

    Thank you everyone for your thoughts. Does anyone else have any other options? I did explain the benefits of SSD. They really just don't want to spend more than $100 at this point. The Adata seemed like the lowest cost with best reviews. And I did look at the Plextor M3. But they don't...
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    SSD or Mechanical HDD

    My relative has an external drive for backup. However I like to make an image of all my drives and especially for close family too so I don't have to reinstall everything all over again. They don't want to spend $100-200 on a SSD. So I gave them a choice of an Adata S510 SSD 120GB drive for $99...
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    SSD 128-160GB or SSD 64GB and HD

    Thanks everyone. They're not planning to upgrade til summer but it's good to be able to give them options. One more question. They have a ASRock H61M/U3S3 board that has 3rd party 6gb/s sata (Asmedia ASM1061 chip). Can an SSD be plugged into the 3rd party sata? The onboard sata are only 3gb/s...
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    SSD 128-160GB or SSD 64GB and HD

    My parents have had their Sata hard drive for a few years. I do make an image of the drive (in an internal mobile rack using Acronis) and in addition also backup their data for them on another external drive. I'm trying to convince them to buy an SSD and use their old drive as a backup...
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    G620 CPU, Radeon HD 6670 GPU + Antec Earthwatts 380 PSU

    Will this power supply power the G620 CPU, + the Radeon HD 6670 GPU + ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 motherboard, 2 sticks of DDR3 1600 ram, 1 7200rpm sata HDD, 1 sata DVDRW drive, 2 led 120mm fans? Or should we go up to the 430 watt power supply? Or a different brand name?
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    Will a 6gb/s sata hybrid hard drive work on a motherboard with 1.5gb/s sata?

    The Seagate Momentus XT 750gb ST750LX003 hybrid hard drive arrived today. Installed it and it works :) No issues at this point in time. Update 7/26/2012 :Using Temperature Monitor the drive reads 36 degrees C. I've had no problems yet. Boot up time is much faster 20-25 seconds compared to the...
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    Will a 6gb/s sata hybrid hard drive work on a motherboard with 1.5gb/s sata?

    Thank You d4a2n0k. I knew that 3gb/s drives were backwards compatible with 1.5gb/s drive but wasn't sure about 6gb/s being backwards compatible with 1.5gb/s.
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    Will a 6gb/s sata hybrid hard drive work on a motherboard with 1.5gb/s sata?

    I plan to purchase a Seagate Momentus XT 750gb ST750LX003 hybrid hard drive. I'd like to find out if a 6gb/s sata hard drive will work in an older 2006 Core Duo Macbook with 1.5gb/s Sata? I need at minimum a 320gb hard drive. An SSD would be too expensive and my current drive (Seagate...
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    Do I have to reinstall windows? The Answers HERE!

    Tried sysprep but because I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 it wouldn't allow me to create the image. But Plug-n-Pray worked going from a P35 to an 1155 board :) Beforehand I did create an image backup and then tried to remove as many drivers as possible from device manager. Not sure if that...
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    Cheapest OCable P67 mobo?

    Ryan Shrout works at www.PCper.com and http://twit.tv/twich. Don't know about ECS. But yes, it's more informative than a review. I got my board yesterday. Love it so far. The only small issue I have is sometimes my keyboard isn't detected fast enough to get into the bios. I have an old PS2...
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    ATX12V 8pin motherboard connection help

    Thanks everyone. I decided to try it and everything worked after I figured out I had the reset and power case connecters swapped :) I was about to pull out the flat head screwdriver trick to manually try to power on (bypassing the case connectors). Sure made me nervous for about 15min though...
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    ATX12V 8pin motherboard connection help

    EPS/ATX12V CPU Cable. I bought a new 1155 motherboard and have a question about this connection that attaches to the motherboard 8 pins. I have a Corsair 400Watt CMPSU-400CX power supply. They do fit into the motherboard but I'm worried about turning it on because the square and rounded tops...
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    Will this ram work with this motherboard?

    Thanks dma0991 Decided to go with a P67 board instead that supports the DDR3 1600. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-279-_-Product I'll just use my old 9600GT GPU with it for now.
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    32" LCD 720P Hannspree TV $269.99 shipped free

    + tax and $15 fee if you are a non-member making the total around $302 Just got mine yesterday and love it with Directv HD service. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...=1&topnav=&s=1
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    i3-2100 GPU or old 9600GT

    Thanks everyone. I actually ordered a P67 already (supposed to come today) and was second guessing myself. In the future I can always upgrade the cpu to OC :) Easier than upgrading the motherboard.