If you're getting a non-K 6600, go for H170 and save some money. Otherwise get a 6600K. Also, it may be cheaper to get a 4690/4690K and H/Z97, performance is almost the same.
Strange. So you could not upgrade to Windows 10 or you couldn't update to the newest version? Kind of confused as to what issue you're actually having.
I'm done with Western Digital. I've just had the third WD hard drive fail on me in a month. The 80 gig PATA drive has sectors so bad I can't even save a word document on it, the 160 gig Scorpio Black has bad sectors that I had to partition off so I could use it, and the one I just put in Solindra yesterday and installed Windows on yesterday started clicking after installing GeForce experience 20 minutes ago. I've got everything deployed. WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi. The Hitachi drives are more reliable. FREAKING HITACHI!
PATA? How old is that thing then??? They do fail with age you know, this whole SSD lifespan shorter than HDD is actually bullshit.
I get the PATA drive. You may even be able to make an argument for the 6 year old Scorpio. But 3 year old Enterprise grade drive you can't make an argument for. But, But... My 6 year old Hitachi Travelstar works fine, and the SATA 1 (8 or 9 years old now) Maxtor works like the day it was new. AND I have a 160 gig PATA Seagate 7200 RPM drive about as old at my WD PATA and even it works fine. And the ass old Seagate Medalist 4.7 gig drive I have with Windows 98 works fine too.
I have a WD drive with roughly 6 years of on time in my PC. (IIRC) And my 2.5 year old Seagate works fine too.
Im gonna see how many virtual machines i can put inside each other. Doing on a quad core right now. octacore will be soon.
So I found out why my computer has been running like a dog. Turns out my 4 year old seagate 1TB drive has decided to start dying causing problems with booting and random crashing, so I just ordered two tested 10,000RPM Western Digital 300GB Velociraptor hard drives and I'm gunna run them in raid, might get god like performance or might get 5400RPM performance we shall soon see.
I mean, why not get a cheap data drive and an SSD for mainly used programs and the OS? That's what most gamers do these days, including me. I went from 3 500GB HDDs in RAID0 to an SSD. (Granted, two of the HDDs were Green Caviars that added up to about the same performance as a normal drive..)
I already do. I have a 160GB Intel SSD, I just needed a new option for storage what with my 1TB dying and saw these for quite cheap, and thought it would be a fun little experiment.
How long does SSD's and HDD's last again? I've got 10,000+ hours racked up on my SSD and HDD. isn't it something like 5 years? do they mean 5 years of time going by or 5 years of being on and active?
Depends on stuff. Some SSDs can last a petabyte plus of writes before giving up. I have a WD Caviar in my PC with just under 40,000 hours on it. (4.5 years of being on.) The Seagate I bought new about 2.5 years ago has just under 10,000 hours on it and it's still working fine along with the WD.
Well, I shoved a 750 GB Recertified Seagate Barracuda HDD in Solindra. Now I'm having power issues, that GTX 285 and FX-6100 are a little much for the 460W Delta PSU. Upon anything over 60% system utilization or so the PSU would trip and need reset. So, I put the dying HD 6770 back into her and we'll see what happens. Funny little story: the PSU and GPU are both from my friends rig, where they were paired with a Bloomfield i7 920 and 8 GB of RAM. I can't remember the TDP of the 920, but I remember there being stability issues, and it's currently paired with a 95W FX CPU. Oh hell, the house is going to burn down. Built on a budget of "free", man, even though I've sunk $104 into it.
Hmm, my SSD has had minimal writes to it, basically, it runs the OS and a few programs that have no choice but to install to the SSD, while my HDD, needs a promotion for the work its done, constantly writing videos (Shadowplay is love and life) and reading them while editing, constantly installing new and old games, moving files all the time, a million and one folders, etc. Also, I've always wondered, how do you guys store your second storage devices? I mean, with my 2TB disc, I just open it and I make a new folder for files and programs, so down the bottom of the list I'd fine my shadowplay recordings while at the top I'd fine my adobe photoshop files. Do you guys make folders like "Videos" and "Games" or "Programs" and you put certain files in those folders?
i7 920 is a 130w TDP. I have the 920XM in my laptop and it's a beast. If I allow it to pull 100w+ I can hit 4GHz on all 8 threads.
Also, forgot to add in me last post... In the near / far far away future, I'd like to do a RAID 10. BUT. I'd want to have another drive, just for my stream games and shadowplay recordings, a HDD that is not in the raid, so I should have 5 drives, but only 3 of them should pop up (2 for use, 2 cloning the ones in use, 1 for shadowplay and steam)
