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[ayanami_tard]

anyone tried AMD A8 before?how would it compare to...let say, i5(and nvidia 1 gb)

is in desperation to buy a new laptop.the Acer one with AMD A8 is nice though(and it has large screen too, 15.6" methinks)

[Kilgor]

anyone tried AMD A8 before?how would it compare to...let say, i5(and nvidia 1 gb)

is in desperation to buy a new laptop.the Acer one with AMD A8 is nice though(and it has large screen too, 15.6" methinks)

Probably not too crash hot in the CPU department, below or near a i3. GPU performance probably is better than Intel offerings.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-...st.2436.0.html

[Token White Guy]

Yep. The time is coming. Ran my PC for 5 minutes today and it froze. After a hard reset I went into the BIOS and my CPU temps were all over the place. One minute it's around 28 C and the next it jumps to 70 C or 80 C and then it goes back down. I'm thinking I have a bad core that is running hotter. Fuck me.

[Dling]

Yep. The time is coming. Ran my PC for 5 minutes today and it froze. After a hard reset I went into the BIOS and my CPU temps were all over the place. One minute it's around 28 C and the next it jumps to 70 C or 80 C and then it goes back down. I'm thinking I have a bad core that is running hotter. Fuck me.

Didn't you just build a pc?

[Token White Guy]

Didn't you just build a pc?

Not really. I replaced old stuff for new (and sold the spare parts). The only thing I sunk money into was the mobo. The CPU I kept was old, like the first ever i7 Extreme.

I'm pondering right now. Let me drink.

[Dling]

Not really. I replaced old stuff for new (and sold the spare parts). The only thing I sunk money into was the mobo. The CPU I kept was old, like the first ever i7 Extreme.

I'm pondering right now. Let me drink.

Ah. Was under the impression you had built one a little while ago. LGA 1366 I take it?

[Token White Guy]

Ah. Was under the impression you had built one a little while ago. LGA 1366 I take it?

Yep. Here's the thing though. 1366 and 2011 i7s are practically the same price. I might as well go to the 2011 because PCI-E 3 isn't being made in new 1366 boards and I'm pretty sure NVIDIA's new GPUs are going to be PCI-E 3 only. So I may as well take the hit, get a 2011 mobo and CPU, instead of keeping 1366 and later on having to go to 2011. Bleh.

[Kap]

Yep. Here's the thing though. 1366 and 2011 i7s are practically the same price. I might as well go to the 2011 because PCI-E 3 isn't being made in new 1366 boards and I'm pretty sure NVIDIA's new GPUs are going to be PCI-E 3 only. So I may as well take the hit, get a 2011 mobo and CPU, instead of keeping 1366 and later on having to go to 2011. Bleh.

You suck at PC building Toke.

[Token White Guy]

You suck at PC building Toke.

I haz shitty luck.

[RSone]

Seriously, your posts here make it seems like you've built 4 pc's in the last six months, lol

[SkyUS]

Guys I need help with setting up my old desktop pc as a NAS device on the home network.

I have three laptops that would be using the NAS. Two of them run WIN 7 and one of them runs Vista.

How should I prepare the desktop computer to be the NAS? It has Win XP installed but I am willing to install Linux distribution if it will be better at serving the task.

I want to completely shut off the NAS from any internet connections other than from the 3 laptops that would be using it.

Can I strip down the desktop PC into the bare essentials? i.e. getting rid of the dvd drives, sound card etc. just keep the hard drives with the graphics card.

How should I format the hard drives?

How do I protect the NAS? Firewall? Anti virus?

I share my network connection with a neighbor so he has a potential to access the NAS as well. How do I block him out? Maybe password protect it?

[Token White Guy]

Seriously, your posts here make it seems like you've built 4 pc's in the last six months, lol

Technically I've built one (out of the old parts and sold that off) and upgraded one.


And for something news worthy. Intel released a cheaper i7 chip.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/...under-300/7584

[Kap]

Technically I've built one (out of the old parts and sold that off) and upgraded one.


And for something news worthy. Intel released a cheaper i7 chip.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/...under-300/7584

Sandy Bridge FTW. I love the 2600k that I have. Almost nearing the one year mark from when I built this beast. But at least they are coming out with a cheaper version, when I saw the price of the 2600K I bought, I nearly cried, but it was still worth every penny spent on it.

[Dling]

Technically I've built one (out of the old parts and sold that off) and upgraded one.


And for something news worthy. Intel released a cheaper i7 chip.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/...under-300/7584

There's always Ivy Bridge coming in April? and the new z77 lga 1155 boards. Might be a little more cost effective than going LGA 2011, unless you plan on tri-quad sli/xfire.

[Token White Guy]

There's always Ivy Bridge coming in April? and the new z77 lga 1155 boards. Might be a little more cost effective than going LGA 2011, unless you plan on tri-quad sli/xfire.

Ivy Bridge has been delayed until June it seems.

http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Mass...ticle24022.htm