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@jrgp: I must have very good luck with hard drives, I have a 20 gb hard drive that is now almost 10 years old, still working fine (ribbon cables w00t). Same with my 5-year-old 60gb hard drive.Will take into account though.
Quote from: iDante on August 06, 2009, 07:22:33 pm@jrgp: I must have very good luck with hard drives, I have a 20 gb hard drive that is now almost 10 years old, still working fine (ribbon cables w00t). Same with my 5-year-old 60gb hard drive.Will take into account though.Right, old drives are amazingly indestructible. Stuff from the 80s/90s lives forever. Like for my v6 tunnel/ssh access point Gish (http://jrgp.us/health) is a dell from 1998 with two 20GB hard drives, each from no later than 2003/4.The oldies always work, but unfortunately stuff made now is shit and dies after a year. At least from my personal experience(s).
I'd prefer Intel's E8500 over the Phenom you got there. (Because Tom's Hardware says so)
Quote from: Dusty on August 06, 2009, 06:56:50 pmI'd prefer Intel's E8500 over the Phenom you got there. (Because Tom's Hardware says so)Toms hardware is the crap when it comes to hardware comparisons. Basically they are Intel biased at times.
Separately. No clue if there's a different preference for desktops but in the laptop forums I frequent Arctic Silver 5 or MX7 [I think] is the preferred stuff.
Quote from: Espadon on August 11, 2009, 05:29:55 pmSeparately. No clue if there's a different preference for desktops but in the laptop forums I frequent Arctic Silver 5 or MX7 [I think] is the preferred stuff.If the CPUs come with a heatsink, it'll have thermal material on the sink itself.
Quote from: Veritas on August 11, 2009, 08:27:35 pmQuote from: Espadon on August 11, 2009, 05:29:55 pmSeparately. No clue if there's a different preference for desktops but in the laptop forums I frequent Arctic Silver 5 or MX7 [I think] is the preferred stuff.If the CPUs come with a heatsink, it'll have thermal material on the sink itself.I used to read a lot of hardware reviews back in the day, and they all said that stock thermal paste is no where near as good as arctic silver.
Quote from: jrgp on August 11, 2009, 09:11:04 pmQuote from: Veritas on August 11, 2009, 08:27:35 pmQuote from: Espadon on August 11, 2009, 05:29:55 pmSeparately. No clue if there's a different preference for desktops but in the laptop forums I frequent Arctic Silver 5 or MX7 [I think] is the preferred stuff.If the CPUs come with a heatsink, it'll have thermal material on the sink itself.I used to read a lot of hardware reviews back in the day, and they all said that stock thermal paste is no where near as good as arctic silver.That's really only important if you're overclocking.
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Don't buy a Seagate. Some are made in Taiwan and are good. Some are made in former Maxtor factories in china and they fail all the time. The quality is so sketchy that you're safer to go to Western Digital.