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  1. Echo

    Any OC i7-920 vs haswell reviews

    I'm in the same boat. 920 @ 3.6 that hasn't failed me in 4½ years :) The reviews don't provide much in the way of required power supplies, does anyone know the minimum ATX spec required if I was to disable Haswell's low idle states in UEFI? Running with a pretty old BFG ES 800w which I think...
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    Project Giana + Kickstarter - Beautiful Platformer ( INDIE )

    Grabbin' it later - mainly 'cause I'm a huge Machinae Supremacy fan :D
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    Sentinel 3 - HQ Tower Defence ( INDIE )

    Bought this yesterday, pretty entertaining! Cheers for the heads up Neil :cool: Been looking for another TD game since immensely enjoying my first dip into the genre with Kingdom Rush, but nothing has come close since looking :(
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    Who's still on i7 ?

    920 @ 3.6ghz since November 2009. I get the upgrade itch every time a tick/tock arrives, but the effort/cost of changing platform for small IPC/cache improvements changes my mind every time. Managing USB3/SATA6G on PCIe cards isn't pretty but it does the job...
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    So I wnet and bought a Bulldoser

    An eight-core Celeron - epic \o/
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    Samsung leaving hard drive business

    HDDs have a good decade more, unless you think SSDs are going to drop 3800%* in the next 2-3 years, or everyone plans to abandon their local storage for cloud services. * 2TB of SSDs @ ~£2500 vs 2TB HDD @ ~£65
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    Samsung SpinPoint driving me mad.

    Although this is probably unique to me, I've had this kind of annoyance from all 7200rpm drives - certain parts of the room are very resonant, and it drives me mad too when it needs the occasional overnight session. Looking to throw out the RAID array (3 x F3s) when SSDs get closer to £1/GB...
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    **CRAZY SSD MADNESS DEAL: LESS THAN £1 per Gigabyte Finally on OCZ SSD!**

    D'oh, they [descriptions] do too - my bad :D
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    **CRAZY SSD MADNESS DEAL: LESS THAN £1 per Gigabyte Finally on OCZ SSD!**

    Are these 3 or 1 year warranty Gibbo?
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    Acronis ghost onto SSD - Alignment?

    If you plug it in as a data drive and create your placeholder partition (Win7 > drive management) it'll set the correct alignment. Then pull out old HDD, put SSD as primary boot and tell your imaging software to use that partition without destroying it.
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    Computers are amazing

    Enjoy :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9DLxDtPtc&playnext=1&list=PL09EE1D3A99E36B97
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    Smack that SSD - 7GB/sec read, 10GB/sec write - for free!

    Assuming your ramdisk is ready (auto-load, auto-save, mounted and formatted), this method avoids having to reinstall Firefox / wipe profiles or use another drive letter, and can be undone if needed: Close all instances of firefox Go to C:\Users\<your...
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    Smack that SSD - 7GB/sec read, 10GB/sec write - for free!

    Nice tip! Made a 100MB RAMDisk for Firefox program folder and profile/cache that mounts on startup, first FF load is 1.5s flat now :D
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    Turrican 2 intro music

    I must have about 30 Huelsbeck remixes alone, legendary composer :) More general Amiga remixes here, quite a few gems! http://www.amigaremix.com/remixes/sort/rating/up
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    No intel g3 drives this year :(

    Indeed, I got burned with a 256GB C300 last summer when they were £500 - died just 5 hours in. Being my first venture into SSD land, crushed was not the word... Bought a budget X25-V in August (complemented with 3 x HDD RAID0 for chunky stuff) and it's not missed a beat. The G3s could retire...
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    Explain what a berk my mate is for me please?

    Show him how to run Windows Experience Index then laugh at his 5.9 disk transfer rate!
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    2x Spinpoint F3's Raid 0 Performance

    @ OP: Scaling looks about right, this is 3 x F3s: Good for games / video processing etc, but they resonate annoyingly in this particular case, ditching them all once Intel's G3 hits!
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    is it worth me upgreading to sandy bridge from I7 920??

    SuperPI isn't a game :p
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    CCC 10.12 + Screensaver

    Paranoid about backlight burn! Especially on the secondary output to a Bravia, sometimes doze off to a static desktop and don't trust it :p Reapplied the timer and it seems to be functional again now, very odd...
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    CCC 10.12 + Screensaver

    Anyone else noticed their screensaver not kicking in on the above drivers? No such info through Google, probably too obscure! Running Win 7 HP x64. Cheers!
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