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Currently they are equally more expensive than 2 months ago as they are here. If global demand/supply dynamics brings prices lower by January over there, I guarantee you it will happen here too.

CPU usage is not always that high, but the volatile graph is. Here's a new test:

Exactly my thoughts. I suspect it has something to do with the new format (AFS) not being fully compatible with the motherboard or the motherboard's drivers. Definitely not the OS (I tried both win7 64 and 32 bit, I even installed SP1 RC1, no change there), not AHCI vs IDE mode in the BIOS, not...

it is a small sempron 140

whereas of an alive one is legal? :p

Hello, Last week I got the new Samsung F4 2TB drive and installed it in a Win7 64bit PC. It seems there's something wrong. I tried both MBR and GPT, and 4k and 512bytes formatting, but the result of the read benchmark looks like this: For comparison's sake, the other drives in my system...

I wish mine performed like this. Here's a screenshot: I've struggled for a week with no result (google to find the thread in anandtech forums). I'll most likely return it.

Yes, not the same case. My average read rate is very slow too. Also, I tried reformatting the drive (with a partition in MBR this time) and the result is exactly the same with no data in it (so no indexing).

no, the 1.5tb has about 200gb free, the 2tb has about 650gb free (i basically copied everything from the 1.5tb to the 2tb one, so they have the exact same amount of used space)

for comparison's sake, here's the F3EG 1.5TB benchmark on the same PC:

I got one of these and although I'm not at all bothered about small performance differences, this doesn't look good at all: any clues? I'm using Windows 7 professional, I used the default settings for formatting etc., I don't care about other OSs, and from what I read before, I shouldn't...

actually they aren't. A £5 plastic quartz watch is waaay more accurate than a £5k rolex. But the latter serves mostly as jewelery.

South Park? :)

Napa Valley

get one with external slots for cards - very practical

nice one! :)

The screen is not IPS actually. It's good, very high resolution and all, but not IPS.

turns out I can't return it. So, I'll wait for a bit, probably try to optimize software settings. Then upgrade if and when it becomes unbearably slow.

OK, so the 260u will be rather slow... will check that codec pack. But I guess I just want a beefier CPU for whatever might come out, and although you can say I can keep the sempron for a while and then upgrade, if I can return the sempron right now, it will probably be easier.

yes, but if it's borderline, it means that if i want to use ffdshow with some post-processing instead of plain vanilla coreavc, it will struggle. Same if a fancier filter comes up next week, etc.