New system, what to get?
Going to build my first sorta-kick-*** home system. Long overdue. I'm leaning Athlon XP 2100+ w/ Asus A7V266e motherboard, Volcano 7 Fan, Enermax 350 watt ps and 1G Micron PC 2100. Half assed considering one of the new 333 based chipsets with USB2.
Going to build my first sorta-kick-*** home system. Long overdue. I'm leaning Athlon XP 2100+ w/ Asus A7V266e motherboard, Volcano 7 Fan, Enermax 350 watt ps and 1G Micron PC 2100. Half assed considering one of the new 333 based chipsets with USB2. Haven't even ruled out a P4. I do a little gaming, lotsa web dev and tons of Photoshop and some video. Will be running Win2K/98 but maybe XP instead. If you were going to build a basic but kinda high end box, what would you build and why?
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Seems to me that every time someone has an IBM drive fail they need to tell everyone about it anyway, i can only speak from experience but ive had 2x60gxp drives that i have had since they were first released and they are still spinning as i type this. I have however now had 3 maxtor drives fail.
As far as the TH7-II goes, ive got that board, it has next to 0 tweaks in the bios apart from overclocking and be warned it does have a slight cold boot problem when significantly overclocked (you may need to turn it on and then push reset for it to boot correctly). Apart from that, great board and 100% stable.
As far as the TH7-II goes, ive got that board, it has next to 0 tweaks in the bios apart from overclocking and be warned it does have a slight cold boot problem when significantly overclocked (you may need to turn it on and then push reset for it to boot correctly). Apart from that, great board and 100% stable.
I have used many IBM drives, and had only 1 fail (and got great service on the replacement). I love my Western Digitals, and I currently have 2 100GB units w/8MB cache that are pretty trick along with a 120GB unit in my server at home. I used to love Fujitsus, but that was a long time ago and I have no idea how they have been made in the last few years. I did, however, not care for Seagate IDE drives. Those were 500-750MB units though, so can we count those?
Apparently, the Mad Onion Management removed the "expose." Mr. Natural, a Timothy Sanders, who is a computer guru and store owner in Florida, became suspicious of OCZ products, quality, and manufacture. He alleges that they are little more than a web operation whose only physical attribute is a storefront in Indiana. He made pictures of their facility, and if true, means that at best OCZ took generic memory and tested for higher quality and represented it as their brand or at worst shipped whatever came their way.
The "expose" was left on the message boards of Mad Onion for a couple of days. Then, it was pulled. There is a remnant of the discussion that seems to be ongoing about freedom of expression and the decision of the administrators of the message board to pull the "expose."
The "expose" was left on the message boards of Mad Onion for a couple of days. Then, it was pulled. There is a remnant of the discussion that seems to be ongoing about freedom of expression and the decision of the administrators of the message board to pull the "expose."
AHH.
Havent had any problem with the ram I bought. Works as adverstised. THo by ordering from thier website their native language isn't English, and calling them on the phone I have deduced they are Asian.
After living in Korea I can honestly say that the Asian culture in general don't regard princials like copyrights and the like, such as European and western cultures. And it would not suprise me if they are not as legit as one would like.
Funny thing, Korea used to not crack down on ripped off American products, like music cd's and games, but now that Korea makes thier contribution to that industry, you see them being much harder on those that violate the law
Havent had any problem with the ram I bought. Works as adverstised. THo by ordering from thier website their native language isn't English, and calling them on the phone I have deduced they are Asian.
After living in Korea I can honestly say that the Asian culture in general don't regard princials like copyrights and the like, such as European and western cultures. And it would not suprise me if they are not as legit as one would like.
Funny thing, Korea used to not crack down on ripped off American products, like music cd's and games, but now that Korea makes thier contribution to that industry, you see them being much harder on those that violate the law
Ref: IBM Hard Drives
I think the biggest problem with the drives is that they were too successful.
The 75 GXP followed by the 60 GXP units were extremely popular, mainly because every HD round up showed them beating the competition and by quite some margin.
Nothing could touch these drives, to be frank theyw ere the fastest and best on the market.
Certainly in the beginning when these units first made it to market we didn't hear about all these fails and the like.
They satuated the market, they must have held a massive percentage of the HD market and that is when you start to hear about problems.
When one particular company owns a significant percentage of the HD market (and I think I'd be safe to say IBM probably at one point held over 50% of the IDE market) you start to hear about more fails because there are more of the units out there to fail.
I don't feel the IBM units are any less reliable than any other manufacturer out there, they probably have the same fail rate but because there are more drives out there you hear about them more often.
As I've said earlier in this thread I truely haven't seen the kind of fail rates others have described and even though these stories surfaced I continued to purchase them.
It would be really interesting to have a break down on all those failures.
How many were in overclocked systems, how many were in cases that were not even normally cooled.
The end result I'm sure would be nothing really abnormal.
And of course there is always the old saying, nobody ever tells the world if they are happy with something, only when they are not.
I'm sure for every one unhappy IBM user there are plenty of happy ones.
I think the biggest problem with the drives is that they were too successful.
The 75 GXP followed by the 60 GXP units were extremely popular, mainly because every HD round up showed them beating the competition and by quite some margin.
Nothing could touch these drives, to be frank theyw ere the fastest and best on the market.
Certainly in the beginning when these units first made it to market we didn't hear about all these fails and the like.
They satuated the market, they must have held a massive percentage of the HD market and that is when you start to hear about problems.
When one particular company owns a significant percentage of the HD market (and I think I'd be safe to say IBM probably at one point held over 50% of the IDE market) you start to hear about more fails because there are more of the units out there to fail.
I don't feel the IBM units are any less reliable than any other manufacturer out there, they probably have the same fail rate but because there are more drives out there you hear about them more often.
As I've said earlier in this thread I truely haven't seen the kind of fail rates others have described and even though these stories surfaced I continued to purchase them.
It would be really interesting to have a break down on all those failures.
How many were in overclocked systems, how many were in cases that were not even normally cooled.
The end result I'm sure would be nothing really abnormal.
And of course there is always the old saying, nobody ever tells the world if they are happy with something, only when they are not.
I'm sure for every one unhappy IBM user there are plenty of happy ones.
...and the class action is going how far?
No offence, but it really doesn't appear that IBM have any case to answer and I'm pretty convinced the courts will see it the same way.....(USA courts, McDonalds fined for woman driver scolded on hot drink whilst driving with said drink balanced between her legs)...I retract my above statement, I expect IBM will be shut down over this one.
No offence, but it really doesn't appear that IBM have any case to answer and I'm pretty convinced the courts will see it the same way.....(USA courts, McDonalds fined for woman driver scolded on hot drink whilst driving with said drink balanced between her legs)...I retract my above statement, I expect IBM will be shut down over this one.
I had cooling on my 60GXP's. and at least one is down the toilet...I'll be getting to it later this week after my semester is over...
what r u tlking about bladerunner?
nice name though, i like the movie, one of my fav.
IBM imediately stopedd production of their 75's like 3 months after the initial release. Although not all sized 75's were bad. They knew very well it was defective and there was an indipendant study to show it.
a lot of people lots a lot of valuable info without prior worning. just poof. all gone no boot.
i don't see how this relates to the cofee as there is no negligance or incompetance on behalf of the customers, it simply bad hardwar design. Ridiculous comparison...
they fixed the prob and hence came forth the 60's.
i know u have an attachment for IBM's so i forgive you.
nice name though, i like the movie, one of my fav.
IBM imediately stopedd production of their 75's like 3 months after the initial release. Although not all sized 75's were bad. They knew very well it was defective and there was an indipendant study to show it.
a lot of people lots a lot of valuable info without prior worning. just poof. all gone no boot.
i don't see how this relates to the cofee as there is no negligance or incompetance on behalf of the customers, it simply bad hardwar design. Ridiculous comparison...
they fixed the prob and hence came forth the 60's.
i know u have an attachment for IBM's so i forgive you.
Well i run maxtor harddrives in everyone of my machines, and they make me happy. and get what you want, don't let peeps make decisions for ya, it's alright to have peeps opions but you make your own decision
