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galzohar
Israel100 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20335 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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WonDeRSC
United States234 Posts
I need it to see if its compatible with the 560 ti I'm buying. | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On June 23 2013 01:38 WonDeRSC wrote: How do I check motherboard information? I need it to see if its compatible with the 560 ti I'm buying. I hope it's cheap and secondhand, the 560ti is three generations out of date, and seems to have a relatively high failure rate based on anecdotal evidence from these forums (maybe everyone has 560ti's?). If you're buying new, get something else. That being said, almost any motherboard will support any graphics card, essentially. As long as your motherboard has a pci-e slot (with enough physical room for the card), it will support it. Thinks to look out for are your powersupply (the 560ti actually draws a lot of power given how relatively weak it is), and case space, some small form factor cases cannot fit certain sizes of graphics cards. | ||
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Craton
United States17291 Posts
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galzohar
Israel100 Posts
On June 22 2013 23:27 Cyro wrote: What surface is it on? My qck on wood sticks like glue, do you have it upside down? Wood. Of course it is not upside down! How can anyone enen think of using the other side?! It doesn't slide a lot, don't get me wrong, but after 5-15 minutes during intense play (or after a couple hours of work) it'll be abou quarter way off my desk (starting next to the edge). Sure it isn't perfectly clean (as rubber would probably never be), but it's not very dirty either. Are all other mousepads going to be similar on that aspect? Are you guys also using the mini? | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20335 Posts
Can't see how a mousepad would stick more than this, there's no way my pad would drift 5cm in 5 (or even 15 mins) and i use 540dpi these days Go get a damp cloth, clean the desk and both sides of the qck, leave it slightly damp (maybe not the top so much, if it messes up your mouse usage) and i doubt you can move it a centimeter then, and with it cleaner it shouldn't move unless you have some type of mutant wood ;p | ||
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Craton
United States17291 Posts
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Terant
Malta60 Posts
And are there some which are better than others in terms of longevity? | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On June 23 2013 20:38 Terant wrote: How reliable are SSD nowadays, and for how long do they last? And are there some which are better than others in terms of longevity? Very reliable. Since they haven't been available en masse for long, there aren't any detailed statistics of failure rates, but I very rarely hear about someones SSD dieing, while regular harddisks go belly up all the time. The memory cells do have a limited number of write-cycles they can handle, but with the smart wear leveling algorithms used by modern SSDs, you can write massive amounts of data to the SSD before it gives out. With typical daily usage, you'll be good for many years (or even decades). The three SSD brands I'd recommend are (in no particular order) Crucial, Intel & Samsung. But, as with any data storage solution, a backup of files that you can't afford to lose is required. | ||
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Craton
United States17291 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
On June 24 2013 08:53 Craton wrote: From what I've come across, SSDs fail expectedly, while HDDs fail unexpectedly. This means that an HDD might just go any day without much warning, while an SSD you know more or less that it's near its end. I'm thinking about getting an SSD with my next computer. Can you expand more on this. Do they start slowing down?(noticeably) Are there other issues that indicate that the drive is on its last legs? | ||
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zacharyIRL
Canada51 Posts
On June 24 2013 11:00 Ichabod wrote: I'm thinking about getting an SSD with my next computer. Can you expand more on this. Do they start slowing down?(noticeably) Are there other issues that indicate that the drive is on its last legs? Unless you go through hundreds of gigs a day you will not seen an to your ssd's for a while long as it has a good garbage collection system. All the newer and good SSD's have good trim/garbage collection and with intel ssd's you can manually activate trim whenever you want with there SSD toolbox. I would recommend Intel or the Samsung 840 very reliable and performance vs standard HDDs is very good. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On June 24 2013 11:00 Ichabod wrote: I'm thinking about getting an SSD with my next computer. Can you expand more on this. Do they start slowing down?(noticeably) Are there other issues that indicate that the drive is on its last legs? I actually heard the reverse. The ones that die are just dead at some point. You can't recover data. That was some myth from when they were new, but it's wrong. There's also a scenario where they'll run out of writes and won't keep data anymore, but in that case they are also just dead, I think. Running out of writes will take a very long time for typical use with today's SSDs. If you do something that will fill and overwrite a good amount of the SSD multiple times a day, there's SSDs for you that are marketed as intended for professional use. You'll see it in the price, for example $150 for 128 GB instead of $100. HDDs can start to produce errors, and this will be recorded in the "SMART" records, which you'll be able to look at with certain programs. This will be accompanied with strange slow downs, or hanging in tasks using the HDD, and possibly strange sounds coming from the HDD. You're pretty likely to have warning of an HDD failing in the near future from what I heard and personally seen. I think about three HDDs died on me over the years. All of them started to make strange noises, or did things like freeze but worked again for a while after turning it off and on again. You should in any case have some kind of plan on what you'll do if any of your parts fail, ensuring you won't lose more than the most recent work you did. This is good for peace of mind and can be done with free stuff and what's coming with Windows nowadays. Perhaps look at the SSD as some kind of necessary boost for your PC. It'll be tiny compared to HDDs, so backups are not that much of a headache. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On June 24 2013 08:53 Craton wrote: From what I've come across, SSDs fail expectedly, while HDDs fail unexpectedly. This means that an HDD might just go any day without much warning, while an SSD you know more or less that it's near its end. Really? Not that I've had enough SSDs to have one fail on me, but my impression was kind of the opposite. Sometimes a hard drive failure is unexpected (can be a controller issue or whatnot), but other times, there are audible mechanical problems that get worse over time. Often, some SMART values show creeping problems. An SSD doesn't make (audible, except in rare cases) noises at you, and you can't tell when one of the components is going to go belly up. If it's just one flash module, most drives have spare area and can work around it, but if it's the controller or whatever else... Pretty much nobody runs out of writes, unless they're benchmarking it for weeks on end to figure out when it will; and even in that case, it can be read from. Wearout indicator is predictable in the sense of the number telling you something, but most drives can operate well past reaching 0%, sometimes over twice as many writes as would be suggested by that. An SSD slowing down doesn't actually at all indicate that it's on its last legs. It's possible to fill it up in such a way that performance suffers, but you'd need to put some unusual data on there and go close to capacity. It's probably not that much that likely of a scenario, especially if you leave 20% or so empty. It would be a matter of needing to shuffle data around while writing, which would slow it down but does not at all indicate it's going to fail. | ||
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greggy
United Kingdom1483 Posts
Thanks! | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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iaretehnoob
Sweden741 Posts
I also could use opinions on some brands. Lenovo from my experience still seems okay, even for non-thinkpads, Dell appears to be overpriced. Acer and MSI have some offers that look pretty good, but I guess their buld quality suffers for it. How would ASUS or HP compare to Lenovo for example? | ||
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Terant
Malta60 Posts
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