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    Asus Z97-A M.2 options

    True we are limited to 10gbps, but that's a theoretical maximum of 1280mb/s, with real world overhead we're probably looking at 900-1000mb/s, about what the 256gb drive is capable of. I'm looking to do this now because I want to put my 840 in my macbook and get something else for my PC. And...
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    Asus Z97-A M.2 options

    Any updates OP? I also have a Z79-a and was looking at the XP941.
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    PRIME1 and the HD3870X2: Does ATi now have skill?

    A new generation and another one of these stupid ass cards. Props to Nvidia for coming out of the gate with a single chip high end, knowing full well that ATi was probably going to launch an X2 asap. All we can do is hope that the 4870X2 is 100% faster than a 4870, doesn't stutter, and...
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    Vista RE-Install Question

    You won't have any problems with reactivation unless you change out major components. Even then you can argue with the Indians for a half hour and they'll give you a code.
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    Vista Home Premium 64 bit question

    32bit Vista is pointless, you're better off on XP. At this point, in my opinion, the only reason to run Vista period is to have a 64bit OS that is priority #1 for Microsoft. And you only need that if you have 4gb+ of RAM. I'm dual booting XP32 and Vista64 at the moment. XP does...
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    how many of you guys are buying the new qx9000 series intel cpus? and why?

    Not I, Q6600 is plenty, going to wait until Nehalem w/ new socket and IMC. With Intel's tick tock game, I like buying the ticks.
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    What do you put on your boot drive?

    The theory (or fact, really) is that data is read faster on the outside of a hard disk than the inside, because the outside spins a whole lot faster. I wanted to see if it made a difference in the real world, so I took a 320gb HD and partitioned it like this: [C: empty 310gb] [D: windows...
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    What do you put on your boot drive?

    On a 250gb Seagate... [C: WinXP 10gb] [D: Vista 25gb] [E: Games 50gb] [F: Programs 50gb] [G: Data/File Storage 115gb] Runs a lot quicker with thought out partitions, everything that needs speed stays on the outside of the platter.
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    interesting question about E6550 and E6600

    E6600 is discontinued and Intel never dropped the price. E6750 is the new chip, cheaper and better.
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    Is the Raptor drive worth it?

    Sorry, I still can't find where it says my drive has 16ms seek time. Everywhere I look it says 8.5? Again, if you could point me in the direction to where I said my seagate is faster than my raptor I would appreciate it. To spell this out for you, the seagate is not faster. The raptor...
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    Is the Raptor drive worth it?

    double post
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    Is the Raptor drive worth it?

    Old one then. I would hope your raptor runs cooler than a 500gb 7200.10, those things are hot. What is the seek time on my drive? The one I have been refering to this whole time that you can't seem to grasp... Here I'll make it easy, ST3250410AS I didn't need a benchmark to know...
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    Is the Raptor drive worth it?

    Which seagate do you have? Since you mentioned 15ms seek/high temps I assume it isn't the new one with a single platter and a 8ms seek. Glad you decided to put your two cents in though even without having experience with the drive that I feel is the only one out there that makes the raptor not...
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    Is the Raptor drive worth it?

    When I parted out my old build my 150gb raptor went with it. I'm now using the new seagate 7200.10 with the single 250gb platter and 16mb cache. The only difference I notice is the extra $120 I have from buying that instead of another raptor. Raptors used to be the shit, I loved my dual 74s...
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    Crysis and DX10

    Dead even AT BEST and in the vast majority of cases games run faster in XP.
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