Final build before purchase- Please review

For $10 more get the SAMSUNG F3 1TB.
Wait for HD5850 ($249.99~) - Sep. 23rd, 2009
The RAM is actually very good.

Medo

Scout and sniper!! I didn't know that Cooler Master is involved in any military business ?!!

@Why_Me Check your PM Inbox.

Medo

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] n#t1977656

This is all I can find on ATI's Big Announcement.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_16036,00.html

Where's all the press on this big announcement ?

Here's one that made me chuckle.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] n#t1977656

Here's more vaporware pronouncements from the other side.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/ne [...] ember.aspx
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/ne [...] clara.aspx

This site always seems to be pretty sure of themselves and gives some detail on the ATI

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/ne [...] ealed.aspx

The top dog carries the name Radeon HD 5870X2, and we are talking about single-PCB, dual-GPU card that will retail for cool $599. ....For some odd reason, the $499 bracket will remain without a card. We expect that slot will be filled with a water-cooled edition of 5870, or more likely - 5870X2 once that nVidia launches their competing products. Aforementioned Radeon HD 5870 is set to go on sale for $379-399, while the cheapest entry into the 5800 series, the Radeon HD 5850 is priced in the $279-299 bracket.

Interestingly enough, I got an e-mail from newegg today about my inquiry as to where the Asus 295 GTX went as its no longer available on their site. Their response was that until they get the 1st shipment of they can't estimate supply quantities. So.....is it....

a) The 295 GTX is truly dead and out of production
or
b) There's a beefed up 295 or lower priced 295 is in the works.

Odd thing to me is there was a big blow in the press about competing press events on the 10th and I haven't read a single article about what was announced either of them.

Well, everything is being purchased on monday so waiting till October 1st wont work for me


As far as the hard drive- are you refering to this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

I understand that it's a lot larger for only a few dollars more- but would I be sacrificing quality over the WD drive that i've selected.


And i think i will be sticking with Vista with the free upgrade.

yes 4 is enough

How are you judging quality ? Given that the Raptors have a 25% failure rate over on the reliability survey over at storagereview.com, I'd be hard pressed to say WD has anything to offer on quality over anyone else. Note that the No. 1 ranking on that site is held by a Seagate 15k rpm drive. Despite my own experience, which has had more WD's fail than all other brands combined, I'd be hard pressed to say this is an indicator of brand quality because with just 65 machines coming thru here, there's simply too small a number to make a statistically significant evaluation.

One of the things that parallels reliability is running temperature. You'll note here that the Black run 11 % hotter than the 7200. If we are to be concerned about CPU life being affected by temperature, this should be far more of a concern in a device w/ rotating bearings and other moving parts.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ,1016.html

In addition to being at the top of the temp charts w/ one of the lowest temperatures, the 7220 also tops the charts in the sound department. The Black's 46.7 is screaming compared to the 7200's 36.07 db at idle. WIth each 3 dB representinga doubling of sound pressure level, that puts the Black at 8 times louder. Numbers are 41.23 (7200) and 52.60 when under high I/O (almost 16 times louder).

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ,1033.html

Power consumption (under workstation I/O) is 5.19 watts for the 7200 and 8.89 for the black.

Personally, I do feel that Seagate's experience w/ hi speed 15k drives lets them take advantage of trickle down engineering improvements and as the market share leader they can take better advantage of economies of scale. However, this only minimally affects my purchasing decisions.

http://www.tomshardware.com/galler [...] -jpg-.html

The key for me now is that the makers of the two NAS's I have chose to stuff 4 Seagate HD's into the units. Perhaps the NAS manufacturer felt they were the better drive, perhaps they just liked the 5 year warranty or perhaps Seagate just gave them a better deal. But with those around, I always have a spare 7200 series or 2 on hand ready to go. Seagate also allows me to cross ship a failed drive though I last did that in 1999. WD would not let me cross ship and a replacement took 3 weeks to arrive.

But mostly, I'm a performance hound and unless another vendor can significantly top the Seagate's in performance, I gonna keep ordering them because with the NAS's there's always a spare one handy and if I do need a warranty replacement, it's quick and easy. Sure I might consider getting Velociraptors but I could get more than 3 times the storage in RAID 0 for only 2/3 the price of one of those (that's 20% of the price per GB for faster performance) and there's still the Raptor's reliability history in the storagereview.com database.

The WD Green is a worthy alternative with regard to running temps but it's bit slow in performance. My big bugaboo with the Black remains that it's sound level and power consumption are high and it's running temp is 11 degrees higher than the 7200's which, all things being equal, gives the 7200 an edge for life expectancy.

I'm using the 7200.12's cause I'm comfortable with them. They are low power, low noise drives that run very cool which all bode well for life expectancy. They sit at or near the top in all performance categories, I have spares lying around and the company is easy to work with if you have a problem.

Here's a THG poll which has the Seagates edging out WD by just 1.3 % Again, the fact that Seagate has a 1% lead is insignificant, the point is that the users here feel that both are comparable in quality and reliability.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] rive-brand

Which Hard Drive would you trust your data on?
41.0 % 125 votes Seagate
39.7 % 121 votes Western Digital
7.2 % 22 votes Maxtor
6.9 % 21 votes Hitachi
5.2 % 16 votes Samsung

Now I would like to close by saying I'm not trying to change your mind. Just want to make sure that you have had an opportunity to review all the information before you make a decision. If the source of your decision was an unsubstantiated forum post stating "these drives are crap" post, wanted to give you the links containing the information that would enable you to make your own decision.

Which 7200 ??

Well they say the F3 is the best now, But if you want to go with Segate....
Unfortunately there aren't many reviews for the F3 but it's theoretically faster, Hope someone else help here.

I said F3!!

Yes, But I'm only talking about it because it should be theoretically faster because it uses the world's first single 1TB platter.... Also I can't confirm this because i can't find any more info nor reviews.. Hope someone else does..

@JackNaylorPE Check your PM Inbox.

Medo

So i've spent most of the day trying to decided if I want to go from my 22'' LG to the 28'' Hanns·G

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824254026


Will the GTX 275 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130478
be enough to power the larger sized monitor with 0 issues?

I'd rather not have to run dual cards so let me know! thanks

Im currently using this monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824005112


And my current GPU is a 4850
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102770


Now, when are these new GPU boards supposed to be coming out?

Both-