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Why would you need more endurance? The Sandforce chip is bound to fail earlier than the flash anyways...

I'm running a way-overkill water loop on a non-oc i3 2120, which is fine for pretty much everything at stock clocks. OC would only increase power consumption, increase fan noise and contribute to global warming :laugh: The HD5870, though, is overclocked, since it is just about fast enough for...

I did. Have you ever tried installing Linux on a USB drive and then moving it to a different computer? X probably wouldn't even start up. The big accomplishment here is not to use a USB drive for booting, but making Windows portable from one computer to another while keeping as many of your...

Samsung has a really good reputation for reliability. I've used the 128GB and 64GB models of the 830 with no issues at all. That said, while none of the OCZ Vertex 3's i've installed gave me any trouble, a Synapse Cache has let me down pretty badly. I'd rather spend 10% more on a component...

The fact that they just got it means... They didn't have a 9001 certificate before. That might explain a couple things. :shadedshu :cough: Vertex2/3 :cough: OCZ has been dead to me ever since the software for the Synapse Cache wiped my hard drive's partition table. Nope. I doubt that they'll...

My setup is like this: <pre> PC---(DVI)---> LG 22" 1680*1050 TFT | L---(HDMI, TOS)---\ Yamaha Amp ---(HDMI)---> Benq 120Hz 720p Projector Xbox---(HDMI)---/ </pre>:D For whatever reason, my HD5870 won't output audio over HDMI, so i had to use an extra TOSlink...

Did y'all know that, at least in Germany, 10.68€ of those 20€ are fees that the "VG Bild" gets? So after taxes and reseller profits, the actual (import) price of the drive is more like 5€ - i don't think that that even qualifies for price fixing accusations.

Depends on the specific one; Intel has some that are super-reliable and some that have some problems. OCZ has had horrible quality issues with their Sandforce-based SSDs; Crucial makes decent SSDs but had to fix a couple bugs with firmware updates. Samsung is known for making some of the most...

I've used OCZ's Synapse Cache, which is basically the same thing (SF2 + Dataplex). Dataplex is one of the worst pieces of software that i ever had to use. On a bluescreen/unintended reboot, their bootloader kicks in before the Windows one and takes ~15 minutes to re-sync SSD and HDD, in the end...

W1zz, could you check if the drive's performance degrades (like the 128GB version) when the drive is more than half-full?

100000h MTBF basically means that after 11.5 years of non-stop-operation you'll have a 50% chance that your fan has failed at some point. I might be getting this all wrong, it could be that these fan are just supposed to last longer than 60°C-types; just like 105°C caps are frequently used...

I didn't think that much about this when i first read it, but is 70°C really a point of anything? When you're blowing air that's already 70°C hot into a cooler, you have a mighty fine problem right there. I know for sure that my Phenom II 955 was playing up when the die was over 55°C. Most chips...

They f*ing sparkle, who cares about RPM, airflow, noise, power consumption or all those other boring values? :laugh: :laugh:

No.

Damn, that design is so close to a bottle opener :toast: Too bad they didn't put that extra notch on there to make it usable as one.