Should I get a kick ass new PC?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38489

It grows in bunches, I've got my hunches....

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Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Crikey you people, there's a blibs and bobs thread for this sort of nonsense!

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 19:01

Chinny can't be held responsible for his actions if someone mentions Amstrad. And if you talk about buying an Amstrad, well...

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

Chinny can't be held responsible for his actions if someone mentions Amstrad. And if you talk about buying an Amstrad, well...

It's easier since I got the wipe clean keyboard......

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 19:07

I have a wipe clean wife!

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

I've never spent money on a PSU, I've always used the ones in the case. (Collective gasp.) Can't say I've had anything go wrong with it from there. (Distant explosion. Hasty exit.)

My motherboard on the other hand was a super cheap-out. It works though, but I'm not going to be upgrading it.

If you don't know what you're going to be doing with the computer, don't buy one!

Those gifs need to be BURNT. *rings mod bell*

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 19:58

I never had a problem with my PSUs until Crysis - when I went into the water it would reboot, turned out it was a lack of power (and not the GFX cards overheating, I spent ages faffing about with fans).

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Grim... wrote:

I never had a problem with my PSUs until Crysis - when I went into the water it would reboot, turned out it was a lack of power (and not the GFX cards overheating, I spent ages faffing about with fans).

Hang on, going into the water during a game made your computer reboot? Presumably the water was graphically demanding - does that mean it was drawing more power than the psu could provide? Weird.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Well no, the PSU was just getting wet.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 23:24

ComicalGnomes wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I never had a problem with my PSUs until Crysis - when I went into the water it would reboot, turned out it was a lack of power (and not the GFX cards overheating, I spent ages faffing about with fans).

Hang on, going into the water during a game made your computer reboot? Presumably the water was graphically demanding - does that mean it was drawing more power than the psu could provide? Weird.

They, not it, but yeah, I guess.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

I've had PSUs die on me and my PC had reasonably frequent BSODs that stopped instantly when I replaced the cheapo AOpen board with a gorgeous (and still under 3 figures) ASUS.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:04

Grim... wrote:

If you want zippity speed, use the 'two disks act like one' (striping). If you want to safeguard your data, use 'both the same' (mirroring).
I'd go for striping + a backup solution of some kind.
If you had a huge budget, you'd get four drives and have both.

Do you prefer a stripe of mirrors or a mirror of stripes?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:07

Mirror of stripes, obv.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:08

A stripe of mirrors would be funny, though.

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