The Computer Megathread

[Jerome]

Are these a good combo?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130655
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

don't need the k model as the motherboard can't oc
unless you want the onboard hd 4000 graphics, i don't see why though

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[Mr.jacksaunt]

Good-bye warrenty.

Too bad it's been expired since I bought it.

I am running a Phenom-type laptop cpu, I've overclocked and slightly undervolted so it run less hot. However it still idles at a very warm temperature (64 degrees).
I'm very new to overclocking, anybody got any tips?

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[Treynolds416]

Between a hissing and a loud motor sound.

The fan could be scraping something
Open the case and look at the fan while it's running

[Spartan923]

igiveup
Okay so, what parts should I get to build a computer

[beachbum111111]

Help http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=215478.0

[ultimamax]

someone build the worst possible computer for the highest possible price. GO

[Elecro]

The fan could be scraping something
Open the case and look at the fan while it's running

Wow, the opening where you can see the fan, it smells like metal, it's probably the fan scraping against it.

[Isjix]

I have to choose between these two:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161396
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161426

which one would be better? they both have pros and cons so i'm not sure

[.:FancyPants:.]

i would love to build a 900-1000$ computer, but don't have that kind of money.
so instead i'd like to start working towards something, and building as i go.
but newegg constantly has pieces go out of stock, and i'm afraid that by the time i get everything together, they'll all already be outdated.

what do

[devildogelite]

i would love to build a 900-1000$ computer, but don't have that kind of money.
so instead i'd like to start working towards something, and building as i go.
but newegg constantly has pieces go out of stock, and i'm afraid that by the time i get everything together, they'll all already be outdated.

what do

Don't buy a computer piece by piece, it ends up being outdated. It's way better to save up and buy it all at once

[Wedge]

while i haven't experienced this, i've heard static may not necessarily fry a component but cause hardware failure. it's hard to detect whether a failure was made by static though.

Static fries circuits. Basically the integrated circuits all operate somewhere around 1 - 5 volts. Static built up on your body can easily build up to thousands of volts. If you create a path between ground and your hand that passes through one of these components, you'll destroy it.

It is hard to troubleshoot because the computer will just flat out stop working. To figure it out you would need to test every single integrated circuit and see which one was giving incorrect output. I assume you'd need an expensive logic probe to do this.

Technically, when you build a computer you're supposed to do it on an antistatic mat and wrist strap connected to an earth ground, such as a cold water pipe. Nobody does this though, grounding the case and holding onto the metal is a lot less expensive. The easiest way to ground a case is to cut the hot and neutral pins off a power cable and plug it into the power supply and the ground connection on an outlet.

A lot of people just work on a table and touch the case a lot. Even I do this. This is technically wrong and there are cases where thus won't work. If both you and the case are ungrounded then you're relying on the cases's ability to dissipate and spread out charge.

[beachbum111111]

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=215478.msg6116313#msg6116313

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Too bad it's been expired since I bought it.Quote for pageloss

When overclocking, decreasing the voltage is a bad idea, as it can make the CPU Unstable.

[KoopaScooper]

A few days ago, I tried putting my SATA drive containing Windows into an enclosure to grab some files from it while I was using another computer. When I tried powering it on, it made the click of death. My heart sank. After multiple attempts to try and see if it was a connection, it powered on successfully and it did read/write fine at it's maximum speed.
Today, I tried booting Windows. I immediately got a bluescreen with 0x24, so I insert the Windows XP installation disk to run recovery mode (chkdsk /f,) and it bluescreened with 0x7B. I tried a Windows Vista disk instead, and sure enough, it found the volume...with it's file system type being RAW.
I booted into Fedora and attempted to mount the volume, which succeeded. I then ran ntfsfix, and did a SMART test. My drive just failed the SMART Write test, then made a weird clunking noise powering down. The Windows Boot Loader doesn't seem to load anymore. Under Linux, my Windows partition is read-only and the drive is transferring at 20MB/s instead of it's usual 55MB/s.
The power-on time this drive had was 2.6 years.

[Fluff-is-back]

Unlucky, My last mechanical drive failed as well yesterday. I have decided to go completely Solid State.