[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Pie Crust]

Really? It isn't a bad sector or something?

My hd makes a weird clicking noise and then everything hangs for a couple seconds...

Anyone know whats up with this thing?

Worse. Back it up as fast as possible. Your drive will die in the next few hours/days/weeks. Don't ignore it like I did. You will regret that.

Clicking means mechanical failure.

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[Lego lad]

king of 10-

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[Frontrox]

Alright I'll back it up to my external when I get home

[QuadStorm]

The HDD of my low end pc used to make strange sounds and windows even gave popups indicating an immiment failure...it's stopped making those sounds for the most part (now just normal usage sounds) 2 years later but the warning still pops up occasionally so I don't know how forgeted it really is.

[AtlasBlue]

The HDD of my low end pc used to make strange sounds and windows even gave popups indicating an immiment failure...it's stopped making those sounds for the most part (now just normal usage sounds) 2 years later but the warning still pops up occasionally so I don't know how forgeted it really is.

You might wanna get that checked out.

[Pie Crust]

The HDD of my low end pc used to make strange sounds and windows even gave popups indicating an immiment failure...it's stopped making those sounds for the most part (now just normal usage sounds) 2 years later but the warning still pops up occasionally so I don't know how forgeted it really is.

Use MSDOS scandisk.exe It will scan for bad sectors and show you every block. I am not sure what its maximum drive size is though.

[suburb]

So I picked up a 2006 Mac Pro for 150 bucks.  Has no GPU, but I have arranged to get a 7950 Mac edition for 80 bucks (which is a complete and utter loving score, prices are currently 270 and up still) and it is technically been re-branded to an R9 280 in relative performance.





Operation coffee table combined with my other Power Mac G5 case is a go.

[SquartleTurtle]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gpmChM
suggestions

[Pie Crust]

So I picked up a 2006 Mac Pro for 150 bucks.  Has no GPU, but I have arranged to get a 7950 Mac edition for 80 bucks (which is a complete and utter loving score, prices are currently 270 and up still) and it is technically been re-branded to an R9 280 in relative performance.

Operation coffee table combined with my other Power Mac G5 case is a go.

I came.

[shitlord]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gpmChM
suggestions

more ram

[Oasis]

My dad works in property management and some tenants left behind a bunch of computer equipment that his company had to dispose of. Totally picked up 6 of these for free:


LED panel
1920x1080 (supposedly)
60hz

Time to make a multi-monitor panel.

[hillkill]

k so i'm being called in for a job interview and i'm already thinking of stuff i can do for my pc with about 200 dollars

specs:

pentium e6700 @ 3.2 GHz
3 GB of RAM
gt 730 1 GB

[Pentium]

k so i'm being called in for a job interview and i'm already thinking of stuff i can do for my pc with about 200 dollars

specs:

pentium e6700 @ 3.2 GHz
3 GB of RAM
gt 730 1 GB

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Chipskate/saved/CHxKHx
you're welcome

[Miga]

My dad works in property management and some tenants left behind a bunch of computer equipment that his company had to dispose of. Totally picked up 6 of these for free:


LED panel
1920x1080 (supposedly)
60hz

Time to make a multi-monitor panel.

Hopefully they didn't leave them behind because they're faulty, because I've had bad experiences with those monitors. They basically, if left on for too long, the whole screen becomes inverted and just odd looking. It's not a problem with the LCD panel itself since the OSD looks fine, but something with the way it did VGA input.

[carolcat]

Hopefully they didn't leave them behind because they're faulty, because I've had bad experiences with those monitors. They basically, if left on for too long, the whole screen becomes inverted and just odd looking. It's not a problem with the LCD panel itself since the OSD looks fine, but something with the way it did VGA input.

if they suck, then go on a fun adventure of taking the monitors apart