PC Gaming Upgrade Thread "The Last Jed Ti"

Sniper Ash6

2 currently pending sectors isn't the end of the world but it's something to be wary of. I've got a HDD from a friend to get data from as it failed in a laptop and that has 440 pending.

Is it never off? It's been on for very close to 385 days.

Seagate bought Samsung's HDD department. When I RMAed my HD103SJ it was with Seagate who were very good about it, I must say.

It's a huge amount of heat. In comparison the 3960X is a 130W TDP part.

RandomLee

Wow, 440 is a huge amount!

Yeah, my PC spends most of the time on 24/7.

As I said, I’m not that bothered but I’m glad I discovered it now rather than be unaware until it actually fails on me.

I’ve heard their warranty is really good so I’m sure I’ll  get it replaced no problem

I got a WD Caviar Black at the weekend so when I get a free evening I’m going to use that for my games not on SSD, and then use the 2TB WD Green for media / storage. When I RMA the Sammy and the replacement arrives I’ll probably just sell it on here still sealed (which is how I got the WD Green).

Chox1988

Thats reassuring to hear.

Aye, main monitor is 1600p, although more often than not i just play at 1080 on the big screen

Houghsx

I already sold those to Nvidia

Oggie

Heads up to anybody looking for NAS drives, ebuyer has WD Red 3TB on sale for £105

namuk

Sinzer

Well this is a pretty interesting article, a seemingly good tangible benefit to putting 16GB in your machine if you run SSD:

Experiment: Can Adding RAM Improve Your SSD's Endurance? - Can You Get More Speed From Your SSD By Adding RAM?

16Gb of RAM helps a lot in cutting down writing to the SSD drive, which may have some performance benefits, but should definately have benefits to the longevity of your drive

MooCow

Interesting, but I do wonder if that is down to the reduction in usage of pagefile or similar?

Greg Hook

Very interesting! I've only got 8GB of RAM because there was just no reason to go higher. I would have liked to see that article compare 8GB as well.

Cha1ky

I've got 16gb as it as cheap enough to say 'why not' at the time.

Think i've turned things like page file hibernate etc off.