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Shades
Joined: Mar 06, 2005
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 Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:56 pm |
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Grrrr!
Blew up my 600w PSU on a 'puter that probably only uses 5.
Been offline for two weeks until I could get the old one RMA'd.
I hadda give in and buy a new one yesterday!
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bsmart
Joined: Jan 22, 2006
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Location: Central Maryland
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:33 pm |
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I try and keep a older (usually unerpowered) machine around just as a 'in case the main one dies' machine. Right now it is actually an ASUS netbook. the screen is small but I could get my fix if I needed too.
Even a tree rat has my sympathy when he can't get his internet fix
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Shades
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:38 pm |
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*Emperor Skwirrell*
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CPU > Intel i7 920 (o/c'd 3.8GHz); FAN > Noctua NH-U12P SE1366;
MOBO > Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5; RAM > 3x2Gb Patriot Viper DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz;
GPU > XFX nVidia GTS 250 PCI-e 1Gb GDDR3; AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music;
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Kitform
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 1964
Location: Cleveland. UK.
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:54 am |
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Shades wrote:
Blew up my 600w PSU on a 'puter that probably only uses 5.
Overheated due to fur balls?
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Shades
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:53 am |
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lol - that's cats!
I was putting my old hard drives into my new box.
Went to power back up and nothing.
Dead as the proverbial Madagascan mascot.
Went back under warranty two weeks ago.
Bought this new 700w version of the same PSU in the meantime.
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CPU > Intel i7 920 (o/c'd 3.8GHz); FAN > Noctua NH-U12P SE1366;
MOBO > Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5; RAM > 3x2Gb Patriot Viper DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz;
GPU > XFX nVidia GTS 250 PCI-e 1Gb GDDR3; AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music;
LCD > Viewsonic VA2226w (1680x1050); PSU > OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w (modular);
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Uhu_Fledermaus
Joined: Nov 27, 2004
Posts: 3711
Location: near EHHV GMT+2
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:50 am |
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erm .........
why didn't you buy a 1.5 kW one ?
they tend to blow up with a bigger bang than the smaller ones 
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Shades
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:51 pm |
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Still have the old one to come back... mebbe I could wire 'em both together for ya.
Matter of interest, in the few seconds it took me to set Norton up to cover the old drives (two partitions on each drive) properly, one of the partitions got hit with a cheeky little trojan (Heuristic.ADH) that took me another six hours to eliminate.
And then I was only to do it with a system restore and then disconnecting the drive before re-booting.
I got all the old files I needed from it so I can format it anyway now.
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CPU > Intel i7 920 (o/c'd 3.8GHz); FAN > Noctua NH-U12P SE1366;
MOBO > Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5; RAM > 3x2Gb Patriot Viper DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz;
GPU > XFX nVidia GTS 250 PCI-e 1Gb GDDR3; AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music;
LCD > Viewsonic VA2226w (1680x1050); PSU > OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w (modular);
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Uhu_Fledermaus
Joined: Nov 27, 2004
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:07 pm |
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I really don't know why you bother around with Norton, save yourself headaicks, system resources, a lot of money and get NOD32 
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Shadow_Bshwackr
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Location: Central Illinois, USA
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Shades
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Post subject: Re: i7 going online
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:53 am |
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You will be aware of how much trepidation I hadda get through before posting that.....!
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GPU > XFX nVidia GTS 250 PCI-e 1Gb GDDR3; AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music;
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