You want to set up a 2nd HDD to look just like the first? And have data read/written to to both drives as you use the PC, with that cpu?
The Wal Mart one.
In that case, you're a prime candidate. It won't cost more, maybe less. If your not going to use the space, then....The Wal Mart one.
I just want to make an image on the added drive. then remove the origional drive and replace it with the new drive and use it. Keep the origional one as a backup. not installed in PC.
If I recall correctly there is an unused SATA port in there.
Have only looked inside it once when cleaning it for dust and such.
do not really need a 1 TB drive only used 15 or 20 gig in the one that is in there. But they are so cheap.
I have a WD 1TB USB drive hooked to my router where I keep all my videos and such. Easy access that way to all my other computers. A crude NAS I suppose
Well I haven't looked in recent years, but, last time I looked, the USB ones from Western Digital were all still using USB 2.0 whereas Seagate had already been using USB 3.0 for like ages. USB 3.0 harddrive performance for handling normal size or large media files and/or backup archives is pretty much completely on par with SATA3. Only if you plan on doing a lot of 4K read/write operations (such as running an OS on it) or if you need a high performance RAID array, that's when USB 3.0 isn't always great. Whenever I need more transfer speed I just plug in one of my EMTEC 256GB "S600 SpeedIN" USB 3.0 pen drives into my laptop and that's it. They use fast MLC memory so they can keep up with the M.2 internal SSD that's inside my laptop. Actually they're not as super fast as the fastest (and much more expensive) ones from SanDisk, but still fast enough to keep up with what I have inside my laptop so it doesn't matter to me anyway.
Gateway PC are terrible shit. EVERYONE on a PC hardware related forum website will tell you that.
Even though 10 years ago the 1TB WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX used to be a highly popular choice back then, the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ proved to be both cheaper and better than it.
The main important reason why you want to run your OS and some certain software applications on an SSD is because it just makes the whole shebang so much more responsive in almost ANY situation, and also the PC boots up a lot faster. It doesn't have to be the fastest, most expensive SSD... even the cheapest (under $500) of mid-priced laptops worth their salt now either come with an M.2 internal SSD of at least 256GB, or come with Intel Optane caching technology.
You're right about that... A standard SATA SSD will suffice for many / if not all situations. It's only when you want data security and redundancy will you start delving into shelling out more for the more ... 'intricate' SSD's. And since SSD life has damn near tripled (from where it was a few years ago) there's really no need to panic about life expectancy. So long as you're not data thrashing the drive itself. DATA THRASHING - Adding and erasing information continuously for long periods of time. No matter how large or how small the information is, doing so can kill an SSD prematurely.
Yep, that's why I said..
I was actually gifted the new black 750GB for specking someone a build.
The M.2 SSD in my laptop is just a SK Hynix HSF256G39TND-N210A. Nothing too special, but it still gets the job done nonetheless.
Hey I'll look at it this way so long as it stores data and it keeps my system booting up properly. I don't give a f*** what stored on it.
But I do more than just keep my operating system stored on my solid states I keep my video games and some of my media stored on solid state drives. I was told storing video games on solid state drives was a bad idea just because a lot of those bits and pieces of software have constant updates, but when I go when I start looking at the memory units actually on the drive I don't see a whole lot of damage there now there are some blocks that are unwritable, but s*** for 5-year-old drives they're still running I can't really complain.
Yep I have 2. 1 from around 2000 with XP which still works fine and this one from 5 years or so ago. Still going.
specking all the parts is hardest. when done correctly everything goes together easily since they only fit in one place/way.
Unless like me you find out that Win 7 has no drivers for the video board you bought.
Storing a huge collection of big media files entirely on SSD is way too expensive IMO, but SSD is completely silent because there are no moving parts so copying only the files you need from a (bunch of) USB 3.0 harddrive(s) onto a cheap-ish SSD before playback can be a great option to consider, as it eliminates the need for a separate room with NAS and also it avoids the comparatively high cost of NAS. That is, at least if you want to rid the hi-rez audio experience of background noise while at the same time also freeing up some extra budget for better audio/video quality. The only real downside is before you start the playback you need to wait till the copying is done and you also need to know how to force the harddrive(s) to sleep─and to stay asleep.
You must mean that for that vc there are no W7 compatible drivers. Possible but doubtful and I think you mean this as example of what might happen during novice diy. If specked correctly there are no issues with things working or not fitting.
For years I kept wanting to build one for ~$2500. I'm glad I never pulled the trigger on that. Because, these days I much prefer to pull on something that looks a bit more like this:
My biggest pet peeve always was that every decent motherboard had the 2nd PCIe x16 slot located too close to the 1st one so that putting two doublesize aircooled vidcards in SLI would cause the 2nd vidcard's PCB to block too much of the airflow intake of the 1st one, and I didn't want to go for watercooling. Next, Asus came with a workstation motherboard that moved these two slots farther apart, but the CPU socket on that one was located too close to the 1st PCIe x16 slot so that the Noctua NH-D14 (huge size aftermarket aircooler) couldn't fit on the Intel CPU... that's how I always kept ending up ordering nothing, time after time after time until finally I just kind of grew tired of it all, and, around the same time also I was gradually losing interest in gaming because practically all the latest games were boring like watching paint dry, and IMO these days they still are.
I started to just buy decently priced average laptops instead. A family member keeps the annoying habit of causing inadvertent power outages so that mainly is why... it's like having an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) conveniently on the cheap.
A decent UPS is a good investment. I have an old APC 300W for the computer desk and one for the TV/entertainment corner.
Each time when I buy a new laptop I just make sure the specs are good enough to get me through the next 3 years without requiring any upgrades, and that it has a 3-year warranty so I just replace the whole laptop each time, usually around the time when it expires, when a solid bargain pops up. No touch screen for me, just a normal 15″ 1080p LCD to keep the price down low enough because I barely ever use the screen anyway... that's what the TV is for. One thing I like about laptops is I can continue to surf the web by hooking it up to my smartphone via USB or via WiFi after the power goes out again, and can do so without having to stay near the TV where there's simply no space to go sit in front of a smaller screen that has a UPS attached to both a desktop PC and it. Lugging a separate screen plus a UPS with a desktop PC attached to it to another room, finding space to put it there, and then lugging everything all the way back to the TV again one hour after that is just too much hassle IMO─if at all possible, that is.
That's to make you add a bridged water block on both GPUs. Custom water loops, ahhhh, I love them so much. However, what I don't love about them is when the pump fails. LOL! Then You have to order a new pump, and yeah... That can be a pain in the ass altogether. Plus, SLI / CROSSFIRE isn't really that much of a performance increase. I have seen gains in the graphics field as high as 10-20% when running 2+ cards in SLI / CROSSFIRE. It was a cool idea, but when you see how it performs and you begin seeing it's downsides vs it's benefits, you tend to not really mess with it.
It's all 220 here in Belgium, but houses are a lot smaller than in the U.S. so I simply have no space to put a UPS anywhere outside my own room, at least not without me getting physically attacked by family member so I just let family member physically attack the electrics instead... it actually helps save on my medication. And besides, I have no doubt in my mind that family member would still figure a way to fuck the UPS up like semi on purpose.
Yeah, even some nerds like myself have to come out at night. I have to sleep during the day so...
I agree... apart from that 1st sentence. Almost every GPU nowadays is baked into a phone or gaming console.
Well, PC-wise, almost every GPU is a PCI-E card. LOL. Oh the days of ISA, PCI, and AGP. AGP slots and their goofy ass BUS speeds. You had AGP, AGP 2X, AGP 4X, and AGP 8X... Slot type stayed the same (roughly) they just increased BUS speeds on it. Then some crazy ass got crazy and said 'Hey guys, since PCI is kind of dated, let's make a revised version of it and call it PCI-E... And let's release 1800 versions of it. So now we have PCI-E 1, 2, 16 and now we're seeing 16x2... Like... Calm down crazy ass, just call it PCI-E 32 or 64 or 128 or 256, etc. Stop confusing people and just stick to a damn socket / slot type. Fucking hell.I agree... apart from that 1st sentence. Almost every GPU nowadays is baked into a phone or gaming console.
I was talking more about the era that went on right after the i7-2700K and after the i7-4770K, around the time when 120Hz screens were the latest hype. The Nvidia SLI was almost like a strict necessity for that, as it is the minimum fps, not the average fps, that makes all the real-world difference in (hardcore) gaming... same reason I never had any interest whatsoever in AMD Crossfire, it was always synonymous to poor minimum fps, and that's also in addition to all the usual AMD driver issues that you mention. Custom water loops are great, but if the pump fails you not only have to order a new pump, but also you risk losing one or more expensive GPUs (and maybe the CPU as well) or risk losing OC stability. That plus the fact the custom waterblocks would almost never fit on the next generation, and, the cost would be already relatively too high to begin with. Remember $2500 in this particular part of Europe doesn't buy you the same heavy chunk of hardware that you guys could get in the U.S. everywhere.
Where I live it's morning right now. Also, we're neither freaks nor geeks, we're just divergent.
Yeah. I think people overhyped SLI and refresh rates on monitors, forcing people to invest in unnecessary hardware just for a minor gain here and there. Now that you mention it, average framerates at any setting on any hardware should be about 60FPS with a 1ms response time. At that time, monitors, regardless of refresh rate (120hz+) were and most still are, unable to achieve 120hz+ with a 1ms response time.
Yes of course it's all been largely overhyped. But the whole idea behind 120Hz (and 144Hz) is that, on a traditional 60Hz screen, even just a single duped frame is still (very) highly noticeable in the motion fluidity, or smoothness... in a fast-paced first person shooter it tends to be distracting, even disorienting at times, so not really overhyped in this regard. But the games themselves typically are overhyped like no tomorrow, at least IMO and, I'm not just talking about the flood of poorly ported console games, but also the piss poor gameplay in dedicated PC games as well, the old rehash factor and boring DLC content─not to mention all the cheating and the pay-to-win like mentality that's been dominating all online multiplayer games... all bling and no true competition, and the controls suck anyway because they're convoluted, there's just too many different actions to assign to the mouse buttons and all across the whole keyboard.
I understand that, and to some, it may be noticable. It does to some extent help even out frame rates, that I do not deny, however... There are still limitations to how much it truly helps. Bottlenecks aside, not all GPU, CPU, RAM or VRAM is created equal. Which is a huge reason why you should buy matched pairs... But wait, graphics cards don't have matched pairs, so how can you... You can't. Hence why you can have 2 identical cards, from the same manufacturer, run at 2 totally different speeds.
Think you forgot to mention the VESA Local Bus, and, especially, the Opti2 Local Bus. Opti2 was the bees knees so that's what I got.
Opti2 sounds familiar... But Lord know anymore. VESA, yes... That I did forget. My bad.
No I mean two Nvidia cards in (bridged) SLI mode were truly needed back in the day for continuous sustained motion smoothness in most GPU intensive games. The 120Hz was to make the (still unavoidable, excepting only in the much less power hungry games...) fps drops appear a lot less judder-like, as the duped frames would remain visible on screen for only half the period of time when compared to traditional 60Hz panels, but... for a 120Hz panel to be worth the added cost plus some sacrifices in other picture quality related attributes, the minimum fps needed to go up because that in fact is what reduces the fps drops themselves anyway in the first place─and does so merely by definition─so making them less noticeable on screen is only the final step in the strategy, albeit nowadays a single RTX2080 Ti will be already sufficient.
At least AMD back then was better at board/cpu backwards compatibility than intel. You could upgrade to newer generation of cpu w/o changing the board. Not so with intel, they make you buy a new board every time.
Did a couple of years of that in my past as well.
Went union last year. Mostly commercial work, so waaaaay fewer crawlspaces and attics. Add to that, a $16/hour raise plus benefits.
