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Don't take the Passmark pricing as accurate. Sometimes it can be 100.00 off what you can get a used CPU on Amazon for.

AMD Phenom II X4 830 AMD Phenom II X4 820 AMD Athlon II X4 620 The above are listed around 80.00, and near rate 3500 or so, nearly double the 545. GS

Found this: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/socketType.html#id11 Pretty helpful in finding a fast cheap, AM3 cpu.

How about a SSD, and a removeable SATA drive bay? I just notice from this: http://imgur.com/ey7ykhB That you have a AM3 Socket. I suspect with a bit of work, you might find a processor for a reasonable cost, that will double the speed of the 545. Possibly VERY cheap. I run my Athlon dual...

I look at the value, then look at the performance of the cpu. Then cross reference that with what socket, what power draw, and category. When you click on the link, it gives you the date the cpu first appeared, it's Passmark score, etc. The question becomes is it worth trying to find a...

I'd also look at Passmarks' highend CPU chart, and look for lower priced cpus that perform well. There is an AMD that hits around 6000, for 99.00. Also some in the 300 dollar range that hit near 10,000, or over, IIRC. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

I'd have a look here: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html Come up with a cpu, yes they do show a low end Xeon as being a great value,;-) and the AMD 6 core looks pretty good as well, and is as fast as my 940 I7, for 1/5th the cost. This is terrifying fast, and yet half the...

Great stuff. For some reason Ultron=Bad Robot to me. Just doesn't get me going as a villian. In this day and age he would be really terrifying, since his gift was power over anything electronic. James Spader might bring something to the part. Since he's made of adamantium, he can give the...

What was that line from James Bond? Something about Carver saying make sure the first software release is really buggy, so we can charge them for endless upgrades? Sounds more like Apple. That said, REALLY? Do you all think the end result is worth your efforts to improve the product of one of...

I'm typing on a Kentucky Unicomp special Model M. Complete with Condom over it. I spilled coffee on it, and between there and back shipping, and 40 dollars to fix it, I decided to buy two of the Kentucky models, and condoms to protect them. All the water proof keyboards I tried sucked in...

It was two promise controllers;-) Money wise, the others cost more, and, I still was able to use the drives. Buying computers for top dollars, where the makers cut corners I find REALLY offensive. Apple limiting their bus to 73 mb sec, vs. the full standard, near 133 mb/sec. Dell charging...

Not checking the specs, and under the hood on Apple G3's. 140 Watt ps, in a 3500 dollar computer? Then trying to add a 4 drive SCSI raid. Dell: buying one. Took 6 months to figure out that the computer I had had disabled two of the four ide channels, so setting up a 4 drive raid was...

Storagereview has a review of an SSD that is warrantied for 10 years. I've never had one fail, going on 6-7 years now? gs

DD We need to talk. I am new to using computers to make money, from home. Let's do lunch or something....

What does it draw at idle? Does it ever get off idle, doing anything;-)? Make me an offer I can't refuse, like you did last time;-)

Wonder how AMAZON would handle such a situation?

I did my research, with some help here, and these are some of the most reliable drives available. I'm unable to register either drive, through WD. They were older drives, but unused. To be honest, the prices are the maximum I would pay for a drive. I'm not paying retail for a WD RE4. I paid...

WTF to do: OK: It looks like ServerTech Solutions Inc. specializes in fraud in advertizing, and shipping drives without the warranty that they should have, and, old, OEM drives. Problem is, the reason I bought the WD RE4 2 TB, and HGST 4 TB is they are supposed to be the best drives on the...

I am using that program. I did NOT think it was the program used by HGST to test their drives. Am i wrong?

HGST's is not. Other suggestions?

Hi I'm wondering what you use for testing hard drives? Thanks GS

Serverpartdeals???? Counter offer: Which option would you take? " Hello, I have confirmed with my sales team that this drive is not used, but was just manufactured in 2012. The drive you have now is covered by a warranty through us directly. If you chose to keep that drive, we can refund you...

Been using Pale Moon, Firefox, and IE for one site. All good.

The problem is the lack of information supplied in the adds: For Example: " WD RE4 2 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD2003FYYS by Western Digital 218 customer reviews | 4 answered questions List Price: $449.99 Price: $109.00 & FREE Shipping You Save...

The problem is the lack of information supplied in the adds: For Example: " WD RE4 2 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD2003FYYS by Western Digital 218 customer reviews | 4 answered questions List Price: $449.99 Price: $109.00 & FREE Shipping You Save...

HGST 3.6 gig arrived yesterday. Spent most of the day trying to initialize the entire disk. Would only initialize 1.6 gigs, wouldn't see the rest. Tried both machines, no joy. Finally decided to check my bios. It was F3, it's now F13, and supports 3.6 gig drives or larger. It is the latest beta...

Got that one right. My Athlon 3800 works fine with 7 but no sound drivers. Same installing 8 on my existing Gigabyte motherboard, no sound drivers. So staying with 7. Don't think the companies planned it that way?

If you follow through on Dropbox you get 48-50 gigs of storage. Free, but it eats ram....

law in our area is really bad. An attorney I know has had his per month cut from 10 grand, to 700 dollars, and, He is the rain maker????!!!! He's on 30 percent commission on his billings.

Best program to test drives to make sure they are ok from the factory?

Likely I'll copy most of this stuff to the drive, then remove the drive from service, waiting for the others to fail. 2 TB is about 1000 dollars in movies. So, the drive will have 2 grand in movies on it.

Sucks sometimes....

Congrats Sedrosken! I'm 130 grand in the hole. I got hooked on teaching special education for 10 years, after graduating from law school. My loans are split between collectors, so I can't consolidate at this point. They want so much money in payments, considering my income, and my 60 year age...

Thanks Pulled the trigger on a 4 TB Deskstar for 185. free shipping, amazon. I REALLY need to protect my data, and this will the be backup disk for a bunch of movies. I've backed up my data on two, old, seagate drives, that aren't used much. Funny how the low capacity drives seem to last a...

I'm finding everytime I find a drive for a good price, on amazon, there is a catch. For instance the product page will say a 5 year warranty on a new drive. The one with the 155.00 price tag states a 1 year warranty, and the drive is bare, or OEM. The rest are 220.00 and up, that state 5 year...

One website, run by the NCAA, arbitersports.com, seems to work by far the best when using the latest IE. I use it for that one website pretty much exclusively. Latest version of FF doesn't seem to like Twitter login. But works on Chrome. Go figure. Just downloaded Palemoon. Seems ok, and I...

REALLY? On a hot internet connection, latest IE, Chrome, and Firefox all have speed and features that make them all worth using. Wonder if I can run Puffin on my home computer;-)? THAT is a speed improvement you notice....

I will look into these drives. Maybe newegg 2TB for 149?

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Repackaged Hard Drives, July 31, 2013 By Josh Finkelstein "Josh" This review is from: HGST Deskstar 3.5-Inch 4TB 7200 RPM SATA III 6Gbps 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (0F14681) (HDS724040ALE640) (Personal Computers) *** Unfortunately, this review is not about the...

The data loss is a lot. You take each Bluray disk, at 20-30 dollars average, 40-50 gigs each, and you have 40 times 20-30 dollars lost, with this 120 dollar drive gone. Replacement? Where are you all getting, or renting Bluray disks these days? All those were from Blockbuster. Gone. I guess...

Hi Just had an external 2 TB Seagate die at 2.5 years, on a 3 year warranty. I'm after internal drives, in the 2-4 TB range, that will last. 3-6 years is good. NAS? Newegg has the 2 TB models for around 120. They suck on service. Costco? Just returned a 2 TB, after it died, pulled it out...

IIRC, I went from an Athlon 3200, and switched that out for a dual core 3800 for something like 30 dollars. Doubled the speed of the processor for 30 dollars? How can you beat that? It's still running, and since I have a Xerox dinosauer 130df Laser printer that has drivers only in XP, and...

My thoughts. The front of the 180 is really annoying. I don't like to have to open the front of the box every time I turn on the computer, and the plastic stuff they use to secure it is weak, and bended. Right now I have propped it so the front will not allow cat hair to enter, and will have to...

Hi I should be done around 2PM in Salinas doing a tourney. Does that work for you, on Sunday? gs

Thanks David That's GREAT news.... Hopefully I'll be down Sunday to pick it up, along with work.

Hi Merc Whats in the box, and what do you want for it???? email me.. Thx gs

I've recently installed Nod 32 mobile from eset. It's really kind of scary how many programs have access to all data, and most people give it to them, when they don't need it, at all. Why does Costco's and 24 Hour Fitness need to have pretty much root access to my data, email lists, etc...

Puffin makes going to my work site easy, and fast. I think the site uses Flash, IIRC, but not in any major way. Still, it makes the regular site bearable, without having to pay for the mobile site. www.arbitersports.com

Try Puffin for a web Browser: http://www.puffinbrowser.com/index.php Works great, and is MUCH faster then the other browsers...

For what it's worth: I just tried the site on my 600 Samsung Mega. I use Puffin for my web browsing on Android http://www.puffinbrowser.com/index.php I turned rotation on, and reading the forum Horizontially, it fits nicely in the Mega's screen, and I don't have to change sizes like I do in...