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    Posted: 20 November 2012 at 5:32pm
Originally posted by levyte357- levyte357- wrote:

Originally posted by mini-mad mini-mad wrote:

and a pentium pro 200MMX.... im telling you its the nutts... wait, sorry, wrong decade


Was over rated.LOL

AMD Athlons & Durons are what really put the fire under Intel's a*s.

Back to the future, now using Waterfox & Chrome as opposed to FF, no more issues, (so far).

SSD feasibility study concluded, waiting for approval from Finance department (wallet wife).


if you look deep enuff in the early days (and i do mean early!) AMD mad a hell of a lot of intels chips for them as intel couldnt cope with supply and manufacture Big smile

but yes a duron 750 running at 1066 was my first serious chunck of fun as i loved my K6-2 450 running at 550 with the worst heatsink on the planet Embarrassed
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Originally posted by mini-mad mini-mad wrote:

and a pentium pro 200MMX.... im telling you its the nutts... wait, sorry, wrong decade


Was over rated.LOL

AMD Athlons & Durons are what really put the fire under Intel's a*s.

Back to the future, now using Waterfox & Chrome as opposed to FF, no more issues, (so far).

SSD feasibility study concluded, waiting for approval from Finance department (wallet).
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and a pentium pro 200MMX.... im telling you its the nutts... wait, sorry, wrong decade
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MSI 990FX and a Piledriver 8350!!!
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Fresh re-install is best imo.

Allows you to install latest drivers when you do it etc. too, rather than transferring over a whole load of redundant crap.
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I find very few work well or properly... cloneing a drive on like for like works ok but wen migrating a fresh install is always a must.

And yes 'sodding ssd also make 'poxy psu's too
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While we're here, talking about moving Win 7x64 to a new SSD Disk, what are the best free/paid for disk utilities to do this?

And I mean industrial grade that always works, like Partition Manager 8 for XP.

I really miss that on Win 7. Cry
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Originally posted by mini-mad mini-mad wrote:

i have 1 flagship rig (the wifes), the video/game rig (mine) and my daughters laptop. none of them crash and my daughters laptop rarely stutters. (now starting to sound like a sales pitch...) but if you just adhear to the simple advice in life sh1t very rarely goes wrong

NOW GO OUT AND BUY A SODDING SSD BOOT DRIVE!!!!!

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LOL

'Sodding SSD.

Must be a new manufacturer, never heard of them. LOL
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wow!! this thread exploded a little didnt it? lol

...as i said to many people in the past and very early on in this thread, just listen to the subtle advice i give and all will be well.

" ... convert over to an SSD boot drive wen you can"

simple and effective. i dont give advice on computers that i havent vigorously tested myself. theres loads of "info" in the 'net about the pros and cons of many different upgrades, downgrades and sideways-grades.... all my advice is from years of cutting out the crap and hype and road testing the stuff that works.

i have 1 flagship rig (the wifes), the video/game rig (mine) and my daughters laptop. none of them crash and my daughters laptop rarely stutters. (now starting to sound like a sales pitch...) but if you just adhear to the simple advice in life sh1t very rarely goes wrong

NOW GO OUT AND BUY A SODDING SSD BOOT DRIVE!!!!!

thanks for listening  
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Originally posted by Sinai Sound Sinai Sound wrote:

In a fashion

I've heard 5 years give or take - by the time it's due for replacing, much larger and cheaper ones will be available for the money 

Of course it all depends on what you are doing with the PC, but for general light use for a limited amount of hours per day, you'd be safe

Wouldn't recommend one in a SQL server that's turned on 24 hours a day with multiple users connected to it.........but I don't think that's what you're doing Tongue

The other thing to consider (but also not to worry about) is the fact you'll be running a SATA2 motherboard - Limited to about 285MBs transfer rate

To get the best out of an SSD (well a new fast one at any rate) you need SATA3 

I'm running one in my 3 year old core i7 PC that's on SATA2 quite happily 

Check the write speeds also, some have mega fast read, but not so impressive write


There are several datacentres running on SSDs without issue, and the write limit is insanely high for the average user.
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Drop me a line Levyte i have a qx9650 id sell , its a proper beast . I also have a dell xps 730 with a qx9770 which is the beast of beasts thats packin an ssd and 2tb storage up for grabs for not a lot if you wanted something complete....
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Originally posted by odc04r odc04r wrote:

I'd drop FB and keep Firefox. I know what's more useful.

Or use noscript and/or a greasemonkey script to keep nuisance JS to a minimum.


Had discovered this while back, and clean forgot to never pollute FF with FB games.

Originally posted by TENSiON TENSiON wrote:



Try the Waterfox allready and see if it makes any difference.. There really is no adware/bloatwave inside (heck, it's opensource), and you can allways uninstall it in case it doesn't cut the mustard..

Also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed, especially if you experience crashes of the flash plugin. And install it AFTER installing the browser, not before.


Trying WF now, only major issue discovered so far is problems accessing QuakeLive.


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