Recent content by legrand

Jesus Christ.... really?

Snicker, snicker, hee, hee... he said breasts.... Seriously? Apparently we're all pubescent boys here. When will this website grow up and realize that people other than males, ages 13-25 read their news?

Will this website ever get out of the stone age and stop making sexual, female degrading references in nearly every headline story?

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She didn't get a grant. Where do you see that she received a "grant". As seems to happen here frequently, articles posted play fast and loose with the facts in order to grab attention. She raised around $20,000, she wasn't given a grant (public or private). She solicited funds for this...

I have to echo this sentiment. I'm not sure what the issue was, but the two I had both wore out in much less than a year each. I gave up on them after the second one lost all its texture and was no longer "slippery".

In like flynn

Well, I wasn't really going too fast, and I've built many a system before, I've just never had (nor really thought) a spark would jump from the metal tang inside of a plastic shrouded molex connector to the chassis. It's not like there's 400kV or something... only 12V max. I deal with static...

Woofer and others, Thanks for the input. I am suspect of all the components at this point but am loathed to face that possibility since I just put the stupid thing together. After the initial spark jumped to the chassis, I did have to power the unit up a couple of times before the HDD caught...

This is the new BFG PS. The system is plugged into an APC RS 1500 Battery backup/line conditioner. Everything was fine till that little spark jumped from one of the molex connectors to the chassis... I don't know if that screwed something up on the hdd or if it screwed up something on the PS...

So... I built this system a week or so ago.... http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1396869 You can see that I had some hdd problems, and I'm waiting for an rma for a dead hdd from newegg. Anyway, I have had the system up and running for about a week on an old sata hdd I had lying...

Well.... I got all the components and assembled them. I then realized the motherboard was crossfire and not SLI.... oh well... Anyway, I am having severe problems with the build now. I bought a new SATA HDD to install Windows on as well. First windows install attempt resulted in BSOD before...

Heatsink recomendaions?

OK then, how about this: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.156589 G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)...

Thanks... Looks like I need to research more. I'm getting a headache from trying to figure out all the new names and codes etc... I've been away far too long...