That 1Tb hard drive was a total bitch to install...
It all started when the hard drive arrived with the Jessomes parts. This, of course, was the day that the power went out, and I was 2 hours late for work. How pleasant. Anyway, I get home at 4:30, and the power is still out. I sit in the realatively cold, unpowered house, enjoying a Baconator from Wendys. The burger was delicious, but the cold ate at me. Eventually, getting tired of sitting around doing nothing, I head up to my room, open the blinds, and start assembling the Jessomes PC. I got as far as installing the front fan and power supply, when the lights came on and my clock started flashing! Halleluajh! Er, yes, quite enjoyable, the power is back on... Anyway, I pop the side panel onto the case, push it aside, and pull open my own. I grab a SATA cable and the 1Tb from the shipping box and go to work, first unplugging the 500Gb Seagate, and then installing the 1Tb Western Digital. My plan was, -mainly because I'm lazy- to format the 1Tb as D:/, plug in the 500Gb, transfer all files to the newly appointed D:/, and not have to worry about chaning any directories. Of course, my computer thought otherwise. I boot up after installing the 1Tb, and am greeted by a System Disk Error, Insert system disk and press any key to continue. Pleasant. So, I restarted, and played with a few bios settings to no avail. "Alright," I tell myself, "I'll shut down, plug the 500 back in, and see what's wrong." After googling around for a clean 2 hours, I found out that although the operating system was located on C:/, the bootloader was located on D:/, for some reason or another. Okay, so all I had to do was download and burn a vista recovery disc, mark my C:/ as active, shut down, disconnect all hard drives except for C:/, boot from the disk, and repair my start up files. After that, everything was peachy. I plugged in the 1Tb, formatted as D:/, shut down, plugged in the 500, transferred the files, formatted the 500, and it now resides in Nick's PC. We're all happy.
The hard drive itself I haven't benchmarked or anything, but it is quiet, and it is cool, and that's the important thing, considering it's for media storage, not for the operating system.
I've also solved my problem with Teamspeak. The issue was whenever Teamspeak was open, no other application would produce sound. Firefox, Digsby, iTunes, etc, etc, etc... No sound, except from Teamspeak. After playing with it for a while, I decided to try switching from DirectSound to WAVE, and now everything works fine.
I've also decided that I'll be getting an eVga GTX 260 Core 216 55nm version. It's clocked at 675Mhz on the core, 1458Mhz on the shaders, and 2300Mhz on the memory [effective]. It also comes with a free copy of Mirrors Edge, which I'll likely sell for a couple bucks. Looking at benchmarks, this model should pull approximately double the frame rates in some games, in comparison to my 8800GT. And knowing me, I'll be overclocking it a bit further. [700Mhz core, 1500Mhz Shader, 2400Mhz memory, anyone?]
So, I'll leave you with a bit of work I did in Sony Vegas, and then I'm off to play some battlefield. Oh, and the Jessomes build went great, they were really impressed.
Just playing with Vegas.
It all started when the hard drive arrived with the Jessomes parts. This, of course, was the day that the power went out, and I was 2 hours late for work. How pleasant. Anyway, I get home at 4:30, and the power is still out. I sit in the realatively cold, unpowered house, enjoying a Baconator from Wendys. The burger was delicious, but the cold ate at me. Eventually, getting tired of sitting around doing nothing, I head up to my room, open the blinds, and start assembling the Jessomes PC. I got as far as installing the front fan and power supply, when the lights came on and my clock started flashing! Halleluajh! Er, yes, quite enjoyable, the power is back on... Anyway, I pop the side panel onto the case, push it aside, and pull open my own. I grab a SATA cable and the 1Tb from the shipping box and go to work, first unplugging the 500Gb Seagate, and then installing the 1Tb Western Digital. My plan was, -mainly because I'm lazy- to format the 1Tb as D:/, plug in the 500Gb, transfer all files to the newly appointed D:/, and not have to worry about chaning any directories. Of course, my computer thought otherwise. I boot up after installing the 1Tb, and am greeted by a System Disk Error, Insert system disk and press any key to continue. Pleasant. So, I restarted, and played with a few bios settings to no avail. "Alright," I tell myself, "I'll shut down, plug the 500 back in, and see what's wrong." After googling around for a clean 2 hours, I found out that although the operating system was located on C:/, the bootloader was located on D:/, for some reason or another. Okay, so all I had to do was download and burn a vista recovery disc, mark my C:/ as active, shut down, disconnect all hard drives except for C:/, boot from the disk, and repair my start up files. After that, everything was peachy. I plugged in the 1Tb, formatted as D:/, shut down, plugged in the 500, transferred the files, formatted the 500, and it now resides in Nick's PC. We're all happy.
The hard drive itself I haven't benchmarked or anything, but it is quiet, and it is cool, and that's the important thing, considering it's for media storage, not for the operating system.
I've also solved my problem with Teamspeak. The issue was whenever Teamspeak was open, no other application would produce sound. Firefox, Digsby, iTunes, etc, etc, etc... No sound, except from Teamspeak. After playing with it for a while, I decided to try switching from DirectSound to WAVE, and now everything works fine.
I've also decided that I'll be getting an eVga GTX 260 Core 216 55nm version. It's clocked at 675Mhz on the core, 1458Mhz on the shaders, and 2300Mhz on the memory [effective]. It also comes with a free copy of Mirrors Edge, which I'll likely sell for a couple bucks. Looking at benchmarks, this model should pull approximately double the frame rates in some games, in comparison to my 8800GT. And knowing me, I'll be overclocking it a bit further. [700Mhz core, 1500Mhz Shader, 2400Mhz memory, anyone?]
So, I'll leave you with a bit of work I did in Sony Vegas, and then I'm off to play some battlefield. Oh, and the Jessomes build went great, they were really impressed.
Just playing with Vegas.