Recent content by mattburns

I think I'm having the same problem. Here are my symptoms: ~8 out of 10 times it boots fine, no problems. ~1 out of 10 times, when I press the power button, nothing happens. No POST, no fans, nothing. But then, around 30 seconds later, the machine suddenly spins into life and boots normally ~1...

@tagxl007 - "ssd alone has better performance than caching" Is the difference significant? A little reading around seems to suggest the 6850 doesn't play very nicely in ubuntu. not sure what to do

Thanks for the advice guys. I've changed the fan for the Hyper 212 evo (and measured my case, it should just squeeze in). I've also decided the go for a cheaper graphics card because I want to be sure it's fully supported in linux. I chose the XFX Radeon HD 5570. Wish list is updated if you...

Hi, I've been researching as best I can for the last few days, going somewhat in circles in the process. Can you take a look and see if you think my plan is sensible? ie. no obvious bottlenecks or incompatibilities... I'd also like to run linux as my main OS and just run windows in a VM. Do you...