Recent content by teenyman45

I've been waiting a little over a year for SSD prices to drop, particularly for SATA III drives, and now that there is some choice to have forced Crucial's prices down, I do not know which to get. 2 Intel 510 120 GB in a RAID 0 for about $550 2 Vertex 3 120 GB in a RAID 0 for about $600 1...

The noise was largely like what I hear, and think most people hear, when a cheap electric can opener is being used. So, I figured it's something with a fan. The HD was not on my list of suspect parts because I've never heard even a failing drive make that sort of noise and still would not...

That's what I get for posting at 4AM. I guess I should have explicitly typed out that I had already followed all the steps in the guide and then some. I personally don't even have access to another PC that can accept an ATX power supply. Everyone I know with a desktop has either an older...

My rig, if any of it is still salvageable, was an i7-930 in an Asus P6X58D Premium MB with 6GB of DDR3 1600 and a Sapphire 5970 powered by a Thermaltake 850W TR2 RX PSU in a Storm Sniper Black case. I was still using the stock cooler because this was my first build since the 90's and was...