Originally Posted by Animeniax
It's nice to know you see me as a complete moron, even though ive been advicing almost everyone in this thread.
It's nice to know you see me as a complete moron, even though ive been advicing almost everyone in this thread.
Hmm, I completely forgot subs were one of the things that screw up HDDs. Just a question, what if the speaker's off, and it's never turned on, does that matter. My brother's got a loudspeaker, I think, the ones on either side of stereo systems, on top of his computer. It's got the bass in it, so it'll count as a sub most likely. Thing is, he doesn't use it. It's not eve plugged in, and it's sitting there to give the wireless router sitting on top of that a little more height. Will it cause problems do you guys think? Nothing's been playing up for months, so probably not.
2nd scenario. Lets say one day my dad decides to go "hmm, I'll plug this speaker in for better bass" and decides to use it exactly where it is. Any problems then?
The magnet in the sub (and unshielded speakers) are always active, regardless if the stereo is on. So yes, they are ruining your PC as we speak.
Has your brother had any issues with data corruption or hardware failures? If not, it's probably nothing to worry about, but good to keep in mind in general. Same with pacemakers and microwaves, I think,
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I remember reading ages ago that only variable magnetic fields are really deleterious to magnetic media, and static ones don't cause failures (well, at least as long as we are talking about reasonable forces).
That might be totally untrue, though, because it has been probably 10 years since I read it from the ever reliable source of somewhere.
Just some food for thought... The electromagnet that drives the hard drive motor at 7200 RPM doesn't seem to have any effect on the platters.
Not saying hard drives aren't affected by magnets, but I just think this is interesting. Maybe electromagnets don't affect magnetic storage the same way regular magnets do? I don't know. I'm no expert in this field.
My brother hasn't had any typical data corruption problems. The only thing I've noticed on his is whenever he does a chkdsk check, stage 2 of 3 always stays on 0 percent for like a min before it moves on to 1%. It's fine from there. He's also always getting things like "empty space marked as allocated in system volume, or MBT etc, but that's also happening on mine of late. It's not affecting usage in anyway noticable, and mine's away from any strong magnetic fields. I read somewhere that the magnets in hard drives are really strong, and that the disk shouldn't be affected by computer-rated speakers, since they don't carry that strong a magnet, or are shielded.
edit: note, that comp is also right next to an old tv with mono speakers since forever.
Maybe the two magnetic fields are canceling each other out.
You're right, PC shielded speakers are fine, just not home stereo speakers. It might just be a myth altogether, though the science is there. Someone call Mythbusters with a segment idea!
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
maybe depends on the computer case.... idk.
anyhow, i just found the X2 6400+ on newegg w\ a $25 price drop to 179.99 w\ free shipping..... i'm biting my nails and giving serious thought to ordering it w\ 4gb of patriot pc2-800 they have for 130. i currently have an x2-4800+ that is working fine. Im thinking of buying stuff to put another system together and selling it but idk yet.
Sorry bbaucom, but you're talking about Ford Escorts at a Ferrari owner's convention. It's hard for us to get excited about your bargain basement PC parts. You have to give it your all or stay at home when it comes to PC builds.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
nice troll... the X2 6400+ is the newest amd processor out @3.2ghz. i'm not dropping 650 on a quad core intel that likely performs the same as a processor of less than 1/4 the price.
the only thing really holding me back is the fact that I upgraded my system just 3-4 months ago
E6300 @ 3.2 GHz
Radeon Mobile HD3850 @ 750/925
8.44 RC3 driver (unreleased to public)
Woot...? I dunno...
holy crap, im definitly getting that 3870 x2 now, and WHEN are the official 7.11's gonna be out BoC? im getting a bit pissed here
If I'm not mistaken, 7.11 is being posted on Wednesday. Driver version should be 8.432 RC2.
One thing I should warn you about though: 8.432 had some stability issues with my card in 3DMark06, FEAR, Gears of War and possibly some other titles. It might just be a problem of compatibility with my card instead of driver instabilities though, since I'm using a bring-up card (a.k.a. prototype) instead of the retail HD3850.
Last edited by Board of Command; Tue, 11-20-2007 at 12:20 AM.
I have a question. For some people who lap their heatsinks for better performance, which type of sand paper do you use?
Automotive waterproof sandpaper. Grits you want to use are 400, 600, 800, 1200, and maybe 1600.
up to 2000 if you want that mirror finish
I've read benefits from lapping are negligible. Is it even worth doing unless you're seriously overclocking? At that point shouldn't you just get a water-cooling system? Though I suppose you could lap the water blocks as well.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Lapping is to get rid of unflat surfaces. It doesn't really help if your heatsink base is already flat and smooth.
And by smooth, I don't mean a mirror finish.
I was already wondering why making a flat surface nonflat would help as it did sound totally opposite to what I've been used to hearing, but when you say it's to make a poorly finished product good, then it certainly makes sense.
Isn't that the purpose of thermal transfer material like arctic silver? It fills in the imperfections of the heatsink base to provide both maximum contact and heat transfer.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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