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). It has a great rating on that FileForum page above, and while it's not perfect it's great for its price (0,00)! 
Note:Hehe, good to know!
BrotherS wrote this:Once the money is being transferred it might take a few hours or a day, then mouser will upgrade you. Enjoy the site until then as much as you can.
you can tell brotherS has been here for a while - this was the old way-mouser (December 12, 2005, 01:42 PM)
some bits may change - i'm still undecided on whether to go straight into water-cooling.Water-cooling is not necessary if you get good regular cooling components - and btw, I wouldn't want water in my PC at any cost
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(i'm trying to make this new machine as silent as possible - raptor drives aren't going to be good for this so i'm looking at using cases around them. all other components will be cooled with 120mm fans or passive heatsinks or whatever i can get that is meant to be near silent. water-cooling would probably make more sense for this.)-nudone (December 12, 2005, 09:54 AM)
i've been reading a pc hardware forum and making a few posts to get the opinions on the new pc i'll be putting together within the next week or two.Bad decision IMHO - take your time!-nudone (December 12, 2005, 08:40 AM)
there are a few questions i'd just like to ask DC members as i believe i'll get a less biased response.
i'm going for the highest spec machine i can afford (£3000, it's only money!!!) which will be taking me into new territory (hopefully).
Especially when you are willing to pay so much for the new PC I'd give it some time!my main question that seems appropriate to ask is: how good is raid 0 - speed wise, i'm not worried about disk failure and losing the data as i'll be backing things up onto non raid drives.RAID is good, be it RAID 0 or RAID 1 or RAID xyz. And yes, AFAIK you can partition the drives.
i wouldn't ask such a daft question as to how quick raid 0 is, but what make me wonder was that a uk computer magazine mentioned that raid 0 wasn't' that big a deal compared with the speed of the latest hard drives (in a non raid 0 configuration). this sounded odd to me but it made me wonder.
i'm looking to get two Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM's and use them in the raid 0 setup. this would then be used for my operating system, games, large programs and video encoding/editing. i'll also have a couple of 250 drives for storage purposes and other video editing.
does this sound like a reasonable setup so far? i would like to dual boot into at least another operating system (maybe have 3 if can get away with it - Carol's setup sounded like a good system when separating operating systems for video, etc)
can i put more than one operating system onto a raid 0 setup? or would i have to use the 'storage' hard drives.
other than that, can i ghost the operating system on a raid 0 (i'll need to back it up for sure as i'm always ruining my operating system).
can i partition the raid 0 drives?
i'm sure these will be quite basic questions - i'm hoping Carol will be able to answer them if no one else can.
anyway, thanks for that so far.
Minor point you haven't made yet - anyone who is a committed user of one of your programs would probably want to come back at six-monthly intervals anyway, in case there's an updated version?Well, the popular apps are listed on http://fileforum.betanews.com/ etc., so that wouldn't necessarily "bring 'em back home".-rjbull (December 12, 2005, 03:57 AM)
If you are a non-US donator you are entitled to a postcard of thanks from us. Most people of corse won't care about this, but for those who have donated and think it would be fun, read this and then and email your overseas postal address to me ([email protected]):Funny idea, I just hope a postcard to some third world country won't cost you 5 donations worth of postage alone?
https://www.donation...ialNonUsWelcome.html-mouser (December 11, 2005, 03:54 PM)
perhaps donators inside the US who want to receive a postcard from someone outside the US could also send me their mailing postal address and I could include one in each postcard we send overseas, so the recipient can mail back a postcard to someone in the US. does that make sense?Err, no.
Is there a way, say I can run something in the background, that can run programs or scripts, such as autohotkey scripts automatically say when it detects a device connected. Like when I connect my iPod, I can run things in order like iTunes, or whatever instead of just iTunes when I connect it. I can automate the programs with like AutoHotKey scripts, but I don't know how to detect when my iPod is connected.Such rather vague questions are better to be asked in the forum on http://www.autohotkey.com/ where there are LOTS of AHK experts - here are still only a few. How long have you been using AutoHotkey now? It's great, huh?-TheGiant (December 09, 2005, 10:18 PM)
Err, I forgot to mention that - because of the problems I didn't use that script last night, I just double-clicked the Ghoster.exe (once).-skrommel (December 09, 2005, 03:25 AM)
BrotherS,Hehe, funny!
When looking at your picture of sushi drives the first thing that popped into my head was, "Fish sticks!"-Innuendo (December 08, 2005, 10:45 AM)
Haha, that gives whole new meaning to the word "thumb drive"Hehe, exactly that one would be cool to use in an office environment-f0dder (December 08, 2005, 08:09 AM)
