A scholarship is not salary either, for that matter. x3
I can definitely agree that I do not like the HDD cage. The rubber grommets on retention pins are too small and flexible that they to sit in place very well making the HDD difficult to install. I have 3 drives in my system and after getting so frustrated with the first two I put the 3rd one into one of the hot swap bays since the regular screws were easier to deal with. The 3rd drive is only SATA II so I'm not losing any speed on it.
The only thing I've said is better on the HAF X is the cooling, and to me that is one of the most important things on a case and trumps things like a nice HDD cage. I've only tried to point out that other cases that people have claimed have better cooling in fact do not beat the HAF X in terms of air cooling ability or options. That is not an opinion, it is fact. You have more and better fan options on the HAF X then any other case, especially when it comes to air cooling your GPUs. The HAF X is the only case I know of that has the ability to have 3 fans dedicated specifically to GPU cooling.
Other cases can be good in terms of their cooling options be the fact still remains that no case has as much to offer for air cooling as the HAF X. Other cases either lack dedicated GPU cooling, have less efficient front intake or fewer options for exhaust. Some cases in just one of those areas while others lack in several. Again that is not opinion, it's fact, those other cases offer less air cooling options.
Cooler Master HAF X : Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.7GHz : Corsair A70 cooler : 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance LP : ASUS P8Z68 V-PRO/Gen3 : EVGA GTX GTX 670 FTW SIG2
Man, I didn't realize SSDs were that tiny! It's literally a 1/4th the size of the normal 3.5" HDD I have!
Since we're on the topic of SSD's....
So I received the laptop (finally) and I boot it up, only to be faced by the store demo screen that required a password to remove - with no instructions on the CD or anything that came with it to tell me the password. Got into safe-mode and got rid of the store demo.
This thing came loaded with literally 20-25 pointless programs. I've heard of "laptop bloatware" but seriously? So much?? The entire Cyberlink suite, an MS Office that hasn't been activated, Google Chrome, Bing/Google/Yahoo/Ask toolbars (are you fking kidding me?) and countless other stuff I can't remember. The CPU runs at 68-78c under WoW (apparently that's quite cool for a laptop) and already felt super-sluggish compared to my desktop in terms of speed/responsiveness.
This laptop is literally crying out for a clean rebuild on an SSD, so I'm hunting for a 120-128gb. I have the following options, going in price/per GB from lowest to highest:
Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB
Kingston SSDNow V200 128GB
Intel 320 Series 120GB
Corsair Force 3 Series 120GB
Crucial M4 128GB
Now before you yell "hurr durr go for the M4/Force3 of course!", there is a very high chance I'll be limited to Sata II speeds, I don't expect this laptop to be running a 6gb/s interface inside, so an M4/Force3 will be choked on the interface. SSD's aren't about raw sequential speeds anyway. Anyone have any input on those SSD's, especially the Kingston? I've heard very little about Kingston.
Last edited by Xuvial; 2011-12-22 at 01:57 AM.
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WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
Honestly, I'm surprised the 320-series is less than the Force 3 over there.
Either way, I run the 320-series 160GB in my notebook.
Don't get fooled by performance numbers alone. It feels more responsive and faster than my Corsair Force F60 (~= Vertex II) sitting in my desktop despite having worse numbers to show for it, in everything except wow-loadingscreens, where it's only about twice the speed of my Spinpoint f3
Xuvial, I'm pretty sure that usually a SATA III SSD on SATA II will still perform better than most SATA II SSDs. Plus if you can get one for a great deal, why not?
Oh, wow. I was wondering why I had so much money.
You guys wanna know why? Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go:
I ordered my goods on the 17th. But they never actually took my money... till yesterday. What the bleeding motherf--?!
And I have yet to go get my new monitor, because goddamn mail were being twerps about it. Sent from Oslo two days ago early in the morning. But it didn't get sent from Stavanger to my city before the day after. Then finally, despite there being a literal 2 hour ride between here and Stavanger, and it being shipped from Stavanger 9:30 AM, they still didn't receive it... before today.
I swear to god my childhood self can't hold a candle to the rage I've got now. :|
/cleaving time
Did you happen to get it shipped via UPS? Because over the last few days I've come to realize just how awful they are.
I ordered a squishable narwhal, and UPS decided to ship it to Dartmouth College, near Boston, Massachusetts instead of Dartmouth, NS. Now I am waiting for the real delivery which was supposed to be yesterday, but they never came.
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