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Preparing for my comp to arrive

Post Date: 2010-09-13
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    Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 12:28pm
So I had a couple questions before my computer got here which is supposed to be TOMORROW!!!!!!
 
I have a velocity micro I got at Best Buy I'm using right now: q6600 2.6ghz not overclocked, Nvidia 8800, 320gig 7200rpm drive and 1TB 7200rpm drive, 550 psu, 8gigs ddr2 ram, etc. 
 
What can I do with this?  I was thinking of cannabalizing the hard drives but the one TB has windows 7 on it for my old comp and the 320 I don't really trust, it was in a RAID 0 with another 320 that bit the dust and I lost all the data (not doing RAID 0 again).  Was thinking of maybe keeping the old comp with just the 320 and putting windows on that and using it to practices exreme overclocking on... or I have read about using old comps to make servers etc.
 
So questions:
 
1.  What do you do with your old comps, or old parts?
 
2.  If I wanted to canabalize, is it hard to just put in those hard drives in my new comp and erase and use them?  Or because one has windows on it is there a special thing you have to do to get rid of windows?  Is it a bad idea to use a hard drive whose sister crased in a Raid 0 ( does that mean this hard drives days are numbered or should I just not worry about it )
 
My back up drives are external, so I'm not too worried about backing up data.
 

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id say regardless of what you do with it, dont touch it until your new computer has been running flawlessly for a good while
not discrediting DSOs testing at all, but in both my last purchased computer and my new built computer my life was practically saved by having my older computer to fall back on
 
if it were me id take it apart, clean it, put it back together. its a great learning process if you have never done something like that before. use one of the drives for sensitive backup as a seperate copy of important files that and use the other hdrive to run windows and try out some overclocking :)
thats also almost exactly the build that i just replaced, it can still game if you have anyone that might really need a computer who cant afford one or soemthing
 
if not, i learned how to overclock with a q6600, it can be very powerful and hit clocks in the mid to upper 3ghz range with decent cooling
if you want to really push it, you will likely need a new heatsink for it though
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Thanks those are great suggestions.  I think I will keep it for a bit as you say,  Take it apart, and practice overclocking with it.  I don't know how good the cooler is but I don't think its intel stock, I think they put something meatier on it.  It's too bad I live in the city and really don't have any room to lay the thing out and really work with it, I have a 2 year old who would love too much to be a part of that fiasco lol.  But I'll find a day when he's out with his mom and mess around with it.
 
My next mission is to save a bit more money and get a decent monitor so I can have a workplace for CS5 and a separate monitor for previewing.
 
But there have been a lot of monitor discussions going on lately.
 
 

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I'm probably going to do the same thing to my current computer.

I actually ordered my DS computer back on 8/27/2010. And it has been sitting in stage 5 for over a week now. =( I hope they hurry up. I'm about to jump to stage 8 if it doesn't change soon. lol

I see you ordered yours around 8/31. Lucky they were able to build yours quicker than mine. It looks like you had a more powerful build than mine as well.
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Send a message to [email protected] Alex will probably help you out with figuring out why its stuck at that stage.

Edit: I just saw your configuration post, it might be taking time because of the Stage 6 cooling. That takes a little longer than mine for example, a noctua fan.

Edited by kcudeht - 13 Sep 2010 at 3:43pm
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