Here’s a question brought up on TPC that I decided to answer:
I saw a video of a guy demonstrating the gyroscopic effect in zero gravity using a CD player, and i tried doing it on my external DVD drive. I have moved it while it’s running before but i’ve always kept it level. When i tried turning it, i was just a few degrees off level and i could already hear the DVD start scraping the sides (It was angled away from the lens so no worries).
The problem is, i have this habit of flipping a laptop over when i’m leaving it on a soft surface to keep the vents in the open (Sofa, bed, mantel, carseat, etc.). I’ve been doing it ever since my sister laptop burned out (as in smoke came out) after she left it on her bed.
How do laptop harddrives handle gyroscopic effects? I’m hoping that what happened to the DVD doesn’t happen to the harddrive since it’s solidly secured but the drive head is also a lot closer to the platter and it’s moving atleast 7,000 rpm.
The demo of the laptop crashing after being subjected to a vibrator has the drive head banging up and down on the platter. I don’t jostle the laptop so there’s not much chance of that happening, but what i’m worried about is the platter hitting the drive head when i flip it.
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NVIDIA has silently made its GTS240 OEM edition graphics card official.
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So what Thermaltake Products are out on the market now? Thanks for lovers of Themaltake and good old capitalism, TPC sellers have been able to bring it back. These sellers are Polgas12, gammatech, vhennis_lei / kaizen, and frizby of TipidPC
What’s out there now?
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Tags: aftermarket, air cooling, casing, chasis, computer hardware, coolers, liquid cooling, thermaltake
I know Asus is pretty expensive but, holy cripes! $1700 for an SLI card?? Are they insane? Noone’s gonna buy that. At that price anyone can already purchase a darn good computer. I know it’s not exactly marketed for the mass market. But they could at least charge a lot less for it. Since you could already buy 3 GTX295’s with that price and still have change. According to Newegg, an EVGA GTX295 Co-op edition costs $529.99 as of 6/24/2009.
The guy I’ll be seeing having one of these on TPC would have to not care about money at all or they’d have to be, well, stupid.
Source: ExPreview
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Finally, a power supply that can shut me up for a good long time. My hardware’s demand for power has gone up considerable from upgrading my Intel Core2Duo E8400 to an Intel Core2Quad Q6600 and my 9800gtx+ to a GTX295. Good thing I built myself a 2nd rig for downloading and movies or else I’d have to factor in the tons of hard drives I’ve already got installed. I have a total of 7 combined hard drives distributed amongst the two computers.
Wow, Corsair has really done it this time with their new models the HX750 and HX850. I hope these things come out soon in our local market because I’ve been eyeing these things for a while now. And I’m sure I’m getting the best quality hardware from Corsair, be it Memory or Power Supply.
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HX750W and HX850W measure 150*86*180mm, featuring MTBF of 100,000 hours. The single +12V rail design provide up to 62A/70A respectively, and support ATX12V 2.3 as well as EPS12V 2.91 standards.
Delivering up to 90% energy-efficiency and backed by 7-year warranty, the Corsair HX750W and HX850W are priced at €119 ($168) and €132($186).
Source: Expreview
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Everybody knows the downside to SSD’s. You’ll never know when the darn thing conks out on you. The MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is next to crap. Sure it’s lightning fast. But it’s so darn expensive. And then there’s the issue of not having the SSD get too full because you’ll end up making it run really slow considerably. The write speeds go way up and go way down. It’s inconsistent.
And then now here comes an old technology that just got reinvented. The good old trusty Hard Drive. It’s called the Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. The great thing about this is that it’s MTBF is just like regular circular plattered hard drives but with one big difference, it consumes a lot less power. They claim this new technology only consumes less than 4Watts of power. And the fact that it’s gonna be a lot more stable and faster than regular hard drives is a BIG win over the SSD.
Source: APCmag
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Pictures taken from: Enermax on Expreview
Seasonic on Expreview
This is a good development for sure. I’ve been wondering when they were going to come out with these 80Plus rated Power Supplies since they came out with the new 80Plus Standard. I’ve seen the Coolermaster 80Plus Silver rated power supplies which were just beautiful when it comes to clean power. I’m itching to get my hands on them seasonics, that’s for sure.
Enermax 80Plus Gold PSU
- Seasonic 80PLUS Gold
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