EDIT: Deciding on new PC

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isiolia
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Re: EDIT: Deciding on new PC

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Xeogred wrote:Yeah the CPU fan was 4-pins, and the two case fans were 3, though one fit into a 4 slot header. What confused me most was connecting the two case fans to each other, I guess if I get more fans, that's how I'd connect them or something? Break that connection up and combine them? Though there's no more slots on the motherboard I think. That kind of confused me.
If you mean daisy-chaining Molex, then possibly. Again, you could get a fan controller or something too.
A random thing I wonder/worry about with the fresh settings and all, is sleep mode bad for a multitude of externals? Always really cautious and on edge about that stuff, I wonder if having the externals spin like that off and on is bad in the long run. Previously I just had my other PC put up a screensaver but didn't bother with any power saving sleep stuff, so my external HDD's were just always running unless I shut down completely off and on.
It may depend on the drive, but probably not. Some series, WD Green for example, are designed to spin down often.

The main downside I've found with having drives spin down a lot is the delay you can wind up getting while the drive spins back up.
Also I take it the smaller power/drive connectors are for SSD's?
SSDs use the same SATA connections that everything else does (well, the SATA based ones anyway). The small four pin power connectors are the type used by floppy drives, or commonly for things that fit in the same kind of space, like card readers. Also the occasional PCIe card, like some sound cards or USB3 cards that need extra power.
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Re: EDIT: Deciding on new PC

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Also just to add a quick recommendation. If you do decide to upgrade/buy an SSD drive and you are planning to install the OS on it, there is some settings that can change to prolong the life of your SSD. I have changed some of these settings on my own rig and I have had my SSD for 2 years now.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/s ... p?t=340129
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Re: EDIT: Deciding on new PC

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Yeah I got a SSD I plan to put it in this weekend.

So far I doubled the ram and put in 3 more fans so it's got 5, all set to go for awhile. Now one of my external WD's is acting weird though... I backed up everything onto my newer huge Seagate, so I might take the WD out of its enclosure and plug it in directly to see how that goes. That'll be the second time I've done that with WD... lol.
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