Post A Pic Of Your Pc Here :)

Well I did take these photos for the purpose of a review, hence for all the angles. I pretty much copied and pasted my post on forum.thinkpads.com to here.

This page even loads fine on my phone, so you lot should be OK.
 
spirit said:
Well I did take these photos for the purpose of a review, hence for all the angles. I pretty much copied and pasted my post on forum.thinkpads.com to here.

This page even loads fine on my phone, so you lot should be OK.
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It's okay, he's just on dial-up :P
 
WRXGuy1 said:
It's okay, he's just on dial-up :P
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Haha. :D

I'll be removing the pics in a sec because I am deleting them from my Flickr account and transferring them to a new account I'm about to make, just for ThinkPad pics. Obviously all the links would die anyway.
 
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ThinkPad L540. :)

I took these photos for a review which I am writing on this laptop but I've not had the chance to write anything on it for weeks now.

I had to take some these are quite high ISO (800) so there may be some grain on some of them. Retaking some of these tomorrow earlier in the day and with a flashgun.

I also posted a video on YouTube of Windows 8.1 Pro booting, shutting down and resuming from sleep with the Seagate 1TB SSHD which is installed in this laptop. You can see the video below:

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Skip to 0:36 to see the boot.

My first install of 8.1 on this machine was a clone from the HDD to the SSHD and didn't work well. I did a fresh install of 8.1 Pro which I got from school last weekend and now it's a lot quicker. You have to do a lot of restarts and get Windows to boot quickly since the SSHD firmware 'learns' which files to cache to boot Windows quickly.

**EDIT: Pics temporarily removed whilst I transfer them to a new Flickr account.**
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That's fast! I think I'll go for one with such a drive as well.
 
SmileMan said:
That's fast! I think I'll go for one with such a drive as well.
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Yes, it is good.

Just a few things to note though:

Whilst it does boot and shut down as quick as an SSD, programs and transfer speeds operate at the same speed as a 5400 RPM HDD of course, since they're not in the cache buffer.

I recommend doing a fresh install of Windows onto it. I originally cloned the HDD and it all got messed up and none of the files would cache, so I was not seeing any speed benefits. Once I did a clean install it worked much better.

Just install Windows like you would on an HDD - nothing new to report there.

Once you have installed Windows and got everything set up, keep shutting the machine down and then starting it from cold again. After about 10 times, the SSHD will have learned which files to cache to make Windows boot and shut down quickly.

And you'll be good to go. :)
 
spirit said:
Yes, it is good.

Just a few things to note though:

Whilst it does boot and shut down as quick as an SSD, programs and transfer speeds operate at the same speed as a 5400 RPM HDD of course, since they're not in the cache buffer.

I recommend doing a fresh install of Windows onto it. I originally cloned the HDD and it all got messed up and none of the files would cache, so I was not seeing any speed benefits. Once I did a clean install it worked much better.

Just install Windows like you would on an HDD - nothing new to report there.

Once you have installed Windows and got everything set up, keep shutting the machine down and then starting it from cold again. After about 10 times, the SSHD will have learned which files to cache to make Windows boot and shut down quickly.

And you'll be good to go. :)
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Thanks for the information! :P Anyway, if I find a laptop with just an SSD and no HDD, I'll go with that. I don't need a laptop with gaming specs or much storage, just to do some basic work for school, browsing and maybe some streaming over the net.
That said, I still got this Samsung 840 EVO 250gb that I could use in a laptop :P. Currently using it for test setups, like now the i7 4790 (from which is posted up a score in the black hole thread.)
 
If you don't need a lot of storage I'd just go with a 250GB SSD unless you don't have the money for one, but since you've got an SSD already I'd use that.
 
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Moved house recently and changed around some bits of my setup. Perfect excuse to spam pictures. :P

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I have said it before countless times and I'll say it again. You have the best setup in this forum Ethan, ****ing seamless in every aspect! :good:
 
Ramodkk said:
I have said it before countless times and I'll say it again. You have the best setup in this forum Ethan, ****ing seamless in every aspect! :good:
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Thanks, Omar! Really appreciate it. :D

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Very Nice Ethan in this forum Ethan, How do you like the Magni Modi combo? Do you have any bookshelf speakers that you use?
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I really like it. I was also looking at the Objective 2, and went with the Magni/Modi based on price. I don't use speakers at the moment, but I am looking at getting the Audioengine A5+ in the future.
 
its a bit cleaner now with the cables, dident make foto yet of that, and the card is going to be replaced, not happy with the xfx, overall happy with it, will post again when its ready.

 
turbobooster said:
its a bit cleaner now with the cables, dident make foto yet of that, and the card is going to be replaced, not happy with the xfx, overall happy with it, will post again when its ready.

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Also, if you're going to replace the card, sell the PSU too, and get a 600W PSU that will run much more efficiently, and put the extra coin towards your new GPU. That PSU is well known to be very inefficient at idle and low load conditions, which your PC will almost always be at... Unless you're going SLI/CF high end with watercooling, even an 750W would be much better.

If you got $150 for it on ebay, bought this PSU for $40, then you've got $110 extra on your new GPU.
 
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The Blue Beast

Hello, Computer Forum. I am the Blue Beast. My computer is also named the Blue Beast.
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I thought I would share some of my system specs.
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Case:
Cooler Master HAF 912 with transparent side panel
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O/S:
Win7 Home Premium SP1
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Storage:
(1) 111GB OCZ Vertex3 SSD (Win7 and user files)
(1) 111GB Fujitsu Laptop HDD and (1) Seagate Momentus 250GB HDD mounted in a Vantec NexStar SE SATA rack
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(1) 931GB WD Caviar Black HDD (for Steam Game storage and large files)
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Motherboard:
MSi 890FXA-GD65 Military Class with OC Genie
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Power Supply:
Cougar CMX 1000-watt
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Graphics:
Two ATI Radeon 6900 cards (crossfire disabled). Awhile back this system had
issues and when MicroCenter re-imaged Windows they disabled my GPU
crossfire. I have no idea why though.
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Disc drives:
Samsung BD-ROM drive (for some reason it has issues playing DVD movies)
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RAM:
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 in 9-9-9-24 timing
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CPU:
AMD Phenom II 6-core
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Other things:
The computer also has extra USB ports added off of extra USB headers on the
mobo (I will be removing these ports soon so I have the needed USB headers
to install a memory card reader), as well as a PCI-E TV tuner card which
doesn't even work and is just taking up space inside my pc case.
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I hope you are impressed with my rig!
 
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