you also using ai7 mobo? maybe it is ur mosfet overheating. once that happens the efficiency of the voltage supplied will drop seriously.

I used to have an AI7 mobo. No doubt it's a good mobo but the only draw back on the mobo is on their msfet. Voltage supply i can't remember clearly. The mobo can o/c as good as my IC7-G.

I was a former Abit IS7-E user (P4 now my bro using)

Everything is good, a good mid end mobo during its heydays. Just the downside of it was the limited Vdimm it had (2.8V) & the ever crappy flunctuating Vcore which needed a Droop Mod to solve it which I don't dare to do

Can flunctuate as much as 0.05V from idle to load, crazy

This post has been edited by shinjite: Jan 11 2011, 11:43 PM

my WD 80gb sata harddisk just died on me today T_T ....serve me well for almost 7 years......goodbye all my precious data.....haih! any good harddisk recommendation? spin point f3 perhaps?

yeah, spinpoint F3 is your best bet now

@dlwl ,what about it's reliability? I'm worry with its' reliability.

it's reliable, and quite speedy too
using it as my system disk now and for storing my HD movies, now almost about 6-7 months of usage. Runs pretty at pretty cool temps too

i got 5 F3's in my rig, no problem at all for reliability and the temp is lower than WD Green.

Maybe i can consider 1 unit of F3 as my storage later. Temperature is also lower than WD Green which is good for enviromental.

yes, all in all F3 much better than WD green, blue and black
in terms of performance, temperature, and price

I am using 2 F3s now with my AMD rig

temp doesn't exceed 40c, max also 38c on a hot day

Avgs 35c for both disks

i am having same result as yours despite the HDDs are stacked quite close together in the CM690

Yeah I am using CM690 too and both are close to each other XD

i'm considering changing all my WD hard disks now to samsung F3, since the price is so cheap now

cool, add an SSD on top of that

yeah, i might just add an SSD, if my budget permits
seems like SSD price is going down a bit too

SSD on old skool rig,any one?

rm3++ just for 40gb still consider price going down......

in comparison with previous pricing, yes. we are saying the price is going down, but we don't mean that it's cheap by any means. affordable pricing is a different definition to different group of users too.

yes, the definition of 'cheap' and 'affordable' can be subjective sometimes