hard drive fan...
 

in y'alls opinion, will using a hdd fan, or a bayfan help increase a hdd's life span? thanks!

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Likely a bay fan, but it depends on the airflow surrounding your HDD. If there's too free of flow, then a HDD fan will help more.

I had one of those fans that attach on the HD and all it did was make noise because the bearing broke down fast and attract dust.. unless you have horrible case airflow, no casefans, really hot/fast HD's or a combination of those, you're fine without them.. and with that cheapo thing you bought, it's not worth it.

thanks for the vote of confidence jason :(

j/k, thanks for the opinions.

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edit: just like to say, when one has limited funds, one must take what one can get. especially when you want your main machine up and running ASAP.

exactly, and when you have limited funds, you don't really need to worry about HD fans, so that you can save up for a comp that will give you "a better experience"

i've have a 'better experience' at work. but anyway, good point about limited funds and the fan thing. anyway, there is a plan for a new machine in the works. thinking of building a machine with a sempron. saving any xmas money, and putting away about 20 buck a month. we shall see what happens.

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:rofl: @ plans for a new sempron machine.. yea keep putting $ away until the 64's are cheap.. at that rate it'll turn out about right

why is that funny? maybe i dont want to save to get a 64. its gonna take long enough to save the money for a new sempron machine. sorry that everyone cant afford to compute at your standards.

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edit: in addition, this is a budget machine. it will cost about $150 using parts that i already have. never claimed it to be a performance monster, i have no need for a machine like that right now. any work that i do can actually be done on my current machine without bogging it down one bit, and i dont have time to play games. for my purposes, i dont need an athlon64, so i'm not going to spend the money on performance that i'm not even gonna use. now after i finally finish a degree, and my wife is settled into her business - maybe i'll have time to play with a faster more powerful machine. until then, its budget. so if you have any reason why a sempron, or celeron - BUDGET chips- should not be used in BUDGET machines, let me know.

maybe just get a cheapie dell

but since you already have the parts... maybe not
but do keep dell in the picture since you want cheap

thanks for the idea evil, but i like to build systems myself. just more fun that way.

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here are some benchies on a cpu-intensive game: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...cpu-hl2_5.html

as you can see, the sempron holds its own pretty nicely...

haha, i found this crappy old little 1.6gb drive sittin around and loaded XPpro on it, and it works. granted its really slow, but it will work until mine comes in.

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I just got a pair of 80GB Western Digital's from Best Buy for 25 a peice.

EDIT: They are sold out, but you can pick them up at the stores. They were fully stocked when I dropped by (at the location local to me, of course).

thanks, fedex tracking said my drive should be at my house in about 20 mins. so, thanks for the heads up, a bit late.

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Sorry about the timing Aemon_.

how did you get them for 25 each?

With an MIR on each of them they came down to that price. ($84.99 - $60) After tax and the cost of sending them certified its like 34 a peice. (Sending certified gives you legal proof permissable in court to prove that the recipient received the MIR forms.)