Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Raquel in
Computing Well I decided I wanted a faster cpu in my computer. Looking the options to fit my system I realised I was looking at just under £200!!!
So i thought ‘heck I used to be a mad overclocker’ so lets have a go.
I pushed the front side bus to 400, disabled cpu spread spectrum and set the ram to 1:1 ratio (giving it the stock speed of 800MHz) and rebooted…
To my joy the pc now runs at 2.8GHz instead of its design of 2.33GHz. I ran several stabilty tests (designed to stress the system) and all is well.
So for half an hours reading on my favorite overclocking site, Extreme overclockers I have saved near £200 and a faster pc.
Specs:
Asus P5Q-E mainboard
Intel Q8200 CPU
OCZ 4GB ram kit 2 x 2GB DDR2-6400
BFG Nvidia GTS250 1GB
OCZ Modstream 600 watt PSU
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
Windows 7 Professional
Wordpress 2 for iphone is here!
Well I finally got around to finishing the games machine build.
Its a repurpose of a machine and is an Intel Q8200 (2.33GHz) with 4GB OCZ Gold DDR2, 320GB Seagate SATA, Gigabyte P5Q motherboard. It used to have a pants ATi card, but yesterday I found a BFG Nvidia based GTS250 card and wow I am impressed.
I am running Call Of Duty: World at War and have it maxed out on my screen at 1920×1080 with 4xAA/16xAF all options at max quality. During normal MP Gaming I am seeing 80-120fps.
The card is pretty quiet under load and isnt a power hog either (it does need 2×6pin PCIe power cables). The OCZ Modstream 600 is happy with this setup.
I paid €185 locally here in Malta which is a bargain (local prices range from €200 to €220).
all in all I give this card 5/5 
I posted this below on the Seagate forum (after a mod edited my post) and now they have deleted my post. >>>>
I had a post in this thread ‘edited’ by an over zelous moderator for using the letters o. m and g together…..
I wrote back to him and asked why this was offensive enough for a moderator to censor it and got the following reply today:
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Hi Rachel:
I am sure you know what those letters refer to, and it is offensive. Please remember that there are many different people and kinds of people, with different convictions, who participate in this forum. Speaking personally, it is also offensive to me, and part of my job is to make this forum a welcome place for all comers.
At any rate, such is not tolerate. We do not tolerate explicit profanity nor obvious euphemisms for it.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
AlanM
Moderator
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My reply to AlanM below
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Alan
I dont know what you think o m g means but here (and in the rest of the english speaking world) it means oh my gosh and is an expression of frustration and/or surprise. The reason it is commonly written as a three letter acronym is that it can be taken to mean ‘oh my gosh’ or ‘oh my god’. In this manner it it the reader who chooses to take offence at an innocent comment if thy misinterpret it as being against
religious beliefs. I, however, do not find ‘Oh My Gosh’ to be offensive and personally think anyone censoring this to have an alterior motive.
It certainly does not come under the term ‘explicit profanity nor obvious euphemis’
Please can you refer me to the part of your forum rules where it states that moderators acting for Seagate are mandated to prevent free speech and enforce their own religious convictions by interpreting users comments?
I find this blatant disregard form my right to free speach insulting and degrading.
I would like an apology for your outrageous treatment of my comments.
Rachel (AKA AngryBunny)
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I am thinking this is appalling behaviour. It is rare for me to ever comment on a moderator, and worse have to post t. I feel very strongly about this and am so utterly disgusted with the Seagate levels of customer support.
Now I am going to post this and slashdot it.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Raquel in
Computing I purchased five Seagate ST31500341AS disks to replace the four Hitachi 1TB units in my Synology NAS as it is near full.
Well problems galore with the ST31500341AS. THey seem to have a problem when flushing their write cache causing freezes of 20-30 seconds. This (at best) causes streaming files to stall and (at worst) causes some arrays to believe the disk has failed and eject it from the array. (Drobo units seem to suffer most).
After many heated conversations with Seagate US and many emails and forum posts - they have finally owned up that these ST31500341AS series disks with SD17 (and 15/16 I think) firmware do have a problem. Some users have SD35 and are reporting no evidence of the freezing problems.
My main concerns are that 1) Seagate denied the existence of any firmware other than SD17 on the telephone to me (despite my emailing them screenshots of SD35) and that b) and much worse they are trying to state that these disks are not suited to RAID5. They say ‘Desktop RAID’ is the only RAID these are supported in!!! What a load of baloney.
At least they have acknowledged the issue and have promised a firware patch.
To add insult to injury - Seagate have migrated their support system and have managed to lock (or possibly lose) my account. The guys on telsupport tried to help but they cannot trace my account in their new system
I do hope this isnt a sign that Seagate is losing the plot…….