The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

I hate how it doesn't handle bookmarks and agree with you fully. However it doesn't limit sites I can go to and so many other problems FF has these days. I just can't support Firefox anymore.

Here are just some of the problems I've had recently;

Problems with Firefox 7
#1 Some sites do not work at all or you can't navigate once the home page is displayed.
#2 Download sites on multiple tabs creates a problem since there are not handled individually. I had to close FileJunggle download ready to get FileSonic to display download ready link.
#3 WUpload wouldn't allow download link to start downloading and then trying IE I couldn't restart the download because the site thought I was downloading when I was not.
#4 The spell checker gets confused and I loose my flashing bar which shows my text position when I'm correcting mis-spellings.
#5 Realplayer Record Pluggin doesn't work.
#6 I doesn't log you in when you go to a site that it has saved your login in for. Instead it just provides that information in the login boxes. I would prefer it logs you in as that is why you told it to remember the sites login or don't display the login info until you go to login.
#7 It is very slow changing sites or starting a new site.

 

I switched to chrome full time when Firefox 3.5 came out due to massive instability problems (tab limit of 3 before application crash), and it does seem more stable, though still not perfect. I do heavily load chrome (40+ tabs regularly) and I may only encounter a crash one or two times a month.
I use firefox for the FlashGot/DownThemAll plugins now, and that's it.
I only ever use IE in a fresh install to download chrome.

 

I have an itchy finger :S It wants to click buy LOL! Opinions?
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Sata III SSD

Jeff, thank you! I may have to try Comodo Dragon browser. Firefox is disappointing me and my brother. Granted he only has 2Gb(not for long), but it shouldn't be using a Gigabyte for 3 tabs!

 

Try This Lol

http://youtu.be/Eub39NaC4rc

 

Have you tried this?
http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc-after-installation/

 

So if I heard correctly, any sandforce controlled SSD should be agreeable, no matter the manufacturer. OCZ makes me nervous though. Mushkin however makes extremely good Ram. Both mushkin and intel are getting good reviews. Intel however is more expensive for similar performance. I think I'll be one to give Mushkin a shot. I really think 120Gb is the way to go for me. They have a 3 yr warranty

I got my replacement Velociraptor I plan to use it as a backup for an SSD OS. Hopefully 3rd times a charm. It usually is for me. *touch wood*

 

I'm such a nice guy around this time of year. I put off my SSD upgrade. I decided my brother and mother were more important. I bought more Ram for my brother, and a new BD player for my folks. At least with this BD network player, I can stream content to it, and don't have to worry about greasy finger prints on my optical discs

Perhaps by february, the price will drop even more on reliable SSD's.

 

Russ

getting my mother a new machine i see you were talking about the Acer Laptops. I was looking at a Acer tower for her. what do you think about this model? good specs/price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103381&Tpk=acer 3910

 

Seems like an agreeable build for the price! Although I find it humorous that any manufacturer would ship a windows 7 Machine with 2Gb of Ram. It's fairly easy to saturate 2Gb of Ram unfortunately I don't mind giving windows 7, 3 or more gigabytes though. I find it a worthy advancement/replacement to XP

 

That is an excellent price for a dual-core/four-thread processor plus they gave you the 2GB of RAM in the first slot so I would upgrade that immediately with another 2GB stick of the same latency (timing).

Great deal!

I just bought a new notebook, I was looking at ASUS, Toshiba, Acer, or Samsung but decided on the Acer as it was the best deal at the time. Russ has had good luck with his Acer, I have two friends with new Acer's and they love them, another friend has two ASUS notebooks and they are really nice, and another friend yet has a inexspensive Toshiba which I've worked on that is also rock solid and he is tough of gear (a garage mechanic).

This is what I bought at WallyWorld on sale for $498
Acer Gray 17.3" AS7750-6423 Laptop PC with Intel Core i5-2430M

It has (4) RAM slots with 4GB DDR3 1066 loaded in the first slot, in-which I will buy (3) more before I even get it, to load it up with a total of 16GB's RAM. The only things I wish it had was a second bay for another HDD and a dedicated video card. For that cheap you can't expect those features.

If it doesn't work out Russ expect to see me at you door step knocking away... LOL

Stevo

 

ZoSoIV,

Looks decent to me. Good price too! I would recommend one of these fans, as there is no rear case fan.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185058

Since fans are somewhat limited in cases like that, 68 cfm at 22dBA moves a lot of air. Very quiet. I've had mine for over 2 years, and it's still ticking, and that's 14-17 hours a day, for the most part.

Warmest Regards,
Russ

 

Knock away! Just be careful the Big Dog doesn't eat you first! LOL!!

Nice Laptop BTW!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Thanks Russ, I happen to like big dogs so we would probably get along well your dog and I.

Thanks for the help Russ, Best Regards,
Stevo

 

Wow, that is a heck of a deal! And it is rare that I've seen a laptop come with a 7200 RPM HDD. Personally, I would populate the remaining memory slots giving you 8GB, just to be on the safe side.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050
That's one hefty rebate...

 

Woo my ISP just gave me a speed boost. Downloading has gone from about 2.4MB/s average to about 2.9-3.0 ie roughly 19-20Mb to about 24Mb.

Uploading took the biggest boost going from about 250KB/s to about 500KB/s ie from about 2Mb to 4Mb. Yay for services that improve their hardware and don't suck!

 

20/2.5 to 25/5 package rate then by the looks of things. Not bad. 5Mbps upload connections are still relatively rare these days.

 

thanks guys ,yeah Russ that would be a no brainier for 14.00 dollars and omegaman7/Mr Movies right on the Ram and that would be an inexpensive upgrade also. I'm going to order it today or tomorrow for her

BTW guys I'm finally going to upgrade my machine to DDR3 Ram and a faster quad-core with windows7 the first of the year.I'm good on my case of course and power supply and i think my video-card will still be ok(I'm not gaming much anymore)so I'm looking at a new MB(going with Asus),DDR3 Ram(haven't decided,going to max it out)and core(going with an i7 Intel quad-core haven't decided on that either) and i always replace the HDD upgrading,so if anyone wants to throw out some ideas that would be great.I been absent from the thread for a while even though i still been reading here good to see you guys again!

 

check your bill that may have gone up also lol. like it cost the cable company more to give you the fastest speed or throttle it. its BS what the cable companys do

 

Actually, the speed increases are the result of some serious hardware upgrades going on at the main facility. A few years ago the fastest they offered was 8Mb down 1Mb up. The bandwidth they have available has simply increased at no cost to me. I paid for this as an 18Mb down 2Mb up connection but found it to be closer to ~20ish down and ~2.5-ish up.

Not to mention the "SpeedBoost Technology" which gives me the first 100 or so megs of any download at 60Mb+.