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2/16/13 at 9:25am

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sort of, a pendium dual core (core 2 duo) 3gb ddr2

I see. That stuff must be pretty hot (temperature wise). Try the SSD + HDD thing, but I am not sure if the motherboard can fully utilize the speed of the SSD.

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[Intel] 520 120GB	[WD] Green 1TB SATA II	[SAMSUNG] SH-222BB	[NOCTUA] NH-U12P-SE2
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[MICROSOFT] Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit	[ASUS] VH242 24" 1920 x 1080	[BENQ] A800 => Corsair K90 very soon	[CORSAIR] AX750
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[Intel] 520 120GB	[WD] Green 1TB SATA II	[SAMSUNG] SH-222BB	[NOCTUA] NH-U12P-SE2
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[MICROSOFT] Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit	[ASUS] VH242 24" 1920 x 1080	[BENQ] A800 => Corsair K90 very soon	[CORSAIR] AX750
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2/16/13 at 9:32am

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I know that the motherbaord cant, it barely does sata1

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i5 3570k	Sabertooth Z77	EVGA GTX 570 superclock	Nvidia Quadro fx 4500
RAM	Hard Drive	Cooling	OS
Corsair Vengeance	caviar blue	corsair H80	windows 7 Ultimate
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HDtv and Hp 23 inch	logitech g510	KingWin LZP 1000w platinum	Cooler Master Storm Stryker
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2/16/13 at 9:47am

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I have this power supply and it has not given any trouble.My only tools to "check it out" are reviews and how mine has been trouble free.I could ask myself the question "how good of a power supply comes from spending $27.00? For my main rig I would feel better with something in the same (or up too 520W) wattage range,but used (but still with a good bit of the warranty left)so I can get a bit more quality,Mine is running my PFsense router/firewall so it is not stressed at all.I do not think mine running almost a year 24/7 is an adaquate testament because it is not stressed.

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2/16/13 at 9:52am

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im assuming your talking about the corsair, well they use theirs once a day for two hrs to read email, it will not be stressed

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2/16/13 at 9:56am

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Even at IDE speeds you would see a noticeable improvement from a SSD. It's not about bandwidth, it's access time. When windows is booting up and loading 8902365 different tiny files all at once, a spindle drive needs to skip all over the place to find the files in the correct order, wasting most of it's time doing essentially nothing. A SSD even with identical read and write speeds wouldn't need to seek, it can pull data from anywhere virtually instantly. No wasted time seeking between files means faster real world reads and writes even on identical bandwidth.

Anyway, the hot hard drive is probably fine. It doesn't have a color like modern WD drives because WD didn't implement their color coding system until a few years ago. What you have is a remnant of their old naming scheme. Seeing as it is in a OEM machine, it is probably a bargain-bin model when historically ran incredibly hot if used extensively. As mentioned by another user, with all the viruses you have, it's probably being used 24/7 and never getting a break to cool off. I'd run a test on it to make sure, but chances are once it is wiped clean, it wont have any issue.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	Graphics
Core i7 980x	GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5	MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning	ASUS Geforce GTX 560ti DCII
Graphics	RAM	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
BFG GeForce GTX 295	Kingston HyperX T1	Intel X25-M (SSD)	WD Caviar Black FASS
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive
OCZ Vertex Turbo (SSD)	WD Velociraptor	WD Caviar Black FALS	Sony DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
LG Bluray + HDDVD	Black Ice GTX 360	Black Ice GTX 240	Panaflo High Speed - Push-Pull w/ shrouds
OS	OS	OS	Monitor
Windows 7 Pro (64)	Windows XP Pro (32)	Ubuntu (64)	ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" 2ms LCD
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
X-Armor U9BL (Mech)	Corsair 1000HX	Cooler Master HAF 932	Razer Deathadder (3G V3 internals inside of she...
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio	Audio
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Audio	Audio	Audio	Audio
Polk PSW-10	Etymotic ER-6i	Zalman Mic-1 (Clip-on Mic)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
Other	Other	Other	Other
Logitech G13	Wacom Intuos 3	Scythe "3-Foot Switch"	Modded PS3, Xbox 360, and Logitech PC Controllers
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Razer Mantis Control	Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
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WD Caviar Green EARS 2TB	Vertex Turbo 60GB (SSD)	Samsung Blu-ray, Samsung DVD Burner	H50 (With push/pull nocturas)
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Professional 64	LG 47in LED LCD	Saitek Eclipse Lite-touch Wireless	Seasonic X750 Gold
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CM690 II	Passive bookshelfspeakers + amp.	Dual TV-Tuner card	Comcast decoder card.
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Graphics	RAM	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
BFG GeForce GTX 295	Kingston HyperX T1	Intel X25-M (SSD)	WD Caviar Black FASS
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive
OCZ Vertex Turbo (SSD)	WD Velociraptor	WD Caviar Black FALS	Sony DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
LG Bluray + HDDVD	Black Ice GTX 360	Black Ice GTX 240	Panaflo High Speed - Push-Pull w/ shrouds
OS	OS	OS	Monitor
Windows 7 Pro (64)	Windows XP Pro (32)	Ubuntu (64)	ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" 2ms LCD
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
X-Armor U9BL (Mech)	Corsair 1000HX	Cooler Master HAF 932	Razer Deathadder (3G V3 internals inside of she...
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio	Audio
Razer Goliathus Alpha - Speed	ATH-A900X	ATH-A700	Maudio AV-40
Audio	Audio	Audio	Audio
Polk PSW-10	Etymotic ER-6i	Zalman Mic-1 (Clip-on Mic)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
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Razer Mantis Control	Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
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OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Professional 64	LG 47in LED LCD	Saitek Eclipse Lite-touch Wireless	Seasonic X750 Gold
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2/16/13 at 10:15am

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I see. That stuff must be pretty hot (temperature wise). Try the SSD + HDD thing, but I am not sure if the motherboard can fully utilize the speed of the SSD.

Sata 3 6gb/s can't even fully utilize ssd's.

If your town is big enough to have a best buy it surely must have a REAL computer store.

It looks like your grandparents system is about the same age as my parents system as it's equipped pretty much the same. some hp out of the box junk. BUT, theirs has a full 7200rpm hdd.

I would guess that it's suffering from junk file itis, when the user never uninstalls anything.
Go through the windows uninstall software window and ditch any bloatware. printers and cameras are bad for it I find,
Give it a swipe with CCCleaner
run MSConfig and take everything you can off the startup. you should end up with just sound driver, antivirus and graphics driver. Theres no need for itunes, java and adobe to be checking for an update every power-up.

If that helps you may have just saved the install. If not just reinstall windows see how that goes.

If you do put money into it I would suggest going this way. If you can find a 2x2gb ddr2 kit cheap or used go for it but it's probably unnecessary.

Like someone eluded to earlier on a system of that age to add even a $50 GPU will take alot of load of the processor and ram.
I own and have used one of the accelerator cache ssd's, I found it to work flawlessly. However it (and any ssd because of trim) only work with windows 7. It gives you i would say 70-80% of the performance of an ssd. anything you use regularly opens instantly.
And of course why would you keep an old psu in there?

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2/16/13 at 10:15am

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it can move things on to a usb Hdd at 821kb/s :0 this makes me mad! stupid slow hdd

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2/16/13 at 10:26am

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Its not the HDD, its the fact that you are moving it though USB. USB 1.0 is slooooooooow.

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2/16/13 at 10:28am

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it can move things on to a usb Hdd at 821kb/s :0 this makes me mad! stupid slow hdd

The limiting factor is not the HDD itself. It's a combination of the (much slower) USB, and the fact that other things are trying to access the drive at the same time (viruses). It also very likely has write-back cashe disabled since it's an OEM machine. Enabling this alone can double or tipple your speeds when manipulating several tiny files simultaneously.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	Graphics
Core i7 980x	GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5	MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning	ASUS Geforce GTX 560ti DCII
Graphics	RAM	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
BFG GeForce GTX 295	Kingston HyperX T1	Intel X25-M (SSD)	WD Caviar Black FASS
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive
OCZ Vertex Turbo (SSD)	WD Velociraptor	WD Caviar Black FALS	Sony DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
LG Bluray + HDDVD	Black Ice GTX 360	Black Ice GTX 240	Panaflo High Speed - Push-Pull w/ shrouds
OS	OS	OS	Monitor
Windows 7 Pro (64)	Windows XP Pro (32)	Ubuntu (64)	ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" 2ms LCD
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
X-Armor U9BL (Mech)	Corsair 1000HX	Cooler Master HAF 932	Razer Deathadder (3G V3 internals inside of she...
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio	Audio
Razer Goliathus Alpha - Speed	ATH-A900X	ATH-A700	Maudio AV-40
Audio	Audio	Audio	Audio
Polk PSW-10	Etymotic ER-6i	Zalman Mic-1 (Clip-on Mic)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
Other	Other	Other	Other
Logitech G13	Wacom Intuos 3	Scythe "3-Foot Switch"	Modded PS3, Xbox 360, and Logitech PC Controllers
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Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Conroe Core	GTX 280 (Temporarily Removed)	4GB Corsair XMS2	150GB Raptor X
Hard Drive	OS	OS	Monitor
WD Caviar 160GB	Vista Home Premium 64bit	Ubuntu	Samsung 226BW
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
Saitek Cyborg	Zalman 1000 watt	Apevia X-Discovery	Razer Deathadder
Mouse Pad	Audio
Razer Mantis Control	Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
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WD Caviar Green EARS 2TB	Vertex Turbo 60GB (SSD)	Samsung Blu-ray, Samsung DVD Burner	H50 (With push/pull nocturas)
OS	Monitor	Keyboard	Power
Windows 7 Professional 64	LG 47in LED LCD	Saitek Eclipse Lite-touch Wireless	Seasonic X750 Gold
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BFG GeForce GTX 295	Kingston HyperX T1	Intel X25-M (SSD)	WD Caviar Black FASS
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive
OCZ Vertex Turbo (SSD)	WD Velociraptor	WD Caviar Black FALS	Sony DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
LG Bluray + HDDVD	Black Ice GTX 360	Black Ice GTX 240	Panaflo High Speed - Push-Pull w/ shrouds
OS	OS	OS	Monitor
Windows 7 Pro (64)	Windows XP Pro (32)	Ubuntu (64)	ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" 2ms LCD
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
X-Armor U9BL (Mech)	Corsair 1000HX	Cooler Master HAF 932	Razer Deathadder (3G V3 internals inside of she...
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio	Audio
Razer Goliathus Alpha - Speed	ATH-A900X	ATH-A700	Maudio AV-40
Audio	Audio	Audio	Audio
Polk PSW-10	Etymotic ER-6i	Zalman Mic-1 (Clip-on Mic)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
Other	Other	Other	Other
Logitech G13	Wacom Intuos 3	Scythe "3-Foot Switch"	Modded PS3, Xbox 360, and Logitech PC Controllers
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Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Conroe Core	GTX 280 (Temporarily Removed)	4GB Corsair XMS2	150GB Raptor X
Hard Drive	OS	OS	Monitor
WD Caviar 160GB	Vista Home Premium 64bit	Ubuntu	Samsung 226BW
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
Saitek Cyborg	Zalman 1000 watt	Apevia X-Discovery	Razer Deathadder
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Razer Mantis Control	Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
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Windows 7 Professional 64	LG 47in LED LCD	Saitek Eclipse Lite-touch Wireless	Seasonic X750 Gold
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CM690 II	Passive bookshelfspeakers + amp.	Dual TV-Tuner card	Comcast decoder card.
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2/16/13 at 10:32am

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but they dont use any graphics really, they read their emails and send new ones out, they look at a picture from email every now and then, its not really worth the $50 for a new gpu that they dont really use, and the psu is fine for their system, its 300w and their probably using 125w

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Monitor	Keyboard	Power	Case
HDtv and Hp 23 inch	logitech g510	KingWin LZP 1000w platinum	Cooler Master Storm Stryker
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These popped up on my radar on Amazon for the stupid low price and I got two for work. One was definitely for the shipping station's computer. Other one? Well 1st was so cheap!! I might go find...

Bought the 1st one un-lit to see what I thought of Mech Keyboards after seeing all the nerds rave about them here in OCN. Wow! OK I get it now. You do gain an accuracy because the mind knows when...

Also, the cooling block was pretty flat. I'm a machinist on occasion and "pretty flat" isn't easy. I wet sand CPUs and coolers on glass; this cooler took 1/4 of the time the i7-2600k required to...

I wrote the initial info for this case, so that's pretty much my review. Compared to the TT Command Snow I just evaluated, if THIS case was ATX sized, I would rather buy this case than the TT...

Overall, I'd recommend passing on buying this unless you're at the store and it's the cheapest one you like. I'm more impressed by the quality of the generic Apex TX521 that Tiger Direct likes to...

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