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I've had one Seagate fail on me so far... Touch wood Lol I have backups here there and everywhere Incase. Its just weird about the statistics and what I saw.

Why I am starting a new thread I am starting this new thread to inform you about what I experienced in the PC workshop I was working in 2012 until 2013. We say a massive amount of hard failures in that time which does add credibility. We had replaced these failing drives which where Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320's 70% of the time with Seagate 500GB drives. The seagate drives came back within 3 months all completely dead and unreadable, and we found that all the drives we replaced with Hitachi seemed to be fine, same with Toshiba drives. My point is, there was an astonishingly high rate of failures back then from the western digital brand and I found that a high percentage of drives where the WD Blue 320GB notebook drives and some where 500GB ones too. This has all calmed right down now and HDD failures aren't so common now. It's really worth taking more data from local computer shops who have proper testing equipment (not just reading the S.M.A.R.T data) and testing each sector for read / write errors. You'll find some very interesting results. Just to clarify things for some, I am UK based, and the workshop was in Devon.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-121-XS That's what I've found, thanks for the help with dyes and the advice

Okay, thanks so much, where in the UK can I get colored flexible tubing? I'll check over lockers in a more to find out if they have it

Ahh, okay then, is there anything I can go for that's solid color?the UV stuff is good with UV lights but just doesn't look as good as it could be. I might just use clear water instead, I'll see what I can find. Cheers for the help, and yeah, my bad, dye* LOL!

And what sort of die, I want it a solid color, no transparency

Hi everyone I've got a liquid cooled PC with UV green coolant. I want to have a solid color like the white but I want to die it green so its not transparent. I want dies that don't clock up too much, but I don't want my liquid looking transparent as its not tidy in my eyes. Any recommendations ? Thanks in advance.

It's okay, I bought one now which rocks! Accept it's got to be sent back as it has faulty RAM! Anyhow, I also noticed I have another bottlekneck... a 600W PSU LMAO!!! It gets expensive!!!

That moment when one is corrupt...

I'm talking quad core APU vs dual core APU, I know the I3's can kick the AMD cheap quad cores in the corners... but I'm thinking on an APU side of things

Once in a while when I'm passing, I go into PC world and see what they try to sell me! It's mostly crap, they did try selling me a ''gaming PC'' with a HD7650 or something shitty like that in it! £700+...

I have to deal with people everyday like this I wanted a career in IT, not to show old people what the difference between dual core and quad core... it's obvious, quad is 4, dual is 2, 4 is better than 2!!!

I was at work today, someone came into the shop asking for a PC system, they wanted a new computer system to browse the internet, right now, we can get AMD quad core systems with Windows 7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and Windows 7. He said it was for his nan, she wanted a new PC thats as similar to XP as possible. I said obviously, we cant put XP on a new machine because of its age, but Windows 7 is as close as you're going to get. He then said he could get for £279 from PC world the same PC with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD... Completely ignoring the fact it was a very low end APU setup and not a quad core setup which would futureproof them so they wouldn't have to spend out £££ in 4 years because it's grinded to a hault! Any moments similar? Whats your experience?

I dont have one... but I've only heard good things about them for what they are!

I got it on my S3 LTE... instant boosted performance, plus I can switch to 2G only which works better in my area... WIN WIN!!! I actually haven't found any glitches yet (touch wood)...

I have a 1GB card right now, but I saw a nice attractively priced card which is all identical right down to the cooler apart from mines the cut back 1GB version, it's actually cheaper than what I paid for my 1GB card. I'm half tempted to go for it.

I didn't know I could unlock the extra 1GB buffer, I know that some versions of my current card have the BIOS switch to allow ease of flashing and something to fall back on if the flash kills or goes wrong. Are there any instructions to unlock the additional RAM?

Okay then, that would be a waste.... and if I crossfired two 1GB cards, would the effective Video RAM be 2GB or still 1GB between both cards? And how much improvement would I see with this upgrade?

Hi everyone, simply put, I have a Radeon XFX 6950 with 1GB DDR5, can I buy the same card but with 2GB of RAM and use them both in crossfire? The 2GB card will be the main card, the 1GB one will be the secondary one... Also, does anyone have for sale a XFX HD 6950 with 2GB RAM in the UK? lol

Yeah I know, but I assume people want to sort it quick

An old guy brought a printer from us, I asked what OS he has, he said I don't know, I said is it XP, Vista or 7? He said none of them ring a bell, I then said, it isn't Windows 8 is it? He said that sounds like it... anyway, he came back a couple of days later saying it wont work, the CD doesn't work and neither do the drivers... he then told me his PC has Windows 98 and said that shouldn't really matter though, meanwhile, after half an hour explaining how tech works, he bought himself a second hand XP machine...

Not always, as with someone I had to deal with today had a completely written off copy of windows which couldn't be used, couldn't get into and couldn't even be repaired. This was the only option...

We all know it's a pain in the neck having a Windows 8 system and not having a product key when say... the HDD goes all tits up, or a serious malware infection, or maybe you just hate the OEM bloat and want to wipe / re-install... here's the solution: Step one, download the following program from this website: http://www.sherr.co.uk/retrieve_windows_8_license_key_from_bios/ Find a blocked product key from somewhere, use it to get through an installation of Windows 8 (download a clean ISO somewhere, no cracks, no activation, remember this is legitimate!) Once installed, run that program, tick the MSDM checkbox, copy the key it produces, it's from your BIOS. Use that key to replace the blocked key when Windows tries to activate Once done, enjoy a legitimate license and a clean install of Windows. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please don't report this, It's not piracy, I've seen friends refer to activators because of the product key issue. This is as legitimate as it can get without paying a manufacturer £££ for recovery media!!!

Cheers peeps, I know where I stand now The Pirate Bay is one of the best sources for non pirated things you know... so much more than films

Hi, I'm thinking of starting up a computer repair business, I've had experience but one thing bugs me, if I have all my ISO images of OS's, can I use them to install legitimate Windows copies on laptops / desktops which have perfectly legitimate licenses on them? For instance, if I download a copy from TPB? There shouldn't be any loss in Microsoft's pocket as I will buy licenses new for new computers.