habergowd

I know Seagate has a much higher failure rate compared to WD. I'm definitely not buying a hard drive from Seagate again. (It's also worrying how my backup USB3 drive is an external Seagate drive...) Thanks for the help. If you guys have any more ideas, please post them. Edit: I had a folder disappear two days ago, I repaired the disk now with Disk Utility, and it came back... Weird issue.

Hi. I've got a Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD, separated into three partitions, one HFS+ Journaled (Hackintosh OSX Data), one NTFS (Windows Data, read on OS X by Tuxera NTFS), and one more HFS+ Test Partition, for testing new operating systems. Issues started occurring with the NTFS partition. After having two video files of about 1.3 gigs just disappear, the whole partition disappeared the same day. Thankfully I backed up all my important things before it disappeared, and when I rebooted into Windows, chkdsk ran at boot and "fixed" it somehow - I got all my data back. Since then, I've been running a backup service that backs up every new file from important folders on the Windows Data partition at 10AM every day. It saved me a couple of times as files have disappeared, folders have disappeared. Today I decided I had enough, but it turns out I'm out of warranty by about a month or two - no help from there. I checked for bad sectors, and Macrorit reported no bad sectors on the drive. What should I do at this point? Backing up everything from the OS X Data partition right now. Thanks.

Restored to yesterday's "System restore point" and it magically fixed itself.

I don't have another card, no. I'll try and get a friend's card.

Hey, Until recently, my 780 SC from EVGA ran fine. I mainly play BF4, and at 1080p, ultra settings, everything cranked up I could always get 60+FPS which is enough. A few weeks ago I cleaned my PC. Afterwards, my frames dropped to around 30. Yesterday I checked and my 6pin wasn't plugged in all the way, so I fixed that. I had a couple of rounds without any problems, but now I'm having the same FPS issue again. I've attached a GPU-Z sensor log. Please help me, I have no idea what's causing this and I'm fairly certain it's my GPU. H97N-WiFi, 4690, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz, and Windows and the game is running from a 250GB 840 Evo with the magic "performance fix" installed. Cheers, Haber GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt

Okay. Fixed it. I'm not going to say what went wrong... Just an advice. If you lose a screw while installing a new fan, and can't find it in the rig, and the next day you have thermal throttling problems... Find that screw.

I restored to the original configuration. It's still stuttering. I'm testing with unigine valley now, and it's keeping around 80°C.

Hi, I have a Bitfenix Prodigy, with a 4690 (Intel stock cooler) and a 780SC. I used the one fan I could at the back up until now, without problems, but I thought giving it more fans won't create issues, it will only keep my rig cooler. I bought an arctic cooling 4-pin PWM to 4x4pin splitter, plugged it into my fan header on the motherboard, installed one Arctic F12 to the top of the case as exhaust and plugged everything in. Upon starting up BF4, I started noticing some horrible microstuttering, my FPS dipped into the 30-40 range instead of 70-80. Am I being throttled? What should I do? Thanks, haber

Yep, so I was thinking about two intakes in the front that push the air into the case, and then exhaust on the top and on the back.

Oh well, checking now, there is no point of installing a fan closer to the front panel on the prodigy as most of the air will go directly to the FDD cage. Installing a second fan in the front will be the way to go then. Should I just install those as push, and the back and the top as pull?

Hi LTT Forums, So I've built my new rig: http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-builds/135657-habers-lil-beast-ii-h97n-wifi-i5-4690-gtx-780-sc.html Anyways, the H97N-WiFi has one fan header and one CPU fan header. I've been noticing how loudly it can get while rendering. I've found a nice splitter cable from one PWM output to 4. I'd connect the back fan that I got with my Prodigy, as well as the front fan. I also thought about getting two more fans to the top. How should I install the two new fans? I was thinking push-pull, so the one that is closer to the front of the case would push the air, and the one closer to the back of the case would pull the air. Is this a good idea? I also don't know what fans should I get. I was thinking about the Arctic Cooling F12s, or maybe Bitfenix Spectre Pros. The more cost-efficient, the better. Cheers, Haber

Just want to get a general picture of the good monitors on the market. Games to be played: BF4, recorded in 60FPS. 1080p.

Hey guys, In July, I'm building a new rig and I need a new monitor. I'm thinking about getting something serious, 27" or 24". Should I get a "gaming" monitor (BenQ/Asus/etc), or should I wait for some Gsync goodness to come out? I though about getting that one compatible Asus monitor, but I can't get my hands on a kit and the monitor is very expensive in Europe. If I can get a Gsync monitor, I would probably grab a 770, if not, then 780. (On a side note, should I trust in Gigabyte? I never had nVidia cards before, and I heard that EVGA is the best and I should only go with them. Is it worth it?) Oh yeah, I would get the monitor in Europe. I can't get it from NCIX, because shipping prices. eh. Anyways, thanks for your help! Haber

Thanks! If I can find a quiet but good cooler for my CPU, I'll go with it.

I wanna go with the Prodigy because it looks like a little Mac Pro and a lot of people use it. Thanks for the advice in terms of cooling. I'll think about it. CM 212 also sounds good. Yep, I'd go with a better memory, but I already have 4 gigs of that Kingston RAM. I wanna go back to 8GB since my second 4GB stick died a few months ago, but that's another story. So you guys suggest that two fans on the front would be better (2x120) than 1x230? Also, should I get rid of the top fans just in case I want water-cooling rads there in the future?