Stickwolf

If I won I would be interested in setting this up with my TV for some lazy couch gaming.

Thanks for the great giveaway! Username - Stickwolf Favourite Videos :- https://www.vessel.com/videos/Su_Wqd7Vl https://www.vessel.com/videos/JLpxC_Zl9

Thanks for the great give away Linus (& Team), as always, tough decision between the AIO and the power supply, would probably have to go to the PSU though, looks great, I have never seen so much ventilation on a PSU!

Thanks for the amazing give away as always Linus, think I prefer the metal Omega look over the Extreme, but they both looks pretty awesome.

Thanks for the great giveaway Linus, I believe I first found you looking for advice on building my own PC years ago, as well as when researching hardware for said machine!

Favorite thing about the Z2 is the front facing speakers, that needs to be a standard! Favourite thing about DBrand is how their skins look like they are meant to be part of a phone, rather than looking like an awkward addon! Many thanks for the giveaway!

My favorite bit would have to be the viewing angles of the screen, every laptop I have ever had has required lining yourself up with the screen perfectly to even be able to see the screen! Thanks for the Giveaway Linus!

It has been said a million times before by everyone I am sure, but the screen resolution is the best bit for me, currently the only phone I know that has a screen resolution that high! Simply amazing!

The best thing about the M8 has to be the front facing speakers, it makes every other phone look ridiculous, with all the features they can cram into phones no other phone maker can point speakers at you? Does HTC employ wizards to do this? Get it together every other phone maker, you look stupid! =)

I am having issues with my desktop at the moment, it was working fine up until a couple of months ago, then it started to have USB issues, USB devices that worked perfectly fine in other machines would not show up or take about 10 minutes to show up on my computer after being connected, if a USB device was connected on start-up it would show up, but show up blank and with no space, and it would still work in other machines. I originally assumed an OS problem, so I reinstalled Windows 8, still had issues, tried Windows 7 and that would crash with USB issues, I blamed this on my USB wireless card, so replaced that with a built in one, still had issues, so I reinstalled Windows 8. Separate to this, my machine became very slow to boot the BIOS and Windows, when looking this up I was told to turn off legacy USB support in the BIOS, which has sped up the BIOS boot, but the windows boot is horribly slow. The machine has worked fine for nearly 3 years, only recently had any issues, cooling should be adequate, the machine never gets above about 60 C under load using Prime 95 and MSI kombustor, I am using a H100 CPU cooler and have 7 fans in the machine. I am wondering if this combination of issues could be to do with the Motherboard or CPU or Memory? I am afraid I don't really have any extra parts to be able to swap out the motherboard, RAM or CPU to test which one it is that way, so any thoughts or help would be appreciated? My system at the moment: Windows 8.1 N x64 (With the media pack installed) 3570K overclocked to 4.2 Ghz (I did try with the CPU not overclocked, still had issues) MSI Z77A GD65 Motherboard Samsung 830 256 GB SSD A Samsung 2 TB hard drive (Sorry I cannot remember the exact details of either hard drive) A Seagate 1.5 TB hard drive (Sorry I cannot remember the exact details of either hard drive) MSI GTX 670 power edition graphics card (Not overclocked) It is pretty much a fresh install on the SSD, the hard drives are used to store my films and music, I did a full Virus scan with Widnwos Defender and Kaspersky separately and found no issues there. Hopefully somebody will have more experience with this than me? And please tell me if there is anything I am missing? Thanks, Stephen

The problem I have with just copying a file is that it will only really give me sequential performance, I am kind of after performance across multiple different types of software, where each piece of software utilises the hard drive in different ways, such as video editing would probably use large sequential accesses to the drive, whereas other software would have frequent but very small hard drive accesses. I may be asking for the impossible and may just have to do it manually, but thank you for trying, I appreciate it.

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I am trying to find some software that will allow me to benchmark performance of different drives in real world terms as part of a piece of work. So instead of an SSD just being theoretically 5 times in sequential reads compared with a HDD; I wondered if any software exists that would be able to say, in this task the SSD took 30 seconds to complete whereas the HDD took 2 minutes. Now I was thinking of actually running these tests myself on different drives with lots of different types of software and just measuring the time taken to complete them, literally with a stopwatch, however I wondered if a piece of software existed to make this a little more precise, and perhaps to ease some of my suffering? I have already used a few programs such as Crystal Disk Mark and and HD Tune to measure theoretical performance differences, now I was hoping to compare these with actual performance differences. Thanks for reading!

Not sure if this is necessary but hopefully it cannot hurt =) so links to my Youtube comment and tweet: Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVE1OcfB1E4&lc=a-FEpqdIxg90_CNyWTwVc6BUUhjCQYjjAYa0iNeRZxs Tweet - https://twitter.com/Stick_Wolf/status/390127996415127553 Thanks for the great contest Linus, I really appreciate the effort you must put in, even if I don't win =)

Sounds like a great giveaway, and the partnering for a merchandise store sounds excellent too!

I currently run a 240 GB Samsung 830 as my boot drive and for programs and most games, and then a Seagate 1.5 TB 7200 RPM drive and a Samsung 2 TB 5400 RPM drive as bulk storage for things such as films, music and pictures as well games I play less or taking large amounts of storage as well as backing up my main drive, these drives are kind of configured in RAID 1, in that it is done manually by me due to drives being so different and I only started out with the Seagate drive from an older computer, then bought the SSD and used the old hard drive for bulk storage of not important stuff, and backed up important stuff between the SSD and the hard drive, I later bought the Samsung hard drive when it was on great deal, and so formed my very dodgy RAID 1 between the two mechanical hard drives so I couldn't then wipe the drives to setup a proper RAID 1, and haven't been able to get hold of another drive to temporarily store their data, so I manually copy all files from one drive to another after they have been copied to one drive =) My fear at the moment is that the Seagate is registering as having 26 bad sectors that can no longer be used, and I believe the drive only has a tolerance for 36, although this could be wrong, it also has some other issue that I cannot remember at the moment, but I think it is basically dying of old age as it has been through about 2 builds that I have done and I didn't actually personally buy it, it came with an old desktop that was purchased for me long ago before I got into gaming on computers, so it has served me well really. Facebook Share - Stephen Hannay - https://www.facebook.com/stephen.hannay.54/posts/1417820375096028 Twitter Share - @Stick_Wolf - https://twitter.com/Stick_Wolf/status/377242137315651584