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You get adapters for it haha but they limit the speed incredibly

I was thinking of that, but I have never seen one

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I was thinking of that, but I have never seen one

To be honest I have no idea why anyone would ever want to use one as it is that slow it would probably cripple your PC

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I'm using a Laptop (Getting a Desktop soon though)

 

VGA, My Secondary Monitor uses VGA because my laptop only has an HDMI and VGA

 

Sticky comma key on my crappy keyboard combo with a crappy mouse (will be fixed soon though as I am getting a Steelseries Apex and Logitech G700S)

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How can you even plug that in with new motherboards as they no longer have IDE connections

my mobo for some reason has one.... even though its sata2/3 and has usb3....

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everything, but toped off by VGA and dust

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For me it's the fact I didn't build it. I built quite a lot of computers since I got mine and did a lot of edits to my build, but still, it's not completely my work.

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To be honest I have no idea why anyone would ever want to use one as it is that slow it would probably cripple your PC

 

Not for a DVD drive.  I don't think bluray even came as PATA.

I have sata native DVDRW drives, and PATA natives ones.  I have used usb2 to pata adapters and sata to pata adapters with the pata ones and there is no appreciable speed difference between them and the native one.  This was when I had a phenom II x6 at 4GHz with a modern gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard.

 

DVD drives even the top speed ones are quite slow, really.  Even the fastest sata ones internally work at ATA66 standards (check DMESG when booted into linux sometime to see such deep in the guts data).

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My iPhone 4, thought apple was gonna be awesome like just about everyone says it is, turns out it actually sucks.

I run my own indie game company called Color Dragon Studios where we are currently making a 2d platformer game called Small Earth.

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my two amd hd7770 in crossfire. the microstuttering was unbearable

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That I have a 270x, getting a 280x or 770 this year.


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The fact that it's a Mac.

 

Before I get completely dunked on, my dad bought it for his work (he's a musician)... in 2007.

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That I have a 270x, getting a 280x or 770 this year.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a 270X. I'm probably looking at getting a 270 in September for my first real PC - either that or a 760, we'll see.

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That I have a 270x, getting a 280x or 770 this year.

270x isn't that bad, I mean the 280x will be more fitting for your current build

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I still have a 7750. 1GB VRAM.

"How hard can it be?" - Jeremy Clarkson

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson

 

"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking." - Leslie Nielsen

 

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I still have a 7750. 1GB VRAM.

why?

MoBo: 970A-D3P CPU: FX-8350 GPU: HD 7950 PSU: 1000watt RAM:8Gb of G,skill 1600

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why?

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"How hard can it be?" - Jeremy Clarkson

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson

 

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my mobo for some reason has one.... even though its sata2/3 and has usb3....

How old is your mobo?

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A fan did not fit in my case, so I used zip ties to secure it in place instead of the screws

 

I bought a case specifically for cable management, but my power supply's cables aren't long enough    :|  (so, no Cable Management! Yeah!)

 

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My second monitor is run my a HDMI to VGA, and the adapter is so bad that when my GPU (7870) hits ~80C it just stops working and POOF! No more second monitor...

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but, you got a i7 unless you got that post build

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but, you got a i7 unless you got that post build

That was an upgrade from my original build.

"How hard can it be?" - Jeremy Clarkson

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson

 

"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking." - Leslie Nielsen

 

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That was an upgrade from my original build.

okay that makes more sense

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deffinately my 2 750ti's.. wasnt paying attention when i bought them didnt realize they dont sli until i got home.  too lazy to return them and get a better card for the money

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