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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 05:29 PM
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I havent been here personally but I asked a friend who normally does stuff like that:

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Old Jun 8, 2013 | 02:36 AM
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I got 2 spare copies of 3dmark and primal carnage, free for the next 2 people

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Old Jun 8, 2013 | 03:35 AM
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Anyone want this for free?

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I know its old tech but it's free. Otherwise I'm gonna do something explosive with it lol.

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Old Jun 8, 2013 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by w0ng3r
I got 2 spare copies of 3dmark and primal carnage, free for the next 2 people
I thought 3dmark was free?
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by PROcede
Anyone want this for free?

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I know its old tech but it's free. Otherwise I'm gonna do something explosive with it lol.
wow two mac books!
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by sigma pi
I thought 3dmark was free?
Nope! I believe it use to be now its pricey because of all the features for benchmarking it contains.
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 11:27 AM
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wow two mac books!
lol. Would you like the card?
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 11:49 AM
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I build and destroy PCs on the daily... when you go through so much of that crap, you rarely want to spend time on your own as a hobby.

I wonder if that's how most mechanics feel about their cars.

Pretty much. I procrastinate on my own car. Parts will sit for months because I dont have the motivation to slave a few hours on the weekend to put them on. Id much rather be drinking and watching sports on those days.
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by sigma pi
I thought 3dmark was free?

Originally Posted by oshrizak
Nope! I believe it use to be now its pricey because of all the features for benchmarking it contains.
This, can't believe I bought my 780's and i didnt even get a single game with them -_- just stupid benchmark software to stroke my e-***** zzzzz
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by oshrizak
Nope! I believe it use to be now its pricey because of all the features for benchmarking it contains.
Ahhhhh OK thanks!! I have the old free version
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lol. Would you like the card?
Thank you for the offer but some how my old cards are a bit newer

Nice Mac books though!
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This, can't believe I bought my 780's and i didnt even get a single game with them -_- just stupid benchmark software to stroke my e-***** zzzzz
Aint that the truth.
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 12:35 PM
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Haha i'm going to light the card on fire today since it's just a pos (i already knew that)
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by PROcede
Haha i'm going to light the card on fire today since it's just a pos (i already knew that)
take off the heatsink, clean it, apply peanut butter, reinstall heatsink and run a game. record a video while you are at it. thanks.
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 01:11 PM
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Haha i'm going to light the card on fire today since it's just a pos (i already knew that)



What ever you do, make a video! Just be sure to hold the camera in landscape !
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by PROcede
Haha i'm going to light the card on fire today since it's just a pos (i already knew that)
Have fun with that!
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take off the heatsink, clean it, apply peanut butter, reinstall heatsink and run a game. record a video while you are at it. thanks.
Is this speaking from experience lmao? It might be good to show procede the yt video of that guy completely destroying his HP.
Old Jun 8, 2013 | 01:51 PM
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My coworker thinks i'm stupid for wanting 2 drive redundancy, but no way I'm rippin' discs over again. If I can better ensure my array's long term life, you best believe I will!
My belief is that it's not safe unless:

you have one backup on site AND one backup off-site.

My server is just for crap like family pics and home movies of the kids and stuff, so it easily fits on 1TB drives. I installed the OS, then imaged that drive onto my two backup drives, then changed each ID so thefile system doesn't get confused about which is which. One is installed in the same machine and every night a cron job spins it up, does an incremental backup of the main drive and spins it down. Now, when the main drive fails, I just boot the other drive and I'm back up in no time. The 3rd copy does the same thing, but it's in an external enclosure and lives in my cabinet at work. It comes home every month or three to get updated. This is in-case of a house fire, or an electrical issue that might take out the other two drives.

Yours is much larger, so external doesn't work, but you really want to have your 2nd tier of redundancy in a different physical location. House fires are often only in one area of a house and a major electrical issue is going to take out several drives if it takes out one. Having 3 copies all in one server and one physical location is not really any more secure than 2 copies in one server and one physical location.

Also I do not like RAID as backup. Sometimes you really need a time delay... like accidentally hitting delete on a folder that has a TB or 2 in it. In a RAID, it's gone. Nightly backups you can get it easily. This is why I don't like RAID as backup for home. At the very least run a cron job for incremental backup 1-7 times a week rather than an immediate mirror.

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