Ripping, HD formatting and OS questions

[BlazeES]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-Des...Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item485c527cc8

Those SSHD's are speed beasts once they adapt to your usage pattern. And the price is more than right!

 

[speakerman1]

Those SSHD's are speed beasts once they adapt to your usage pattern. And the price is more than right!

Been wondering. Just haven't pulled the trigger. Good price for 1TB and fast.

 

[speakerman1]

Here is a thread about the DAC. I think Graham turned me onto it.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/413540/valab-nos-dac-subjective-listening-and-modifications/15

 

[speakerman1]

I'm very much for battery if you can do it.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/413540/valab-nos-dac-subjective-listening-and-modifications/105

I like buying something that is designed well for a basis to build on. If they did all my mods I couldn't afford the DAC. So I do a little at a time. Research save money and buy what I can. I have been reading this thread a lot.

 

[speakerman1]

Pulled the trigger. http://www.ebay.com/itm/310786555080?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Used my savings for the Valeb. Plus the price had dropped. Does all the Memory have to be the same speed? Will start over ripping. Will use accurip.

 

[BubbaH]

Does all the Memory have to be the same speed?

No.

If you are talking about RAM, also no. Keeping in mind it will only operate as fast as the slowest memory. Or at least that's how it used to work.

 

[speakerman1]

No.

If you are talking about RAM, also no. Keeping in mind it will only operate as fast as the slowest memory. Or at least that's how it used to work.

So if I'm running 24 gig 2@1600 and one at 1300. It would be only as fast as 1300? Wuould it be much difference if I left the 1300 out and do 16 gigs at 1600?

 

[BubbaH]

Probably wouldn't Larry. You could always try it both ways and see if you notice a difference.

 

[speakerman1]

Probably wouldn't Larry. You could always try it both ways and see if you notice a difference.

Thanks I hope Windows 8 is easy. I will try. Gotta start over on downloading. Get rid of the spits and unknown files.

 

[speakerman1]

USB cord. Jerry gave me a long one awhile back. I was wondering about the lose by having a long USB cable. I found this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812423045&ignorebbr=1

My new puter comes today. Will this cable stop any degradation of the long USB if there is any?

 

[speakerman1]

How do I find my Devices, computer menu on the side bar. I find start; but no settings.

 

[speakerman1]

Doing some ripping. Should there or can there be a difference in playback devices sound?

 

[speakerman1]

Will install other memory Sat when other HD gets here. Haven't rode an Intel in a very long time. Pretty fast.

 

[speakerman1]

Taking a bit longer. The I don't care I had 2 partials of one CD. Stuff like that. Trying to do better. Foobar seems to be the best ripper so far. It goes to media player. I like trying to find cheap music sources and them sound pretty good. Well kinda cheap. LOL

 

[speakerman1]

I can rip with Foobar and watch the music being ripped in Media Player. Had to do a Robbie Robinson CD 3 times till I got it right. He can do some pretty good rifts.

 

[speakerman1]

Why is the speed different on memory Like 1.35 and 1.5 v. Same manu same speed and cap. 8 gigs 1600 speed. The bottom 3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...NodeId=1&name=Crucial&Order=PRICE&Pagesize=20

 

[BlazeES]

Why is the speed different on memory Like 1.35 and 1.5 v. Same manu same speed and cap. 8 gigs 1600 speed. The bottom 3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...NodeId=1&name=Crucial&Order=PRICE&Pagesize=20

Memory is "binned", like hard drives are binned. What is binning? A factory line sits and cranks out hard drives, thousands a day. The goal is to get, say for instance, 1TB of storage out of each drive off a particular line. So the drives come of the mfg line, go into final certification and viola! - some of them have bad spots on the discs. Those bad sectors are a dinger to the total capacity, so much so (sometimes) that huge areas of the disk are unusable. But is the drive a complete bust because of it? Nope. They simply de-rate the drives storage capacity to something lower and sell it as a smaller drive. The process is routinely referred to as "water fall". Some drives come out with the full 1 TB. Others only yield 750 GB, and so on... It's the same for memory. The dies that make up the base memory space, multiplied by the number of dies (chips) per DIMM stick are designed for a maximum speed with best case latencies for a specific voltage. Some don't make it to the top of the heap and therefore get de-rated. It all comes down to what they are certified or guaranteed to run at. Hence, same mfg, same size, same voltage - different speeds because of effective (tested) yielded results. And it gets more complicated with silicon too. Higher speeds require higher voltages on some chips. Other designs can get away with blazing high speeds with lower voltages. It's all about the trade off between design types and yielded manufacturing results. Lastly, some memory is "green" thereby being low voltage and subsequently lower power to help keep a build at power sipping levels. Enthusiast memory is typically balls out fast, at say 1.5v, but designed with margin to go faster with 1.65v - 1.70v as long as you go into the BIOS and massage specific areas of the timing table.

If you're not a gamer/enthusiast, stick with the recommended memory configs published by the mfg of your motherboard. And stick with reputable brands. You can't go wrong with Crucial btw!

Hope this helps...

 

[speakerman1]

32 gigs @ 1600. 4 slots.

 

[BlazeES]

32 gigs @ 1600. 4 slots.

What ya plan on doing with a rig loaded with 32 GB?

 

[laatsch55]

Thanks Tony, very informative. What's your day job??