Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 463

porkinsred6 said:

women pretending to be a man on the internet 

I used to worry that despite my masculine screen name Harmy would think I was a lady in real life too, so that's why whenever I PM'ed him I used to attach a picture of my balls with a timestamp. He asked me to stop so now whenever I PM him I send a separate PM to Frink of my balls. 

Damn I wish that I could take part in the donating! Harmy, what you have achieved is amazing and I feel obligated and duty-bound to help you. The problem is, I am so desperate for money myself right now that I can't. I'm talking "am I going to eat" and "how the hell am I going to move back home" kind of poor. I feel so helpless when I can't participate in something as clearly important as this. My PayPal was closed down, but if there is some way I can pitch in before you stop accepting donations, I will try my best.

Thank you again, Harmy! As well as everyone else that has helped.

Never buy already assembled PC. You pay more for worse components. Problems with that HP desktop?

- Motherboard is from MSI - solid company. BUT, this specific part is manufactured only for HP. I heard that, in USA, trustworthy companies sometimes produce shit meant to be sold at Walmart, at low price (clothes for example). This is it. Only 4 USB ports in PC that expensive? It's not even funny.

- RAM. They don't even mention manufacturer there. Most of them give lifetime warranty on their memory. Unless it's cheap shit made for HP to use.

- Power supply. It's what's keeping all the other parts fed. You really don't want to save money on this one. HP probably does, but you can't even see if that's the case. Manufacturer don't mentioned.

- Graphic card - why reference model, when there are much better options, like ASUS and MSI? Faster and with better cooling system?

- SSD - 256GB ones are really affordable now. And you can buy them from Samsung, or Kingston, no need to care about HP no-names!

- I bet money on hard drive being Seagate. Seriously, I do. What's wrong with Seagate? One out of four of their HDDs fails after a year. But Hitachi, or WD instead.

All HP does here is sticking a logo and ridiculous price. And it's not even trustworthy company, read up how many of their laptops failed in the past couple of years.

I'd go for an SSD/HDD combo. I'm sure that alone would speed up rendering times exponentially.

I totally agree with everybody that says you should buy your own parts.  For a little over 1,000 dollars I've got a very powerful computer that would have cost twice as much had I bought something from a company.  I have raided ssd's for the OS and 2 separate 4tb hdd's for storage. A quadcore processor running stock at 4ghz and a decent graphics card.  I also bought a massive heatsink for the processor. Overheating problems aren't such a big problem like they used to be.  Modern cpu's use less power than their predecessors usually.  Instead of buying a psu with 1200 watts or some crap I bought the sturdiest and best rated 600 watt power supply I could find. The coolermaster case I stuck all of the parts in cost me 20 bucks and it looks great.  Seriously, buying something from a company is not a good idea.  10 years ago it was difficult to put components together and it was very easy to order something that didn't plug into the other something properly but everything is plug and play today.  You just have to make sure you get the right cpu,mobo,ram combo and everything else just hooks right up. Anyway, that's my 2 cents lol.

I've built many (>10) computers over the years and my experience has been generally good.

With that being said, my 2¢ (this won't matter to you, Harmy) is to watch out for noisy PSUs and noisy motherboard designs. Most PSUs–even expensive ones–are noisy buckets of crap. It's supposedly a basic fact of SMPS, but I knew nothing about this prior to building my most recent PC and the noise on the PCI-express bus was so bad that you could easily see it in my test captures with my Blackmagic Intensity Pro. (This setup has been scrapped for parts. None of these noisy captures have made it into the wild.)

The real kicker is that there's no easy way to know if your "expensive" parts are noisy buckets of crap or not. It's a crap shoot (pun intended).

Noise could definitely be a problem. When I stress test my computer it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. :/ Always read up as much as you can about each part you're going to buy. A lot of sites, tomshardware and techpowerup for example make noise and heat tests.

Another vote for buying your PC part-by-part rather than buying a name brand like an HP or Dell. You'd be way overpaying for a name badge and ultimate ease of use (as in, remove from box - plug in.) It's like buying a boxed Bose 5.1 HT setup. Twice the price for half the performance. 

Well, like I said, if I wanted a pro-grade monitor, I think 1000USD would be the starting price for just the monitor.

And I will definitely be building the machine myself, I only posted that HP one as an example of the kind of computer I had in mind.

Anyways, I'm up to 18,756.53CZK, so my original goal is almost reached - I should be meeting with my friend tomorrow and we'll be looking into what we can buy for however much I'll have by then. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!

If anyone still really wants to donate, I can always use an upgrade for more HDD space (especially if future projects may be done in 1080p and thinking waaay ahead, possibly even 4K).

While we're talking about hard drives: never buy Seagate. Their drives are cheaper, but they tend to fail after three years tops. Buy Hitachi instead.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

I don't see any problem with Backblaze's results. They had a lot of drives and they simply said how they performed.  This Henry Newman's accusation is ridiculous.

"The oldest drive in the list is the Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive from 2006. A drive that is almost 8 years old!"

Beautiful manipulation. ONE Seagate out of 13000 is 8 years old. There there was a specific column for age. Statistically oldest drives they have are WDs.

Add to this that the Seagate 1.5 TB has a well-known problem that Seagate publicly admitted to, it is no surprise that these old drives are failing.

ALL 1.5TB Seagates have a well-known problem. Which means they openly admitted,  their HDDs are unreliable.

Aside for that, I had some personal experience with Seagate. Three Barracudas 7200.12 1TB. Two of them worked two years, the other one year and a half. Meanwhile, almost 10 year old 400 GB Hitachi is fine with 0 bad sectors. Maybe it's anecdotal evidence or bad batch, but don't be surprised when your Seagate gain 500 bad sectors overnight. :)

I can send you one, but you'll need to pay $50 of shipping fees.

I actually recommend Frink when it comes to testing your hard drives.

I thought mine was fine but I sent it to him and it tested positive for Hepatitis A - C and feline HIV.