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Angie, I wish any AMD processor were any match for i5 at the moment, except for some specialized workloads. I think you are misinterpreting the benchmarks that you are quoting. Most desktop software is not multi-threaded. Games these days are but most cannot take advantage of more than 2...

Which motherboard? Does it have setting to cause only S1 mode sleep? Try S1 sleep and see if this still reproduces. On one of my systems, it happens if I connect the SSD to the JMicron controller with S3 sleep. S1 sleep works fine.

Any reason for favouring AMD FX 8210? Is it the reports that Windows 8 has optimized well for FX 8120? If so, quality benchmarks showing this are yet to come up. This might get cleared up in a month or so. If it is a special need for higher number of cores, let us know.

Prime says "Standard Warranty: 1 Year Limited" I can understand that your insane is not the superlative insane , where most components are flown in from abroad. But still, at only 7000, blue ray burner makes sense in a lakh rupee or so computer. 2 cents. Reading about such rigs has...

@ALPHA17 sirjee the insane rig doesn't look quite insane without blue ray writer LG WH14NS40 Internal Blu-ray Writer Not that I am in the market for such a rig :)

I am no more making suggestions as they will be fruitless. My observations : 1. You don't trust these guys enough to take suggestions about buying parts. You trust random strangers on the internet more who don't know technical use cases but have just got a layman summary of requirements. And...

Check the performance benchmarks on Anandtech, check that it supports TRIM. Google for the SSD model number and watch out for premature failure horror stories. Check Newegg, Amazon etc reviews. Don't buy within 2 months of release of a new model. Remember while doing review research , people...

I have seen OCZ , Intel and Crucial 2.5 inch SSDs, they all look identical in size to 2.5 inch hard drives found in laptops. Shouldn't be any issue. Not sure what you mean by impact, but performance should drastically improve. Even though (I think) your laptop supports only SATA 2 3Gbps instead...

If you have the guy for building and fixing computers, he is most qualified to suggest configuration too because he would know your use cases much better than any of the members here. You could even hold off your system purchase until aftet hiring the permanent guy. I don't see how your guy...

1. Just because you said "I'm not that good in building computers and don't have much knowledge of what to do in order to ...", may I suggest that it is unlikely you actually need i7. Since you already have access to i5 processor (though I think iMac uses mobile processor, not sure, still it...

Surge protector would have protected your PC. But it seems you want to protect your MCB from your PC. Surge protector is not for that. If you care for your PC, don't disconnect it from UPS, tripping MCBs can send arbitrary wave. You might have to upgrade your MCB, though get an electrician to...

Depends on which tablet it is. If Android, various kernel mods are available for different tablets to mount CIFS/NFS shares directly and then all applications can use it. Some Android file managers (Estrongs / astro etc) can access CIFS/NFS shares but the other applications cannot use such...

Lokesh, if you want strict reliability, SSD technology is not very mature at this time. For various reasons, including flash chip , firmware bugs, operating system kernel issues, different filesystems and software used to access the data; all can cause failure under different workloads. If...

1000CN, in new rig your IDE hard drive doesn't fit well, being too slow and small. Just an unsolicited idea: do you have an offsite backup of your images? God forbid,in case of burglary, natural disaster or other accident, if you lose your data ? Your old HDD can be filled with your precious...

Power requirements are not mentioned. None (almost). And that is my point, thanks for proving it. 20% maximum improvement, if we assume 10% tasks are CPU bound. That makes overall improvement 2% after spending 10k. Most of the bottlenecks are at the storage layer, but you don't want to fix...

I looked at the same benches before posting. And I didn't say G620 is a step down, I said it is not "much better". You yourself see the benchmarks - gaming is not the primary objective of this PC, and even in framerates the difference is only about 20%. In some other benchmarks, G620 performs...

sibot, G620 is not much better than your current processor. So this is not a good utilization of 10k. It will also be a downgrade in total memory from 6GB to 4GB. If you want to spend 10k, and improve gaming performance, simply get a new graphics card. If gaming is a lower priority, get an...

If you have an (e.g.) APC UPS, and you install the APC monitoring Software, it lets you figure out the current power drawn by all the attached systems. If only computer related items are drawing power from the UPS, as is mostly the case, it is a good reflection of total power drawn by the...