Ive got the latest zalman sink on my 4200 x2 and even with the fan on the slowest speed the cpu never goes above 45. It did peak about 60 IDLE in the summer, but I was barely able to use my PC it was so flipping hot in the UK, stick-to-leather seat loveliness.
The airflow throughout your case with good placement of inlet/outlet fans is really important to a stable and low cpu temp.
Unless you're running some kind of database or method of large storage retrieval, leave well alone. The default is usually the best (unlike the default of most windows things). My 10k 75gig drive was only 80 quid, so its hardly that much when you can pair it with whatever cheap storage you want for large media.
This is probably a tongue in cheek review but I have a nagging suspicion he's the biggest fanboy who has ever lived and dont want to waste an hour finding out which it is.
You really should splash out on a bigger disk, I've got spare 40gig drives just lying around from old pcs. SpaceMonger should sort out your problem, I use it all the time for finding where my shit is.
Read post above that mentions physical security for flips sake. If you don't secure your machine from theft or tampering theres not a lot you CAN do to protect it. Please give me an argument that having a password is worse than not having one.
Its called humour, sometimes you have to laugh at others and sometimes to have to laugh at yourself. Not me however, anyone who mocks me will burn in hell forever.
My opinion comes from a load of articles I read a few months back when I was deciding to go for RAID or not (for increased performance), most conclusions I read were that its not worth the hassle - just apply the old adage of a small 10k drive for programs and larger slower drive for everything else. Also, despite my nightly full backups, not using RAID0 means you dont have to worry about the increased probability of failure.
mentioning final fantasy and grim fandango in the same sentence is blashphemy, I cannot get over just how much I hate FF7. Random combat is the worst gameplay invention ever, how anyone puts up with the bloody thing.
that was the most anti-christian thing I have ever seen, you should be ashamed of yourself, may god condemn you to the eternal fires of hell for your humerous blasphemy
Unless you have some kind of storage need for it, stick with the simple and usually better method, have a 10k low space drive like a WD raptor 75gig for windows+swapfile and programs and a larger slower disk for media and all your other shit
You dont really get double performance with raid0, especially when games are concerned
virtualdub mod is just a decent free video editing program, it lacks some basic features (layering vids, timeline) but its still got loads of good options for compression and after effects
The best thing for the american economy, if you measure the power of an economy by its GDP, is a terminally ill person undergoing lengthy divorce proceedings