Advise on motherboard purchase

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 08:38 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 15:32, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>> The HDs can operate at up to 70C temperatures but they never get
>>> anywhere close to this as there is enough air circulating inside the
>>> case - at least in my computer(s). As well, the newer HDs run VERY cool:
>>> I have WD 500GB and Seagates and they are barely warm after working all
>>> day. But, of course, they do feel a bit warmer when the ambient
>>> temperature goes up.
>>>
>> 70 Centigrade? What have you been taking Basil? I know of disks that
>> DIED at 55/60 (big argument about why the file servers were unstable - I
>> won after I proved it was heat issues heh) so there is no way you can
>> run at 70C which is over 10% OUT of the manufacturers' stated operating
>> environment.
>>
>
> Ah, I just saw it! Is this what the fuss is all about- my typo? I meant
> 60C. In the same way I meant to write in another post that I have 512MB
> of RAM instead of 5326MB of RAM :-) .
>

LOL. Basil saw the light.

/me goes to play with his 16384MB of RAM.