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Mod Note: In all of my benevolence (and the fact I'm tired of cleaning gag posts out of the BA thread) I have created a new (did we ever have one??) Off Topic thread for all your randomness and IT-related humour! The rules are: there are no rules. Although posting on-topic stuff here or stuff that belongs in Hardware Discussion etc. better may be moved randomly with extreme prejudice!! It will also make you look silly

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alex1997123

Yeah, does anyone know any good free cloning software?. Was going to do a fresh install of Windows for my SSD but I just have too much stuff on my HDD to backup so.

Lu Tze

BloodBath wrote: »

I was wondering what free disk cloning software people are using these days?

I haven't cloned a drive in a while. Just want some recommendations.

alex1997123 wrote: »

Yeah, does anyone know any good free cloning software?. Was going to do a fresh install of Windows for my SSD but I just have too much stuff on my HDD to backup so.

I used CLonezilla the last time, no fancy GUI or anything but fairly easy to use! Cloned SSD to SSD, so im not sure about cloning a windows install on a HDD to SSD, isnt there issues etc. related to that?

uberpixie

Lu Tze wrote: »

I used CLonezilla the last time, no fancy GUI or anything but fairly easy to use! Cloned SSD to SSD, so im not sure about cloning a windows install on a HDD to SSD, isnt there issues etc. related to that?

Clonzilla can only restore an image to a disk equal or larger than the original disk partition. However if you shrink the windows partition down to size and then image you can get by.

Example: need to image new ssd 128gig, have 500 gig harddrive with windows installed. On the original 500gig you need to reduce the main windows partition down to below 128 gig and then create your image to be able to restore to a 128gig SSD.

Lu Tze

uberpixie wrote: »

Clonzilla can only restore an image to a disk equal or larger than the original disk partition. However if you shrink the windows partition down to size and then image you can get by.

Example: need to image new ssd 128gig, have 500 gig harddrive with windows installed. On the original 500gig you need to reduce the main windows partition down to below 128 gig and then create your image to be able to restore to a 128gig SSD.

Is there cloning software that you can clone a larger disk/partition to a smaller one!?

By the way, did anybody else order the NCASE M1 from the crowd funding campaign? Delivery estimates are from November to January, nice and accurate. Also not sure how much ill be caught for duty etc. when its imported:(

raymix

Clonezilla if cloning to equal or higher volume, then just add unallocated space if required trough disk management.
If cloning to smaller volume, then any backup like Norton Ghost, but it's much slower, so I'd keep installation as clean as possible.

Dothehustle

Lu Tze wrote: »

By the way, did anybody else order the NCASE M1 from the crowd funding campaign? Delivery estimates are from November to January, nice and accurate. Also not sure how much ill be caught for duty etc. when its imported:(

Nope, didn't order one but my god its sexy!!
Can't seem to see a price how much are they ??

Monotype

WD and Seagate each have a free version of Acronis (checks that you have one of their drives when installing). Good enough for Hard drive use... not sure that it would be suitable for SSD.

Lu Tze

Dothehustle wrote: »

Nope, didn't order one but my god its sexy!!
Can't seem to see a price how much are they ??

They arent on sale anymore, it was a crowd funding campaign, cost about €180, but there will likley be duty etc. applicable when imported.

Similar case being brought out by EVGA

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=86472442

cherryghost

uberpixie wrote: »

Clonzilla can only restore an image to a disk equal or larger than the original disk partition. However if you shrink the windows partition down to size and then image you can get by.

Example: need to image new ssd 128gig, have 500 gig harddrive with windows installed. On the original 500gig you need to reduce the main windows partition down to below 128 gig and then create your image to be able to restore to a 128gig SSD.

You can work around this, I used to do it at work, but I can't remember how. There's a parameter you can set to ignore drive size but I can't remember what it is

cherryghost

cherryghost wrote: »

7970 prices are in awfully tempting price territory.

I went and bought an R9 280x like a sow this morning for circa 260 euro.

Revoker88

^^Thats a pretty nice price for one, which one did you go for?

Headshot

hmmm

http://www.techpowerup.com/192630/radeon-r9-290x-pitted-against-geforce-gtx-titan-in-early-review.html

Some power consumption

Gumbi

Furmark is meaningless, both vendors throttle, it just comes down to who throttles more really. I won't believe any bench marks til I see official ones. It's unfortunate that The Titan comes clock so low, many can overclock to 1100/1200 on air AFAIK.

NTMK

Gumbi wrote: »

Furmark is meaningless, both vendors throttle, it just comes down to who throttles more really. I won't believe any bench marks til I see official ones. It's unfortunate that The Titan comes clock so low, many can overclock to 1100/1200 on air AFAIK.

They were Compute cards that failed Validation (based on what ive seen of them) so i guess they didnt want to that a chance on clocks or maybe held them back so in a case like now they can bump the cards performance with a driver update

Any word on how the Cooler on the new AMD cards sound. the last two cooler designs sounded like hoovers with the 6990 sound like a Jet engine

cherryghost

EoinHef wrote: »

^^Thats a pretty nice price for one, which one did you go for?

Gigabyte Windforce X3 edition. Postage is a tenner from the site, though it looks like the card is low on supply now

btkm8unsl0w5r4

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/radeon_r9_290x_against_geforce_gtx_titan.html

Hummm some not so interesting results for the r9 290x, seems to be somewhere between the 780 and the titan, beating titan in some areas and not others. Overclocks well.

I know they are only leaked results but shows that there is no great leap in performance, lets see how the pricing goes.

Son Of A Vidic

Quick question, I noticed a fair few recommendations to go with the Haswell CPU in some recent new build suggestions. Now I thought Haswell ran way too hot for OC. Unless you invested in some serious expensive cooling solutions. Even at stock speeds I thought is was running hot. So with all these recent recommendations for Haswell, has Intel improved it since it's initial release? Or was the initial release a bad batch of CPU's?

Gehad_JoyRider

hey every one,

I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on how the cpu water cooler pump is seated onto the cpu is it at the right angle?

Is that ok?

beno619

Esme Immense Dachshund wrote: »

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/radeon_r9_290x_against_geforce_gtx_titan.html

I know they are only leaked results but shows that there is no great leap in performance, lets see how the pricing goes.

The results are about what people expected, what we need is a price, hopefully AMD can bring down the price of a flagship to more reasonable price.

papu

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

hey every one,

I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on how the cpu water cooler pump is seated onto the cpu is it at the right angle?

Is that ok?

looks grand! clamp the hoses if you're worried , cable tie maybe?

Gehad_JoyRider

papu wrote: »

looks grand! clamp the hoses if you're worried , cable tie maybe?

I thought there might be a more exact way of what direction the pipes should be but good to know

ED E

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87047987&postcount=532

Somebodys about to get a paddlin'.

Sonics2k

ED E wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87047987&postcount=532

Somebodys about to get a paddlin'.

Thread's gone!

Off-topic/on-topic.

Now I have my new PC all up and running, I think I'll start looking into upgrading/fixing the old one for my girlfriend. It was a Dell XPS 420 (graphics card was actually a 512 MB AMD Radeon 3870) with sporadic BSOD when playing games, to date I haven't been able to figure out if it was the RAM or Graphics card was the problem.

This is the Motherboard , so I have to figure out if a Nvidia 650 graphics card will work on it OR if I'd have to get something like this older Nvidia 630.

I'm assuming it'll be the second option, due to motherboard having a PCI Express (2.0) x16 rather than a 3.0

Am I wrong in thinking this?

ShadowHearth

I still got my old dell 420 like yours m8. It is now hooked in bedroom as Media centre. I did put 6870 in to it and it was a massive boost. You could get those cheap second hand. Dells 375w PSU is quite good.

uberpixie

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm assuming it'll be the second option, due to motherboard having a PCI Express (2.0) x16 rather than a 3.0

Am I wrong in thinking this?

You can put a PCI Express 3.0 card in a PCI Express 2.0 slot. Tis backwards compatible. Get the best budget card you can get.

Sonics2k

uberpixie wrote: »

You can put a PCI Express 3.0 card in a PCI Express 2.0 slot. Tis backwards compatible. Get the best budget card you can get.

I feckin knew it!

Spent two hours last night trying to find out for certain and kept getting different comments. Cheers Uberpixie!

It seems either a lot has changed since I first built a PC, or I've just lost my mind.

Solitaire

ED E wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87047987&postcount=532

Somebodys about to get a paddlin'.

Apologies, post got sniped by another Mod, I didn't even get a chance to ban him! ;_;

Revoker88

Gonna go collect my second 7950 for crossfire in an hour from dpd, aything I should know before lobbing it in?
Do I need to remove and re install drivers or anything?

Cant wait to get it going and see what I can get out of it:)
On the downside I havent overclocked my i5 properly yet after new motherboard, just changed the multiplier to 40, I annoy myself with my laziness:(

Sarz91

EoinHef wrote: »

Gonna go collect my second 7950 for crossfire in an hour from dpd, aything I should know before lobbing it in?
Do I need to remove and re install drivers or anything?

Cant wait to get it going and see what I can get out of it:)
On the downside I havent overclocked my i5 properly yet after new motherboard, just changed the multiplier to 40, I annoy myself with my laziness:(

Just out of curiosity what resolution are you playing at?

Shiminay

Lash it in Eoin and make sure you remember to attach the Crossfire Bridge

Go into Catalyst Control Centre and turn CrossfireX on for games and that should do it.