Recent content by Arkarius

Finally planning to upgrade my old e8400 and 6550 in a storm scout, which is still performing admirably I must say, but I think I am due for an upgrade. Couldn't stop looking at this case the first time I saw it, the form factor is amazing and absolutely what I want/need in a desktop case. My...

Part of me wishes I went for the 8 core bulldozer, but for my needs this thing is more than adequate. I am planning to do some streaming and transcoding with it but never more than 1-2 streams most likely. ^What motherboards were you looking at in particular? From my understanding all AMD...

My set-up cost me way less than $1000. May not be quite as capable as some of the listed systems but it has been rock solid so far. x6 1045T $110 from Microcenter Asus 970x $100 (IOMMU supported) 16GB cheap DDR3 $65 (I wish I had gone for 32GB but I was going for cheap as possible) I already...

I'm in a similar boat with my storage issues right now. Didn't feel like starting a thread but let me know if you want me to get rid of my post, wouldn't want to intrude. :) My current NAS (sig below) has a full 1TB drive in it. I have one more 1TB and a 2 TB drive. It will be a while before I...

Yes it does support DirectIO. I thought all AMD 970 and 990 motherboards supported it, mine is this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131767

I've been meaning to build an ESXI box for a while now, finally got around to ordering the last remaining pieces to get it running. I only have 8GB of RAM for the moment, the other half should be here tomorrow/today now I suppose. I've been having a blast playing around so far, this should...