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Yes, 2011 V3 is as much of a stop gap as 2011. The major improvements in 2011 V3 are platform wide, and are often about the intel NIC and RAID (add on cards) that are part of the platform and were upgraded. If you are not on the server/workstation side and tossing a few hundred at the right...

The issue isn't just IOPS, it's that consumer (aka enthusiast/gamer) does not have the features you need and is vastly more prone to the sort of errors that cause problems with VHDs SQL transactions and the other sort of things these CPUs are built for. If you're going dualie and can use all...

Like Haswell Broadwell will be mostly about mobile, and that's not bad. Decent IGP has some worth.

Depends what he means by "spans". Two HBAs can share a SAS target. They can even trade off the target (usually done as a LUN, but RAID volumes can work as well) if one is having problems. Most high end SANs pack multiple SAS HBA/RAID devices that share all the LUNs dynamically as needed...

Much as I hate to break this to you, you still are CPU limited when it comes to VMs! You're also RAM limited and your storage is abysmal for it. That's the thing, real power user stuff (SQL, VMs) is not like the bullshit childrens toys people here call "enthusiast". There is no limit to...

Developers. We load up systems like this but with 256gb RAM or more, SAS card with SAS SSDs and 10k rpm 2.5 hdds. Developers can then run all their own virtual sql, hadoop, and other virtualized development environments locally. They make their stuff on CentOS locally and move to the...

Japanese developers love using frame locks. In the case of fast games like Street Fighter or some shmups, it's so there is a 100% consistent frame rate since certain advanced tricks are frame dependent (ie game is 60fps, each move has a set amount of frames in startup/active/hitting that you...

On the other hand, the X99S and the X99 Krait are good buys. MSI is just like everyone else, they have a ton of products out at each price point.

I'm going to pull the trigger on one of their ITX boxes... just need to pick out my mobo first.

They are having a sale! The company http://www.parvumsystems.com/ Thread here on the sale! http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1863467 Pic of what you are buying

Having seen one in person, these are equal or better than the Danger Den options. I've got the Danger Den MATX case at home and compared to a friend with the Parvum MATX, the Danger Den isn't as nice or functional. Not holding it against the Danger Den as it's an earlier product from a company...

http://www.parvumsystems.com/ Code is PARVUM20 :D For those who don't know these are bad ass acrylic cases like Danger Den (RIP :( ) used to make but with a focus on MATX and ITX. Small company from the PC community as well. Throw them some love.

You're not going to be running multiple operating systems like that, not how all this works. You'll need one core OS and then you can spin VMs off it. We play UT at work off Hyper-V VMs with one VM hosting the server as well. Works like a charm. What you want is not possible physically, but...

My WinXP box AMD Athalon FX-51 1gb DDR400 ECC 1x PCI adaptec SCSI card 1x Soundblaster Audigy2 Platinum 1x ASUS SK8N mobo 1x nvidia 6800gt BFG (can be flashed to quadro) AGP 2x80gb SCSI disks RAID0 2x WD Raptor RAID0 1x SCSI CD ROM Plextor 1x Floppy DD 1x IDE DVD ROM 1x PCI intel...

You're going to want more people.