Recent content by Gagnon

$50k is a bit out of our price range, but interesting post nonetheless. I priced out the AWS High I/O reserved instance using light utilization (trying to figure out what the differences are in utilization levels) which uses SSD and it came out to $12k per year, I realize there are other...

Thanks! I snagged this and will digest it later, looks like a lot of useful information.

If we have a disk heavy application using SQL, can we get respectable disk performance on reads and writes in the cloud or are we much better off (like order of magnitudes better) rolling our own SSD RAID? We're capturing a lot of tick data (small size, many writes, frequent writes) for...

This is a probably a dumb question, but if we had to choose between 4x100GB and 4x200GB for a RAID 10 configuration, should we automatically go with the 200GB? Are there any benefits for performance, reliability, and/or expected lifetime by going with the smaller sized drive? Unfortunately...

We're upgrading our server for our startup company that went live this past Sunday. I was curious what some of the top brands/models of SSD drives that people would recommend. I will be using it in an raid array, emphasis on performance and reliability. This will be used in a server running...

Good guess, I propped it up on my desk, took a better look inside. It wasn't PSU fan it was one of the 7970's, between the two they installed an X-Fi sound card which I don't use with my B&W MM-1's so I just removed the card and now noise free! The fan was rubbing against the sound card :mad:

Not a cheap PSU here, 1500 Watt Toughpower-1500M I opened up case, guess I'll have to put it on my workbench and really take a good look/listen.

Another recording, this time using CrossFire while playing XCOM, had to shut down system, doesn't sound healthy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWm-HWGTOq0&feature=youtu.be

http://youtu.be/tR3Xnzk1-OM Noise gets louder as I play XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Doesn't matter if I put them in CrossFire or not. I have adjusted the fan speed to the point where I can noticeably hear the fan so it is not the GPU fan. Seems to start up when I turn on my PC and after a few...

I ended up purchasing a custom built system, specs below. I was wondering which of these Amazon EC2 instances it would more closely parallel. I realize this is not Apples to Apples, but wanted to know where the strengths / weaknesses were in buying iron vs. renting virtual. Here are the two...

I can see why they didn't support it in SC2 which I bought as well. SC2 is a competitive game against other players and having that extra real estate would be a very big advantage. Blizzard didn't want the "pros" to buy wins, they wanted to cater to the grandma's. Something like D3 though...

I read about D3 not supporting eyefinity so that changes things a bit, and even in windowed mode, it only uses 1 card (not both from what I have read) and even then, the game will show objects only on the middle third, whereas the first and third portions will only show shadows or outlines of...

I have read a lot about triple CF of 7970 for three 30" monitors, I don't think I need that much GPU power so I am only going with single crossfire (2 cards). I will mainly be playing Diablo3 when it launches. So three questions: 1) Are there any known problems with 7970 CF w/ 30" eyefinity...

So I finally have gotten around to assembly. 1 quick question, I purchased the SFF8087 fan out cables, looking inside the box and how the HDD's are connected it looked like there is already a suitable cable that is nicely routed through the case and tied up, can I just use that instead or do I...

Do I have any options? Do I need to buy a physical DVD/CD, can I get away with a USB DVD/CD drive instead? Is network install an option?