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    Power Supply - loud click

    It is probably just a relay. I have an AX850 (Corsair) and a X750 (Seasonic), they are AFAIK based on the same design and made by Seasonic. Both these power supplies click when the computer turns off, goes into sleep etc. I believe it has to do with powering down as much of the PSU as...
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    So is the Asus RT-N66U still a good buy in this day and age ?

    Mine (N66) gets warm (you can comfortably have your hand on top for a couple of minutes, should you want), although not unbearably so. Most of the higher end routers have pretty strong CPUs and obviously wireless chips etc, and they all make heat. I would say that the N66 is no worse than any...
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    So is the Asus RT-N66U still a good buy in this day and age ?

    I currently have a n66 running the latest Merlin firmware. The USB sharing speed (and number of "connections") is quite poor, not good for saving torrents to, for example. I am however impressed with the WAN speeds, which does nothing to slow down my 100/10 connection, I often get more than...
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    Need z5500 replacement advice!

    Optical didn't have enough bandwidth to transmit PCM 5.1 channel sound, hence having Dolby Digital and DTS. It did have enough bandwidth for 2 channel PCM though. HDMI has the ability to transmit many channels of PCM audio. If you connect the HDMI to the 680 SLI, you will be able to game...
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    Will my headphones benefit from an external DAC + Amp?

    Just wanted to ask, is this for music only? Or gaming involved too? Generally you get great performance from using a USB DAC for music, and then using an amp after that. However, if you are gaming, and want positional audio, you want a sound card with hardware DSP (probably), and then an amp...
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    SB X-FI - SB0460 - Win 7 x64 - 4GB issue

    Just to be clear, the problem appeared when you added more memory to your system? What BIOS are you running on the machine? I wonder if there are any extra options on the more up to date BIOS.
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    What's happening with this DTS-HD MA audio?

    I would personally let the amp to the decoding, but I cannot comment on whether or not there is a benefit to letting one or the other do the decoding. Just that the amp is controlling everything else (room customisation, digital to analog conversion etc), so why not decoding also?
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    Windows not recognizing SSD after MB RAID array deletion

    So the drive shows up in the BIOS/ UEFI of the machine? But under Windows it does not show up? Only on Linux?
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    Considering going 5.1 to 2.0

    For moves IMO a center speaker can do wonders, depending what you watch for movies. I would personally have 2 front speakers and a sub, then add a center, and then the rears (in that order). Speech comes from the center speaker, and it normally adds a lot to have the speech coming from the...
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    WD Red 3 TB issues - Bad quality or unlucky?

    My 2 reds have 4300 hours and 5400 hours on them, smart data is still fine. They have been kept running maybe 80% of the time, and kept around 30*C in vertical orientation. No problems for me. I guess you have just been unlucky. But of course, always have a backup just in case!
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    SB X-FI :: Popping/Crackle/Buzz

    Do the noises persist when you connected the speakers to another source?
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    Network racks and bus bar?

    I think general practice is to have everything protected with PME (Protected Multiple Earthing), where the rack, cold water system, warm water system, gas etc are all linked to the same earth point as the electrical system. That prevents earthing across phases from multiple phase inputs and for...
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    Prebuilt NAS or Home Build

    You said ZFS, so just thought I would bring up that ZFS really needs a UPS (as do all "servers") and ECC support on the CPU, Motherboard and the RAM. ECC means that the ZFS scrubbing and data rot detection and repair can work as it should do. If you do go ZFS, ECC is also a recommendation.
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    OCZ Stock Crashes 60.5% in TWO days

    It is, but they only have themselves to blame really. Got to step up when the competition gets tough :) They made some excellent memory back in the day! Thinking of the Platinum EB TCCD DDR 200Mhz 2-2-2-X that would happily run at 318Mhz at more relaxed timings that Anand used as a bench platform...
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    Eizo Foris FG2421: 120hz VA Panel

    Well Samsung make their PLS panels, probably in their own factory. They might of found a way to make it without cross hatching, that AU, Sharp and LG haven't ;) Or maybe PLS owners are too blind :P (Don't notice cross hatch on my Asus)
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