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    Need efficient PSU for 24/7/365 on home server

    Kind of late here, but if you talk about server, then you need to talk about UPS. Forget electric bill, any server would benefit from graceful shutdown or prevent a 1h outage. I'm on my 3rd mini-itx server, which uses 1x 14TB drive and 2x M.2 NvMs. My current i3-9100 (w/ECC memory) consumes 20W...
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    Intel® Xeon® Processor X7550 Hi-Res MACRO of CPU

    Saw this now......sooo, I should have an 8800GT and 6600....will look for them this WE. Maybe a shot of the famous 8xxx series thermal cycle damage ?!?!?! Oh...I think that's under the chip.
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    Why Phone Makers Are Trying to Kill the Headphone Jack

    So.....take a piece of plastic less than 4mm (0.15") thick and the width and length of your phone.....now try to mimic talking on the phone....SURPRISE....no matter how rounded the edge is, it feels like it cuts your hand. Thinner is good (I have a 9mm Z5c which could be thinner), but like...
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    Confessions of a Custom Mechanical Keyboard Obsessive

    Not all switches are noisy. I went through 3 mechanical keyboards in the last 2 years: 1. A Razer MX blue - returned it the next (working) day and ordered a switch sampler (8 varieties) from Amazon 2. Corsair MX red - went with it for a year, but I really wanted Browns from the start. Finally...
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    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Performance and IQ Preview @ [H]

    I have one big problem with TAA: ghosting on small movements. I noticed this in Golem after the ACR elevator (I think it's too little information to classify as spolier), when talking to the "i've got a bad feeling" guy (I'm not good with names). He has somekind of big vertical zipper on his...
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    Would You Pay $50 to Watch New Movies at Home?

    Well, I don't like theaters, some of the reasons being: fight for seats and scheduling, other people (well, strangers, not friends) and the small gap between seats (you may argue there are better theaters, but not in my 2nd-largest-in-the-country town). Now, I don't know about 50$, but for 25$ I...
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    7 Things I Still Hate About Windows 10

    So my comments from the OA points: Store Apps: I don't know....I stopped when I could not install any apps without a MS account Action Center: well....I don't agree with the space-eater of the toggles....because I've used it on tablets Tiles: This is confirmation that he is on a non-touchscreen...
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    How Screen Size Preferences Have Changed Through The Years

    Where is the world going to? After about 5 years of yearly phone changes because the 4-4.3" market was underpowered, I have the Z1 compact from launch (1.5 eyars) and no candidate to replace it. Of course if something happens, I'll get the Z3 compact. But at least now I can also consider the...
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    Why Virtualized 3D Graphics Are Moving to GPUs

    When I changed from Radeon 5850 to 7950, I did try a friends GTX280 which did not work, although I only had it for 2 days, so I can't be entirely sure that Xen needed patches or not. But my 7950 works flawlessly. And to be clear, I've played AAA games only in virtual machine since 1 day before...
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    Now Is The Time To Switch Back To Firefox

    I've been loyal to Firefox since the beginning (I think some 0.9x versions), except recently (few years) for gmail and google calendar, maybe maps. The reason why I do use Chrome is because I can't be logged in to just gmail, calendar and maps, but logged-out of search and youtube (I don't have...
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    Microsoft Extends Windows 8.1 Update Migration Deadline

    From all the news about this subject it gives the impression that you have to update now or you will never receive updates (which is absurd). I know MS wants all users to freak out. But no articles says that you can install this update any time (regardless of deadline), it's just you will not...
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    Question about VT-D and passthrough

    First of all, you cannot give it only the HDD. You need to passthrough the storage controller (more explicitly, a PCI/PCIe device). If you do have a 2nd controller, then if you can boot with it, it should do what you want since the HDD will be natively controlled by the guest. Now...I said "if...
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    Xen virtualization and VGA passthrough = no more dual-boot

    EFI/BIOS setup, under CPU settings, I can enable from 1 to 4 cores.
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    Xen virtualization and VGA passthrough = no more dual-boot

    Ok....I remembered forum discussions about the 3930K steppings (me: just reader). But now I made a new installation and ran some native Win7 3DMarks: 3DMark11: Native, 4 cores: P7171 (GFX:7396) Native, 3 cores: P6651 (GFX:7300) Virtualized, 3 cores: P6479 (GFX:7307) 3DMarkVantage...
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    Xen virtualization and VGA passthrough = no more dual-boot

    @Rody: Unfortunately, according to Intel ark (http://ark.intel.com/products/63697/Intel-Core-i7-3930K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz), your CPU does not support VT-d (which is required for passthrough). Check all the 2011 socket CPUs...
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