Recent content by michaelgildersleeve

I wish I would have known about that. The reason I didn't have a raid is because I was planning on getting (4) 4 port cards (only because I didn't look on ebay, just newegg) and that would have wasted a lot of space having 4 RAIDS. I would have much rather have gotten what you got. Although I...

So I started this project to give me some excercise to allow my arm to recouparate after surgery after I broke it on vacation. Now it's finished (Jason just replaced the last cable) and I'm recouporating from surgery from breaking my leg in three places in a bike accident last weeked. I've...

By the way - That's what it used to look like.

Here's the computer with the cables mostly cleaned up. I have to get a longer IDE cable and move two more cables around the back, but it's time to go to sleep for now.

Does anybody have any links on nice looking bolts, thumbscrews, etc?

I'm trying to clean up all the cabling now. It's the least fun part of the project. I want to do another project badly, but I don't have the money to fork out for the possibility of selling right now. I decided to make the next project a 3 part modular system - one part for the amp and cable...

Thanks. The controller was fine, it was my mobo I kept messing with that went flakey.

Here's the "my computer" screen. It comes out to just under 2.7 TBs. I am going to buy a 8x SATA controller so I can add the last 2 stack of 4 hard drives. I imagine that the last 8 will average out to be about 500GBs each as I buy them over the next 3-5 years. Has anybody read anything...

I call it The Tower of Power. 120 gb - system and applications 9 x 250 gb - data 1 320 gb - data Nothing's RAID. I am buying a 8x SATA controller card and will be putting in 8 more drives as I need them. I imagine that the average of the 8 new drives will be 500GB as I buy over the...

What does power cycle mean?

But if I hook up a regular monitor (15" not 6x9) to the tower, it works fine as well. Also, does anybody know of a PCI extension and what the cable distance restrictions might be? Here's a link to one that I found, but it only has less than a 4" cable. I need about 8" to add in a firewire...

Are there any updates on this? I put in a water cooler in my system, and the GPU block blocks one of my PCI slots. I had this slot reserved for a 4x SATA controller when I needed it. I have room in my system for 2 more stacks of 4 hard drives and I have one more open PCI slot. I don't want...

Hey all. It's been a while since my last post. Been enjoying the new system and my friend Jason took my camera with him for a couple weeks while he was in New Orleans fighting the good fight. Here's a link to his blog that chronicles the events. He was able to do a variety of things...

What are good temperatures and what are bad temperatures to have for the CPU and GPU? Thanks

I have a Gigabyte 6800 128M GV-N68128DH video card with a passive cooler on it. I took of the heat sinks on both sides and there is a copper plate covering the chip. I don't see anyway that this is attached to the card anywhere, but it is firmly attached. I imagine that the thermal paste is...