Recent content by mista_eng

Ah, forgot to mention those: all stock cooling for the case, CPU, and GPU. I'll post pics later, learning c# on the new box right now! :)

Just wanted to report back that my build went fine and that I'm very satisfied with how it went. Setup adds no noticeable sound to my desk environment, case build quality is very good, and it really is a nice little power sipping box. Components: Silverstone FT03b-Mini Intel i3-3220 16GB...

Thanks for the reply WiSK. I wound up ordering a EVGA gtx660 superclocked for ~$212 shipped (there's a $10 coupon from the web). The budget I had in mind for a video was $250, and while I could have stretched that to include gtx660 ti cards, I didn't feel as though I needed the extra...

Thanks for the suggestion, the monitor in portrait mode should be fine for me. Just hope that there's a good deal on it soon. Otherwise, Costco it is...

Just out of curiosity, would a Seasonic X-650 PSU have fit (and installed properly) in this case? I ordered a X-560 for ~$136 since a few users here confirmed installation in a FT03-mini. The X-650 was at the time on sale for $90 at newegg... did I miss out on great savings? I know that a...

Can someone comment on the practicality of using this monitor in portrait mode? I am considering purchasing 2x of these - one in landscape, the other in portrait mode - but wonder if it is too tall when rotated. I do a lot of reading, a bit of writing (code, documentations, emails, etc.), and...

Just a few questions... Has anyone made the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 with their X9SCM-F board? If so, how was the experience and what BIOS version are you running? Any quirks? I noticed a 2.0b BIOS on SuperMicro's website but didn't see release notes. Any significant fixes? I've also...

Well, I woke up to find memtest errors, noted to have occurred after 8+ passes. This was with both sticks of memory on the motherboard. I've since been testing with only one stick, in the slot furthest from the CPU, and it has just gone through 10 memtest passes (~6 hours). I'm going to swap it...

I am troubleshooting what appears to be a memory related issue, either at the memory module or motherboard (slot or otherwise) level. Basically, I'm wondering if what I see in memtest86+ v4.20 is normal: depending on which slot has a stick of memory, the CAS timings displayed in memtest...

How can I get older BIOS image files for my x9scm motherboard? I just upgraded to 2.0a and my FreeBSD VM for ZFS is not playing nicely (or at all) with a Intel/LSI 1068e SAS HBA via direct passthrough in ESXi. I've emailed Supermicro tech support about this just now, but was wondering if...

Motherboard in question is a Supermicro X9SCM-FO. Is it possible to pass through the onboard SATA ports (or more precisely the controller) to an ESXi VM? If so, then why are so many recommendations for ESXi + ZFS boxes including an HBA of some sort? The X9SCM board comes with 6 ports (2x...

Thought I'd keep this updated since the threads and posts from so many others helped me through this build. :) Here's what came in the mail over the past several weeks: 1x Intel Xeon E3-1230 16GB DDR3-1333 Unbuffered ECC RAM (Crucial 4x 4GB) 1x Supermicro X9SCM-F-O 1x Intel SASUC8I HBA...

Thanks for the pictures oddity. I was hoping for 4 more DIMM slots, for a maximum of 32GB (4x4GB) ECC unregistered RAM. I am reconsidering buying a X9SCM-F, but don't want to wait much longer either, ha. Any word of an upcoming SuperMicro Sandy Bridge board with 8 DIMMs? From the looks of...

Hey guys, I'd like to build an all-in-one for the following purposes at home: VMWare ESXi FreeBSD with ZFS VM as a fileserver Windows 2008 R2 VMs Ubuntu server Squid web cache VM I'm new to FreeBSD, ZFS, and ESXi, but have tried to read as much as possible about them. The server will be used...