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    PowerColor TurboDuo R9 290 4GB OC Video Card Review @ [H]

    David, Your argument makes sense. I will say that most of the heavy gamers I know are off 1080/1200 and onto 1440 or at least two or more lower res screens (I myself run games across dual 1080 screens). Having thought of it further I would assume that they rest of your system would have to...
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    PowerColor TurboDuo R9 290 4GB OC Video Card Review @ [H]

    I never understand why costs for using these cards (and other things) aren't taken into account. Here in CA a kilowatt hour costs about $0.17/hr for residential. In order to get the 290's on par with the 970's you need an extra 202 watts. That extra power comes out to almost $12/per year per...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    There are a number of lists out there that may help fill your list out: http://www.overclock.net/t/1338063/vt-d-compatible-motherboards http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo
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    HP ProLiant MicroServer owners' thread

    Just an FYI but I was able to find a cheap 200w PSU that works just fine (needs two molex splitters). http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/250-watt-flex-atx-power-supply-FLEX-200W.php Shipped to me in CA was under $34. Fan noise is a tad louder than the stock but nothing too bad.
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    SO anything better than the NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 AC3200?

    It depends on your needs, budget and knowledge. I have plenty of consumer grade routers with wifi turned off which perform just fine (as long as you don't need VPN). The Archer C7 is a very fast router and cheap. I put these into 5 friends houses and in almost a year only two reboots (one...
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    500 Million ASUS Motherboards. The Celebration Starts at [H]. - Lucky Draw

    Had a customer that insistent on building the cheapest PC's they could despite my recommendation. At that time I had built a number of computers using a number of vendors (most of them no longer around) but the ones that were the most reliable were the Abit's and the Asus. In this instance we...
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    [WIN8] Installing Windows 8 Upgrade on fresh, empty drive (reg key change)

    Just to be clear do you need to change the registry key to "0" first (as in the first post and if so what is the sequence?) or just do the three steps Odditory listed? so far this is what I have: 1. Change key from 1 to 0. 2. Open elevated command prompt 3. slmgr -rearm <enter> 4...
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    Which ZFS OS + VM for System

    I've tried a bunch of different ZFS related OS (FreeNAS, NASFree, OI, SmartOS, OmniOS, ZFS Guru, EON, Nexenta (free), Openfiler, etc...). Overall they all seem to work just fine and you can get them installed very quickly. The difficulty is after the install. At the end of the day I went with...
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    FreeNAS vs OpenMediaVault

    Not to quibble here but RAID 10 is NOT a mirror of two RAID 5 arrays (what a holy nightmare that would be). RAID 5 is basically a stripe (like RAID 0) with parity (where the third drive comes in). RAID 10 is a mirror (RAID 1) then a stripe (RAID 0). Recovering data from a RAID 5 is done by...
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    KVM under SmartOS or OpenIndiana?

    Just a note but VT-X is not VT-D. There are a limited number of reasonable processors but you are very restricted on your motherboard choices. I am also going to give SmartOS a try even though my server is on ESXi 5 compat list.
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    Nostromo N52 + Vista?

    http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/article/?lid=enu&pid=F8GFPC100&aid=9072&scid=293 Just released Vista x64 drivers for the n52! Thank god.
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    n650 sli ds4 bios, oc

    I just got the GA-N650SLI-DS4 and I was able to hit 3.2Ghz (8 * 400) on an E6420 with no added volts. This is using the 120 extreme which keeps the temps pretty low. I don't know if its the ram but so far everything that I've tried above 400fsb either will not boot up (load last good profile...
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    E6420 which batch?

    Hello, Got two E6420's and I wanted to see if anyone knew which batch I should keep. I'll test them both but I figure I would see if anyone has any experience with these. FPO/BATCH# 3714A297 FPO/BATCH# L709A537 Thanks!
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    Just got my Lian Li PC-7S

    Ok so I just got my Lian Li PC-7S and I really love the way this case looks. I want to do a few simple (hopefully! = ) mods and I have a few questions. I plan on using a Radgrillz (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3695) as the grill) for the...
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    Gigabyte 650SLI DS4

    I just purchased all my parts for my new system and the DS4 is the mobo I went with. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for my powersupply so I won't get a chance to build this until this weekend. Check out the review here http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4939&s=1 they mention these gaps and a few...
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