Recent content by Parak

Tempting. Any idea if it's compatible with the NZXT G10? Looks like it from the pictures, but might be of slightly different size.

5/5 first time around with MDR-MA900 connected to Z68XP-UD4 (ALC889) rear panel speaker out. Had to listen a few times to each pairing, and the differences that I thought I heard were extremely minor. Definitely would not matter at all during casual listening, or especially during gaming...

Hey folks, I bought a used Sapphire 290 two months ago, installing a G10 + H55 + Gelid v2 VRM sinks immediately. Temps were pretty amazing, 55c at full load on the GPU and about 60c max on the VRMs. Worked great with no issues at all at a minor overclock, then today just randomly keeled over...

Ah, I actually misread/misunderstood what the OP was using. I should clarify further that based on my experience with repeatedly applying head to desk over figuring out infiniband, Linux was the better documented (and I use the term loosely) platform for infiniband usage because of OFED. YMMV...

iSER was a no go at the time that I tried it, as the target was nowhere close to being usable. I did not try Solaris clients, only Windows, Linux, and ESX (with SRP). I don't know about your specific needs, but if you have a choice in the matter and have no preference otherwise, I'd actually...

For ease of use, vanilla NFS and iSCSI are fine. RDMA with them in my experience was difficult to implement, unstable, and not much of a performance boost. This also obviously layers on top of IPoIB, so don't expect latency equivalent to what infiniband may advertise due to overhead. If you...

Woops, my eyes conveniently skipped over the "for a client" part :p

I'd subtly suggest that given the $ludicrous cost for a dell (unless you're getting a massive discount), along with nickel and diming for stuff like graphical oob management, you should consider going with one of the following supermicro barebones instead: 6026T-NTR+ 6026T-URF4+ 6026T-3RF LSI...

If you're looking to do it on a single box, combining two previous boxes, you'll want a reasonably effective disk solution. I'd suggest: RAID 1/5 SSD/SAS (depending on capacity needed) for the VM boot volumes RAID 10 for additional database volumes(SSD/SAS depending on speed required) RAID...

They quote 40 lbs for the work surface, which is likely somewhat lower than what it can actually support. It's quite stable in whichever placement for typical computing tasks, taking notes, laptops, etc. That said, I wouldn't sit on it, drop fully loaded cases or CRTs on it, or something similar...

All the shelves (except the base shelf) already come with a huge cable canal extending the full length at the back (see one of the pics), so I don't really see a need for a separate one, FWIW. Unless you really must drape something across in the middle, obviously :p I also considered getting...

Hmm, why not raid5 the first three, raid1 the last two, and then lvm span the two md sets? You could even raid0 them, but that gives you speed weirdness.

The materials are very strong, but because of the way it's constructed, there is definitely some "give" to it, so it does wiggle slightly if you shake it. YMMV because of the bigger footprint of the regular fit unit shelves, but generally speaking anywhere you have wheels (less of a ground...

Problem solved: Aero had to be enabled (I didn't really care for ui prettiness), which allowed for 3d settings like vsync to work on 2d stuff. Forcing vsync on in ccc didn't help in games for whatever reason, and vsync had to be enabled in each game to resolve. I almost shipped the card back...

The more I tinker with it, the more noticeable it seems to become. Just dragging the firefox window up and down with the [H] forums open produces the lines :/