Recent content by solmssen

Hey Danny, I built it. I decided I wanted to build a smaller, more focused machine to do what I really wanted - push a LOT of 2D pixels, and run a lot of apps at once. I'm not a gamer, and so the 2 x fast 3d card solution in a big ATX case seemed like overkill, more noise, heat, and power draw...

Thanks Danny - if you have time to look at workstation boards, I've love to hear your opinion. I'm looking into it, too. As far as cost - $160 for a motherboard doesn't faze me at all - I hear you, and I can be a cheap bastard myself, but this is my primary work machine we're talking about, and...

Danny, thanks for taking the time to reply. What do you like about that Gigabyte board? It seems very well-featured, but there are a lot of complaints at Newegg. I'm willing to spend for stability and quality - the eVGA P55-200 Classified board intrigued me, for example. I recently built a...

1) Primary productivity PC - heavy web browsing, QuickBooks, Office apps inc. Outlook, light Photoshop, lots of RDP and VNC sessions. No gaming. Just a lot of apps going all the time - not unusual for me to have 4 RDP windows, Chrome, IE and FF all with many tabs, multiple Outlook windows and...

Hi all, My vintage 2006 XP machine is showing signs of being tired and ready to be put to pasture. I am planning a build for myself, and would love some comments and suggestions. I really miss the old Ars Technica guides, they were a nice jumping off point. I'm in Los Angeles, so Fry's is a...