Recent content by styx0r

I have the same CPU and cooler, although I've swapped the fans out for some high static pressure noctua fans. I'm also assuming you're not overclocking, and you've not adjusted the voltage at all.. Assuming that the cooler block is in fact well-seated with an appropriate amount of thermal...

I personally went from a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 to an ASUS VII Hero, keeping the same case fans (and swapping the 140mm corsair fans on my H110 with noctua high static pressure fans) - the ASUS fan control in the UEFI system is spectacular in comparison to the Gigabyte offerings. I actually bought...

Thanks for the advice! I'll skip the 'high end' RAM. Suggestions for motherboard? I've been looking at the ASUS Maximus VI Hero, but am not necessarily sold on the board. Unless the onboard sound is truly good, I'll probably use an external DAC instead... Less expensive options that OC...

I'm achieving 240fps under most conditions (except complex scenes / fast action, when high sustained FPS is most important). Again, I realize this is not a reasonable / normal gaming request, but I definitely notice when FPS drops below 120 @ 120hz, and I'd like to eliminate those dips in Source...

Yes, I've tried the PSU with multiple GPUs, and it will shutdown under full load. I'm using the appropriate PCI-E connectors, no hacked molex nonsense. Single GPU, + OC'd i7-930 will pass 8hrs of OCCT PSU test. Dual GPU will crash in under 10 minutes. I have tried a number of GPUs, fyi. It's...

I've heard many people say this about faster RAM, and I've seen benchmarks demonstrating the diminishing FPS returns. However, lower CAS latency at higher clockspeeds is faster, by definition. I know it won't increase max FPS, but it might reduce per-frame latency. I realize it's common to...

Let me preface this by saying I'm interested in minimum stable FPS, in excess of 120fps, in all situations, on the source engine. I realize this is excessive for most people - I just want no slowdown / jitter in any situation. The difference between 2.8ghz and 3.8ghz on my current i7-930...

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I hope this is sarcasm, but I suspect it's not. If you're serious, you should either read more about the strengths of bitcoin, or not bother yourself with discussing it. The total bitcoin value is a little over 2 billion USD. There are major players putting money into it, and there are some...

I have a napp-it rsync question: I'm an rsync n00b, but I just spent an hour or two learning how to setup rsync daemon and client, and it seems like a pretty simple endeavor. I've entered the following ultra basic config in rsyncd.conf, via the web interface, saved OK: [system] comment = rsync...

1. You don't use a vacuum because the generate lots of static electricity and won't effectively clean the many tight spaces in a computer case / around a motherboard. 2. If you work on computers, especially those in dirty conditions (factory, farm, steel mill, etc) you should seriously consider...

It's amazing how people latch on to misinformation. Windows 8 is not a complete redesign of Windows. If you've used the consumer preview, you know that it's basically Win 7 (with some nice tweaks here and there, and some major overhauls that are long overdue, but have minimal effect on the...

brutalizer: As I mentioned in a follow-up post, I do not have individual hdd lights, so using dd to determine which disk was bad was out of the question. I agree - raidz2 is a better solution, because as it is now, I'll be using (6) 2TB disks: 5 in raidz1 1 hot spare these 6 drives in raidz2...

Yes, RAIDZ1.

Sure thing, PigLover Because this machine does not have individual hdd status lights (activity / power), and because the expander card I am using treats the SATA drives as SAS drives, when I ran the command 'iostat -en' from the OpenIndiana console, the bad drive appeared with the title...