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    $1000 upgrade - Last min (sorry!)

    Sale on the Asus PB278Q $466.00 pricematched at Microcenter to Amazon & BHPhoto! Patience kind of paid off, so far Q6600 isn't making me cry with this massive resolution yet either!
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    $1000 upgrade - Last min (sorry!)

    While at Microcenter I held much internal deliberation and decided to hold off until at least June's flyer/sales and the hopeful announcement from Intel on new K series processors in the next week or two. I purchased the single pressing item, an XFX R9-280X price matched to Newegg ($297 w/tax)...
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    $1000 upgrade - Last min (sorry!)

    I should note I'm not beyond picking up a Intel Pentium G3240 3.10GHz LGA 1150 for $55 at Microcenter today while I wait to hear about Devil's Canyon if I'll be able to game for the next month or two at still better than Q6600 performance. IE can I get on BF4 at better than low detail?
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    $1000 upgrade - Last min (sorry!)

    ** Updated post below - I can wait 1-3 weeks for best options/value for CPU, MOBO, RAM @ $550/tax&shipping ** ## Original post ## Hi all, it's been a little bit, but I'm finally ready to retire my Q6600 (in sig) and am thinking z87 something and an i5-4670K at Microcenter which today is $189.99...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    Hello all, Been a while, figured I show today's current (and freshly rebuilt) lab status! ESX Host --------------- VMware ESXi 5.1 Dell PowerEdge 1950 (with spare above in pic!) 2 x Xeon E5345 @ 2.33GHz 32GB RAM 272GB Local SCSI RAID 5 QLogic 405Xc iSCSI Host Bus Adapter...
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    Urgent Build - Server - VM host - SQL Box

    Thank you for your prompt and excellent assistance Danny! I've just finished some reading on the Vertex drives and agree with the swap (and the memory change). I've been running an OCZ V3 with great success (knocks on desk) but think I'll move to the Crucial. As for RAID 1, I won't build it if...
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    Urgent Build - Server - VM host - SQL Box

    Hey all, My old man is in need of a server and is consolidating computers and laptops (after a catastrophic failure of his core laptop/dev/sql machine) into one box for the house. Anyway here's the questions/answers- the only real key is I need to get this built tomorrow so he can be back to...
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    Who is still using intel Core 2 duo processors for gaming?

    Love my Q6600 G0 (sig rig) and play Skyrim at High without issue. SSD was the best update I could have done and added a couple more years to my system. I've recently built nicer boxes for friends, and there is a little difference, but IMO it's not huge and I'll wait till necessity dictates I...
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    Audio-Techinca ATH-A900 Headphones Review @ [H]

    I just want to say over the past, jeesh, 3 years (and I bought them used) these headphones have made me so happy. Music, games, video, it's all a joy. Comfortable for hours, and I didn't have to break the bank on a DAC or dedicated headphone amp to get the most out of them (I'm looking at you...
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    Gaming & Software Dev Workstation Build $1400-$1900

    Computer built, friend is most ecstatic. Sadly he downloaded Skyrim last Saturday and we haven't heard from him since :) Thanks again for your input Danny.
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    Gaming & Software Dev Workstation Build $1400-$1900

    My bad on the combo note, I had meant the case only. Thanks for your build input!
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    Gaming & Software Dev Workstation Build $1400-$1900

    Hey all, helping a friend build a slick new gaming workstation with potential for some lite photo/video work. Basically his first new desktop in years and he's looking to power a 24" monitor at 1600x1200 with latest games at max resoultion (BF3, CoD, Skyrim) and run some VM's for software...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    New hardware day! Just came across an IBM x3550 and found 4 146GB drives (hello RAID 10) and 16GB of memory! It's the single proc 1RU but finally I'll have a host capable of x64 emulation! Very excited here, only supports ESX 4.1i but hey, better than nothing!
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    HD6870 slow in skyrim @ 1280x720

    I'll take some FRAPS readings when I get home but I've been playing for the past few days on my Q6600 - HD6870 @ 1680x1050 w/ HIGH settings across the board (and a few .ini tweaks) and haven't felt any serious issues. That said I'm still working up to "amazing" image quality but I realize my...
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    SSD or Display upgrade ?

    I was in a similar boat, except my OS HD started making some noise (it was a re-use from the last upgrade 3+ years ago so it was the weak point in my system anyway) and all I can say was getting the OCZ Vertex 3 was the single best thing I've done for a computer. Absolutely awesome...
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