Recent content by wargoat

For the data, seriously consider investing in a tape or cartridge backup system. You can get an external model and then use it on all of the systems. The big consideration here is frequency of backups and where you store them. I would recommend doing, at a minimum, weekly backups and then...

Where in the office are the computers located? Where in relation to windows, doors, and other entrances? What other physical security measures are in place? Is there an alarm system linked to the police? Video cameras? Biometric access devices? I ask this to get a better idea of what...

My advice to you is to avoid it. The only protection it really provides is misplaced "peace of mind" . Ultimately it is not going to improve your security posture significantly enough to outweigh the performance cost to be a sound investment. If you are serious about securing your box you...

I've always had the feeling that if you used fast enough drives, you would see little performance gain from using RAID for most applications. Thus, I've never used RAID before-- but with this build, I wanted to try something new and that made me consider raid. I toyed around with the idea...

Well, considering I could probably power about 7 or 8 low-end systems on that monster, I figure it might be overkill. I wouldn't want that! Lord N - I had just dropped the HP for the 716A before you said that :) Glad I made at least one good choice. I think I'll just get a nice DVD...

I don't exactly have a hardon for blowing money - what I want to accomplish is flawless performance at the maximum settings possible in the games I like now (particularly BF2 and HL2). What I have done is to assemble an affordable system over spec, but I would be very happy to save a few $K if I...

I've reconfigured the PS, RAM, graphics, and processor. It looks pretty good speced out now. I'll probably get the following processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo 1GHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor - OEM Doesn't come with the heatsink and the retail box is out...

Excellent thank you. So the 510 will be sufficient power for the two video cards? That's one of my greatest concerns and why I was going for severe overkill in the power department. I wanted ECC for stability. Maybe I've just had bad ram/luck in the past, but I get fewer crashes with ECC...

Keep in mind that "need" isn't really an issue. Performance and future expansion are my too key areas of concern. If there is a performance gain by changing something out I am all for it, but I'm not concerned about keeping it lean. I'm going to look into the 7800GTX's. Are they that much...

Greetings- I decided to build a new gaming box and want to go whole hog. To that end, I have thrown together a system on paper that looks pretty nice. The primary application of this machine will be gaming, particularly BF2, other upcoming FPS's and WoW. I want this system to be perform well...