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Thanks, I made another test pool (had been stressing them in before), and saw that it was ashift=12. Then I added the drives as a new vdev to the existing pool and they showed up as ashift=12 as well. Nice that this is handled automatically and properly. Now just to clone all the data to help...

Hey, I have been using OI + napp-it for awhile now. Previously I had a single vdev of 10 HD204UI's in a raidz2. I purchased 10 ST3000DM001 drives and plan to put them in a second 10 drive raidz2 vdev, in the same pool. Currently the pool has an ashift value of 9. When I went to create the new...

I would try replacing the SATA cable first. I have noticed similar problems that I was able to fix with a new cable.

I am having a problem with OpenIndiana, ZFS, and nappit. I have in nappit four users added under acl settings for the ZFS folder. root, cj, friends, and htpc. Friends and HTPC have the same permissions. When I go onto a windows machine it will not let me log into HTPC. I type in the user...

I'm not sure where this came from. My own experiences with dual 6970's at 5760x1080 and BF3 is that afterburner reports 2.8GB used out of 2GB, I assume the rest is just in regular ram?

Did not work in: Asus RIVE, Asus P4K, Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Worked in: Asus Maximums Formula X38

Sorry OT: I use RacerX for my 6950/6970 in crossfire. It works fine for me and allows you to clock higher in CCC (you can set the limits): http://www.techimo.com/forum/graphics-cards-displays/256789-enable-higher-overclocks-ccc-reg-entry.html

I have never owned a SSD before, and I need one to replace my 6 drive raid 5 array I use to get okay performance.

The 6/ir is a different chip, and might not support those features in ESXi.

I would love for a new UT/2k3/2k4 style game to come out. Back in the day I was an IG CTF/BR monster. Can't beat IG for twitch gaming. I'm almost tempted to find my 2k3 CD's now heh. Anyone else miss the elaborate jump system from the older UT's?

ESXI should show the status of the perc 6i under the admin tool. It should show it under the host configuration somewhere. I do not recall exactly, but it was the page where you can see temperatures and status of any installed device.

I have heard of problems with nail polish scraping off on the pins. Try covering them with electrical tape instead, when properly placed it should not scrape off during insertion. I have a perc 5i in my GA-EX58-UD5 board and it works fine with the pins covered. If it is not detected at boot...

I give up. I use BC2/BF3 as an example and people throw other non related games out that mean NOTHING when that is NOT HOW BC2/BF3 WORKS.

Punkbuster does not limit FOV changes in BC2 and should not in BF3. If it did you would not be allowed to play with eyefinity setups. Look at my earlier screen shots in this post: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037897414&postcount=97 That is two screen shots from BC2, ranked...

I have 2 CCFL's on the back of my middle eyfinity monitor. I like using it when browsing the web or doing other tasks. However, I find it distracting when gaming and prefer a completely dark room for that. I never had the CCFL's before my eyefinity setup, so it is entirely possible that the...

BF3's custom FOV setting works just like BC2. You will gain vertical FOV with the exact same horizontal fov by going from 2560x1440 to 2560x1600. If you are losing vertical fov like you stated you should try correcting your fov setting.

For those who are not so closed minded. When FOV is set to remain the same horizontally you would gain 120 vertical pixels of extra vertical space (FOV) and not lose a single bit worth of horizontal FOV. I actually have proof too, call it biased the other way if you wish, but it is...

The adapter is all you need to drive 3 monitors from one 6950. Tthe 1GB 6950 is a bit low on vram for some games at your triple monitor resolution. You will most likely have to run lower settings than if you had a 2gb card. The monitors do not have to support eyefinity, they just have to be...

You can not drive more than 2 monitors from the DVI+HDMI ports. The third monitor (and fourth etc) have to be native display port, or on an active display port to DVI adapter. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200944 mini dp to active dvi

Another thing to note is that the motherboard is not flat with the bottom of the case. I was unable to fit a thermalright ultra 120 extreme (160mm high) in the norco. It stuck out about 15mm from the bottom of the case top. 140mm should fit. I ended up going with a corsair h50 I picked up...

You only lose FOV if you are incapable of changing the FOV on your own and the game does not properly adjust. Just about every modern game (including the bf3 beta you showed screen shots of) allows you to change the FOV. Please stop using this as a reason 16:9 is better than 16:10, as it is...

Thanks for all the comments! They are concave side to side and flat top to bottom so sculpted. The space bar is convex top to bottom, flat side to side. They are also double shot injection molded so they will never wear out.

I can go back and fourth with little problems... the only time I have an issue with it is when I forget what layout the computer is on. It took me about a month of Dvorak to get to the same speed I type on qwerty. Now it is around 10-15% faster than qwerty for me. I have trouble doing the...

Ours? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard ;) Hehe, the real question after getting use to dvorak, is why I ever used qwerty. This keyboard with black switches is no louder than a cheap dell keyboard, unless you are slamming the keys down to the bottom. Proper typing on...

Sometimes. :D I also have a pair of Klipsch KG^3 as surrounds. I have them wired to a selector switch so I can hook them up to the B channel on my receiver as well. With the xonar sound card I have it set to redirect sub 80hz to the surrounds, sounds like I have sub woofer fill without having...

Seconded on the Deck Legend. White should be the brightest followed by green and blue.

All cherry MX switches can only accept 3mm round single color LEDs. Some of them need to have the ridge ground down to seat all the way in the socket.

Deck keyboards are individually back-lit mechanical keyboards of extremely high quality. They come in several colors but never quite the right one. I am starting off with the blue lit Deck Legend (linear) keyboard. My main use for this keyboard is gaming, and will be reflected in the mod...

Before I built the watercooling into the desk. Current pic: (messy :() Watercooling tray:

3x Asus VW246H

I have had 2 6950 reference cards, both unlocked to 6970 via flashing 6970 bios. The first card would do 940/1510 on 1.175v. The second card would only do 920/1350 on air @ 1.175v but, on water it did 1050/1550 at 1.325v.

Even if I was able to get a vt-d bios for the board, it would only work in the primary PCI-E 16x slot, and a 4x slot. The two 8x slots do not work for vt-d because they are behind a switch. My board is also very picky about BIOSes. The EX58-Extreme is the same board, but it will not boot with...

Thanks for the link on boot disk mirrroring! I am going to start with 10 disks but expand to 20, so I will need the second m1015 in the future anyways. ESXI... well after figuring out that I can't use my current motherboard on it, and realizing how bad the selection of overclocking boards...

I ended up getting very pissed at ESXI and decided to ditch it, and run straight Open Indiana. I am now using virtual-box to run my Ubuntu system on top of Open Indiana and am happy with it's performance for now. I have not moved the x58 system over yet either, it's running on a x38 with a...

It is not a good idea because it puts a lot of current though one molex connector. They are rated at 10amps per pin though, so you might be fine with just one. See: http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/ps/PS-8981-4M4P.pdf for specifications. 10a 14/16awg 8a 18awg 6a 22awg

Well I picked up a perc 5i for the OS drives, and an intel dual port nic. I am still looking for a motherboard to switch to from this gigabyte.

Well I can't seem to get VT-D working on this board to test it. There is a VT-D bios for the ex58-extreme (which is the exact same board) but my board refuses to boot with that bios. So I guess I am forced into the market for a new board. Assuming I drop the graphics card, I still need 2 8x...

I know the gigabyte does something to change between 16/16/0/4 and 16/8/8/4 but it is not a NF200. It is not in any of the literature and the x58 chipset gives 36 lanes which should be split 16,8,8,4. The NF200 takes a 16x link and gives you 32x. I already have the LAN working. I guess I...

Yes, I did thanks!

I am in the process of planning a build to move my media array out of my HTPC and into my server. I started by picking up a Norco 20 bay server case. Planned build so far: Gigabyte ex-58-ud5 Intel 920 d0 24GB (4gb x6) DDR1333 2x 160gb OS/VM drives Norco RPC-4020 20 bay server case 10x Samsung...