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Did have two servers with DigitalOcean (absolutely loved them) but then got invited into Scaleway. Now got two servers with them, 1 running a dedicated TeamSpeak server for gaming friends and the other a seedhost. Can't complain for €8 a month for both boxes. Perfect uptime and great latency to...

Finally got this working! Unfortunately had to drop back to ESXi 5.5u3 but at least the damn thing works and gives me everything that I need including FLING :) Shame that I can't get it working with 6 though :(

I've been speaking to a user on ServeTheHome's forums, xienze, who gave me a good idea on how to check whether it's the PCIe reset that's causing the problem. VM with passthrough "freezes" entire ESXi box when shutdown/rebooting guest Unfortunately it didn't work for me, as the box hung even...

Thanks RyC, I'll give that a shot as it could be the audio causing an issue but I kinda need that as well :( I'm also going to try reverting back to 6.0GA to see if it's a Update2 issue; if not, back down to 5.5 which seems to work without issue Just spoken to a colleague about this who's doing...

Cheers rtangwai. Already tried that and it's looking like the graphics card that I'm trying to passthrough. Think I'll invest in another from eBay to see if that's the fault or not

Hi all, VERY strange issue that I've come across and can't seem to get my head around this .. so far I've tried diagnosing this for nearly 12 hours straight without being able to get to the bottom of it. I'm running ESXi 6.0u2 build 3620759 (free license), on a custom build Asus P9x79 PRO...

Hi, Can you tell me where you got the picture of the Excellsior background? Really loving that :) :) :) Cheers

Shame these aren't in the UK as it's caught my interest on making my OPNSense box even smaller :(

EK I've heard some horror stuff about like cheap plating etc :( Re water, I'm going for Mayhems Pre-Mix X1 clear as it gets pretty good reviews, lots of people use it and also there is a Mayhems rep on another forum that I read (OCUK).

Can only find the silver ones in stock in the UK but they're on the list :)

Hehe, gotta be all about the bling especially since there are hardly any lights inside the machine :) So duly added :) List looks a lot better than being overrun with Koolance stuff especially some of the horrors I'm reading! :o

Good with me :) Final spec which I think should work and give me a nice cool running system.... 1x Alphacool Repack - Dual Laing D5 Station inkl. 1x Alphacool VPP655 1x Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper 180mm 1x Alphacool NexXxoS ST30 Full Copper 120mm 1x Alphacool NexXxoS XP³ Light - Acetal...

Thanks magoo! It's literally just clicked in my head after I rechecked the tube sizes :) Tube size is 3/8-5/8 so I've chosen the appropriate fittings from XSPC. I think 3/8-5/8 is going to be better than 3/8-1/2 giving me a better flow. I don't have my heart set on QD's, more only having 1 set...

Changed the spec to be a single Alphacool pump on a bay res and changed the blocks to Alphacool as well With the changed piping to Masterkleer tubing PVC 16/10mm (3/8ID) Clear, will the existing compression fittings still work? That's the bit that's confusing me mostly at the moment :( So far I...

Thanks for all the replies :) Nah don't have a thing for Koolance particularly. I did go back through and removed a lot of the stuff to be other makes, such as EK, as the products looked a lot better. The only area where I'm struggling is the bay res with dual pumps. The Koolance one is good...

All good with me :)

WOAH! Massive image :D Yeah I've set that setup and was going to add in a 120mm up the top as well to give it even more cooling ability especially as the 290s are furnaces!! :) :)

Thanks for the feedback echn11! :) I'm swapping the tubing to something like this http://koolance.com/tubing-clear-uv-reactive-pvc-10mm-x-16mm-3-8in-x-5-8in which matches what you've recommended :) Re the actual blocks etc, any recommendations on where I can say maybe get the same performance...

Hey guys, I'm planning to water cool my entire system and move away from air cooling completely in my White Raven RV02-E. However, since I'm a n00b to this, I wanted to check a spec check on the following components to see if I've got this right as well as the number of connectors and also...

Has always worked before, hence the query but now working. Sorry Kyle :(

Heya, Just tried the frontpage and getting 404 page not found errors :( Thought I'd FYI :)

That's why I don't abuse them B00nie. I have them typically fairly low as with the -28db isolation on them, there's absolutely no reason to push them very loud :) Comixbooks: I tried those at the weekend and really wasn't impressed with them. The plastic makes them feel very breakable and also...

Hehe, cheers ThinJ. At least that backs up what I've been thinking about as nothing can touch the XB700s in terms of bass response The Modmic was also something that I should have added as I have the appropriate place to connect it on my XB700s. Definitely not a youngun, as at 33 my hearing...

Hey peeps, I'm looking to get a proper gaming headset and move away from my Sony XB700s with a generic USB desktop microphone; however, I'm spoilt for choice and trying to find out what is best is definitely not helping. Read a couple of reviews at Head-Fi (I'm addicted to the place) but...

Hi DB, I've tried the disconnecting rather than closing the session completely; however, that didn't make any kind of difference unfortunately :( That was my first thought .. great minds :) I'm going to try with a USB device, if I can find one that is compatible and cheap, otherwise I'll...

Hi guys, I've setup my ESXi lab, with a Win7 VM, running Total Recording to record internet radio streams for personal consumption but i'm having an issue with getting this working reliably. I haven't got a dedicated PCI card running on the system at the moment, well not until I convert to...

Absolutely gorgeous builds, especially the fire! :eek: Do you have any more pictures or a build log when you went through putting it and the Octane together?

Cheers for the reply Jerky :) Decided in the end to jump straight up to the i7 3770T as it became available so snapped up 2 of them for my cluster. Definitely can't complain over its performance :)

My soon to be deployed mini-ITX ESXi cluster for use at home: ASRock B75M-ITX Motherboard; Noctua NH-L91 low profile cooler; Intel i7 3770t IvyBridge Processor; Corsair 16gb RAM; Intel LP Dual Network Card. Two of these systems running inside Antek ISK-300 150 cases using the inbuilt power...

Another vote for CloneZilla here for whole drives. Between my servers, RSync

Heya guys, Quick and dumb question but my Google foo is failing me :( I'm building a new budget lab that will be used to host vulnerable instances of Operating Systems (off the web that is) for use in exploitation research and my own personal learning, as I'm a penetration tester by...

Our technical consultants installed a homebrew copy of pfSense to segment themselves off from the corporate network, as they regularly undertake heavy network activity such as infrastructure/application penetration testing, and the pfSense installation they have continually flakes out to the...

Have to admit that I'd never heard of them but looking at the prices for the PA-500 cluster doesn't seem TOO extensive even though I'm only seeing specific figures. What's your experience like with the costings? Bear in mind that trying to get a UK reseller is proving difficult to find :(

Hey guys, Throwing this out there as I have a budget meeting this week and need to get opinions on hardware selection etc. I'm not the IT manager but work very closely with him but I'm overall in charge of recommending the selection to the company. We're a medium sized IT consultancy company...

Cheers NCX. Will get reading on those monitors and get some prices from UK based suppliers. Already with just a quick google search the Asus is in the lead on cost however its everything, hence the reviews. Many thanks for your suggestions :)

That's what I thought :( Well the working one can be retired to server duty and now I just need to decide against the U2711 or U3011 :)

Hey guys, I'm looking for suggestions on where to go with the setup that I'm currently running as one of my Dell's has developed a fault with a nasty green line down the whole screen on the left hand side :( Both are also outside of the warranty period as well and considering the screen is old...

Totally the luck of the draw stayfr0sty and this time, after ten odd years, I've got a difficult one hehe. And that's coming from playing with DFI mobos ;) Just tried it by dropping the multi's all down to their lowest levels and even that bombed the system out, stupid board. Done post, fine...

Tried what you suggested sirmonkey and the system bombed out and wouldn't even post! Had to do a CMOS reset to get it back up and working. This is the stupid thing with this board .. you try and raise the voltage and it won't post. Leave it as stock (so auto) and it will get to Windows, login...

Or any general advice on either this board or getting Bulldozer OC'd. Its not like I haven't got the system to do it however I'm used to the older methods of OC'ing, like those on the Athlon II series, rather than FX. It should be exactly the same, i.e increasing the bus voltage to 240 and then...