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I'm here for 2 more days this week and the clerk told me they may get a truck on Wed night. I'm going to go back Thursday morning and see if they have it. If not I may just have to buy the h97 board. I looked and they didn't have any MSI mitx boards in stock either. They had an asrock board...

I'm working in ATL this week and was pumped to drop into microcenter and take advantage of their awesome cpu and motherboard combo deals. I'm wanting a mini itx z97 board and had my eye on the asus z97 plus mitx. Just my luck though I get there and that board is sold out. They do have the asus...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Mainly light sequencing with lighorama, video editing with premier pro, and a little photoshop. The light software is the main focus. It's a 32 bit program that I have patched to use 4GB of ram on my current setup but...

I have 5 X 2TB drives in raid 5 for a total of 7.999 TB of usable space in windows 7 64bit. I have over 3TB of used space on these drives but came home Friday night to the drives no longer showing up in My Computer. I looked under disk management and it shows the drives as unallocated space. I...

jadams you are absolutely correct. I work for a competing ISP in the area and when the initial launch was announced here a few years back my stomach sunk in fear of losing the majority of my marketplace to another provider. However now well over a year after the their footprint has been...

What sort of odd crashes have you been having? From time to time I will turn on my tv and have a black screen but from what I have read this is more of an HDMI handshake problem that can be fixed but for me I just hit the live tv button on my remote and within seconds the black screen is gone...

Since you were looking at the silverstone offerings did you get a chance to check out the Grandia series? This on in particular will more than likely be my next build...

I'm not sure about your provider but I've worked for several cable companies in the US and I would try the following. Turn on the tv and the cable box. Now turn off the cable box and hit the menu button on the cable box remote control. If it's the same type of dct, DVR or dta we use in the US...

Agreed but still interesting to learn what I could do with it. Didn't say I was going to try and set it up this weekend or anything. Hiring someone could be a possibility if long term it would turn a profit. You looking for a job? We could use your idea , wait what was your idea again?

@ brshoemak, running a bittorrent server was actually the very first thing that stood out to me when I talked to my wife about building this. However the legality of it all turned me off from it as well. Oh well. @ Red Squirrel, I'm not sure who I would be able to sale that to or where to...

As it currently stands their terms of service are almost non existent. The 1GB speed is a business class speed and is wide open, no bandwidth caps or usage monitoring. The only thing that I could find that would violate any rules would be if I hosted anything that would cause them competition...

Hahaha @ Jadams, my power bill is a bit high in the winter! Also I'm sure I can get a static ip but currently have no use for one but I will check into that. So server farm seems to be the best option right? I honestly have no idea how to make money with a server farm. Can anyone point me in...

Within the last year or so my area has launched what they call the fastest Internet service in the United States with a 1GB upload and download fiber to the home connection. Read about it...

Is your apt in her parents back yard? If not then your pretty much SOL. The only way that I know of to get cable tv to stream from one pc to another with full control is the ceton infinitv 4 card and setting up network tuners. However you would need to be on the same network to make it happen...

I agree with you on replacing the stock fans and the psu 100% but I will disagree with you on the above comment about "server/HTPC is just dumb and a waste of money". Mainly due to using the ceton infinitv 4 cable card tv tuner. I went back and forth between building separate boxes for each a...

Yes there are several but I will get to those in a sec. 1) get a high efficiency water heater and build the pc on performance not efficiency management. LOL Just bustin your balls, check out the silverstone strider plus ST50F-P 500W ATX here...

Just a short update. Been crazy busy lately and spending a lot of time reading on thegreen button about the ceton card but all is up and running. Just need to run the cables under the floor and I'm almost done. Oh yea besides cosmetic stuff, slim dvd drive cut out, cable sleeving, etc. 35'...

Thanks guys! Sorry I haven't responded sooner, been slammed at the office lately but I appreciate all the help.:) Thanks again for an awesome case bro! It doesnt look all that different but I have always liked the look of that case and jumped at the chance to build something with it so thanks...

Seriously? Come on now you completely ripped Comcast a new one in your above post. You paid $10 to have a cable card hand delivered to you and some how you have been wronged? I've paid 10 bucks to have molex connectors delivered before. Not to mention we dont even charge you a monthly rental for...

I work for Comcast in the southern region, Tn to be more specific and we have never made truck rolls mandatory for any equipment other than home phone. Even the home phone will be available as a self install kit within the next few months. I do remember around 12 or so years ago when we launched...

Thank you for the reply. Yes it was an existing windows 7 installation. I thought that may have been the culprit so I put the windows 7 install disc in and rebooted and the windows install disc didn't recognize any hard drives at all. I scratched my head for a while and called a friend over to...

Well after reading until my head hurt last night I gave up and emailed ASUS support this morning. I have not heard back yet but I hope it is jus my lack of experience with raid and not a hardware problem. I was able to set all the drives back to AHCI mode and windows booted fine with each drive...

I got the other drives in today and set 1-4 and 5-6 in the bios to raid. The raid bios did in fact come up and I created a raid 5 array with the 5 disk and selected to have the ssd as a single disk. Saved changes and rebooted. Now it starts loading windows and freezes on the windows animation...

That helps out a ton, the drives are on there way from newegg right now so I will give it a try when they come in. Thank you I waited until they were on sale again and the egg has them right now for $75 apiece with free shipping woohooo.

Please forgive me but I dont understand exactly what you mean. How exactly can I run it as a single drive when bios options are only for drives 1-4 and 5-6. So how would I set the ssd on sata 1 to AHCI and set sata 2-6 on raid?

I am in the process of building a small NAS / seedbox / HTPC / whole house media streaming box and need help with raid settings and configuration. I want to put only the 5 samsung F4's in raid 5. Here are the system specs........... motherboard = ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G CPU = AMD...

As far as I can tell it must be the Asus AI Pro software overclocking tool that raised it up. I never changed any settings myself. Just clicked "Start" on the overclocking software and away it went. I took your advice and reset it to default values and left 4 cores unlocked. My temps dropped...

Sorry I was referring to the 2 different screen shots above of cpu-z. I didnt change anything between the 2 screen shots and one reads the cpu at 3856 MHz while the other reads at 4097 MHz. Only thing I can see different is the Core voltage fluctuated between the 2 screen shots. Full...

Ok so I am very very new to all this overclocking and core unlocking. To be honest I havnt even built a pc since Clinton was president so I need some help. I'm in the middle of a home media server build in the worklog forums but unfortunately have not received any advice in a week or so...

Thanks Wahoomcdaniel! Now back to the build........ To start off I got all the rest of the parts in this week and even though I still need to do some more cutting on the case and sleeve a ton of wires I wanted to go ahead and hook everything up and test all the parts. Since I ordered...

Yea it all started freehand with The Lion King and Winnie the Poo and the Castle if I remember correctly and then a friend came by and said "hey man I got a projector you can borrow" :eek: As appreciative as I was I also wanted to smack him for not mentioning that prior to me free handing 3 of...

Thanks silent-circuit. I went ahead and hooked everything up last night to give it a good test run through after getting my last few parts I was waiting on. Currently I am in my 7th hour of prime95 with no errors yet so I will post back this evening or tomorrow on all the results and work I...

Thanks guys. :D I found a few different ways to split the wires but couldn't find anything I liked that gave me flexibility to add or take away wires later on. I think once I sleeve the wires they will look ok in the end. I hope so anyway. I will need some advice this weekend on raid settings...

Like I said above I could have done this different ways but basically needed to split power to a couple of 4 pin molex plugs but will be adding another soon. Currently it is set up with 4 wires coming from psu into it and 8 coming out to 2 separate locations. I havnt decided if I will be using...

Thank you!:D I went ahead and pulled the last brace off today and they stayed pretty straight. However I did cheat a little and put a smaller version of the same brace on the outside of the case. I'm considering running a line of super glue in the middle of the wires so they will stay...

Not much new to post today. I had my daughter order the motherboard, cpu, and ram back around Christmas but between her chatting with the e-trade baby about her portfolio and her scary obsession with Bieber fever. I dont think she ordered them so I will be ordering those this week. By the way...

:cool: Thanks bro, Yea it seemed to have worked perfectly. I gave you a "shout out" up top somewhere for all the help on the sleeving but thanks again. As far as the elves in Martin's lab I would believe it. His pics are amazing! I'm pretty happy with the result after I heated them up and let...

Build Continued..... Almost caught up to present day and thank god cause I got to work in 6 hours and need sleep. By the way Go Steelers! Your still my boys. Now time to mount the cold cathodes and hook up the 10 leds and board for test...... Can u see the cold cathodes barely showing from...

Build Continued........ After a week I installed in the case and wires stayed nice and straight. WoooHooo Now remember earlier I said I was going to try and use the space between the two front panels to route cables. This is where all cables will be routed through. Well here we go...

Build Continued..... So now 4 molex connectors are eliminated as well as the need to have more than 2 coming from the PSU. You may have seen some of the 24 pin cable sleeving work in the cage fab pics above but there was so much more involved than just that. I wanted to cut each wire to the...