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just FYI I just called them and they stated it has to be physically picked up today to get the special price. even if you order it online and your reservation says $149, when you get it the next day they will raise the price. they also will not accept payment over the phone. not very...

oh yea, added the linkworld mATX open box case for $12 too, can't really beat that either for the spare cheap G620 build.

got it with the cheap MSI board for only $19 after the instant $40 off to use on a spare G620 laying around. perfect combo considering the mobo is almost free and the CPU is by far lowest price anywhere. I did online purchase for store pickup so they should honor it for a week with no rush to...

my asrock extreme4 gets about 100Mhz extra overclock on the same cpu and has added features like 2 more USB ports, extra Marvell controller for 2 more SATA3 ports, 3.5" USB3 bracket for front of computer. up to you if you think these small things are worth $50-$75 more.

all i did was add the 2600K to cart, search for Z68 motherboards, and any one I added to cart was $80 less than the posted price. Worked for every mobo I tried adding.

you're doing something pretty wrong if the SSD runs "everyday work" about the same as a modern HDD. "Everyday work" is typically use of lots of small files, which is where SSD's kill HDD's. Also as others are saying, if your $25 SATA3 card is outperforming the onboard ports, you either have a...

you're talking about 2 different things, the CPU or x86 performance of the fusion chips is horrible but for just web browsing and playing media which uses GPU acceleration it is great. a C2D or cheap SB based Dual Pentium (B940) CPU/x86 power wise is MUCH MUCH faster than the E-350 and has...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5318085/coupons/newer/cases20.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5318085/coupons/newer/ram20.pdf here are the coupons for the 20% off cases and memory too btw for those heading there for some good deals. the RAM is $35 on sale for $19.99 and the 20% coupon still works. same...

just picked up with asrock pro3 matx board that i've been using on my other 2600k board fine for 6 months, clocks up to 4.6 without problems and feature rich for a low cost board. with discounts the board ended up $34.99 and the CPU $279.99. i also got the phenom II x4 840 for $99 with $50GC...

I have another computer with a SB850 SATA3 port I'm about to plug these drives into so will post some updates on controller impact on performance. I've tested in the past on the Marvell controller too, and as mentioned above, it sucks :(

funny coincidence that I JUST finished benchmarking this exact chipset. I bought the Asrock H61 budget board with USB3 and SATA3 added both through Asmedia chips to reduce cost compared to an H67 or Z68 platform. they are definitely NOT the same performance as a true SATA 3 solution. I tested...

benches show huge numeric differences between various drives, but to be honest for real life use I can't even tell the difference between my original Vertex 60 and brand new M4 128GB. agreed with the above recs - the reliability matters more than the benchmark numbers since pretty much all...

Can you use the DVI and HDMI for dual video output (both digital), or does it have to be 1 digital and 1 analog for dual monitor on the built-in Intel HD Video?

i think there is an issue with what motherboard this is being used with or just luck. i just bought 2 from newegg last month when they were $49AR (even cheaper now without rebate unfortunately). they are working perfectly on an AMD X4 system with SB850 and a Sandy Bridge system with H67...

i'll take either the 8400 9500 or 1600 as a spare for $15 :)

thanks for the input, to be on the safe side i'll just stick with the i5-combo for now. i tried a couple of remote downloads and the cpu usage spikes pretty good just while the server is zipping up the files for transfer so i guess the excess power never hurts. it actually took a while...

this is exactly the same thing as the "256GB" 470? The 240GB is just the formatted capacity?

I have a phenom II x4 and 890GX/SB850 combo or a Sandybridge i5-2300/P67 mobo combo I can use when I finalize my WHS build (using the 30-day trial atm). The Sandy combo seems a little overkill just for WHS but from what I've been reading the Intel SATA controllers tend to outperform AMD's -...

WHS 2011 (v2). I thought both versions had folder duplication feature though? Don't have a spare drive atm or I would just plug it in to find out, lol.

I setup a spanned volume with 3 x 2TB drives, there is no folder duplication option available to the server folders yet I assume since there is only 1 volume. If I add another 2TB drive and just ran it as its own simple volume, would I be able to enable folder dupe? (Only up to 2TB worth of...

single or dual slot is fine, also 512MB version is plenty.

thanks for the quick confirmation. think i'll play around with some of the ZFS options as well then.

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=ADX215OCK it's only $40 new here (actually $34 with 15% coupon code), but if someone has a more powerful CPU for about the same price LMK. Not looking to spend significantly more though, just for file server purposes but no harm in looking for a...

Putting together a file server and was thinking about WHS 2011 but kind of wanted the ability to use drive extender... Does 2008 R2 have the file serving capabilities while retaining drive extender?

i just checked out from B&N and it took my order and said in-stock. Will see if it actually ships.

the board discounts are not working, got 2 cpu's and had the CS rep sit there and manually type in the SKU for each mobo to see if the discount would add. None would work with this CPU. The CPU alone for this price is still amazing though. Houston store still had several left last night.

I am running the cheap, stock onboard Realtek PCI-E controlled and it sustains over 60MB/s easily, i have 2x Intel Pro's and cannot see any difference in real world performance other than slightly faster transfer times on huge files. four routine use, zero real real world difference exact OS...

oops. i clicked the download link for version 0.1 instead of 0.1.5, here is a direct paste from the correct version. ====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Œ‹‰ÊƒŒƒ|[ƒg ===================================== ‘ÎÛ HDD@@@@@@@F@Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA...

====== HddRpmEst v0.1.5 === Report ============================ Target HDD　　　　　　　：　Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA LM20023FA0TRDX Rotational Speed (estimated)　　　　　：　5938 rpm Average...

thanks Jon55. no apologies needed but thanks, this is what we do for fun :) nice to see that there is gradual progress being made on these large storage drives though, at least in terms of the benchmarks. I was thinking what drive I wanted to use on a new ZFS build and new HTPC and there...

glad you read the first sentence. this is the new 5900 RPM Hitachi drive that was just released.

Short Stroked to 120GB, typical size for OS/Apps drive. Looks pretty good considering it was designed as a pure storage drive. If the other 1.8TB is rarely used just as a second copy of movies, drive snapshots, etc, this might be an OK low-end dual purpose boot drive/backup drive for $79...

Same suite ran on the budget Hitachi 1TB drive that was just on sale for $49 a couple weeks ago. HITACHI Deskstar H3IK1000 7200RPM 1TB HD Tune 4.6 Min 63.7 Max 140.5 Avr 111.2 Access 14.2ms CPU 3.8% ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark...

Recently purchased all 3 of their 5400-5900 RPM storage drives and got bored so ran some benches on a standard ICH10 controller. The Hitachi 5K3000 which was just released actually wins in sustained transfers, 4K random read/writes, as well as PCMark productivity HDD Suite. All brand new...

i'm a noob - connected it first time to onboard JMicron controller which has already been shown to have this upper limit/clipping effect. Replugged it into Intel port so looks more appropriate now, but still getting slower access times than the other guy.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300...

Just got this new drive in, haven't seen any reviews yet so here's a quick HDTune Pro benchmark. Nothing special, specs list 5900RPM and it performs like a high density, low RPM drive. Decent transfer rates, bad random access times. Very quiet. Max Temp 32C during benchmark. Connected to a...

i have this sub as a bedroom sub. nothing fancy or awesome about it but for the price, it's great. taking away the low frequencies your fronts were not meant to handle makes them sound better in addition to the added bass from this sub. i was more than happy with it for $99 last year.

just bought one just to test, will have benches up soon after arrival.

there have been a lot of problems with the Marvell ports having lower bandwidth from P55 to X58 to P67 boards. If you are using a regular HD probably won't matter but there are numerous posts of SSD drives under-performing on Marvell onboard controllers. The 3rd party add-on cards with the...