Cleaning out the "spares" time...
Intel Desktop Board D5400XS "Skull Trail". Intel's attempt at the ultra-ultra high end. Dual socket, fastest bus, four PCIe x16 slots supporting both ATI CrossFire and nVidia SLI (before it was common to have one board support both.) Complete with two Xeon...
Looking for advice based on info so far.
My situation: Household with my wife and I, and 9-year-old daughter who likes Minecraft, Portal, and the LEGO game series (LEGO Batman, Star Wars, etc.) I like "casual" FPS games (i.e. not ones where I'll have to commit an hour at a stretch, I like...
I just got a pair of 1U Pentium 3 servers for use as "play" servers. They're 1133 MHz "Tualatin" P3s. The main case fans are quiet "enough", and also common enough sizes that I can find replacements if I want.
But the CPU coolers are obnoxiously loud. And Socket 370 coolers are getting hard...
So many boards..... I just can't keep up.
With the release of Haswell, it's finally time to update my home theater PC.
I'm looking for the following feature set, and am having difficulty:
Micro ATX (preferred - my current HTPC chassis does accept full ATX, but I'd rather plan for a...
I've been using a dual-socket workstation for awhile now, and while it's loud, with its Radeon 5770 it's adequate for my gaming needs. So, time to pass along my gaming rig to someone who can find better use.
Intel Desktop Board DX58SO (X58 chipset, LGA-1366 socket, onboard Gigabit Ethernet, HD...