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I don't think using Dodge is a great comparison, Dodge is/was rebuilding a brand. Nvidia already has a great line up with Geforce and Titan. Nvidia is not missing in any product segment.

millennials is some catch all term made up by older folk. I bet those researchers are mid to late 30s or older. There are huge differences between mid 80s and 90s kids. Cartoons watched, clothing style, music, world events, etc. I felt old when 'street fighter' drew blank faces. 32...

Voodoo is too old to be recognizable by younger people. You guys are talking about the late 90s like it was 2 years ago...

That's funny, I wonder if that 75TB is legit use or just to cost MSFT money.

A 'production oem' sample might be an engineering sample, I don't know if nvidia is like intel with engineering samples Intel engineering samples show up on ebay quite often even though they aren't supposed to be sold / are property of Intel. I'd be a little wary, could be hit or miss.

Newer isn't necessarily better, Keller has a very strong record.

I'm hoping for an AMD revival, not likely but I remember reading in 1998 on the Intel website with how Intel wanted to keep 32bit computing well into 2013...

Lol, new month, new asus thread. Maybe someone should write their HQ in Taiwan on American expectations for customer service for premium products. One place I worked at, had a underperforming US division, US top management did their best to hide everything. It took the company board 6...

LOL. Agenda exposed.

Lol, I was wondering why TSMC was still making 28nm chips in 2015. I remember them touting 20nm or so a few years back. I'm still running on Westmere i7-980... I'm more interested in the ramifications for mobile chips though (if true).

I'd blame most of the argumentation on insecurity or boredom.

There's still room for a mustard packet next to the hot dog, right above the AMD logo.

I'm constrainted by power budget. I upgraded from 2x 5770 to a 980 since the 980 only 2x 6pin. (Using an old mac pro 2009).

I think the AMD board needs a rework. I liked Dirk Meyer but they pushed him out for more of a marketing guy (Rory). Su is engineering oriented much like Meyer was it seems. Seems like the board is backtracking? Best of luck to AMD.

I got a spare Supermicro X8STI, I'm willing to let go for cheap. No OC on the board though. PM if interested.

Whose your database vendor?

If you don't know why you need linux, you probably are not the user who will benefit from it (devs/admins). Windows is fine enough and 'works' when you get some obscure device or obscure setup (still took me 2 hours to get quad monitor on Centos - works out of the box in Windows)

What's your budget? I've bought nehalem mac pros (2009) model for about 600$ starting, you can easily upgrade to dual socket, or the latest westmere CPUS (which I've done). The only downside vs a new machine is, you have no warranty...

man, makes me wish I was in college again on the local file sharing network. the amount of stuff to download. Mmmmm..

SM has a pretty decent email support system for end consumers. Although they aren't exactly helpful when you want old bioses they do know their product pretty well.

I think enthusiast SMP has gone away since chips started showing up as multicore. If you're asking if you need SMP, you probably don't... The expensive premium coupled with the fact most consumer software doesn't scale to 12+ cores make it really a niche market these days. I mean, I thought...

seconded. I don't have a regular scanner or anything of that sort running either.

LOL. Might as well buy it off ebay if you're looking for a discount.

Just to add to that, I had 4x GT120 nvidia cards with SL, about once every 2 weeks, the mac pro would hang upon waking up from sleep. by 10.6.6 - this is issue was gone. When I upgraded to Lion, my monitors would lose its positioning upon every restart and randomly crash (same/similar NVDA...

How do you do a fresh mavericks install? I installed mavericks over mountain lion. I'm just saying mavericks is buggy relative to ML to the point it reminded me of how buggy lion was relative to Snow leopard. Anyway, given my history with from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, its probably...

I'd say it comes down to the value of your time. CL if you have time, Ebay if you don't have time.

lol. im sure postgres has some client utilities you can install.

On the plus side, graphics and some performance seems to be better. minus the annoying bugs. also, when I upgraded from snow leopard to lion, I had to dump the 4x gt120 I had and upgrade to 5770 because of the some whacky power management issue with the Nvidia drivers. funny, snow leopard had...

Running 10.9. Buggy like lion for me. Does not remember multi displays (i have more than 3 - 2x5770) upon restart. Sometimes finder generates a ton of lag. which doesn't make sense - wasn't present on ML, and I have a SSD running. 8 core Mac pro 2009.

r9 or r7 is the new hotness.

Lol, I'm curious to see what the trends at Intel are. Fabs cost tons of money and I think their future is challenging.

I haven't found memtest to be foolproof with ram either. Are you able to check the cpu & system voltage? PSU might be the culprit as someone else mentioned.

I think Intel is sticking with the crappy paste. I read somewhere its simply cheaper than them to solder

Non-Raid ready disks might be it. I used to have WD drives drop out of raid arrays all the time when they first made green power and eventually admitted some drives were not raid ready. These days for storage I use sas drives...

Gotcha, I know the market for them is shrinking but I have some largish VMs I don't need much performance on but I hear them crunching away on 7200rpm drives and its annoying. Can't use 15k SAS drives b/c its in a mac pro and supposedly you can't mix sas and sata with the add in raid.

Was looking for something moderate performance but spacious like 1tb or so. Are there any largish SSDs that are roughly comparable in price to a raptor? I've only used Intel SSDs and don't know much about the other controllers/brand.

Lol, rdram got beat bad by ddr. rambus is a IP company these days. I think my favorite overpriced rdram board was the Supermicro P3DRE

I think the SR2 could be a phenomenal time sink. I looked into one myself before getting a pedestrian supermicro board. Ivy Bridge E is supposed to be released later this year, maybe wait a few months for that?

Really, thanks. I had a feeling the change would be pretty low.

From what I gathered, the bios will downclock ram to qpi(fsb) speed, but performance memory has the ram programmed to run at full speed. CAS latency, is what I'm referring to, I don't think a few CLK cycles will matter that much but the reviews on amazon are all like "OMG, its so much...