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I am attempting to assemble a cheap vm box for my amusement and learning. if everything works, it may become the pfsense / xpenology nas / vpn gateway box at my parents house... Setup is: Asrock n3150m matx board with 1.10 bios - Celeron n3150 and Onboard grpahics Onboard audio and ports...

Hello, A family friend asked me on advice for upgrading thier home server. currently a core 2 e6300 @ 2.8, gigabyte DQ6 board, and 2gb ram. They have a dual nic intel pcie card. This is a rig that I build it for them many years ago when they upgraded to an i7 920 using their old parts and some...

looking to make a cheap and low power vm server build for home its going to run 1) pfsense 2) some type of nas software - xpenology or unraid (need own cloud) 3) some type of proxy vm to route things via my vpn service build is as follows: existing antec case with 350w psu from an old core 2...

a friend asked me to setup a pfsense box for them, but they also need a owncloud setup on the same machine. basically this machine will be their router and run their vpns, etc, but also allow clients to login and upload files,etc was going to use esxi as the hypervisor. going to build...

Hi all, a schematic of my current home network is attached I just added the new file server running VM images, and wanted to buy a managed switch for the home office with more ports. Do I need to replace the other dlink green 8 ports with manged switches? Also, I am going to be replacing...

hi, I am looking for something to mount a fan over my cpu and ram on a gigabyte z87x-ud5h. I am using a kraken x60. I cannot find a antec spot cool or old school zalman bracket type device. I was looking on thingverse for a 3d printed mount that I could have a friend build me. Does anyone...

Hi all, I just started renting some space for my own solo law practice from another lawyer in the Toronto area, and will be building a VMware (workstation?) based server box so that I can run multiple OS, applications,etc on it versus building additional servers. I was wondering if you guys...

well after much play, I beat every mission in Sc2 on normal difficulty. After playing it, all I can say is Blizzard hurry up with the next part in the series! I played the game at max settings at 1900x1200 on a 3.8ghz i7 with 6gb and a 4890 1gb. No problems. Did not try AAx with the latest...

Well i guess this is art work...well this blew my mind when I got sent the link, so i thought that i would share; a guy whose wife left him in 1999 spent an aweful lot of time turning his apartment into a star trek stage set replica. I am a fan, but this goes above and beyond. I wonder if...

hey all, found this and it helped me get my i7 up to 4.1ghz on a x58-ud4p http://lakesidepc.com/Core.i7.920.oc.4G.2008.12.12_ENG.pdf thought i would share, seems to be from gigabyte itself edit: if it wont open, click "save as"and save then open

hi all, was changing a motherboard in a friends comp so that he could have SLI, and I ran into a problem. We are going from an asus p5k premium to an asus p5n-t i780, and adding another 8800GT. his q6600 seemed to be stuck. we managed to pry it using 2 knives. i almost dropped out of my...

hi all, i am looking for a raid 5 pci-e card with hardware xor to run a 5 drive raid 5 array. the intel ich9r is killing me... looking for bang for buck - but will spend $$$ if needed - any suggestions?

hi all, just wondering will xp home run faster than xp pro on an older comp, such as an a-xp 1600+ with 512mb of ram?

looks like its been hacked again; http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/11/windows-vista-sp1-activation & http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1267 Makes sense, M$ cannot easily block the bios mod hack without creating a nightmare for legitimate OEM users that have their...

found this, i think you also have load the modded bios to get the core over 862mhz http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=210379

hey everyone, the closes thing that i have found to vmods for my board is this article by vr-zone on the p35-ds3r. i have the p35C-ds3r and their are significant differences for in the board layout for the vdrop for example, and I do not want to "guess". i was wondering if anyone had...

ordered 2 of these for 4gb total. http://www.directcanada.com/products...acture=BUFFALO same memory is "on sale" from ncix for 125$ and there is a limit of 1 per customers vs 5 per customer with this one. was going to buy from ncix, but the limit of 1 pissed me off ...shopbot.ca'ed it and...

was thinking about this ram -> Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-5400C4 on sale, 2x 1gb for 70$ CDN. http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11180BD6210&vpn=TWIN2X2048-5400C4&manufacture=CORSAIR was going to buy 2 sets for 4gb. was wondering if anyone know how they OC? YES I am trying to...

is there anything special that i should look for, other than the square chips, in looking for some Micron D9GMH based (value) ram? anyway to tell?

http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/05/20/intel-chipsatz-p35-ddr3/index.html use babelfish for translation

any idea when the 8900 series will make an appearance?

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=21406&vpn=640-P2-N821-AR&manufacture=eVGA looks pretty good deal for all my fellow Igloo dwelling Canadian brothers:D

hey all, using a 7900GT 256b pci-e - vmoded and has a zalman vf900 on it. running at about gtx speeds. I found a 640mb evga 8800gts pci-e for 365$ CDN after rebates @ncix. i was going to grab it. what do you guys think? worth it over a 7900gt @ gtx speeds...

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4946 overclocks well, but half-baked drivers

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=143133 they got a hold of the Asus p5k based on the new bear lake p35 & ich9. chipset looks good, board appears to be another p5b style POS with vdrops everywhere. otherwise, I'm impressed. hopefully the NDA will expire soon. COME ON DFI...

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=2246 the P35-DS3R looks interesting, but only if it has firewire in the final revision.

hi, anyknow if the new infinity p965 will support the intel Penryn?

this seem legit to you guys? http://www.mocos-store.com/product_i...57&categorie=2 990$ for a macbook pro? found it on shopbot.

i posted this on redflagdeals.com, and thought i would share it with all the [H] members. great deal for all my fellow Canadians, and at future shop of all places. edit (fixed link) -> http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...B2E8F8549412BF 1299 - 300 = 999$ and includes a free 250gb external...

A warning to all P5B vanilla owners. the latest bios v 1022 is problematic. I keep getting cmos errors with it and I am not alone. Would generally reccomend that you stay away from this bios and keep using v806.

Hi, do the asus p5b vanilla and p5b deluxe use the same bios flash? can I flash a modified p5b deluxe bios on a regular P5B?

Hi guys, tried installing a minimalist version of windows xp pro on my computer. Friend of mine made it somehow. it does not load agp440.sys, so I cannot install my video card drivers. Other than that, it is a GREAT edition of XP. Is there any way for me to force it to load agp440.sys - my...

Hi, does anyone know of any Canadian retailers that have the gigabyte ds3P / Revision 2 in stock? its the ds3 with raid and firewire, thanks

Hi all, reinstalling windows xp pro on a toshiba tecra and for some reason the toshiba cds are not loading the agp440.sys service in xp pro. My video drivers will not install without them. I found posts on how-to disable agp440.sys, but not on how-to enable it. all i found was this...

Hi all I am going to be upgrading my cousins 1.4ghz athlon (non-XP) to a Pentium-D 820 I built this for him 5 years ago. Running great but wants me to "update" it Swapping his A1.4ghz, A7m266, Geforce 2 to: Pentium d 820 Asus p5p 800Se Geforce 6200 AGP System is not for gaming...

hi, anyone have pictures of how-to do the vmch and vfsb mods on the venilla asus p5b? thanks

Hey all have trouble with my friends system basic specs core 2 duo e6300 w/ Arctic silver 5 and coolermaster hyper48 Asus P5B Vanilla (Vdimm mod only) 2x 1gb of Corsair ddr667 value ram (overclocks like mad!) x1900 AIW PCI-E [stock] Firewire PCI card 320gb seagate SATA Panasonic...

Hey all, upgraded my buddy's p4 3.2HT/Asus 915 to a C2D e6300 on an Asus P5B. So far just did the vdimm mod to get the OC stable, doing vcore & vdrop mod soon. My problem is that the cpu is running very hot. Have it running at 3.15 @ 1.4v (1.5 in bios and drops to 1.4). Problem is that it...

Hi all whats the most OC'able value DDR2 ram? With branded OC ram from OCZ, Corsair, etc - there are no deals - either buy the stupid $ ram for massive speeds or get the cheaper stuff that clocks worse than the value ram. I am not paying 2.5~4x the price of regular ram - I am a bang for...

hi all, just upgraded my friends pentium 4 3.2ghz system to a core 2 e6300 and I am having stability problems. He had a s775 pentium 4 HT @ 3.2, msi mobo, 1gb ddr1, ram, x850 pci-e,etc was abit slow for photoshop and avid xpress so we updated it We used some of his old parts, this is...