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David, Your argument makes sense. I will say that most of the heavy gamers I know are off 1080/1200 and onto 1440 or at least two or more lower res screens (I myself run games across dual 1080 screens). Having thought of it further I would assume that they rest of your system would have to...

I never understand why costs for using these cards (and other things) aren't taken into account. Here in CA a kilowatt hour costs about $0.17/hr for residential. In order to get the 290's on par with the 970's you need an extra 202 watts. That extra power comes out to almost $12/per year per...

There are a number of lists out there that may help fill your list out: http://www.overclock.net/t/1338063/vt-d-compatible-motherboards http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo

Just an FYI but I was able to find a cheap 200w PSU that works just fine (needs two molex splitters). http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/250-watt-flex-atx-power-supply-FLEX-200W.php Shipped to me in CA was under $34. Fan noise is a tad louder than the stock but nothing too bad.

It depends on your needs, budget and knowledge. I have plenty of consumer grade routers with wifi turned off which perform just fine (as long as you don't need VPN). The Archer C7 is a very fast router and cheap. I put these into 5 friends houses and in almost a year only two reboots (one...

Had a customer that insistent on building the cheapest PC's they could despite my recommendation. At that time I had built a number of computers using a number of vendors (most of them no longer around) but the ones that were the most reliable were the Abit's and the Asus. In this instance we...

Just to be clear do you need to change the registry key to "0" first (as in the first post and if so what is the sequence?) or just do the three steps Odditory listed? so far this is what I have: 1. Change key from 1 to 0. 2. Open elevated command prompt 3. slmgr -rearm <enter> 4...

I've tried a bunch of different ZFS related OS (FreeNAS, NASFree, OI, SmartOS, OmniOS, ZFS Guru, EON, Nexenta (free), Openfiler, etc...). Overall they all seem to work just fine and you can get them installed very quickly. The difficulty is after the install. At the end of the day I went with...

Not to quibble here but RAID 10 is NOT a mirror of two RAID 5 arrays (what a holy nightmare that would be). RAID 5 is basically a stripe (like RAID 0) with parity (where the third drive comes in). RAID 10 is a mirror (RAID 1) then a stripe (RAID 0). Recovering data from a RAID 5 is done by...

Just a note but VT-X is not VT-D. There are a limited number of reasonable processors but you are very restricted on your motherboard choices. I am also going to give SmartOS a try even though my server is on ESXi 5 compat list.

http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/article/?lid=enu&pid=F8GFPC100&aid=9072&scid=293 Just released Vista x64 drivers for the n52! Thank god.

I just got the GA-N650SLI-DS4 and I was able to hit 3.2Ghz (8 * 400) on an E6420 with no added volts. This is using the 120 extreme which keeps the temps pretty low. I don't know if its the ram but so far everything that I've tried above 400fsb either will not boot up (load last good profile...

Hello, Got two E6420's and I wanted to see if anyone knew which batch I should keep. I'll test them both but I figure I would see if anyone has any experience with these. FPO/BATCH# 3714A297 FPO/BATCH# L709A537 Thanks!

Ok so I just got my Lian Li PC-7S and I really love the way this case looks. I want to do a few simple (hopefully! = ) mods and I have a few questions. I plan on using a Radgrillz (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3695) as the grill) for the...

I just purchased all my parts for my new system and the DS4 is the mobo I went with. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for my powersupply so I won't get a chance to build this until this weekend. Check out the review here http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4939&s=1 they mention these gaps and a few...

I've had Nvidia and ATI in alternating cycles. I don't understand the "loyalty" some of these FANS have towards a company that makes GPUs. I will purchase the GPU that offers me the best bang for the buck without being a power hog and loud as a jet engine.

I held off a week to see what the initial thoughts on the R600's were. I do think that this needs some polishing and with a bit of time its potential will come out (whatever that may be). But since I don't need the absolute most powerful of anything and being married to an environmental...

Hello everyone, Building my new system in the next few weeks and I've decided to spend more on core components (CPU/GPU/etc...) then on things like the case. Anyway I'm looking for something with solid quality, mid-tower with a side window. I'm building a water cooled system and want it...

I have lot of faith in [H] but I can't help but come away disappointed in the article. I've been a huge fan of Dell for MANY years and up until recently all of my purchases have been from Dell (still have 2 lap tops and 1 XPS system). I have to say that Dell's support has taken a a huge dive...