If its not cost to you to return the one that had bent pins in the first place (other than shipping), I'd send it back. I've realigned plenty of pins on CPU's before, not had a problem, but if it came out of the box like that I wouldn't accept it.
Noble, I was gonna say I've used Openfiler to serve iSCSI for VMWare and it's not great. Openfiler NFS is a better bet. Unless you've got dedicated iSCSI TOE hardware (plus switches with cache large enough for the frames etc), it might be better to go simple and NFS.
Sounds like a fun project.
@NoOther - you're talking about machines that feature very old hardware, for gaming. If NVIDIA were to optimize the CPU routines of PhysX (and don't forget, not all PhysX can be GPU accelerated - only subsections, some runs only on CPU no matter what) then they would likely pick to optimize to...
I would go with Phenom II X6, more concurrent VM's. 890FX motherboard has virtualized IOMMU (when VMware support it will help performance on high I/O workloads, but might not be relevant before you upgrade again). Lots of RAM will help with running lots of VM's, too, and the unganged memory mode...
ESXi free all the way. Supports Intel ICH chipset for AHCI mode (not fakeraid) and will offer all the features etc. and the vmware vsphere single host management for alarms and resource pools.
For moving from vmware workstation to esxi, one reason would be to give more resources to vm's. the...
I don't get this card. As it stands you're
(a) limited to 8000 pixels resolution on one axis
(b) limited to a maximum of 6 panels in an Eyefinity display group
(c) limited by crossfire to only creating Eyefinity groups on the primary card
So either this is for non-crossfire use, which can't be...
Because that comment was in direct response to another Rage3D members' question, not something REGENERATION asked.
I'm not sure why "no comment" needs clarification - REGENERATION decided he wanted to be purile based on some imagined insult. I said I'm not going to comment. No winks, no...
Got a nice message from a site admin of NGOHQ, at Rage3D:
So there you have it, GenL is using a freeware packer to circumvent the GeForce drivers from detecting the mod and disabling it.
I've got a $6 adapter working @ 1280x1024 currently.
You can only have two of those active at one time; DVI + HDMI or DVI + DVI. Its related to the need for timing signals and the display engine; Displayport doesn't need timing signals so the extra display can be enabled.
Good info; see...
On the ASUS are you using AHCI mode with SATA drives? Is it an Intel chipset and ICH7/8/9/10 southbridge?
For the Foxxconn you just need to disable onboard nic and use an Intel Pro 1000GT or Broadcom netXtreme (or from those families).
Whenever I've installed ESXi on Dell desktops, usually...
The service console will use up about ~400mb. It's locked to a single CPU thread as well. IIRC the amount of RAM the service console can use is configurable in the advanced options from vSphere client.
In any case its negligible unless you have a really low end ESX box these days. RAM is so...
2 way assoc L2 cache vs. what? 16 way on the full allendales/conroes etc?
you gotta link of the celery multi cores?
And what's going to happen to that poor abused celery once it gets ousted :cry:
For all those requesting ship first (especially on the Firestix); I will not ship until payment is received from a verified paypal non-CC account. Paypal buyer and seller protection will guarantee your purchase, and I will guarantee no DOA.
The Dell Server Assistant CD can create the virtual disk and set the OS volume size as well. If you have to do it manually because the CD doesn't work with your OS CD, then you use the PERC firmware to create the virtual disk (select your disks, raid level and initialize the array) and then in...
Why wouldn't you make an 20-80gb virtual disk for your OS and use the remaining as needed for your data/transaction/etc? 4 drives in raid 5 would be a better choice for your OS anyway, fault tolerance etc. That's how I config my servers, anyway.