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I asked for help replacing this system in 2016 but time got away from me and now things are feeling bogged down. I will not be using this PC for gaming. I use it for 2D CAD, Fusion 360, Adobe Creative Suite (mostly Photoshop and Illustrator and some video editing), MS Office, and other boring...

Thanks again, Dangman. Here's my updated grocery list. PC Hound Part List CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 8M ($329 @ Amazon) Motherboard: EVGA Z170 Classified K 142-SS-E178-KR ($233.98 @ Newegg) Memory: CORSAIR 64GB (4 x 16GB) Vengeance LPX ($299.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080...

My current workstation is starting to flake out on me a little so I'm ready to pull the trigger on a new build. I like EVGA and was excited to see they have a motherboard that accommodates two Samsung 950s that I will set up in Windows 10 as software RAID 1. I'll also set up the other SSD...

Thank you for taking the time to help me out, Dangman. I wonder how long it will be till there are motherboards besides those from MSI that support the new CPUs. It is good to know that I can just jump and build a new workstation now without regret.

I've read a little about Broadwell-E and people do not seem impressed. How long do you figure I would have to wait for a potentially-impressive chip to come out? If it is a lot more than 6 months, I should probably get the show on the road and upgrade. Would you suggest going with the...

I don't care about running SLI or crossfire. I can wait for Broadwell-E.

Thank you, extide. This is what I was hoping would be true. So, I could have two 950 Pro drives running at full speed but use Windows software RAID1 to have redundancy? When I'm looking at motherboards, I get pretty confused as to making sure I have enough of what kind of PCIe slot. The same...

Thank you again, jrweis. I used to buy Abit boards too and Asus is my current go-to brand of board and has been for some time. Thank you for the tweak to your recommendation about the X-99 boards over the Sabertooth. I am happy to have so many choices but actually choosing can be a challenge...

This seems critical. Thank you for the heads-up about this, jrweis. I was wondering about this as I strain my brain to decipher the requirements of the 950 Pro drives. Being as there aren't a gaggle of x99 motherboards with two spaces for these kinds of drives, can you tell me if using an...

` Is it better because, why pay for more processor that won't be utilized? Thank you for taking the time to help me, PontiacGTX.

Thank you, jrweis, both for the explanation as well as the parts list. I agree that good back-up software is a necessity. Having zero downtime when the OS hard drive goes down, ohhhh MOMMA! It is a euphoric feeling to know the system can keep working and all I have to do is swap a hard drive...

Thank you for taking the time to put this together for me. So, to get the RAID1 protection, Windows 7 could do software RAID to create a redundancy with my bootable 950s?

This is EXACTLY the kinds of insight I was hoping for, default|user! You're right, not a ton of video editing so based on what you're teaching me, the 6-core sounds preferable.

extide, you sound like you may have had a similar bum-out as I did when I discovered the USB-to-serial adapter I purchased did not work. I have no problem using a USB one that does. Worst case, I can use an old server that has the RS232 on the back of it for configuration if I'm in a pinch...

Can I put two Intel 750 series NVMe PCI-e AICs into RAID1 without frustration? I'd really like to retain the redundancy we currently have on all of our workstations (which has been awesome the times we've needed it). This is outstanding information, jrweis, and shows me just how in need of...

Oh man, I'm not going to allow that little card to hold back the rest of the system. I use that for interfacing with Cisco stuff. I'll just buy the PCI-e RS232 card as jrweis suggested the next time I need one. Thank you for catching that and thank you for helping me, defaultuser.

Adobe CC apps slow enough to frustrate with my current system built with your [H]ardForum help in 2011. Ideally, want to build anew and forget about it for another bunch of years. Because of work and love I've drifted away from staying current on the state of hardware. I was a curious dabbler...

Watching with my kids, I totally noticed that too! Totally. For the next 3 seconds I wondered if it was an accident (act of God) or on purpose.

When I clicked through the pics I laughed out loud, eager to see the proclamations of disappointment in the corresponding thread. Thank you for not disappointing me with your disappointment! The lady holding the small knife... That photo just makes me sad. I would be less sad if the knife...

I bought a spool of Cat6a to check it out. It's unshielded. Even without having to deal with the jiffy pop stuff, the thicker cables are a pain to terminate with the standard RJ45 Cat6 connectors. I bought some Cat6a keystones to try but haven't yet. I haven't tried standard cat6 keystones...

Honestly, Dawizman, we're not pushing the limits of gigabit ethernet. I'm not a network engineer or electrician. We have machines with gigantic magnets, UV lamps, and other things which, some have suggested, could cause noise for our network. We've not had problems with current Cat6 and...

Cat(of)9 Lives - 8 layers of failover built right into the wire. This is achieved through quantum cloud septilizatio...

I took the Cat9 to be a typo for Cat6. I googled Cat9 and didn't get any relevant results.

Thank you, Mackintire. I like your strategy. It is the best of both worlds.

Our company is growing and we're moving into a new building. All of the cabling in our existing small business network is Cat6e. It's worked fine. For the runs in the new building, should I try to make all copper runs Cat6A? The cable isn't that much more expensive, but the connectors...

A lot of truth in this. Are the handful of states who are not in debt, in the black because they are taxing the shit out of their businesses or not offering tax breaks? There has got to be some good math to have a win-win for both industry and the local economy. It sounds like someone...

Is Maiden, NC better with the business being there? If it is, even if it is just a little bit, then it is a win for the people of that community. Prisons, strip clubs, casinos, and hazardous waste management facilities all provide jobs beyond the number of jobs created by the DC. Using...

And also with you. Amen.

So...you assume Apple would have built there without the tax breaks? Let's call it 7 Trillion dollars on the assumption that Apple would have built this center and paid whatever taxes were levied.

How much better off would Maiden, NC be if this server farm wasn't there? What is the net loss to Maiden?

From now on, after reading these posts, I'm turning my home rig off. I like the idea of cutting down on dust, which is a hassle. I also like that I've moved at least some distance away from being called a 'planet rapist'.

The thing I love most about this is the attention to detail. In one shot you see a micrometer. In several other shots you see the results of sanding, then more sanding, markers for high/low points, and more sanding still. Really incredible work. Four months...and that is fast?! I am...

I especially liked the customer service detail. Why would Monster not want the specs smeared all over the internet? There is only one reason I can think of. The headphones are cool. Too bad function doesn't seem to measure up to the form/fad.

This made me laugh to the point of tears in my eyes.

Prototype for worlds slowest tattoo gun. As a bonus, it is also the most painful.

Many thanks, Atticus_gamer, xFrostX, and Skero. I talked to the boss man and he discovered the coax to be the scoundrel connection. I let him know that I read of a man in a forum who replaced his cable booster and it solved his problem. My boss's booster has 8 'teets' on it and he uses them...

xFrostx, that did sound pretty awesome. You could do trade school lectures. I think what you've concluded through pure logic is congruent to what our resident electrician just told me. First, the receiver isn't grounded. No 3rd prong on the power cord for a ground. The electrician said...

We have an electrician down the hall. I'm going to ask him. Thank you much! I didn't know a loose ground wire would be capable of this. We did try multiple outlets on the same circuit. It is odd that the problem would go away if the only thing we did was unplug the audio from the DVD...

I spent the morning at my boss' house troubleshooting an issue with his projector. I read a little about ground loops. Tried different configs. - the results seem counter to what I thought I understood about ground loops. His Sharp XV-Z0OU projector has scrolling horizontal bands when all...

This made me laugh out loud at my desk.