Search results

Yeah I've contacted Galaxy, Zotac, and Nvidia to either send me the screws or tell me what size they are and so far they haven't been too useful, although Galaxy did have a look in their shop to see if they had anything and said they would be willing to send if they did (but they don't). From...

bump

I need the 15 torx screws and 4 springy gpu screws for a stock gtx 580/480 heatsink. Please help me out.

Bump How about a dead 580 with a working cooler? Also doesn't necessarily have to be reference, just dual slot.

bump

Anyone have a working GTX580 reference cooler (Just the cooler not the card) lying around that you want to get rid of? I am looking for two, but will take one if that's all you have. http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=75650

yolo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS I could be wrong, but the way this is worded implies otherwise: "Likewise, a zpool consists of one or more vdevs. Each vdev can be viewed as a group of hard disks (or partitions, or files, etc.). Each vdev should have redundancy, because if a vdev is lost, then...

I know nothing about Xen or why you could not do a PCI-E passthrough with your hardware using ESX, but with regards to the actual software RAID itself: ZFS is straight up the way to go for a modern software RAID that rivals hardware controllers in performance and reliability. The only downside...

I am assuming what you mean by "Bypass an OS" is to use VMWare ESXi (Which is itself an OS by the way) instead of Windows 2012? Server 2012, and 2008 R2, etc uses Hyper-V as it's virtualization hypervisor. It is comparable in performance and features to VMWare ESX. Hyper-V runs at the hardware...

Setting the static IP on ESX host as well as client PC did the trick, so thanks for that. For some reason I wasn't sure whether routing would function without the router even with a static IP. It seems obvious now, you'd think I'de know these things given my line of work but eh, learn something...

This makes sense, I will have a look when I get some more time to dive into it, thank you fine sir.

Hey Everyone, Let me preface this by saying I am by no means a networking or ESX expert and this is not a production environment just a home setup. I am slowly attempting to virtualize as many services (file/web serving, etc) as possible for the purpose of power consumption and just to see if I...

Fixed! Just in case someone else runs into this problem, the solution was to reset the amp by holding down the "S. Speaker B", "ATT", and "EXIT" buttons for three seconds. Somehow this was not documented in the manual, I found it in some dusty old forum. Amp is back to working perfectly again...

No it's just sitting on a shelf, it has plenty of ventilation if that's what you're wondering.

Hey All, I have had this Marantz SR4002 for a couple of years now and it has worked absolutely flawlessly until today. We had what I can only describe as a rolling brownout that caused the amp to the turn off and back on a couple of times very quickly. After this the amp will not power on and...

You need to enable host clock control and then adjust the CPU host frequency. Set Performance Enhance to "Normal" instead of turbo. Watch your RAM speed, in my experience RAM gets unstable with an overclock, so you may want to adjust the RAM multiplier down to 667, and then slowly increase...

I usually get higher temperatures out of IBT then Prime95 which suggests it's better at loading, however I've heard the opposite from i7 owners so maybe it has something to do with the chip.

Eh... consider ordering from UK, these fans are definitely worth it. I ordered 4 1850s from this retailer and it took 5 days to ship to Canada (takes more time to ship stuff from US) Also they have the fans you want in stock: http://www.quietpc.com/us-en-usd/products/120mmfans/gt-120-1450

An LSI/DELL Perc 5/i can typically be bought used for around 100-150 and has two channels supporting 8 drives and both RAID5 and RAID10. If you lose the hot spares (not really sure what the point of them is?) you wouldn't need to bother with two of them, although for that price maybe you don't...

I went with a Zotac IONITX L-E (Intel Atom 330 dual core) board, 4gb ddr3 and 4x 1.5TB drives in RAID 5 (with PERC 5/i) for my low power file server that never gets turned off, I use RDP/VNC and only ever have to plug in a monitor if I need to get to the BIOS. The Atom processor is...

Not sure if it applies with FreeNAS (never used it). But I just resolved a very similar problem with my 2x EADS 2x EARS RAID 5 (1.5 TB drives) I had to jumper pins 7-8 on the EARS drives which is what WD recommends for windows XP, I am running win 7 but I am thinking it's possible that the...

Ok with pins 7-8 jumpered on the EARS drives and forcing writeback I am now getting acceptable performance of 62 MB/s when transfering large files. With smaller files I am getting around 70-80MB/, this is excellent. I mean it's not amazing, but for green drives it's acceptable, and all this...

Thanks I did not know that, will try it. Also jumpering pins 7-8 on the EARS drives, did a bit of googling and it seems like it might fix the issue.

I am not sure I understand what your suggestion is. The non raid write performance is fine. Can you elaborate on this "jumper" you speak of?

I am kind of starting to wonder if it is the drives. My current thoughts: Not the PCI-E bus config, since reading is working fine. Not the RAID Configuration, although possibly a slight performance hit without BBU Not CPU since it's barely being utilized Really only thing left I can...

The array is a simple volume. Primary partition: 4190.23 GB (there is no secondary or unallocated space). File System: NTFS Standard for Windows, all my drives are setup like this.

Do you think it would affect it this much? I have almost no experience with a hardware RAID controller honestly, so any advice is appreciated. My BBU is shipping currently, so maybe I'll just wait and see what kind of difference it makes once it gets here. Thanks for all the replies guys.

I would say yes, I am not an expert but I've been running a RAID 0 for my main OS drive and applications on my PC for years now and the performance is quite good. The downside with RAID 0 is, 0 redundancy. If one drive dies you lose everything on both drives so just keep that in mind. As...

That's a good question, I hadn't thought of that. It's currently in the middle of copying and my CPU utilization is hovering between 1% and 15%. I believe the RAID controller should be handling most of the processing, if I am not mistaken.

I have tried with with a bunch fo small MP3s as well as full blue ray movies (10+ GB) and it varies only slighty. Win 7 tells you the transfer rate in the copy window, not sure how accurate, but that's how I am measuring currently. I would like to note that inititally the transfer rate is...

Hey Guys My BIOS has an option to "retrain" PCI-E to Gen2, which is currently enabled. I don't know the diff between gen1 and gen 2, anybody know how this might affect my RAID controller? I am leaning more and more towards PCI-E bus config in BIOS, but I am a newb in this regard, please...

Ok so if you read my other thread you'll know I've been having trouble getting a RAID card to work with an onboard video, suffice to say I finally got it working with a new board. Now my problem is absolutely atrocious write performance, like we're talking barely 100Mb/s (Yes megabits not...

Bah, managed to flash the BIOS up to a much newer version and it still won't post with the RAID controller plugged in... Anyone else got any bright ideas for me? Thanks for the help so far.

yea, it's really annoying. I don't think it's even posting to be honest because typically within 5 seconds of powering on the machine the cpu fan starts to spin down. with the raid card in it just stays maxed so my guess is it's trying to initialize the PCI-e as a GPU and failing and tossing...

Wondering if there might be any settings in the BIOS for the PCI-e... but not sure what to look for.

Unfortunately no, one of my friends might have one I could use though, will have to see.

Don't laugh.... MSI RS48OM A replacement board/cpu is on the way, but was hoping to atleast get the RAID up and running, so I can use it until it gets here.

Let me explain the problem. My server has a crappy motherboard, and when my RAID controller (Perc 5/i) is plugged into the PCI-e it will not give me any display via the onboard video. I have set the BIOS to initialize onboard video first, but still no dice. So to get around this I...

Hey Guys, This problem has only recently popped up, I am using a Linksys BEFSR81 router (10/100). I stream content from my file server to my PC for viewing, usually over windows media player. For some months I had no issues, I could stream 1080p continuously without any problems. Lately...