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I currently have two 8-port un-managed switches (one in living room, one in office) that are connected by a single CAT6 cable I ran on the outside of the house. Each room has roughly 8 ethernet devices. I want to utilize the guest network wifi feature on my apple airport express / pfsense...

I searched around on amazon. Would it be easier to go from DVI to HDMI instead?

I want to hook up a 3rd Dell U2715H to my Geforce GTX660 via the DVI port on my graphics card to a displayport on the monitor. I have hooked up 2 of the U2715H together using a single DP via MST daisy chain, except the second monitor will not wake up from sleep. So currently I have one...

Yeah 27" 16:9. It was just hard for me to acclimate to a 34" because at once point I used my 3x24" in portrait mode. Doing so allowed me to maximize 3 windows on 3 portrait displays. When i used the 34", the width felt the same as 3x24 portrait, but the height felt really short. And then the...

I dont think any blizzard games support 21:9, and i recall having to play with black bars on the side. Also, watching regular tv shows at 16:9 placed black bars on the side. I returned my 34" and got a 27".

The benq you linked is 16:9 aspect ratio, so you will still be missing the "160 pixels" from 16:10. Do you game? Do you use windows 10? 4k High DPI is not quite ready for main stream. You will be an early adopter and the experience you have will be based on your expectations. I would...

There are very few monitors left at the 16:10 aspect ratio and 95-100 DPI range. The only popular ones left are: 24" 1920x1200 16:10 30" 2560x1440 16:10 The 27" and 34" are at 109 DPI and are 16:9 or 21:9 respectively. You will loose that 160 pixel of vertical, and the font will be 10%...

Can someone clarify what is the "cheapest" video card today I can get to power one of these Samsung units properly? Would a GTX 960 work?

Are there even any 2015 displays that still use CCFL lighting?

There are a lot of laptop users trying to push HDMI out to the U2713HM at 2560x1440 using registry hacks and setting custom timings. It appears there is no problems if you hack it at 55hz. I've seen other posts about going from HDMI to DVI and creating custom timings. I'm not interested in...

Thanks for the response. I'm still shocked Dell would provide HDMI that only does 1080p on a 2560x1440 monitor. Looks like i'll either swap out the motherboard, or put in a < $100 graphics card.

If the adapter does work, for $30 + $10 for an HDMI cable. Would it be better just to buy a ~ $50-$100 video card and not use the integrated intel graphics?

In my haste of building my parents a new PC. I built a simple Haswell i5 using the Z97 chipset, and now after setting it up there is no way to drive their Dell U2713HM @ 2560x1440: The Z97 motherboard has: 1 x DVI-D port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz 1 x HDMI port...

If you use FlexRaid Transparent RAID, it will be significantly slower then the regular speed of a single drive. It will probably be much slower then your Windows Raid 1 Mirror.

The pro calibration is not worth it. It is calibrated to each of your sources. If you were to replace your cable box, or bluray drive, or upgrade your ps3 to a ps4, you may need to calibrate again. I bought a Spyder 3 off a slickdeals and followed the DIY method. It was a steep learning...

If you only care to watch live tv, both WMC and Media Portal are superior then using XBMC. But if you want to watch x264 mkvs. Both WMC and Media Portal are a pain to get the video codecs / audio codecs / and subtitles working.

Your reasoning of wanting to have a few extra cores hardly justifies spending an extra $1000+ on enterprise grade everything. Additionally if your CAD/3D software works with regular gaming graphics cards, it would be a much better purchase not to buy a workstation card for resale simplicity...

The current gen intel processors are so good, is there any reason you need to go enterprise grade and spend the money on X79? Tell me what features you need on X79 that are not going to work with Z87. The price difference with X79+Ivy Bridge-E is so great, you can buy i4770k+z87 and upgrade in...

I dont think your problem has anything to do with your HSF. My stock HSF on both my i3 and i5 have the same problem. The issue is the bios cpu fan controller. When you set it to the quite / silent mode, any cpu spike will cause the bios to power up the fan. If you have ample aftermarket...

It'll be cheaper and more reliable if you just get 2 video cards. AMD and Nvidia sell "workstation" cards that fully support 6 monitors: FirePro w9000 http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/w9000/Pages/w9000.aspx Nvidia Quadro...

vmware solo, oracle virtual box. both free.

litecoin mining is heavily dependent on the memory of the gpu. what are the temps of your memory and vrm. make sure you have air flow over the cards. also, what's the purpose of mining with a GTX 670? your looking at nearly no profit especially after the fees of cashing out.

Basically, the most popular enterprise feature is the ECC ram. One simple scenario is if your running an "mission critical" large 100TB ZFS storage, you dont want to risk corrupting it if your memory gets a random bit-flip. This is a debatable topic, but dont buy overclocked gaming ram if your...

Depending on how critical the workload and the amount of users, a "server" is pretty much a regular pc. You can move to server grade hardware: xeon cpu / server grade chipset / and ECC ram. This can often times be recommended depending on what your doing, and other times may be unnecessary...

the op says he has a windows raid0 array. windows raid converts your disk to a dynamic partition. You can't install the OS on a raid0 array, only convert an existing OS install to a dynamic raid1 array.

If you want the netflix experience, being able to transcode your content on the fly to your iOS/android/web browser, as well as having a desktop couch mode player, then mediabrowser3 would be perfect for you. It is still pretty new under going plenty of development.

That is a some what true statement with hardware raid. Your setup is using windows software raid. If only one drive is plugged in, windows will detect the other drive is missing and your array will be missing. Since the array is missing you can't modify any data, thus not destroying your...

this deal doesn't seem that hot. i've bought a few 27" korean ips panels for under $400 brand new. dell has a new 28" 4k monitor coming out for $800. The 3008 is pushing 5 years old and is loosing it's value. All of my U2407's have broken usb hubs, I dont know if you like to use usb on the...

You can plug in the 2 drives consisting of the raid0 array in the new computer, Windows will detect it and import it.

The 4830 has 2 less cores and 4 less threads. Maybe you need to lower the number of vCPU's.

When you install a modern day operating system on bare metal, it will utilize IO caching to make certain work loads fast. IO caching can affect you from the application level, to the OS level, to the controller level. IO caching is exactly what it sounds like, a cache to buffer IO to maximize...

This thread needs more pictures. I read over all the equipment people posted with no idea if they are speakers, amps, or DAC's.

Yes, if you can't afford to loose that data, it's better to just introduce additional drives instead of buying 1 "enterprise" drives. Plenty of statistics from data centers showing that enterprise drives are no better then regular drives in reliability. I have two 5 year old 1TB WD Greens that...

I can adjust that on my Logitech Harmony Smart Control. There is an option to change how many times to send a transmission, between 1-3.

The AMD controller with SSD isn't great. But it will still be a night and day difference compared to the 1TB. Your max speed would probably be around 130 meg/second. Moving to an intel board will be much better, and getting a new intel board will let the SSD run at full speed. Just stay with...

I have the new harmony smart control. It has 0 lag after i tuned it. In the harmony programming, there are 3 different settings you need to tweak to make increase the responsiveness of the remote, while making sure transmissions are not getting dropped (i set all these values to 0): Fix delay...

This kinda feels like a down grade in my opinion. Your going from a low power atom d510 (vintage 2010) to an Opteron (vintage 2009). The Opteron is not very fast, maybe 2x more powerful then the atom, but maybe at 2-5x the power consumption for something that will be on 24/7. (not to mention...

Sharp makes a 500 series, 600 series, and 700 series tv. The 500 series have no features, the 600 series have basic smart tv, and the 700 adds additional smart features and 3d/240hz. The 70" Sharp 650 is constantly on sale in stores for $1800, you can easily get the 60" for your price range...

I virtualized my server 2008 on ESXi and after realizing that running on a hypervisor does not support native OS caching, i went back to running server 2008 on bare metal. My disk performance dropped so much while virtualized, i would only do it again if i used ZFS.

I will agree on the poor button placement, but now my brain has rewired itself and is used to it. I can't go back to having 3 remotes.