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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 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...

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...

Hello, I have been running a m0n0wall router behind my uverse residential gateway fine for a while now. The m0n0wall router runs in DMZ+ mode, with my public ip address assigned to it. I'm having trouble getting one feature to work properly. I can't seem to block external IP addresses...

Hi guys, I'm looking for something to use with my headphones (sennheiser 600). I want a volume knob on my desk, and the ability to bypass the speakers when the head phones are plugged in. What i've found so far that seems to will work are the AudioEngine D1 and the Topping TP30. Does...

From reading many posts, it seems like the IBM M1015 is a very popular choice. I was wondering if there are any cheaper alternatives? I'm looking for a card that works with ESXi pass through, and supports 8 sata hard drives. I would most likely use it in IT mode and eventually want to...

I'm planning to upgrade my file server to something modern and mainstream. I was looking at the LGA 1155 Ivy Bridge lineup. Will going from a i5 3570 to an i7 3770 make a huge difference? What about getting one of those 65 watt low power models, such as the i7 3770S? Anyone...

Hello, I have converted my low power file server (sig) over to a an ESXi VM. A lot of posts and guides make a big deal about getting a hardware raid card, flashing it with an IT firmware, and setting it up as pass through device in ESXi to get the raw drives in the VM. Currently, i'm running...

I recently jumped on the 27" Korean monitor frenzy from ebay and i'm running a crossover 27Q with only 1 dead pixel on the corner. Currently loving the monitor. Coming from 3x 24" monitors (dell U2407, and HP ZR24W) i've noticed what I like and what i want: - Antiglare coating is so...

I'm currently an eyefinity user with a display port monitor. I recently got one of those 27" korean monitors and i'm trying to figure out how I can hook up 3 monitors on duallink DVI so I dont need to buy a $100 display port active adapter. If I get 2x GTX660 in SLI, would i be able to plug...

So, i've seen quite a few posts about owners with over clocked editions having instabilities. Since i'm most familiar with radeon cards, i'm gonna use it as the example in this post. If i was to get an over clocked radeon 78XX, would disabling "ati overdrive" put the card back to...

To keep things simple, i have a file server consisting of 6 "green" drives in raid configuration. Do you think it's better to leave them running 24/7, or have them "spin down" after a certain time period. Current issues: - When i access the file server, it can take up to 45 seconds for the...

Hello, Currently i'm running the rig in my sig. 2x radeon 5850 1GB in crossfire in a 3x24" eyefinity setup. I admit, i'm not a huge gamer, and maybe only play 3-4 games a year. I just finished deus ex HR in crossfire with eyefinity and was hitting the 1GB VRAM wall. Right now, the...

Hello, I'm running 24 gigs of ram and I have setup a ramdisk using DataRam RamDisk. It seems to be working pretty good. The ram drive still appears after a reboot, except sometimes I log on too fast and it is slow to re-appear. When this happens Windows pops me a warning and creates a...

Hello, Ever since I upgraded to 24GB RAM, i have disabled my paging files as I didn't think i would need it anymore. However, I noticed when i play games, it would hiccup as it tried to load textures into memory. I looked up the problem and it pointed to increasing my page files. Now...

Is it just me, or is the website not working to download the drivers? I've tried every other day for almost a week now...

Hello, I have a Filco with the Cherry MX blue keys. I'm having problems with my most used WASD keys, they are often double registering when i'm doing normal typing... Basically, when i type: asdf it will 1/10 times come out as: assdf or aasdf I've noticed a few other more...

Just wondering since in every multi video card setup, the top card always runs quite a bit hotter then the bottom card. Would it even be possible to make the "master" card the bottom card, and let the top card be the one that doesn't output video. My bottom video card has an aftermarket...

So, i got my diablo 3 beta invite yesterday and installed it. When i went to launch it, the only video option i can select is 1024x768 "windowed" on my 3600x1920 eyefinity array. Battle.net forums doesn't have enough [H] people to get a clear answer from searching. Anyone know what's up?

I want to start off and say that i've been a pretty casual gamer ever since the move to LCD back in the early 2000's. I grew up playing quake 2 on a CRT monitor pushing 100+ fps. I've been dabbling with some light gaming with my eyefinity setup. Currently a 5850 (second one coming for...

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I have several windows software raid partitions on my server 2008 box. I have a 4 disk raid 5 array, and 2 disk raid 0, and a 2 disk raid 1. Does anyone know of any software that can monitor that my HD's are alive, and notify me if they are offline? Windows built in raid monitoring is pretty...

Need a quick pep talk. I'm rebuilding my zacate home server from server08 to zfs. I have the following hard drives: 2x 1TB 4x 2TB I'm worried about where I install the OS. I want to create a zfs raid5 pool with the 4x 2tb drives, i know it's best practice to NOT install the OS on the...

Just wanted to rant about my search for a simple 4x sata 3gbps pci express card to put in my zacate build so that i can have more then 6 hard drives from the on board mobo. It seems that any "decent" card almost costs as much as the $120 motherboard. My requirements are simple, just 4...

Hello, I wish to switch to WHS11 on my file server. Should i install the OS on a 60gb SSD or a 2TB HD? I have 2 other 2TB data drives on the machine. I remember on WHS V1, the C:\ had to be pretty large as it wrote all data there first and moved it to the storage pool later. The...

building a file server of the amd zacate board and chenbro mini-itx chassis. might install windows 2008 or WHS on it. Need someone to give me a glance over on my concerns before i bite the bullet. 1) Chenbro ES34169-BK-120 120W Mini-ITX Server Chassis...

I'm currently using a single computer on the TV for my HTPC / Media File Server needs. I live by myself, so as a single user i do not have many problems having one pc do double duty. My computer currently serves the following: - it has 4 tuner cards and records live tv in HD - downloads...

Hey guys, Just built an i5 2500k last night. Was a little confused in the "bios" about setting the GPU mhz speed. Default speed was 1450mhz, and you can move it up to i think 3000mhz? What setting do i keep this at. I am currently using "Auto", but how do i see how fast the GPU speed is...

Just wanted to get a feel of how much power your HTPC uses. Mine: AMD Phenom 2 X3 710 nforce 8300 chipset 6gb DDR2 ram 3 WD Caviar Green HD Idles @ ~ 70 watts watching movie ~ 80-90 watts

So i have recently discovered this 24p phenomenon. I guess it only requires me to change the refresh rate to either 23 or 24hz on the HTPC side for watching movies filmed at 24p. Can anyone tell me if it's really better?

Hello, I currently have a HTPC powered by all Western Digital Green Drives. Currently I have a single HDhomerun with 2 tuners. I am able to record 2 shows simultaneously at once fine, but i want to check if the green drives can handle 4 simultaneous recordings if i add another 2 tuners...

Hello, I have some weird performance issues on my raid array on my new x58 i7 pc. I have 2x 500GB 7200 Hitachi Drives in Raid 1 on my ICH10R: Sequential Read: 44meg/sec (bad) Sequential Write: 75meg/sec (normal) I used to run the same hard drive on my intel p35 q6600 on the ICH9? in...

Hello, Currently i am using my HTPC (windows 7) to serve double duty as my file/media server. Are there any benefits of switching to an server class operating system in terms of file server / network performance? My only purpose is to see if i could get any better performance, and in...

Hey guys, I just wanted to report that i ordered an Artic Cooling Accecelero Twin Turbo Pro from ewiz, and the package had a sticker advertising it's new fitment for Radeon 5870/5850 and Geforce GT240. It fit on my XFX non-reference radeon 5850 perfectly. The DVI area on the heatsink was...