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It can make use of the new DCPMM memory. This stuff is crazy. I don't understand it yet. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/optane-persistent-memory/optane-dc-persistent-memory-brief.html

Those things were so solid they could print on copper roofing flashing and survive though...

So you were the guy that bought those 3-core Athlons?

OMG, 14.7 years? When did I get this old?

Wow I want to thank you guys for the codes. $923 is an awesome deal. I couldn't resist and just ordered one.

Where does it say $100 minimum? Its telling me my Black Elite is worth $30 and it doesn't want my 7yo 4G original...

Bah! I knew I should have waited. I delidded, amd was only able to manage 4.6. I was at 4.5 before the delidding. I scared the crap out of myself while I was delidding though. I used the razor blade method and put a scratch in the top, just enough to uncover some copper through the green...

Yup, I tried it for sh!ts and giggles. DVI, DP and HDMI. Worked well.

286 10MHz 386 25MHz 486 DX100 Pentium 75 Pentium 120 P2 266 Celeron 366 Dual Celery 366 @ 504 P3 600 @ 900 (I think) P3 900 @ 1.2 GHz P4 1.6 @ 2.4 P4 2.4 @ 3.2 Opteron 1.8 @ 2.6 i7-920 @ 3.6 4770k @4.6

Holy crap, thats cool.

My i920 just died. Sadly after 4 years of overclocking, the magic smoke got let out... I had it at 3.5GHz for 3 years of air cooling and 3.8GHz for a year of water cooling. Now I mourn her death. Got the Asrock Z87E-ITX and a 4770k my trust x58 kit. At 4.4 GHz it is quite a bit zippier...

In that 10 minutes I would do something to make my wife say "thank you". Most likely, this will be the dishes...

I'm using the ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid 7970 VGA Cooler on mine, and I have never seen it hit 50c. Its always in the high 30s or low 40s.

You can take the handles and feet off...

w00t! I was in for 2!

Awesome, this needs to be stickied.

I once gave a gift in a computer themed gift bag. I stuffed the bag with green-bar paper to hide the gift. The recipient was more excited about seeing green-bar paper again that getting the actual gift. I don't feel this old, and I'm not sure when it snuck up on me. Of course the length...

Yes, I had ESXi installed on a USB stick and the Datastores on local disks. At the end of my 60 day trial, i was able to reinstall on the USB stick and then reconnect with my datastores and inport my VMs again.

Oh cool. Thanks danswartz. I was just about to ask why, and you answered that question before I had a chance to ask it.

I don't view implementing this Turbo Boost as cheating. ASUS has a commitment to performance computing, and in my eyes this is one way they achieve it. Market it so people know, and test it to prove a performance boot. I would give people a choice but implement it by default if I had my way.

To lend some real world levity to this thread: I have a laptop that work gave me, every day at 4pm a virus scan would run (company Group Policy) that would bring the system to its knees. When the scan was running, it would not even register typed text for a second or 2. I replaces this...

So I made a mistake, it was an OVA that gets exported. And after a bit of reserch, I found that an OVA is just a tar file of an OVF, MF (md5 checksum file), VMDK and the attached ISOs. So I was able to unpack the OVA. Delete the ISO. Delete the MF (checksums were going to be different)...

I exported an OVF with the intention of saving the VM a while ago. Today hosed the VM, and I thought - no problem I have a backup. I haven't played with this enough in my little home lab, so I hope this can be fixed. I know you should always disconnect ISO's before exporting, but made the...

Accept it says the 120GB drive with teh different archetecture is faster than the 2 60GB drives in RAID0. What the hard core here want to know is what is the performance of 2 240GB drives in RAID0.

Also XP doesn't do alignment correctly. It have to be done manually, before the install, if you plan on installing XP. Vista and Win7 do it correctly though. Check this: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_set_up_Windows_on_a_VERTEX

I have an MS Action Pack subscription, and my latest set of downloads has Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 listed. Anyone here actually used this? I see it supports NFS and iSCSI, anyone know anything about the performance of either? Just curious, that's all.

A long time ago I worked for a Broker/Dealer. We had electrical problems with the A/C in the tiny datacenter and I had to bring in portable A/C while it was being worked on. I plugged them into outlets that were marked "NONUPS". They were marked WRONG. I plugged 3 portable A/C units into...

I have an ESX box, but it has a Q6700 processor. I planned on making my current i7 my new ESX box when the 2011 pin chips come out. I bought 16GB for that reason, but I also run VMware workstation on it while I am waiting for the new chips.

It never even occurred to me that AIX would run on x86. I thought it was PPC only. I will have to look into this. Thanks for the idea.

Sign me up.

10 years and no joy on the contests, but i'm not giving up today.

Interesting. I'll have to check that out. Wow, great blog! Thanks/

Recently updated my lab. AsRock 775 MoBo Q6700 overclocked to 3.0GHz 16GB Ram HighPoint RR4310 with 4 2TB Hitachi drives Other misc drives for ISO storage ESXi booted from thumb drive Intel dual NIC Also added onboard Realtek 8111 driver I have Untangle to route between the 2...

Nice OC. Since the 300A was mentioned, I just have to add "BP6 FTW" dual 504's was just amazing at the time

I have that HBA. Make sure you update the firmware before you start partitioning arrays. I have 3 2TB arrays on 4 disks, and ESX wouldn't see more than the first array until I updated the firmware.

Looks fantastic. I have a 3GHz quad core and the CPU utilization barely gets over 25%. I'm not doing anything processor heavy though. Its just a lab server. Memory utilization is up there though. 80% with 9 WMs running. 6 of which are Windows based. Definitely good choice on going the...

If people don't realize how fast this industry moves and hire a hack with a 10 year old A+ cert, they are just asking for trouble. And an A+ isn't worth hanging on the wall anyway. The expiration on a cert doesn't matter, all that matters is if you were smart enough to pass the test in the...

Word of advice, first thing you should do is upgrade the firmware on that RAID card. I have the same one and needed the latest BIOS for the ESX driver to see multiple arrays. It will save you a day of tweaking, Initializing 3 2TB Arrays takes about 2 days. -ItsTooHot

I created 3 2TB RAID6 arrays on my Highpoint 4310 controller. ESXi was able to see all three arrays as 1.82TB each. I created a datastore on each.

I got a HP GX609AA that I got in trade as an ESXi server. Right now it has a Q6700, 8GB RAM, Intel Dual MIC and 1TB of storage I'm running 7 VMs on it right now. My current gaming rig will become my next gen ESXi server when the next Sandy Bridge processore become available. Its an i920...