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    Please talk me out of this...

    I just got the wild idea to stick my old i5-2500k (in a Antec P150 with a MSI P67 ATX mobo) case into the NCase M1. There is just 1 mini-ITX motherboard left in stock: the Asus P8H61-I R2.0....
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    Load balancing across separate DSL and Cable services?

    This is just a hypothetical, but suppose you had a cable and DSL connection and wanted to combine both into one virtual "pipe" - are there ways to set up a network or routing to utilize both connections?
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    Dumb question: ISP and picking a broadband package?

    So...am moving to a new neighborhood (San Marino, CA) and dealing with the wonders that are the internet service provider industry. As far as I can tell, the only real choice in the area is Time Warner; with packages of 300 Mbps down/20 Mbps up for ~$65, 200/20 for ~$55, 100/10 for 45...
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    New Skylake Xeon E3's, C236 mini ITX

    OK: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C236%20WSI#Specifications Too good to be true? Mini-ITX, ECC RAM....AND integrated Realtek 1150 sound?!?!?
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    inevitable 950 pro vs. intel 750 thread...

    So, it looks like these are the two "prosumer" level NVMe PCIe 3.0x4 drives out at least in the near future. Which one to get? Published numbers for the 950 pro seems to indicate the 512mb module edges out the 750 in sequential read, write, IOP's, yada yada BUT...the Intel drive will be...
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    Mobo (uATX, mITX) options for workstation/ECC/E3 or E5 xeon support?

    Thinking about a NCase based build with ECC memory support basically, but can also have onboard sound that doesn't suck, and a full x16 PCI 3.0 slot for video cards, and maybe a NVME, or M.2 option.... Looking through the options, AFAIK, the workstation crowd is late to the SFF party...
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    How to "vet" your USB firmware after sticking in someone else's USB thumb drive?

    This is an odd request.... but is there any way to "vet" or otherwise make sure no firmware hacks were installed after I accidentally inserted someone else's USB drive into my laptop? Maybe I"m being truly paranoid...
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    Windows 8 vs 7 in VMware on a laptop?

    This might be a dumb rtfm question but...is Windows 8 easier on VMWare CPU and battery-wise than a Windows 7 VM? I'm running a WIn7 VM on a Macbook. It's fine, but it does suck a lot of battery... (goes from ~ 10 hrs a day to 6 ish by rough estimation if I am running the VM)
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    Good timing for a build?

    Sort of feeling the itch to build again. Technically my computing stock is fine. The office has an old Antec P150 box running a Sandy 2500k / P65 /GTX 560ti platform and it is still pretty good at what it does. But it's large and occasionally stutters. I don't know why and I suspect it's...
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    NVidia Maxwell 2 cards

    So...the GTX 970 and 980 are coming out, with not just performance improvements but what seems like a huge power consumption drop. A new sweet spot for SFF builds? For my usual uses, I don't really overclock and don't really need the fancy liquid coolers or radiators (at least that is...
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    New Apple Mac Pro - will it influence future SFF designs?

    I have to admit I am a big fan of the Mac (well, and iOS) platforms - hopefully that isn't a taboo subject here. With the release of the Mac Pro, which accommodates workstation-class CPU and GPUs shrunk to a size that gives mini-ITX a run for its money, I figure it might be an interesting...
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