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The simple answer is NO, you cannot load balance outbound NAT connections like you want. The IP protocol was not meant to be used like this. All of those dual wan routers are hacks that will give you inconsistent connectivity. Large places like google/MS have true load sharing routers...

I'm pretty sure a xeon or opteron will be overkill on both your budget and "testing" needs. I just built this for a client and it's a fast box made with quality parts. 1x 1u rackmount case/PS 4x 400gb SATA drives 1x 3.4ghz dual core Pentium D 1x PCI-X RAID card 4x 1gb ECC DIMM's...

Nothing will 'dynamically load balance' on a NAT device. Anything that claims to do so does it in a really crappy way and will give you inconsistent access. IP was never meant to be load balanced on a NAT device.

The second switch downstream from the clients and with fiber connected to it is totally unnecessary, as is 10gige, as is fiber. All client switches and everything else should plug into 1 16-24 port gige Powerconnect switch.

Even with many clients maxing out 100mbit, you won't hit 1 gigabit/second at any given moment. Games take up virtually bandwidth, and it would take atleast 10 users doing file transfers over an extended period of time with other users not on their 24 port switch to even begin to notice any...

You don't need or want fiber at all. It just complicates things, limits device compatibility and makes it much more expensive. Copper gige gives you the same exact throughput. If I were you, I'd buy 4 24 port Powerconnect 2324 switches for clients. Clients get the 10/100 ports, uplink the...

They don't make socket 939 systems with PCI-X. Socket 939 is more desktop focused than workstation/server where you would typically find PCI-X. If you still want to go AMD with PCI-X, take a look at these dual opteron socket 940 boards and pick the one you would like. Since cost is a...

The board you posted does not have RAID 5 support. RAID is only supported on the ICH7R, not the ICH7. Here's a list of them at Newegg that support RAID. I'm running 2gb of this Corsair DDR2-667 on my Pentium D/Intel D945GTPLR motherboard with no problems. The SPD timings are 5-5-5-15...

Yes this is possible with a policy route, which can route packets based on source address rather than destination address. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/protocol/tech/plicy_wp.htm

You must work at a very large company to have on average 32 PC's die a day.

There was never a ddr/sdram to rambus riser. There were very few 1.13ghz p3's shipped to OEM's. Very few, if any, made it to customer's hands. Even the great FPU bug in the first Pentium's didn't really effect anyone since the bug was so obscure. They replaced those CPU's free of charge...

Intel's 90% marketshare and $2.04 billion dollars it profited last quarter. If Intel wasn't reliable, wouldn't you hear on the news about millions of computers not working?

That's very true. Maybe Intel should challenge AMD to a money making contest next quarter. I wonder who will win? But on a serious note, AMD needs to penerate the OEM desktop/workstation/server markets more. Even a 'big' AMD OEM like HP sells a lot more Intel CPU's based systems across the...

Don't need ICS really, just bridge the connection between wired/wireless. Crossover from desktop to laptop. Follow these instructions on desktop. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02april22.mspx

If you do a lot of photoshop, take a look at these results and see which CPU would suit your budget the best. http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/photoshop/index.php

Intel makes rock solid boards for Pentium D's. This one is $122. This one gives you onboard video and the Intel raid card for $3 more. If you'd like the absolute cheapest 945p motherboard, it's this one by ECS. Not sure how 'stable' it is.

I thought he was talking about running 2 ethernet ports on his PC, both for internet connectivity.

Can't have windows do 2 default gateways active at the same time. You can assign 2, but it only uses the 2/3/4th ones if the primary default gateway fails. If your OS allowed allowed 2 default gateways and said gateways are on 2 totally different networks(cable/DSL for instance), packet 1 of a...

You can't. Those dual WAN routers are more useful for having a backup link than they are for load balancing. They only really speed up outbound http correctly, and FTP semi-correctly. Any other application will be pushed through 1 connection or the other. If you have 2 noticibly different...

There's very few boards out now that are microatx for AMD. Basically, there's only 2 nforce4 MATX's and a few RS480. Intel on the other hand, has quite a few from Intel itself, and they are known for stability. Look here. What I would do is get this motherboard from Intel, a dual...

At that price, you may seriously want to look at the Dell Powerconnect 2716 or 2724. They do VLAN's, link aggregation(802.3AD only) and jumbo frames for 25% the price of that tgerswitch.

"Etherchannel" is a registered trademark of Cisco. A quick google search can prove that. It came out many years before LACP and for a time it was the only way to bond L2 links. 802.3ad(LACP) is an IEEE standard. Cisco supports both in newer switches. While they do the same thing, they...

PAGP is also known as Etherchannel, and is a cisco only proprietary protocol. Etherchannel is not a generic term for link aggregation. According to the datasheet on the 12 port SMC switch it only supports LACP. Even if you guys don't want to spend anymore money and get 2 switches that...

The performance would be subpar with a PC, and both switches would have to support whatever link aggregation protocol you intend to use on either side. If you really need more than a single gigabit uplink(did you test anything to see that you would pull over 1 gigabit? Most high end PC's...

For comparison's sake, here's what my Pentium D 820 got in Photoshop CS2. Pentium D 820 (2x2.8ghz) 1gb DDR2-667mhz 945g motherboard 2x250gb RAID0 HD's Both CPU's: 54.5s Only 1 CPU: 65.8s

Stock Pentium D 820 benchmark: Pentium D 820 (2 2800mhz cores) CPU Intel D945GTPLR 945G Motherboard 2x512mb Corsair ValueRAM DDR2-667 memory 5-5-5-5-15 2x250gb Seagate 7200.8 HD's in RAID0 on ICH7R controller Nvidia 6600GT 128mb video 270watt Enermax PS...

Your CPU/MB combo is outdated. If he wants an expensive case that's fine, but $95 for a power supply in that system is extreme overkill. Since he will be doing mostly 3D work and multitasking, I'd suggest getting a Pentium D. The 820 is cheaper than the 3700+ and outperforms it greatly...

My Pentium D 820 with a 6600gt plays every game 100% now. If you go overboard and get 2 7800GTX's you'll be able to play any game for the next few years on that system, plus have far better encoding/multitasking support than a single core CPU if you opt for the dual core.

All of that stuff should work atleast at slow speeds with 1GB RAM except a Far Cry server with more than 4 people. I'd move that service to another PC if possible.

File servers don't need a lot of CPU. In fact, they need very little. A xeon or opteron would offer you nothing that an AMD64 or P4 wouldn't. Even if you do decide to start video encoding with it, a P4 is better at it because of the higher clock. I'd go with an 875p motherboard...

Pentium D 820 2x2.8ghz CPU cores Intel D945GTPLR motherboard 2x512mb Corsair ValueRAM DDR2 667mhz 2x250gb 7200.8 Seagate Barracuda HD's RAID 0 1 6600GT 128mb video card Lian-Li PC-9300 case 270watt enermax ATX12V power supply 19" NEC CRT monitor I'm able to transcode a .vob file to...

I love my Pentium D 820 system, 1GB Corsair ValueRAM DDR2 667, 2x250gb 7200.8 Seagates and a 6600GT. It plays Doom3 at 1280x1024 2xAA just fine to me. Photoshop is extremely quick, as is video encoding. For a $250 CPU, its hard to beat.

I just built a 945g system with a Pentium D 820. No mention of DRM anywhere on the system and nothing about DRM on the 945p chipset page at Intel. BTW, having a DRM enabled chipset is not a bad thing. It won't stop you from playing your XViD copy of a DVDRip you download from the Internet...

Depending on what type of VPN you're doing, you may need to allow gre as well.

Call all the ISP's in your area and see what they can do for you.

It's just a CSA Intel NIC. You can get the latest drivers(dated 05/26/05) from Intel here.

The only MicroATX 939/pcie/nforce4 board on Newegg is this Foxconn for $89.00. Very slim pickings for MicroATX and nforce4 at the moment.

My di-624 did the same thing. I replaced it with a linksys wrt54g and not a problem since.

If I were you, I'd look at this SuperMicro server case for $397+shipping. It has 8 hot swap SATA bays built in and a 645watt PS that I'm sure is capable of powering 8 HD's plus a beefy CPU/MB combo. It's about $35 cheaper than your case/drive bay/ps combo. The black version costs a few $...

Does it create the mail accounts as well?