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I'm creating an array for ESXi storage and planning on using SSD's. I know they can be used for L2ARC and ZIL, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience using an all SSD array. I'm planning to run them off LSI 9211's (flashed with IT FW) and just wondering if there are any configuration issues...

Just got my system setup and very impressed with the SSD performance. I don't think spindle drives will be around much longer:

I have FreeNAS 0.7.3 (5543) running on a Q9550 mini ITX system with 4GB of RAM. I previously had 3x WD20EARS drives attached and had good performance over gigabit ethernet. I just bought 3 more WD20EARS drives and destroyed the array to create a new one using graid5. All the drives are the...

I have a FreeNAS (7.1.0) running with 3 WD Green EARS drives in RAID5. I switched over to these drives from 5 1tb drives (seagate and wd). I turned head parking to 300s (5min) and using raid5 have had no problem with the 4k blocks. So heres the problem. My HTPC is attached over gigabit...

I'm looking at setting up a mITX board in the Lian-Li PC-Q08 as a file server/nas but I need dual NIC cards and a hardware RAID card. It doesn't appear as though there are any socket 775 or 1156 boards that have dual NIC cards (wireless is not an option) so I will need to add both cards in...

I have a QX9770 I was planning to build a system around, but due to college expenses I am canceling my project. I'm looking for $800 OBO. Not looking for trades as I need to cover rent/expenses. INTEL '06 QX9770 INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME SLAN2 MALAY 3.20GHZ/12M/1600 I can get better pictures...

I just got a Q9770. I was running a e6850 in my BFG 680i, but it seems like the 9770 will arguably not run in the 680i. What boards should I look at for this chip? I don't need crossfire/sli, pcie2, etc but I would like a decent amount of sata ports if I can, and I want DDR2 memory. Ideas?

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I have BFG 680i which I had been running with Vista x64 for quite some time with no problems. Then a few weeks back I reinstalled windows and ever since I have not been able to get sound out of my machine. I have installed the Nvidia chipset drivers (which do not seem to have audio included) as...

I'm running windows Vista x64 Ultimate and my desktop just recently started having problems with IE. When I run it, I get a page not found error as if I was not connected to the internet. When I close the browser window IE crashes and runs the MS error reporting tool. I can run IE 7 x64 no...

I have a lian-li v1000 that I just recently used to build my first watercooling system. My current settup uses one 120mm BIP on the rear exhaust fan to cool the CPU. My 1900XTX is cooled with the stock cooler, but I will probobly be replacing it with an 8800GTS soon: At any rate, I have...

I'm using Vista x64 Ultimate and I have been having problems with file copys. When I try to copy about 400gb of files from an eSATA drive to my RAID 5 array I get an error message about 90% of the way through. "There is not enough memory to complete this operation." I tried changing my virtual...

I have a nVidia 680i montherboard with onboard support for Raid 5. I know the performance will not be anywhere near an add in card, but I'm wondering if it will be worth it at all. I have four 250gb SATA 300 drives I was going to use, and then I have Vista x64 on a 200gb SATA 300 drive, and a...

I did it for a different reason than some, but it turned out well. Like anything else though, the first time can be a bit rocky and the experience from the first build will definately aid my decisions down the road. First of all, my intents were silence rather than extreme cooling. I have my...

I just got some stuff in from petra and dangerden and the black ice pro radiator I got doesn't seem to work with the screws it came with. The screws go in the holes, but the hole is the thread size not the inner diameter of the screw (they slide in and out). I was wondering if anyone else has...

I'm wondering if there is any way around what seems to be the limiting of boot camp to 2 gb of ram in windows. I was using XP Professional previously, and was stuck at 2gb of ram which is not right. XP should be limited to 4gb. Anyway, I decided to go with Vista and see if it would fix the...

These just came up on their site, we shal see if they support OpenGL, etc...

I have had my ATi X1900XTX for a while now paired with a dell 2005fpw, but decided recently I wanted something bigger. Today I went and bought a 23" Apple Cinema Display to replace the DELL. Then hooking it up I ran into trouble. When hooked up to just the ACD, the system doesn't boot. No bios...

I'm looking for totally dead/fried x1900xt's and xtx's, as well as any apple computers that are G4 laptops or iMac G5's/G5 towers and are totally dead. Friend motherboards, toasted inverter boards, whatever.

Right now I have a Lian-Li V1000 and it's very loud. I sleep in the same room as the computer, and find myself now turning it off not just at night but any time I don't need it on. My goal is to have the computer be as close to inaudible as possible. The problem is, when I switched from my Antec...

I bought my 7800GT OC and it has a heatsink made of copper with a clear top and blue leds. Now the ones I see for sale all have heatsinks resembling the nvidia reference cooler. I'm trying to figure out if there is any difference between the two heatsinks and which would be better (as I can...

I have a NeoPower 480 right now and I was thinking about swapping it out for a NeoHE 550. Cost isn't an issue at all, I just want to know if the NeoHE is any better or worse than the NeoPower. The one thing I'm worried about is my case right now is a Lian-Li V1000 until I can get something...

When I play Quake 4 for a while my whole screen locks up and freezes. It usually lasts for about 10-20 seconds and then goes to normal. I'm wondering if my graphics card is the problem, or if something else is causing it. Before I had an X800XL and it would lock up, but I would get a high...

I just overclocked the crap out of my X800XL and destroyed it. Half the pollygons are torn (badly, worst I have seen) and mis-rendered in games and my desktop has artifacting all over it. What I'm wondering is if I should replace it with another X800XL (free) or if I should pay the difference...

I recently built myself a system and ever since I have been having problems with lock-ups. It was really bad before, and then I swapped out the memory twice (second gig set was as bad as the first) and now it has a lot less problems. It will still occasionaly have issues though. I have had a...

I am trying to set up a wireless router behind a wired router. I have cable internet going to a modem, which goes into a Linksys 8 port wired router. I am trying to connect a Dlink wireless router to that router and use it as a wireless acess point and a switch. I could care less about it's...

I have 3 or 4 P4's sitting around, and I'm trying to decide the best one to use in a specific machine. I have a P4 2.8 (I think) HT w/ 800 fsb in this machine. The mobo only does 533 though so it's running at 1.6ghz. I'm wondering if I'm better off at 1.6 w/ HT or using a 2.4ghz chip w/o HT...

I am running Windows XP Pro and for some reason all the folders in my C:\ drive are read only. If I disable read only on them, it appears to work (subfolders too) but I check agian and they are all back to the way they were. I tried going to command prompt and doing attrib -r +s C:\Name and that...

As I understand it, the Cas Latency on memory must be raised as speed is raised (cerebus paribus), and inversely can be lowered as speed drops. If I buy DDR2 533 at Cas 3, or DDR2 667 at cas 4, could I potentially run the 667 at 533 and run it cas3? The memory in question is...

I'm looking at DDR2 for a system I am building right now. The price has been comming down so I'm looking to get something with good latency. What I am wondering is if I should spend conciderably more to get 3-2-2-8 or if I should just go with 3-3-3-8. Right now what I'm looking at is...

Heres my situation. I have a cable modem going into a Dlink Wireless 108 router. That router is plugged into my roomates computer, and is wirelessly connected to my personal laptop. I just put a new desktop in my room, and it's not connected. I want to plug the laptop with internet into the...