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I just bought a Zalman MS800 for my home server rebuild. It's got 10 x 5.25" bays for you to customize any which way and they're all externally accessible. It's a bit big for a mid-tower, but so far I love it. I wanted something with a ton of drive space but really good airflow between them.

Hi, I am looking at a home media/backup server project. For about $80, the MS800 sports10 internal drive bays and looks like it has lots of airflow. My second choice for inexpensive is the NZXT 220. Is anybody using either of these cases and would care to comment on their experience?

Aptana Studio was already mentioned. I've been using WebStorm (and its big brother PHPStorm). They're not free, but they have syntax highlighting and surprisingly good intelli-sense for JavaScript which is neat given the dynamic nature of the language. The JavaScript debugger in the Chrome...

This varies from developer to developer and platform to platform. It used to be that games had a main function that would just do Update() and Render() in a loop, forever and gained nothing from a second core. Reading data from the hard drive or CD was put on a separate thread so the system...

I loves me the multi-mon and the gaming performance

I bought an Envy-14 a few months ago and in general am very pleased with it. I opted for the core i5 and one stick of RAM (4GB, which I upgraded later to 8GB). The screen is nice and bright, though sometimes I wish for more than 1600x900 pixels when coding. The trade-off is excellent...

especially free

I have to agree with Filter: Dual Celerons on a BP6 was pretty cool. The P3-S 1.4GHz were also great. I ran dedicated game servers on a box with 2 of them for many years.

I've had an Envy-14 for ~4 months now and it's a powerful, sexy beast with 2 caveats: One, I find the 1600x900 resolution not quite enough for programming. Compared to even a 1680x1050 panel I miss the extra vertical pixels. Second, the trackpad is absolute garbage. The "multitouch"...

I've been good. One gfx card please

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Kyle, Happy birthday, and thanks to you and your crew for this site. The [H] is my first stop for daily news and has been for years. -s

*throws hat in the ring

ONE TIME :)

For folks considering this deal: I bought two of them this past spring for traveling and they're pretty good gadgets. The size is exceptionally portable, though the screen is small and hard to watch movies on -- especially in sunlight. Audio quality is good. Some media formats can't be...

I have my PIII dually built on a Gigabyte GA-6VTXD. I looked for the MSI Pro266 board that Flandry mentioned because it takes DDR instead of PC133 but couldn't find one at the time, whereas the Gigabyte was $80 brand new. No problems with it in over 2 years. It's currently doing file server...

I have to second bobzdar on the Fujitsu p1610. I took a class recently where the instructor had the 1510D, and this Christmas I bought the 1610 for my wife so she'd stop kicking me off the PC to check her mail :-) Seriously, it's a fabulous little machine, and a full-on tablet PC. It's not...

Thanks for the response. The card you recommend certainly falls into the affordable range. The reviews on NewEgg were pretty mixed, though. Do you have personal experience with the Syba card or the sil3114 chipset? I'd be happy to go SATA, for airflow, cabling, and future-proofing (though...

I've got an old p3 server that I want to upgrade with some RAID5 storage capacity. I only have 32-bit PCI slots. Are low end RAID cards such as the HighPoint RocketRAID 464 (PATA) or 1640 (SATA) any less reliable than, say, the Adaptec 2400A ? I'm not overly concerned with performance (I...

I was very tempted by this offer, but a 6-month rating of 4.2 changed my mind. http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1390-p2-s1-d1.html#reviews Besides, Amazon has the first 3 seasons for $56 each, which is much better than the $100+ they usually go for.

I only got the one hard drive, but for a few hours Thursday night, CircuitCity's website was taking online orders for them, before they switched to "in-store" only. So I slept in, got there around 10am, and went to the pickup desk where there was one other person in line. Now the media...

Does anyone have recommendations for quiet socket 370 cooling options? I got a couple of Arctic Cooling "Slim Slient Pro TC" temperature controlled HSF combos, but there are capacitors packed around the sockets on my GA-6VTXD mobo and, alas, the Slims don't fit. I don't know whether to blame...

I recently put together a similar system, also for use as a game server. I went with a Gigabyte GA-6VTXD motherboard. You can still find these for sale, brand new, for about $80, but you might have to look a bit. Advantages of this board: it supports tualatin CPUs if you can find them, and it...