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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Home server, needs a bit of crunching power for media transcoding and code compilation 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Maximum of $700, without hard drives, shipping included. 3) Which...

Hey everyone, I'm speaking with a friend right now who is starting a small game development business, and he is interested in a server for his small business. He intends to have it run Linux and host Subversion, Samba, and NFS for his business. He would also like to add 4 HDDs to the system to...

Here's a thread where those of us who run Linux-based systems can show off our setups and discuss how useful and versatile they can be! In a forum dominated by FreeBSD, FreeNAS, and Windows Home Server, I think it's about time for a thread dedicated to Linux-based systems. These other...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming would be the primary use for this machine, as well as other general day-to-day tasks such as web browsing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $800 at maximum, preferably after tax, but I...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859321013&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL052810&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL052810-_-EMC-052810-Index-_-ServerSystems-_-59321013-LH5A $399.99 - $50 savings - $50 with promo code EMCYSNW34 = $299.99 I bought one of these boxes about a year ago to use as a home...

Hey everyone, I'm seeking to buy two 140mm fans to add to my home server setup, as my hard drives are running very hot, thanks to summer finally arriving. I'm dealing with temps of 44-47C, which is far too hot for my liking. I'm looking to add one or two relatively quiet 140mm fans to my...

I've got three 1TB drives and one 640GB drive in my home server right now. The model is an Acer easyStore H340, with an additional 4-bay enclosure attached via eSATA, allowing for eight devices total. One of the 1TB drives contains both my operating system (Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS) and a fair...

Hey everyone, I've got a Linux home server running, and it currently has three hard drives (1TB, 1TB, 640GB). The current partitioning scheme is as follows: Current: * /dev/sda (1TB 32MB cache) - /dev/sda1 - 8GB SWAP - /dev/sda2 - 1GB /boot (ext4) - /dev/sda3 - 20GB /...

Hey everybody, I'm in the process of creating component lists to build a file server with... and I'm just now finally trying to lock down my choice of processor. I want something that's very energy-efficient (to facilitate this machine running 24/7 without a huge electricity bill), but I also...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc - General purpose file server. I hope to run SSH, SFTP, VNC, uTorrent, Dropbox, Source Dedicated Server, Apache + PHP, as well as having this server run backup jobs for two other PCs in the home, as well as my laptop...

Hey everybody, I just got a brand new Dell Studio XPS 13 laptop for college in the fall, and I'd like to be able to take advantage of its HDMI-out capabilities. Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't seem to be detecting any HDMI cables or displays I plug into it. I'm not sure what the problem is...

Hey everybody, I recently got an old PC for free and I'm looking for a few little upgrades to make it a little more usable and useful. Specs include the following: AMD Athlon (Socket A) @ 1.2GHz Motherboard model 8363-686A (Unknown manufacturer) - VIA KT133A chipset 128MB PC 133 SDRAM [3 RAM...

I've been looking at options for a portable machine for college class use, and the Dell Studio 15 has caught my eye. It's relatively cheap, powerful, and seems like it would be a nice choice for general productivity and efficiency. I will be bringing my desktop PC with me to school (Q6600, HD...

Is there any method of getting an eSATA drive to just autodetect instead of having to pop open the Device Manager, scan new hardware, and then have it detect? It's not a crippling problem by any means... but it sure would be nice to know if such a feature exists. Thanks!

Got another 1.5TB Seagate drive today. It shipped with SD19 firmware, whereas the other two had SD17. I know that firmware was bad. But Newegg says SD15, SD17, and SD18 are bad. Is SD19 okay? Edit: Apparently there have been folks with the same firmware who upgraded to SD1A with no...

I'm looking for a few 120mm and 140mm fans for my Cooler Master 690. I'm thinking at least two or three 120mm fans to mount at the bottom of the case, on the rear of my CPU cooler, and to possibly replace a rather noisy stock fan. The 140mm fans would be used to help vent hot air off my CPU...

Does that mean that 71C is pretty much the absolute max you'll want to hit before temperatures get dangerous? I'm running at about 63C on Prime95 right now, stress testing at 3.6 GHz after properly reapplying thermal paste. I've noticed sometimes temperatures in Prime95 will spike if it starts...

I'm aware of the fact that there are two sets of dual-core dies underneath the heatspreader of a Core 2 Quad, hence four cores... but I'm unaware of the optimal method for applying thermal compound on these. When I built my PC, I used way too much. My temperatures are far too high, even at...

After having to RMA my first one due to clicking issues, I've received a second... and it's giving me hell. It makes loud squealing noises, the system won't boot with it attached, and in an external enclosure it isn't detected at all via eSATA or USB. DOA drive, I'm guessing? I'm fairly...

My school's going to be doing a big technology upgrade this year, and it's going to be displacing a lot of old Pentium 4 PCs. I'm looking into getting a file server, for use both at home and while I'm away at college. The specs on the boxes are something like this: Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz 1GB...

The system is a Dell Dimension 4700. I bought an HD 4670 for my brothers as a Christmas present, as their current Radeon X300 SE just doesn't do the job anymore. The system's specs include: Pentium 4 HT @ 2.8GHz 3GB DDR2 RAM 1x 80GB SATA HDD 2x SATA ODD For me, Anandtech's chart...

It sounds like something is slowly working its way loose inside the drive. And HD Tune benchmarks are sort of confirming my worst fears, as transfer rates dip immediately once it begins making one of these small sounds. Benchmark shortly after receiving drive: (over eSATA, externally)...

Hi there, it's about that time of year when we all suddenly have to buy presents for our family members... so I thought maybe I could do my brothers a favor and upgrade the family PC with a decent video card that could run games like Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4, and perhaps Left 4 Dead at...

http://www.techpowerup.com/77764/ASUS_Rampage_II_Extreme_Sets_Core_i7_OC_Record.html Doesn't look like a cooling method is mentioned, but I can't imagine anything less than phase change or liquid nitrogen... Holy crap. CPU-Z validations: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=451336...

I'll be heading off to college next year, and I've been thinking about a TV tuner card for a while. Sounds like it'd be nice to have, particularly while I'm at college, since I already have a 24" monitor. Also, I'd definitely like to be able to record television directly to my PC, instead of...

$94.99 on Newegg thanks to the Black Friday sales. It seems well-reviewed enough, and I've heard the Samsung drives have great performance as well. This will be used with an Antec MX-1 enclosure and connected to my PC via eSATA for maximum data moving capacity. Any final thoughts before I...

Just reading around on Newegg and other forums and such, I've heard a lot of reports of these huge hard drives just dying randomly after a month or two of use, which would be an absolutely huge blow to me if I were to lose all of that data... I'm considering buying one for all of my current...

My parents keep asking me what I want for Christmas. I was thinking perhaps a sound card... but you know, I think I'll wait on that, so I can buy a really high-end sound card and stereo receiver later at once. Big upgrades later. For now, I need an external. I don't have one, and I've got a...

Interesting. Maybe they'll add dual-core models later on, but otherwise... perhaps this is the big push to get everybody running a quad-core processor of their own. Any news on this? I don't plan on upgrading to an i7 any time soon (Quite happy with Q6600), but I'm just interested in the subject.

ASUS Xonar DX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132006 Pros [+]: - PCI-E connectivity (although this may need to find a home in my second PCI-E x16 slot) - 24-bit/192 KHz sampling - Front panel audio connector Cons [-]: - No DTS decoding - Requires floppy...

Current Specs: Intel C2Q Q6600 DFI Lanparty DK-X48-T2RS ATI Radeon HD 4870 6 GB DDR2 RAM Western Digital 640GB HDD PC Power & Cooling 750W PSU LG Blu-Ray/HD DVD combo drive Peripherals: Logitech G5 mouse Logitech Internet Keyboard 350 Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers (See a trend? Heh.)...

Right now, I'm looking at the ASUS Xonar DX sound card in combination with a set of Sennheiser HD555s. I already own a set of Logitech X-540s, which may see minor improvements from the sound card, and will certainly suffice until I get some Z-5500s or better. I use my computer for movie...

I really love the black PCB and sleek sticker on the 4870X2. I think it'd make a pretty cool-looking wallpaper, but because I've got such a high-res screen, I'm having difficulty finding a nice wallpaper. If possible, I'd like a shot like one of the following, but obviously in a much higher...

https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10009249&ps=pn4 I apologize if this has been posted here other than just now, but I didn't see any threads about it, so I figured I'd let you all know. Looks like they're doing the same thing Newegg did with their Corsair Voyager...

I assume Crossfire between a 1GB and 512MB 4870 will work properly, but that if I were to put a 1GB card with my 512MB one, the 1GB would be limited to some degree due to the fact that it's chained to a 512MB card. Am I correct in my thinking? Thanks!

I'm going to have about $350 cash coming my way soon, and I figure, hey, while I have the money, I might as well use it. Best Buy's got a VisionTek 4870 on sale for $250 right now, and I'm strongly considering upgrading to Crossfired 4870s, as it would beef up performance in games at 1920x1200...

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I've gotten mixed answers on less knowledgeable forums, so I thought I would ask here. I typically run my Q6600 at stock speeds, because whenever I overclock, there will be occasional times that the system simply fails to boot, whether I've got enough...

A 64GB OCZ Core SSD was on sale on Newegg the other day for $100 after a $70 mail-in rebate, and $100 instant savings. I was about two clicks away from buying it until I began reading about all kinds of issues with insanely high read speeds, but inversely, insanely low write speeds. As far as...

I'm a little bit puzzled right now. I've just spent about forty minutes trying to set up and properly configure the Windows SMP client, to help fold alongside my HD 4870. However, the SMP client appears to be making no progress as far as I can tell. And since there's no GUI or anything, I'm...

I'm running 6 GB of RAM (2x1 GB + 2x2 GB) on my motherboard in 4 DIMM slots, and I've often noticed that my Q6600 becomes rather finicky about keeping stable once I approach 3.2 GHz or so. I'm currently running it at stock, because there are times when I overclock, and the system will just...