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I have the same CPU and cooler, although I've swapped the fans out for some high static pressure noctua fans. I'm also assuming you're not overclocking, and you've not adjusted the voltage at all.. Assuming that the cooler block is in fact well-seated with an appropriate amount of thermal...

I personally went from a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 to an ASUS VII Hero, keeping the same case fans (and swapping the 140mm corsair fans on my H110 with noctua high static pressure fans) - the ASUS fan control in the UEFI system is spectacular in comparison to the Gigabyte offerings. I actually bought...

Thanks for the advice! I'll skip the 'high end' RAM. Suggestions for motherboard? I've been looking at the ASUS Maximus VI Hero, but am not necessarily sold on the board. Unless the onboard sound is truly good, I'll probably use an external DAC instead... Less expensive options that OC...

I'm achieving 240fps under most conditions (except complex scenes / fast action, when high sustained FPS is most important). Again, I realize this is not a reasonable / normal gaming request, but I definitely notice when FPS drops below 120 @ 120hz, and I'd like to eliminate those dips in Source...

Yes, I've tried the PSU with multiple GPUs, and it will shutdown under full load. I'm using the appropriate PCI-E connectors, no hacked molex nonsense. Single GPU, + OC'd i7-930 will pass 8hrs of OCCT PSU test. Dual GPU will crash in under 10 minutes. I have tried a number of GPUs, fyi. It's...

I've heard many people say this about faster RAM, and I've seen benchmarks demonstrating the diminishing FPS returns. However, lower CAS latency at higher clockspeeds is faster, by definition. I know it won't increase max FPS, but it might reduce per-frame latency. I realize it's common to...

Let me preface this by saying I'm interested in minimum stable FPS, in excess of 120fps, in all situations, on the source engine. I realize this is excessive for most people - I just want no slowdown / jitter in any situation. The difference between 2.8ghz and 3.8ghz on my current i7-930...

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I hope this is sarcasm, but I suspect it's not. If you're serious, you should either read more about the strengths of bitcoin, or not bother yourself with discussing it. The total bitcoin value is a little over 2 billion USD. There are major players putting money into it, and there are some...

I have a napp-it rsync question: I'm an rsync n00b, but I just spent an hour or two learning how to setup rsync daemon and client, and it seems like a pretty simple endeavor. I've entered the following ultra basic config in rsyncd.conf, via the web interface, saved OK: [system] comment = rsync...

1. You don't use a vacuum because the generate lots of static electricity and won't effectively clean the many tight spaces in a computer case / around a motherboard. 2. If you work on computers, especially those in dirty conditions (factory, farm, steel mill, etc) you should seriously consider...

It's amazing how people latch on to misinformation. Windows 8 is not a complete redesign of Windows. If you've used the consumer preview, you know that it's basically Win 7 (with some nice tweaks here and there, and some major overhauls that are long overdue, but have minimal effect on the...

brutalizer: As I mentioned in a follow-up post, I do not have individual hdd lights, so using dd to determine which disk was bad was out of the question. I agree - raidz2 is a better solution, because as it is now, I'll be using (6) 2TB disks: 5 in raidz1 1 hot spare these 6 drives in raidz2...

Yes, RAIDZ1.

Sure thing, PigLover Because this machine does not have individual hdd status lights (activity / power), and because the expander card I am using treats the SATA drives as SAS drives, when I ran the command 'iostat -en' from the OpenIndiana console, the bad drive appeared with the title...

update: This was simply a single bad disk, which would not even initialize. (Bad disk controller, perhaps?) I removed the bad disk, replaced with a fresh disk and the re-silvering process is proceeding as expected. I'm no longer going to operate a raid-z without a hot-spare after this...

I got some bizzare memory error in a VM running off my Open Indiana ZFS pool. I attempted to restart the VM - no luck. I then attempted to shutdown the ZFS pool. No luck. Restarted the bare metal. ESXi is functioning. Attempting to start the ZFS pool (Open Indiana), from the console...

My experience in short: Built i7 930 system. Bought 6GB of DDR3. It was great. Upgraded to triple monitors. (2x) 24in, (1) 30in @ 2560x1600. Starting running Display Fusion. Once I got used to all the screen real-estate and started running more programs, I would constantly bump against the...

Thanks for all the replies! I'm quite inclined to agree with you all. Now if only HDD prices would return to their pre-flood levels soon... Single platter 1TB is pretty amazing... From looking at benchmarks, these drives are screaming fast, considering the cost. Guess high density on a...

*note: I already have a ZFS storage system that maxes out gigabit Ethernet. I'm interested in suggestions for a 4-6 drive RAID 0 array that's FAST for content creation and manipulation - (think large Photoshop documents / HD editing in Premier, etc) The drives do not need to be huge...

Have you used DisplayFusion Pro? If you have not, I suggest checking it out. Very worth the $, imho. I imagine the author would be open to implementing this feature, or at least giving you an explanation why such a feature is not feasible / practical. I could see some issues with...

Just wanted to add my experience for other users. I have a 305T, and it started artifacting (pink / green, screen flashing bizarrely, etc). When unplugged for a signal, the self-test displays flawless white, red, blue and green fullscreen slides, so I knew the panel was OK. I searched around on...

+1 to the 3dfx Voodoo comment. I mean, transparent water!?! (even if you couldn't see the players).... I'm glad to hear other people confirming that Quake is indeed an awesome game, requiring lots of skill. BF3 looks amazing, but it's horrifically boring in terms of fighting experience...

I can access the same ZFS folder via windows file sharing with the same user/pass, no problem. NFS sharing still doesn't work. Is there an error log I can consult for more information?

I'm assuming there is a really simple explanation for the problem I'm having, but I've been banging my head against it for too long, so I thought I'd check here. I have a great all-in-one napp-it machine up and running. Windows file sharing is great. I recently tried to get a machine running...

My pleasure. Glad you took a stab at understanding the big picture!

You are the MAN! Thanks Gea. That makes perfect sense.

Take a step back. Consider this: RAM is the ideal place for data to be accessed. In an ideal world, your entire game would be loaded into RAM while it was running. In the real world, you have a limited amount of RAM, and not everyone has "enough". Game designers have to consider that...

I am successfully running an All-In-One concept Napp-it box, via Gea's guidance. I am considering using some old hardware to run a second ZFS machine for backup only. I have (4) of the infamous WD15EADS (green WD drives), and I was considering acquiring two more drives, so I could have 7.5 TB...

assuming your motherboard supports passthrough, and you've enabled AMD's version of VT-D, I think the mistake you're making is one I was making yesterday when setting up my all-in-one napp-it box. The SCSI controller you see in the vm (the one that's there by default) should be set to...

I play a fair bit of SC2. It's installed on a 2tb WD black, and while some people occasionally load faster than me, I'm never the last person to load. My point in this discussion is that if you want a better gameplay experience, a faster CPU / more RAM / better GPU should all be higher...

Thanks for the prompt feedback. I am running a 5 disk (all-in-one) raidz array. No compression, 3.2ghz quad core sandybridge, 16GB ECC 1333, - Basically a build following _Gea's suggestions - and it's freakin awesome. However, I've noticed that the CPU load is quite high when transferring...

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Uhh - What games exactly? Most games load their active contents into RAM when you're playing. Once this happens, the SSD is no longer in use. I have used a number of SSDs to run games. They decrease load times, but I can't say that's worth much to me personally. If you know of some game(s)...

Joecop, you're not going to notice the SSD for gaming, especially as a cache drive. For loading games, the WD will be plenty fast.

Does anyone here know why Open Indiana VMs cannot boot with more than 2 virtual cpus? Is this a bug that will be fixed soon, or some inherent limitation?

I got so sick of inconsistent performance from WHS (v1) that I decided to build a all-in-one ZFS (napp-it) machine. I would open system monitor and watch the HDDs get hammered for unknown reasons on the WHS box. No backup, no other clients accessing, just random hammering. It would bring the box...

Seriously, as far as I'm concerned this is borderline trolling. He claims to be an experienced user, yet he's still running XP, and surprised he isn't hitting 500MB/sec on an SSD? I mean, REALLY?

dek8 - Since the Ferrari analogy (which was so apt) bothered you so much, I'm going to use another car analogy. When you go buy a car, manufacturers list its horsepower. Plenty of people think "OMG, THIS CAR HAS XXXhp!! It's going to be fast!!!" Then they buy the car. What they generally...

This thread is a waste of time.