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Have you thought about buying a prepackaged NAS and something like a Boxee or apple TV to access your files? I know its not a HTPC and doesnt allow for a lot of tinker in the OS, but when they are setup its so easy to use. This may not be your cup of tea but I thought I would throw it out there.

Just wanted to give everyone an update. The parts arrived yesterday and of course I had to put them together. It took a little longer than I was expecting to fully assemble, had to shake off some dust in my brain to get it right. But the system posted on the first boot and with the exception of...

I held off till I can do more research on SSD's. I just need to find that right balance between size needed and speed on a disk that will essentially be a "Photoshop" only harddrive. I like the idea of the 120 GB drive for Photoshop, but if 128 GB drive with faster read/write will give me a...

Just placed my order. I held off on the scratch disk for now but went with 32gb of RAM. Im pretty excited to get the parts and put the new machine together. My printing problems pushed me over the top last night. I was spooling 320MB printer files to my Epson 9890 and due to system instability a...

Slight Update: Asked IT Director if he could get me a copy of windows 7 through our corporate discount and he hands me a brand new copy. Score. So do I add the scratch disk or another 16gb of ram?

So after looking over all of the suggestions I think I have a decent build put together. I am going to source all my parts from Newegg. I prefer the simplicity of ordering from one place, plus I dont have an amazon prime account. Here is what I am thinking: $109 - P280 $100 - Seagate...

I really appreciate the quick response tiraides. How much improvement would I see if i bumped the video card up to EVGA GTX770? Is it going to be a major enough of an improvement to warrant 33% increase in the price of the card? If yes then I may swap that out over the 660 TI, if not then I may...

Hey Everyone, its been a long time since I built a new PC. August of 2007 to be exact. My current PC has been great, but is starting to show its age. I am having trouble with a flaky motherboard that is having trouble posting and waking up. As part of my lively hood requires me to use my PC to...

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bump for the laugh - good luck

its a great board, i have no complaints now that the BIOS is fixed

i installed the ram in May and then took off so i havent really used the computer since then, but when i installed the new ram i updated the Bios and it looks like that Bios had a problem with it and that it was fixed in the next version. No worries, it works and its happily chugging along...

works great, BIOS update did it. Ahhhhh the joy of 8 gigs of ram Thanks for the suggestions

any reasoning for 4x2 being slow?? i had 2x2 for almost a year and it was really fast

Last August i built a pretty good computer and it was working great until i upped the ram for 4 to 8 gigs. I reformatted and now it is soooooo slow. I have d/led all of the updates and installed all the drivers. I just cant for the life of me figure out why adding an extra 4 gigs of ram would...

Take two photos of your face. One Profile and one straight on. Import those into a 3d program on two flat planes that bisect each other. Model in Nurbs from there. Shouldnt take more then an all-nighter to do well if you know the programs pretty well. Besides its a self portrait. I recommend...

well to that, lightroom is still new. you may need to wait a while till you go big time with it. Still look around the web for some DAM software and definitely get yourself the book. THere are a half a dozen programs that will do what you want, in the volume you want. Just gotta find whats gonna...

why not sell some of your smaller drives and put that cash towards some more 750's. Seems like a bit of waste of space and energy to have 10 drives sitting in one case, when you could sell 7 and add a 750 and build a pretty nice array. Granted that would only give 2.25 tbs of advertised space...

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Lightroom kicks major ass. I use it with 50K and it works like a dream. I would hate to keyword 230,000 photos, but it would certainly make life easier. I recommend reading "The DAM Book" It will help with the organization of photos and the like. Just use lightroom instead of iView. It...

how about some really big electromagnets??

That is a really interesting article. But my question is, if they know that it exist, shouldnt they also know what files it lies in?? why cant they scrub those files??

Good luck with your new build, if you want to check out my photos, all processed with Lightroom, head over to www.rhphotodesign.com/gallery/main.php. i just started adding photos after i deleted my database by accident. So its a bit thin at the moment, but im workin on that.

Normally i would have skipped posting a response, but i saw you were a serious photographer. I too am a serious photographer and looked at replacing a 5 year old system. I ended up with a DS3r and a Q6600 with 4 gigs of ram and a 8800 GTS 640. Now i take it, you are, or will be using adobe...

yea i wish i had that kind of rig, but being a poor Grad student in an accounting program doesnt offer much for photography or gaming.

So i have a Q6600 and 4 gigs of RAM and today i was using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS3, Bridge, and Itunes and i locked up my computer by filling all available RAM and maxing out 2 of four cores. It ran like crap for like 10 minutes till it could clear all the processes. Oh well looks like ill...

what type of printer is it as well. I know when i hooked up my Samsung 2251N on xp i needed to install there printer port drivers as well as print drivers and go through a special process to create a port. On Vista, i just type in the IP address and it works.

I have a pretty similar build to what you are look at and i love it. Actually its the same build except for the ram. I have 2 x2gigs but from a different manufacturer. You will love it. Not sure the DS3r overclocks since im a chicken, but its a really nice board and i really like the bios...

So whats a 1000 terrabytes?? i cant wait for the day when we say, ahhh the good ole days when i paid 250 for a 1 terrabyte drive. Nice find, if i wasnt a piss ass broke grad student

I was in a similar situation as you, being a photographer, dealing with 1000+ at upload and using lightroom with 50k+ images. I built my box about a month ago, and my main need was silence. heres what i went with Q6600 Tuniq Tower 120 4 gig RAM ddr2 800 OCZ 8800 GTS 640 Gigabyte...

I pretty much built this same rig, except i have four gigs of RAM and a 500 gig harddrive. Its rock solid. Have fun.

I love dreamweaver. I didnt know anything about database access and sql statements when i started using it to build php apps not that i know much now, but if i can figure out the logic then dreamweaver can pretty much do what i need it to do. Its really easy to get rough code and then select...

Personally, when i switched the from an athlon xp 1800 1 gig ram running windows xp to my Q6600 with with 4 gigs running vista 64 home premium i thought the performance gain was minimal, but after about 2 1/2 or 3 weeks i couldnt believe the difference. Vista is super fast at everything i am...

I have only ever had one problem with vista. I went to bed one night and everything was working fine, woke the next morning and i couldnt access the net, that lasted about 12 hours and then magically it started working again. Mind you i could see all my other computers and all the other...

i feel your pain . . .

praise be Jesus . . . . or something like that, i "installed" an update that had ?!?!downloaded?!?! and it works now...... dont ask me how

system specs are as follows Mobo - Gigabyte P35C-DS3R CPU - Q6600 Ram - 4 Gigs Vid Card - eVGA 8800 GTS 640mb Op Sys - Vista Home Premium 64 bit Below are screen Shots let me know if you want to see anything else

Update: Checked the DNS settings on both XP and on Vista Machines, they are the same. Really the only difference is the between the two setups is IPv6. My xp machine is not running it where my vista machine is. Im suspect that this is causing the problem, because its telling me that the physical...

All of your post make me feel so warm and fuzy... ok heres and Update: I did . . . ipconfig /release /renew /flushdns That didnt get me anywhere. Then i read about pinging a website in CMD. so i did that and it wouldnt ping the dnss address, but it did ping the IP address. So im...

Heres an update: i connected my Vista machine directly to the internet and still not able to connect. Anyone have any Ideas??