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Does anyone have one of the following Sandy Bridge-EP v1 Xeon CPUs they'd be willing to sell reasonably cheap (~$300 or so)? C2 stepping preferred, C1 is okay, no ES silicon. Xeon E5-2687W Xeon E5-2690 If so, let me know what you have and how much you want for it.

I want to buy a good working condition X79 / 2011 motherboard. I'm not all that picky on the make model, but it must have: USB 3.0 Xeon E5 v1 support (in motherboard CPU support list) Gigabit LAN Multiple PCIe 4x or wider slots I/O Plate Something like an ASRock X79 Extreme6, Gigabyte...

So I have an IBM ServeRAID M5016 which is equivalent to an LSI 9265-8i with 1gB CacheVault. I've got the 15.03.01.00 MSM installed. Right now I have a 6x6TB RAID-6 array. I have two more 6TB drives I want to add to the array. Based on my Googling I should be able to right click on the...

Does anyone have any of the following Plextor / Yamaha burner(s) lying around collecting dust they'd be willing to sell? Black bezels are preferred, but I will consider beige ones if no one has any black ones. I have found a PX-716A (IDE) and PX-760A (IDE), both with black bezels, but I am...

The i7-2600k that I have now is a bit of an overclocking dud that won't run stable @ 4.5gHz with 1.4V doing x264 video compression in my GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 + Cooler Master Hyper Plus 212. Rather than buying multiple i7-2600k's from Microcenter one at a time, testing them all, keeping the fastest...

So, color me skeptical about the whole 5-15% failure rate after 3 years that Intel professed for the Cougar Point chipset. I have a Gigabyte GA-P67-UD3P motherboard. I bought it 1/27/2011 and as of 4/27/2011 all 4 SATA-II (3Gbs) ports are basically dead. The system was not heavily used. It...

So I finally got my two 2x4GB 1600MHz DDR3 G.Skill Sniper kits yesterday from Newegg. I installed them and noticed something peculiar with my P67A-UD3P. If I leave them at 1333MHz (XMP Profile disabled) the system will dynamically change the CPU multiplier as the load on the CPU changes (as...

My AMD AM2 HTPC died, I narrowed it down to the mobo or the CPU, but I don't have any other AM2 systems to swap parts with to narrow it down. I'd like to move to an integrated solution with HDMI 7.1 audio and I want to go Intel (and yes I know it costs more). I'm good with an E5200/E5300...

I have a home network connecting my various PCs with gigabit ethernet through a HP ProCurve 1800-24. I have a server running Windows XP x64 SP2 in the basement. It has a RAID-5 array in it capable of >300MB/sec reads and writes. The other computers run Windows XP x86 SP2 or SP3. I get...

I've read on another forum that add in NiC's offer much better performance than the Realtek stuff soldering on most motherboards. They pointed to this article. I have a server in my basement running Windows XP x64 SP2. It has two Realtek 8111C onboard PCIe x1 NiC's. I'm only using one of...

Anyone have any Intel retail socket 478 HSF's from the Prescott era lying around they'd be willing to part with for cheap? I'm looking specifically for two of the HSF's Intel shipped with the retail high end Prescott P4 w/ HT chips with the copper slug in the center and radial aluminum fins...

So, I put together a new computer that's going to be my fileserver in the basement that has a E5200 in it. I can run the CPU basically at stock clocks in any of the following configurations... 12.5 x 200, 9.5 x 266, or 7.5 x 333. The RAM can be at 800MHz in all three cases. Is there going to be...

Has anyone tried any of the adapters that will let SATA drives be used on a PATA controller? Long story short, I want to put a few larger IDE drives on my 3ware 7506-8 to replace the 2 320GB IDE drives I have now doing RAID-1 in my file server. I know 500GB IDE drives are still available...

I just got a 24 port smart switch and I'm trying to create two VLANs with it, but it seems some of my gigabit ethernet adapters don't want to play nice. My main desktop has a Broadcom NetXtreme 5702 built onto the motherboard which supposedly supports tagged VLANs and virtual adapters on...

I'm looking for a 24 port "smart" / quasi-managed gigabit Layer 2 switch (10/100/1000 on all 24 ports). Noise is not an issue. If it matters, this is for my home network. I need VLAN support and jumbo frame support also. I would like the ability to mirror ports as well. I'd like to stay...

Maybe you guys can help me out. I'm confused here... nVidia has this nice PDF file on their site with recommendations how to build a HD HTPC. On page 2 they have a chart that recommends a graphics card with a core clock of 500MHz or better and state the minimum is 400MHz. They also say...

Do all the ATI X1x00 cards support Avivo the same way, or is it like nVidia's PureVideo where the higher end cards can do more advanced video processing and exclusively support the higher end video processing features? The ATI Avivo page isn't clear. nVidia has a nice PureVideo page showing...

I've been looking at CP filters a bit for a few of my lenses, and I see there is a wide variety of filters out there at a wide range of prices. Is there really a visible (in the end photo) difference between a coated, uncoated, multicoated, etc filters. I've seen some people swear by the most...

I have a Canon 10D and sometimes its just too big and heavy to carry around all day when travelling, or out on the town, so I've been considering getting a P&S. I had a Canon Powershot A20 years ago before the 10D, and hated the pictures it took. They were noisy, often out of focus, and the...

I did a bunch of Google searches and can't seem to come up with an answer. I see that 1920x1080 is a valid resolution for the ATI cards, but they don't show 1920x1080i (meaning 1920x1080 interlaced). 1920x1080i would be similar to 1920x1080 @ 30Hz, but it's going to be a little different due...

It seems it costs me about $.40-50 a 4x6 to run my Epson Stylus Photo 780, and I'm kinda fed up with it. Do any of you take your files to a lab / store and have them printed? If so, who do you use and how are the results?

I'm not exactly sure where to put this... Since it's HD related I figured I'd put it here... I have an iRiver iHP-140 (I love it) and it just shows up as a drive to Windows (which is great). Since it is really just a 40gig HD with a FAT32 file system it seems very likely that as I move...

I'm looking for a new tripod and a monopod. I'd like a tripod that has an arm, or the capability for an arm to be mounted on the top of it for macro and other uses. They both need to be able to hold a Canon 10D + Sigma 100-300 EX F4 APO (790g/27.9oz for body + 1480g/52.2oz lens =...

Lets see some Bokeh! My contribution:

Who does it, and how is a UV filter going to improve the image quality? Most larger "L" type lenses can't even have filters put on the front of them because the front openting is too large.