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I got a Dell Poweredge T30 server for free off a friend that was doing a file server but decided against it. It came with a paltry 4 gigs of RAM, so I upgraded it to 16gb of ECC. My question is regarding the CPU, it ships with a Pentium G4400. The server has a C236 chipset. My local PC shop has...

I recently built a new PC, and I can repeatedly induce this bluescreen (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE ) relating to ntoskrnl.exe under two specific conditions: Cold boots System resuming from sleep mode I am not very savvy on deeply analyzing bluescreens, so I am pleading for any help that can...

Hi, I just purchased a new camera that produces staggeringly large files (60-70 megs per file). I was tempted to buy two Seagate 8tb SMR drives for storing my photography on. Would two of these drives in a RAID 1 setting be ok, or am I putting them under stress they are not meant for? I was...

Sig rig is what I will be upgrading. I am not sure if two of these cards will be overkill for my computer, or if I should just go for one 980 and overclock it.

I just bought a 55 inch Seiki (SE55GY19) TV to play games on with my computer. When I try to enter the Windows calibration tool in the control panel, I get stuck. As I adjust the gamma I see it changing for a second and then the TV blinks on and off and it goes back to what it was before. Same...

I know this might seem like an elementary question, but I guess cutting edge networking really isn't my forte. I tried Googling but really couldn't find any compelling information so please bear with me. I've had a WRT54 router longer than I'd care to admit running Tomato. It's hooked up to a...

I currently have a 2gb GTX 680 in my sig rig. I am interested in going SLI, and game at 2560x1440. Do you guys think it would be better for me to try to get a used 680 or hold out for Maxwell and try selling mine (or possibly retire it to a Physx card)? I am trying to maximize my value here...

I have a 30 foot HDMI cable extending from my dual screen workstation to my TV. When I feel like kicking back I just grab a bluetooth keyboard and watch videos from my couch on that TV. I guess what I am asking is there a "quick switch" button I can set up that I just push and my other two...

This question is a little more nuanced than what Google searches have given me so here goes. I have a Samsung Series 3 NP350U2A laptop and an iPad 3, and I am looking for the most compact bag possible for these items plus accessories. I currently carry them in a Samsonite backpack that is...

I was intending on building a new Ivy Bridge PC this year, but economic realities have put a huge damper on my new PC plans. Anyways, my current rig is an Athlon II 620 overclocked to 3.4 ghz with 8 gigs of RAM. I game at 1920x1200. What is my best bet from nVidia for this setup? I have a...

I just traded in my Samsung Galaxy S2 for a Blackberry 9900 (which I am very happy with), and it's very rare I complain about a product this loudly. But my experience with the Galaxy S2 was so awful I felt that I needed to warn people away from this phone before they got caught in its wake...

This problem has driven me nuts. I can never get consistent wifi in my home. I don't know if its because of the concrete walls with rebar inside them or what, but after two rooms I get literally zero wireless signal with my E3000 or WRT54G running boosted signals. Is there some router I can buy...

I'm in the market to replace my Blackberry 8520 with a newer BB model. Anyone know any good websites that sell factory OEM models of phones? I would prefer that to unlocked phones.

I know this is a random question, but I own a couple games I really like the soundtracks in (like Battlefield Vietnam or GT2). Is it technically legal to rip the music from my games and put them on my iPod, or is that some kind of copyright violation? I tried Googling it myself but I guess I...

I feel my 4 year old Q6600 is getting a little long in the tooth, and have been mighty tempted by Sandy Bridge CPUs. If I got an i7 2600k would it be worth with my Radeon 5850, or should I get a used 2nd 5850 and Crossfire them? Or would it be better to sell it and get something like a 2gb 6950...

Hey guys, just got my Samsung 2443BW from Newegg today, and I must say I am mighty impressed. For a TN panel it has pretty good viewing angles, a good response time, and good color accuracy when calibrated. Its nice to see its still possible to get good 16:10 monitors. The swivel function works...

Whats going on with the reliability level of laptops these days? When I used to buy laptops they would last me at least five years. Now I am lucky if a laptop doesn't fail after two. I bought a Gateway FX laptop with an ATI chipset, to only have the graphics go south after a year. I ended up...

I think my CRT monitor is running out of steam, and so are some of my LCDs. The problem I have consistently had since the demise of CRT is that in the world of LCDs my interests are completely conflicting. I want an LCD with a very fast response time for intense FPS gaming, but I am also...

I tried to take photos to illustrate the thread title, but I can't really get a decent shot to show what I am seeing. I have two 22 inch LCDs, one from Asus and one from Gateway. As far as I know both are TN panel displays with a native 1680x1050 display. Their color accuracy is pretty abysmal...

Does anyone have any experience with this CPU in a regular LGA 1366 mobo? I mean does it work? I was looking to build a low cost workstation for the office, and ran across it on Newegg. I figure if it can fit in a regular LGA 1366 mobo and be overclocked it should perform quite a bit better than...

I have a Q6600 B3 (3.1 ghz) that seems to be getting a little long in the tooth. Although I finished Metro 2033 I was not very happy with the frame rates I was getting in it, and it seemed to run much better on my friends i7 system with the same Radeon 5850 as me. Starcraft 2 can get a little...

I have recently dusted off an old rig I had in my closet to play some Team Fortress 2 on it, but have been getting some strange lag issues on it. Here are the specs on the system: Intel Q6600 @ 2.8 ghz 4 Gigs DDR2 800 SDRAM 2 Nvidia 8800 320mb GTS cards in SLI 400 gb Seagate HDD Windows...

I have an old PC I built about 11 years ago as gaming system, the specs are: PII 400 256 mb SDRAM 12 gig HDD DVD drive CD burner Voodoo 2s in SLI and a Voodoo 3 AGP (can switch to a TNT2 if needed) So yeah, the system is ancient, but still runs and is used for day to day browsing and...

I have a Gigabyte MA-770T-UD3P motherboard that is registering my OCZ OCZP1333LVAM4GK memory as DDR3 800 RAM at post. The bizarre thing is in Vista AMD Overdrive reports my ram is running at 537 mhz, which is DDR3 1066 spec memory clockrate. I am running the ram in unganged mode at the...

So I finished overclocking and stability testing my new rig in my signature at a motherboard level, and after running extensive tests to determine its stability it was rock stable. At this point I decided to move on to overclocking the graphics card next, since some sites had reported great...

So I just built my new budget gaming rig and got an Antec Two Hundred case, it has five fans total, six if you count the power supply. Two front, a side panel fan, a rear exhaust fan at the top, and a top exhaust fan. I am having a bit of a dilemma deciding where I want all this air going. I...

I just finished building my budget gaming box with an Athlon II 620 CPU and Radeon 5750 graphics card. Anyways I removed the cooler and replaced the stock crap with Zalman Super Thermal Grease. I forgot to bench the GPU temps before I did that so I could have a before and after reference. Has...