Recent content by lsommerer

Note that link is now to owners manual published February 2015 and information starts on page 51.

That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. I guess a better question is if you can use non-ECC memory. The users guide seemed to indicate that it was required, but I could be reading it wrong.

I don't think I can. Even moving away from the the mini-ITX cases and motherboards and getting rid of wi-fi, I'm still pushing the upper end of my budget with the i3-4150/4160. My superintendent made some noise about it being nice to have wi-fi on these new machines, but I haven't had a...

I actually think I like your first suggestion better: http://cukusa.com/lenovo-thinkserver-ts140-70a4000hux-tower-server.html Eitherway, the graphics will be slower and the memory will be more expensive (can I mix ECC and non-ECC memory?), but the processor is better (thinking about the...

Does it look like this board might be too big for the Fractal Design Core 1000 case? The ASRock H97M Anniversary is listed as 9.5x10.8 and AnandTech Review had trouble fitting what I think is a 9.6x9.6 board into that case...

I spent some time looking at these 5 micro-ATX cases, and I think I could live with either the Fractal Design Core 1000 or 1100. When I was reading reviews I wrote down that I like the 1100 a little better, but I don't remember why now. So that's a savings of $20 to $28 plus however much less a...

When I first started looking, I was specifically looking for a case: Without an external 5.25 or 3.5 slot (no optical drive needed) With a flat top (there will be books that end up being left there) Without fan/vent openings on top (Don't need the fans and holes will collect things) 2.5 inch...

I'm going to try to reply to a lot of what's being suggested in one post, rather than reply individually as I did on the first dozen replies. First of all, I really appreciate all of the feedback, from people who consider this a good idea and from those who consider it, well, lets just say...

I wasn't ignoring your ideas. They were just the most time consuming to follow up on. ;) If that HMI motherboard is this one, then the ratio of good reviews to bad reviews is a little too high for me. It seems like a great board for what I want to do, but my rule of thumb is that the number...

I'm not ignoring those of you who suggest I should just buy them, but what I'm seeing from my usual vendors (via their websites) are machines with roughly the same specs that come in around $490. That's too much. But I've sent some emails to my reps to see what they can do. It could be that...

That's an interesting idea. Free shipping and adding at SSD brings the cost to $320. I could add another stick of RAM and still be under my price point. I'd feel a little silly with a lab full of server though. :P

I'm very worried about a single point of failure. Maybe I have enough money to keep a backup virtualization server, or run two. I actually (and probably obviously) don't know anything about virtualization. Thanks for the idea.

I considered doing that, but I don't think I could get 5+ years use out of those. I'm guessing that they are roughly 5 years old already, and that's about the age when I start to see many more hardware failures. Granted, I wouldn't have $350 in the machines. I would guess maybe $225, and for...

We don't keep current with Adobe software, but we do use it. We spent $295 per machine 6 years ago and have run CS4 on those machines that entire time. I guess it just depends on your use case.

We are replacing 30 computers in our PC lab at school. The current machines were built by students six years ago (to save money and also as a learning experience) and I thought we would do the same thing this time for the same reasons. Here are my goals for these machines: They should be...