Recent content by MasamuneXGP

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    3 displays on Eyefinity, but only 2 active at a time. Do I need an adapater?

    Sadly not; my current setup consists of "pull out one and plug in the other" when ever I want to switch displays... I'm looking forward to not having to do that anymore! Well, it's good to know I have more options now. Thanks!
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    3 displays on Eyefinity, but only 2 active at a time. Do I need an adapater?

    This is news to me. Are you sure about this? I thought without eyefinity, the OS wouldn't recognize three monitors at once? Even if they're not active, I still need all three displays to show up as connected in my display properties...
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    3 displays on Eyefinity, but only 2 active at a time. Do I need an adapater?

    Greetings all, Here's my setup: I have two DVI monitors on my desk, and an HDTV in the adjacent room. I want all three displays powered by the same video card, so I'm looking into an Eyefinity card. I know the Eyefinity cards can only power 2 non-DisplayPort displays, so I'll need an active...
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    Stock AMD 7850 BE running at 58C while idle!

    Alright, windows installed. Coretemp said 50 degrees, CPU Idle. I fired up Prime95 and hit the max-heat option; the temp climbed to 64. This is underclocked to 200 x 8 (stock is 200 x 14), with an open case in an air-conditioned room. Okay, it's a stock cooler, but 64 degrees under full load...
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    Stock AMD 7850 BE running at 58C while idle!

    Okay, just tried remounting. I was using a tube of *really* old Arctic Silver, so I tried some newer Ceramiq instead. That seems to have lowered the temp a bit; it gets as high as 56 now in the BIOS. My vcore is around 1.3V; the motherboard doesn't give me the option of undervolting though...
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    Stock AMD 7850 BE running at 58C while idle!

    If it were a matter of remounting, I would think the heatsink wouldn't be getting so hot. But I guess I'll try it anyway... If I remount and and it's still crazy hot, what's the diagnosis? Defective CPU?
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    Stock AMD 7850 BE running at 58C while idle!

    Greetings all. I just finished putting together a new PC. CPU is an AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition, motherboard is an ASUS M3A78-EM. When I powered on for the first time and went to the BIOS, I discovered to my horror that the hardware monitor was reporting a CPU temp of 53C already. After...
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    Check SMART status of RAID drives?

    I'm using the Asus Formula Maximus, and I have two drives in RAID 0. This seems like a question a billion people must have asked, but how do you check the SMART status these drives?
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    Watercooling the 9600GT

    Hello all, among the many things I'm buying in the coming weeks, I'm upgrading my graphics card to a 9600GT. I have a watercooling setup I'd like to continue using, but I don't know what I need, especially when it comes to ramsinks. I'm doing this more for silence than for performance, so...
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    Minimize RAID5 failure odds by buying from different stores?

    Greetings all. I've another question about the fileserver I'm building. I'm going to be running this thing in RAID5. I've heard many people say that buying 4 drives at once can be dangerous, seeing as if one of the drives fails, the others may be right behind it since all 4 would be part of...
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    Looking for more file server advice

    > that motherboard uses the Realtek 8111B, which as PCIe device Okay... how do you know?
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    Looking for more file server advice

    Thanks for the replies guys. Tynopik: I'm planning on using RAID 5. I know RAID 6 is more redundant, but the idea of losing *two* drives doesn't sit too well with me. Maybe once I max out all eight, I'll switch to RAID 6. As far as the OS goes, I'm very much undecided. I've heard great...
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    Looking for more file server advice

    Bump? Anybody?
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    Looking for more file server advice

    Hello again all. I posted about this a month ago, but now that the time is near, I'd like a little more advice. I'm looking to build a file server. I've already secured myself a lovely Areca ARC-1220 RAID card, but as far as everything else goes, I'm still researching what I want. I plan on...
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    Looking for advice for a fileserver on the cheap

    Ah, so I want one that's on the PCI Express bus, not the regular PCI bus. Got it. The most heavy user will be me; I plan on using it primarily for video and audio files, but also text/data files and graphics to a lesser extent. There are also three other computers in my home used by...