Recent content by mattk8

Thank you everyone for your very helpful comments. It sounds like a multiprocessor Xeon system, or an AMD server, is the way to go. This should allow me to install enough RAM to analyze my data now and to grow the system as my data continues to grow. If we set this up as a server, do you...

@ mnewsham I don't have a fixed budget. Less expensive is better (obviously) but there isn't a set upper limit. It looks like I could get a 48GB system for around $4000 and 96GB for under $6000, assuming all RAM in a dual processor build is usable for a single-threaded process. In the few...

@Sandorski That's very interesting! If I used a dual processor MB but only installed one CPU, could I install and utilize RAM in all the sockets? Or do you have to have the second processor installed for some reason?

@ DaveSimmons That's a great question/suggestion. I have looked into this but been unable to find any R documentation on it. However, based on my experiences it seems on the Windows version that it just hits a memory exception when it cannot allocate RAM for an object, but on my OSX machine...

I am a student and researcher that does extensive analysis of large datasets using R, a statistical software program. R is single threaded and many necessary functions within R use a lot of memory, given the size of my data. I have upgraded my pc (Dell i7 system) several times in quick...

Hi Guys, I've had an issue with my P5B Deluxe system for quite some time (more than a year) and I've yet to figure it out. Maybe you can help. Whenever I first start the computer, it will fail to boot up into windows. All the fans will power up, and stay at high RPM, but no matter how...

Hi everyone, I have a P5B Deluxe WiFi mb with a e6400 overclocked to ~3GHz. This system has been working great since I built it many months ago. Now, I can't get it to POST. Around a month ago, the system started failing to post after powering on (the system would turn on, it would check...

I am overclocking - I'm running a C2D E6400 at 3.0 GHz. I ended up reformatting another drive in my system and reinstalling everything on that drive. That drive's working great; no issues now. However, the 50GB boot partition from the original drive seems to be in trouble. It has some...

UPDATE: reviewing the event log reveals numerous disk error every time I try to open the programs with problems. I've tried scanning and fixing the bad sectors/clusters a couple of times, but the problems still persist. Now they close down nicely (Windows tells me it has shut down and asks if...

Hello, Starting about 48 hours ago, certain programs automatically close 5-20 seconds after opening them. Programs that automatically close include: - Yahoo Messenger - Skype - Adobe Acrobat 8.1 - Internet Explorer There may be others. The only things I can remember installing...

Gary Key -- thank you so much. I am embarrassed to say I am such an f'ing idiot! 8-pin ATX connector?????? I didn't know there was such a thing and certainly had not plugged it in. God I wish I had realized that a week ago before I had done so much work. Now it is POSTing. I will plug...

About 2 weeks ago I excited ordered the parts I thought would make a great, overclockable, and quiet Conroe system: - Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi - E6400 processor - Zalman 7700 cooler - Seasonic 430W PSU - GeForce 7600GS (silent and helpfully limits my gaming :) - 2 x 1GB RAM AmpX/Wintec...