Recent content by snouter

Video editing and compression, 3d rendering and audio processing all take good advantage of hyper-threading. Games and general software do just fine with a straight quad-core, esp if the savings in going from the i7 to the i5 helps you purchase an SSD. I would not consider a new build without an...

The silent and overlooked heart of any system. Also, you need a new power supply to take advantage of Haswell's new sleep states.

Do you think you'd keep this new computer for 5 years? I don't see a hard drive listed. If you have not experienced an SSD, I'd def consider something like a 256GB Samsung 840Pro or Evo. There is some debate going on right now about AMD's Mantle and its effect on the future of game cards and...

I have had luck popping a futzed SSD into an external USB caddy. Often when they "break" you can still read off of them. Live and learn on the backup thing. Many of us have.

I like my RM850. It's very quiet and seems to handle my 4930k and two GTX760 video cards well.

I feel that OSes "generally" get better. Win2000 -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win7 -> Win8 XP def got long in the tooth. Vista was the only one I truly did not like. I've never gotten the outrage towards Win8.

Good to hear. I just picked up an HP ZR2470w. It's newer, so I don't know if it will suffer this same fate (random shut down) but I (now) read that is something this model does after a while. I'm keeping my paperwork in order in case I need to use the 3-year warranty. My Apple Cinema 27"...

Looks like the "home" version. Only real difference for most users is: 1. Can't join a domain, like in many businesses. 2. Does not have Remote Desktop feature. You can get around this with VNC if need be. 3. Does not have the Bitlocker feature. For most people those are non-issues. That...

And with winter approaching it will help heat the house! I kid, I kid! Sort, of... ;)

LaCie and critical don't really go together in my world. Red has a mixed reputation from what I can tell and most of the Red advantage is software based. FWIW I use a 4GB Western Digital Black as my important drive. 5 year warranty is telling. My older 1GB Black has given me zero issues and is...

Just re-download the games from steam? During the steam install, I made a folder called "_steam" on my platter drive and installed the games there. Load times are not great, but, yeah, I did not want them on my SSD for space reasons.

Not sure if this applies internationally, but there are two Windows you can buy. OEM/System builder or full-retail. You want the OEM/System Builder one if that is an option. Same Windows, just cheaper.

These are not even close to the same computers. As always it depends what you plan to do with the computer. FWIW, When I was waiting for Adobe and Apple to get their poo together during the switch to Intel, I sold my dual G5 and picked up a 1.42GHz G4 Mac Mini to use for light Photoshop and web...

ZR2740w at B&H Photo $499 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...D_Backlit.html I have one and like it fine. It lacks OSD and USB3 type features, but after it took calibration from my Spyder Pro 4 and I think it looks great. No issues with dead pixels or bleed, image seems even. I read it...

I'm not much of an overclocker either. I did let the motherboard overclock with some "performance?" setting in the BIOS and it ran at 4.2GHz with no issues for a day, but I reverted back to stock since it's really my workstation computer. I assume I could have reached 4.5GHz if I tried. I just...