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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    You're very right, and that is sort of bothering me, especially seeing as my budget is tight since I'll be buying a new and pretty high-end laptop at the same time. But then the argument could also be made that for maybe "just" $200-300 extra over the NAS will buy me a much more flexible rig...
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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    Since I am in the luxurious position to postone this build a few weeks, I think I'll wait for the 45W CPU's - didn't know those were coming as I have been way out of the loop for a long time. Matthias99, I too think that I'd have heard more about on-board RAID corruption if it was a common...
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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    This unit has come up a few times in my "research". But "can barely hear mine" might mean something else for you than it does for me. At what distance? In what environment? I'm really, really picky on noise for this build =) BTW, what I want HTTP for is to use a PHP-based interface for...
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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    Blain: I haven't had any proper look at what RAID card I'd choose if I were to go the VIA ITX route, but the seller I'm looking to buy through has the HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 at an OK price. (Note on the seller thing: I'm in Sweden, which is why I won't be using newegg etc.) EDIT: I'll use...
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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    jpeyton: Good advice about the AMD processors, thanks. I have already decided on the 500GB Samsung drives (since I already have one and I like it) and the same thing goes for optical - I'll move over my existing samsung drive from the current tower. The Corsair 520 PSU was also my top...
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    Silent terrabyte storage/server - how?

    I've had a look around among previous threads, but can't find anything that covers my specific needs, so I'll start a new thread. If I've missed some old posting that covers this, feel free to point me to it. PURPOSE: I'm going to switch to a laptop as my main computer, and thus need a new...
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    Socket A silent cooler?

    The search didn't give me any threads about this, so my apologies if this has been discussed recently. I have an Athlon 2500+ (Barton core) on an Asus A7N8X with a Spire heatsink (this one). I intend to use this box as a server running 24/7, but for that it needs to be silenced. The...
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    Need RAM & graphics recommendations

    Todays software synthesizers are eating my current Athlon 2500+ (Barton) to death, so I need something faster. The Opteron 144 seems to be a stellar overclocker, so the plan for now is to pair it off with a DFI Lanparty (non-SLI) NF4 mobo to get at least 2.6 GHz - No need to push for the 3 GHz...
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    man my 2500+ barton is hella disappointing...

    From reading all the threads on the 2500+ here, it seems to me that people who are dissapointed run very high FSB's (200 and above) and have week 7 or earlier chips. Anyone with a week 7 who could try 12.5x och 13x (if you have access to that multiplier) with a lower FSB and see if its more...
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    Yet another Random Reboot Thread

    I can run a program that uses sound just fine, it doesn't crash as soon as I use such an app; thus it took a while to spot the common denominator that theere was always sound playing when it booted. Do you have any PCI cards in your box?
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    man my 2500+ barton is hella disappointing...

    I've said it before, but here it goes again for reference: I want to run RAM synchrous and I've only got PC2700 so I'm limited to about 180 with the FSB, but I can do 180x12.5 at 1.700 vcore rock steady, giving me 2250MHz. Ran Prime95 for 7 hours during normal use and no errors. CPU temp was...
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    Corrupt or Missing hal.dll Computer Want Boot

    Please excuse me for this not-the-least-bit-helpful post, but I just can't resist: Anything going wrong with a computer involving the word HAL calls for a quote from 2001 - A Space Odyssey: "I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly."
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    Yet another Random Reboot Thread

    I get the exact same thing, but only when I'm using an application that uses the sound card (could be anything from watching a movie clip in windows media player to producing music in Cubase SX). My memory reports no errors in MemTest86. I got it a few times under Win2K as well, but it's more...
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    why system properties report 1022.0MB instead of 1024mb ?

    I've got 2x512 on an A7N8X Deluxe too, but running XP. It tells me I've got 1,00GB, so ligically that should mean it sees it as 1024. 1022 would be 0,99GB or something.
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    problem on WinXP boot

    I get the exact same thing as in scenario #3, but only after the computer has been turned off for about 10 hours or more. I hit the reset switch and then it powers up just fine. The main suspect in my system is the sound card, I have reason to believe that it's not in tip-top shape so I'll take...