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    HOT HOT HOT Dell U3011 $899 at dell outlet. referb

    I got in on this refurb deal. It came today, as I posted 2 posts above. Given all the warranty talk, I checked my tag -- this is my service tag on the monitor. Looks like ~three years left on warranty.... looks like it transferred over since it starts 10/19. This really makes this a friggin...
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    HOT HOT HOT Dell U3011 $899 at dell outlet. referb

    Monitor arrived. Zero dead pixels. Zero lit pixels. Zero scratches, dents, any noticeable wear and tear at all. Honestly I can't tell this isn't brand new. Monitor works 100% perfect. Blurry ass pic, but it's the 30" on the right... this is my current setup after the new U3011...
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    HOT HOT HOT Dell U3011 $899 at dell outlet. referb

    In. Crossing fingers for no dead pixels. :)
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    Looking to expand NAS server past existing server chassis, tips?

    Hey Guys, I have a 24 disk 48TB NAS server that I've built and use for storing financial market data (tick data is really big). This is well and all, operates well, but I'm running out of space. All the disks are currently on a 24 port Areca card. I'd like to simply stick another areca in there...
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    Free: Jetsetter.com Invitation

    Hey Guys, Jetsetter.com is an invite-only flash deal site (like GroupOn, BuyWithMe) for luxury travel -- I rarely care about deal sites, but this one is really good. I'd been trying to score an invitation since the TechCrunch article about it in March, and just finally got in. I figured I'd...
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    HITACHI Deskstar 2TB 3.5" HD w/ REBATE $99

    what chassis you rocking? i got 24 bay supermicros so im maxed out at 48tb here per serv (which they really do have in em). you really rocking the 36 bays?
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    What Heatsink to get for SuperMicro MBD-X8DAH+-F-O Motherboard?

    I bought a SuperMicro MBD-X8DAH+-F-O Dual socket LGA 1366 motherboard and Xeon W5590's, but the chips didn't come with any heatsinks. I have some LGA 1366 Intel heatsinks from some i7 chips but they don't seem to fit into the motherboard holes (they're in the same spots as they're 1366 too but...
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    Can I use 'server ram' w/ my i7 920/P6T?

    Hey Guys, I have an i7 920 and a P6T Deluxe mobo. The 12GB kits of DDR3 is much cheaper for servers/there are more options on newegg. will this 'server ram' and others (DDR3) work for me? or only on the xeon boards? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820161337
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    4GB DDR3 DIMMs?

    Is it just me or are there really no 4GB DDR3 dimms? What's going on with this. Now even Xeons are coming out that use DDR3. There is definitely demand for 4GB DIMM's -- I want 24GB in my i7 with 6 sticks, and I want 48GB in my new Xeon serv I'm going to be building soon. It's been months...
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    Where do you physically keep your harddisks?

    I keep like 2 near a window so they can get nice and damp, 1-2 more on my desk, 3-4 under the bed, 1-2 more in a drawer filled w/ lots of other sharp metal parts (they're safer that way!)... yes, there's sarcasm in this post, but unfortunately I really do keep HDDs in all those places...
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    Antec P182 for $119.99 at Microcenter

    picked up a 180 (not 182) at microcenter actually the other day for $39.99 + tax. love it.
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    Antec 300 for $47.99 shipped @ Newegg

    Just picked up this case today actually at Microcenter B+M for $39.99 + tax. It's avail online too -- also $39.99 Newegg is $59.99 + $14.99 S&H now.
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    My Core i7 920 Overclocking Experience

    exarkun: Do you have a cold room or osmething? At 3.6Ghz I have like 75-77C under full load w/ Prime95, and I have the Noctua too. samw5: At 3.7 I had SuperPi 1M of 11.07s, so I dunno how you got yours down to 9. Doesn't sound right to me.
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    i7 920 Safe Temps?

    I had had the vcore settings on "Auto" which had them up at 1.275v or so -- I backed it down to 1.21ish and my temps are down to about 73C max using prime95 on all cores as a test (haven't tested core damage although it seems to get the chip a bit hotter). Current settings are 20*180 and a...
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    i7 920 Safe Temps?

    Hey Guys, I picked up the Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120MM SSO CPU Cooler from Newegg. I have a i7 920 chip, which I've overclocked up to 3.6ghz at the moment. Link to cooler is here FYI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835608007 When running Core Damage for a few minutes, the...
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    Best LGA775 Heatsink/Fan for Q6600 OC?

    Hey Guys, I have a now 1.5 yr old Q6600 setup that I want to crank the speed up on. I don't think it's whatever the best stepping is for overclocking, but I'd like to get at least a decent overclock out of it. What heatsink/fan should I get for this? I'd like to stay on air just for...
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    Best current 1TB-1.5TB internal drive. . . .

    I have a couple 1TB seagate 7200.11 333's (*not* 340's) and love them. 119 apiece, so not the cheapest drives out there by any means atm, but 115MB/s sustained reads/writes per disk, pretty slick. I'm coming off a 74GB raptor to 2x1TB 333's for my OS drive and can honestly say I prefer the...
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    Virtual Desktop / Multiple Workspaces for Vista?

    VirtuaWin is far superior to Sysinternals. Sysinternals shells a new explorer for every "desktop", which both uses more resources and restricts your ability to do certain things/have certain features. VirtuaWin is all on one explorer with window hiding/moving. VirtuaWin is what I use and is...
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    What 1TB desktop drives should I use for my RAID5?

    I just ordered that ram module you recco'd off of amazon (from crucial) for 28.79$. Great idea + much cheaper than I thought it could be. Plus I had like 5$ that I got from mturk.com so it really only cost me 23$. Really great info on that -- much appreciated. What drives do you use in your...
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    What 1TB desktop drives should I use for my RAID5?

    Looks like there's a patch out for the 1.5TB Seagates. Details at: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/...date_ascending&page=21 Anyone tried them with a 1280-ML? Would obviously prefer the cheaper cost/gb and the ability to fit more space for same enclosure of 1.5TB's if they worked reliably...
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    What 1TB desktop drives should I use for my RAID5?

    256, should get that 2048. Where is it only 50$? You think the Hitachi's are better than the 1TB Seagates? The term "Deathstar" has scared me away in the past. What's the benefit vs other brand(s)?
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    What 1TB desktop drives should I use for my RAID5?

    Have an Areca 1280-ML. Already have 6x500GB Samsung HD501LJ drives in a RAID5. Looking to set up a second RAID array with like 8-10 1 TB drives. Looking to use desktop drives for cost (I'm aware they're more prone to fail/perform less well than the enterprise class drives, but I'm cost...
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    Core i7 Overclock - CPU Life

    We took it up at least to 1.79V, maybe higher -- can't really remember. Wasn't for very long, but the damage was fast and brutal. We're talking minutes of stability before totally fubar. Once we knew we had blown the chip we took it to the max possible to just see what it could do. Obviously...
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    Core i7 Overclock - CPU Life

    You can make that two. We blew out a QX9770 in April. You may remember our "Overclocking QX9770" thread -- probably one of the biggest "epic fail" threads ever. The flaming has already been done for that, so please no rekindling the fire.
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    4GB Sticks of DDR3?

    So you think even with i7 out, and the boards supporting 24GB of RAM, we won't see 4GB sticks anytime soon? Mega uncool :-(
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    4GB Sticks of DDR3?

    I'm looking at the new Core i7's + LGA1366 mobos and they look sweet. One of the main benefits for me would be the ability to support 24GB of RAM (I use a lot of ram for various database things). Problem is, when I look at DDR3 RAM on newegg, there's no 4GB sticks -- at all! As the...
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    Graphics Card Shorting Out My Motherboard

    Hey Guys, I've had this ongoing issue for about six months now where my graphics card seems to short out my whole motherboard/pc. If it's not positioned JUUUUST right, when I try to turn on the PC it just shorts out and I have to power down the power supply, jiggle the card, and then try...
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    Help me build a Home Theater PC

    Re: the 20-40TB, 20TB really isn't a problem -- can throw all the disks into one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811219021 (already have one for my work PC disks, so familiar with the case/setup). 40TB gets more complicated b/c no single case I know of will hold 40 1TB...
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    Help me build a Home Theater PC

    Hey Guys, I'm trying to build a central media server in my house. I'm looking to have a server that holds about ~20-40TB of movies (all legal of course! xvid, x264 mainly) + music (mostly mp3, some ogg etc). I have about five 52"-65" Plasma/LCD TV's around the house that I want to be able to...
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    Need to build a decent server for good sized in-memory db

    Hey Guys, I'm looking to build a decent server to run a fairly large in-memory database. The CPU requirements aren't huge for this database, but should be the higher side of the scale. The database size varies day-to-day, and starts out very small in the mornings and accumulates over the...
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    Just ordered 10 MTRON PRO 3.5" 64GB SATA SSD

    Yeah actually, as the intention of this setup is to be as fast as possible the solution that we're using is running the MTRON's in RAID 0 and then simply doing a raw disk copy of the raid array (basically a ghost) onto 1TB SATA drives which are running RAID1 every 24 hours or so. That gives...
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    Just ordered 10 MTRON PRO 3.5" 64GB SATA SSD

    Hey Guys, So, as some of you may have noticed on our other threads on this board, we're building a pretty crazy system and have ordered 10 MTRON PRO 3.5" 64GB SATA SSD's which we're going to be running in a RAID0 with an Areca 1680ix card. You can see our system build process at...
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    Overclocking QX9770

    Okay well, the sentiment is pretty clear about our overclocking job so far, and I believe Idontcare basically expressed out situation best. It's not like we're running around over here trying to be all cavalier and intentionally doing a shit job of overclocking because we think its funny -- we...
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    Getting QX9770 Today - What Else Should I get?

    Yeah, indeed it does not need to be plugged in. The mobo was just bad (Striker II) -- not sure why, but it's broken. The EVGA board we have in now is functioning properly.
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    Getting QX9770 Today - What Else Should I get?

    Which post on the blog are you talking about? We started out with the Striker II and had to switch off to the NVIDIA 790i board because the Striker II was apparently faulty. If you look at previous posts (not the most recent as now we have the NVIDIA board in) you should see some of the Striker...
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    Getting QX9770 Today - What Else Should I get?

    Looking like it was a bad motherboard. Not sure what was wrong with it, but went to local computer store and bought EVGA nVidia Nforce 790i (link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16813188025) to see if that resolved the problems, and after (very preliminary) testing it's starting to...
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    Getting QX9770 Today - What Else Should I get?

    Yeah, just pulled everything off except CPU and motherboard, and tried a different power supply -- one that passes a voltage test too (just ran the tester on it right now) and it checks out. Tried a different 775 CPU too -- I have no idea what could be going on at this point. Pulled...
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    Getting QX9770 Today - What Else Should I get?

    With nothing in the system except the CPU basically (removed RAM, gfx card, cooling system, no raid card, etc), the same effects are happening. With only the 24-pin EATXPWR power connector plugged into the system, the status LED's light up and things seem to be functioning. However, when I plug...