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    Vostro 3400 vs Acer 3810.

    Narrowed my choices down to a Dell Vostro 3400 or Acer Timeline 3810. Vostro is probably twice the machine for almost same price, $550-600. I'm not sure what the gotcha is with it and it appears to be new enough there aren't any reviews. Getting into a Core i3 350 for the same price as a Pentium...
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    Multiple projector gaming setup

    5760x1080 or better pushed out to a massive picture. Is there any problems running multiple projectors the same as you would monitors? 11520x6480 with six 1080p projectors? Replacing bulbs every few months might get expensive keeping the picture the same but likely not an issue for those that...
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    Lapping or TIM dropped temps 18 degrees

    Bought a used Q9550 that the previous owner had lapped. Installed it last night and core one was pushing 82c on my tuniq tower in OCCT @ 3.85 but was otherwise stable. Other cores maxing out around 72c. My previous e7400 never had problems and went to 4 ghz with the same cooler and only maxed...
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    Letter to those who won't read this. It's time.

    As of this day December 21, 2009 I declare your Pentium III dead. Your 256 megabyte ram stick and slow hard drive die with 2009. RIP. You will be happier, more productive, more intelligent, and an over all better person by upgrading. Should you find yourself turning on a computer more than...
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    Openfiler sucks

    I'm not sure how anyone runs more than a simple home NAS/SAN with this. After two weeks of screwing around it is as flaky as I can imagine any finished software being. It's fragile as an egg when moving, adding, or replacing disks. Reboots completely dropping ISCSI targets and forcing you to...
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    Are you upgrading?

    These aren't the best of times for most people and I'm curious who is going to pull the trigger with so many great Core 2 processors already out there. My main focus is gaming and do some SETI@home when $ permit. Planning to hold off awhile as I've little actual need for anything better. I...
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    testing a poll

    Testing This is a forum for posting personal issues. It is not a testing ground. esquared Anandtech Senior Moderator
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    500k Seti milestone

    Hell with those of you that make that in a matter of days:) Been almost a decade in the making and have been looking forward to it for some time. Thanks go out to those who will never know there all their CPU are belong to me.
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    Motherboards supporting 4x4gb registered ecc?

    Can't seem to find any that allow it specifically. Namely looking for an inexpensive single socket motherboard that supports a quad core. Any recommendations on the cheapest way to get into 16gb of memory and a single quad core?
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    Nahelem replacing single core Xeons

    I've got plans to virtualize six servers and possibly nine total that are all 2.8ghz single core Xeons with Hyperthreading. CPU usage maxes out at 60% on two of them but most coast along at 20% usage. An e5520 @ 2.2ghz or W3520 @ 2.6ghz should easily cover that and more? I'm looking to...
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    ISCSI performance hit

    I've been looking into putting a couple of our SQL databases located on seperate machines on a Vertex or X25-m over iSCSI. This is my first time playing with it. The performance hit I'm taking running it over the network vs locally is quite massive. 67% read, 4 outstanding IOs, 100% random...
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    Server based Im setup

    I've got the directive to shut down instant messaging within our company. Too many people chatting all day apparently. I'm looking for something that can be locked down to inter company contacts only. Microsoft has their Exchange server but I'm never going to get that approved. Can someone...
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    Max PPD

    Seems Milkyway@Home delivers on ATI GPUs: 27k ppd for 3850 76k for 4870 151k for 4870X2 Wonder how long that will last. Link
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    Rebuilding a RAID 1 set on Dell w/ Perc 5i

    So I broke the OS RAID 1 set to add another stand alone hard drive for a project. It's currently setup as a "RAID 0" single drive virtual disk which means JBOD. I need to put the second member disk back in and make it RAID 1 again. Haven't seen any setting that would allow me to select which...
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    Stats, charity, and other stuff

    1. Lately I've become rather obsessive about checking Boincstats to see where I'm ranking on the team. Anyone else check them daily to several times a day? #25 overall and gaining ground with 7620 RAC. #21 in Seti with 3553 RAC #6 in GPUgrid with 3004 RAC 2. Isn't SETI tax deductible...
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    Power usage numbers

    Picked up a P3 Kill-a-watt and have been unplugging everything around here lately. Feel free to post your numbers if you've got them: Dell mini9 w/ ssd 1 watt off 1 watt standby 14 watt boot 11 watt Crunching SETI :) Dell 15.5" laptop AMD 1.6 turion x2, OCZ vertex 57 watt Full...
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    Clonezilla driver help

    I love it. Used it for dozens of PCs and laptops flawlessly but can't get it to work with a Dell 2950 as it won't recognize the Broadcom Netxtreme II nics. This was the reason I started using it, to facilitate a migration from a RAID 5 set to RAID 10. Can anyone explain how I might get these...
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    Core i7, i5, i3

    I've considered myself an enthusiast for a long time and read more tech news than I care to admit. Still Intel's path has me confused as hell. I've read some posts where angry people get more angry over questions about this so just piss off and stop reading if it bothers you. Please correct me...
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    Quiet around here

    Been fairly excited to get a few new machines and get them crunching towards Team Anandtech. This forum seems kind of dead. Are people posting on another forum or is everyone content to let the machines sit and crunch?
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    Optimized SETI applications

    Wanted to give some of the optimized SETI apps a try. Maybe someone using them can tell me what I'm missing. I copy the new files into my C:\BOINC_data\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu directory. Tried this with BOINC stopped, running, and tried restarting the PC but the new apps don't load...
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    Seti WU shortage

    I've got four dual core machines to do crunching and only CUDA work units seem to be downloading on a single machine. I see there are 100k+ available on the server stats page. Occasionally I'll get a work unit, maybe 2, then it's a day or better before I get another. Any idea what I could have...
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    Fastest SETI machine ever?

    So with the Asus P6T7 out now with seven x PCI x16 slots... Would it be possible to do seven single slot GTX 295? The single PCB cards are on their way and with some watercooling it might be possible to get them all to fit. Toying around on Newegg and got me thinking. That would be one wicked...
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    Surveillance setup

    Of all the requests IT gets in a week this one was off the radar. I was asked to setup a couple of surveillance cameras at a remote office for "cheap". The two areas to be monitored are 20-30 foot away from where I'm thinking of placing the cameras. It would be on the "roof" of an office...
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    Prototype

    I'll be picking this one up. Looks allot like a more violent version of Assassins Creed. First review I've seen up: http://www.ps3informer.com/pla...type-review-010433.php It's for PS3 but it's better than nothing. Unlocked and stickied for 1 day. Be warned, any carry over of the...
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    e7400 vs e6750

    Would going from a conroe to wolfdale with higher clocks be a decent trade off of the 1MB cache loss for gaming? My motherboard will do atleast 425/1700 bus speeds but the cpu is limited to 3.4 in the summer and 3.6 in the winter. I can swap it out for an e7400 at no cost. This would likely...
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    Disk imaging

    So one of my production servers is getting a drive upgrade and also I want to move it to RAID 10 from the existing RAID 5. This is the data store, D:, while the OS and apps are on a different RAID 1 set on C:. My plan is to image the D: partition over the network using Clonezilla. Immediately...
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    Did you build your dream machine?

    What percentage of your income did you drop to build that ultimate gaming setup? When I was in college, making about $10k a year, I some how managed to drop $2800 on a gaming rig. 28% of my gross income to play games not including the actual games... Really not sure how I made that happen...
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    MLC SSDs for 30GB databases

    I did some IOmeter testing comparing a 60gb Vertex to some of our servers. The results are fairly unbelievable. I read the entire IOmeter manual and ran the tests dozens of times and the results always came back the same. Since these are production servers I limited the file size to 1gb and 2gb...
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    Diskpart

    Finally got a 60 gig Vertex bought and trying to get it partitioned. I've used Diskpart on servers before but not from within XP. I can get it to create partitions just fine but it errors out "The arguments you specified for this command are not valid." when trying to align. I've tried the...
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    One server to rule them all

    Can't decide on the best way to handle storage needs. It will replace five, four year old servers if one of the server rooms burn down. Looking for suggestions. 47 GB OS and app installs 73 GB of sql data that needs fast storage 110 GB of email that needs kinda fast storage 175 GB of files...
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    Six months with Linux

    About four months ago I decided to give Linux another shot at replacing Windows on my home machine. Thought I would write a few words on it. I have much experience as a Windows sys admin, gamer, and IT guy. I took a semester long class on Linux nearly 10 years ago and have used it in server...
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    GTX260 upgrade path

    Gaming at 1920x1200 requires me to turn some settings down to ensure a perfectly smooth experience. I've got a single, original, GTX 260 and adding a second one would be the way to go but I don't have an SLI motherboard. What kind of upgrade path are you guys out there in non-SLI boards and...
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    Quad Core or SSD

    Which upgrade would I likely be more impressed with in each machine? Q9550 or OCZ Vertex? Personal machine: e6750 @ 3.4 and a boot drive is a two platter Seagate 640GB 7200.11. Work machine: e6420 @ 2.1 and boot drive RAID 1 of Samsung 160GB Personal: This time of year the majority of...
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    Super Talent owns the fastest SSD?

    Looks like the drives started shipping Wednesday. Performance numbers: PDF Link Product page
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    6GB OCZ DDR3 1600 $61.99 AR

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820227388 More bang for your buck than DDR2-800
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    OCZ Vertex

    Seems the Vertex's cache eliminated the rest of the technical reasons not to have an SSD as a boot drive. Are there any performance reasons not to upgrade if the size is acceptable?
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    AMD vs Intel SFF motherboards

    You can pick up socket 775 mini-ITX boards for $30-40 off Newegg and AM2 boards start @ $100? This just doesn't make any sense to me. With the onboard memory controller shouldn't these be cheaper to make? AMD developed the DTX form factor a couple years ago but there is only one MB combo I...
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    Linux manual prefetch config

    Looking to keep certain applications in memory permanently. I'm always closing and opening apps when I should leave them open. Restarting into Windows then back again many times a day/week. There are other ways to better improve my usage but I'd like this to work. I've read about Preload and...
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    Camcorder vs Camera

    Mainly I shoot us riding dirt bikes, some hunting, and generally playing around. Currently I use a Canon A560 and shoot equal amounts of video and pictures. The video, specifically the audio, is terrible. Always get what sounds like a mechanical spindle grinding in all videos. The camera takes...
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    DVD authoring

    I've done the google search and all the recommended programs fail to work for me. Most results seem to be 2-4 years old. DVD styler comes up with "dependancies that couldn't be resolved." Haven't managed to get it installed. Qdvd-author seems to open and may actually function but it won't do...