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    CPU for 4k video

    I recently bought a 4k monitor and 290x to upgrade my desktop(built 2011) I have a 2500k in it and I hadn't overclocked it(sacrilegious I know). I can't play good 4k video(youtube plays ok) without maxing out the CPU and dropping frames. I OCed to 4.9Ghz and while the drops are very small now...
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    basic 4k card

    I have a rig I built in 2011 that I just bought a 4k screen for. I do some basic gaming usually playing the following World of Tanks warzone 2100 Cities: Skylines Civ 5 Starcraft II I currently have a Radeon 6770 video card driving a pair of 1680x1050 monitors. My plan is to add...
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    anyone know a low cost high endurance ssd

    I am setting up a Vmware lab and looking for some low cost enterprise SSD's for VSAN. I can find some OCZ Deneva 2 R 200 GB for ~90$. They are used which I am ok with and refurb which I am against but I can't find anything in that class unless I want to spend a lot more. 3.6PB is what is listed...
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    netapp drives in a server

    I noticed some sas 2.5" drives cheap on ebay. I can't find any hits via a search about using them in a server/pc. I have a 1950 with a perc 6 and was curious if anyone had tried it or knew if it would work.
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    Blocking WiFi

    have an odd question that came up at the office. We have in the past contained all AP's that an AP can see as "rogue". I have expressed some reservations that this is probably in violation of some FCC rule but I can't find anything. Part 15 basicly says you can't generate any harmful...
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    Best gaming laptop for 700$

    I found one with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS for 699. Is that the best I can do?
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    Compare laptop to pc video card.

    I currently have an E1705/9400 with a Geforce go 7800. I cannot find anything showing how that would compare to an 8800GT. I am thinking of building a desktop and I know it is way faster but I am unsure how much. Do you know any websites that show the performance of those two cards.
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    stream hd/placeshift tv.

    I have a satellite receiver upstairs and a small 27" tv. In the living room we have a larger tv we use for movies. I would like to hook up a device to play movies off a file share. I am wondering if anyone makes one that is capable of playing HD? I used to have a media center pc connected...
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    802.11n with internal laptop card

    I have a dell E1705/9400. I recently setup an OpenFiler box and the 24mbps I am getting is not cutting it. I want to upgrade to 802.11n. I can't seem to find performance reviews with internal cards. All the reviews seem to be with usb/pc cards. Does anyone know what is a good choice on this...
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    opteron support of hypervisor

    I can't seem to find what opterons have support for this. Do any of the socket 940 opterons support this? I currently run 2 x 246 Thanks, Will
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    ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

    Any benchmarks yet? Couldnt find any on the usual places or google. looking for a decent gaming rig in a smaller notebook.
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    Moving to new raid controller.

    Anyone ever done this? I have a SCSI raid controller with some scsi drives. The controller is an old 32bit/33Mhz card and I have been maxing out on the controller bandwidth. I found a bunch of PCI-X controllers but I assume I will not be able to just plug the drives in. The current controller is...
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    soho Router capable of 15m/2m

    I am going to be getting 15m/2m internet and I am trying to see what I can use as a router. I have found a few reviews of lan/wan performance but not for all the models out. Currently I use cisco routers(4) for my 6m/768k(cable) and 3m/768k(DSL). I would like to try an out of box setup for ~200.
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    Inspiron 9300 tv tuner

    I just bought a inspiron 9300 and spent the 30$ extra for XP-MCE I can't seem to find a site selling the tv tuner module after market. Anyone know if it is available or am I SOL. Thanks, Will Edited to add the model # in the body in case there was any confusion
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    Digital audio motherboard.

    I am looking at getting a new box for my media center. I currently have a dual xeon but I want to set that up as a server. I see alot of S939 mobos with 7.1 and 8 channel audio but not any that have coax or optical out. I would like gig-e and AGP any ideas?
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    SFF with 2xPCI with decent video or 2xPCI+1AGP

    I have a Media center PC right now in a tower. I would like to move it to a SFF but will need 2xPCI for the tv tuners. Anyone know a good SFF with 2xPCI the video would have to be decent as well since it needs to run XP media center 2005 or if it has 2xPCI and 1 AGP that would work?
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    case with scsi raid hotswap and 300w redundant PSU 99$

    5u case I actually bought one and it is very nice. The 300w PSU could not run my dual xeon 1.6Ghz I got from here. Swapped that out with my previous PSU and it works nice. Sadly they only take paypal but they have a good record on Ebay Thanks, W0ss
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    Raid 5 scaling question?

    I am testing raid 5 performance on some scsi drives I have 6 HDD's and I am trying to figure what will get me the best performance. I ran sandra and tested 3 drives raid 5 then 6 drives raid 5. The results surprised me and I ran the tests 3 times each to verify I was seeing the truth...
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    Is MD5 secure?

    From reading many articles I see everyone saying how MD5 has been cracked and it is no longer secure. I searched google and can't find any really technical discussions. Best I can find what really was done to show MD5 is not secure is to have 2 different outputs produce the same MD5 hash. Is...
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    Dual socket 604 motherboard/heatsink

    I got in on the matched pair of 1.6Ghz xeons for 120$. I am looking at motherboards and Heatsinks. Asus pc-dl seems good but I wanted to hear some other recomendations.
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    M7NCG 400

    Hoping you guys could help me out here. I have a M7NCG 400 that I was upgrading from the intergrated graphics to a Geforce3Ti500. Here is what happened Unplug everything installl vid card. Plug everything in hit power, Get nothing. Clear CMOS. Computer comes up chnge BIOS settings and restart...